Judith F. Donnelly
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Judith F. Donnelly is an American physics educator specializing in optics and photonics education, and known for pushing education in those subjects into the secondary school and community college curricula.[1] She is retired as a professor emerita from Three Rivers Community College in Norwich, Connecticut.[2]
Donnelly was an undergraduate at Tufts University. She received a master's degree from the University of Connecticut.[3]
She began teaching physics at Three Rivers Community College in approximately 1978.[2] After teaching classical physics "for many years",[4] she began teaching photonics there in 1995,[4][5] and in 1997 she founded an associate degree program in laser and fiber optic technology.[3][5] She later led an annual Laser Camp program for high school students.[6] She retired as a professor emerita in 2014.[2]