Svetlana Gladycheva

Adjunct Instructor

SGladycheva@cornish.edu

Svetlana Gladycheva received her MS in physics (1994) from Moscow State University, and her PhD in high energy physics (2000) from the University of Michigan where she worked on the design, construction and tests of ultra cold polarized atomic hydrogen jet target to be placed in the beam of the high energy particle accelerator.  As a second graduate major, she received MFA in modern dance from the University of Michigan in 2001. Dance training brought her to the anatomy/physiology class, from where she took an interest in the nervous system, brain and communication between neural cells. She next did her postdoctoral training in the neurophysiology lab at the University of Michigan (2001- 2005) working on protein interactions responsible for exocytosis in neural cells,  learning techniques of molecular biology, electrophysiology and confocal misroscopy.  After moving to Seattle, Svetlana continued scientific work in the neuroscience in the laboratory of professor Caterall in the University of Washington.  Through all these years she hasn’t quit dancing - she performed with the University of Michigan Dance Company, Toledo University Dance Company, took classes at Velocity Dance Studio and performed with Strictly Seattle in 2007.
   
Svetlana started teaching for fun at first, teaching “Physics of Dance” at Cornish in the evenings while doing research full time. Then there followed the introductory physics class at North Seattle Community College, then “General Science” at Art Institute of Seattle, then introductory and advanced physics classes at Seattle University and University of Washington. Teaching became the main part of her life while her research continues now at the level of collaborative work. At present, Svetlana teaches at Seattle U and at the University of Washington.
   
In 2009, Svetlana got a flute for her birthday and felt obliged to learn to play at least “Mary had a little lamb”. She was so taken by the instrument that she continues taking lessons and studying flute intensively, plays flute and piccolo with the Rain City Symphony, and takes every opportunity to develop as a musician, - most recently (July 2011), she played in Benaroya Hall with the Northwest Mahler Festival Orchestra.
   
Svetlana strongly believes in importance of well-rounded education involving sciences, arts and humanities, all in healthy proportions.