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\n\t\t\tAddison Dau ’25, Capstone Research: Degradation of Perovskite Films by UV Exposure.<\/span>\n\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\tIsaac Kisker ’25, Capstone Research: THz Spectroscopy for Non-Destructive Perovskite Composition Analysis<\/span>\n\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\tReed LeFevre ’25, Capstone Research: Building and Breaking Chaos: Solving the Lorenz Equations on an Analogue Circuit, and the Impact of Noise<\/span>\n\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\tRohan Lichtenberg ’25, Capstone Research: Electro-optic Detection of Plasma Generated THz Pulses<\/span>\n\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\tXiaocheng Lin ’25, Capstone Research: Validation and Calibration of Standard Atmospheric Models Based on Meteorological Balloon Data<\/span>\n\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\tCaedan Miller ’25, Capstone Research: Finding X-Ray Binaries in NGC 3109<\/span>\n\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\tK.B. Murphy ’25, Honor Thesis: A Thermal Control System for the ATLAS HGTD Module Construction Process<\/span>\n\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\tKalev T. Murray-Rouse ’25, Capstone Research: Modeling of the Overcontact Eclipsing Binary V826 Aur<\/span>\n\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\tJustin Potts ’25, Capstone Research: Machine Learning Aided Computational Study of Functional Groups for Water Purification and Li Recycle<\/span>\n\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\tCain Rinkoski ’25, Honor Thesis: Examining Multi-Wavelength Variability and Magnetic Interactions in the Polar ST LMi<\/span>\n\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\tLila Schisgal ’25, Honor Thesis: Galactic Building Blocks: Disturbed HI and Hierarchical Assembly in DDO 68 and NGC 5238<\/span>\n\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\tCamellia Schwartzman ’25, Honor Thesis: Electropolymerization of Nile Blue and Toluidine Blue dyes for Hydrogen Evolution Reaction Electrocatalysts<\/span>\n\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\tEdward Wallace ’25, Capstone Research: Determining Milky Way Faraday Rotation for Galaxy Group NGC 2563<\/span>\n\t\t\t
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Class of 2024<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Seth Buesing ’24 (Saint Paul, MN). Honors Thesis: Beyond Landau Phase Transitions in 1+1 Dimensional U(1) Quantum Field Theories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Charlie Burton ’24 (Round Lake Beach, IL). Honors Thesis: Studying Ammonia Emission in the Milky Way Galactic Bar Dust Lanes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nick Cebula ’24 (North Wales, PA). Honors Thesis: Variability of Local High-Degree Modes Over Multiple Solar Cycles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Uditi Chandrashekhar ’24 (New Delhi, India). Honors Thesis: The Hodgkin-Huxley Model for Neuron Action Potentials: A Computational Study.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sylvia Greene ’24 (Madison, WI). Honors Thesis: Simulation of Polymerization on Surfaces: Implications for Abiogenesis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Olivia X. Laske ’24 (Wilmette, IL). Honors Thesis: Linking the Population of Binary Black Holes with the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Caleb Williams ’24 (Wild Rose, WI). Honors Thesis: A Survey of Pulsed Strain in NMR Based Nematic Susceptibility Measurements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Siri Erickson-Green ’24 (Burnsville, MN). Capstone Research: Investigation of Tantalum Lead Borate Glass using Laser Ionization Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry (LITOF-MS).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ally Hurd ’24 (Evanston, IL). Capstone Research: Probing Charge Recombination in Organic Solar Cells.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ishan Rayen ’24 (Bronx, NY). Capstone Research: Effects of Annealing on Room Temperature Zinc Oxide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Max Zinman ’24 (New York, NY). Capstone Research: Carrier Mobilityin Perovskite Solar Cells.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Class of 2023<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Lance Bartol ’23 (Grand Marais, Minnesota). Capstone Research: Effectiveness of Different Materials as Catalysts for Alkaline Water Electrolysis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mengxi Chen ’23 (Beijing, China). Capstone Research: Adding Classical Novae Contribution to the Isotopic Scaling Model.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jackson Codd ’23 (Cambridge, Massachusetts). Honors Thesis: Extension of the LUX-ZEPLIN NR Background to 600 phd. After Mac: Gap year before beginning employment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ryan Davies ’23 (Seattle, Washington). Capstone Research: A High-Speed Portable Ground Heat Exchanger Model for Use in Various Energy Simulation Software.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ross Ferguson ’23 (Portland, Oregon). Honors Thesis: Trinification with a Bi-Adjoint Higgs Field. After Mac: PhD program in Astronomy at the University of Minnesota.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

