Alumni
Here is information on what some of the past physics majors and minors are doing. If you would like to send the department updated information, we would be happy to include this in the alumni/ae page. Please send any information to the physics department coordinator, Dominica Lord-Wood, at dlord@bowdoin.edu.
'07
Robey Clark is a nuclear-trained submarine officer in the Navy after finishing Officer Candidate School at the Naval Air Station in Pensacola, Florida. (8/07)
Rebecca Perry is a data technician for Global Energy Concepts, a wind energy consultancy in Lowell, MA. She works with meteorological data from prospective wind farm sites. (2/08)
Ben Ripman is an engineer working with the Spaceflight Instrument Operations Team for Science Systems and Applications, Inc., in Greenbelt, MD. (3/08)
Eric Sofen is pursuing a PhD in atmospheric science at the University of Washington in Seattle. (2/08)
'06
Kate Johnson is attending the Masters in Urban Education Studies Program at Yale University. This program lasts 14 months, at the end of which, Kate will have a masters degree in education and be certified to teach grades 7-12 in Connecticut. She will begin teaching math and physics in a New Haven public high school in the fall of 2007. (6/06)
Sam Kolins is pursuing a PhD in theoretical mathematics at Cornell University. (6/06)
Jacob Scheckman is pursuing a masters degree in mechanical engineering at the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis. His thesis deals with the deposition of highly agglomerated nano-particles in the human lung. (11/06)
Eli Sidman is working in the physics department at MIT. He is in the Physics Lecture Demonstration Group, which builds, sets up and helps students with physics demonstrations and lab experiments. Eli is enjoying this opportunity to combine his interests in physics, art and education. (2/08)
Martin Wai is completing the 3-2 Engineering Program at Dartmouth College. He then plans to continue his studies at Dartmouth by entering the Masters in Engineering Management program. (6/06)
Sonia Weinhaus is doing video and television production in Boston. (6/06)
'05
Bill Alto is pursuing a PhD in mathematics at the University of California at San Diego. (9/05)
Will Boylston is enrolled in the post-baccalaurate pre-medical program at Bryn Mawr. (9/05)
John Carpenter is working at TexSEM Labs (TSL) in Draper, Utah. TSL produces Electron Backscatter Diffractometers (EBSD), which is the primary competitor for HKL, the product used by Bowdoin's geology department. John intends to enter grad school to pursue a PhD in material science and engineering.(8/06)
Hannah Colburn is pursuing a DMD at the Arizona School of Dentistry and Oral Health in Mesa, Arizona. (7/06)
Will Morris is living in Salt Lake Valley, Utah and working in an environmental consulting lab. He plans to apply to graduate school in order to study sustainable civil engineering. (8/06)
Ian Morrison is pursuing a PhD in physics at the University of California at Santa Barbara. (9/05)
Riccardo Schmid is pursuing a PhD in physics at Caltech. (9/05)
Jonelle Walsh is pursuing a PhD in astronomy at the University of California at Irvine. (9/05)
'04
Willie Klemm is pursuing a PhD in physics at the University of California at Berkeley. (6/05)
John Koster is pursuing a PhD in physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has joined a group doing experiments on the sub-structure of protons (the PHENIX experiment) at Brookhaven National Laboratory. (10/05)
Peter Nasveschuk is pursuing a masters degree in electrical engineering at Boston University. (6/05)
Jay Rilinger is studying at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine in Iowa City, Iowa. (5/06)
John-Paul Rautio is painting for Vincent Moulton, an interior decorator in Boston. He plans to pursue an MFA in Florence, Italy within the next few years.(9/04)
'03
Phelps Clarke is a renewable energy technician at Sundance Power Systems, a company in Mars Hill, North Carolina, that installs renewable energy systems. (9/05)
Aaron Donohoe spent a year as a research assistant at Scripps Oceanographic Institute in La Jolla, CA. He is currently pursuing a PhD in atmospheric science at the University of Washington. (5/05)
Jordan Fay is pursuing a masters degree in architecture at the University of Oregon. (7/06)
Matthew Fleck has been accepted into the NYC Teaching Fellows program, and will teach math in the Bronx. (5/03)
Alison George is in her final year at Boston College Law School. (11/05)
James Holte is pursuing a PhD at Scripps Oceanographic Institute in La Jolla, CA. (9/03)
George Hubbard is teaching physics at St. Johnsbury Academy in St. Johnsbury, Vermont. (12/04)
Andrew Knapp is pursuing a PhD in physics at Penn State University. (6/05)
Elizabeth Robinson is pursuing a PhD in classical archaeology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. (9/04)
Monica Skoge is pursuing a PhD in physics at Princeton University. (6/05)
Blake Sturtevant is a lab technician in the Department of Geosciences at Princeton University, working with the automated air samplers he helped design and construct while at Bowdoin. (9/03)
Eric Walker is a software engineer and project manager in Baltimore, MD. (11/07)
'02
Michael Butler received an MS in raptor biology from Boise State University in Boise, Idaho. He is currently pursuing a PhD in biology at Arizona State University. (12/06)
Peter Hahn became an engineer for the Federal Sector of Computer Sciences Corporation in Washington, D.C. after graduating. The first year he worked on semi-technical work with phased array radars while waiting for a security clearance. The next year he was switched into a new group that was computerizing Navy inventory. In that second year he applied to, and was accepted at, The George Washington Universities graduate program in physics. Just before it began he obtained his clearance and accepted a third job working on rather more technical programs for various gov't agencies. Peter works on the technical programs in the summer while in graduate school. (3/07)
Nicholas Lyford is currently pursuing a PhD in biomedical engineering at Boston University. Until 2006, he worked as a process technologist for RAPT (Reactive Atom Plasma Techology) Industries, a start-up company focusing on optics manufacturing in Livermore, CA. (6/07)
Greg Orlicz works on fluid instabilities and turbulence at the gas shock-tube facility at Los Alamos National Laboratory while pursuing an MS in mechanical engineering at the University of New Mexico. He is also a member of New Mexico Style, a semi-professional basketball team based in Santa Fe. (1/06)
