Alumni Careers

Adam Detweiler BS-Biochem-May '05
Adam has accepted a position with Perkin Elmer in New Jersey. He will be servicing HPLC, HPLC/MS, and GC/MS instruments.

Michael Pennell BS-Biochem-May '05
M ike has accepted a position at Lonza. Mike is working on the development of an organic compound library for the chemical company.

Chris DeVore BS-ACS-May '05
Chris has accepted a position with Corning Inc. in their research and development division, in Corning, N.Y. He is working on fuel cells, flexible displays (LCD), and catalytic converters (ceramic). Chris and his wife also the proud parents of two newborn twins, Tyler James (TJ) and Isabella Mae. The twins were also welcomed by older sister Johanna.

Tim Brockman BS-May '05
Tim has accepted a position with Phoenix Chemicals in Somerville, NJ. Phoenix Chemicals develops polymers for cosmetic/personal care products.

Melinda Hill BS-ACS-Dec '02
Melinda successfully defended her Ph.D. at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in April 2006. She has accepted a post-doctoral position at Los Alamos National Labs.

William Harris BS-ACS '95; JD '99 Duschene U
Bill is a native of Lehigh Valley, a member of the Board of Directors of the Lehigh County Bar Association and a member of the Northhampton County and Pennsylvania Bar Associations. Harris' practice focuses on all aspects of commercial litigation, real estate and business law. Harris is a former clerk to the Honorable William F. Moran of the Court of Common Pleas of Northampton County. (Taken from the Davison & McCarthy professional corporation announcement.)

Michael Bacica BS Chemsitry '96
Michael is currently working as an anyaltical chemist at Favrille in San Diego, working on a personal cancer vaccine. Michael earned a MS in chemistry from the University of Houston in 1998. You can look at his recent work at http://www.casss.org/meetings/2005WCBP/program.htm

Bethany Hueholt BS Chemistry '05
Beth is currently a first year graduate student at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.

Amy Prisk BS Clinical Chem '02
Amy is a research scientist in a bioanalytical group at Sanofi-Aventis. Her work involves analyzing biological samples from clinical trials using LC/MS/MS, method development and validation, and stability protocols. amyprisk@comcast.net

Joshua Stone BS-ACS-'01
Josh finished a masters degree in chemistry at Bucknell University in 2003 and is now working at the General Electric Global Research Center near Schenectady, NY.

Josh Spragle BS-ACS '04
Josh has been working a temporary quality assurance (QA) position for Kraft/General Foods since summer 2004 . He has just accepted (January 2005) a permanent QA position with the Salts Division of Malinckrodt/JTBaker.

Melissa Alvarez BS-Clinical '03
Melissa is working as a medical technologist for the Miller-Keystone Blood Center. miselaT@aol.com

Nathan Kreischer BS-ACS-Biochemistry '03
Nathan is working on his Ph.D. in Biological Chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania. He is doing research working with Mammalian Ribonucleotide Reductase.

Jackie (Sassaman) Miller BS-ACS '91
Data analyst at Accugenix in Newark DE. They do bacterial identification for pharmacology and research groups by comparative DNA sequencing

Christina Crecca BS-ACS '03
Chrissy will begin her PhD program in theoretical chemistry this fall at the University of Florida.

Jennifer Schott BS Dec '02
Jen is employed at Environmental Standards, Inc. as a quality assurance chemist. In that position she provides third party validation of laboratory sample results from environmental testing. rlschott@aol.com

Crissie Bauer BS-ACS-'99
Crissie is continuing to make great progress toward her PhD at the University of Arizona. She recently had her first paper from her doctoral research published in Advanced Materials (Adv. Mater, 2002,14, No.3, February 5, 2002). It is entitled "Laser and Electron-Beam Induced Growth of Nanoparticles for 2D and 3D Metal Patterning"

Steve Bransfield BS-ACS-'00
Steve is in the Ph.D. program in chemistry at Johns Hopkins University.

Shiela Gradwell BS-ACS-'01
Shiela has entered the Ph.D. program in chemistry at Virginia Tech.

Nancy (Kulikoski) Corrigan BS-ACS '97
Nancy is a chemist and works in analytical support of clinical and pre-clinical drug compounds for DuPont Pharmaceuticals.

Jeff Coleman (BS '99)
Jeff is a graduate student at the University of Arizona doing research on an ABC transport protein.

Robert Kozicki (BS-ACS '95)
Bob is a chemist and routine laboratory supervisor with Andrew S. McCreath and Son, Inc. His lab does quantitative and qualitative analysis of ores and alloys by wet chemical methods.

Michael Galella (BS-ACS '97)
Mike works as an Assistant Research Scientist in Analytical Research & Development at Bristol-Myers Squibb. The group he works in performs solid state characterization analysis of pharmaceutical crystal systems.

Paul Verdino (BS '94)
Paul is a Senior Forensic Scientist with the New Jersey State Police in the Toxicology Division. He is also finishing his thesis for his MS in Forensic Science at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in Manhattan.

Eric Kemp (BS-ACS '95)
Eric works as an analytical chemist in analytical method development at Merck and Company, Inc. He is also finishing a master's degree at Lehigh University.

Brad Lewandowski (BS-ACS '99)
Brad is a graduate student at the University of Hawaii

Philip Behm BS(ACS) '91
Phil is a research and development chemist with Air Products and Chemicals

Kerry Dunbar BS(ACS) '91
Kerry works for Baxter Healthcare Corporation in California where she supervises the purification of proteins.

Richard Dunbar BS(ACS) '91 PhD SUNY at Buffalo
Richard manages the quality control laboratory for three drug delivery technologies at 3M Pharmaceuticals.

Monica Reinard BS(ACS) '99
Monica is a chemist in process technology for Merck & Co., Inc.

Carl Edwards BS(ACS) '91
Carl is a head technician in the quality control lab at Sunoco Refining and Marketing, Inc. where he tests petroleum products and waste water.

Jeremy Hetrick BS(ACS) '98
Jeremy is an analytical chemist testing formulated products for Merck Research Laboratories. He also tells us that he is involved with some automated experimentation projects.

Barry Husowitz BS(ACS) '99 Double major in chemistry and math.
Barry i is in the Ph.D. program in computational chemistry at Arizona.

Cathy Carr BSEd '99
Cathy is a chemistry teacher teaching 11th grade chemistry and introductory physics at Hillsborough (NJ) High School.

Karen Jansson BS '97
Karen is a research technician at the Stroud Water Research Center where she analyzes trace level contaminants in streams.

Angela (Gilby) Tobey BS(ACS) '98
Angie works for Rohm & Haas where she a polymer and analytical chemist developing and analyzing new powder polymer coatings.

Georgeann Zitkus BA '93
Georgeann works for Air Products and Chemicals where she is a contract administrator. In that role, she serves as a liason between the company and various government departments regarding technology partnerships. She will complete a masters in engineering degree at Lehigh University in June 2001. J.

Scott Griffith, DMD BS '94
Scott is a dentist in private practice.