BS Physics

2026

Tristan Duggan - Magna Cum Laude
Tristan plans to continue his education and get his PhD in either physics or mathematics. After that, Tristan would like to do post graduate research, preferably in a field relating to general relativity. See his LinkedIn profile.

Mark Meana - Summa Cum Laude
Mark plans to finish his student internship with Los Alamos National Laboratories this summer and apply for a full-time job there. Mark would like to apply for graduate schools for 2027 and intends to pursue higher education in nuclear physics, particle physics, and/or astrophysics.

Seth Medina - Magna Cum Laude.
Seth plans to continue his physics education at the University of Kansas. Seth will start his Ph.D. and hopes to continue his research in particle physics.

Colton Purdy - Magna Cum Laude.
Colton is planning to pursue a graduate degree here at UNM with interests in materials physics and particle physics. See his LinkedIn profile.

Skailar Sovereign
This is the 19th UNM degree earned by Skailar's family, starting with his grandfather in the late 1950s. Skailar will be applying to grad school at UNM while also looking for research opportunities, specifically in Condensed Matter Physics. See his LinkedIn profile

2025

Graham Byrd
Graham will be looking for jobs in industry as well as applying for graduate school. See his LinkedIn profile.

Luis Flores-Sanchez - Cum Laude.
According to his LinkedIn profile, Luis is pursuing a PhD in physics at the University of Colorado Boulder.

Fernando Garcia Cortez - Magna Cum Laude.
Fernando will stay at UNM to pursue their PhD in physics, continuing to work with prof. Cyr-Racine on particle Cosmology. Fernando won an ASSURE fellowship in 2024. See his research website.

Joel Gates - Summa Cum Laude.
Joel is pursuing a Biophysics PhD at Stanford. See his LinkedIn profile.

Benicio Gutierrez - Summa Cum Laude.
Benicio is a physics grad student at Arizona State University. See his LinkedIn profile.

Sol Samuels - Summa Cum Laude.
Sol wants to pursue their PhD in Physics, specifically in Chemical Physics. Sol will be applying to graduate schools in the Fall when they will fully complete their double major in Physics and Applied Math. See their LinkedIn profile.

Christian Sanchez - Magna Cum Laude.
Christian plans to continue their studies at the graduate level at UT Austin. There he will work on exploring Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics topics and work towards getting a PhD. See his LinkedIn profile.

Ethan Sloan - Summa Cum Laude.
Ethan will be applying to graduate programs abroad and, if not accepted, working until they can apply again for the next admissions cycle. See their LinkedIn profile.

2024

Kevin Baca (Summa Cum Laude)
Kevin is a physics graduate student at UNM working with Professor Drake.

Andrew Gilbert
ccording to his  inkedIn profile, he is serving in the Army National Guard.

atherine Hewey
ccording to her LinkedIn profile, she is a research assistant at the University of Arizona's Quantum NanophoXonics Lab under the supervision of Dr. Matthew Eichenfield.

arl Miles

milio Perez de Juan (Magna Cum Laude)
milio is a PhD student at ICFO in Catalonia, Spain. See his LinkedIn profile.

yler Rocha (Cum Laude & Dual Degree – BS in EE / Physics)
yler is an intern at Lawrence Livermore National Lab in California.  ee his LinkedIn profile.

elagia Eddings (Summa Cum Laude)
After graduation, Pelagia plans to take a year off of school to work and do a little bit of traveling with their family. Pelagia also plans to apply to either medical school or veterinary school. See their LinkedIn profile.

ordan Hernandez (Cum Laude)
ordan is serving as a Lieutenant in the US Army.  ee his LinkedIn profile.

Tristan Larkin Summa Cum Laude)
After graduation Tristan is going to take some time this summer to visit friends and do some long overdue camping trips. Then Tristan will start their PhD in Physics at UNM. Tristan hopes to do cool work in computational physics

Juan Diego Montoya (Dual Degree – BS in EE / Physics)

Christian Pereira (Cum Laude)
Christian will be conducting optics research at the Air Force Research Labs during the summer and hopes to continue with it next year. He is planning on applying to graduate schools this fall to pursue a PhD in the following year

ernando Rivera
Fernando’s future plans include continuing their education at UNM with the support and funding of Sandia and Los Alamos National labs, as a PhD Graduate student intern in the areas of computational nuclear weapon research and in development of new visualization methods. See their LinkedIn profile.

2023

Maria A. Daniels
aria has had several available opportunities and looks forward to finding one that's a good fit. See her website.

Samantha A. Multari
amantha will be commissioning into the US Air Force as a physicist.

Davyn L. Pierce-Montague
avyn is the first recipient in the PandA department to receive a Dual Degree BS in Physics and Electrical Engineering.

2022

icholas D. Baggett
According to his  inkedIn profile, he is a data analyst-engineer at Mishe Health in New York City. He received his MS in Astrophysics in 2024 at the University of Notre Dame.

Adam J. Clary
ee his LinkedIn profile .

Benjamin C. Cochran
Ben plans to pursue a PhD in physics at the University of Maryland

William W. Crockett
William graduated with a double major in Physics and Biology and did his physics honors thesis with Dr. Mousumi Roy, where he used a physical model to study the impact of climate change on soil water across the New Mexico Elevation Gradient. William started his PhD in Microbiology at MIT in Fall 2023, where he plans on using theoretical and computational models to study microbial ecosystems. He also was awarded the NSF GRFP. In 2024 he was a corresponding author on hysical constraints during Snowball Earth drive the evolution of multicellularity n Proceedings of the Royal Society B. ee his profile on LinkedIn.

Wesley S. McClenaghan

2021

obert J. Beattie-Rossberg
obert is pursuing a masters degree at UNM in Electrical Engineering. See his profile on the HPM/HEDP Lab website.

Daniel J. Berenger-Russell
Daniel graduated from UNM School of Law in 2024. See his profile at Peacock Law P.C.

Andrew R. Coffey
tarting in Fall 2025, he will be pursuing a Master's degree in Computer Science at the Georgia Institute of Technology, intending to specialize in Interactive Intelligence. Before becoming a professional software engineer, the majority of his software experience came from hobby game development and contributing to open-source software. His current work involves designing, writing, and testing embedded software for deployment in a safety-critical real-time environment. See his LinkedIn profile.

Ryan T. Grimm
yan is a grad student in the Eaves Research Group at the University of Colorado at Boulder

Tyler D. Hilbun

Yankang Liu
ankang is a research assistant at the Center for High Tech Materials at UNM

Josef D. Sorenson
osef is a doctoral student in the UNM Physics and Astronomy department

Adam Yanez
dam completed a masters degree in Medical Physics at UNM in 2023. He is a Radiation Oncology Medical Physics Resident at Houston Methodist in Texas.

2020

Scott E. Arnold

Julie A ampos
magna cum laude
ulie is a Research and Development Intern at Sandia National Laboratories. See her LinkedIn profile.

