Professor Anthony Chen's career started at Boston College where he achieved a BSc in Physics and Mathematics. He went on to further his education at Harvard where he earned a MA in teaching and gained teaching experience in high school teaching in the USA. His passion for Physics brought him to the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Maryland, College Park. His thesis as a graduate research student was surrounding the uppermost layers of the atmosphere focusing on the ionospheric plasma using data from the Goddard Space Flight Center.
His work earned him an MSc on An End Effect Associated with Cylindrical Langmuir Probes on Explorer XVIII. Subsequent to this, he began his career at the University of the West Indies, Mona in the Department of Physics where he was assigned a position as a lecturer in 1968. He was instrumental in making the University internationally known by being the first to do research on the upper layer of the atmosphere within the Caribbean and, therefore, attracting US government funding. In 1972, he obtained his PhD entitled: An Experimental and Theoretical Investigation of Ionospheric Irregularities Responsible for the Scintillation of Satellite Signals.
Professor Chen has an extensive list of publications ranging from, book chapters, technical reports, and journal articles to conference proceedings. He has received multiple awards and accolades for his contribution to science, as well as, nation building.
He is now retired but due to his humility and selflessness, still gives back to the University by tutoring students and guiding their young researchers.
Our 7 faculties and 12 professional schools offer more than 200 programmes to some 18,000 graduate, undergraduate and continuing studies students.
The UWI, Mona ranks first in Jamaica among accredited tertiary-level programmes. In 2012, the University was again one of Jamaica’s Top 100 Employers.
