Professional Experience

• Professor of Physics, Houghton College, Houghton, NY (2000-present)
• Associate Dean for Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Houghton College, Houghton, NY (2014-2019)
  Developed vision and led implementation of strategies to strengthen science and math academic programs, including the areas of curriculum, faculty hiring, faculty development, budget oversight, recruiting and fund raising.  Responsible for development and implementation of new engineering program.  Oversight of $4 million science building renovation.
• Visiting Scientist, State University of New York (SUNY) at Geneseo, Department of Physics (2011-present)
  Development of the rapid isotope-counting system (RICS) to measure low energy light ion cross sections using inertial confinement fusion.  Measurement of  ¹²C(n,2n) cross section for use in LLE and NIF ICF diagnostics.
• Department Chair, Department of Physics, Houghton College, Houghton, NY  (2000-2014)
  Responsible for the curriculum and the development of the physics major, as well as for teaching general education and lower- and upper-division physics courses and involving undergraduate students in variety of research experiences.
• Director, Science Honors Program, Houghton College, Houghton, NY (2009-2013)
  Designed and implemented a novel science honors program for academically gifted first-year students.  Directed and taught in this year-long program that includes an interdisciplinary problem driven science course (team-taught by a biologist, chemist, and physicist, as well as a writing and a communication professor) and various ancillary courses in calculus, history, and philosophy.
• Visiting Scientist, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM (2000-2011)
  Collaborator in the ³He(n,pp)nn, d(n,nd) and d(n,np)n experiments at Los Alamos Neutron Science Center (LANSCE).
• Visiting Scientist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,Cambridge, MA (2000)
  Participant in development and testing of drift chamber detectors for the Bates Large Acceptance Spectrometer Toroid (BLAST) detector system.
• Associate Professor of Physics, Eastern Nazarene College, Quincy, MA (1999-2000)
• Assistant Professor of Physics, Northwest Nazarene College, Nampa, ID (1993-1999)
• Research Assistant, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (1987-1993)

Teaching Areas

• Astronomy
• Classical mechanics
• Electricity and magnetism
• Experimental physics lab
• Engineering statics
• Introductory physics and lab
• Physics of music
• Quantum mechanics
• Science Honors
• Statistical mechanics
• Thermodynamics
• Undergraduate research

Scholarship Interests

• Design of small accelerators
• Low to medium energy nuclear physics

Awards and Achievements

• Nominated for U.S. Professor of the Year Award
  Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) – The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
  “Celebrates extraordinary dedication to undergraduate teaching … commitment to your students and innovative instructional methods.”

• Guest Editor, Christian Scholars Review Special Issue, “The Nuclear Age at 70.” (2013-2015)

• Invited Speaker, “The Houghton College Cyclotron: A Tool for Educating Undergraduates.”
  20th International Conference on Cyclotrons and their Applications – Vancouver, BC, Canada (September  2013)
  
  
• “Nuclear Weapons and Our Globalizing Century Japan Seminar.” Selected to participate from among CCCU member institutions (August 2013)

• Houghton College Student Government Association Faculty Award (2011)
  “…to recognize dedication to Houghton College… for deeply impacting the lives of students and providing students with positive role models.”

• Houghton College Excellence in Teaching Award (2006)
  “This award, sponsored by the Independent College Fund of New York and funded by the Energy East Foundation, supports undergraduate education by recognizing excellence in teaching and by rewarding outstanding teachers.”

• Houghton College Presidents Innovation Award (2003)
  “For providing unusually rich and rewarding opportunities for students to participate in creative and collaborative learning … using a new paradigm for an on-campus sequence of laboratories which have provided the foundation for additional summer research projects on sub-atomic forces using the facilities of the Los Alamos National Laboratory.”

