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William Saltman (BSE ’38, BSE EngrMath '38, MS'39) has recently published a book, "It Began With the Gift of Fire" (AuthorHouse Publishers).It is a history of scientists who got in trouble with their authorities, both religious and secular. The book is based in part on lectures given at the Institute for Continued Learning at the University of California, San Diego. (2004)

Clifton S. Goddin (BSE ’36, MS ’37, PhD ’65) was Lt-Cdr U.S. Navy in WWII, NavTech Jap Petroleum Team. He holds 18 U.S. patents and designed gas plants for CO2 Miscible Flood Projects. (1999)

Thomas Laity (BSE ’48, MS ’49) retired from Shell Oil Co. in 1987 after 38 years'service. He is now "semi-retired" and doing consulting work. (1999)

William Retallick's (BSE ’48) just finished his 27th year as a consultant to the plant design course at University of Pennsylvania. He’s working this summer on next year’s design problem. (2007)

Martin E. Gluckstein, PE (BSE ’50, MSE ’51, PhD ’57) who retired as manager of process safety for Ethyl Corporation in 1992, has now retired for a second time as staff consultant for the Center for Chemical Process Safety of the AIChE. Marty and his wife of nearly 55 years, Marjorie (M.Mus. 51), are on the Board of the U of M Club of Milwaukee. He continues to do some consulting. Occasionally, but in his words "not frequently enough," he gets back to Ann Arbor, where two granddaughters are now undergrads, one in Theatre and Asian Studies and the other in the Residential College.

Marty's earliest memory of his Ch.E. education at Michigan was from his first day on campus. There was a matter of some transfer credits to straighten out and he had to meet with G.G. Brown to do so. Marty was concerned and awed by G. G.'s reputation. But all ended well after a few minutes. The adjustments were made and Marty was one his way to a near 10-year stint in the department with a handshake, wishes for good luck, and a smile. Another memory was being considered for the Badger Trophy. He did not get the trophy, but recalls that the winner clearly deserved it for something so much more outlandish than his creation. (2006)

Don Kory (BSE ’50) still keeps in touch with a couple of people from the U-M and occasionally joins the alumni group in south Florida for a football afternoon. Don and his wife have two very young grandchildren, a girl 6 and a boy almost 3. He is still a sailor but has not done much sailing as of late—even though he lives in a great place to do it. (2003)

Peter Lederman (BSE ’53, MS ’37, PhD ’61) received the Dorothy and F.J. Van Antwerpen Award of the AIChE for outstanding contributions to the profession and the Institute. He was also named to the board of trustees of the Chemical Heritage Foundation. (2007)

Alex Weir, Jr. (PhD ’54) was nominated for the National Inventors Hall of Fame by the Environmental Protection Agency’s Division of Air Pollution Prevention and Control for his invention of the Weir Scrubber. This was the first Flue Gas Desulfurization System in the U.S. to meet the National Academy of Science’s criteria for "industrial scale reliability" for satisfactory operation for more than one year. (2000)

Milton Meckler (MSE ’55) says he was saddened to learn of the deaths of Brymer Williams and Maury Sinnott. He considers himself quite fortunate to have known Brymer, Ed Young, Stuart Churchill, Don Katz, and many others as both teachers and friends while attending ChE graduate school at U–M. Especially as it was followed a few years later by another great year of living in Ann Arbor after his marriage to his wife of 45 years, Marlys, an LSA graduate (’60). Last year Milton was selected as one of only four finalists to receive a 2004 Lifetime Achievement Award through the Global Energy award program from Platts, a division of the McGraw-Hill Companies. (2004)

George Nersesian (BSE ’58) retired in 1995 after a 37-year career with Amoco Chemicals. He moved to Tucson, AZ four years ago. He loves the desert southwest very much. (2004)

Tom Schriber (MSE ’58, PhD ’64) just finished his 38th year as professor of computer and information systems (CIS) in the University of Michigan's MBA Program. He started Michigan's MBA CIS department in 1966. His research area is discrete-event simulation, a subject for which he produced a five-day course in the U-M Engineering Summer Conferences for 24 years. (2004)