Bryce S. onaldson
magna cum laude
ryce will continue his work with Dr. Stephen Boyd in Low-Temperature Physics Research, consider STEM jobs at Sandia National Labs, and likely go to graduate school afters. See his LinkedIn profile.

Ryan M. Gibbons
cum laude
yan is a graduate student in Physics at UC Berkeley in the High Energy Experiment division

Lucas A. ujan
magna cum laude
fter two years as an intern at Sandia National Labs, Lucas is a data analyst at Akima Infrastructure Services

Asher P. ay
summa cum laude
See his LinkedIn profile.

Eric R. utney
summa cum laude
ric is a High Energy Theory grad student at Rutgers University

Kyle J. Ritchie
summa cum laude
yle is going for his PhD at University of California, Berkeley for High Energy Theory. See his LinkedIn profile.

Dionicio E. auer
cum laude
ionicio is an Operations Engineer at Mesa Photonics

Amy L. Soudachanh
my is a physics graduate student in Experimental Quantum Information at the University of Oregon

Brady S. pears
rady is a Solid Earth Geophysics graduate student at Baylor University. He writes, "My research at Baylor University consists of the joint inversion of horizontal-to-vertical spectral ratios (HVSR) and surface wave dispersion curves in order to seismically characterize a particular field site. The method, performed densely over the target area is advantageous in that it does not require "active" sources and could potentially provide a cost-effective technique in effectively imaging the shallow subsurface."

Duncan K. Weeks

2019

yan E. Dunagin
yan primarily plans on joining the work force in programming or data analysis. His fallback plan is to go into teaching. He is currently living in Walled Lake, Michigan.

Gavin P. Gonzales
avin is a graduate research assistant in Biomedical Engineering at Duke University with a concentration in biomaterials.

Ryan L. Hamblin
Ryan will be attending the University of Virginia as a PhD student in the Chemistry Department. There he will be using computational methods to assist in designing and modeling the non-equilibrium dynamics of self-assembling nanomaterials at the intersection of soft condensed matter physics, polymer chemistry, and biophysics. See his LinkedIn profile.

Nicholas J. Huntoon
icholas is a voice over actor living in Albuquerque. See his LinkedIn profile.

John H. O'Brien
magna cum laude

Desirae F. Orr
cum laude
esirae plans on working for a few years before returning to grad school for something related to climate or hydrology. Currently, she has a job offer from NavAir, but is still looking at other options.

Ronald E. Pagano
cum laude
onald is a physics graduate student at Louisiana State University. He is interested in quantum physics and material science and will be involved in related research directly after graduation.

Benjamin L. Reichelt
summa cum laude
en is a graduate student at MIT. He works with Dr. Richard Petrasso to study high energy density plasma physics and develop diagnostic tools for experiments in this field.

Aryeh J. Sapon
cum laude
ryeh is attending the physics PhD program at Eberly College of Science Penn State University where he plans to study Atomic, Molecular, Optical physics, or Condensed Matter.

Lauren Zundel
cum laude
auren is pursuing a PhD in physics here at UNM where she continues to work in the field of theoretical nanophotonics under Alejandro Manjavacas. Lauren was awarded a four year fellowship with the Department of Energy for her doctoral program. See her LinkedIn profile.

2018

ody R. Bassett
agna cum laude
ody is a research assistant at the Center for High Tech Materials (CHTM) and a graduate student at UNM. See his LinkedIn profile.

John Carilli
ohn is a research computer scientist at the Air Force Research Laboratory in Albuquerque. See his LinkedIn profile.

Roderick D. Cochran
summa cum laude
oderick is a graduate student at Ohio State University.

Elizabeth D. Eadie
cum laude

Saleem Iqbal
summa cum laude
aleem is a Graduate Research Assistant in Professor Robert Boyd's group investigating the nonlinear optical properties of epsilon-near-zero materials at the University of Rochester's Institute of Optics

Jeremy M. Metzner
cum laude
eremy is continuing his studies of physics by pursuing a PhD in AMO physics at the University of Oregon. Jeremy stated that he feels prepared and excited for the future of physics based on the knowledge he has acquired and the students he has met within our Physics and Astronomy department.

Ivan V. Rajen
summa cum laude
van is attending the University of California San Diego to pursue a PhD in Bioengineering. He plans to study neural engineering to work tos the development of brain-computer interfaces.

Dennis C. Robinson Brown
summa cum laude
ennis is attending the University of California-Santa Barbara for a PhD in Chemical Engineering at the Shell Lab. After obtaining his PhD, Dennis plans to become a professor or an industry research scientist.

Lucas R. Thoennes
s of August 2021, Lucas writes, "I currently live in Nevada and am a network engineer for a large energy company." Lucas married Kelly E. McShane in October 10, 2020 in Sheridan, Wyoming

Jordan C. Vanevery
summa cum laude

2017

Jason J. Baker

Zachary A. Castillo
summa cum laude
ach will be attending graduate school at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he intends to pursue experimental atomic, molecular, and optical (AMO) physics.

Zachary D. Jeffery

Alex J. Johnson
summa cum laude

Gregory J. Ottino
umma cum laude
regory is a PhD student in UC Berkeley's graduate program in physics. See his interview in sPHENIX Hero.

Alexander C. Padilla
lexander is a Marketing Manager at UC Santa Barbara's office of Technology & Industry Alliances. He graduated with an MBA from UNM Anderson in 2018

Robert B. Reyna
he future plans for Robert are to study for the GRE tests in the coming year, and apply to grad schools. See his publications at Research Gate.

2016

elly E. Ayllon (Lazo)
magna cum laude
elly is an AI Product Marketer at Intel Geti. See her LinkedIn profile.

Daniel W. Bowen
agna cum laude
aniel is a computer engineer at Verus Research. See his LinkedIn profile.

Michael W. Brown
cum laude
ichael initially plans to go to Zion National Park to relax. He will then pursue a masters degree in mathematics and work towards his ultimate goal of becoming a math teacher. See his LinkedIn profile.

Merrick J. Chalk
cum laude
errick is a consultant with Medici Technologies, a biotech company in Albuquerque.

Alexandre F. Mills
lex is a UNM Department of Physics and Astronomy research assistant.

Brad M. Philipbar
rad is a Staff Systems Engineer at Northrop Grumman in Colorado Springs

2015

lexander G. Cochran
lex is working on an Applied Math Masters degree at UNM.
See his LinkedIn profile.

Alexandria M. Doerfler
cum laude
lexandria is pursuing a PhD in Houston at the Baylor College of Medicine in the Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics. See her LinkedIn profile.

Lars G. Fabricius-Olsen
See his Instagram profile.


Joshua D. Martin
magna cum laude
oshua has been accepted into the doctoral program here at UNM in the Department of Physics and Astronomy. See his LinkedIn profile.

Kevin M. Potter - See his LinkedIn profile.

Nicholas C. Rajen
icholas' future plans include travel, reapplication to graduate school, and an intermittent job or business foundation. See his LinkedIn profile.