Grants

• Co-Principle Investigator, “Nuclear and Plasma Diagnostics for the EP-OMEGA and MTW Laser Systems.”
  Laboratory for Laser Energetics – Rochester, NY (2011-present [annual])

• “An experimental search for pre-existing nuclear D++ components using the 3He(n,2p) reaction.”
  Research Corporation (2005)

• “Charge Symmetry Breaking in Pion-Deuteron Scattering.”
  Research Corporation (1996)

• “Measurement of Neutron Inelastic Scattering Cross Sections on Materials of Interest in Contraband Detection.”
  Murdock Foundation (1996)

• “A Computerized Nuclear and Particle Physics Laboratory for Undergraduates.”
  National Science Foundation (1995)

• Research Corporation. “Electro- and Photodisintegration of the Deuteron.”
  Research Corporation (1994)

Publications

M. Yuly, T. Eckert, G. Hartshaw, S. J. Padalino, D. N. Polsin, M. Russ, A. T. Simone, C. R. Brune, T. N. Massey, C. E. Parker, R. Fitzgerald, T. C. Sangster and S. P. Regan, “The ¹²C(n, 2n)¹¹C cross section from threshold to 26.5 MeV,” Physical Review C 97, 024613 (2018).

Pointer, M. Van Dyke, S. Waalkes, and M. Yuly, “Introduction to the Theme Issue: The Nuclear Age at 70,” Christian Scholars Review 44, 333 (2015).

M. Yuly, “The Houghton College Cyclotron: A Tool for Educating Undergraduates,” Proceedings of Cyclotrons 2013, Vancouver, BC, Canada (2013).

Ertan, T. Akdogan, M. B. Chtangeev, W. A. Franklin, P. A. M. Gram, M. A. Kovash, J. L. Matthews, and M. Yuly, “Cross sections for neutron-deuteron elastic scattering in the energy range 135–250 MeV,” Phys. Rev. C 87, 034003 (2013).

M. Yuly, J. Mittelstaedt, J. L. Matthews, E. R. Kinney, C. Maher, W. W. Sapp, T. Soos, and R. O. Owens, “Experimental Test of Virtual Photon Theory via Electrodisintegration and Photodisintegration of the Deuteron”, Phys. Rev. C 68, 014601 (2003).

M. Yuly, J. Mittelstaedt, E. R. Kinney, C. Maher, J. L. Matthews, W. W. Sapp, T. Soos, and R. O. Owens, “A Test of High-Energy Electron Bremsstrahlung Calculations”, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A 488, 262 (2002).

M. Yuly, “Positronium in the Undergraduate Laboratory”, American Journal of Physics 67, 880 (1999).

M. Yuly, W. Fong, E.R. Kinney, C.T. Maher, J.L. Matthews, T. Soos, J. Vail, M.Y. Wang, S.A. Wood, P.A.M. Gram, G.A. Rebka Jr., and D.A. Roberts, “Pion Double Charge Exchange and Inelastic Scattering on ³He”, Phys. Rev. C 55, 1848 (1997).

L. Dowell, W. Fong, J. L. Matthews, H. Park, M. Wang, M. E. Yuly, E. R. Kinney, P. A. M. Gram, D. A. Roberts, and G. A. Rebka, Jr., “Measurement of the ³H (π⁺, ³He) π⁰ differential cross section at T_p=142 MeV”, Phys. Rev. C 51, 1551 (1995).

L.D. Pham, E.J. Beise, R.A. Eisenstein, F.J. Federspiel, S. Høibråten, A.M. Nathan, R.P. Redwine, D.R. Tieger, G. van der Steenhoven, K.E. Wilson, S.A. Wood, and M.E. Yuly, “The Exclusive ¹⁶O(γ,π^–p) Reaction in the D Resonance Region”, Phys. Rev. C 46, 621 (1992).

W.K. Hensley, E.A. Lepel, M.E. Yuly, and K.H. Abel, “Adaptation and Implementation of the RAYGUN Gamma-Ray Analysis Code on the IBM PC”, Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry 124, 481 (1988).