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According to William Koven (engineering), “Chip Design is Pretty Cool.” That was the title of a talk he delivered April 3 at Galois, a research and development lab that collaborates with commercial, defense and intelligence organizations to tackle computer science challenges. William discussed the basic principles of chip design, including information about how chips are manufactured, and gave an overview of the complexity of chip design by focusing on addition. A research engineer at Galois, William previously was co-founder and CEO of Reduced Energy Microsystems (REM), a company focused on low-power, high-performance edge computing. Prior to co-founding REM, he worked at AMD and at Intel in both product groups and Intel Labs. He has been involved in many production chip tapeouts as well as research chip development. He has also developed several novel asynchronous circuit architectures and is heavily involved in the asynchronous design community.
Maddie Weinstein (mathematics) finished the second
year of her math PhD program at UC Berkeley. “I am studying algebraic geometry with Bernd Sturmfels. Inspired by Harvey Mudd’s Office of Institutional Diversity, I’ve started an organization at UC Berkeley called Gender Equity in Mathematical Studies with fellow graduate student Madeline Brandt.”
2018 Jason Casar (chemistry) a former researcher
in the lab of Lelia Hawkins, is a co-author on a published manuscript about aerosol measurement techniques. Jason, who spent a summer working at Aerodyne Research in Boston to improve an air pollution simulator, is in the materials science and engineering doctoral program at Stanford University.
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2013 Grant Ukropina (engineering), spoke April 27 at the
Greater Los Angeles Area Council of Boy Scouts of America Women of Eagle Scout Brunch about “Why Becoming an Eagle Scout Helped Me in College, Obtaining My MBA and in the Business World.” Grant earned his MBA from the University of Southern California in 2017 and worked for four years as an engineer at McMaster Carr in Santa Fe Springs. He now works as a systems engineer at Happiest Baby in Culver City, which manufactures and distributes bassinets and other products worldwide that help new babies sleep through the night. His brothers, Nick and Conrad, are also Eagle Scouts.
2014 Miranda Parker (engineering) hosted another happy
hour in Atlanta in January at Monday Night Brewing for fellow HMC alumni in the area.
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In Memoriam Jonathan Chance Crompton ’13 (chemistry) died in February 2019. His parents, David and Karen, shared, “We are heartbroken by the death of our oldest son, Chance. Last month he took his life after a long struggle with depression, alcohol and PTSD as a result of being drugged and sexually assaulted. There is nothing he wouldn’t do to support or help a friend, but could not ask for—or accept—that same help and support from the many friends and family who loved him, cared for him.” While at HMC, Chance was a Case Dorm mentor, president of PRISM and an avid researcher, spending two summers at ARUP Laboratories, a medical laboratory based in Salt Lake City, Utah, where he did research in their Special Chemistry Division. He spent his sophomore spring in the Maloney Lab researching natural product synthesis and three semesters in the Karukstis Lab as part of an REU researching
liquid crystals. He also was part of an REU doing research on nanoparticles in the Schaak Lab at Penn State. He graduated with high distinction and became a graduate student at Caltech in the Lewis Lab. He was awarded a master’s in chemistry from Caltech and planned to pursue a PhD. At HMC Alumni Weekend, family members, classmates and friends gathered to remember Chance in the chemistry department where the student lounge (Jacobs 2331) is named in his honor. Family members have established the Chance Crompton ’13 Memorial Scholarship to provide financial aid to qualifying Harvey Mudd College students with demonstrated financial need. Those who would like to honor Chance’s life with a gift to this scholarship fund may do so online (http://www.hmc.edu/give, specifying the Chance Crompton ’13 Memorial Scholarship in the field marked “Other”) or by contacting Jessica Berger in the Office of College Advancement at jberger@hmc.edu or 909.607.0877. Painting by Maria Klawe
