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 Featured Alum
Caleb Hug, '04
Majors: Computer Science and Physics
Current Position: Earned a Ph.D. in computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Hug now works as a software development engineer in Microsoft's Experimentation Platform (ExP) Division.
Notable Note: Hug received a fellowship from the National Museum of Health and Medicine's medical informatics program, to cover tuition and a living stipend at MIT, where he built on research he began at Whitworth. As an undergraduate, Hug won a prestigious Goldwater Scholarship for academic excellence in math and science.
Why Whitworth? "When visiting my older brother, who attended Whitworth, I met several faculty members and knew they were people who would help direct me professionally and take the time to get to know me personally. The financial aid package was also important. My financial aid, combined with my jobs working in the computer labs during the school year and programming in the summers, allowed me to graduate with a limited amount of debt."
Whitworth Activities: "Association for Computing Machinery Club, Ultimate Frisbee. I also ran for Associated Students of Whitworth University executive vice president, but I lost by 16 votes (in retrospect, rather fortuitously; this likely gave me more time to study)."
Quote: "Whitworth helped prepare me intellectually and spiritually for MIT. My professors went out of their way to give me experience and to help me succeed. Their support came with the knowledge that success in life is more than success in one's career, and they also provided a great example of service."
Influential Whitworth Experience: Hug was part of a team of students that worked with professors on a project funded by the National Science Foundation. The team researched and developed intelligent software agents to monitor and analyze data in complex medical environments and to support diagnostic and treatment decisions. Hug co-authored two papers on the team's research that were presented at international conferences.
Career Goals: Working in the computer industry for a while; ultimately teaching at a school like Whitworth
Here's what some Whitworth graduates are doing with their math & computer science degrees:
- Jennifer Gimera, '08, works at Lockheed Martin, in Richland.
- Stephen Ash, '08, is a software developer and quality engineer for Adobe Systems, Inc., in Seattle.
- Taylor Phillips, '08, works for Cancer Research and Biostatistics, in Seattle, where she is a systems analyst/programmer.
- David Dixon, '07, and Jacob Quatier, '07, are software developers at Nike Corp., in Beaverton, Ore.
- Clint Hagen, '08, is a specialist at NextIT, in Spokane.
- Nick Maquillan, '08, and Brent Unruh, '08, are software design engineers in testing at Microsoft, in Redmond, Wash.
- Kosheno Moore, '07, works with Agilent, in Santa Clara, Calif.
- Jeremy Groefsema, '03, is enrolled in flight school at the U.S. Naval Air Station, in Pensacola, Fla.
- Megan (Hanson) Backman, '05, is an application specialist at Meditech, in Rhode Island.
- Josh Hug, '00, launched www.shelfari.com, the first social-media website dedicated to books; Shelfari was recently acquired by Amazon.com.
- Nathan Backman, '06, is earning a doctorate in computer science at Brown University.
- Forrest Pangborn, '05, is software-development engineer at RealNetworks, Inc., in Seattle.
- Nicole Starkey, '07, teaches math in the Sea-Tac area.
Our graduates have been accepted at some of the best graduate schools in the nation. Here's a sampling:
Brown University
Harvard University
MIT
Oregon Health & Science University
Oregon State University
Portland State University
Texas Tech University
University of Texas
University of Alabama
University of Hawaii
University of Notre Dame
Vanderbilt University
Washington State University
Our graduates are working for some of the country's best and most innovative companies.
Advantage IQ (Seattle) – www.advantageiq.com
Adobe Systems (Seattle) – www.adobe.com
Agilent (Spokane and California) – www.agilent.com
Ascentium - www.ascentium.com
Astronics Advanced Electronic Systems – www.astronics.com
Ascentus(Seattle) – www.ascentis.com
Avanade (Seattle) - www.avanade.com
Bethesda Software (Washington D.C.) – www.bethsoft.com
Boeing(Seattle) – www.boeing.com
Excell Data (Seattle) – www.excell.com
ExtraHop Networks(Seattle) - www.extrahop.com
Family Heritage (Cleveland/Akron Ohio) - www.familyheritagelife.com
General Dynamics – www.gd.com
Group 1 Software (Denver, Washington DC) - www.g1.com
Hitachi Consulting (Seattle) - www.hitachiconsulting.com
Itron (Spokane) - www.itron.com
Itronix (Spokane) - www.gd-itronix.com
Jeppesen(Portland) - www.jeppesen.com
Lockheed Martin (Tri-cities, Washington D.C.) – www.lockheedmartin.com
Marsh (New York) – www.mmc.com/
Meditech – www.meditech.com/
Microgroove(Seattle) - www.microgroove.com
Microsoft (Seattle) – www.microsoft.com
NextIT (Spokane)- www.nextit.com
Nike (Portland) – www.nike.com
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory – www.pnl.gov
Polycom – www.polycom.com
Pentad Systems(Spokane) - www.pentadsys.com
Sadiel (Spain) – www.sadiel.es/English
Sterling Savings Bank – www.sterlingsavings.com
TROI IT Solutions (Spokane)
UMT (Seattle) – www.umt.com
UBS (Ney York) – www.ubs.com
Volt Information Sciences – www.volt.com
Washington Trust Bank (Seattle, Spokane) – www.watrust.com
Welch Allyn (Portland) - www.welchallyn.com
Whitworth University – www.whitworth.edu
Xilinx – (San Francisco) – www.xilinx.com
Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital – www.yakimamemorial.org
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