Roxanne Patricia Springer is an American physicist, an advocate for diversity in physics, and an amateur middle distance runner.
[2] Her dissertation, QCD Effects in Weak Radiative β-Meson Decays, was supervised by Mark B.
[2] Springer has served in multiple leadership roles in the American Physical Society (APS), including as the founding chair of its Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion committee.
[4] Springer was named as a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2017, after a nomination from the APS Topical Group on Few-Body Systems and Multiparticle Dynamics, "for significant contributions to understanding the low-energy properties of hadrons, nuclei, and especially for pioneering contributions to the use of low-energy effective field theory techniques in the quest to identify and understand the fundamental symmetries of nature".
[6] She also received the 2023 Francis G. Slack Award of the Southeastern Section of the APS, "for long-term, extensive, and effective service to the physics community; for her relentless and very successful efforts to improve the climate for physicists of all backgrounds at multiple scales – locally at Duke, throughout the Southeast region, nationally and beyond; and for her leadership of diversity, equity and inclusion efforts that have deeply benefited the Southeastern Section of the American Physical Society and Division of Nuclear Physics".