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Mark Yuly

Physics professor Mark Yuly sees teaching at Houghton as a way to ensure Christian voices in the sciences, an arena he considers a mission field. “The world needs excellent scientists who are Christians,” Yuly says.

Yuly himself is one such excellent scientist, with impressive credentials: a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, articles published in scientific journals, including the American Journal of Physics and Physics Review, and two dozen professional presentations.

Many of those presentations he has done in collaboration with Houghton students—part of his vision for a “hands-on” physics program: one that combines classroom work with an active research program. In addition to on-campus research activity, Yuly has taken groups of students to the Los Alamos National Laboratory (where he has visiting scientist status) to pursue nuclear physics projects with world-class scientists. These student-researchers have had the opportunity to describe their work in symposia around western New York.

Yuly brings to the classroom special interests in small accelerators and low- and medium-energy nuclear physics, but there’s something more. “I feel like I’m here because this is where God wants me,” he reports. “I strongly support the mission of Christian higher education in preparing young people to serve God.”