Kristen Perine taught physics at St. Stephen's and St. Agnes School in Alexandria, VA, after graduation, and then algebra at Maria Weston Chapman Middle School in Weymouth, MA. Currrently, she is teaching middle school math at Buckingham Browne and Nichols in Cambridge, MA. (9/05)
Emily Rizza is a market analyst for Boston Biomedical Consultants in Waltham, MA. (11/03)
Carrie Simonds is currently a financial analyst in the software and digital media sector at Adams Harkness, an investment bank in Boston. (12/05)
Adam Sirois is pursuing a PhD in physics at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and jointly doing research at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. He writes: "My research focuses on developing a solid-state quantum computer. Our approach uses the phase difference across a Josephson junction as our 'quantum bit', the analog of a 1 or 0 in a classical computer. Currently, quantum computing technology is in its infancy, which makes the research very exciting." (3/06)
John Thorndike joined The Investment Fund for Foundations in September 2004. Known colloquially as TIFF, the cooperative seeks to improve the investment returns of endowed charities by making available to them a series of multi-manager investment vehicles plus resources aimed at enhancing fiduciaries' knowledge of investing. Working closely with TIFF's senior investment professionals, John performs a broad variety of tasks on behalf of all of TIFF's investment divisions, focusing primarily on portfolio analytics, asset allocation, trading and external money manager monitoring. (6/07)
'01
Ross Barton received a law degree from Washington and Lee University in Lexington, VA. He is an attorney at Pillsbury Winthrop LLP in McLean, VA, focusing on intellectual property litigation. (5/05)
Jesse Bastide currently lives "in the California Bay area, working in a bike shop in Danville, and training for upcoming road races with the local boys." (5/04)
Richard Bolduc is currently pursuing a DMD at the Tufts School of Dental Medicine in Boston. Prior to that, he was a dental assistant in the Native American Health Center in San Francisco. (1/04)
Henry Chance completed an MS in mechanical engineering at Penn State University. He currently works for Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) as an Engineering Consultant for the Navy. His efforts are focused on building 3D computer-models of ships to predict their behavior in various wind and sea conditions. These models are used to design and build simulators for training helmsmen to pilot large ships in close quarters. He is also pursuing an MBA at Johns Hopkins University. (6/06)
Wayne Chung completed an MS and is now continuing in the field to earn a PhD in computer engineering at Dartmouth. (8/04)
Nate Dill is pursuing a PhD in ocean engineering at Louisiana State University. Previously, he taught physics at Northfield Mount Hermon School in Northfield, MA. (11/04)
Kate Maselli taught physics at Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School in Cambridge, MA, before going on to receive a masters in education from Harvard Graduate School of Education. She teaches physics and biology at Leadership High School in San Francisco. (12/04)
Brian Mohr is pursuing a PhD in experimental high energy physics at UCLA. (9/01)
Andrew Mountcastle was a Watson Fellow in 2001-2002, and from 2002 to 2005, he worked for the Lobster Conservancy in Friendship, ME, as an Island Institute Fellow. He is now pursuing a PhD in biology at the University of Washington. (9/05)
Michael O'Brien earned an MS in mechanical engineering at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. (6/06)
Patrick Thompson is a consultant for Bain & Company in Boston. (6/01)
Apolka Totth is pursuing an MBA at Duke University. (9/06)
'00
Rich Calhoun has taught physics, geology, and math at The Groton School and at Aspen Country Day School. Since 2004, he has taught physics at The Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Connecticut. (11/05)
John Leen, after a year at Bowdoin, transferred to Brown University, where he majored in mathematics and classics, graduating in 2000. He received an MA in mathematics from Berkeley in 2002, and is now a Software Development Engineer at Microsoft in Seattle. (9/06)
Abel McClennen teaches physics at Souhegan High School in Amherst, New Hampshire. (9/00)
Adam Zimman is a Corporate Systems Engineer for VMware, a software company that has been the pioneer in the x86 virtualization space, in Palo Alto, CA. He functions as a bridge between software development and advanced technical support personnel and the customers. (12/04)
'99
Julie DeVincentis Saxton was a consultant for Charles River Associates in Boston after graduation. She now teaches third to fifth grade engineering at the Center School in Stow, MA, and designs curricula for other teachers as part of the Engineering Outreach office at Tufts University. (9/01)
Bill Griggs works for Visa USA in their Product Innovation and Coordination Group. Previously he worked for Navigant Consulting in San Francisco. While there, his work focused on technology and innovation management, primarily in the medical device and energy industries. (6/06)
Evan Jochnowitz received a PhD in atmospheric chemistry from the University of Colorado in November 2004. He is currently a post-doc in the chemistry department at the University of Basel, Switzerland, exploring the electronic spectroscopy of carbon chains and ion complexes relevant to astronomy. (5/05)
Tom Larsen completed a 3-2 program in mechanical engineering at Columbia University prior to becoming a teacher in independent schools. He completed his EdM at the Harvard Graduate School of Education in 2005, and currently teaches physics at Choate Rosemary Hall in Wallingford, CT. (2/07)
Brendan Moyer is Web Administrator for the National Association of Convenience Stores in Washington, D.C. (9/01)
Sean Raymond earned a PhD in astronomy from the University of Washington in 2005. He is currently a postdoc at the University of Colorado in Boulder, researching the conditions required for the formation of Earth-like planets around other stars. (10/06)
Dan Robbins taught physics at McDonogh School in Maryland in 1999-2000. He taught stone sculpting as artist-in-residence at the Montana Artists Refuge in spring 2001,and spent the summer of 2001 at the Lacoste School of the Arts in France. Dan taught math and physics at Saint Mary's Hall/Doane Academy for three years ending in 2005.(12/05)
'98