Anthony V. Sandoval

2014

Maria X. Benitez-Jones

Ezequiel Carrasco
Zeke's plans for the future include deciding on a graduate school and a field of study, and to one day teach.

Tristan M. Garwood - See his LinkedIn profile.

Paul J. Gieri
aul has been accepted to the UNM Physics and Astronomy department master's program for Fall 2015. See his LinkedIn profile.

Stav R. Gold
summa cum laude
tav will work at the Santa Fe Institute as an intern directly after graduating. See his LinkedIn profile.

Aidan K. Grummer
summa cum laude
fter graduation Aiden will be working on the Atlas project at CERN with Dr. Seidel's research group. He plans to apply for graduate school in the fall. See his LinkedIn profile.

Adrian S. Orozco
rian has been accepted into the masters program here at UNM in the Department of Physics and Astronomy. See his LinkedIn profile.

Stephen C. Pietromonaco
cum laude
tephen has been accepted at the University of British Columbia to pursue a PhD in high energy theory. See his LinkedIn profile.

Joshua M. Plank
oshua has been accepted at the University of California at Riverside to join the PhD program in Electrical Engineering. See his Alumni Career profile.

Skylar T. Scott
summa cum laude
kylar would like to work in research and development in a multidisciplinary capacity. In the future, he would like to return and pursue a graduate degree in physics or engineering.

Ting Wang
See his LinkedIn profile.

2013

iles A. Bodmer
Miles moved to Eugene where he is pursuing his PhD in the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of Oregon. See his LinkedIn profile.

Brandon T. Middleton
randon will apply for graduate school in physics with a concentration in general relativity for the fall semester.

Evan A. Ottesen
summa cum laude
fter graduation Evan will be relocating to Austin TX with his wife and son to pursue graduate studies at UT Austin.

2012

Alex G. Benedict
summa cum laude

Cristhian O. Carrillo
cum laude

Ginevra E. Cochran
cum laude
inny will be attending graduate school as a PhD student at the Ohio State University and studying physics under a joint university and departmental fellowship. See her LinkedIn profile.


Rhett F. Eller
cum laude
hett graduated with a Physics degree with a concentration in Optics. Rhett has been accepted into the Physics and Astronomy Department here at UNM where he will be starting his graduate work in this fall in the Optical Science and Engineering Program. See his LinkedIn profile.

Nathan Giannini
cum laude
See his lab profile. See his LinkedIn profile.

Brian P. Josey
summa cum laude
rian is currently working on his PhD at Carnegie Mellon University, and received his Masters in May of 2014. He works in experimental biophysics, using neutron reflectometry to study the interactions of proteins with lipid bilayers (cell membranes). Specifically, Brian studies the kinetics of neurotransmitter adsorption to the lipid bilayer, a technically challenging project that connects physics to chemical kinetics and neuroscience. See his LinkedIn profile.

Randy J. Lafler
summa cum laude
andy has been accepted into the Physics doctoral program at UNM Department of Physics and Astronomy. See his LinkedIn profile.

Thomas S. Mahony
summa cum laude
om is going to MIT to start working on his Ph.D in Electrical Engineering. He will be studying strong light-matter coupling for applications in photovoltaics and all optical switching, and will be working with Professor Vladimir Bulovic. Tom has been aed an NSF Graduate Fellowship. See his LinkedIn profile.

Rodrigo Osuna Orozco
summa cum laude
odrigo will be working at PandA during the summer and then will start the PhD program in Oceanography at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography of the University of California in San Diego. See his LinkedIn profile.

Roberto S. Rosales
summa cum laude

Dan C. Wilkinson
magna cum laude
ee his LinkedIn profile.

2011

Elizabeth J. Allen

Alexandra S. Andrego
um laude
fter graduation Alexandra will be spending the summer at an Emerging Minority Business Leader program at West Liberty in West Virginia. Her long term intentions are to attend law school and obtain a J.D. in Intellectual Property Law. See her LinkedIn profile.

Alexander T. Barron
summa cum laude
lexander is a PhD student in Complex Systems at the Indiana University School of Informatics and Computing. See his bio. See his LinkedIn profile.

Robert T. Cordwell
cum laude
See his LinkedIn profile.

Anastasia A. Ierides
Anastasia is graduating with a bachelors in both Physics and Applied Mathematics. She has been admitted to and will be attending the Physics and Astronomy graduate program at UNM and will be working on a Masters degree starting in the Fall. See her website.

Chad A. McCoy
summa cum laude
pon graduation from UNM, Chad is going to graduate school at the University of Rochester starting the Fall 2011 semester. Where he will be pursuing a Ph. D. in Mechanical Engineering for High Energy Density Physics and Inertial Confinement Fusion. After completion of my Ph. D, he hopes to get a position at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory doing laser-driven ICF research. See his LinkedIn profile and an article from Sandia.

Garrett E. McMath
arret will be attending Colorado School of Mines for Nuclear Engineering. See his LinkedIn profile.

Bolestaw L. Osinski
cum laude
olestaw is going to pursue a MS in Biophysics at the University of Chicago. Motivated to go due to the physics of DNA-protein interactions and the organization dynamics of simple organisms. See his LinkedIn profile.

Michael R. Phillips
cum laude
ichael is planning on pursuing graduate school, either at UNM or elsewhere, for theoretical physics. See his LinkedIn profile.

David J. Weiss

2010

aul V. Klimov
summa cum laude
aul graduated from the University of Chicago with a PhD in Quantum Engineering, and is now a Senior Research Scientist at Google. See his LinkedIn profile.

Kyle W. Martin
magna cum laude
yle received his MS in Physics at UNM. He currently works in the Cold Atom Lab at the Air Force Research Laboratory in Albuquerque. He is researching the development of advanced atomic clocks for space operation; the development of these clocks is motivated both by technological applications, such as global navigation satellite systems, and scientific pursuits, such as a precise determination of the gravitational redshift. He is developing frequency standards based on two-photon spectroscopy and saturated absorption spectroscopy of optical transitions in alkali and alkaline-earth vapors, as well as fiber-based frequency combs to pair with the optical frequency standards. Kyle recently designed a heating package for a high temperature calcium vapor cell and demonstrated servo control of the carrier-envelope-offset frequency in a frequency comb. See his LinkedIn profile.

Arianna V. Pregenzer-Wenzler
hinking that she would either pursue a Physics PhD or a career in veterinary medicine, Arianna was exposed to human medicine and ended up applying to medical school. She is currently in her 4th year at the UNM School of Medicine and in the process of applying to internal medicine residency programs. She states she is glad that she got her BS in Physics for the skills she learned over the course of her degree have continued to serve her well. Arianna would recommend a physics degree to anyone with an interest in math and science. See her LinkedIn profile.

Demosthenes M. QuintanaSee his Facebook profile.

Antonio C. Rivera
ntonio is the first to ever graduate with a BS in Physics with an Optics Concentration. He was accepted at UNM in the NSMS (nano-systems and micro-structures) graduate program and has since received both a Masters and PhD in that field. See his LinkedIn profile.