David Geeganage ’23 (Indianapolis, Indiana). Honors Thesis: Using Models of Cloud Formation to Address the RH Effect in Low Cost PM Sensors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aurora Hively ’23 (Woodbury, Minnesota). Capstone Research: Mapping the Tesseral Field of Saturn. After Mac: PhD program in Mathematics at Rutgers University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jonathan Kazor ’23 (Potomac, Maryland). Capstone Research: Solar Radio Bursts –Deployable Low-band Ionosphere and Transients Experiment (DLITE) Arrays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Erin Leary ’23 (Reno, Nevada). Capstone Research: Fabricating Perovskite Solar Cells: Fabrication Guide for Limited Lab Capabilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Josh Marine ’23 (Bend, Oregon). Capstone Research: Photometric Analysis of the Stellar Populations of 82 Low-Mass, Low-Metallicity Galaxies Using the Spitzer Space Telescope. After Mac: Gap year before beginning employment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ross Relic ’23 (Crystal Lake, Illinois). Capstone Research: Measuring the Pulse Duration of a Femtosecond Laser Using Intensity Autocorrelation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Margaret Shepherd ’23 (Phoenix, Arizona). Honors Thesis: SHIELD Galaxies With Offset Neutral Gas Distributions. After Mac: PhD program in astronomy at the University of Illinois.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paige Stevenson ’23 (Raleigh, North Carolina). Capstone Research: Machine Learning Applications for Materials Science: Predicting Properties of Two-Dimensional Magnetic Materials. After Mac: Program at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Haoxuan Sun ’23 (Zhangjiagang, China). Honors Thesis: Machine Learning Refinements to Metallicity-Dependent Isotopic Abundances. After Mac: Master program in Physics at Brown University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Taylor Karlee ’23 (Seattle, Washington). Capstone Research: Hydrosphere: Modeling the Planetary Structure of Ocean Planets and Icy Moons. After Mac: Working in the field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dengyu Tu ’23 (Wuxi, China). Capstone Research: From Experiment to Theory: Investigate the Effect of Pump Beam Size on Photovoltaic Material Behavior.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ezra Wolf ’23 (Ezra Wolf). Capstone Research: Tools for Refining the Baryonic Tully-Fisher Relation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Xiaochuan (Chloe) Zheng ’23 (Guangzhou, China). Honors Thesis: Development of a Particle-in-Cell\/Monte Carlo Simulation for Weakly Ionized Plasmas. After Mac: PhD program in Physics at Ohio State University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Temazulu Zulu ’23 (Piggs Peak and Lobamba, Eswatini). Honors Thesis: SARS-CoV-2 Quantum Sensor Using NV Centers in Nanodiamonds. After Mac: Center for Nanoscale Systems Scholar at Harvard University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Class of 2022<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Jason Beal ’22 (Bethesda, MD). Capstone Research:  Knocking Down NOx: Examining the Impact of Transportation Electrification on Urban Ozone Production. After Mac: Cycling across the UK, then starting a job in the air quality field. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Henry Bell ’22 (Boulder, CO). Honors Thesis: Custom Calibration and Correction of Photoemission Electron Microscope Images Using Graphene. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damen Beverlin ’22 (Williamstown, WV). Capstone Research: Simulating Interactions Between Coronal Mass Ejections. After Mac: Ph.D. program in astronomy at University of Kentucky.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jack Hempel Costello ’22 (Fort Collins, CO). Capstone Research: Lie Algebra and the Poincare Group. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Xueyi Li ’22 (China). Honors Thesis: Molecular Line Search in Archival ALMA Imaging of M87. After Mac: Grad school.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alpha Ma ’22 (China). Capstone Research: FDTD Simulation of Ultrafast Experiments.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Susie Paine ’22 (Saint Joseph, MN). Honors Thesis: Hunting for Fast Radio Bursts from Messier 82: Exploring the FRB–Magnetar Connection. After Mac: Ph.D. program in astronomy at University of West Virginia. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Francesco Pecere ’22 (Milan, Italy). Capstone Research: The Survey of HI in Extremely Low-Mass Dwarfs: New Results from VLA Imaging. After Mac: Chemistry Graduate Program at Penn State, dual degree in chemistry and astrobiology. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alyssa Rauschenberger ’22 (Urbana, IL). Honors Thesis: Spectral Fitting Approach for Collective Thomson Scattering Experiments on an Extreme Ultraviolet Plasma Light Source. After Mac: Ph.D. in Nuclear Science &amp; Engineering at MIT.