{{Short description|American physics educator}} {{Use mdy dates|cs1-dates=ly|date=April 2023}} {{Use list-defined references|date=April 2023}} {{about|the American physicist|the fictional character|The Laureate}} '''Amy Lisa Graves''' (also published as '''Amy L. Ritzenberg''' and '''Amy L. R. Bug''') is a retired American physicist and physics educator, the Walter Kemp Professor Emerita in the Natural Sciences and Professor of Physics at Swarthmore College.{{r|em}} Her publications include works on gender bias in physics,{{r|sciam|iop}} physics education,{{r|james}} and computational simulations of phenomena in condensed matter physics, including jamming.{{r|jamming}}
==Education and career== Graves is a 1975 graduate of Laurel School, a private school for girls in Ohio.{{r|laurel}} She double-majored in mathematics and physics at Williams College, graduating summa cum laude and as salutatorian in 1979. She went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for graduate study, completing her Ph.D. there in 1984.{{r|cv}}
Before becoming a faculty member at Swarthmore College in 1988,{{r|retire}} she was a postdoctoral researcher at Exxon from 1984 to 1986, and then at Columbia University from 1986 to 1988.{{r|cv}} She retired as Walter Kemp Professor Emerita in 2022.{{r|retire}}
==Recognition== In 2018, Graves was elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), after a nomination from the APS Forum on Education, "for extraordinary contributions to physics education, including creatively strengthening the teaching of computational physics and steadily engaging issues of gender and physics through presentations and publications".{{r|af|williams}}
==Selected publications== *{{citation | last1 = Ritzenberg | first1 = Amy L. | last2 = Adam | first2 = Dan R. | last3 = Cohen | first3 = Richard Jonathan | date = January 1984 | doi = 10.1038/307159a0 | issue = 5947 | journal = Nature | pages = 159–161 | title = Period multupling-evidence for nonlinear behaviour of the canine heart | volume = 307| pmid = 6690994 | bibcode = 1984Natur.307..159R | s2cid = 4314169 }}. *{{citation | last = Bug | first = Amy | date = Spring 2003 | doi = 10.1086/345323 | issue = 3 | journal = Signs | jstor = 10.1086/345323 | pages = 881–899 | title = Has feminism changed physics? | volume = 28| s2cid = 144314817 | url = https://works.swarthmore.edu/fac-physics/180 }}. *{{citation | last = Bug | first = Amy | isbn = 978-0-7910-8931-6 | publisher = Chelsea House | series = Physics in Action | title = Forces and Motion | year = 2008}}.{{r|james}} *{{citation|title=Swimming against the unseen tide|url=https://physicsworld.com/a/swimming-against-the-unseen-tide/|first=Amy|last=Bug|date=August 2, 2010|journal=Physics World|volume=23 |issue=8 |page=16 |doi=10.1088/2058-7058/23/08/27 |bibcode=2010PhyW...23h..16B |doi-access=free}}.{{r|iop}} *{{citation | last1 = Wentworth-Nice | first1 = Prairie | last2 = Ridout | first2 = Sean A. | last3 = Jenike | first3 = Brian | last4 = Liloia | first4 = Ari | last5 = Graves | first5 = Amy L. | doi = 10.1039/d0sm00577k | issue = 22 | journal = Soft Matter | pages = 5305–5313 | title = Structured randomness: jamming of soft discs and pins | volume = 16 | year = 2020| pmid = 32467960 | arxiv = 2004.04792 | bibcode = 2020SMat...16.5305W | s2cid = 215737193 }}.{{r|jamming}}
==References== <references>
<ref name=af>{{citation|url=https://www.aps.org/programs/honors/fellowships/archive-all.cfm?initial=&year=2018&unit_id=FED&institution=|title=Fellows nominated in 2018 by the Forum on Education|work=APS Fellows archive|publisher=American Physical Society|access-date=2023-04-03}}</ref>
<ref name=cv>{{citation|url=http://www.swarthmore.edu/NatSci/abug1/CV_2018_resume.pdf|title=Curriculum vitae|year=2018|access-date=2023-04-03}}</ref>
<ref name=em>{{citation|url=https://www.swarthmore.edu/profile/amy-graves|title=Amy Graves|work=Faculty profiles|publisher=Swarthmore College|access-date=2023-04-03}}</ref>
<ref name=iop>{{citation|url=https://phys.org/news/2010-08-gender-bias-impacts-women-physicists.html|via=Phys.org|title=Gender-bias impacts women physicists|date=August 3, 2010|publisher=Institute of Physics|access-date=2023-04-03}}</ref>
<ref name=james>{{citation|title=Review of ''Forces and Motion''|first=Elizabeth|last=James|journal=The Science Teacher|volume=76|issue=1|pages=78–79|jstor=24144392}}</ref>
<ref name=jamming>{{citation|url=https://www.swarthmore.edu/news-events/physicist-amy-graves-and-students-examine-physics-structured-randomness|title=Physicist Amy Graves and Students Examine the Physics of Structured Randomness|publisher=Swarthmore College|date=July 16, 2020|access-date=2023-04-03}}</ref>
<ref name=laurel>{{citation|url=https://www.laurelschool.org/list-detail?pk=141348#|title=Amy Ritzenberg Graves '75|work=List detail|publisher=Laurel School|access-date=2023-04-03}}</ref>
<ref name=retire>{{citation|url=https://www.swarthmore.edu/news-events/swarthmore-bids-farewell-to-retiring-faculty-members-instructional-staff|title=Swarthmore Bids Farewell to Retiring Faculty Members, Instructional Staff|first=Heidi|last=Hormel|date=April 29, 2022|publisher=Swarthmore College|access-date=2023-04-03}}</ref>
<ref name=sciam>{{citation|url=https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/physics-students-reveal-bias-for-ma-10-08-03/|magazine=Scientific American|date=August 3, 2010|first=Cynthia|last=Graber|title=Physics students reveal bias for male lecturers|access-date=2023-04-03}}</ref>
<ref name=williams>{{citation|url=https://physics.williams.edu/physics-dept-news/congratulations-to-new-aps-fellow-dr-amy-graves-79/|title=Congratulations to new APS Fellow Dr. Amy Graves '79|work=Physics Department News|publisher=Williams College|access-date=2023-04-03}}</ref>
</references>
==External links== *[http://www.swarthmore.edu/NatSci/abug1/ Home page] *{{Google Scholar id|WgpfCP0AAAAJ}}
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