User:Adphysics/Peggy Cebe

Peggy Cebe is a Professor of Physics at Tufts University in Medford, MA. Her current areas of research include the structure and properties of semicrystalline polymers, nanocomposites, and biopolymers. She performs high-precision, high-accuracy heat capacity measurements on these systems, combined with dielectric relaxation and X-ray scattering. She is the author/co-author of 170 peer-reviewed publications and has raised over $4,970,000 in research support grants.

Early life and education
Dr. Cebe received her Ph.D. in Physics from Cornell University in 1984.

Career
Dr. Cebe spent four years at the Caltech/NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, first as a postdoctoral research associate, and then as a member of the technical staff where she was promoted to Technical Group Leader of the Polymer Physics Group. She joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Department of Materials Science and Engineering in 1988. Prof. Cebe began her present position on the faculty at Tufts University, in the Department of Physics and Astronomy.

Awards and honors
In 2010, Dr. Cebe was a recipient of the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring, for her program to provide research opportunities for deaf and hard of hearing undergraduates. She is a fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) since 2008, and the American Chemical Society, since 2015. She has also served as Chair of the APS Committee on the Status of Women in Physics and Chair of the ACS Division of Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering. She is a Fellow of the North American Thermal Analysis Society since 2008, and in 2013 received the Mettler Award for Outstanding Achievement in Thermal Analysis.

Prof. Cebe was the recipient of the Tufts University Graduate School Award for Mentoring. She received the highest academic award for Tufts faculty in 2016, when she was awarded the university's Distinguished Scholarship Award. Over 30 years in academia, Prof. Cebe has mentored 24 graduate students and 143 undergraduate student researchers. Of these undergraduates, 71% are from groups underrepresented in the STEM disciplines.