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lev Serxner ’22 (Chicago, IL). Capstone Research: The Impact of Initial Abundances on Modeling the Weak s-Process.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chinhsan Sieng ’22 (Battambang, Cambodia). Honors Thesis: Neutrino Oscillations in the Presence of a Magnetic Field. After Mac: Ph.D. at Cornell University. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Carter Swift ’22 (Eden Prairie, MN). Honors Thesis: The Interaction of Topological Defects in Anisotropically Elastic Nematic Liquid Crystals. After Mac: Physics PhD at The Ohio State University.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joey Wehrley ’22 (Wauwatosa, WI). Capstone Research: Electrical Analysis of a PEM Electrolysis Cell. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anogh Utkalika Zaman ’22 (Bangladesh). Capstone Research: Smart Grid Control: Demand Side Management in Household Refrigerators as a tool for Load Shifting.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Class of 2021<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Jonathan Alvarado-Gomez ’21 (Santa Rosa, CA). Capstone Research: Modeling Gyrating Motion Using Mathematica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brennan Arnold ’21 (Appleton, WI). Capstone Research: Virtual Prototyping of Liquid Lithium Divertor Concepts. After Mac: Physics Program at the University of Rochester.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Danial Clark ’21 (Milwaukee, WI). Capstone Research: Method of Nonlinear Realizations: Maxwell Algebra.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elizabeth (Emmy) Curtis ’21 (Berkeley, CA). Capstone Research: Electrical Grid Energy Storage Using Hydrogen: A Feasibility Study.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jackson Henningfield ’21 (Celebration, FL). Capstone Research: Simulation Studies for Grid Storage Optimization of the MISO Region. After Mac: Masters degree program in engineering from the University of West Florida.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sarah Lipstone ’21 (Rochester, MN). Capstone Research: Electromagnetic Waves with Parity Violation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Diego Lopez Gutierrez ’21 (Lima, Peru). Honors Thesis: Automatic Leptonic Tensor Generation for Beyond the Standard Model (BSM) Theories. After Mac: Research Fellow at Harvard University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sun Gyu Park ’21 (Seoul, South Korea). Capstone Research: Characterization of GaAsN with Ultrafast Conductivity Measurements. After Mac: Engineer for Walmart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kayla Schang ’21 ( Appleton, WI). Honors Thesis: Geomorphology and Crater Identification for the Azacca Crater Region on Ceres. After Mac: Planetary Science Track of Physics PHD Program at the University of Central Florida.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Siddhant Singh ’21 (Lucknow, India). Capstone Research: A Tantal-izing Review of the Laser Spectroscopy of Niobium and Tantalum Hydride. After Mac: Mechanical Engineering PhD program at the University of Michigan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nick Velikonja ’21 (Brooklyn, NY).  Capstone Research: Sampling Candidate Reionization Galaxies using Spectral Energy Distribution Fitting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Class of 2020<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Josh Bartz ’20 (Omaha, NE). Capstone research: Determining Tidal Interactions Between the Leoncino Dwarf and UGC 5186.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lilly Braltz-Kelley ’20 (Urbana, IL). Capstone Research: ALFALFA Harvest: HI Imaging and 3d Modeling of Candidate Local Group and Dwarf Galaxies. After Mac: Graduate school at the University of Illinois.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alyssa Bulatek ’20 (Park Bridge, IL). Honors Thesis: Design and Modal Analysis of an Ultra-Wideband Receiver for Green Bank Observatory. After Mac: Graduate School at the University of Florida.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

James Cannon ’20 (Lisbon, IA). Honors Thesis: Electrical Measurement of SRAM Cell Variation and Sensitivity to Single-Event Upsets by Low Energy Protons. After Mac: Graduate School at the University of Colorado.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sarah Chinsky ’20 (Marion, IA). Honors Thesis: Band Extension and Possible Ridge Compression on Europa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nate Davis ’20 (Aitkin, MN). Capstone research: Modeling Scavenging For a Hydraulic-Free Piston Engine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hannah Gilbonio ‘ 20 (Houston, TX). Capstone Research: Crumpling of Graphene Optimizes Graphene Field Effect Transistors (GFETS) as Biosensors. After Mac: Graduate School at Emory University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jacob Hetrick ’20 (Phoenix, AZ). Capstone Research: A Search for Pulsars Toward the Galactic Center. After Mac: Employed at Epic Systems, Madison, WI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brynn Keller ’20 (Park Ridge, IL). Capstone Research: Searching for Doublet Vector Like Leptons Using the ATLAS Particle Detector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kieran Liming ’20 (Alpharetta, GA). Capstone Research: Deposition of TiN for Battery and Superconductor Electrodes for Energy Storage of a Nintendo Wii Controller. After Mac: Graduate School at Iowa State.