B. J. Bernard worked three years for The CMJ Network in New York City as an account executive. He created trade and consumer marketing packages partnering record companies and consumer products manufacturers with musical artists, college DJs, and young trendsetters. He is currently working in Worcester, MA for the MPI Advanced Casting Research Center and pursuing an MS in materials science and engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. His research, funded by DOE, involves understanding the mechanisms of globular alpha-phase formation in the semisolid regime of eutectic alloys and applying this knowledge to the novel Continuous Rheoconversion Process (CRP) developed by MPI. (4/05)
Lauren Bernheim completed the 3-2 Engineering program at Dartmouth College in 1999, and then worked as a consultant for Breakaway Solutions in San Francisco. She is currently enrolled in a dual masters degree program in transportation engineering and city and regional planning at Berkeley. (6/03)
Matt Engler taught math and science at Nativity Preparatory School, a Jesuit middle school for boys in inner city Boston, for two years after Bowdoin. After that, he worked for Industrial Economics Inc., an environmental consulting firm in Cambridge, MA, while also completing a masters degree in economics at Tufts in 2002. He is now enrolled in the MBA program at Yale. (6/03)
Jif Frese did graduate study in physical oceanography during 1998-99 at Oregon State University. After that, she worked as a systems engineer at Bayer Diagnostics in Boston, developing algorithms and software for a new cooximeter, which measures the different percentages of hemoglobin in blood. She is currently pursuing an MD at Dartmouth School of Medicine. (9/03)
Joanna Hass taught mathematics and physics at Greenwood High School in Greenwood, Mississippi for three years as part of the Teach for America program. She is now pursuing a PhD in physics at Georgia Tech. (8/03)
Karen Lunn King taught physics and math at the Verde Valley School in Sedona, AZ in 1998-99. She subsequently earned an MS (2001) and PhD (2003) in mechanical engineering from Dartmouth University, followed by a postdoc at Children's Hospital Boston & Harvard Medical School. She is currently chair of the science department at Denver School of Science and Technology in Denver, CO (1/07)
Keith Martin received his MS in structural engineering from the University of Maine in 2004. He currently works for Kleinschmidt Associates, an energy and water resources consulting firm in Pittsfield, Maine, primarily performing structural design in support of hydro-power and renewable energy development projects. (12/04)
Ellen O'Shaughnessy earned a masters in public health from Boston University in 2000. She subsequently worked as a research associate for the Center for Blood Research in Boston. She is currently pursuing a PhD in biomedical engineering at Boston University. (9/03)
John Pavan received a PhD in nuclear physics from Florida State University in 2003, after which he held postdoctoral positions at Oak Ridge National Lab in Oak Ridge, TN, and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab in Berkeley, CA. He is currently a linux open source engineer for Access Systems Americas in Sunnyvale, CA. (12/07)
Adam Smith completed the 3-2 program in Mechanical Engineering at Columbia University in 1999. He received an MS from the MIT Media Lab in 2001, after which he worked at Telecom Italia in Rome. Since 2003, he has been working as a product manager at Google in San Franscisco. (1/05)
'97
George Bowker received a PhD in zoology in April 2000 from Duke University. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow in the Atmospheric Modeling Division of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in Research Triangle Park, NC. (5/05)
James Johnson is physics teacher and track coach at the Virginia Episcopal School. (8/98)
Lincoln Sise is currently in Kenya, teaching physics. He taught physics at Andover during the 1997-98 year. (8/98)
'96
Tim Aron completed an MS in scientific computing and computational mathematics at Stanford University in 1998. He now works for Trilogy Software in Austin, TX. (7/99)
Gail Fine received her MBA from Dartmouth in June 2001. She worked as a consultant for Bain & Company from 1996 until 2002. She is now in knowledge management in the Boston office of the Bridgespan Group, a nonprofit consulting firm. (3/03)
Jong P. Hong received his JD from Boston College. He is an Associate with Greenberg Traurig in Palo Alto, CA, and practices intellectual property litigation and patent prosecution. (6/07)
Anthony Lane is pursuing a PhD in philosophy at the University of Colorado in Boulder. (04L)
Paul Lewis received a PhD in physics from Cambridge University in February 2002. (3/02)
Andrew Price completed a 3-2 program at Stanford University in June 1997. At Stanford he earned a BS in the civil engineering, environmental & water studies program. After Stanford, Andrew worked for MRW & Associates, an energy consulting firm in Oakland, CA. In March 2001, he joined Competitive Energy Services, working in their Portland, ME office. Andrew is helping CES develop a small "community scale" wind farm in Freedom, ME. (1/07)
Megan Sheehy is working for Meredith and Grew, Inc., a real estate firm in Boston which specializes in brokerage, appraisal, property management, and finance. (4/97)
Dave Stegman completed his PhD in earth and planetary science at the University of California at Berkeley in 2003. His research involves the use of high performance computing to simulate the evolution of planetary interiors (both Earth and the Moon). Currently he is a research fellow at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia (11/03)
'95
Ali Ahmad completed the 3-2 engineering program at Columbia. He is currently an associate at Goldman-Sachs in New York City.(3/97L)
Jon Dugan completed an MS in medical physics at the University of Texas in 1998, and a PhD in biomedical informatics in the Department of Medicine at Stanford University in August 2002. He worked in the pharmaceutical business development group at SRI International, a nonprofit research institute in Menlo Park, CA until the summer of 2004. He is currently living in Paris, France (11/04)
Tom Eng received a BS in electrical engineering from the University of Maryland in December 1998. He is an engineer in the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau of the Federal Communications Commission in Washington, DC. (4/02)
Larry Hodgkins finished the 3-2 engineering program at Columbia and will enter a graduate program in environmental engineering at University of Massachusetts.