Richard Kott (MSE ’59) is retired after a long career in the paper industry and also from his own business in transportation. He is living in Washington state. (2004)

Jim Briggs (BS ’59, MS ’60, PhD ’63) retired at the end 1999 after 37 good years with Chevron. The last seven years were spent abroad with major projects in the UK and Western Australia. He’s now living just south of Denver with wife, Tabby. He plays golf, skis, and travels a lot. His last trip was to the North Pole on a nuclear icebreaker and his next will be to India in February 2005. (2004)

Thomas Vanden Bosch (BSE ’59, BS Chemistry ’59, MSE ’60) Tom Vanden Bosch (BSE ’59) retired in 1997 after 36 years in process development, process engineering and plant management. He is currently doing a little consulting in batch chemical manufacturing. Mostly he’s enjoying family, hobbies and travel. (2003)

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Irving Miller (BSE ’60) returned to Chicago after retiring from academia in 2000 and is now working part time as director of corporate operations at BioTechPlex, a Chicago-based biotech company. The rest of his time is devoted to his family (his retired artist spouse, two adult children, three grandchildren--soon to increase to five), commercial arbitration (American Arbitration Association) and writing poetry (and even getting some published). He would love to hear from old friends (ifmiller@uic.edu). (2004)

Jude Sommerfeld (MSE ’60, PhD ’63) retired from the faculty of the School of Chemical Engineering at Georgia Tech in August 2002. He served for 32 years on the school’s faculty, including 8 years as associate director of the school. (2003)

Thomas Cleveland (BSE ’61, MSE ’63, MBA ’63) published his thesis at Stanford University, June 22, 2002 entitled “Comparison of Resampling Methods for Improving Confidence Intervals in Group Sequential Trials on Rare Event Target Populations.” (2003)

Marty Javinsky (PhD '67) retired in 2003 after a terrific 35-year career with Chevron. His new challenge is learning how to play golf (much more difficult than transport phenomena). He gives his best regards to all present and past members of the department! (2004)

Under the sponsorship of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Dr. Dennis Stover (BSE ’67, MSE ’68, PhD ’75) presented a two-week short course on "Alkaline In Situ Uranium Mining" at the Beijing Research Institute for Chemical Engineering and Metallurgy during December 2003. For nearly thirty years, Dr. Stover has specialized in the technology of in situ leaching of uranium minerals and associated recovery processes. During the 1990's he was responsible for uranium exploration and mining development with Rio Algom Mining Corp., serving as vice president, engineering and development. Following his retirement in 2002, he now serves as a technical consultant to major international uranium mining companies and the IAEA. (2004)

G. Jean Hoppert (BSE '71) retired from Masterfoods, USA in October 2004. Now in private practice, Jean and her husband, Herschel, reside in Las Vegas, NV. (2004)

Michael L. Surmanian (BSE '72, MBS '76) has founded a new company, Diagnostic Consulting Network, LLC (DCN). DCN markets reagents and chemistries to companies worldwide that manufacture rapid diagnostic test kits such as pregnancy, drugs-of-abuse, and disease detection tests. Mike has also founded four other companies in the past 15 years. He remains a loyal U-M alum in Southern California. (2004)

Robin L. Brack (BSE ’80) is currently the Environmental, Health and Safety Program Manager for DayStar Technologies, Inc., a publicly traded CIGS solar panel company in San Jose California. (2008)

Gary Graves (BSE ’81) has been elected to the board of directors for Caribou Coffee (Nasdaq: CBOU), the second largest US-based company-owned gourmet coffeehouse operator.  Most recently, he served as president and chief executive officer of La Petite Academy from 2002 until its sale in January 2007 and was responsible for the nation's 2nd largest for-profit preschool educational company.  In addition, he has been elected vice chairman of the national board of the Make-A-Wish Foundation. (2007)

