Physics Alumni

Kenyon Physics alumni (and alumnae)

On this page, we aim to provide links to as many Kenyon Physics alums as we can. If you are an alum and have a web page, send the URL and we'll be happy to list you. If you are listed here but your information has gone out of date, let us know so that we can update it. Thanks for your help in keeping this page as complete and current as possible!

Useful page: Kenyon maintains a partial alumni e-mail directory , which is organized by class year and lists majors. Very handy for finding Kenyon Physics alums!

• John A. Woollam (KPhys '61, Ph.D. Michigan State) is Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the Univeristy of Nebraska in Lincoln (UNL). His company, the J. A. Woollam Co. , is the leading maker of spectroscopic ellipsometers. Here's a profile of him from the Kenyon alumni bulletin.
• Gary Reich (KPhys '68, Ph.D. Rutgers) is professor of Physics at Union College.
• Scott R. Baird (KPhys '69, Ph.D. University of Washington) is a physics and astronomy faculty member at Benedictine College.
• Percy S. Young, III (KPhys '69) is Director of Store Systems for Burlington Coat Factory.
• Richard S. McGowan (KPhys '75, Ph.D. Yale) is a senior scientist at Sensimetrics Corporation.
• David Hutchinson (KPhys '76), a pediatric nurse, is one of the authors of the Internet Workbook for Health Professionals.
• Wai-kwong Kwok (KPhys '79, Ph.D. Purdue) is a research physicist at Argonne National Laboratory.
• Stephen Adler (KPhys '84, Ph.D. SUNY Stony Brook) is a particle physicist at Brookhaven National Laboratory.
• Donald M. Hassler (KPhys '84, Ph.D. University of Colorado at Boulder) is a senior research scientist at the Southwest Research Institute.
• Thomas Colbert (KPhys '85, Ph.D. Lehigh University) is a physics faculty member at Augusta State Univeristy.
• Craig Siders (KPhys '88, Ph.D. Univeristy of Texas at Austin) is a laser and optics researcher at the University of Central Florida. (See Jennifer Walker Siders, below.)
• Said Elhamri (KPhys '89, Ph.D. University of Cincinnati) is a physics faculty member at the University of Dayton.
• Derek Bennett (KPhys '90) is a Senior Developer at HotJobs.com.
• John Yukich (KPhys '90, Ph.D. University of Virginia) is McArthur Assistant Professor of Physics at Davidson College in North Carolina.
• Kate Frame (KPhys '91, Ph.D. Michigan State University) was a postdoctoral researcher in high energy physics at Fermilab, but has recently moved to the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) in Sudbury, Ontario, where she is a postdoc for Oxford University. She reports that the excitement level is high as the first results from the observatory go to press (June, 2001).
• Jennifer Walker Siders (KPhys '92, Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin) is an optical physicist. (See Craig Siders, above.)
• Eric Neilsen (KPhys '92, Ph.D. Johns Hopkins) now works at Fermilab for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.
• Alise Shuart (KPhys '92) is the head lacrosse coach at Ohio Wesleyan University.
• Yu Gu (KPhys '94) has completed his Ph.D. in geophysics at Harvard University in June, 2001. He will continue at Harvard as a postdoctoral researcher.
• Beau Bierhaus (KPhys '95) is a graduate student at the University of Colorado, working at the Southwest Research Institute's Department of Space Studies. (He's the one on the far left of the picture.)
• Natalia Kuznetsova (KPhys '95) is finishing her Ph.D. in physics at the University of California at Santa Barbara. Next year she will be a Lederman fellow at Fermilab.
• Ben Williams (KPhys '95) is a Ph.D. candidate in medical physics at the University of Chicago.
• Nancy Pelligrino Swank (KPhys '96) teaches high school mathematics and physics at Roncalli High School in Indianapolis.
• Alec Ogston (KPhys '97) is on the technical support staff at PASCO, makers of educational physics apparatus.
• Robin Blume-Kohout (KPhys '98) is a Ph.D. student in physics at the University of California at Berkeley.
• Jason Summers (KPhys '98) is a Ph.D. candidate in engineering science at Rensselaer Polytechnic.
• Matt Jadud (KPhys '98) is a Ph.D. student in computer science at Indiana University, and is working on the Digital Music Library project at the IU library.
• Karina Leppik (KPhys '98) teaches physics and astronomy at Choate-Rosemary Hall in Wallingford, CT. She also recently spent some time at the South Pole.
• Ted Rogers (KPhys '00) is a graduate student in physics at Penn State.
• Anne Switzer  (KPhys '  ) is a Ph.D. student and a graduate research assistant in addition she works for Michigan Sea Grant.
  
  

Contact:  Connie Miller, Dept. of Physics.

Created by Bethany Anderson, Kenyon College 2005  October 25, 2003