Shion Kono completed a PhD in comparative literature at Princeton University in May 2003. He is currently a tenured Lecturer in comparative literature at Sophia University in Tokyo. (02/07)
Courtney Lower completed her MD at Wayne State University School of Medicine. She currently practices Family Medicine at the Vancouver Clinic in Battle Ground, WA. (6/05)
Chris Mills has held positions as Technical Director for the theater program at Mount Desert Island high school, and as Quality Assurance Analyst for Fidelity Investments in Boston. He is currently enrolled in the graduate program in Animation at UCLA. (4/01)
'94
Austin Burkett is a healthcare analyst in the equity research department of UBS Warburg LLC in New York City. He covers the life sciences and genomics stocks, and focuses on the molecular biology kits and reagents companies. (12/07)
Jason Breitweg earned a PhD in experimental particle physics from the University of Wisconsin in August, 2001. His thesis on neutral current deep inelastic scattering was based on data collected in the ZEUS experiment at the DESY lab in Hamburg, Germany. He is currently a support engineer for EssNet Deutschland GmbH in Hamburg, which supplies hardware and software solutions for the lottery industry. He is also the webmaster for the German heavy metal band Blind Guardian. (12/03)
Brian Dirlam is a pilot for Northwest Airlink, and is based in Minneapolis.(12/03)
Masa Hirono received an MS in mechanical engineering from Stanford in 1996. He works as a Research Scientist, specializing in optics, at Toshiba Research and Development Center in Japan. (9/04)
Alison Japikse completed a 3-2 program at Dartmouth. She is currently a Crash Safety Development Team Leader at Ford Motor Company in Michigan. (12/02)
Mark Rapo is pursuing a PhD in ocean engineering at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute and MIT. (5/06)
'93
Chris Badger is Systems Development Engineer at Northern Power Systems in Waitsfield, VT. (12/03L)
Marshall Benitez is Technology Coordinator for the NYC Fund for Public Education. (3/97L)
Daniel Berwick completed a PhD in computer science and engineering at the University of Michigan in September 2001. He currently works for Veridian Corporation. (1/03)
James de Blasi is program advisor for Educational Talent Search in St. Paul, MN. (3/97L)
Brian Chin completed his MD at the University of Michigan. (12/00L)
Mickey Chiu received his PhD in physics from Columbia in 2004. He studied jet production in high energy nuclear collisions to learn about the properties of deconfined quark-gluon matter. He is currently a post-doc at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and is using the Phenix detector at RHIC to measure the gluon contribution to the spin of the proton. (11/04)
Zema Chowdhuri completed a PhD in experimental nuclear physics at Indiana University in 2000. After that, she worked on neutron scattering at the High Flux Backscattering Spectrometer at the National Institute of Standards and Technology's Center for Neutron Research in Gaithersburg, Maryland. Currently, she resides in Villigen, Switzerland. (12/05)
Khurram Dastgir-Khan completed a 3-2 engineering program at Caltech before returning to his native Pakistan. After a medley of careers in business and politics, he currently writes on economics and international affairs for the editorial page of the daily News International (http://www.thenews.com.pk). (2/02)
George John David is a Captain in the U. S. Marine Corps and the Company Commander of Company E, Marine Support Battalion, in Misawa, Japan. (12/99)
Jeff Dugan works for GW Hannaway & Associates in Boulder, Colorado. (11/00)
David Gatchell received his PhD in biomedical engineering at Boston University in August 2002. He is currently a postdoc/instructor in the Biomedical Engineering Department at Northwestern. (5/04)
Jonah Harley completed the 3-2 program at Caltech in 1994. He received an MS in mechanical engineering from Berkeley in 1995 in the area of robotics and controls, and his PhD in mechanical engineering from Stanford in 1999, researching piezoresistive cantilevers for atomic force microscopy. He now works for Agilent Labs on micro-mechanical actuators for optical applications. (4/00)
Joel Hyman received his PhD in biophysics from Yale in 2001. (12/01)
Michael Pendy is a financial analyst covering the telecommunications industry at Soros Fund Management. (12/98)
John Sotir studied electrical engineering at MIT and Columbia. He is an engineering manager with the Agere Systems Processing, Aggregation, and Switching Business Unit in Allentown, PA. (3/03)
Kevin Slep completed his PhD in biophysics at Yale, and was a postdoc at the University of California at San Francisco until 2006. He currently teaches in the biology department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and studies protein structure using X-ray crystallography. (6/07)
MacKenzie Stetzer completed a PhD in experimental condensed matter physics at the University of Pennsylvania in March, 2000. His dissertation dealt with the structure and phase behavior of fullerene derivatives. His first post-doc was in the field of complex fluids at the University of Waterloo in Ontario. Currently, he is a post-doc in the physics education group at the University of Washington. (11/01)
Weihua Yan received an MS in Computer Science from Brown University in 1995. After working for Citibank and an internet consulting company in New York City for several years, he started his own internet consulting and web hosting company, New York E, which provides high-end database driven and E-commerce web sites. He lives in Manhattan. (6/00)
'92
Alex Bentley received a PhD in archaeology from the University of Wisconsin in 2001. He is currently a Lecturer in the Anthropology Department of Durham University, UK. His research involves measuring strontium and other isotopes in early Neolithic skeletons from Europe and Southeast Asia to characterize their migration patterns. A separate line of research is to test simple quantitative models -- closely analogous to random genetic drift -- to explain popular fashion change. (12/05)
Jonathan Briggs completed a 3-2 program at Caltech, and received a PhD in theoretical solid mechanics at the University of Pennsylvania. He currently does applied numerical mathematics for Charles Schwab in San Francisco. (11/02)
Bryan Campell completed an MS in electrical & computer engineering at the University of Colorado. He currently works for Nokia in Burlington, MA. (11/00)
Dan Gallagher received an MBA from Vanderbilt. He now works for SAP America in Atlanta. (4/99)
Gao Hua McCabe received a PhD in physics from Tufts University.
Wyatt Metzger received a PhD in physics from the University of Colorado in Boulder, and is currently a research scientist at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado (6/04)
Chris Neill is Data Account Manager at Electric Lightwave Inc. in Atlanta. (99L)
Mike Van Huystee received an MBA from the University of Amsterdam.