David E. Sosa Corral
avid is a PhD student with the ATLAS group at Heidelberg University. See his profile.

2009

rron C. Gleicher
ee his LinkedIn profile.
Matthew E. Gooden
summa cum laude
att went to graduate school at North Carolina State University and did his graduate research at the Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory (TUNL) at Duke University. His research measures nuclear reaction cross-sections related to background studies for rare processes (zero neutrino double beta-decay experiments, dark matter) by neutron activation and in-beam measurements, activation products produced in various National Ignition Facility experiments, etc. Matt's dissertation research focused on measuring the energy dependence of fission product yield from 239Pu, 235/238U as a function of incident neutron energy with monoenergetic neutrons at TUNL. He finished his PhD in 2014 and currently is a postdoctoral research associate at Los Alamos National Laboratory in the Nuclear and Radiochemistry group. He is continuing his work on fission product yield studies and is also involved in radiochemical diagnostic work at the National Ignition Facility at Livermore National Lab where nuclear chemistry and physics techniques help to understand the Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF) process, as well as understanding charge particle stopping powers in the plasmas generated at NIF.

Bradley A. Knockel
summa cum laude
rad joined the PhD graduate program at UNM Physics and Astronomy department where he won the 2011 William G. Larsen, PhD, Memorial A for Best Teaching Assistant.

Linh N. Le
cum laude
inh joined the PhD graduate program at UNM Physics and Astronomy department where he is working on research with Dr. Stephen Boyd.

Daniel T. Young
aniel plans on teaching English in Japan for the following year through the InterAC program and after that intends to continue his Physics education.

2008

rigette D. Black
ridgette is pursuing graduate studies in physics at UNM working as a research assistant with Steve Koch.

Joshua O. Island
magna cum laude
ee him on ResearchGate and his bio

Jean M. Kurtz

Jim C. Mahony

Stephen R. Marshall
summa cum laude
tephen is a personal injury lawyer who works at his own law practice.

Tomas A. Mondragon
fter receiving a 2nd Bachelors of Science degree in Computer Engineering at the University of New Mexico, Tomas has been working at the Army Corps of Engineers Engineer Research and Development Center in Vicksburg, Mississippi where he works on numerical simulations of physical phenomena, tradespace analysis, and implementation of those applications on supercomputers.

Lauren A. Meyer

John I. Ogren
summa cum laude
See his LinkedIn profile.

Andrew M. Vigoren
summa cum laude
See his LinkedIn profile.

2007

dna Cardenas
umma cum laude
fter receiving her BS in Physics, Edna has completed her Masters degree and is on track to complete her PhD in which she intends to detect delayed gamma-rays and delayed neutrons and compare how they fair with different target materials. See her LinkedIn profile.

Christopher Leishman

See his Facebook profile.

Jonathan E. Logue
cum laude
ee his LinkedIn profile.

Nick J. Martinez

John T. Perovich
summa cum laude
ohn has finished his masters in financial engineering at Columbia and works for the Asset Backed Securities Group (pooling lots of assets together, slicing into different bonds and selling them). He states, "The physics background was very useful for studying financial derivatives." See his resume.

2006

ean Andrews
summa cum laude
ean has been admitted to our graduate program, and he will be a Teaching Assistant in the fall

Lukas M. Baumgartel
magna cum laude
ukas went on to become a USC grad student. He was then employed for his dissertation research by Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena CA.

Steven J. Gumble
cum laude
teve will be a 2nd Lieutenant in the Air Force, and he enters active duty on June 3rd. For the next (roughly) two years, he will be moving around from Maxwell to Holloman, and finally to Columbus AFB for pilot training.

Steven J. Lucero
fter graduation, Steve will live, work, and continue to learn. He hopes to continue his studies at UNM in the field of Medical Physics.

Adam J. Pierson
dam has been interning at Sandia, handling web programming and safety training records. He plans to continue with the Lab as a contractor after August '06. Meanwhile, he'll be fixing up an old house in order to sell it, absconding with the proceeds to buy another old house to fix... ad infinitum. He may also try teaching abroad between rebuilding houses.

Terrell W. Radford
magna cum laude
errell has been commissioned a Navy officer, and he will be heading to Pensacola, FL, soon for flight school. He also plans to pursue a graduate degree in the not-too distant future.

Isidro Solano, Jr.
id has been admitted to our graduate program, and he will be a Research Assistant with Paul Schwoebel's group starting in the summer.

Kevin L. Soules
cum laude
evin has been accepted to the UNM School of Law and will begin studies there in August '06. See his profile on Loza & Loza..

2005

obert R. Gallegos
ob and his entire family spent a year on assignment in Japan with Sumco Corporation, and now they're back! He'll join the R&D group with Emcore Corporation, here in ABQ, in May (April 2006).

avid L. Hayes
avid was admitted to our master's program in Physics, with a quantum information research assistantship. See his LinkedIn profile.

Sonrisa T. Rogowski
onrisa's immediate plans involve lots of bike-riding, working full-time at Sandia, and a daydreaming process about what she would like to study and which grad schools seem appealing.

Gregory A. Sanchez
uclear Engineer with the Air Force. ee his LinkedIn profile.

Jason S. Tenbrink
ason will work at the Los Alamos Neutron Science Scattering Center for a year before exploring graduate school opportunities.

2004

eth J. Pierce
eth will now travel to Pensacola, FL, to attend Officer Candidate School. After that, he'll be at the Nuclear Power School in Charleston, SC, for abouta year, and then Ensign Pierce will be assigned to submarine duty.

Wayne M. Schlingman
ayne defended a senior thesis entitled “Temperature-Entropy Wave in Self-Organized ⁴He, “ thereby graduating summa cum laude and with Department honors. He will begin graduate studies, with emphasis on optical instrumentation, in August at the University of Arizona in Tucson.

Michael J. Simmons
nsign Simmons has been selected into the Navy's Special Operations Community. Following commissioning, he will report to the Specialized Diving Division at Naval Diving and Salvage Training Center in Panama City, FL. He will then be assigned to Explosive Ordinance Disposal School.

Csaba Z. Szekeley
cum laude
saba graduated in December, and he has since been enrolled in the music program here at UNM, concentrating on the guitar and music theory.

2003

ank B. Anderson
ank completed his second major degree program in Applied Mathematics in Dec, and is now in the Math Department graduate program.

Maureen M. Ballard
aureen went on to complete a MSc in Physics with the Complex Systems group at Instituto Balseiro Bariloche, Argentina. She later moved to Berlin, Germany where she taught mathematics and began learning about the history of economics and the economics of history at the Berlin School of Economics. She is presently pursuing a PhD in Economics at NYU, and still dreams of New Mexico.

Eric J. Gottlieb
ric is a contractor at Sandia with the Robotics Group; he is also planning to tackle a graduate degree in Computer Science here at UNM this coming fall (2003). See his LinkedIn profile.