James Medalie (BSE '81) has been promoted to president of Kleerdex Company. Kleerdex Company, a subsidiary of Sekisui Chemical Ltd. (Japan) is the manufacturer of Kydex® thermoplastic sheet which is a specialty sheet used to make three-dimensional components for a multitude of applications. He lives with his wife Lynn, and his children Susan and Philip in the small town of Bloomsburg in north-central PA. (2003)

Dan Sajkowski (BSE ’81, MSE ’82) (PhD, 1986 from Stanford) become Vice President Refining Technology for BP. He has staff in Naperville, Illinois and Sunbury, England. The position is accountable for all aspects of refining technology in BP's 15 refineries - made up of heritage BP, Amoco, Arco and soon Veba sites, through-out the world. Dan is also on BP's Group Technology Council that oversee's technology throughout the corporation. His family life with his wife Eileen (also a UM grad) and their two daughters Alyssa (14) and Shannon (11) remains a priority. (2001)

Jim Pochodylo (BSE ’83, MSE ’84 ) has been employed by Eastman Kodak and Genencor for 11 years in process development before moving to current position as Manager in Manufacturing Engineering at Ortho - Clinical Diagnostics. He holds a patent on bioconversion process for Ribavirin. In 1991, he lived and worked in Finland. (1999)

Bob Ranger (BSE ’83, MBA ’95) is business development manager at Dow Chemical. Bob is also involved in recruiting ChE’s at UM. (2002)

Jeff Sen (BSE ’83) took a "growth assignment" in IT Communication Technology at Procter & Gamble doing network remote access security work, after 10 years of process engineering and risk management. During that time P&G sold the IT division he was in to Hewlett-Packard. Now, after 2 years with HP, he is service manager for outsourced support of P&G's corporate intranet portal. The technology is interesting and the work challenging. He misses engineering but likes working from home.

Jeff passed the 20-year milestone in his naval career, which started the day he graduated from U-M in 1983, and has continued through the Navy Reserve today. As a captain, most of the reserve opportunities are on the coasts. So he travels to Washington DC and Norfolk VA for some of his duty. His unit is part of NAVSEA (Naval Sea Systems Command). They perform command effectiveness evaluations using the Malcolm Baldrige criteria.

He traveled to Singapore in November 2005 as part of a global teaming project. Jeff’s hobbies continue to include musical performance and "home projects". He recently became licensed in Amateur Radio (HAM). His dogs keep him moving, too. They should be qualified as "personal trainers"! (2006)

Ann Heil (BSE '84) is a senior engineer with the Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts. Her focus is on pollution prevention in wastewater and she recently completed a project to reduce the amount of the toxic pesticide lindane entering sewers. The project led to a California-wide ban on lindane in pharmaceutical products and received the most prestigous pollution prevention award in the nation - the National Pollution Prevention Roundtable's Most Valuable Pollution Prevention First Place Award - as well as a 2001 Environmental Award from EPA Region 9. Ann was named the Western Region Pollution Prevention Network's Pollution Prevention Advocate of the Year for 2000 and the California Water Environment Association's Industrial and Hazardous Waste Control Person of the Year for 1999. Ann is married and has two delightful boys that are now 8 and 11. (2001)

Firuzeh Khorasanizadeh (BSE ’84 ) lives with her husband (a UM alumnus from Mechanical Engineering) and her 14-yr old son and 7-yr old daughter in Amherst, MA. (1999)

Laurie Ramsay (BSE ’84 ) is entering her 15th year at Ford Motor Company where she is the Special Vehicle Engineering Global Body Team leader on a new high performance vehicle. She just finished her term as National Vice President of the Society of Women Engineers, and is working on the 2002 National SWE Conference for which she is one of the co-chairs. In her spare time she plays golf along with her 13 year old daughter Monica and is enjoying her new home in Farmington Hills, Michigan. (1999)

