Ayana Holloway Arce

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 to Harvard University for her PhD, working the CDF detector at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.[1][2] She completed her PhD in 2006.[3]

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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