Gavin Mendel Gleason
avin and family (soon to be 4, we hear!) are now in either Montana or Wyoming...we are waiting for an update on activities (Oct 2004). See his LinkedIn profile.

imothy T. Morrison

Anthony J. Riggins
nthony is involved in graduate studies in Pure Math here at UNM.

Ghazi J. Zouaoui
hazi will begin graduate studies in the fall at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign campus.

2002

aniel A. Bender
aniel has joined the Optical Sciences graduate program here at UNM this fall; he is the recipient of an NSF / IGERT Fellowship.

Anthony M. Bilotto
nthony has been commissioned as an officer in the Air Force, and is in Columbus, MS, for flight training (spring 2003). He plans to pursue a career as a pilot and, ultimately, an advanced degree in mathematics.

Gregory R. Burdoin
reg is working as an Electronic Technician on a contract with Boeing at the General Technology Corp, KAFB, Albuquerque.

Angela C. Cork
ngela finished her degree program in December, and will be taking the GRE and preparing grad school applications.

Eric W. Hemsing
rik thoroughly enjoyed his research project at LANL that involved plasma physics, specifically magnetic reconnection phenomena. Nevertheless, he has moved on to UCLA for grad school (2005).

Jesse K. Johnson
esse is employed with Exigen Diagnostics, and takes computer science classes while making plans for graduate school (spring 2004).

Daniel Koehler
an was at U/Mass for as long as he could stand the cold, wet weather! He's transferring to George Washington, and will be working at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard (spring 2006).

Veronica Mata-Bruni
eronica has been inducted as a lifetime member of Sigma Pi Sigma, the national physics honor society. She has already completed the first round of qualifying exams at UC-Santa Cruz (fall 2002), and is now enjoying married life w/ spouse Ryan Sholin (summer 2003).

Seth David Melgaard
eth began a Mechanical Engineering grad program here at UNM in fall 2002.

Nicolas C. Menicucci
ic has been inducted as a lifetime member of Sigma Pi Sigma.He graduated w/ University Honors, and also defended a dept.honors thesis entitled "Local Realistic Hidden Variable Model for the States and Dynamics of Liquid-State NMR Information Processing." Nic was doing research with Dr. Prasad, but headed off to Princeton in August 2003.

Keith Mertens
eith works as a Postdoc at the University of North Carolina in the Mathematics Department (specifically The Carolina Center for Interdisciplinary Applied Mathematics). He obtained his PhD in Math at Colorado State University.

Grant D. Meyer
Having completed the triple major...Chemistry, Math, and Physics...Grant is now at Cornell working with the Craighead Research Group in Applied & Engineering Physics. See his LinkedIn profile.

Matthew R. Winburn
att will complete a master's program in Biomedical Engineering, with a concentration in Medical Physics, at SUNY-Stony Brook in August 2005. He's already working at Mt. Sinai in NYC as a Medical Physicist in the division of Radiation Oncology.

2001

ick Secor
ick taught math and life skills at Belen High School for a year, and then returned to UNM for a graduate degree in material sciences (2003).

2000

aurizio A. DiMauro
Maurizio was one of the recipients of the 2016 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics. See his LinkedIn profile.

Jeremy Murray
eremy is in his fourth year of grad studies in physics at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, and will be defending his doctoral dissertation in fall 2006. He and Cristina now have a little girl named Maylin, born February 2003. See him on SPIE and on LinkedIn.

Sam Reid
Graduate studies at the Univ of Colorado, Boulder.

hristopher K. Schultz 3/27/70-June 2002
Chris Schultz earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Physics from the University of New Mexico in May 2000, at which time he earned the Feynman A for Best Student in Contemporary Physics. As a top student, he was actively recruited by the Optical Sciences Center at the University of Arizona where he accepted a Graduate Research Assistantship.

hortly after Chris began his studies at the Optical Sciences Center, he joined Bernard Kippelen’s research group. Under Professor Kippelen’s direction, Chris was actively involved in two projects: a research program focusing on the development of electro-active lenses using liquid crystals and a second project investigating the fabrication and characterization of field-effect transistors based on organic molecules.

An outstanding student, Chris was beginning to demonstrate his potential as a scientist through his discipline, initiative and collaborative abilities. For this he was respected. Chris was also a valued friend who was sensitive to others and generously shared his time, talents and resources -- and for this he was loved.

In Chris's memory, a scholarship has been established by his family, friends and colleagues at the Optical Sciences Center. When the scholarship is aed, the recipient will be a second-year Optical Sciences Center Ph.D. student with outstanding scholastic ability and research promise in applied optics. Contributions in any amount are welcome and will be very greatly appreciated. To contribute, please make your check payable to The University of Arizona, with a memo that it is for The Christopher Karl Schultz Memorial Scholarship. Mail it to Ms. Ruth Smith, Accounting Manager, Optical Sciences Center, P.O. Box 210094, Tucson, Arizona 85721--0094 USA. If you would like to contact Ms. Smith directly, she can be reached by email at ruths@u.arizona.edu or by telephone at 520-621-8155. With your help, we hope the Christopher Karl Schultz Memorial Scholarship will represent an appropriate and lasting memorial to a gifted young man who valued academic and research excellence.

Braunen E. Smith
raunen left New Mexico Resonance Lab in fall '03 to return to school. She's at Clark University in Worcester, MA, and has changed the focus of her research from geomorphology to organic superconductors (March 2006).

Russell N. Stewart
uss is working at Sandia and pursuing a master's with the Computer Science Department here at UNM.

Rob Ward
ormer Marshall Scholar (MSc-Computer Science, Oxford University (Merton), 2001; M.A.-Drama, King's College London/Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, 2002), now doing grad studies in Physics at Caltech (fall 2002). Robert is a co-author for the first detection of gravitational waves announced to the public at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) in 2016.

1999

eslie L. Chavez
raduate studies at UC-SD.

1998

atthew S. Edmonds
att is now a member of Sandia's Micromachine department that produces dynamic SEM images of MEMS (MicroElectro Mechanical Systems) devices.

Jason Knight
raduate Teaching Assistant in Physics at UC-Davis.

ichael D. Partridge
ichael earned an M.S. in Electrical Engineering (Aug. 2000), and is now with The Aerospace Corporation, in California.

1997

urch R. Driver
urch and his wife Jeannie now live in Pasadena. He graduated from ArtCenter College of Design in August 2003, with a second B.S. in Industrial Design.

Richard G. Hipsch
ather Seraphim Hipsh serves in a full-time capacity as an assistant to Archbishop Dmitri of St. Seraphim of Sarov Orthodox Cathedralin Dallas. He entered St. Tikhon's Orthodox Theological Seminary in South Canaan, PA, shortly after earning his bachelor's degree here at UNM, and graduated with a master of divinity degree in May 2001; he was ordained to the priesthood on February 11, 2001. He and his wife, Anna, are the parents of a daughter, Sophronia, and a son, Silouan.

