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CURRENT HAPPENINGS CHEMISTRY & BIOCHEMISTRY 2013 | Angela Andersen (BS Biology, Chemistry ’06, Cumberland College; PhD Chemistry ’13, Brigham Young University) is a process engineer at Intel Corporation. There, she maintains a set of plasma etchers and improves the production process of new products. While at BYU, her research focused on plasma treatment on polymer materials and dynamic molecular orientation of adhesives under controlled loads.
at Wexpro company. Greenhalgh has established a career in the oil and gas industry, working with companies including XTO Energy and Anadarko Petroleum. He explores and develops Rocky Mountain gas and oil reservoirs in the Sand Wash, Greater Green River, Piceance, and San Juan Basins.
2010 | L. J. Krumenacker (BS Biology and Geology ’06, Idaho State University; MS Geology ’10, Brigham Young University) is a doctoral candidate and paleontologist in the Department of Earth Sciences at Montana State University. Krumenacker, along with a team of MSU paleontologists, 2015 | Bhupinder Singh (BA Pharmacy ’10, Delhi University; PhD Analytical recently identified several new types of dinosaurs from fossil Chemistry ’15, Brigham Young University) works for Intel Corporation as evidence discovered in eastern Idaho. Before his time at Montana State, a process engineer. Singh’s article “Multi-instrument characterization of Krumenacker was a field supervisor for Intermountain Paleo Consulting, five nanodiamond samples: a thorough example of nanomaterial character- salvaging sensitive paleontological resources from active construction ization” was recently featured on the cover of Analytical and Bioanalytical sites and preparing, stabilizing, and identifying fossils. Chemistry. Singh’s study is the most comprehensive characterization of nanodiamonds to date. While at BYU, Singh became a Roland K. RobMATHEMATICS ins Graduate Research Fellow, an honor awarded to outstanding graduate students. Singh also worked for four years as a graduate research assistant. 1985 | Edward E. Allen (BS Mathematics ’85, Brigham Young University; PhD Mathematics ’91, University of California at San Diego) is a professor and department chair in the Department of Mathematics at Wake Forest COMPUTER SCIENCE University. His research interests are in combinatorics and discrete mathe1999 | Michael Muir (AAS Gen. Studies—Natural Science ‘95, Brigham Young matics. He has published 16 distinguished papers in the past 20 years. University—Idaho; BS Computer Science ’99, Brigham Young University) supervised the computer graphics for the movie “Hotel Transylvania II.” 2006 | Erika Littlewood (BS Mathematics ’06, Brigham Young University) He led a team of artists and oversaw about one fifth of the actual film shots, is a compensation analyst for Apache Corporation, an oil and gas ensuring that the animation, effects, and various simulations were ready company based in Texas. After graduating from BYU, Littlewood and available for artists to put together. Muir has worked on the computer worked as an actuarial analyst for Mercer in the retirement consulting graphics of various well-known films, including the battle scene at the department, focusing on advising various companies on their retirement beginning of “Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith” and the Quid- plans. After leaving Mercer, she worked for Towers Watson, another ditch scenes in “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.” retirement consulting firm, and expanded her role to include project management in addition to client consulting. 2013 | Kesler Tanner (BS Computer Science ’13, Brigham Young University) is acquiring a PhD in computer science at Stanford. At Stanford, he works MATHEMATICS EDUCATION with electromyography, which deals with the signals the brain sends to muscles. He developed a cutting-edge device that tracks the length of 1991 | Ivan Clarke (BA Mathematics Education ’88, MA Mathematics someone’s run based on the runner’s movements and then communicates Education ’91, Brigham Young University) is a mathematics teacher at this information to the runner based on a series of vibrations. He also Salem Hills High School. He has been teaching in the Nebo School designed a tool for anonymous storytellers to work with Mechanical Turk District for 27 years, since graduating from BYU in 1988. In 2007, and co-founded Freelanceinbox.com. Before his time at Stanford, Tanner Clarke was recognized for his leadership in the Boy Scouts of America spent a year as a web developer for Lucidchart. While studying at BYU, program in the Spanish Fork Area at the LIFE scout recognition banquet. Tanner was president of the BYU chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) for two years. 1991 | Karen Taylor (Crawford) (BA English ’72, MA Mathematics Education ’91, Brigham Young University) is a professor emeritus, retired in 2014 and is now spending time with grandchildren, serving in the LDS church, and GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES working on home projects. Before her retirement, she was a dean at 2006 | Brent Greenhalgh (BS Geology ’04, Brigham Young University; MS Utah Valley University. She taught for ten years at Farrer Middle Geology ’06, Brigham Young University) is a staff exploration geologist School before her time at Utah Valley University.
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