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Riley McGlasson ’20 (Eden Prairie, MN). Honors Thesis: Shape Model of Potentially Hazardous Asteroid (1981) Midas from Radar and Lightcurve Observations. After Mac: Graduate School at Purdue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Andrew Mizener ‘ 20 (Omaha, NE). Honors Thesis: Probing the Magnetic Fields in Cosmic Web Filaments. After Mac: Graduate School at UMass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nick Moore ’20 (Georgetown, MA). Capstone Research: Large Scale Grid Integration of Wind and Solar Power with Storage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tylyn Page ’20 (Los Gatos, CA). Capstone Research: The Leoncino Dwarf: A Neutral Hydrogen Analysis of AGC 198691 and its Extremely Metal-Poor Environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

William Setterberg ’20 (Minneapolis, MN). Honors Thesis: Nitrogen Vacancy Center Optical Magnetometry  of a Barium-Iron-Cobalt Superconductor. After Mac: Graduate School at the University of Minnesota.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jacob Weightman ’20 (St. Paul, MN). Capstone Research: Fabrication of Nanoscale Columnar Diodes by Glancing Angle Deposition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anya Wolterman ’20 (Madison, WI).  Capstone Research: Monte Carlo Glauber Modeling of High Energy Pb+Pb and Au+Au Collisions. After Mac: Working for the Southwest Conservation Corps based out of Salida, CO as part of the 14er crew.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Salamong Xiong ’20 (St. Paul, MN). Capstone Research: SuperCDMS: Energy Calibration of a Ge HV Particle Detector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elena Youngdale ’20 (Minneapolis, MN). Capstone Research: Development of High Performance Asphalt Composite for Mitigating Pavement Cracking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Class of 2019<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Kelly Flugaur-Leavitt \u201919 (Plymouth, MN). Capstone Research: Carrier Mobility of Bismuth-Doped Perovskite. After Mac: Technical Solutions Engineer at Epic Systems, Madison, WI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Ford \u201919 (Richmond, CA). Capstone Research: The Neutral Hydrogen Kinematics of the Dwarf Galaxy Merger NGC 3239.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Greta Helmel \u201919 (Minneapolis, MN). Honors Thesis: Recent Evolution of the Eta Carinae Supernova Imposter System. After Mac:  Research assistant at the University of Minnesota.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sam Hollenbach \u201919 (Oakland, CA). Capstone Research: Understanding Solar Activity During the Last 400 Years. After Mac: Full-time Software Engineer at an energy management startup in Richmond, CA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ramon Molina \u201919 (Los Angeles, CA). Capstone Research: Investigation on the Electrical Properties of CdO\/ZnO Thin Films Using THz Spectroscopy. After Mac: M.S.\/Ph.D. Graduate Student Researcher, Advanced Power and Energy Program, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, University of California, Irvine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dona Pantova \u201919 (Chirpan, Bulgaria). Capstone Research: UV LED System for PL Measurements on GaN Samples.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Karen P\u00e9rez Sarmiento \u201919 (San Nicolas Totolapan, Mexico). Capstone Research: Predictions from Observations of Dwarf Galaxies and Observable Rates with Ground-based Gravitational-wave Detectors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sarah Taft \u201919 (Plymouth, MN). Capstone Research: Haro 11, Pox 186, and VCC 1313: The Enigmatic Behavior of HI Non-Emitters.  After Mac: STEM Scholar Coach for the Schuler Scholar Program in Chicago, IL.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Class of 2018<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Catherine Ball \u201918 (Bellevue, WA). Honors Thesis: Star Formation Diagnostics in the Cosmic Eye. After Mac: PhD program in astrophysics, Cornell University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brian Eisner \u201918 (Portland, OR). Honors Thesis: Surveying Radio Line Spectra of Nearby Galaxies. After Mac: PhD program in astrophysics, University of Virginia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alex Gordon \u201918 (Chicago, IL). Honors Thesis: A Narrowband Emission-Line Survey of the Large Magellanic Cloud. After Mac: Teaching in the Schuler Scholar Program for AmeriCorps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Theo Jacobson \u201918 (San Diego, CA). Honors Thesis: Gravitational Leptogenesis and One-Loop Effective Actions. After Mac: Graduate school fellow, U of M, Ph.D. program CSENG Physics and Astronomy, Twin Cities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elizabeth Ruvolo \u201918 (Toledo, OH). Honors Thesis: SHIELD: The HI Mass-Diameter Relation. After Mac: employed at Epic, Madison, WI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paul Chery \u201918 (Peoria, AZ). Capstone Research: Modeling recombination in solar cells. After Mac: Laboratory Technician at 3M.