Miami University Physics Alumni

Keith Ramsey
"My four years at Miami were terrific. All of my Miami Physics professors were exceptional teachers. I can't imagine a better place to go to college." Read More »

Jeff Webb
"Miami was a great place to get a Physics undergraduate degree. The small class size and personal contact with the professors was what really drew me to the university." Read More »

Richard Lee Ponting

Richard Lee Ponting After having worked for 28 years in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Bennett College for Women, Greensboro NC, I approach retirement at the end of the coming academic year. I came to Greensboro after having completed a doctorate in Low Energy Nuclear Spectroscopy from the Florida State University in 1975. I did not feel that I was well suited to research, and was not able to find a research position locally so I shifted careers to education. I did some additional study at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. That eventually led to a position at Bennett College for Women, where I have taught for 28 years in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science. I teach all the physics courses (2), and I am recently chair of the department (3 years as interim chair).

Hobbies of note include the amateur orchestra Philharmonic of Greensboro, where I am principal percussionist. We give three or four concerts a year and on alternate years play for the July 4^th celebrations in Greensboro (I have almost memorized Tchaikovsky's "1812"! ) I play tennis with some regularity. Lastly I am married to the former Suzanne Lee Wood and we reside at 6009 Bush Road, Browns Summit, NC 27214.

"I am tempted to quote Charles Dickens in the opening of Tale of Two Cities. I would only add that we were told a great deal that was good and useful, but there were also several essentials which, for better or worse, we were left to discover for ourselves." Richard Lee Ponting, BS Physics 1966, MS Physics 1968