'91
Mark Bowers is an Analyst with Kidder Peabody in New York City. (3/97L)
James Caron completed a 3-2 engineering program at Caltech. He is Vice President and Senior Trading Specialist at Merrill Lynch. (3/99)
Yun-Ju Choi works in the Education Division of the Boys and Girls Clubs of Boston. (99L)
Martin Dionne received an MS in physics from Rice University. He is now with Professional Software Solutions in Portland, ME. (12/98L)
Paul Faulstich currently works as a Programmer at L.L. Bean. He is also a member of Maine's Hydrogen Energy Center and is Project Manager for the Chewonki Renewable Hydrogen Project in Wiscasset, Maine. Since graduating, Paul has worked in the audio industry, instructed physics labs at Bates College, and earned an MS in physics at Washington University. (7/04)
Michael Gearan completed the 3-2 program in Civil Engineering at Columbia in 1992. He is currently an Assistant Project Manager/Project Engineer for Eastern Contractors, Inc. in Framingham, MA, which specializes in public school construction. (4/99)
Anton Kucer received an MS in mechanical engineering (fluid mechanics) from Purdue, where he investigated ligament-controlled effervescent atomization. He is now a Program Manager at Microsoft in Seattle. (6/00)
Russ McGregor earned his MS in operations research from Case Western Reserve University in 1997, following which he worked for a succession of transportation and logistics software companies. He is Director of Transportation Management for Manhattan Associates, a supply chain software company, and is currently living in Melbourne, Australia. (11/07)
Jeffrey Poulin received an MBA from Portland State University in 1999, and an MS in computer science from Portland State University in 2005. He is currently the Chief Information Officer for Cascadia Behavorial Healthcare in Portland, OR. Jeffrey lives in France, working via telecommuting. (1/07)
'90
Vincent Carrara completed the 3-2 program at Columbia in 1991, and is working as an Application Engineer in the gasket material industry. (12/98)
Peter Nugentp received a PhD in physics (astronomy) from the University of Oklahoma in 1997. He subsequently took a post-doc at Lawrence Berkeley Lab, working on the Supernova Cosmology Project. Currently he is Computational Staff Scientist at the National Energy Research Science Computing Center at LBL. (7/03)
Sunil Wadhwa is in a DMD/PhD program in orthodontics at University of Connecticut. (3/97L)
Marnita Thompson Eaddie is a Computer Test Manager and a Captain in the US Air Force at the Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque, New Mexico. (9/04)
Kenneth Woods earned a PhD from Dartmouth and is now an industrial physicist for a New England based firm. (12/00L)
'89
Angus Badger received an MD from University of Vermont, and worked for the National Health Service Corporation in Rumford, ME from 1998 to 2001. He now practices in North Conway, NH. (6/01).
Erik Duisberg is a Senior Associate with Berkshire Capital Corporation. (3/97L)
Jessica Gaylord worked for the EPA in San Francisco until 1999. She is currently enrolled in the School of Nursing at the University of California, San Francisco. (1/03)
Chris Keeley earned a PhD in oceanography from Columbia, and was subsequently a post-doc at UNH. He has joined Cereon Genomics in Cambridge, MA. (12/00L)
Peter Thalheimer is a Lt. Col. in the New York Air National Guard. He flies ski-aircraft from New Zealand to Australia. (12/06L)
Rob Tisdale received a PhD in chemistry from the University of Colorado in Boulder in 1998. He currently works at Midwest Research Institute in Kansas City. (11/99)
'88
Ghufran Ahmed completed the 3-2 program at Caltech in 1989, and later earned a masters in engineering-economic systems from Stanford. Since graduating, he has worked for Oracle Corporation, Sun Microsystems, and Microsoft Corporation. He is now a Practice Manager at Annams Systems Consulting in San Ramon, CA, a small firm which specializes in software applications development in the business intelligence and the e-commerce space. (7/99)
Kevin Daner is with Daner-Hayes in Wayland, MA. (3/97L)
James Everett completed an MS in biomedical engineering at Boston University in 1991, and subsequently worked for Siemens, Massachusetts General Hospital, and the National Institutes of Health before moving back to Canada. He now lives in Calgary, Alberta, and works for Verity, a California-based internet company. ``Though I would not have thought it back at Bowdoin, a physics degree can lead many places!'' (12/99)
Scott Feldman is Manager of Technical Services for Deloitte and Touche in Washington, DC. (99L)
Angela Hansen is an attorney with Dechert, Price, and Roads in Philadelphia. (3/97L)
Joseph Killoran earned a PhD in physics at Dartmouth and is now conducting medical radiation research at the Dana Farber Institute in Boston.
Stefan Marelid completed a 3-2 program at Caltech, earned an MS in computer science from Stanford, and an MBA from Harvard.
John Moran completed the 3-2 program at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and is a software engineer consultant. Previously, he developed software for astronomy satellites at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. (12/00L)
Edward Naranjo completed the 3-2 program at Caltech, and is a chemical engineer at Proctor and Gamble in Cincinnati. (3/97L)
Mark Rodger received a masters degree in architecture from the University of Pennsylvania. He is now University Architect for the University of Denver. (10/02).
