Alumni
Welcome to the Dean's Scholars Alumni Page. This page lists information supplied by Dean's Scholars alumni on the Dean's Scholars Alumni Data Entry Page. December graduates may be listed under either the actual calendar year in which they finished or the academic year (which would be one year greater). If any information listed below is erroneous, please use the update information form here.
2008
s.miller1 -AT- physics.ox.ac.uk
rob.seilheimer@gmail.com
Just spent a year after graduation at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda Maryland. I'm starting my MD/PHD training at Baylor College of Medicine this fall. Feel free to contact me about anything: taking a year off, working at the NIH, MD/PHD programs, going from math to biomedical science, or just to say 'hi.'
2007
toyin.falola [at] gmail.com
4444 West Pine Blvd Apt 226
St Louis, MO
63108
marenfuller [ at ] gmail [ dot ] com
I'm in the MD/PhD program at UT Houston, feel free to contact me if you have any questions about UT Houston med or MD/PhD!
2006
sanjitar@gmail.com
Hey! I'm currently a third year in med school down at UTMB in Galveston, and I'm looking at pathology as a career. Thanks to Hurricane Ike I've also spent almost a semester at UT Houston, so if anyone has any questions about either school or just med school in general, just shoot me a message!
bwhiddon at gmail dot com
I entered the MSTP at the University of Washington in Seattle. I love it here! Seattle has the hip feel of Austin but is surrounded by the ocean and the mountains. If you have questions about entering an MD-PhD program in general or the program here in particular, give me a shout. I am finishing my first year of graduate school in the Genome Sciences department and use genetics to study neurobiological processes (Dr. Richard Palmiter's lab).
2005
kgturner@interchange.ubc.ca
Hello everyone!
After graduation I bounced through a bunch of molecular lab and field biology jobs, ranging from an AmeriCorps internship in on a wildlife refuge to yeast mitochondrial genetics. In the fall of 2008, I started work on my PhD at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada in the lab of Loren Rieseberg. I'm interested in the evolution of and the molecular mechanisms behind invasiveness in plants. I'm gonna help save the world, y'all!
Feel free to contact me about invasive weeds, evolutionary biology, grad school, UBC, Indiana University, AmeriCorps, the Student Conservation Association, or anything all. Especially if you're in my neighborhood!
http://www3.botany.ubc.ca/rieseberglab/ubc/kathryn_turner.html
Caberation [at] gmail.com
At UCLA, in the PhD program for Linguistics.
2004
alexchen [at] alumni.utexas.net
I left academia and entered the working world (gasp!). I'm currently at a business intelligence software company (MicroStrategy) based in the DC area. Come visit!
nora [at] inch.net
Hi DSers, I'm working on an MD/PhD at UT Southwestern Medical School in Dallas. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions about MD, MD/PhD and MSTP programs. I'll be in Dallas until 2011!
sfrost [at] itsa.ucsf.edu
I miss you guys! I am in San Francisco right now...and loving it. UCSF is a really great place. If anyone is interested, just send me an email. If you come visit and need a place to stay, our futon has gotten rave reviews. mmhmm.
Leebah [at] eliyahu.org
Married and doing the stay at home mom thing (one baby girl born 12/26). Can't really help anyone with advice on grad school ... but if you need to know the best way to suction goo out of a fussy 4 month old's nose feel free to contact me.
jgscott [at] gmail.com
At Cambridge, UK through summer 2006 -- any study-abroaders passing through London should drop me an e-mail!
stierney [at] alumni.utexas.net
I'm graduating from the University of Cambridge with a masters in international development and moving to sunny California to start my law degree at Stanford. If you are thinking about Stanford for graduate school, I'd be happy to show you around.
2003
w8y2ga502@sneakemail.com
http://noble.gs.washington.edu/~mmh1/
On a Marshall Scholarship to the University of Cambridge, in England, working on a PhD in comparative genomics. DSers, feel free to drop me a line if you want to say hello or have any questions. Or if you're going to be in Europe; I might be able to meet up with you! :)
Update 02-21-2009:
I received a Marshall Scholarship to go to the UK and do a PhD at the University of Cambridge in computational genomics. Now I'm a postdoctoral researcher in Seattle at the University of Washington, working on NIH's ENCODE project, which aims to identify all functional elements in the human genome.
Let me know if you're ever in Seattle!
eahowell [at] mail.utexas.edu
hey guys! so i was doing research in the pharmaceutical arena (blech), but now i'm working on research at the UT school of nursing which is where i will start my PhD program in the summer of 2006. yay back to academia because the real world is scary =P
william.renthal [at] gmail.com
so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens. --w.c.williams (discussing these 8 lines for two weeks in high school was perhaps what initially inspired me to go into science - and not literature criticism - however ive found its perspective quite valuable over the years) im an mdphd student at utsw in dallas - let me know if you have any questions
riviello [at] mail.utexas.edu
Hmmm...I am back in Austin working at Applied Research Labs, and I will be starting math grad school here at UT in the fall. Send me an email if you're in Austin or going to be in Austin and want to hang out...
mzhang2 [at] nd.edu
I'm not even sure I belong here since I wasn't quite in DS when I graduated, but oh well... I'm now at Notre Dame in the middle of my first year of the Computer Science PhD program. Hope everybody is doing well doing whatever they're doing!
2002
jennybirnbaum [at] hotmail.com
Hi everyone! I'm at Texas A&M (getting ragged on a lot for having gone to UT, but the grad students are pretty cool) doing my Master's in the Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences department. If anyone is out of their mind enough to want to come here for med school, WFSC, etc. drop me an email.
mattday@caltech.edu
I'm a postdoctoral scholar in the math department at Caltech. I got my Ph.D. in mathematics in 2008. My research interests are geometric group theory and low dimensional topology.
http://www.its.caltech.edu/~mattday/
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Hey! I'm almost two thirds done with my first bone-crushing year at the University of Chicago Ph.D. program in mathematics. Fun and Learning!
erin-lichtmann [at] ouhsc.edu
I'm in my third year of medical school at OU. Yeah, who woulda thunk it, a nice UT girl at OU? Oh well.
sobie105 [at] yahoo.com
I'm in Dallas at UTSW!
erincds [at] yahoo.com
Los Angeles, CA
I'm currently pursuing a PhD in Astrophysics at UCLA
robertjasonyoung [at] yahoo.com
2121 Hepburn #601
Houston, TX 77054
(832) 541-2149
What up! I'm in H-town chillin' at Baylor. I just recently went to Paris so I'm beaming now, unfortunately, I gotsta start studyin' more! Call or write me if you wanna get lunch or just chat sometime.
2001
laurensuzyc [at] alumni.utexas.net
Update: I'm in Houston doing my internship at UT-Houston. I'm moving to Chicago in July to start my dermatology residency. Hi. I'm over at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, and I'd love to talk with any DSers with questions about Baylor or just med school in general. These last years in DS were great, thanks to everyone.
jthanson [at] alumni.utexas.net
hello all. i'm just beginning my trek for my m.d. at washington university in st. louis (all of you are saying, "where?!?!?"). this is after a year of being a bum. anyway, i'd love to have more longhorns up here, so drop me a line if you're coming to st. louis or interested in wash u.
hsuweiting [at] alumni.utexas.net
(512) 689-4112
I am now at the University of Texas Law School. Feel free to contact me if you have questions about that, or if you'd like to sightread chamber music or play squash.
tiger_spot [at] mapache.org
I am suffering a profound lack of imagination right now and can't think of anything clever or useful to put here. Oh well.
poojaparanjpe [at] yahoo.com
Hi!!! I'll be at Southwestern next year (or rather for the next four years I guess), so send me an e-mail if you're planning on coming to Dallas. I'd love to see all of you again!!!
santiago [at] umug.org
Update 2009: I'm now a software engineer at Google working on data visualization, and married to fellow alumna Theresa Mecklenborg.
