Alumnae - A Sampling of Recent Career Paths
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Physics Alumnae
Post-graduate activities
Darrah Haffner '08 M.H.S in environmental health sciences from Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health Sunita Kannan '08 Ph.D. program in Physics at the University of Colorado at Boulder Sharon Kotz '08 Masters degree in mechanical engineering at Cornell University Sarah Maynard '08 Staff member, U.C. San Diego and The National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research (NCMIR) Christina Miller '08
Working at MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Talia Sepersky '08
Master's program in Science Writing at Johns Hopkins University
Amanda Zangar '08
PhD program at MIT's Department of Earth Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences
Brie Coellner '07 Research assistant, Macroeconomics Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia Merideth Frey '07 Ph.D. program in physics at Yale University Heather Hausladen '07 Fulbright Fellowship in China; research on social change in Beijing brought about by the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Lacey Hacisk '07 Work for the federal government MaryBeth Mills-Curran '07 Political Science Ph.D. program at MIT Katherine Moyer '07 Masters of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering from the Sibley School as well as MBA from the Johnson School of Business at Cornell University Liz Rivers '07 Ph.D. program in physics at UC San Diego Lalitya Sastrawinata '07 Market Research Analyst at ATLANTIC-ACM, Boston, MA Alessondra Springmann '07 PhD program in Planetary Sciences at MIT in the Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences Department Susan Tse '07
Masters of Science in Mechanical Engineering at Tufts University
Kelly Wallenstein '07
Graduate school in engineering at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Pamela Watts '07
Writing children's books
Mona Ali '06 PhD program in Applied Physics at Stanford Xinxin Du '06 PhD program in Physics at Princeton Rachel Hock '06 PhD program in Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences at the University of Colorado at Boulder Devyani Parameshwar '06 Analyst, Envision Consulting, Unit of IMS Health Abigail Perry '06
Working at NIST in Maryland; Ph.D program in physics at U. Maryland (starting in Fall 2008)
Rebecca Stoll '06
PhD program at Ohio State in Astronomy
Christina Willis '06
Graduate school in optics, Uiversity of Central Florida
Christina Baer '05 Ph.D. program in biophysics at UC Berkeley Paulina Ponce de Leon Barido '05 Technology & Policy Program at MIT Bani Bed '05 Worked as an investment banking analyst at Lehman Brothers, New York; MBA at Harvard Business School. Xan Chacko '05 Worked as a Sales/Trading Analyst at BNP Paribas, New York; MSc in Science, Technolgy and Society at Imperial College, London. Sheila Dwyer '05
Ph.D. program in physics at MIT
Wendy Hawley '05
Astrophysics Ph.D. program at Arizona State University
Hsiao-Lu (Denise) Lee '05
Ph.D. program in physical chemistry at Stanford University
Ama Baafra Abeberese '04 Financial analyst at Lehman Brothers, New York Virginia Hafer '04 MIT Lincoln Labs, Lexington, MA Alyssa Meyer '04 Rotational Analyst in the Markets Group at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York Melissa Rice '04 PhD program in Astronomy, Cornell University Seila Selimovic '04
PhD program in physics, Brandeis University
Chelsea Tiffany '04
Graduate program in astronomy, Uiversity of Minnesota.
Kali Wilson '04
Taught physics at Governor Dummer Academy, MA; will start in a PhD program in Physics in Fall 2008 (at the Univeristy of Wisconsin - Madison)
Frannie D'Arcangelo '03
PhD program in Astronomy, Boston University
Yolanda Huang '03
MD/PhD program, U.N.C. Chapel Hill
Karen Hutchison '03
High school physics & science teacher
Stella Offner '03
PhD program in Physics, U. C. Berkeley
Allison Dupuy '02
PhD program in Biophysics, Yale University
Ann Marshburn '02
Research Assistant, NASA Johnson Space Center
Maggie Waung '02
MD/PhD program at U. Texas at Dallas
Gretchen Campbell '01
PhD program in Physics, MIT
Su May Ong '01
Actuarial Associate, Towers Perrin, NY
Anne Springsteen '01
Scientific Staff, MIT Lincoln Laboratories
Elaine Ulrich '01
PhD program in Optics, U. Arizona
Tyler Wellensiek '01
Fixed Income Sales Analyst, Credit Suisse First Boston, NY
Monica Aufrecht '00
PhD program in Philosophy of Science at the University of Washington, Seattle.
Alceste Bonanos '00
PhD in astronomy from Harvard University in 2005 and in September 2005 began a 3 year postdoc, as the Vera Rubin Fellow at the Carnegie Institution of Washington, at the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism.
Jenny Ross '00
PhD in Physics, UC Santa Barbara in 2004. Assistant Professor of physics at U. Mass Amherst.
Demarese Salter '00
Worked for Sun Microsystems in California for a number of years; currently in Astronomy PhD program at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands.
Andrea Zytkowicz '00
Scientific Staff, medical physics research group at Harvard Cyclotron Lab, Cambridge, MA
Monique Aller '99
PhD program in Astronomy, U. Michigan
Katie Antypas '99
Masters Program in Computer Science at U. Chicago
Ava Erickson '99
Taught high school math at the Bancroft School in Worcester, MA for a year; currently teaching physics, and coaching the novice girls' crew, at Lakeside High SChool in Seattle, WA.
Janet Lee '99
Computer programming and support, NIST, Gaithersburg, MD
Joan Marler '99
Received Ph.D. in Physics (experimental plasma physics) from UC San Diego.
Hui Men '99
Master's program in Computer Science, Johns Hopkins
Kerrie McKinstry '99
PhD program in Astronomy, U. Michigan
Libby Ricard '99
Physics PhD from Yale (2005). Postdoc in experimental nuclear physics at Yale.
Katie Skattum '99
Senior Business Analyst at DemandTec, a software company.