Ayana Holloway Arce

Ayana Holloway Arce
Arce in 2017
Alma mater	Harvard University Princeton University
Scientific career
Institutions	Duke University Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Ayana Holloway Arce is a Professor of Physics at Duke University. She works on particle physics, using data from the Large Hadron Collider to understand phenomena beyond the Standard Model.

Early life and education[]

Arce was born in Lansing, Michigan.^[1] She studied physics at Princeton University, graduating with honors and a bachelor's degree in 1998.^[2] She moved on to Harvard University for her PhD, working the Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF) detector at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.^[1][2] She completed her PhD in 2006.^[3]

Research[]

After her PhD, Arce completed a Chamberlain post-doctoral fellowship at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where she worked on experimental techniques to measure properties of heavy unstable particles.^[4] Arce joined Duke University in 2010 and was made a Woodrow Wilson Foundation Fellow in 2012.^[5] Her mother, Karla F.C. Holloway, is a Professor of English and Law, and her father Russell Holloway is the Dean for Corporate and Industrial Relations.^[1] Arce is working on the calorimeter detector at the ATLAS experiment.^[6][7] She is working on jet substructure reconstruction, and the use of jet tagging in diboson resonances.^{[8][9][10][11]}

In 2017 Arce and her mother, Karla F.C. Holloway, were involved in Duke University's commemorations of 50 years of Black faculty scholarship.^[12] She was excited by the film Hidden Figures and has taken part in national discussions looking at how to engage more people of colour in scientific careers.^[5][13][14] She is part of the Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory research consortium, which supports undergraduate students to complete summer research projects in nuclear and particle physics.^[15]

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External links[]

• SCHOLARS@DUKE