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I'm off at Carnegie Mellon University, embarking on a journey towards a Ph.D. in Robotics.
rouffign [at] fas.harvard.edu
36 Oxford St. #216
Cambridge, MA 02138
(617) 493-4219
I'm currently a chemistry Ph.D. student at Harvard and I would love to see more Dean's Scholars up here, so give me a call if you're interested in grad. school at a place with all four seasons!
dsmith@cfa.harvard.edu
I'm freezing my butt off at Harvard, where I spend too much time on homework and too little on research. Supposedly, I'll get a Ph.D. in astronomy after all this.
kwedin@alumni.utexas.net
5349 Amesbury Dr #1607
Dallas, TX 75206
(214) 692-7424
Hello all! I'm in Dallas starting the long, long, long trek to an MD/PhD at UT-Southwestern. If you're looking for me in 8 years or so, you can find me still here. Of course, I'll still be the coolest guy around.
2000
srikiranc@hotmail.com
Hi, It's been a great time at UT, but I'm off to Baylor College of Medicine to become doctorized! skc
allisonhargraves@yahoo.com
Ithaca,NY
I graduated from Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine in 2004, and am completing an internship up at Cornell right now. I'm looking forward to moving back to Houston to live with my husband again and reunite the pets (just one dog and three cats at this point). If anybody has any questions about vet school, let me know.
reshma.khatri@alumni.utexas.net
14411 Redbud Valley Trail
Houston, TX 77062
(281) 486-9562
Hi everyone! Well, looks like I'll be graduating this weekend... after that, I'll go home, hopefully take a trip or two, and then start work in July or August. I'll be working for United Space Alliance, NASA's prime contractor, developing navigation software for Mission Control. I really enjoyed my time here at UT and as a part of DS. I'll miss it all. I wish everyone good luck in the coming years and hope to keep in touch with the group. Drop me an e-mail sometime! :-)
JustinLee@alumni.utexas.net
1615 Hermann Drive, #1325
Houston, TX 77004
(713) 523-7731
Hey, gang. I'm in Houston now getting ready to start my 1st year of medical school at Baylor. If you have any questions about med. school, Baylor, or life in general, feel free to contact me. -Justin
martines@medicine.wustl.edu
(314) 367-7439
I started the MD/PhD program at Washington University in St. Louis in Fall 2000 and having a great time. If you are interviewing or want more information, feel free to send me an email. Also, if you'd like information about summer programs or the grad school, I can answer a few questions. I'm enjoying the Ozarks, symphony, and wonderful new friends. Enjoy Austin, the incredible resources of UT faculty and facilities, and your peers.
epimorphosis@hotmail.com
i started off astronomy, went to biology (ended up with a minor there), and then to philosophy where i stayed for a BA -never forget that you can take a new direction
sp791@columbia.edu
I'm attending College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia. If you happen to be in Manhattan, or have any questions about living here, or have a lot of money to spend in the city and want to take me out, then email me.
1999
audrey.brumback@uchsc.edu
1121 Albion St. #905
Denver, CO 80220
(303) 316-2803
Howdy! Let's see... what can I say? I just started my first year of the MD/PhD program here at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. I love Denver and am having a great time rock climbing, hiking, and dissecting cadavers. If you need a place to stay in Denver or a tour guide, just let me know! In the meantime, make sure to get involved in the Dean's Scholars Program - you get out of it what you put into it.
alice.chan@email.swmed.edu
2364 Southcourt Circle
Irving, TX 75038
(972) 570-3787
I just started in the MD/PhD program at UT Southwestern. They treat us like royalty here. It's awesome! If any of you are interviewing or want more information about the program feel free to email me. Also if you are a TAMS alumni and thinking about medical school, give me a ring.
wcorbet@jhmi.edu
(410) 467-6818
Howdy Deans Scholars! I am currently living in beautiful Baltimore, MD with my significant other, Alexa Kelley, while pursuing my M.D. at Johns Hopkins. I would be happy to talk to any prospectives who might be thinking about coming to medical school at Hopkins. I can be reached via email at wcorbet@jhmi.edu or by phone at 410-467-6818. (PS - Thank you for everything Dr. Cline!)
devroe@fas.harvard.edu
Silver Lab
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
One Jimmy Fund Way, SM 922 Boston, MA 02115
(617) 632-4108
Hi everyone. Since I graduated in May 1999, I've been doing research at UT M.D. Anderson Cancer Center-Science Park (Smithville, Texas). In the next couple of months, I'll be packing up my belongings and moving to Boston where I'm going to begin working for my PhD at Harvard Medical School. I'll update my contact information once I get settled in Boston (in case anyone wants to ask any questions about Harvard). Good luck to everyone!
ben@enspire.com
105 E. 38th Street
Austin, TX 78705
(512) 659-8316
http://www.enspire.com/
Hello, all! After I receive my B.S. in Comuter Science (May, 1999), I plan to head over to the other side of the world for a month or two. Following that, I'm going to work in industry with the ultimate goal of starting an Internet technology company. Know anyone who can help? For recreation, I sing a cappella and play racquetball (simultaneously, sometimes). I hope to meet my fellow DS Alumni in the near future!
mharting@alumni.utexas.eduFinishing my general surgery training in Ann Arbor (yeah, it takes that lo
Finishing my general surgery training in Ann Arbor (yeah, it takes that long). Happy to discuss my career path or great Austin restaurants with anyone.
moku1028@hotmail.com
In law school @ U.C. Berkeley. The weather is great out here, not to mention the people and the general environment. Law school is a lot of hard work, but fun - really intellectually stimulating. I'm looking into doing intellectual property. If anyone has ?s or interests in law school ... email me. People with technical degrees are in high demand here, especially in the intellectual property field.
docfarnaz@yahoo.com
5225 Fleetwood Oaks
Apt#106
Dallas, TX 75235
(214) 443-434
I've been at UT Southwestern medical school since August 99; I love the school, but don't ask me what I think of Dallas. Suffice it to say that I get away and come back to Austin anytime I get a chance. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions about UTSW or if need a place to stay while interviewing here. My number is 214-443-0434 or you can email me at docfarnaz@yahoo.com. P.S. Enjoy UT while you still can!
jjohnson@bios.unc.edu
201 NC Hwy 54 Apt. 627
Carrboro, NC 27510
(919) 960-5997
I'm currently a masters student in Biostatistics at the Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Public Health. I'm ultimately aiming for a PhD which means I should be here for prob the next 5 years. If you're ever in the Raleigh-Durham area, give me a holler.
mnishino@alumni.utexas.net
1800 El Paseo #1602
Houston, TX 77054
(713) 383-9967
I will be joining several DS'ers (including my older brother Ken) at Baylor College of Medicine, where I will be working towards a MD/PhD. My current interests include basic immunology and cancer immunotherapy research. The DS Program helped me find my niche in research, and the seminars with Drs. Iverson, Oakes, and Pollak really honed my presentation skills. Make sure to take advantage of what the program offers.
University Laboratory of Physiology
Parks Road
Oxford, England(1865) 722-152
Hello, folks. Since graduating in biochemistry and French in 1999, I've started a Master of Science degree in Neuroscience at Oxford University. If all goes well, I'll stay here for a PhD then who knows? Um, I'm also getting hitched this March to a fabulous Englishman. Hope that everyone still in Texas is enjoying the warm weather and live music!
i'm currently doing a fellowship breast/oncologic imaging in new york (only one more year of training). hope everyone is doing well.
