New Faculty
Originally published in the January 1999 issue of CLASnotes.
Richard Conley
Assistant professor of political science Richard Conley completed his PhD at the University of Maryland. He came to UF from the US Department of HUD in Maryland where he was a research assistant. He is currently researching how divided partisan control of national institutions has affected presidential success in Congress since 1945. He teaches courses on the American presidency and American politics. His pastimes include camping, boating and fishing.
Nancy Reisman
Assistant professor of English Nancy Reisman received her MFA
from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1991. Her fiction
has appeared in Glimmer Train, American Fiction, Lilith, and Press,
and recent work is forthcoming in the Kenyon Review. She
has received literary fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts,
the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and the University of Wisconsin
at Madison. For several years she taught at the Rhode Island School
of Design and directed the RISD's Writing Center. She will be teaching
graduate and undergraduate courses in fiction writing.
Andrew Rinzler 
Andrew Rinzler, an assistant professor of physics, earned his PhD from the University of Connecticut in 1991. Upon graduation he took a National Research Council post doctoral appointment at the US Army Research, Development and Engineering Center (ARDEC) in Dover, New Jersey. While at ARDEC he became fascinated with a then newly discovered class of molecules called carbon nanotubes. This interest brought him to Rick Smalley's lab at Rice University, where he spent several highly productive years. Andrew's research at UF will concentrate on nanotube synthesis, characterization and technological exploitation. He has no spare time, but if he did, he would spend it with his wife and their three dogs at their new home in Newberry.
