Alumni News
Alums: Please let us know what you are up to and how you are doing. Send a letter or an e-mail (pictures are great!) to one of your old professors, your advisor, your research mentor, or even the Chair (phillija@uwec.edu). We really enjoy hearing from you!
Luke Slominski (May 08) is a new graduate student at the University of Iowa.
Dr. Joseph Emerson (May 99) is a faculty member at McNeese State University (Lake Charles, Louisiana).
Jason Hallman (May 99) is a chemist at Glaxo-Smith-Kline (North Carolina)
Audrey Eigner (May 06) is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Minnesota.
Ellie Smith (May 07) is in the first year of the Chemical Biology Program at UC-Berkeley.
Chris Knutson (May 05) is a graduate student at Oregon State University.
Nathan Wells (May 02) just obtained his Ph.D. from Minnesota and is now a post-doc at Los Alamos National Lab.
Clint Fenner (May 02) is teaching chemistry at Minnetonka High School, Minnetonka, Minnesota.
Derek and Theresa (Hopp) Fox reside in Grand Rapids, Minnesota. Professionally, Theresa is a clinical pharmacist at Grand Itasca, the new hospital/clinic facility in Grand Rapids. Derek is a full-time chemistry faculty member at Itasca Community College. Derek is collaborating with the MPCA and John Downing at Iowa State in assessing the water quality for hundreds of Itasca County’s one thousand lakes. Derek is also working on developing a two-transfer program in water quality/environmental science that will transfer to any of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities four campuses. They have just purchased their new home and hobby farm on 30 acres, just minutes from Grand Rapids. The couple is looking forward to a strong growing season this coming summer, and developing their “farm” with horses, highland cattle, sheep, and chickens.
Nathan Pillsbury (03) finished his Ph.D. in physical chemistry at Purdue University last summer. He has taken a position as Process Analytical Scientist with the BP Corporation.
Laura Hoffelt (07) is in medical school at Michigan State University.
Mitch Springer (07) is a Ph.D. student in Human Genetics at the University of Pittsburgh.
Beth Brown (05) is in medical school at the Medical College of Wisconsin.
Nick Deprez and Grant Sormunen are in the Ph.D. program at the University of Michigan.
Leah Groess and Ashley Dreis have now joined Glen Gullickson in the Ph.D. program at the University of Minnesota.
Robyn Laskowski is in the Ph.D. program at Iowa State University.
Kelsey Dunkle is in the Ph.D. program at North Dakota State University.
Kristy McNitt, who just got married this year, has graduated from Indiana University with an M.S. degree, and she is working at Cortec in the Twin Cities.
Form Mandi Seibles (May 05): I recieved a new job with Environmental Chemistry Consulting Services in July. This job is wonderful I test for nitrate and ammonia concentrations in soil and water samples. The neat thing about this job is that it is a mobile lab. I am hopefully going to Boston soon to test for pesticides in a river. I knew that I eventually wanted to go back to school, so this semester I have been taking a graduate course called water chemistry at UW-Madison. This helped me make the decision to go back to school to get my masters in environmental engineering focusing on water treatment. And next semester I will be taking two undergraduate engineering course to fulfill some pre-reqs. that I need.
Clinton Cook (08) is a new graduate student in the Chemical and Biochemical Engineering Department at the University of Iowa
David Witte (08) is a new graduate student in the Chemistry Department at the University of Iowa
Anna Volkert (08) is a new graduate student in the Chemistry Department at the University of Iowa
Paul Yanzer (08) entered into the seminary at University of Saint Mary of the Lake in Mundelein, IL