1998
jdayers@stanford.edu
906 Crothers Memorial
Stanford, CA 94305-7077
(650) 497-9227
I'm presently a grad student in the chemistry department at Stanford. Between classes and TAing (thermo and quantum chem), I'm kept pretty busy and have little time for research yet. But that will change soon, I'm sure. As for after graduation, I'm not thinking that far in advance yet, its a long way away!
jdayers@stanford.edu
906 Crothers Memorial
Stanford, CA 94305-7077
(650) 497-9227
I'm presently a grad student in the chemistry department at Stanford. Between classes and TAing (thermo and quantum chem), I'm kept pretty busy and have little time for research yet. But that will change soon, I'm sure. As for after graduation, I'm not thinking that far in advance yet, its a long way away!
navanc@excite.com
Emilio Carranza Sur 218
Centro de Monterrey Mexico
Monterrey, NL CP 64000
(8) 340-8807
AHHH! MEXICO! Since graduating I moved to Mexico to teach English. It is a blast learning Spanish and just exploring here. I am living in downtown Monterrey with 3 French teachers (Frogs). We do alot of rockclimbing and socializing. My current science ambition is working in the beer brewery that makes Tecate and Dos Equis. When I do return to the US I plan on beginning graduate work. If anyone is travelling through Mexico, drop me an email for info.
bdemsky@mit.edu
2300 Kehrs Mill Rd.
Chesterfield, MO 63005
(314) 537-2872
I'm attending graduate school at MIT. I'm currently a physics graduate student and doing research on using Spectral Hole Burning to build a quantum computer. I'm considering studying Computer Science in the future.
mghadiali@med.miami.edu
1500 Bay Road, Apt 244
Miami Beach, FL 33139
(786) 390-6786
Hey guys, Well, i'm almost half-way through my first year pursuing an M.D. at Baylor College of Medicine Things are pretty hectic here but I love the school and the program. Good luck to everyone out there in pursuing your careers!
Update: Hello everyone, I graduated from Baylor and have started an ENT residency at the University of Miami. If anyone finds themselves in the Miami area, give me a call!
akkubena@math.uchicago.edu
1401 E. Hyde Park Blvd.
#503
Chicago, IL 60615
(773) 493-3390
I'm in my first year at the University of Chicago, aiming for a Ph.D. in Math. I plan to someday be a Mathematics Professor.
lilyliao@ruf.rice.edu
8055 Cambridge St. #71
Houston, TX 77054
(713) 383-9951
I'm a first year economics grad student at Rice University. Right now I'm TAing microeconomic theory. Eventually, I start doing some research on altruistic behavior of intergenerational transfers (this means I know nothing about the stock market, so don't ask!).
JL692379@bcm.tmc.edu
6540 Bellows Ln #711
Houston, TX 77030
(713) 799-8610
I am currently a first year MD/PhD student at Baylor College of Medicine. It is a lot of work, but I am also having a great time! As of now, I am interested in pursuing a career in pediatric genetics. Dean's Scholars is a great program and prepared me well for Baylor. Enjoy UT and Austin while you can!
theng@caltech.edu
Caltech 12-33
Pasadena, CA 91125
(626) 564-9298
I'm a grad student at Caltech, in the Physics Department. I am working in the Quantum Optics group. Right now, I am trying to learn more about quantum information and computation, which sure seems interesting.
mikula@jhmi.edu
7305-D Shipway
Baltimore, MD 21222
(410) 288-3010
http://mind-brain.com/
I'm currently finishing up my doctorate in Neuroscience at the Mind/Brain Institute at Johns Hopkins University, where I study primate brain organization. My work includes anatomical techniques and fMRI, subject to multivariate statistical analysis. These past years, I've had the privilege of leading fruitful collaborations and speaking at conferences across the world. I expect to obtain my Ph.D. in late 2003, and then look for a post-doc or faculty position to continue my research. On Oct. 2002, I married Tabitha Ann Brewster, and am really enjoying married life. If you're in the Baltimore area, feel free to contact me.
emoustak@thesis2.med.uth.tmc.edu
8100 Cambridge #134
Houston, TX 77054
(713) 383-9408
What to say? I'm currently a first year aiming for an M.D. at UT-Houston. It's a lot different than college, but it's been a ton of fun so far. I definitely miss Austin a lot though. Look me up if you're around town.
epaiuk@hotmail.com
1339 Westwick forest
Houston, TX 77043
(281) 752-496
Hey!! I am in my first year at Baylor College of Medicine and having a blast! There are tons of Dean's Scholars here, but the school is still cool. :) Right now I am interested in Sports Medicine, but we will see where that goes. My sport of the moment is Ultimate Frisbee, and we are organizing a bog club here at Baylor. DS who are interviewing at Baylor are welcome to stay at my apartment if they want. Take care!
ulrich@cs.utexas.edu
Persgatan 64
252 22 Helsingborg, Sweden
I'm living in Sweden, trying to publish a novel before I begin graduate school in computer science. Let me know if you'll be in the neighborhood (not far from Copenhagen).
1997
mmgarrison@earthlink.net
15401 NE 10th St. #E109
Bellevue, WA 98007
I'll graduate this June (1999) with an MPH degree in epidemiology -- may or may not move back to Texas, depending on job prospects.
mhaddi@lsuhsc.edu
1900 Perdido St
#1108A
New Orleans, LA 70112
(504) 593-9208
I am currently a first-year medical student at Louisiana State in New Orleans. I miss Austin. If anyone needs advice on medical school, I can share my experiences with you. I am interested in 1st--passing and 2nd, endocrinology-psychiatry-neurology.
hallkl@uthscsa.edu
11800 Braesview #3202
San Antonio, TX 78213
(210) 342-5303
For the past two years I have been working as a Research Assistant in a Molecular Biology lab at the UT Health Science Center in San Antonio. Next August I will be headed back up to Austin for graduate school in Molecular Biology (just a Masters for now, although that could change).
jhoward@cs.utexas.edu
4424 Gaines Ranch #215
Austin, TX 78735-6493
(512) 899-3663
Currently I am finishing up a Master's in Computer Science at here at UT. To get an idea of how long I've been here, when I enrolled as a freshman Berdahl was the President, Mackovic the football coach, Penders the basketball coach and Gustafson the baseball coach. Right now I'm TA for an introductory Computer Science course, and I should graduate (for good this time) in May '99. Just for kicks, I took a few classes and added a Math major to my undergrad degree. After graduating, I plan to either teach (high school) or procure a moderately interesting job in the computer industry. The latter being easier said than done, with the emphasis on "moderately interesting". If you have any suggestions, let me know.
cl459@columbia.edu
Hello all! I'm currently a graduate student in the Neurobiology department at Columbia. I love New York, but I miss Austin a whole lot too...Don't hesitate to look me up!
jdm4829@medicine.tamu.edu
7 Teague Place, #802
Temple, Texas 76504
(254) 899-700
Hi, Guys! I'll be starting my 3rd year at Texas A&M College of Medicine. Thankfully, the last two years are in Temple, TX. (Now, I know why Ken U. left College Station. He even moved to Sweden so people could stop asking, "You're from where? What are you doing here?") :) If anyone applys here, let me know when you'll be coming up to interview, so I can make sure you have a place to stay at both campuses. As far as future plans, Family Medicine is still at the top of my list, and I'll be returning to my hometown of Rio Grande City, TX, to practice. (If you don't know where that is, I'll draw you a map.) Have a great day and whatever you're doing, have fun!
pelosofl@medicine.wustl.edu
Hi! After graduating from UT in 1997, I started school at Washington University in St. Louis in the MD/PhD program. Currently, I'm in the PhD portion of the program and I'm studying aspartic proteases in the malaria parasite P. falciparum. Feel free to email me if you have questions or are going to be in town!
rogerscmr@aol.com
I ended up taking my geology career to Penn State University. Under the structural geology unbrella, my research is in rock mechanics/Earth stress, and my field area is Zion National Park in southwest Utah where I'm investigating regional fracture zones. (These zones are responsible for making Zion so magnificent! I got to - I mean: was "forced" to - hike there for a whole month!) I expect to finish up in August, and then I'm back to Texas for two internships with ExxonMobil and Anadarko Petroleum starting in the fall of 2001. When those are completed in early 2002, I'll just have to see what comes next!
scsingh@jhmi.edu
631 D Saint Paul Street
Baltimore, MD 21202
(410) 547-8674
Howdy, folks. I'm just starting my third year at Johns Hopkins Medical School. Feel free to write, call, or show up on my doorstep anytime and for almost any reason. Take care, enjoy Austin, and have a good time!
