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Dr. Karchin has a PhD in Physics from Cornell University. His research field is experimental high-energy particle physics. He has been at Wayne State since 1985. Before coming to Wayne State, he was an Associate Professor at Yale University from 1991-95, and an Assistant Research Physicist at UC Santa Barbara from 1983-86.