托马斯·史蒂芬森
斯沃斯莫尔学院教务长
Thomas Stephenson

Provost，Swarthmore College

       托马斯·史蒂芬森是斯沃斯莫尔学院教务长，James Hammons讲座教授。作为教务长，他是斯沃斯莫尔学院首席学术负责人，该学院是世界顶级住宿制文理学院之一。斯沃斯莫尔学院成立于1864年，由教友会（贵格会）创办，今天不再属于任何宗教派别，并且在人文学科、社会科学、自然科学和工程等领域授予超过35个专业的文学学士和科学学士学位。

       在2011年成为教务长之前，斯蒂芬斯教授曾担任信息技术系的副教务长，以及化学系主任。他1985年加入斯沃斯莫尔学院。作为化学家，他的研究领域是弱相互作用“范德瓦尔斯”分子动态特性和碰撞导致的能量转移，研究得到了美国国家科学基金会、美国化学协会石油研究基金和研究公司的资助。他是Henry Dreyfus教师学者奖得主，并且是宾夕法尼亚大学和芝加哥大学的访问学者。斯蒂芬斯教授毕业于福尔曼大学和芝加哥大学。

Thomas Stephenson is the Provost and the James Hammons Professor of Chemistry at Swarthmore College.  As Provost, he is the chief academic officer at Swarthmore, one of the top-ranked and most selective residential liberal arts colleges in the world. Founded in 1864 by the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), Swarthmore today is non-sectarian and offers bachelor of arts and bachelor of science degrees in over 35 majors in the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and engineering.

Prior to becoming Provost in 2011, Professor Stephenson served as Associate Provost for Information Technology and as Chair of the Department of Chemistry. He joined the faculty at Swarthmore in 1985. As a chemist, his research on the dynamics of weakly bound "van der Waals" complexes and collision-induced energy transfer has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, the Petroleum Research Fund of the American Chemical Society and the Research Corporation. He is the recipient of a Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, and has held visiting faculty positions at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Chicago. Professor Stephenson is a graduate of Furman University and the University of Chicago.