april 16, 2009
Dean’s Dinner of June 2009, and the family plans to return to the Bay Area for the warmer weather. Steven Rea was a visiting scholar at the College of Chemistry from the University of Leeds during the 2001–02 academic year. Xiaoyang Liu (B.S. Chem) wrote to let us know that she is in the chemistry Ph.D. program at the University of Idaho in Moscow, ID, and to express her gratitude toward her professors, advisors, and teaching assistants here at the College.
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Last year, Soham Mookerjea (B.S. ChemE), who now lives in Singapore, enjoyed exciting trips to Tahoe, Las Vegas, and India. Wendy Trinh (B.S. ChemE) writes that it took six months to find her first job after graduation, and she then discovered that the company was having difficulty paying its employees on time. “Another year of torture went by” before she snagged her current position with a company she learned about while promoting GEICO at the Sonoma drag races. “Talk about pure luck! And my current job has almost NOTHING to do with my degree!” She works as a project engineer at Peterson Power Systems/CATERPILLAR in San Leandro, CA, using AutoCAD to create submittals and operation manuals. She and her partner, Don Barr, live in San Jose, CA. Charles W. Crawford (Ph.D. Chem) took a position in February as a senior NMR scientist with NanoMR in Albuquerque, NM.
’08
In January 2009, Jonathan B. Germain (Ph.D. ChemE) started work as a process engineer at Applied Materials in Sunnyvale, CA.
Ellen D. Beaulieu (Ph.D. Chem) has been doing postdoctoral research at SRI International in Menlo Park since February. She and her husband, David Beaulieu, live in Berkeley.
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’09
Starting in fall 2009, Joleine M. Bigcas (B.S. ChemBio) will be attending the University of Maryland at Baltimore School of Pharmacy. She writes that UMB is one of the top ten pharmacy schools in the U.S. and provides a lot of great opportunities for its pharmacy students.
Tim Montgomery (B.S. ’73, ChemE) and his wife, Robbie, enjoy spending an evening with other college supporters at the annual Dean’s Dinner.
Daniel Y. K. Cheng (B.S. ChemBio) plans to stay in the area to serve at the Eastbay Bible Church of Berkeley. He will also be applying for, and pursuing, a graduate degree in environmental engineering. Bryan C. Condy (B.S. ChemE) wrote that he and Dayna Bowen married in May 2009.
Sandy Brown (B.S.’86, Chem) catches up with her former professor Andy Streitwieser at the Dean’s Dinner.