1996
After completing my B.S. in Molecular Biology, I stayed on at UT-Austin to pursue studies in the liberal arts, Korean, and saxophone. This was time well spent. During that time, I applied to medical school to pursue my interest in both the sciences and humanity.
I graduated from Baylor College of Medicine and started a combined residency in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics in Detroit, MI with aspirations of primary care. However, during my first year, I made a good friend in an emergency medicine resident and decided to switch fields. I went through the Match again and landed a spot in emergency medicine.
I'm now an independent contractor, board certified in emergency medicine, working in the Baptist Health System in San Antonio, TX. My wife and I have a wonderful baby boy who keeps me busier than residency ever did.
achin@utmb.edu
215 Postoffice St. #408
Galveston, TX 77550
(409) 770-9384
greeting from the murky brown waters of Galveston. after graduating in dec '96 i worked for about a year and a half in a lab here on campus (DNA/ptn interaction stuff), after which i started school here. before going to school, i took a trip to europe and also visited alaska (guys, it really is the last frontier--really really beautiful out there). anyway, if anyone out there wants to know more about g-town, just ask. laters.
jessica@jump.net
I have been teaching mathematics to gifted students for almost 5 years now, and I love it, but I can't seem to get away from UT. I have been mentoring UT students for several years through the UTeach program, and this year I am also assisting by teaching the math majors in the Step II class of the UTeach program. Inquiry-based lesson design is the focus of the class. Last year, I was named Teacher of the Year for Region XIII by the Texas Middle School Association. My mother (also a teacher) was so proud, you'd have thought I won the Nobel Prize. My husband, a software engineer for Vignette, asked me how much money would accompany the award. I just laughed.
9402 Clearock Dr.
Austin, TX 78750
(512) 258-5556
Hi there! I was born and raised in Austin, and I ended up at UT because I didn't see the point in moving anywhere else. Even though I majored in molecular biology, I spent most of my time in the music building playing my flute. After finishing up at UT, I went to medical school at UTSW in Dallas, where I started learning guitar and learning how to sing -- a very deadly combination to my long-suffering roommate, though she swears she likes my four chord rendition of GNR's "Patience." I am currently a fourth year med student, which means I have lots of free time. Also, I just recently sold a novel to an e-publisher, and it will be online on Awe-struck.net in spring of 2001 (shameless plug). Soon I'm moving up to Boston to do a residency in Psychiatry at Harvard. Psych seemed to have the right combination of science and art to make me happy. I thought I was going to be alone up there, but it looks like a whole bunch of Dean's Scholars alums are up there too . . .
chrisk@mit.edu.nospam
Working on a Ph.D. in experimental atomic physics at M.I.T.
leielissa@niddk.nih.gov
I'm a graduate student studying cell biology at Harvard Medical School. My thesis work is on nucleocytoplasmic transport in budding yeast. If you're ever in Boston, drop me a "howdy". I do miss it.
Update (08-26-2008):
Elissa worked on molecular mechanisms of mouse tail development in the laboratory of Dr. Karen Artzt as an undergraduate and obtained her Ph.D. in 2003 for her work on mRNA nuclear export in the laboratory of Pamela Silver at Harvard Medical School. Her postdoctoral research on RNA silencing and chromatin organization was carried out in the laboratory of Victor Corces at Johns Hopkins University. She established her independent research group in 2006 at the National Institutes of Health.
Website: http://intramural.niddk.nih.gov/research/faculty.asp?People_ID=1699
martini@fc.net
Hello - I finally finished that Math degree, with only one semester worth of official detour, into Anthropology. Living and working in Austin, wondering how folks are doing these days.
wprosenf@utmb.edu
After graduating in December of '96 I went off to Germany for a stint with Bayer Corporation. Then I came back and lived for a while, trying to keep my credit card bills down and reflect upon the meaning of yuppie superficialism in the workworld. It was not for long though. Soon, I was swept up again in the dreamy half-surreal life of scholarship, this time as a medical student at UTMB in Galveston. It is interesting - and life is very fun.
stratemann@uthscsa.edu
4900 Medical Dr. #1012
San Antonio, TX 78229
(210) 615-3820
Well, I'm nearly done with my third year of dental school at the UT Health Science Center at San Antonio. I've endend up doing a lot of things I expected to do (pulling teeth, making dentures). I've also gotten to do some things I didn't expect to do (biochem research on adenosine polyphosphate metabolism in _Schizosaccharomyces pombe_ and learning how to make sushi). All-in-all, it's been a good experience.
1995
jcaliff@ev1.net
1933 Cimarron Trail
Hurst, TX 76054
(817) 577-737
Hi! I'm actually currently living in Japan, teaching English. Yeah, I know it doesn't have much to do with science, but I'm having fun. And I get to live near the mountains and see interesting geology. My address here is: 411 Bestate Nankoku 2-2-7 Ekimae-cho Nankoku-shi, Kochi-ken 783-0002
Hope that everyone is doing something that they enjoy!
alisonlalla@earthlink.net
115 Peachtree Memorial DR NW #A3
Atlanta, GA 30309
(404) 367-9582
I've been living in Atlanta for a year and a half. I'm working for a benefits consulting firm, and taking actuarial exams. Hope to see everyone at the reunion.
jwlichst@unity.ncsu.edu
NCSU, Zoology Department
Box 7617
Raleigh, NC 27695-7617
(919) 513-2471
Born and bred in Tennessee. Childhood confused. Did my homework, watched TV, played basketball and baseball. Went to UT Austin by accident. Had a fine time. Plan II/Pre-med major. Still confused. Still did my homework. I was hot (temperature-wise). Enjoyed the novels of Toni Morrison. Bought a drum-set. Chopped up earthworms in George Bittner's lab. I remember Big Bend National Park and fun people (e.g., Alan Cline). Graduated. Traveled. My girlfriend dumped me. Got sad, got happy. Worked as an SCA (Student Conservation Association) volunteer in Washington state. Got interested in wild animals. Started grad school. Got interested in ecology, statistics, and plants. Current research: I study how birds (little ones) in the southern Appalachian mountains respond to habitat heterogeneity at different spatial scales (from one plant to many forest stands). If you like birds and you like to hike/camp and you need a summer job, send me an email.
laurie_littlepage@student.hms.harvard.edu
Dept. of Cell Biology
240 Longwood Avenue
Boston, MA 02115
Hi!! I would love to hear from old buddies from UT!! Please let me know if you come up to Boston. Since college, I have married my buddy Steve Tidrick, who is a lawyer up here at a firm in Boston. Steve and I are having fun living in Boston, but it's pretty cold here in the winter. I'm in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences Ph.D. Program at Harvard. Joan Ruderman is my thesis advisor, and her lab studies cell cycle progression (visit our lab web site at http://cbweb.med.harvard.edu/ research/ruderman/default.html). For my thesis work, I am studying the kinase Eg2, which is a member of the aurora family of kinases that has been shown to cause aneuploidy and to be amplified in some human tumors. I am investigating the role of Eg2 in cell cycle reentry triggered by progesterone in frog oocytes.
mcguirk@stanfordalumni.org
New Haven, CT(203) 432-3834
Hey Y'all. I'm finishing the last few years of a Stanford Ph.D. in physics at Yale strangely enough. In an effort to avoid the Hell on earth that is New Haven, I've been bitten with the travel bug and am here as little as possible. Drop me a line. Later - Jeff
megason@fas.harvard.edu
139 Oxford St.
Cambridge, MA 02140
(617) 354-8497
I'm in grad school in biology at Harvard. I'm studying verterbrate CNS development using chick and mouse. Fun! Fun! I also grow passion flowers which you can (occasionally) catch live on my web page.
drubins@mednet.ucla.edu
1625 Armacost Ave #1
Los Angeles, CA 90025
(310) 820-9767
Hi everybody! Its great to see that the Dean's Scholars program is doing so well! I'm at UCLA, working toward a PhD in Biomedical Physics. I hope to be done by around the end of 2001. For those of you who remember Rita, my girlfriend for the second half of my time at UT, she followed me out to LA, and we were married in September 1999. I'd love to hear from any of you, and feel free to drop by and see me if you are going to be visiting LA!
orion_weiner@hms.harvard.edu
103 Bynner St, Apt #1
Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
(617) 983-2350
Hiya! I'm currently in grad school at UCSF where I'm studying the behavior of a professional killer cell of the innate immune system-- the human neutrophil. These marvelous little cells constantly hunt down and kill invading bacterial pathogens which they find by means of gradients of peptides given off by the bacteria. I'm trying to understand how the cells interpret and respond to the gradients and spend most of my time bleeding myself and watching my cells chase a point source of chemoattractant or grinding up rat brains for biochemistry. When not in lab, I'm usually found climbing up some cliff or another in Yosemite or Joshua Tree.
