Dr. Nicholas Buchler, from Rockefeller University, started August 1; Buchler has a joint appointment in the departments of Physics and Biology, and the Institute for Genome Science and Policy (IGSP).
Dr. Ayana Holloway Arce, a Chamberlain Postdoctoral Fellow from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory is a high-energy physicist and will start January 1, 2010.
Dr. Jian-Guo Liu, from the University of Maryland, joined the faculty July 1; Liu has a joint appointment with Physics and Mathematics. He is an expert in numerical methods to study fluid flow in flocking of animals.