Bruce K. Vaughen (BSE ’84) (1989 Ph.D. Vanderbilt 1989, 1994 P.E. State of NY) will become a visiting assistant professor of Chemical Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute, IN, this fall after having spent the last seventeen years with DuPont and DuPontTeijinFilms (a joint venture). Since the Rose-Hulman job is a nine-month assignment, he will resume his search for a permanent college position next year. (2007)

Catherine Peters (BSE '85) has just been appointed associate dean of academic affairs in the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Princeton University. She will retain her position as associate professor in civil and environmental engineering, where she teaches and conducts research in the area of environmental chemistry. (2004)

Paul Theisen (BSE '85) works for Dow Chemical, as a logistics work process leader in Global Supply Chain. He joined Dow in March 1986 and has worked his entire career in Midland, MI. He and his wife, Kristine, have two VERY ACTIVE daughters (Casey, age 8, and Jessica, age 5) who keep them on the go! Paul still finds time to attend several Michigan football games each fall.
(2007)

Greg Poterala (BSE '86) has been with Asahi Thermofil in Fowlerville, MI since 1998 as a national account manager, commercializing reinforced polypropylene for automotive underhood applications. This is his latest position in a 17-year (so far) "temporary" sales career that began upon graduation. Greg thanks Professors Montgomery and Linderman for having him and other alumni talk about their career experiences to the ChE 230 class in fall 2003. He resides in Commerce Township with his wife Anne Marie Garbinski and wheaten terrier Foster. In his spare time he plays trombone with the UM Alumni Pep Band, Motor City Brass Band, and Baseline Brass Quintet. He and Anne Marie also enjoy travelling, golfing, movies, volunteering at the Fisher Theater and with America's Thanksgiving Parade in Detroit. (2004)

Richard Swain (BSE ’86) installed over 20,000 horsepower of compression and over 50 miles of large diameter pipeline, and has provided service to over 100 customers and producers in a 10-year (and counting) career with Columbia Gas. (1999)

Daniel Gamota (BSE ’87) is leading the team comprised of Motorola, Dow Chemical, and Xerox that was awarded $15.7 million in seed funding to develop the technology and the business strategy for plastic integrated circuits. This space has the potential for a $60 billion market for “things that think” and will compete with the likes of Intel, Texas Instruments, and Advanced Micro Devices. (2001)

Joe Greene (MS ’88, PhD ’91) has worked for fourteen years in industrial research and development at General Motors Corporation. He holds one U.S. patent (U.S. Patent No. 5,746,419), seven GM inventions, and has published eight papers related to polymer materials and manufacturing. (1999)

Somesh Nigam (PhD ’88) is the director of enterprise architecture at the pharmaceutical R&D IM organization at Johnson & Johnson. Most recently, Somesh has been active in exploring ways to leverage emerging electronic health records (EHRs) for transforming safety surveillance, clinical trials and outcomes research. Somesh lives with his wife Shefalika, son Vishan (10), and daughter Ruhani (7) in Princeton, New Jersey. (2007)

Bill Schikora (BSE ’88. J.D.’95) moved to California after graduation to work for Chevron as an environmental engineer. A few years later, he moved moved back to Michigan, got married, and started law school. He's been an environmental lawyer for 4 years. (1999)

Divyesh R. Bhakta (BSE ’89) graduated from medical school at Michigan State University in 1994. Following graduation he finished an internal medicine residency and cardiology fellowship training at University of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky. Divyesh is now in private practice in interventional cardiology with CardioVascular Associates in Louisville, Kentucky. (2003)

Margaret Gilligan (BSE ’89) is employed as a senior manager in engineering for the Gatorade Division of Quaker Oats/Tropicana/Gatorade, headquartered in Chicago. PepsiCo is the parent company of QTG as well as Frito-Lay. She has been married to Abe since 1994 and is an avid golfer. Her previous employers include Kraft Foods, Kimberly-Clark, Schreiber Foods, and
Nestle. (2007)