Rebecca L. Houlihan
ebecca is now a Medical Dosimetrist with Mass General Hospital, Dept of Radiation Oncology, in Malden, MA.

tephanie Jones
ANL, Radiation Tech

lifford T. Lewis
nstitute for Nonlinear Science at UCSD. See his LinkedIn profile.

Stephanie R. Meltzer
ow Stephanie Scupp, she and her husband have relocated to Boca Raton, Florida (summer 2003).

Miguel A. Trujillo
ow an MBA and Project Engineer / Environmental Coordinator w/ United Paradyne Corp, a small business professional resource management firm specializing in: aerospace/propulsion services; conventional fuels and aviation fuel services; supply/logistics services. He also coordinates RocketMind, a forum for aerospace professionals. Miguel lives in Lompoc, CA.

1996

Alex Brandl
Professor of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences at Colorado State University

ichael E. Cox
See his profile on LinkedIn.

Timothy D. Hamlin
imothy earned a PhD-Physics, w/ a specialty in atmospheric physics, from NM Tech in September 2004; he is now a postdoc research associate at Tech in Socorro.

ichael A. Lepp
ir Force Phillips Laboratory, Kirtland AFB

Aaron R. Patton

Sean Eric Walston
ean completed grad studies in experimental physics at the University of Oregon, and is now a postdoc at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. His work involves accelerator physics related to the International Linear Collider project (Aug 2005).

1995

Gregory R. Hays
awrence Livermore National Laboratory. See his LinkedIn profile.

teven L. Nutter

Steven A. Schula
teven and Tanya live in Albuquerque; he is an officer w/ the USAF. See his LinkedIn profile.

Christopher P. Sharp
ser Support Analyst III, UNM-HSC Computer Services, Biomedical Research Facility

rian C. Walker
otorola, Albuquerque.

Kymbra D. Williams
oulder, CO

1994

avier G. Armendariz
h.D-Northwestern University, Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics (1999); currently email. See his LinkedIn profile.

J. Paul Freshour
eputy Project Manager, SNL 6132, SNL ER Project Management, at Sandia

ussell W. Rowland
ussell and Kathleen were joined by Sean Stuart Rowland, born 9 Mar 1997; it has been reported that the Rowlands are back in ABQ. See his LinkedIn profile.

avid C. Trostle
ir Quality Program Specialist for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; lives in Hummelstown, PA.

Steven R. Vigil
h.D.-Physics, University of Washington (2000)

Phillip Villella
octoral candidate w/ the Dept of Physics at the Univ of Colorado-Boulder.

Heather M. Vogel
.A.R.E. Program - Hatboro-Horsham School District / Simmons-Limekiln Simmons School, Ambler, PA

1993

ordon E. Bennett
ow a photonics instructor at TVI, Gordon finished his J.D. in May '03, and took the Bar exam that summer. He is specializing in intellectual property law. See his LinkedIn profile.

ark A. Blount

1992

eter A. Balter
MS and PhD - The Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Texas at Houston. Peter is now an Assistant Professor of Radiation Physics, at MD Anderson Cancer Center, in Houston (fall 2004).

Brian D. Berman
Denver, CO

Sydney A. Blocher, Jr.
hillips Lab at KAFB 

ee his LinkedIn profile.

Lowell A. Cummings
April 14, 1949 - December 9, 2022
ollowing graduate studies at NMSU (Ph.D.-2000), Lowell headed north and east...first to teach at North Dakota State, then University of Wisconsin-River Falls, and now the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy (fall 2005). See his obituary.

Steven C. LaMarra
.S.; now Research Associate with the Dept of Physics at MIT

arry B. Lopez
spanola, NM

Arman Sabet
.D.-Univ of New Mexico School of Medicine (1996); currently Staff Neurologist and Assistant Professor w/ the Department of Neurology, Univ of Kentucky, Lexington

1991

Jeffery H. Burkhart
lbuquerque, NM

alph P. Buttner
lbuquerque, NM

effrey A. Fatora
t. Cdr., USN - Submariner (Aug 2004); earned a master's degree in metallurgy in 1999 at Renssselaer Polytechnic Institute, in New York.

Helly Francisco Diaz-Marcano
elly is an environmental scientist with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. He and spouse Melissa Roybal de Diaz live in Las Vegas.

Kevin E. Gant
evin is a science teacher...both physics and astronomy...at Del Norte High School. He and spouse Dawni Bennett live here in ABQ.

Jason Glenn
h.D.-U/Arizona (1996) Assistant Professor of Astrophysics at UC-Boulder

ichael E. Hernandez
arried, father of two - lives here in Albuquerque

Michael D. McKay, Jr.
ANL

Luanna Gomez Ortiz
h.D.-Physics (Univ of Washington, 1998), and member of the Physics Education Group at U/Washington; she has recently (fall 2002) become an Assistant Professorof Physics at Arizona State University.
Valerie K. Otero
Ph.D.-UCSD; Valerie Otero was promoted to Full Professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder in 2014. She is deeply involved with the physics community, with the American Physical Society, and AAPT. Valerie has co-authored a physics curriculum and teaches physics regularly. See the article and accompanying video from CU Boulder.

Kevin Schum
evin is currently a program manager in the Space Vehicles Directorate at Kirtland AFB. He and his family reside here in Albuquerque (Oct 2006).

ukiteru Takanashi
hiba, Japan

Marcelo Vogel-Gonzales
arcelo was a geologist living and working in Chile, and he returned to UNM in fall 2002 to pursue a Ph.D. in Physics.

Gregory T. Whiteside
rent is a tutor with the Assistance Centers for Education at TVI here in Albuquerque.

1990

Larry G. Brown II lorissant, MO

harman L. Carpenter
997 M.S.- Earth & Planetary Sciences, UNM; lives w/ spouse James in ABQ.

odd J. Cloutier
t. Cmdr., US Navy - Todd earned a master's in Aerospace Engineering at Iowa State in 1994. As of 2015 he is the Mission Planning Systems Program Manager at Monterey Technologies, Inc.

Nikhil Jayant Joshi
omputing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics, with Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, in Mumbai.

John M. Melvin
e and spouse Brandi reside here in ABQ.

Jeffrey Norris
.S.-1996, Oregon State; now w/ JPL in Pasadena

Yvonne Rita Anne Romero
oodbridge, VA

1989

Petras Avizonas
aguna Hills, CA See Petras on LinkedIn

Shaun M. Bloom
ith Metatech Commercial Products Division in Albuquerque

Robert G. Copeland
andia Nat'l Labs, ABQ

Stephen A. DeWalt
ission Research Corp Colorado Springs, CO. See his profile on LinkedIn.

Michael A. Holland
oard-awarded Certified Indoor Air Quality Technician and Certified Microbial Remediation Supervisor, The Joseph Company, Fresno, CA

Walen J. Mickey
hermoNuclear Services-SNL. See his profile on LinkedIn.

Aaron J. Miscenich
.B.A.-Tulane Univ (1991); now Executive Director of the New Orleans BioInnovation Center, in the medical district centered around the Tulane and LSU facilities.