Update:I'm a year into my postdoc at Harvard Medical School still studying how cells interpret and respond to gradients during chemotaxis. My wife and I just had a beautiful little boy (Kai) Oct 2002. Austin (and San Francisco after that) were tough places to leave, but the Harvard Medical School area has an absolutely extraordinary concentration of researchers and reagents. There are opportunities for collaborations galore. Drop me an email if you want to know about research around here.
1994
cbauch@maths.warwick.ac.uk
Mathematics Institute
University of Warwick
Coventry , UK CV4 7AL
(1203) 522-651
After finishing my B.S. in physics I reluctantly said farewell to Austin and began two years of study at the University of Cambridge, which I can say was a rewarding experience despite British winters. I studied theoretical physics in my first year and religious studies in my second year. Between term dates I travelled as much as possible. After Cambridge I opted to stay in the UK for my PhD, at the University of Warwick, and choose as a field of speciality mathematical biology (which is in many ways physics in disguise) and I am now in my third year. I still travel when I can (there is no cure for the travel bug...) and my other hobbies include reading, music, hang gliding and rockclimbing. If anyone needs information about study, work or travel in England, feel free to send me a note!
byrdaa@aol.com
After graduating in May 1994 with a math degree, I put that degree to work in the field of actuarial consulting. I worked for Watson Wyatt Worldwide in Dallas from 1994-1997 as an actuarial consultant. (I consulted companies regarding their pension plans.) Also during this time I was studying part-time at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth. I took a break from the business world from 1997-1999, during which time I lived in Bosnia. I was there as a Christian missionary, sharing the good news of Jesus and administering humanitarian aid. Since January 2000, I've been back in the actuarial consulting field, this time working for Deloitte & Touche in Dallas. Besides working, I rely on participating in my church, traveling, and investing to keep me busy.
jcooley@us.net
After gradutaing in 1994 with a BS in in physics I went to Washington DC to serve my country as a Nuclear Engineer. I now know why I never wanted to study engineering. Along the way I got married, had a daughter, and started studying, and now teaching, Kung Fu and Tai Chi. I will begin studying physics once again in the Fall at U. of Maryland and look forward to getting back to the academic life, on my wifes income that is.
johnf@astro.psu.edu
After I graduated, I began my graduate program at Penn State University in astronomy. Most of my research at Penn State is concerned with extragalactic planetary nebulae, though I have done some work on Seyfert galaxies as well. I hope to graduate next May (2000). Since my quadrupole moment has gotten somewhat large, I have been working on reducing it by bicycling. Feel free to contact me if you'd like to discuss astronomy or anything else.
josic@math.bu.edu
83 Colborne Rd
Brighton, MA 02215
(617) 783-3519
http://math.bu.edu/people/josic
After graduating in '94, I went to Penn State to pusue a Ph.D. in math. In '97 my advisor moved to Boston University, and that is where I am currently. BU has a very strong group in mathematical neuroscience lead by Nancy Kopell and Jim Collins, and my research has been headed more in that direction lately. I am currently on the job market, so I have no idea where I'll be by the end of the year.
lei@fas.harvard.edu
I'm a graduate student studying cell biology at Harvard Medical School. My thesis work is on nucleocytoplasmic transport in budding yeast. If you're ever in Boston, drop me a "howdy". I do miss it.
jaitra@comcast.net
Home
22 Gordon Street
Simsbury, CT 06070
(860 217-0446) 221-8204
Since graduating from Harvard in 2001, I worked off at a small biotech startup in Massachusetts, then moved on to a mid-sized biopharmaceutical company in Connecticut. My wife, Susan, and I are expecting our second child.
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Update 01/01/2009
After becoming trained as a professional molecular biologist, I decided to explore the world of business. After a stint in biotech and business development at Beckman Coulter, I now have executive responsibility for the product portfolio for Fisher Scientific in Asia.
terry.niemeyer@tivoli.com
10610 Morado Circle #1921
Austin, TX 78759-5556
(512) 346-7466
I work for Tivoli Systems in Austin. (I'm on the recruiting team, so contact me if you're looking for software jobs.) I'm getting my master's degree in software engineering on the side. I recently got married; there are no plans for children just yet.
jeobrien@thesis2.med.uth.tmc.edu
7900 Cambridge #10-2H
Houston, TX 77054
(713) 790-1907
After graduating, I entered the University of Texas-Houston MD/PhD Program. I finished my third year of medical school and began working in the Ophthalmology departrment with Dr. Steve Massey. Our lab studies rabbit retinal circuitry. I'm studying the proteins (connexins) that form gap junctions between retinal neurons so that the neurons may communicate directly through cellular pores (gap junctions) rather than chemical synapses. I hope to graduate in 2002, but until then I fill my time with research, roller blading. dancing and activities in Texas and American Medical Associations.
mramser@leland.stanford.edu
3693 Edgefield Dr
Santa Clara, CA 95054
(408) 492-1946
Hi everyone, or should I say "Howdy"! It's great to find that Dean's Scholars is still going strong - not to mention the fact that I can now catch up with all of the former members with whom I've so skillfully lost touch. Here's my deal: I graduated with a BS in Chemistry in December 1994 - which puts me somewhere in that mid-year no-man's-land of classification. Immediately after graduating, I headed west to California where I worked as an intern for 3 months at Geron, a biotech company specializing in (you guessed it) diseases of old folks. I switched to a higher paying, more interesting 3 month internship in medical application R&D at Raychem Corp, a polymer company located next door to Geron. In the fall of 1995, I began my grad career working on a PhD in chemistry at Stanford University. I'm still there, working for Dr. Steven Boxer on stuff that is somewhere between chemistry and biology. My project focuses on making physical measurements of diatomics (such as NO) binding to mutant myoglobin proteins (that we make) for the purpose of gaining understanding of the function of other heme proteins and enzymes. Along the way, I got married and moved into a house way off campus. (Note that my name is NOT hyphenated!!) I enjoy spending my free time rollerblading, doing aerobics, and hiking along some of the beautiful trails in the greater bay area. I've also become quite active in the local chapter of the Association for Women in Science - a great way to find female mentors in science and to act as a mentor to younger girls. (Yea AWIS!) Sometime in the near future, I'll figure out what to do next, probably a post-doc in a different, biologically/chemically oriented field - in the meantime, I think I'll enjoy the sunshine!
wattsj@deshaw.com
1755 York Ave. #27B
New York, NY 10129
(212) 876-5098
After graduating from UT, I headed to Pasadena, where I completed my PhD in Computer Science at Caltech. Along the way, I was detoured to Syracuse University for a year, following my advisor, who transferred there. I'm now in NYC working at a hedge fund/investment bank.