Nancy (Siambis) Koultourides (BSE ’90) has been with BP Amoco for 17 years. She has held several positions, including refinery process engineer, operations engineer, optimization engineer, planning and economics specialist, pricing analyst, market planning manager and most recently ethanol supply coordinator. Nancy is married and has two children. (2007)

Cristin (Clauser) Grove (BSE ’91) is currently on a one-year cross-training assignment in Corkk, Ireland. She is married with two daughters, Bailey (3) and Abigail (1). (1999)

Alex Packard (BSE ’91) has been with Abbott Laboratories (Chicagoland area) since graduation and is currently in pharmaceutical manufacturing. He is married and has two children—the oldest will be starting kindergarten in the fall. (2003)

Robert Sheppard (BSE ’91) joined Mobil in July 1991. He married Karen A. Sordi in June 1993 and moved to Luxemburg in December 1995 for a 2 1/2 year assignment in Virton, Belgium. He returned to Rochester, NY in May 1998. (1999)

Anne Bork (BSE ’92, MBA ’98) is the director of investor relations for Lear Corporation in Southfield, Michigan. (2004)

Thomas Feige (BSE ’92, MBA ’97) is responsible for marketing and commercial activities for Dow Automotive's business operations in Latin America. (1999)

Atisa Sioshansi (BSE '92, MBA '98) just completed her MBA at U-M Business School and began her new career as a marketing manager for Baxter Healthcare in Chicago after returning from a language immersion program in China this summer. She's part of the marketing development program and will rotate through three positions over the next couple of years. (2004)

Masoud Soroush (Ph.D. ’92 ) won the 1999 O. Hugo Schuck Best Paper Award of AACC for the best paper of the 1998 American Control Conference. His paper was entitled " Multirate Nonlinear State and Parameters Estimation in a Bioreactor," and was coauthored with S. Tatiraju and R. Mutharasan. (1999)

Michael Ferrante (BSE ’93, MBA ’98) recently moved back to New Jersey from Tokyo, Japan, where he was leading R&D operations for Banyu Pharmaceuticals (Merck’s Japan subsidiary) for two years. In his role at Merck, he will be the senior director for business integration in the research division. Wife, Deanna, and children, Emilia and Andrew, enjoyed exploring Japanese culture and food, as well as meeting many U-M alumni in Japan. Check out Michael’s story on U–M’s Alumni Association’s “I Am Michigan” webpage at alumni.umich.edu/IAMMichigan.php.
(2007)

Krishan Fotedar (BSE ’93) obtained an MS in Computer Science from Clemson University and is working for Lucent Technologies in Cary, NC. (1999)

Jonathan Lanfear (BSE ’93, MS BioEngineering ’95). After completing his MBA at Washington University in 2000, Jonathan took employment as an Equity Analyst covering the Biotechnology sector for AG Edwards. He continues in this capacity today and his team was recently honored by Fortune Magazine for their stock picking in the wake of the bursting of the “biotech bubble”. (2003)

After 12+ years at NEC Electronics in Roseville, CA, Jeff Lawrence (BSE ’93) is now working at MEMS Optical, Inc. as a fabrication process engineer. He resides in Huntsville, Alabama with his wife, Karen, and their two young children, Lucy and Jack. (2007)

Michael Maten (BSE ’93) has been working at Sun Chemical Corporation in Northlake, IL for the last six years. Sun is the world's largest producer of printing inks. My current title is Manager, Manufacturing Information Technology. In this role, he serves as the liaison between the engineering and IT departments, managing several automation and systems integration projects at sites across the US and Europe. Recent projects have taken him to Florence and Brussels.