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Callen Cotter \u201918 (Madison, WI). Capstone Research: Actinometry of Hydrogen Plasmas. After Mac: Laboratory Technician in the Environmental Division of Pace Analytical.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Masao Miazzo \u201918 (Philadelphia, PA). Capstone Research: Imaging the Neutral Gas of Extremely Low-mass Dwarfs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Class of 2017<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Kathleen Fitzgibbon \u201917 (Springfield, IL). Capstone Research: A Direct Comparison of Lyman-Alpha and Neutral Hydrogen Morphologies. After Mac: Employed at Epic, Madison, WI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gunnar Footh \u201917 (West Saint Paul, MN). Capstone Research: Transient Photoconductivity of a Thermoelectric Nanomaterial. After Mac: Masters program in Philosophy at Georgia State University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kelsey Harmatta \u201917 (Seattle, WA). Capstone Research: Controlling Resistivity: Charge Carrier Density Modulation in Barium Stannate via Ion Gel Gating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eli Lilleskov \u201817 (Houghton, MI). Capstone Research: The Chiral Magnetic Effect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joshua Rollag \u201917 (Buffalo, MN). Capstone Research: Intervalley Scattering in Tellurium. After Mac: Pursuing M.S. in electrical engineering at the University of Minnesota.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quinton Singer \u201917 (Bedford, MA). Capstone Research: Almost Dark Galaxies: The Search For Stellar Counterparts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elliot Weiss \u201917 (Northhampton, MA). Capstone Research: Carrier Lifetime versus Temperature in an Intermediate Band Semiconductor. After Mac: Technical support for the medical devices company DiaSorin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sophia Wiedman \u201917 (Saint Paul, MN). Capstone Research: Physical Principles Governing the Accumulation of Microbes during the Formation of a Biofilm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tayeb Zaidi \u201917 (Oakland, CA). Honors Thesis: The Wavelet Methods for Photometric Supernova Classification.   After Mac: Postbaccalureate premedical program, Bryn Mawr College, PA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Class of 2016<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Hannah Johlas (Ogden, IL). Honors Thesis: The Effects of Foundation Damping on Structural Demands in Yaw-Misaligned Offshore Wind Turbines. After Mac: pursuing Ph.D. in mechanical engineering at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Noah Lupu-Gladstein (Silver Spring, MD). Honors Thesis: Converting Heat into Electricity: Characterization of a Thermoelectric Nanomaterial. After Mac: pursuing Ph.D. in physics at the University of Toronto, Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chris Bisbee (Palo Alto, CA). Capstone Research: Energetic Behavior of Resistive Random-Access Memory Cells.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

John Carlson (Clive, IA). Capstone Research: Dissociative Excitation of H 2 in a RF Plasma. Liam DiZio (St. Paul, MN). Capstone Research: Elastic Block Modeling of Fault Slip Rates across Southern California. After Mac: Lab technician with SGS in Anchorage, AK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Asra Nizami (Karachi, Pakistan). Capstone Research: Adding functionality to Astropy: a community Python library for astronomers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Beni Jonathan Paz\u00e1r (Fox Point, WI). Capstone Research: Increasing the acceptance of H4e- events without losing statistical significance. After Mac: Plan to earn Ph.D. in high energy theory, possibly at Electricity de France-Renewable Energy Division.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Christian Stewart (New Ulm, MN). Capstone Research: The Effects of Hydrazine Surface Doping on CVD Graphene Films.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alexander Stowell (Chippewa Falls, WI). Capstone Research: Langmuir Probe Measurements of an H 2 RF Plasma.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ari Weiland (Highland Park, IL). Capstone Research: Protein Adsorption using a Lattice Toy Model. After Mac: Software engineer at Google in Mountain View, CA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ian Wyse (Portland, OR). Capstone Research: Rotational and Hyperfine Analysis of AuS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kovas Zygas (Michigan City, IN). Capstone Research: Photovoltaic applications of ZnO thin films generated by thermal oxidation of metallic Zn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Class of 2015<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Erik Alfvin \u201915 (Shorewood, WI). Capstone Research: The Role of Cold Gas in Low-level Supermassive Black Hole Activity. After Mac: Working on astrophysics research at the University of Minnesota.