1993
bbeitzel@biomail.ucsd.edu
9188H Regents Rd
La Jolla, CA 92037
(619) 558-1757
Howdy, Glad to hear that the Dean's Scholars are still going strong. I keep meaning to stop by one of the lunches when I'm in Austin, but it seems that I only make it back during holidays. After I graduated in 1993, I spent three years on and off working as a technician at a research center in San Antonio, with a couple of stints working in Yosemite National Park in between. In 1996 I started in the graduate program at UC San Diego, where I am currently studying HIV integration in the lab of Rick Bushman at the Salk Institute. Hopefully things will go well and I'll be out of here in a couple of years, but if experiments don't start working like they're supposed to, I could be looking at the 12-year plan.
mdc42@columbia.edu
1230 Amsterdam Ave
APT 207
New York, NY 10027
(212) 870-8620
After graduation I applied to the Peace Corps and received an assignment in Benin, West Africa. I taught 11th and 12th grade Algebra II, Pre-Calculus/Trigonometry, and Calculus for three years. I returned in 1997, and last year I started an M.A. program at Columbia Teachers College, here in New York. The program includes a position as a high-school mathematics teacher in the Bronx. As I teach I often recall various Dean's Scholars discussions on how to educate the general population to appreciate science and mathematics. There are so many factors we never considered! I expect to return to Austin in 2000, after I complete this program. Maybe I'll be able to stop by for a lunch.
carlm@chem.stanford.edu
Box 71
Department of Chemistry
Stanford, CA 94305-5080
(650) 723-4335
Since graduation, I have been working towards a Ph.D. in chemistry at Stanford University. I work in the lab of Dr. Richard Zare, studying the energy transfer in the collision of rare gas atoms and diatomic molecules with metal surfaces. The San Francisco Bay Area is a fun place to live, even though it's really expensive. To relieve the stress of malfunctioning equipment, I go to the gym or go rollerblading. I go rock-climbing occasionally, but my favorite outdoor activity is star-gazing. There are a lot of great places to take my telescope around here.
cjs@leland.stanford.edu
Howdy! Lots has happened since I left UT. Spent a year at the Universite de Paris X studying economics, which I continued at Stanford 'till now (1999). At some point in my graduate life, I spent a year in Washington, DC as an economist in the Council of Economic Advisers in the White House. That was quite fun! (I met the woman I'm currently living with!) I should wrap up my dissertation in the next year or so, and then ...
kirsten.vaughan.wg99@wharton.upenn.edu
Pressburger Strasse 79
Munich, Germany(1149) 89-71668209
Hi Dean's Scholars, Well, it's been quite a while since I graduated and participated in Dean's Scholars. Here's what's happened since. After graduating from UT, I spent two more years working at Origin Systems, a computer gaming company that I worked for during school as well. After doing German translations and creative design for them, I started their translations department which eventually grew to 15 people and translated games into German and French and outsourced other languages. Working in the software industry can be kind of exhausting and I got sick of working every weekend and every night so I quit and spent a year relaxing, traveling and applying to Business School. I started the MBA program at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in 1997 and got an MBA in Finance and Entrepreneurship. I also got married to Eric Ueber whom I met at UT (he got his masters in engineering there). We moved to Munich, Germany in September of 1999, where I got a job with the Munich office of the Boston Consulting Group as a Consultant, doing mainly Strategy Consulting to Fortune 500 firms. We love living in Germany but visit Austin often. Drop me a line sometime if you remember me from the old days in Dean's Scholars. Kirsten
1992
herrod@cs.stanford.edu
2106 Oberlin St.
Palo Alto, CA 94306
(650) 813-9104
Howdy, all! After graduation from UT, I came out to sunny Palo Alto, California for graduate school at Stanford. (I've even bumped into Christian and Carl once or twice!) I finished my PhD in Computer Science in 1997 and then went to work for Silicon Graphics for about 6 months. I didn't like the big company lifestyle too much, so in early 1998 I started working for a small and mysterious start-up called Transmeta. I hope you hear more about this endeavor soon!
jjernigan@salud.unm.edu
1804 Dakota NE
Albuquerque, NM 87110
(505) 232-8510
After UT, I went to medical school at UTMB-Galveston. I came to New Mexico to do my training in Internal Medicine, and just couldn't move away. I did a year as chief resident, and now I'm on faculty. The weather here is unbelievable!
chris.lanford@amd.com
10408 Dedham Ct.
Austin, TX 78739
(512) 301-6054
Hi all. After doing Chemistry/Plan II at UT I went to the University of Ilinois and studied Analytical Chemistry with Paul Bohn for 6 1/2 years. I'm still returning about once a month to "finish up" my thesis work, and I'm almost done. Honest. I started working at Advanced Micro Devices (in Austin!) last January and have worked my way up to an entry-level engineering position, which isn't as bad as it sounds except that my brother works there too and is about four promotions ahead of me. (Don't go to grad school for the money.) Dai Tran and I got married in 1994 and had a son, Michael, in June 1999. I've got lots of great memories from Dean's Scholars like late-night swimming at Corpus, sleeping under the stars at Amy's ranch, lots of profound moments (2 highlights: Cline's "backpack" lecture and the freshman stumping Weinburg by asking whether the theory he'd been discussing at length violated the 2nd Law), lots of not-so-profound moments (Indian poker, renaming the constellations more appropriate names like the period, colon, etc.), many good times at the professors' homes. Collectively, the professors and students in Dean's Scholars had more of an influence in how I think about things than I realized at the time. Consider this a belated thanks for that.
wall@chop.swemed.edu
My web page has CV info. Briefly, after UT Austin, I married my wonderful wife, earned my Ph.D from UT Southwestern (Dallas see CV for publications etc.), and now I'm finishing my post-doc at UT Southwestern.
1991
haurikrishna@yahoo.com
2414 Parker #9
Berkeley, CA 94704
(510) 649-8325
After UT, I got a masters in Environmental Science from Indiana U, then worked in San Antonio as an environmental chemist. I went back to get a PhD in Environmental Engineering at U.C. Berkeley. I am revising my dissertation, so should be done Jan. 2001. I don't know yet where I am going next. In my private life, I have been married since 1999 to a woman I met in Berkeley (though she is also originally from Texas)
An update. I have finished my Ph.D. in environmental engineering and have accepted a position as Assistant Professor in environmental chemistry at Assumption College in Worcester, MA. Everyone is welcome to visit us.
Hi everyone! John & I are doing fine in the wacky world of finance. (I'll let him talk about that). Finished a Master's in Education in 1993, moved out to Stanford to provide moral support (and financial) for John as he finished up his Ph.D. I've been teaching Physics for the last three years in New Rochelle, NY, but I'm quitting to be a Mommy in September. We'll have another Longhorn in the family Sept. 8.
arowland@texas.net
15 Sheringham
San Antonio, TX 78218
(210) 602-1800
Hi everyone! After completing my UT-MBA, I moved to San Antonio and have been here ever since. I'm currently doing business analysis for ILEX Oncology (ILXO) and have been in the pharmaceutical development industry for the last 7 years. I also have two beautiful boys, Gus (4) and Luke (2), so life is pretty busy right now. Please give me a call if you're ever in San Antonio!
After UT, I completed a PhD in theoretical physics at Stanford (with much appreciated moral and financial support from Anne -- see her note) and then we moved to NY. I am currently head of the interest rate derivatives research group at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter. Anne and I have a 15 mo. old son, Michael, who is happy and healthy.
1990
scheng@pervasive.com
Currently lives in Austin. Works for Pervasive Software managing the database engines group. Married to David Boles, another Dean's Scholars. Has run 5 marathons including the Boston Marathon. No kids, 2 cats.
connoly@w3.org
Moved to Boston for a couple years to help Tim Berners-Lee et. al. start W3C. Moved back to Austin, still working for W3C, mostly on XML and Web Architecture. Married with 2 kids. Home page has tons more detail.
Came to Seattle after Austin and have managed to stay so far. Got a math PhD from UW in '97 and have taught at Seattle University since then. Primary hobbies are choral singing and creative writing.