William Titcomb received his law degree from Franklin Pierce, and is a patent examiner in Washington, DC. (10/00L)
'87
Harold (E. B.) Brakewood completed an MA in physics at Dartmouth, and an MBA at Harvard. He is a Senior Director of New Product Planning for Merck and Co. (4/04)
Anne Creden earned an MS in mechanical engineering from Columbia, and a DVM from the Iowa State College of Veterinary Medicine in 2000. Since June 2000, she has practiced at the Salmon Brook Veterinary Hospital in Granby, Connecticut. (6/05)
Jonathan Fanburg received an MD and masters of public health. He now works for Maine Coast Memorial Hospital in Ellsworth, ME. (1/01)
John Howland is Executive Vice President, Chief Administrative Officer of Bancorp and The Bank of Southern Connecticut. (8/05)
Robert Hurd, Jr. received an MA in liberal studies from Dartmouth. He currently teaches mathematics and science at Tabor Academy in Marion, MA. (6/05)
Sohel Khan is a director of software engineering in Dhaka, Bangladesh. (L)
Brad Lisle is with Interactive Media for Science and Technology in Plainville, MA. (10/98L)
Phil Morin received a PhD in electrical engineering from Princeton in 1992. He subsequently worked as a patent agent for Morrison & Foerster LLP in San Diego, CA. Currently, he is a law student at the University of New Mexico. (10/04)
Jennifer Mosse Carlin is a teacher at Columbus Academy in Gahanna, OH. (4/05)
Frank Perdicaro earned an MS in computer engineering at University of Massachusetts, Lowell. He now works in Irvine, CA, for Dainippon Screen Engineering of America. (12/00)
Reginald Reglus received an MBA from the Wharton School of Business in 1995. He is the founder and President of Reglus and Associates, a computer and consulting company in New York City. (4/05)
Frances Reis Jensen received an MD degree in 1997 from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and then completed a residency in Internal Medicine at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. She is currently a member of the teaching faculty in the Department of Medicine at the Union Memorial Hospital in Baltimore. (4/01)
Dan Rosner works as a statistical analyst/programmer at the National Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium's statistical coordinating center in Seattle. (2/99)
Robert Ward completed a masters degree in engineering management at Stanford. He now runs Acclivity Photonics, a small startup company in advanced glass materials, which fabricates gradient refractive index lenses for use in fiber optic components. (1/03)
'86
Moritz Hansen received an MD from Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons, and completed his residency in Urology at Stanford University Medical Center. He currently practices with Portland Urologic Associates in Portland, Maine. (4/00)
Chris Harris completed the 3-2 program in electrical engineering at Columbia in 1987, and subsequently earned an MS in electrical engineering from Stanford. He is currently manager of Network Security Risk Management at Verizon Wireless. (1/07)
Joe LaCasce received a PhD in physical oceanography from MIT/WHOI (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute) in 1996. He is currently a professor of meteorology at the University of Oslo. (12/06L)
David Lee was a telecommunications analyst with Loral Space and Range Systems for several years. He is now a Senior Network Engineer with Advanced Micro Devices in Sunnyvale, CA. (12/04)
Alan McDonald is an account executive with Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance, Atlanta, GA. (12/98L)
Andrew Ross received an MS in electrical engineering from Johns Hopkins University. He is now a manager at Andersen Consulting in Alexandria, VA. (12/98L)
Ali Sadra (Mo Garepapaghi) received a PhD in biophysics from Cornell University. He completed a postdoc at UC San Francisco/San Franciso General Hospital, and is now working for a pharmaceutical company as Senior Scientist in cancer biology. (2/02L)
Francine Turner received a masters in condensed matter physics from Duke. She is now a practicing electrical engineer.
Carlton Wheeler is a senior financial analyst with Group Health Inc. in New York City. (3/97)
Kristen Woodberry is a social worker in the Child Psychiatry Division at Maine Medical Center. (5/00)
Tom Zell is a patent attorney for Xerox, and lives in Portola Valley, CA. (12/06L)
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Ejaz Ahmad obtained a PhD in physics from the University of Florida in 1995. He conducted research on the relativistic astrophysics of black holes and rotating neutron stars. He has been working in Silicon Valley ever since. Currently he evaluates emerging technologies for Siemens AG. (12/01)
Steve Amann taught at a high school in New Jersey for a few years after graduation. He completed a PhD in history and philosophy of Science at the University of Maryland in 1993, and now teaches AP Physics at the Bryn Mawr School in Baltimore, Maryland.(12/98)
Phil Brown is a Senior Healthcare Information Analyst with Spectrum Medical Group, a Maine-based physician practice, and lives in Falmouth, ME. (5/00)
Walter (Buzz) Burlock is in charge of one of the Dreyfus Funds dealing with technical stocks.
Kwanghak Huh completed the 3-2 program at Caltech, and received an MS in aerospace engineering from Ohio State University in 1988. He is a senior researcher at Samsung Aerospace in South Korea. (94L)
Michael Kopp completed a 4-2 program at Columbia, and then received a PhD in materials engineering from the University of Texas in 1992. He is an analyst and project director for the Center for Naval Analyses in Alexandria, VA, but is currently assigned to the Navy Warfare Development Command in Newport, RI.(9/03)
Anne Kovach-Hebling completed her doctorate in engineering at the Fraunhofer Institut fur Solare Energiesysteme in the area of photovoltaics. She currently lives in Freiburg, Germany. (5/04)
David Utzschneider earned an MD and PhD (neuroscience) from Yale, completed his medical residency at the University of Maryland, and now practices medicine in Baltimore, MD. (2/03)
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Robert Baumann received a PhD in electrical engineering from Rice University in 1990. He is a currently a Fellow at Texas Instruments focused on radiation-induced effects in semiconductor devices. Outside of his research, he has been advising D.o.D and State Department officials on issues associated with the International Traffic in Arms Regulations relating to technology export controls. He has been elected Fellow of IEEE. (12/06)
Michael Lee is a Financial Investment Consultant in Hong Kong. (5/99L)
Thomas Perrault, Jr. received a DC (Doctor of Chiropractic) degree from Palmer College of Chiropractic in March 1988, and is in private practice in Methuen, Massachusetts. (12/98)
Thomas Rand completed the 3-2 program in Mechanical Engineering at MIT in 1985. He also received a masters in mechanical engineering at MIT in 1990. He manages the Design Engineering/New Products department at Frigidaire Commercial Products, which deals with low temperature scientific, commercial and specialty equipment. (12/98)
George Reisch completed an MS in physics and a PhD in the history and philosophy of science at the University of Chicago. He currently has an NSF Independent Research Fellowship. (12/00L)
Steve Schaphorst received a PhD in atomic physics at the University of Oregon in 1991. He now does software design for Delta Information Systems, a small company specializing in advanced video and multimedia applications. (12/00)
Warren Turner received a PhD in applied physics from Harvard in 1990. He is an Assistant Professor of physics at Westfield State College in Westfield, MA. (4/05)
Bill Zell completed a masters in robotics from the University of Pennsylvania before starting a white water rafting company in Montana. (1/07L)
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Adam Briggs worked for the Gillette Company and Duracell Inc. from 1984 to 2001. In 2001, he joined Millennium Cell, Inc., in Eatontown, NJ, and now serves as President of the company. Millennium Cell is a developer and licensor of hydrogen storage and generation technologies as a fuel for portable fuel cells. (12/05)
Kermit Brunelle received his MD from the University of Vermont in 1987, and completed his residency in pediatrics at the University of Utah in 1990. From 1990-2000, he worked as a general pediatrician for Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinic. In 2000, he opened a solo practice (Bedford Pediatrics) in Bedford, NH. (6/03)
Alan Khoury is a Captain in the U. S. Air Force. (L)
Mark Miller runs his own software consulting business.