Mark W. Noah
as Cruces, NM

Jup Tanaluck Polanams
io Rancho, NM

John D. Saicawalo
lbuquerque, NM

Arthur Shanks
andia Nat'l Labs, ABQ

Heidi Terrill-Vosbein
aval Research Laboratory (ASMaT), Stennis Space Center, MS

Chris P. Woody
ort Collins, CO

1988

Joseph R. Chavez
lbuquerque, NM

Kevin M. Christensen
evin has been with CVI Laser Corp here in Albuquerque, and returned to us in fall 2004 to earn a graduate degree in Optical Science & Engineering.

Gregory M. Jones
h.D., UNM-HSC, Biomedical Science. Until his appointment as the new State Science Advisor for Utah (Sept. 2005), Greg was the Associate Director of the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute, Dept. of Computer Science, at the University of Utah. Greg and his wife reside in Salt Lake City with their three children.

1987

John R. Lopez
lbuquerque, NM

Alan J. Lucero
lan completed the PhD-Physics program at the University of Connecticut in 1993, followed by a post-doc at Bell Labs and MTS positions at Lucent and Corning labs. His current research area at Tycois in trans-oceanic fiber optic data transmission. He and spouse Susan Taylor (a test developer w/ ETS...remember the GRE!) live in New Jersey.

1986

Weston Jon Anderson
lidell, LA

Robert A. Chesebrough
io Rancho, NM

Robert B. Dagit
t. Lauderdale, FL

Arthur R. Gribble 10/9/58-April 1990

Paula L. Higgins (09/14/1959 - 07/17/2006) was a bike racer, physics and programming ace, punster and gourmet muffin chef. She was lost at 46 when struck by a car while making a left turn on her bike at Comanche Rd NE and Pennsylvania St NE in Albuquerque.

J. Larry Leija
ichardson, TX

Kenneth L. Miller
lbuquerque, NM

Dana R. Rink
lathe, KS

David R. Sandison
h.D.-Cornell; David manages Sandia's MEMS Device Technology Department, and lives in Edgewood, NM. He holds a patent for multi- spectral imaging method and apparatus.

Harry A. Watson
aval Warfare Assessment Division, Norco, CA

1985

Glenn A. Britt
ayton, UT

C. David Cremer
cience & Engineering Associates, Inc., Albuquerque

Richard N. Davidson
io Rancho, NM

Julius N. Manz
r. Manz is the Dental Program Clinical Supervisor at San Juan College in Farmington. He earned his DDS at the University of Denver.

David J. Monk
arned an M.S. degree in electrical engineering from Arizona State University in 1992. He joined Motorola's Research and Development Laboratory, Mesa, AZ, in 1985. Since that time, he has done work in a wide variety of disciplines including analog device characterization, statistical parameter extraction, noise measurements, TFSOI BiCMOS integration, and high-speed analog CMOS. He is currently with Motorola's Embedded Systems Technology Laboratories, in Mesa.

Rob K. Newsom
h.D.-Physics (1996) NMSU; CIRA research associate with the Optical Remote Sensing Division of the Environmental Technology Lab in Boulder.

1984

Michael D. Bradshaw
lbuquerque

David E. Keightley
ediaware Solutions Pty Ltd, Canberra, Australia

1983

Santiago G. Aller
lbuquerque, NM

ichard J. Elston
/1/60-1/26/04
ichard earned his Ph.D. at the University of Arizona in 1988, and joined the University of Florida in Gaineseville as a professor of Astronomy. He and his wife, Professor Elizabeth Lada, used infrared telescopes to discover circumstellar disks that were 10 to 100 times as large as the solar system (spring 2003), making AAS news and The New York Timeswith their observations of protoplanetary disks; Richard also received the 2000 Presidential Science Award. Stanley F. Dermott, Chair of the Astronomy Department at the University of Florida, wrote that, "Richard Elston passed away on Monday, January 26 after a long and courageous battle with cancer. Richard was one of the founders of the modern astronomical research program at the University of Florida, one of the leading astronomical instrumentalists of his generation, and a good friend, colleague and mentor. Our thoughts are now with his wife, Elizabeth, and their young son, Joseph. He will be deeply missed."

Forrest L. Williams
h.D. in EE, UNM (1989) - Principal Staff Scientist with MLD Technologies in Eugene, OR, developing optical-coating solutions for the extreme-high-power laser industry. Wife Anna is a physician with Lane County Mental Health.

1982

Colleen Cay Cafferty
olleen completed a graduate degree in physics at the Univ of Arkansas in 1997; now Enterprise Support, Technology Investigation Center with the State of Arkansas Technology Security Office, in Little Rock.

Stuart L. Davis
algary, Alberta, Canada

Steve R. Elliott
ANL

Koenraad Dirk

1981

regg C. Wagener
.S.-EE, University of Southern California (1998); has been with the Advanced Missile Development and Systems Engineering Division, Port Hueneme Division Naval Surface Warfare Center since 1982.

Daniel D. Weeks
ANL

1980

Joel E. Anspach
orrales, NM

Richard Dale Bolton
dvanced Nuclear Technology at LANL

Stephen R. Gobeli
lano, TX

Marc P. Valdez
h.D. (1987) and M.S. (1985) in Atmospheric Sciences from the University of Arizona, Tucson; employed as a Air Quality Meteorologist with Sierra Research, Sacramento, CA, since 1990. Follow the news, comments, and blogs at his personal website.

James D. Whitfield
ilbert, AZ

1979

Daniel C. Harrison
ucson, AZ

Jeffrey S. Knowlton
ent, WA

oe Allen Martin
.S. and Ph.D. in Materials Science from the University of Wisconsin at Madison; now Director and co-founder of Technanogy Air & Space, Newport Beach, CA

1978

James E. Bailey
lbuquerque, NM

Carolyn L. McMillen
olorado Springs, CO

Arian L. Pregenzer
rian is currently a Senior Scientist at the Cooperative Monitoring Center at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, NM. (2009)

Diane J. Slack
lbuquerque

Michael J. Wester
h.D.-Computer Algebra, UNM (1992); now Scientific Coordinator for the Shared Biocomputing Core at UNMHSC, as well as Math and CS editor/author, honor

1977

Bradley K. Allen
oulsbo, WA

James L. Bertrand
ucson, AZ

Craig H. Pollock
.S.-Math, California State University; Program Systems Engineering Professional for Defense & Space Systems. Canyon Consulting, Senior Associate; Space Systems Engineer (Onboard Processing Design Integration and Operations Engineering), TRW Space and Defense Sector, Redondo Beach, CA.

Capt. John E. Prunier

David D. Welter
rof. Engineer; he and Myrna live in Fairfax, VA

1976

James A. Hills
iedmont, CA

Alan R. Lappin
irmingham, MI

illiam G. Larsen 1953-1985
Dr. Larsen taught at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls until his untimely death. The William G. Larsen Memorial Student Award was established in 1990 by Mr. & Mrs. N.G. Larsen, in his memory, and is presented to the best Teaching Assistant during the UNM Physics & Astronomy departmental graduation ceremony each May. See his obituary.

