Alumni

Derek W. Beck, B.S. HTC Physics 1999, is presently serving as a U.S. Air Force Reserve officer (currently holding the rank of major) at the Joint Space Operations Center (JSpOC) at Vandenberg AFB, CA, and is responsible for a team that tracks 24/7 foreign space launch operations. He works now […]

Richard C. Fernow, B.S. 1969, received his Ph.D. in 1973 from Syracuse University. He worked at Brookhaven National Lab for many years and has since retired. He now lives in The Plains, Ohio. Paul Koehler, Ph.D. 1984, after leaving Oak Ridge National Laboratory has a new position as Lab Operations […]

Physics & Astronomy Alumni Spotlights Rakitha Sanjeewa Beminiwattha ’13Ph.D. receives Jefferson Science Associates Thesis Prize. Keith Hawkins ’13B.S. HTC Astronomy was elected Chair of the King’s College Graduate Society at Cambridge University. A recent mini-movie about Hawkins can be found on the Physics & Astronomy YouTube channel. Serge Nakhmanson ’01Ph.D., Associate […]

Recent Physics & Astronomy graduate David Ruiz-Tijerina ’13Ph.D. did his dissertation on “Kondo physics and many-body effects in quantum dots and molecular junctions.” His adviser was Dr. Sergio Ulloa, Professor of Physics & Astronomy at Ohio University. “As a graduate student at Ohio University, I did fundamental research on the […]

Recent Physics & Astronomy graduate Greg Petersen ’13 Ph.D. wrote his dissertation on “Anderson Localization in Low-Dimensional Systems with Long-Range Correlated Disorder.” His adviser was Dr. Nancy Sandler, Associate Professor of Physics & Astronomy at Ohio University. “I studied the role of structural and chemical disorder on the electronic states […]

Recent Physics & Astronomy grad Norman Israel M.S. did his dissertation on “Commissioning of the Trigger module for the E12-06-114 Experiment at Jefferson Laboratory.” His adviser was Dr. Julie Roche, Associate Professor at Ohio University. “My primary research was the commissioning of third generation Deep Virtual Compton Scattering Experiment,” he […]

Recent Physics & Astronomy graduate Zhiyuan Fan Ph.D. completed his dissertation on “Optical Activity of Chiral Nanomaterials: Effects of Short Range and Long Range Electromagnetic Interactions.” Fan used “DNA origami” to create new nanostructures that bend light in ways that do not occur naturally. His article on the structures made […]