Adrian Perregaux is Marketing Director for Magsoft Corporation in Troy, NY, which markets leading computer-aided-engineering simulation tools for computing physical phenomena. (6/05)
Gordon Wade received a PhD in applied mathematics from Brown University in 1989. He is currently an associate professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, OH. (6/05)
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David P. Clements worked with the U.S. Antarctic Research Program for several years after graduation, making three trips to Antarctica, including winter-over stays at South Pole Station in 1983-84 and McMurdo Station in 1985-86. He received a PhD in cosmology and space physics from the University of Delaware in 1995. He is currently a Process Control Engineer for U.S. Steel, managing the computer modeling and operations group at the Sheet Products Division of USS Fairfield Works, in Fairfield, AL. (4/99)
Jeffrey Gwynne received an MSEE from WPI in 1984, after which he worked for AT&T Bell Labs for 12 years. After leaving Bell Labs he co-founded Quantum Bridge Communications, an optical access equipment start-up, which was acquired by Motorola in May 2004. Since then, Jeff founded Image Architects, LLC, a marketing and communications firm in emerging high tech industry. (4/05)
Robert Longwell completed a 3-2 program in chemical engineering at Stanford, also receiving an MS in civil engineering from that institution. In 1998, he completed a JD degree at Santa Clara University. (12/98)
Jeffrey McCready has completed law school at Hofstra, and is currently working for the Legal Aid Society in New York City. (3/99)
Charles Shaughnessy received a PhD in physics from Dartmouth in 1989, with research in compact free-electron lasers. He worked for a small business in the New Haven, CT area until 1997, designing and building portable linear accelerators for industrial and security radiography. Since then Charles has been with GE Healthcare in Milwaukee, WI, as a Principal Engineer in the CT Systems Engineering unit, specializing in CT detector design. (9/06)
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Laurence Lytton and Wayne Matuek works on Wall Street.
David McMillan received a DMD from the University of Connecticut, and is practicing in Rangeley, ME. (L)
Joel Richardson is a research scientist at the Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine. (4/99)
David Schafer earned a PhD in atomic physics from Rice University. He works in the medical imaging field for a Boston-area high tech company, and is currently leading a team of engineers and physicists in the development of a new generation of CT scanners. These scanners include top of the line, high speed volume scanners, and very inexpensive, portable scanners targeted for third world and emergency room applications. (12/98)
John Staley is General Manager, ICG Fiber Optic Technology, in Plano, Texas. (99L)
Timothy Wilson received an MBA from Duke University, after which he worked for AT&T. He is now a General Partner at an international venture capital company, Partech International, trying to remember his physics as he invests in communications and semiconductor companies. (12/04)
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Michael Celata is a geophysicist working for the Minerals Management Service in New Orleans. (97L)
Michael Connor served as the commanding officer of the USS Seawolf nuclear submarine. He now teaches at the Submarine Commanding Officers' Course for the US Navy. (1/02)
David DeBoer received an MD from Northwestern University. (L)
Rick Gould completed an MS in physics at the University of Washington in 1986. He has worked at Boeing, Sundstrand, and Eldec as an electrical and then as a software engineer. Currently, he is a software engineer at DLI Engineering, working on various projects and products relating to machinery vibration analysis and predictive maintenance. (12/98)
Roger Hanson completed the 3-2 program in electrical engineering at Columbia in 1981. He is currently the manager of the financial planning/analysis group at Central Maine Power in Augusta. (4/00)
George Papen earned a PhD in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Wisconsin in 1989, and was on the faculty of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign from 1989 until 2002. He is currently Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, San Diego. (6/05)
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Peter Bancel received a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania, after which he held a research fellowship at the University of Paris. (94L)
Vladimir Drozdoff received a PhD in biophysics from Cornell, and a law degree from Vanderbilt. He now works in the intellectual property and patent group at Rogers & Wells in New York City, specializing in biotechnology and pharmaceutical litigation. (1/08)
Brett Harrison received an MD from University of Rochester. He has been practicing general surgery at Doylestown Hospital in Doylestown, PA since 1990. (2/08)
John Markert earned a PhD from Cornell in 1987. He is an associate professor of physics at the University of Texas, and was named a Presidential Young Investigator in 1991. (12/02)
Michal Ruder received her PhD in geophysics from Pennsylvania State University in 1986. She is founder and president of Wintermoon Geotechnologies in Denver, CO. (11/02)
Karl Schwarz received an MD from University of Rochester, and is Associate Professor of Medicine at University of Rochester Medical Center. (12/00L)
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Theo Aschman works as a software engineer for Cox Communications. (12/06L)
John Coffey received an MD from the State University of New York. He practices medicine in New York City. (7/99L)
Paul J. Dolan received a PhD from Dartmouth. He is a professor of physics at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago. (5/03)
Peter Forbes earned an MS in mechanical engineering from Georgia Tech in 1981. He currently works as an environmental engineer and project manager for the U.S. Air Force Base Conversion Agency in Presque Isle, Maine. (9/99)
Tod Gulick received an MD from University of Rochester. He completed clinical training in Internal Medicine at Barnes Hospital and Washington University in St. Louis, and post-doctoral training at Washington University and in the Department of Molecular Biology at Massachusetts General Hospital. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Assistant Biochemist in the Diabetes Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital. (2/03)
Theodore Morin works at Lincoln Labs. (7/99L)
Lyman (Sandy) Page earned a PhD in physics at MIT in 1989. He is a professor of physics at Princeton University, and received an NSF NYI award in 1993. (12/02)
William Stone received an MS in oceanography from the Scripps Institute of Oceanography. He is a geodesist for the federal government's National Geodetic Survey in Albuquerque, NM. He is also actively pursuing a career in landscape photography with his work exhibited as fine art prints and published in a variety of books, calendars, and other publications. (2/99)
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Douglas D'Ewart is a manufacturer's representative with D'Ewart Representatives in Bothell, WA. (6/97L)
W. (Bill) Elwell completed the 3-2 program in Civil Engineering at Columbia. He is a partner in Excel Engineering, Inc., a consulting firm in Houston, TX providing engineering services to the oil and gas industry. (4/00)
