What do Hope physics alumni do?

One of the first things visitors ask is "What do your alumni do?" The answer is often something like "Whatever they have a passion to do!" While this is true, it is a bit vague. We've compiled lists of companies for which our alumni have worked and job titles our alumni have held over the years. But that seems rather impersonal. We're profiling some of our alumni in department newsletters and adding their profiles to our website.

Carl Gelderloos	1989	Deputy Director of Advanced Systems group, Civil & Operational Space Division	Ball Aerospace
Mark Brown	1977	Senior Principal Scientist	Medtronic
Cynthia H. McCollough	1985	Professor, Radiologic Physics	Mayo Clinic and Foundation
William Davros	1981	Section Head, Medical Physics	Cleveland Clinic
Brett Bouma	1986	Associate Professor of Dermatology and Health Sciences & Technology	Harvard Medical School
Matt Goupell	2001	Assistant Professor, Dept of Hearing and Speech Sciences	University of Maryland
Stephanie Statema	2007	Physics Teacher	Main South High School, Park Ridge, IL
Sarah Storey	2007	Graduate Student, Astronomy	Rice University
Katherine Koops	1981	Corporate Finance Attorney
Robert Kryger	1985	President	Beverage Resources, LLC
Dan Valente	2001	Post-Doctoral Fellow	Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Alumni Quotes

"Studying physics at Hope was an extraordinary experience. The degree program is broad and comprehensive, but the true strength of Hope's physics department is the professors and their approach to teaching and interacting with students. The opportunity to be involved in read, graduate-level research as a junior and senior allowed me to apply the classroom lessons to real-world problems and prepared me for graduate school better than the average entering graduate student with little or no research experience. But even that is not the most significant part of the Hope experience. The friendships I forged with other students and especially the faculty have persisted to this day. Hope faculty are now professional colleagues and collaborators of mine. Hope is truly a unique place to 'do' physics."  Dr. Donald Peterson, Ph.D. Research Associate, Oregon State University

Other Hope Alumni on the web:

• Robert H. Austin is a member of the Physics faculty at Princeton University
• John Vander Velde is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Michigan.
• Scott Wissink is on the Physics faculty at Indiana University.
• Paul Harper is a member of the Physics faculty at Calvin College.
• Todd Adams is a professor at Florida State University.
• John Lenters is an Associate Professor of Geosciences at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
  
  

Check out our alumni list to learn about where our alumni are now. When possible, links to their personal/professional webpages are included so that you can learn more about them. You can also look for the Hope Physics group in Linked In to see up-to-date information about some of our alumni.

Department Newsletters with Updates from Alumni

• 2007 Department Newsletter
• 2009 Department Update