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In addition to being named by AABOG as a 2016 Outstanding Alumnus, Steven Barker (physics) is the recipient of two other prestigious awards. He received the Harvey W. Weiley Lifetime Achievement Award from the Innovations and Applications of Monitoring, Perfusion, Oxygenation and Ventilation group. The Society for Technology in Anesthesia honored him with the 2016 J.S. “Nik” Gravenstein Award. Former chair of anesthesiology departments at UC Irvine and University of Arizona, Steve specializes in the integration of technology in anesthesia and education of those principles. He is chief science officer at Masimo Corporation, where he works to integrate advances in aeronautical engineering into medicine.
Justin Barnes (engineering) has left Fish &
1987 Penelope Gordon (engineering) is using over
two decades of product strategy, innovation management and services delivery experience and a lifelong passion for food production to start Nutriate, a company that sells healthy food and body care items for travelers. Kits can be shipped wherever the travelers are headed (currently U.S. destinations only), and 5 percent of each purchase goes to nonprofits (one of which is Harvey Mudd). nutriate.com
1988 Ray Grainger was featured in the March 23
PCMag.com article “Mavenlink’s Adventurous CEO Sets His Sights on the East.” The story chronicles the journey of the Harvey Mudd trustee and engineering graduate from Antarctica to Harvey Mudd to successful software company. bit.ly/GraingerPCmag
1996 | Reunion Year Matt Evans (physics), assistant professor at MIT,
spoke on campus April 26 about the first direct detection of gravitational waves, minute distortions in space-time caused by cataclysmic events far away in the universe. He described the source of the signal detected by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory, the physics behind the detectors and prospects for the future of this emerging field.
Richardson and now works at Troutman Sanders LLP. Sarah Jacobson (engineering) was promoted to
the position of associate professor with tenure at Williams College. She teaches courses on microeconomics and environmental and resource economics, both at the undergraduate level and in the master’s program at Williams’ Center for Development Economics. She earned her M.A. and PhD in economics from Georgia State University.
2002 Jennifer Lindsay
(mathematics) continues to doggedly pursue a second career as a professional opera singer. She is relieved that three years of hard work have finally begun to pay off this year. In January, she was an award winner in the National Opera Association’s Vocal Competition, and last spring she was a resident artist at Opera Naples in Florida. In April, she made her debut with the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s Green Umbrella recital series, and over the summer she will be one of only 15 singers chosen from among several hundred applicants to participate in the Bel Canto Young Artist program at the Caramoor International Music Festival. More info at JenniferLindsayMusic.com.
Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Prior to Cairn, Rob worked as an operations engineer at Lockheed Martin and spent two years as a Peace Corps volunteer in Latin America. He enjoys backpacking, skiing, biking and paddle boarding with friends, his wife Betsey, and their Cairn terrier, Rocco. Darkest Night designer Jeremy Lennert (computer science) has created Hunt: The Unknown Quarry, a deductive combat game. “One player is secretly the monster, and their goal is to cripple all of the other players in order to escape the mansion. The other player—the human bounty hunter—must discover and kill the monster before they are hunted down by the creature.” According to his Quicksilver Software bio, Jeremy’s passion for game design “can be traced back to his earliest memory as a child: designing mazes at about five years old.”
2007 Amanda Hickman (chemistry) and Neil Schweitzer
welcomed their first child, Xander Neil HickmanSchweitzer, Sept. 20, 2015. On a mission to combine engineering and athletics, Scott Mahr (engineering) founded and is CEO of FORM Lifting. His team developed the FORM Collar, a smart device that measures barbell lifts to help improve both form and performance.
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2003 Erin Koos (engineering), who attended high school
in Lebanon, Oregon, was inducted in the Lebanon High School Hall of Fame. After Harvey Mudd, she earned a master’s degree in aeronautics and a PhD in mechanical engineering, both at Caltech. Erin studies the structure and mechanical properties of suspensions at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany. She plans on moving to Belgium in October.
2006 | Reunion Year In 2014, Rob Little (engineering) founded outdoor subscription box service Cairn, winner of the 2015 Oregon Entrepreneurs Network Entrepreneurship Award. The idea for Cairn was hatched while he and co-founder Jared Peterson were classmates at the
Logan Gordon (mathematics) and Adriana Kovashka POM ’08 were married May 30, 2015, at the National Aviary in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Mudders in attendance were James Osburn ’07, Michael Maindi ’07, John-Andrew Kouzelos ’07, Greg Sandstrom ’07, Max Pflueger ’07, Micah Lamdin ’07, Stephen Yu ’07 and Steven Von der Porten ’07. Also in attendance were Nikolay Nikolov POM ’08, Valerie Peterson-Brandt PZ ’07 and Greg Morse PZ ’07, as well as Slavi Slavov, a former associate professor of economics at Pomona.
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