E. Scott Emerson received an MBA from the University of Chicago in 1982. He has been president of Brighton Hotel Corporation since 1986. Since 1994, he has also been president of Mueller Electric Company in Cleveland, OH and Mueller Electric (Shanghai) Ltd., a manufacturer of printed circuit board connectors, solder equipment, and accessories for electronic test and measurement. (1/07)
Anthony Iani completed the 3-2 program in mechanical engineering at Columbia, and later received an MBA from Purdue University. He works for Lucent Technologies, and is currently living in the United Arab Emirates, involved in a project to build and implement a fiber optical communication network for the UAE Armed Forces. (7/99)
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Sprague Ackley received a Masters in physics from Stony Brook University in 1979. He has worked for Intermec since 1980 and is currently living in Seattle, Washington. He is interested in various areas of the bar code and RFID technologies and has 50 US patents. (9/07)
Marjorie Cole Turner received an MS in geophysics from the University of Alaska. (12/98)
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Bradley Bagshaw spent a year in graduate school in physics at MIT after graduation. He then switched to law, receiving a JD from Harvard in 1981. He practices law in Seattle with the firm of Helsell Fetterman. He does litigation and trial work, mostly in federal court, and mostly in the maritime industry. (1/99)
Richard Jacobson received a PhD in neurobiology from the University of Chicago in 1980, and an MD in 1982. He did residencies in pediatrics and neurology at Stanford Medical Center and Boston Children's Hospital, and was a research fellow in molecular neurobiology at Stanford. He is currently associate professor of Neurology, Pediatrics, and Cellular Biology and Anatomy at the Medical College of Wisconsin. His interests include the molecular and genetic basis of nervous system development, genetic and metabolic disorders of the nervous system, pediatric neuromuscular disease, clinical neurophysiology, and computer modelling of nervous system function. (2/99)
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Joseph Donahue is a lawyer practicing in Augusta, Maine. (L)
Paul R. Prucnal earned his PhD at Columbia. He is a professor of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University. His current research activities include fiber-optic communication networks, ultrafast optical switching, and optical techniques for biomedical imaging. His lab has developed an all-optical switch with Terahertz bandwidth, which is a couple of orders of magnitude faster than state-of-the-art electronics. The main applications of this work are to advanced multiprocessor computer interconnects and the next generation internet. (12/98)
William Severance is a realtor in Lovell, Maine. (L)
Jay Van Tassell received his MS in oceanography and limnology from the University of Wisconsin in 1975, and his PhD in geological oceanography from Duke University in 1979. He is a professor of geology at Eastern Oregon State University in La Grande, OR. (6/07)
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Daniel Belknap earned his PhD from the University of Delaware in 1979. He is a professor in the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of Maine at Orono. (6/07)
F. Andrew de Ganahl is Vice President and Chief Recording Engineer at PARC Studios in Orlando, FL. (6/03)
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Gerald (Jay) Jellison received a PhD from Brown University. He is a senior scientist in the Solid State Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. (12/98)
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Fred Loxsom received a PhD from Dartmouth College. He was a professor of physics at Trinity University in San Antonio,TX until 2004. Currently, he holds the Endowed Chair of Sustainable Energy Studies in the Environmental Earth Science Department at Eastern Connecticut State University. (12/04)
Charles Metz received a PhD in radiological physics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1969. He is a professor of radiology at the University of Chicago. (6/07)
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Timothy Hayes received a PhD in applied physics from Harvard in 1968. He is a professor of physics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. (6/07)
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Robert Barlow received a PhD in biophysics from Rockefeller University. He is a professor of Ophthalmology and Neuroscience at the SUNY Health Science Center in Syracuse, and directs the Center for Vision Research. His research stretches from molecular studies of visual pigment molecules to computational analysis of neural coding of visual information and fMRI (functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging) of visual centers of the human brain. (12/98)
Richard Mostrom is a project manager for SSG Inc. in Wilmington, MA. (3/99L)
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Stephen Burns received a PhD from Harvard in applied physics. He has retired as Professor from the US Naval Academy. (12/00L)
Bruce McCombe received a PhD in experimental condensed matter physics from Brown University in 1965. He is Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the State University of New York at Buffalo, and Director of the Center for Spin Effects and Quantum Information in Nanostructures. (12/07)
Robert L. Thomas received a PhD in physics from Brown University. He is a professor in Department of Physics and Astronomy at Wayne State University in Detroit, and Director of the Institute for Manufacturing Research. (12/98)
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George Basbas received a PhD from the University of North Carolina. He is Editor of Physical Review Letters. (12/00L)
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Richard Payne received a PhD from the University of Rhode Island. He is the expert on sensors and calibrations, and whatever odd problems come up that no one else knows how to tackle, for the Upper Ocean Processes Group at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. He gets to do some instrumental development work as well as too many calibrations at times. (12/98)
Paul Todd received a PhD from the University of California at Berkeley in 1964. He is a Research Professor of the BioServe Space Technologies Center at the University of Colorado focusing on biophysical research. (2/08)
James Turner received a BS, MS, and PhD from MIT. He taught physics at Bowdoin from 1964 until his retirement in 2001.
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Wayne Wright received an MS in applied physics from Harvard in 1957, and a PhD in 1961. His research area was physical acoustics. He taught physics at Kalamazoo College in Michigan from 1962 until his retirement in 1999, and is now a part-time Research Fellow in the Applied Research Labs at the University of Texas at Austin. (4/00)
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George Maling received his BS and MS degrees in electrical engineering from MIT in 1954, an Electrical Engineer degree in 1958 and a Ph.D. in Physics in 1963. He retired from the IBM Corporation in 1992, and in 1993 became the managing director of the Institute of Noise Control Engineering. He retired from that post in 2001, but still serves as managing editor of Noise/News International and as president of the INCE Foundation. For his contributions to acoustics, he received the 1999 Rayleigh Medal from the Institute of Acoustics in the UK. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and lives in Harpswell, Maine. (2/08)