Karolyn.M.Leasure@pharmacia.com
3180 Wellington Rd
Kalamazoo MI 49008, MI 49008
(616) 381-8739
After leaving UT in Dec. 1989 I went on to graduate school in analytical chemistry at UNC Chapel Hill. I earned my Ph.D. in the fall of 1995 and have been working at Pharmacia (a pharmaceutical company) in Kalamazoo, Michigan ever since. I was married in 1997 and have one 18 month old son. I change my last name from Maness to Leasure at the time my son was born. I look back fondly at the time I spent in the Dean's Scholars program and am glad I had an opportunity to participate.
I am currently finishing an 8-year effort in the MD/PhD program at UT Southwestern Medical Center. My PhD thesis work addressed the biophysical and cellular basis of signal amplification in the vertebrate internal ear. In July 1999, I'll begin an internship in internal medicine, then I'll spend the following 3 years in the Ophthalmology Residencey Program at UTSW. When I grow up, I hope to get a job in academic medicine, pursuing research in sensory neuroscience, teaching, and seeing some patients. Dallas is OK after a while, but I miss Austin. I still visit my parents and friends in Austin regularly. Any students interested in the MD/PhD program should feel free to email me with questions.
I currently work in the engineering organization of a startup wireless broadband company in Santa Monica, California. This is my third startup in three years. When I am not working I am at the race track. I am the private statistician for the former multiple Kentucky Derby winner, jockey Kent Desormeaux.
1989
Coutoumanosv@cs.com
8512 Steeple Ridge Dr
North Richland Hills, TX 76180
(817) 281-6955
Hi! Looking at the site at realized my info is quite old. So, here is an update. My husband, Vince and I now have 2 children , Hank, 3years old and Ellie, 18 months old. I am still a pediatrician with Cook Children's Physician Network in Fort Worth. I am in the office 3 days a week and spend the others at home chasing my two around. We do plan to be at the Reunion in March and hope to see lots of familiar faces.
mapsill@yahoo.com
85 Westbourne Terrace
Brookline, MA 02446
(617) 264-2285
Hi Y'all - I'm now a chief resident in OB/GYN at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston MA. Next year I plan to be a gynecologic oncology fellow, although I don't know where yet. Still doing research, and actually found time to go to 2 scientific meetings last year.. Would be glad to talk with anyone about MD/Ph.D programs or OB/Gyn. Cheers
su@math.hmc.edu
Department of Mathematics
Harvey Mudd College
Claremont, CA 91711
(909) 607-3616
Hi all! After Texas, I got my Ph.D. from Harvard in 1995, and moved to the Claremont Colleges in 1996 as an assistant professor of mathematics at Harvey Mudd College, the science/engineering institution of the Claremont cluster. I love it here--- the students are excellent, and the faculty are dynamic, interesting and fun people who care about quality teaching as well as getting undergraduates involved in their research. My research interests are probability and game theory. I amuse myself by working on my http://www.math.hmc.edu/funfacts/ Math Fun Facts website, but I have also developed less nerdy interests since my college days--- including songwriting, rowing, and Christian theology. I'm not married (yet). You might not recognize me anymore, since I'm a bit more athletic, wear glasses, and http://www.math.hmc.edu/~su/ grew a goatee, I hope you all are doing well--- I miss our old gang and field trips to observatories and bat caves...
1988
cook@mdanderson.org
I married Amy Armstrong in 1990 and we've had three beautiful girls since then. I got my Ph.D. in math from UT in 1992 and hung around for a year after that teaching and consulting for AMD. Then I taught at Vanderbilt for a couple years. After that, I decided to leave academia. We moved to Houston where I got a job programming for Western Atlas. Later I joined NanoSoft, a small consulting company. Now I'm back in academia, working for the biostatistics department at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center where I manage their software development.
gdafni@discrete.concordia.ca
Hi, I was a Dean's Scholar only for one year (1985) and then transferred to Penn State, but I really enjoyed the program and I remember many of the people on this list from high school, UT and grad school, so I hope I can be included. I gradated from Penn State in Math and Computer Science in 1988, then went to Princeton and got a Ph.D. in Math in 1993. After postdocs at Berkeley and Northwestern, I ,joined my husband (Henri Darmon) in Montreal, Canada and got a tenure-track job at Concordia University. We have a baby girl who'll be one year old this April (2001).
Hi, everyone! In 1993, I got married, finished my PhD in "Astrophysical Sciences" (which is really plasma physics) at Princeton, and finished my Masters in Public Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School. Since then, things have been calmer. I became a post-doc at UT for a couple of years, and then joined the research staff at the Institute for Fusion Studies. Sarah and I produced a little girl named Kendall in Austin, who turned four in January, 2001. We moved to Baltimore in January of 1998. Sarah is working on her PhD at Johns Hopkins, in geology, and I am an associate research scientist at the University of Maryland in College Park. I hope that we are able to make it to the reunion. It would be great to see you all!
hg02@swt.edu
It's been a while since I was in Dean's Scholars but I'm glad that the program is still going strong. I went to UC Berkeley for graduate school and finished my Ph.D. in Physics in 1995. I did my actual thesis work at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab in the area of Surface Physics looking particularly at atomic level structure. I am now an Assistant Professor of Physics at Southwest Texas State University in San Marcos where my research still focuses on structure and properties of materials at nanometer length scales, although the materials my group now studies are more closely allied to the semiconductor industry. I really enjoy teaching and have taught Freshman Mechanics for life science majors, Intro Quantum Mechanics, Graduate Solid State Physics and Graduate Quantum Mechanics, and I currently run our Advanced Lab course for physics majors. I am still incredibly enthusiastic about my job at SWT and we really enjoy living in San Marcos. I also managed to get married in graduate school and we decided to have our first child before the mad rush of post-doc/tenure-track set in. The 'child' turned out to be boy/girl twins born 11/12/94 and I was fortunate enough to skip the post-doc and go straight to the tenure track job. Needless to say, these past few years have been very exciting!
gauss@arlut.utexas.edu
After leaving UT, I went to Rice and got a masters and Ph.D. in particle physics. I spent some time, actually a lot of time, over at CERN collecting data for my thesis. After finishing my Ph.D., I came to work for the Applied Research Labs, which is an independent research group inside the University of Texas. I was recently promoted to Director of the Satellite and Geophysics Laboratory. I got married in September of 1995 and exactly 1 year later Chris and I had our first child (Ken). We are expecting our second child this year.
ekb@tellus.org
After completing my Ph.D. in Physics at Boston University I left the field to join a non-profit policy research institute, the Stockholm Environment Institute-Boston (part of the Tellus Institute). I work with a team that develops long-term scenarios to examine possible future developments in social and environmental issues. I am enjoying it very much! I am married and living in Cambridge, MA. Outside of work, I study West African drum and dance, and volunteer one morning a week at a Boston school.
mikemon@procyon.astro.univie.ac.at
Obkirchergasse 7/1/2
Vienna, Austria
(431) 4277-51821
Well, since graduating from the Dean's Scholars, I've gotten a Master's in Physics from Princeton (1992), a Master's in Astronomy from UT-Austin (1994), and a PhD in Astronomy from UT (1998). I started a postdoc position at the University of Vienna in the Fall of 1998, and that's where and what I'm doing now. I'm not married, nor do I have any children or pets of any kind. My favorite color is still...
gillianverga@yahoo.com
16978 Frank Avenue
Los Gatos, CA 95032
(408) 358-6974
Hi everyone! What a cool site. After graduating from UT I still did not know what I wanted to do, so I drifted off to Albuquerque, New Mexico and worked there for a few years for a laser optics company (you physicists would have loved it). Then I got interested in business and went to Harvard Business School for my MBA. I moved out to California (Silicon Valley) and have worked for Quantum Corporation, a manufacturer of hard disk drives, for the past 7 years as an operations manager. I got married in 1998 and quickly had two beautiful daughters -- the second one was just born two weeks ago. I'm sorry that, due to the new baby, I will miss the upcoming reunion -- but I hope it will be a tradition that's repeated and I can come another year!!