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Andrew Banman \u201915 (Beaverton, OR). Capstone Research: Mid-Infrared Excitation of Graphene. After Mac: Software engineer at SGI working to enable servers and supercomputers in the linux kernel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alexandra Boldin \u201915 (Washington, DC). Capstone Research: Analysis of Spin Polarization in Half Metallic Heusler Alloys.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brittany Ehmann \u201915 (Island Lake, IL). Capstone Research: Ultrafast Photoconductivity Measurements of a Thermoelectric Nanocomposite: Tellurium Nanowire\/PEDOT:PSS. After Mac: Pursuing M.S. in electrical engineering at the University of Minnesota.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rhyan Foo Kune \u201915 (St. Paul, MN). Capstone Research: Liquid Filled Photonic Crystal Fiber Trans- mission Scaling via Refractive Index Scaling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Coco Jian Zhang \u201915 (Beijing, China). Capstone Research: Application of resurgence theory to approximate inverse square potential in quantum mechanics. After Mac: Working in Abu Dhabi, UAE.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Charlotte Martinkus \u201915 (Highland Park, IL). Honors Thesis: Do Tidal Interactions Trigger Starbursts in Dwarf Galaxies?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ned Molter \u201915 (Cedarburg, WI). Honors Thesis: Constraining the Properties of the Metal-Poor ISM with Interferometric CO Observations of Low Metallicity Dwarf Galaxies. After Mac: Research assistant at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dan Shi \u201915 (Loveland, OH). Capstone Research: Investigating Color Management Technologies. After Mac: Working at Procter and Gamble.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jared Willard \u201915 (Lakeville, MN). Capstone Research: Simulating Correlated Disorder in Spin Glass. After Mac: Software engineer at Infinite Campus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Class of 2014<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Laura Avena \u201914 (C\u0113sis, Latvia) is pursuing a PhD in inorganic chemistry at MIT.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ruby Byrne \u201914 (Portland, OR) is a technical aide at the 3M Corporate Research Lab in Woodbury, Minnesota.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Michael Darrow \u201914 (Menlo Park, CA) is pursuing a graduate degree in Materials Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

John Graham \u201914 (Wooster, OH) works for the Epic corporation in Verona, Wisconsin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aaron Laursen \u201914 is a software development engineer for Google at the Mountain View, CA, headquarters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Melissa Marshall \u201914 is a software consultant at ThoughtWorks in San Francisco, CA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Margaret Molter \u201914 (Cedarburg, WI) is a mathematics teacher at Shattuck-Saint Mary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Minh Nguyen \u201914 (Hanoi, Vietnam) is pursuing a PhD in theoretical particle physics at the University of Minnesota.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Class of 2013<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Elijah Bernstein-Cooper \u201913 (Madison, WI) is an astrophysics PhD graduate student and research assistant, and NSF graduate research fellow at University of Wisconsin, Madison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Allison Einolf \u201913 (Portland, OR) is pursuing a PhD in Physical Oceanography at Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jacob Stein \u201913 (Windermere, FL) is a computer programmer for Epic Systems, Madison, WI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Michael Adams \u201913 (Chippewa Falls, WI) is a pilot for the United States Air Force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Banteaymolu Alebachew \u201913 (Minneapolis, MN) is a front-end web developer for Success Factors, an SAP Company, in Minnetonka, Minn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ian Cave \u201913 (Claremont, CA) is a software developer working in the Twin Cities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tyler Hill \u201913 (Beaver Dam, WI) is a physics teacher at Wayland Academy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Christopher Krapu \u201913 (Valley City, ND) is pursuing a PhD in hydrology at Duke University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nadia Foo Kune \u201913 (Minneapolis, MN) is a technical aid intern at 3M Company in St. Paul, Minn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jacob Moen \u201913 (Grand Forks, ND) is pursuing a PhD in seismology at the University of Minnesota.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Samilee Moody \u201913 (Mounds View, MN) is a visitor services associate at the Walker Art Center in
