Professor
Department of Physics
Southern University & A&M College
P. 0. Box 10554
BATON ROUGE, LA 70813
Telephone: (504) 771-4130
email: mcguire@phys.subr.edu

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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

    Dr. Stephen C. McGuire is Professor and Chair of the Department of Physics at Southern University and A&M College in Baton Rouge, LA.

    Professor McGuire's educational background includes having received his B.S. degree with high honors in physics with a minor in mathematics from Southern University and A&M College, and his M.S. degree in Nuclear Physics from the University of Rochester.  His Ph.D. in Nuclear Science, with its emphasis in low energy neutron physics, is from Cornell University.

    Since completing doctoral study he has held appointments as a staff scientist at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, a consultant to the National Institutes of Health and the US Department of Energy, and a physicist at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.  From 1982 to 1989 he served on the faculty of the Department of Physics and Applied Physics at Alabama A&M University (AAMU) in Huntsville, AL.  In 1989 he became the first African-American appointed to the faculty of the endowed College of Engineering at Cornell University.

    His distinctions include having been valedictorian of his class at Joseph S. Clark Senior High of New Orleans, a four-year academic scholarship recipient at Southern University, a Crown Zellerbach Foundation Fellow in the Department of Physics at the University of California, Los Angeles, a John McMullen Graduate Fellow at Cornell University (1974), and a NASA/ASEE Summer Faculty Fellow at the Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL (1986).  While a graduate student at Cornell he was an invited lecturer in the Summer Science Program of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center.  In 1987 he was honored with NASA's Office of Technology Utilization Research Citation Award for his work in cosmic-ray physics.  In 1992 he was elected a Charter Fellow of the National Society of Black Physicists.  In the fall of 1997 he was appointed the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Visiting Scientist in Physics and Astronomy at Wayne State University.

    Owing to his reputation as a committed educator and scientist he was among 200 distinguished guests of the US president and first lady in March of 1998 at the reception and lecture on science in the next millennium by physicist Stephen Hawking.  In the summer of the same year he was selected as a visiting scientist at the Center for Neutron Research of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, MD.  At NIST he led a team of physicists in the detailed investigation of trace elements in nanoscale films of nickel aluminide, a potential coating for use in high temperature and corrosive environments.  In August, 1998, he was one of ten US scientists invited to participate in the Third Edward A. Bouchet International Conference on Physics and Technology held in Gaborone, Botswana (Southern Africa).

    Dr. McGuire has been an active member of several major scientific organizations for over 20 years and is listed in American Men and Women of Science.  During his career he has published extensively in experimental nuclear physics and its applications, and on uses of nuclear radiation for the study of microelectronics and solid state materials.  He has presented his research at national and international professional meetings on four continents.  For over 17 years he has been a dedicated advisor and mentor to undergraduate and graduate students of science and engineering from a broad range of educational and cultural backgrounds.  He is married to the former Saundra Yancy of Baton Rouge, LA,, and they are the parents of two daughters, Carla Abena and Stephanie Niyonu.