1975

Gerald W. Edgar
T Architecture & e-Business Commercial Airplanes Group, Boeing Commercial Airplanes Group, Renton, WA

Steven R. Oliver
nstructor

Michael L. Wilson
etired from Sandia National Laboratories

1974

Rudy O. Gonzales
aught at Brownell Academy, Cupertino, CA

William N. Keepin
ill Keepin, PhD, is president and executive director of the Satya Institute in Boulder, Colorado. Ph.D., Applied Mathematics, University of Arizona (1980); Co-director of Shavano Institute, adjunct faculty member w/ The School of Consciousness & Transformation, California Institute of Integral Studies

Patrick M. Russell
idland, MI

Bernard E. Wood
ANL

1973

ichael L. Bernabe
FO of Secure Open Systems in Simi Valley, California. 22 years engineer and manager with Rockwell International

Richard L. Gerety
horacic Surgeon, M.D., FACS, FACC New Mexico Heart Institute

Jerry E. Goff
torage Technology Corp Louisville, CO

erbert J. Hammond
erbert J. Hammond is an intellectual property lawyer in Dallas, TX. He focuses his practice on litigation, licensing, and counseling in patent, trademark, copyright, trade secret, computer, and entertainment matters. Herb also acts as an arbitrator, mediator, and expert witness in intellectual property and high-tech cases. Herb is the author of the Texas Intellectual Property Handbook (3d ed), covering trade secrets, trademarks, copyrights, unfair competition, false advertising, and covenants not to compete as the law is applied in Texas.

Arthur E. Leach
aster of Mgmt, UNM-1980; Arthur is now the Corporate Comptroller of BHH Management, Inc, in Los Angeles, CA.

Jose F. Marques
an Ramon, CA

Duane C. Mohr
anville, CA

Jess C. Tidmore, Jr.
lbuquerque, NM

1971

Charles O. Darnall
amarillo, CA

John R. Henley
ission Research Corp, Electro-Optic Sciences Dept.; he and Marie live in Colorado Springs, CO

Samuel D. Houston
vins / Monticello, UT

Stephen J. Merrill
tephen is with Hewlett-Packard, and he resides in Philomath, OR.

. Christian Overton, 1948-2000
Dr. Overton was an associate professor in the Department of Genetics of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, and the founding director of the Center for Bioinformatics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He received a B.S. degree in physics and mathematics from the University of New Mexico, a Ph.D. degree in biophysics from the Johns Hopkins University, and subsequently an M.S.E. degree in computer science from the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to joining the University of Pennsylvania faculty, he spent five years as part of the artificial intelligence research group at the Unisys Center for Advanced Information Technology. His research interests included the implementation of databases for genome informatics and gene expression, and the development of database technology for the evolution, transformation, and integration of databases. He died unexpectedly on June 1, 2000, from complications arising from cardiomyopathy. Dr. Overton is survived by his wife, Carolyn; two sons, Aaron and Graham, and two daughters, Johanna Hernandez and Natalie Hernandez; his parents, William and Muriel Overton, his brother John Overton and sister Ellen Overton.

John W. Starner
Interim Dean of Arts and Sciences; Visiting Assistant Professor, University of St. Thomas, Houston.

1970

Robert E. Cooper
ucson, AZ

Arthur B. Crawford
os Alamos

James E. Grover
len Rose, TX

John S. Lloyd
eaverton, OR

Timothy S. McDonald
im is Manager of the Cryptography and Information Department at Sandia (Feb. 2005). He was an adjunct professor with ECE here at UNM.

Richard A. Summey
irector of Worldwide Sales for Celion Networks, Inc., in Richardson, TX

Claude C. Woods
oods Geophysical, Inc., Mt. Pleasant, MI

1969

William G. Breiland
hD-Chemistry, UC-Berkeley (1975); now Senior Member of Technical Staff in the Chemical Processing Sciences Departmentat Sandia National Laboratories.

John J. Deinken
ow Intellectual Property Lawyer w/ Rockwell Science Center, Thousand Oaks, CA; spouse M. Noelle is a lecturer w/ California Lutheran University

Douglas H. Krohn
KX Senior Geophysicist specializing in mineral exploration geophysical consulting. See his resume. Denver, CO

obert E. Vardeman
cience fiction, fantasy, western, mystery, spy & high tech thriller author, and owner-operator of Cenotaph Corporation in ABQ.

David J. Velasquez
roduct Research and Development, 3M Company, Minneapolis; he and Merry live in Cannon Falls, MN

1968

Charles M. Herndon
nternal Medicine and Addiction Medicine specialist with Providence Alaska Medical Center.

1966

William P. Robinson
housand Oaks, CA

1965

illard H. Howard
rogram Manager, Integrated Safety Mgmt, LANL

1963

Charles R. Cundiff
.S. Army Research Lab

1959

Philip A. Deutchman
ent to the University of Idaho where he is now Professor Emeritus of Physics.

1958

Robert E. Diebold
xecutive Secretary, High Energy Physics Advisory Panel, Dept of Energy -also operates Diebold Consulting.

John D. French
oulder City, NV / Aztec, NM

Otto G. Raabe, Jr.
rofessor Emeritus, Institute of Toxicology & Environmental Health (ITEH), University of California, Davis

1957

George Jenner
Feb 2003)...Now retired and living in West End, NC. Along with his wife Linda, he enjoys boating, bicycling, and spending time with their five children and seven grandchildren.

1954

Hugh W. Church
andia Labs

1953

James C. Pulte
innetka, CA

1949

Allan F. Beck
d. 2002

Raymond H. Opperman
d. 2013

1944

Marx Brook 7/12/20-9/3/02
Marx Brook, longtime Professor of Physics and Professor Emeritus (retired in 1986) and Director of Langmuir Laboratory for Atmospheric Research at New Mexico Tech, passed away on Tuesday, September 3, 2002, while in the hospital following emergency abdominal surgery. Paul Krehbiel, one of his former students, wrote Marx's obituary and John Latham wrote one too.

1942

Lee A. Jay
.S.-CalTech, 1944; he served as a meteorologist for the fed. govt for 21 years, and then as a research analyst until his retirement (to New Port Richey, FL) in 1976.

1941

Herschel R. Snodgrass
/31/1913-6/12/1990
King, Washington

1939

Max A. Kohler
hen he retired in 1973, after 36 years of Federal Service, Kohler was the director of the Office of Hydrology in Washington, D.C. He is the namesake of the National Weather Service's annual Max A. Kohler Award, and he now lives in Silver Spring, MD.

1938

W. Crawford Dunlap
he IEEE Grade of Fellow was conferred in 1961 by the Board of Directors upon for Dr. Dunlap's contributions to semiconductor research and transistor production techniques. He is also a Fellow in The American Physical Society. d. 2011

1936

David A. Lawson, Jr.
2/16/1913-4/30/1990, Fairfax, VA