The William H. and Frances S. Ryan Award
for Meritorious Teaching

Nominations for the 2009 Ryan Award are now being accepted. Please see the nomination process page for more details. 

Curtis A. Meyer

Professor, Department of Physics

2008 Ryan Award Recipient 

Curtis Meyer has been with the Carnegie Mellon Physics department since 1993. During that time, he has taught courses at all levels, from introductory physics to advanced graduate courses, as well as supervising research at both the graduate and undergraduate level. Before coming to Carnegie Mellon, Curtis earned his B.S. at Oregon State University and his Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley. He then spent six years as a post doctoral researcher in Switzerland.

Curtis is currently the spokesperson of the GlueX experiment at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility. He was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2004 and is currently the chair of one of the APS topical groups. In 2006, he won the Mellon College of Science's Julius Ashkin Teaching Award, and since then has written a textbook for one of his courses.