James Borgardt, 2012-2013 AIP State Department Science Fellow
SEP 01, 2012
Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation, Office of Weapons of Mass Destruction and Terrorism
Member Society: American Association of Physics Teachers
Background
Borgardt has been a professor of physics at Juniata College since 1998, he has served as SPS chapter adviser since 1999. While at Juniata, Borgardt initiated a collaboration with scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratories researching the capabilities of large-area radiation detectors which have since been deployed at US border crossings in an effort to interdict the illicit transport of nuclear material.