Steve Feller
President, Sigma Pi Sigma
Professor of Physics
Coe College
Cedar Rapids, IA

Biographical Sketch
Steve Feller came to Coe College in 1979 after completing his PhD at Brown University. Since that time, he has worked with over 100 students in undergraduate research. His students and he have developed a research program in the study of physical properties and atomic arrangements in a wide variety of glass systems, including glass families discovered by his students. This research has resulted in over sixty refereed journal papers coauthored with most of these students and well over 80 presentations by group members at national and international meetings. Since 1986, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has provided funding and other support has been obtained from the Motorola Corporation, SPS, Research Corporation, Iowa Academy of Sciences, Coe College, the State of Texas, and the Governments of the United Kingdom, Greece, Italy, China and Egypt. His students and he have benefited from collaborations with researchers in England, Russia, Greece, Egypt, Germany, China, Japan, as well as the United States.

The Coe College SPS Chapter is active and has been awarded several outstanding chapter certificates. Several members of the chapter have served as Associate Councilors from Zone 11 and Steve has served two terms as Zone 11 councilor. In 2000 Dr. Feller was very pleased to be named Outstanding Chapter Advisor.

Dr. Feller has been honored in a number of ways including: Distinguished Iowa Scientist (1999) by the Iowa Academy of Sciences, Iowa Professor of the Year (1995) by the Carnegie Foundation, and by receiving the American Physical Society Prize for Research in an Undergraduate Institution (1993). He was especially gratified to receive the 1993 Teacher of the Year award by the senior class at Coe College. In 1996 he served for seven months as a Fulbright Scholar to the United Kingdom where he did neutron scattering studies of glass structure at the Rutherford Appleton Lab and the University of Reading.