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Recent News
Tim Glotch '99 received his Ph.D. at Arizona State University in October 2004 and will continue on as a post-doc.
Jon Habif '98 received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at the University of Rochester in 2004 and is a post-doc at MIT.
Jeff Kern '95 received his Ph.D. in Astronomy at NRAO (New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology) in January 2004. Thesis: "Dispersion, Insterstellar Scattering, and the Intrinsic Structure of Crab Pulsar Giant Radio Pulses". Jeff is currently working as a software engineer for the ALMA project at NRAO in Socorro, NM.
Ian Hoffman '98 received his Ph.D. from the University of New Mexico in January 2004. Thesis: "Large Interstellar Masers: Polarization Observations of OH (1720 MHz) Masers in Supernova Remnants and H2CO (6cm) Masers in Star-forming Regions Using MERLIN and the VLBA". He is currently working as an Accelerator Physicists at Linac Systems in Albuquerque, NM. Also, his wife, Nicole, had their first child on March 6, 2004. They named him Errol.
Paul Abell '90 successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation at RPI in December 2003. He is presently employed at NASA.
Matt Cheyne '99 married Jen Freedman (Bucknell '00) on September 20, 2003.
Elizabeth Mellor '95 married Thomas Beller in July 2003.
Scott Lacey '96 successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation in Physics at University of Oregon on July 22, 2003. Thesis: "Ray and Wave Dynamics in Three-Dimensional Asymmetric Optical Resonators". He is recently employed in a tenure-track position at Franklin and Marshall College.
Subhadeep Gupta '97 received his Ph.D. in Physics at MIT in 2003. Thesis: "Experiments with Degenerate Bose and Fermi Gases".
Jen Heldmann '98 received her Ph.D. in Space Science at the University of Colorado at Boulder in June 2003. Thesis: "An Investigation of Recent Water in the Cold Climates of Earth and Mars". She is currently employed as National Research Coundil post-doctoral scientist/researcher at NASA Ames Research Center.
Jay Paquette '00 is attending graduate school at the College of William and Mary.
Dave Berger '97 successfully defended his PhD dissertation in Astronomy at Georgia State U (April 2003). He is employed in Los Angeles working at CHARA Array on Mount Wilson.
Christy Tremonti '94 defended her PhD dissertation in Astronomy at John Hopkins (January 2003).
Matt Cashen '96 received his PhD in Physics from SUNY Stony Brook in 2002. His thesis received the University President's Award.
Dennis Bauer '00 recently was married. He and his wife joined the Peace Corps and are stationed in the Dominican Republic, working in environmental education and agro-forestry.
Andy Hock '00 in an Astrobiology field trip... (November 2002)
John Metz '03 received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Basudev Chaudhuri '95 received his Ph.D. in Physics from Cornell University.
Jeff Haeni '97 received his Ph.D. in Materials Science from Penn State. He has been selected as the 2002-03 MRS/OSA Congressional Science Fellow (Materials Research Society/Optical Society of America) and will spend two years in Washington.
Jennifer Lewis '93 received her Ph.D. in Biophysics from the University of Virginia in April 2000.
Mark Dalberth '90 received his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Colorado at Boulder in February 2000.
Harri Latvakoski '91 received his Ph.D. in Astronomy from Cornell University in 1999.
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