Dr. Kenneth Hicks
Dr. Kenneth Hicks, Professor of Physics & Astronomy, is on detail to the National Science Foundation for a two-year term as a Program Director of Experimental Nuclear Physics.
The two-year positions are referred to as “rotator” assignments, where a person active in research joins the NSF to help with the review of research proposals. Hicks works with the permanent Program Director, Allena Opper (a previous faculty member of Ohio University), to determine which proposals will be funded in a given year.
The job is challenging, as one is often doing an “apples or oranges” type of comparison in the different sub-fields of nuclear physics, and it is often important to get feedback from the scientific community to help with these funding decisions. Hicks started his rotation in Fall 2014 and plans to stay active in research during this two-year detail.
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