1987
jbitsche@microstrategy.com
10906 Sierra Verde Tr
Austin, TX 78759
(512) 257-678
Where HAVE I been in the past 15 years? I keep asking myself that lately. === May 26, 1987 === I wouldn't normally remember where I was on any exact square of a swimsuit calendar I threw out over ten years ago. But I still have a reminder of the day. Gotta admit I just now looked at a glossy paper program whose cover is simply adorned with the date, and an emblem sporting an eagle and a shield and the name of a three-initial organization. "DCI Ceremony" it whispers in big black letters at the very top, and inside it announces that Robert Gates provided the introduction, The President of the United States addressed the crowd, Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr., administered the oath, and William H. Webster intoned the final remarks in his newly appointed role as Director of Central Intelligence. Casey was fresh in his grave, taking with him a lot of secrets that Congress would have liked to have extracted. I doubt that a photo exists to show I was there. That crowd doesn't like to be seen--I was smack dab in the middle of a gaggle of spooks. Good thing about the lack of a picture, though, because having just gotten out of college I was decked out in my best (and only) cheap (ugly) suit. The jacket was too tight, the pants too short, and the gray-striped tie pulled into a sloppy knot. I was young and dirt-poor, and looking for adventure. And I would guess my eyes were bugged out because by accident I had arranged my job interview to coincide with an important event at Langley. When I arrived that morning, they told me vaguely that I had two choices: rush thru part of my interviews and leave early, or plan on spending the whole day while the place was locked down under unusually tight security. I stayed to see what was up. Because I was one of the first ones outside and into the secured area, I was mere steps away from seated officials that included Reagan, Bush, Meese, at least one Supreme Court Justice, more brass than a tuba convention, and an undetermined number of dark-suited men who reflected only enough sunlight to register false images in my peripheral vision. What do I remember all these years later? Reagan snoozed visibly until someone poked him to get up and give his address, and then he spoke very dramatically about things of which I have no recollection. Later, Vice President Bush decided to hang around for a drink with his old buddies, and I couldn't leave the complex until he was gone. Unfortunately or fortunately (I'll never know), I didn't get an employment offer. So I found myself in Austin looking for a job during the great busts of oil and real-estate. Those times would have been great if I had been in a position to buy up some dear old houses or a swath of land! But my pockets were so empty the lint got lonely, and I was looking for work. My job experience was effectively zilch, and "I'm great with people" didn't even make 'em smile. Times were hard. In the years since, I've held software-related jobs at a small Austin startup that failed, a subdivision of Motorola (Secure Telecommunications) in Scottsdale, AZ, USAA Investment Systems in San Antonio, Informix Software (I moved back to Austin! And occasionally got to roam around the SF Bay area). Then I tried to start up a small company that failed before it officially got started. For the past three years, I have been working for MicroStrategy (based out of D.C., a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software and related services.) However, in the back of my mind I am ever trying to scheme up a great idea around which to launch a business. Ask me about WattDog, my latest interest. I am happy to say I have finally found someone to settle down with. Natasha and I will be married October 2001. She's Texan now, but she has lived in California, Belgium, and Rhode Island, (her dad was USAF).
collij3@rpi.edu
After graduation (seems like such a long time ago), I spent several years at Stanford, earning my PhD in Biology (specifically in bacterial molecular genetics) there in 1994. I then spent a couple of years at Scripps Institution of Oceanography as a Postdoc (moving toward the ecology side of my research interests), and joined the Biology faculty at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1996 (which also seems like a long time ago...).
maurice@franklinaut.com
This update, 2009, is a few years since my original posting. I said then I was still having fun and being challenged at Microsoft. That changed over time, so I left fall 2008 to switch to a completely different career: Boatbuilding. Thus I'm currently in Maine, soon to be finishing a 10 month wooden boatbuidling course, after which I'll return to the Seattle area and seek opportunities in my new field.
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I spent my first four years after graduation in the Air Force, fulfilling my ROTC commitment. The USAF sent me to the far away and exotic location of San Antonio, where I helped develop a personnel management computer system for world wide deployment. During that time I married a fellow officer, Diana. We both left the Air Force in late '91 and I got a position with IBM - back here in Austin. There I moved into the world of processor and database performance analysis and tuning, plus did some kernel level performance tools work on OS/2. Meanwhile, we had two kids, a boy in '92 and a girl in '94. In '96 I came upon the opportunity to leverage these skills in the SQL Server product dev group at Microsoft, which is where I've been since, enhancing the performance of our product and living in Washington near Seattle. Our kids homeschool, which makes for really flexible family vacation scheduling! You'll notice that I've been far from academia since '87, unlike a large number of fellow alumni. (I had made some modest progress before leaving Austin toward an MS in Sftw Egnr - while Diana worked on a second degree and we had two toddlers - I can't recommend such a schedule, believe it. And I published in the IBM Journal of R&D.) Instead, I've worked at three fairly different places: the govt/military complex (USAF), a very large, mature company (IBM), and a small-but-getting-large-fast, still young-at-heart company (MSFT), always with a focus on solving software problems of one sort or another. Each place has been much, much better than the previous, and I really enjoy working at Microsoft, and I have a lot of fun dealing with the technical (and other) challenges our team deals with in making our database faster than the other guys.
kohlrowe@yahoo.com
I was a member of the first year of Dean's Scholars. After graduating from UT, I went to University of Texas Southwestern Medical school and on to train in Internal Medicine at University of Colorado and back at UT Southwestern. I have been an internal medicine hospitalist at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas since 1994. In addition to my usual clinical duties, I am also a teaching attending for internal medical residents and students. I am also a member of the Palliative Care consult team that assists patients and families with serious lifelimiting illnesses.rn
matt.olson@vanderbilt.edu
Hi all, A lot of water has passed under the bridge since I was at UT. They say that all of the molecules in your body are replaced every 7 years and now it seems like undergrad is a life or two away. After graduating I rambled around Austin for a couple of years before going to LSU for a Masters in Botany. I studied fire ecology of longleaf pine savannas and associated pitcher plant bogs. I went to Duke for a PhD where I studied the evolution of plant mating systems. I'm now in a postdoc at Vanderbilt doing work on the population ecology and evolution of cytoplasmic male sterility in a weedy plant called Silene vulgaris, the bladder campion. This summer (2001) my family and I will probably be moving to Fairbanks Alaska where I've accepted a position in the Arctic Institute of Biology at UAF. In Louisiana I met my wife, Beth, and we now have two children: Eli who is 4 and Vada who is 4 months. We enjoy dancing, hiking, and cooking. I hope this mesage find you all in good spirits and health.
stankus@ix.netcom.com
I was a member of the first class of Dean's Scholar. After graduating from UT in 1987, I attended Stanford where I received a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry (Ultrafast spectroscopy of simple and ordered liquids). I then was a visting scientist at IBM Almaden research center working on holographic photorefractive storage materials. In 1994 I returned to Austin to work at Motorola's Advanced Product Research and Development Laboratory working on topics from low dielectric constant materials to optical interconnects. In 2000 I moved to Nortel Networks in Richardson, working on integrated photonics.
cwolvert@ford.com
Ford Motor Company
MD 3028/SRL, P.O. Box 2053
Dearborn, MI 48121-2053
After leaving UT, I got my Ph.D. in physics from Berkeley. While there, I ran into fellow Dean's Scholars alumni, Heather Galloway and Steve Yao (and had a few too many beers with the latter!). After Berkeley, I took a post-doc position at the National Renewable Energy Lab. in Golden, Colorado which was subsequently converted to a staff position. I was at NREL for 5 years, and just two weeks ago started a new job in the Scientific Research Labs at Ford Motor Company. My work is somewhere in the boundaries between physics, materials science, and chemistry: My main interest is in the application of "first-principles" density functional theory calculations (for which Kohn and Pople won the 1998 Nobel Prize in chemistry) to real materials properties and problems. I suppose that one could say Ford hired me to solve the Schrodinger equation (and perhaps more importantly, it proves that one can get an industry job, even with a Ph.D in theoretical physics)!