Minneapolis, Minn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Pardy \u201913 (Yarmouth, ME ) is pursuing a PhD in astronomy at the University of Wisconsin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AnnaLeigh Smith \u201913 (Chicago, IL) is working at the 3M Physics Research and Development department in Maplewood, Minn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Clara Thomann \u201913. (Corvallis, OR) is a lab technician at CH2M Hill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Frederick Wade \u201913 (Ormond Beach, FL) is a mechanical engineer for Aerojet corporation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Class of 2012<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Benjamin Alterman \u201912 (Jamaica Plain, Mass.) is pursuing a PhD in applied physics at the University of Michigan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yilikal Ayino \u201912 (Masha, Ethiopia) is pursuing a PhD in physics at the University of Minnesota.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Martin Blanchard \u201912 (Lawrence, Kan.) is pursuing a PhD in biomedical engineering at Yale University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Samuel Levang \u201912 (Duluth, Minn. ) is a technical aide in 3M’s Corporate Research Materials Laboratory, Woodbury, Minnesota.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ishiaka Mansaray \u201912 (Freetown, Sierra Leone) is a teaching fellow in physics at the Saint Paul’s School in Concord, New Hampshire, through the Penn Residency Masters in Teaching program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ryan Marshall \u201912 (Plymouth, Minn.) is pursuing a PhD in physics at the University of Minnesota.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephanie Reikine \u201912 (Newton, Mass.) is pursuing a PhD in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Andrew Rich \u201912 (Philadelphia, Pa.) is a software engineer at Thompson Reuters in Eagan, Minnesota.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

David Suchy \u201912 (Eindhoven, The Netherlands) is an investment-banking analyst in the healthcare group at UBS in New York, New York.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Class of 2011 and Before<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

John Allan \u201911 (Portland, Ore.) is pursuing a PhD in astrophysics at the University of Virginia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Allison Kennedy \u201911 (Stillwater, Minn.) is pursuing a PhD in physics at the University of Minnesota.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Palmer Fliss \u201911  (Medway, Mass.), is pursuing a PhD in geobiology at the University of Minnesota.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Michael Richter \u201910 (Mercer Island, Wash.) is pursuing a PhD in bioengineering at the University of California\u2013San Diego.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Munadir Ahmed \u201910  (Bangladesh) is pursuing a PhD in Electrical Engineering at Purdue University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jennifer Barnes \u201909 (North Oaks, Minn.) is pursuing a PhD in physics at the University of California\u2013Berkeley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jeff Gustafson \u201909 (Shoreview, Minn.) is pursuing a PhD in physics at Boston University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Korey Haynes \u201909 (Baltimore, Md.) is pursuing a PhD in astrophysics at George Mason University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Michael Kyslinger ’09 (Pfafftown, N.C.) is working at St. Jude Medical Technology’s Neuromodulator Division in Portland, Oregon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephan Miller \u201909 (New York, N.Y.) is pursuing a master\u2019s in transportation engineering at Rutgers University in New Jersey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jillian Scudder \u201909 (Sarasota, Fla.) is pursuing a PhD in astrophysics at the University of Victoria, Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Matthew Webster \u201909 (Arden Hills, Minn.) is pursuing a PhD in physics at the University of California\u2013San Diego.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seth McIntire \u201909 (Seattle, Wash.) is in a fellowship program teaching high school physics in Rhode Island.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reed Andrews \u201908 (Bella Vista, Calif.) is pursuing a PhD in physics at the University of Colorado\u2013Boulder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kyle Braam \u201908 (Burnesville, Minn.) is pursuing a PhD in electrical engineering at the University of California\u2013Berkeley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Innocent Diamini \u201908 (Kubuta, Swaziland) is pursuing a PhD in biomedical engineering at Duke University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Emily Gras \u201908 (Rochester, Minn.) is studying mechanical engineering at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paul Norman \u201908 (Socorro, N.M.) is studying aerospace engineering at the University of Minnesota\u2013Twin Cities.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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