Ben Olsen (BS '06)
Ben Olsen (BS '06) is a Physicist with AOSense, a company that produces "atom-based sensors for timing and navigation." He is currently based in Sunnyvale, California.
Read More…Jay Obernolte (BS '92)
Jay Obernolte (BS '92) is a Member of the Assembly in the California State Legislature. He was elected last year and represents the 33rd Assembly District. He notes that he is not the only Caltech alum in the Assembly: "Assemblyman Bill Quirk did his postdoc in Astrophysics at Caltech in 1970!"
Read More…Edwin Hamilton (PhD ’70)
At 72, Edwin Hamilton is currently retired after a career as a research scientist, concluding with Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals.
Read More…Micah Sittig (BS '01)
Micah Sittig (BS '01) teaches physics and calculus at the Ojai Valley School, a private boarding school north of Los Angeles. He and his wife have three daughters. He has recently undergone spinal fusion surgery, but is "looking forward to being back on his feet to start the new school year."
Read More…Alan Blumenthal (PhD '71)
Alan Blumenthal (PhD '71) is in Residential Real Estate Sales with Madeline Schaider Real Estate. It may be, as he says, "far from molecular biology," but he thoroughly enjoys his work in Marin County. "I very much value my years and friends at CalTech," he adds.
Read More…William Bloom (BS '68)
William Bloom (BS '68) and his wife own Westmore Thoroughbreds LLC. The horses they breed compete on California tracks like Santa Anita and Del Mar. "Most of the effort is in genetics," he reveals. It is hard work and much is up to chance, but, he says, "the thrill of winning makes it all worthwhile."
Read More…CJ Beegle-Kraus (BS '82)
CJ Beegle-Kraus (BS '82) is a Senior Scientist focusing on Environmental Modeling and Monitoring at SINTEF Materials and Chemistry, Environmental Technology. She currently lives in Norway, working primarily on operational models of well blowouts in the Arctic. After working in Svalbard last year (during which time, she admits, she did not see any polar bears), she recommends the area as a great place to visit "at any time of year, as the land is beautiful, and the aurora - lovely."
Read More…Thomas Heavy (BS '12)
Thomas Heavy (BS '12) is currently a PhD Student in the Chemistry Department of Boston University. He completed his Master's at UNC Charlotte in 2014 and was married in February 2015. He and his wife now live in Boston.
Read More…Charles Conner (BS '75)
Charles Conner (BS '75) is a Biological Sciences Technician with the NPS at the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in Arizona, where he has worked, "touching the resource," as he says, for the past 26 years. Not only does he collaborate on international projects and work with automated weather stations, he also works with the wealth of local wildlife ("snakes, lizards, rodents, bats, etc.") and so continues to have "much fun in the desert."
Read More…Linda Strubbe (BS '03)
Linda Strubbe (BS '03) is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Science Teaching and Learning at the University of British Columbia. There, she studies the learning process, teaches astronomy and physics, and supports other faculty who wish to improve their own teaching. She recently returned from co-leading the West African International Summer School for Young Astronomers in Nigeria, and is "really enjoying [her] new career direction of astronomy and physics education."
Read More…Brian Davison (PhD '85)
Brian Davison (PhD '85) is Chief Scientist for Systems Biology and Biotechnology at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He has just completed 30 years there, "mostly in bioenergy and bioproducts, and still going," he says. He and his partner live in Knoxville.
Read More…Dana Powers (BS '70, PhD '75)
Dana Powers (BS '70, PhD '75) worked with Sandia National Laboratories as a Senior Scientist for more than a decade, and is now on the Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards for the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission. He has contributed to a variety of nuclear safety advisory panels over the years, including the International Nuclear Safety Advisory Group after Chernobyl. In 2015, he was elected to the National Academy of Engineers.
Read More…Robert Bennett (BS '43)
Robert Bennett (BS '43) is retired after many years as an AT&T manager and a Napa Valley grape grower. He remembers Caltech fondly and keeps up with the latest from his home in NC, where he and his wife enjoy simple pleasures like "racing radio-controlled sailboats on our lake."
Read More…Marcus Chown (MS '84)
Marcus Chown (MS '84) is a London-based Writer and Broadcaster. His latest books, "What Wonderful World: One Man's Attempt to Explain the Big Stuff," and "Tweeting the Universe: Tiny Explanations of Very Big Ideas," are published by Faber.
Read More…Albert Whittlesey (BS '62)
Albert Whittlesey (BS '62) retired in 2014 after 52 years with the Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena. So far he has kept busy traveling, hiking, and reading (all avidly). "My wife gave me a book about how how to keep from being bored in retirement and I hope to read it when I get time," he says. "It's looking to be a good new life."
Read More…Sandeep Jain (BS '91)
Sandeep Jain (BS '91) is the Founder and CEO of the new company MatruWeb, which seeks to create a web programming language editor that will allow users to write code in Hindi and other under-represented languages. "Surprisingly," he notes, "such an editor does not currently exist."
Read More…Judith Greengard (BS '77)
Judith Greengard (BS '77) is the Director of Protein Bioanalytics and Development at Sangamo BioSciences, where she finds herself "back in the gene therapy arena after all these years." She is enjoying living in the Bay Area with her family.
Himanshu Mishra (MS '10, PhD '13)
Himanushu Mishra (MS '10, PhD '13) is an Assistant Professor in Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology. His research investigates "chemical and physical phenomena on the surface of water, such as intermolecular forces, rates of reactions, and specific ion effects."
Read More…Harvey Butcher (BS '79)
Harvey Butcher (BS '79) retired in 2013 from his position as Director of the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the Australian National University, Canberra. Prior to this time, he worked with governmental agencies in the USA and Holland on the development of advanced astronomical instrumentation. His own research has "focused on aspects of observational cosmology: understanding how galaxies evolve over cosmic time and why the Universe around us today looks the way it does."
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