Physics & Astronomy alumni news from 2015-16.
1990 – 1999
Derek W. Beck, HTC Physics 1999, remains an active U.S. Air Force Reservist, and has been selected for a promotion to lieutenant colonel. He should actually promote midsummer 2017. While Derek spends much of the year on active duty with the Air Force working in space operations for the Joint Space Operations Center, he spends his remaining time writing action-driven history books.
1980 – 1989
Satya Narayama, Ph.D. 1986 (adviser Grimes), has retired after working for three decades at five hospitals as a radiation physicist, to administer the proper radiation dose to treat cancer. These included hospitals in Illinois, Michigan, New York and New Jersey. He currently lives in Bangalore, India.
Paul Koehler, Ph.D. 1984 (adviser Lane), is currently Acting Group Leader in P-27 Division at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. He is working on the Detector for Advanced Neutron Capture Experiment (DANCE) and is using improved neutron resonance data to improve theoretical models of nuclear reactions. He lives in Los Alamos, New Mexico.
Cornelius Bennhold, Ph.D. 1987 (adviser Wright), Professor and Chair of the Department of Physics of the George Washington University, passed away after a prolonged battle with cancer in early 2016. Cornelius had a prolific career, with many publications in the field of theoretical nuclear physics. Throughout his career, he collaborated with several faculty and students at OHIO and even hired another OHIO alum, Frank (Xiaodong) Lee (PhD 1993), to be on the faculty at GWU. He is survived by his wife, Laurette, and his daughter, Catalina.
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