Dr. Quinton L. Williams now serves as a professor and chair of the Physics department at Howard University. He is one of many faculty members that conduct research in many areas which include Nanotechnology, Materials Science, String Theory, Laser Spectroscopy, Optics and Photonics, Atmospheric Sciences, Computational Sciences, Renewable Energy, Magnetics and Theoretical and Experimental Condensed Matter Physics. Dr. Williams graduated from Jackson State University in 1990 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics.