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Biography
Glennys R. Farrar is a professor of physics at New York University who specializes in particle physics, cosmology and the study of dark matter.
Education
Farrar obtained a bachelor's degree at UC Berkeley in 1968, going on to earn her PhD from Princeton in 1971, becoming the first woman to receive a physics PhD from Princeton.
Career
After graduating from Princeton, Farrar was a faculty member at Caltech and at Rutgers University, then joined NYU in 1998. At NYU, she chaired the physics department and founded the Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics.
She has been a member of the Institute for Advanced Study, and in 1975 she was awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1984, and in 2014, she was selected as a Simons Fellow in Theoretical Physics.