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Alumni Achievements

Here's what some Whitworth graduates are doing with their physics degrees:

• Ben Spaun, '08, landed a full scholarship for a six-year doctoral research program at Harvard. The scholarship covers two years of schooling and four of research, plus a $25,000 living stipend.

• Nathan Williams, '06, is a Peace Corps volunteer in Burkina Faso, West Africa, teaching science to youths who live in remote villages. He was accepted into doctoral programs at the University of Wisconsin and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, but is leaning toward entering the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich to pursue a doctorate in the theoretical study of cosmology at the Arnold Sommerfeld Center for Theoretical Physics.

• Caleb Hug, '04, received a research assistantship from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he is enrolled in the computer-science doctoral program. Hug recently completed his master's thesis on artificial-intelligence monitoring of intensive-care patients.
  

• Matt Lincicum, '05, double-majored in physics and theology at Whitworth. After graduation, he worked at Signature Genomics Laboratories, a biotechnology company in Spokane. This fall Lincicum entered the Ph.D. program in biomedical engineering at the University of California, Irvine.
  
  
• Sarah Guske, '01, was recognized as the outstanding senior in the electrical engineering program at Washington State University and received the Kolhauff Scholarship and the Boeing Scholarship while completing her degree. She is currently studying intellectual property law and patent law at the University of California Davis.
  
  
• Cale McPherson '05 double-majored in physics and theology at Whitworth. In fall 2006 McPherson will begin a master's-degree program in environmental engineering at Johns Hopkins University . McPherson is passionate about helping developing nations address water-quality issues an interest that was sparked during his participation in a Whitworth study-abroad program in India.
  
  
• Lowell L. Anderson, '53, recently received the William D. Coolidge Award, the highest honor of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) for his contribution to the field of brachytherapy (the use of radioactive sources implanted in or near tumors to kill cancer cells). He spent eleven years as a biophysicist at Argonne National Laboratory before joining the Department of Medical Physics at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, from which he retired as head of brachytherapy physics in 1998.
  
  
• Peter Little, '01 received the Moles' Award in Civil Engineering from Columbia University, an honor given to the student "whose academic achievement and enthusiastic application show outstanding promise of personal development leading to a career in construction engineering and management." He is currently working in the San Francisco area and is active in Engineering Ministries International, which provides engineering services to people in developing countries.
  
  
• Katelyn Allers, '00, is a doctoral student at the University of Texas.
  
  
• Tatyana Colgan, '97, is a project manager in the international nuclear safety program at Battelle Pacific Northwest National Labs.
  
  
• Paul Morris, '92, is an engineer with The Boeing Co.
  
  
• Robert Kroeger, '77, is a professor of high-energy physics at the University of Mississippi.
  
  
• Alan Michael, '96, is a software test engineer with Microsoft Corp.
  
  
• James Blakely, '88, is a senior petroleum geophysicist with Exxon-Mobil Exploration Co.
  
  
• Gary Stebbins, '73, is president of Software Tools & Toys, Inc.