He received his MBA from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business in 1998. He lives in downtown Chicago, but finds time to make it back to Ann Arbor for the football games! (1999)

Saroja Ramanujan (BSE ’93) did her doctoral work at Wisconsin after grad-uating from Michigan, followed by a post doc at the Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School. Now, she lives in the San Francisco bay area and works for a biosimula-tion startup company called Entelos. She got married in August in Ann Arbor. (2002)

Kristin Gross (BSE ’94) is still working as a Sales Manager for Chr. Hansen, a Danish company. She married John Henry Nicewick last year. They just had a baby boy, Henry Walker Nicewick born on April 7, 2006. They are still happily living in Chicago, IL and enjoy getting together with ChEs all over the globe. (2006)

Serena Hung (BSE ’94) went to medical school at Wake Forest University of Medicine and completed her residency and fellowship at Cornell Medical Center and the University of Toronto. She is now specialized in neurology, with a further subspecialization in Parkinson’s disease and related disorders, working at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, WI. (2005)

Javier Jasinski (BSE ’94) and his wife had a son, Federico, on March 27, 2005, in Montevideo, Uruguay. Their daughter, Florencia, is almost three years old now. Javier is currently commercializing pharmaceutical active ingredients for the Latin American market. (2005)

Concetta (Tina) Maltese (BSE ’94) gave birth to Annamaria Sophia DeCamp on March 11, 2005. Tina and her husband have moved back to the Cleveland area and are enjoying parenthood! . (2005)

Ross W. McFarland, M.D. (BSE ’94, M.D.’98) was married June 2, 1995. He was elected to Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society in 1997. He started a residency program in Internal Medicine in July 1998. (1999)

Peter Valianatos (BSE ’94) received an MS in ChE from Univ of Rochester in 2001. Pete has been working as a senior process development engineer at E Ink in Cambridge, MA, working on electronic paper. He celebrated his second wedding anniversary with wife Tricia. He would like to hear (pvalianatos@eink.com) from any ChemE's in the Boston area. (2003)

Charles (Chad) White (BSE ’94) received an MS in Energy and Resources from the University of California in Berkeley this year. After turning down brilliant opportunities in the U.S. Congress, a promising film career, and the chance to launch his international chain of konditorei’s, Chad has decided to continue in the Energy and Resources Group (ERG) at UC Berkeley to pursue a PhD in environmental policy. Chad lives in Berkeley and taught 9th grade science this summer. (1999)

Michelle Zimmerman (BSE ’94) works as a strategic marketing manager at Novellus Systems in Silicon Valley. She is also launching a career development seminar called “Women: Make Your Mark” and working on her first book, a collection of poetry. (2003)

Akhil Agrawal (PhD ’95) transitioned to a position in research planning and integration at Merck after working on a team focused on the launch of the Gardasil vaccine. Nancy (Berry) Agrawal (PhD ’96) is continuing her role as director of pharmacokinetics and biopharmaceutics in clinical drug metabolism at Merck. Akhil and Nancy live in Audubon, PA and have a four-year-old son, Dillon. (2007)

After working at BASF for four years post-U–M and living in Texas, Michigan, North Carolina, and Tennessee, Ryan Aguirre (BSE ’95) received an MBA in supply chain management from Arizona State in 2001. He then worked for a start-up and Mattel in El Segundo, CA, deciding after 4 1/2 years to head for the mountains. He is now working in Golden, CO for the Coors Brewing Company in a strategic sourcing role with responsibility for managing approximately $40 million in company spending. He and his wife of one year, Jennifer, are expecting their first child in November 2006. (2006)

Eric Hunsanger (BSE ’95) received his MEng in automotive engineering from the University of Michigan in April of 2004. He is employed as a car & truck certification engineer at the Ford Motor Company. He can usually be found tailgating at the golf course prior to home football games with fellow ChE alums, Alan Bell ('95), Paul Gross ('96), and Darius Harrison ('99). (2004)

Steve Hurley (BSE ’95) is married and has two daughters and is currently working for GE Plastics in Southfield. (2002)

Michele Pfeiffer (BSE ’95) moved from GE Lighting, Cleveland in 1999 and is currently working at GE Aircraft Engines in Cincinnati as a leader for Material Services Demand Planning. She gets to make her way up to Ann Arbor a few times a year to participate in recruiting for GE and the Industrial Cluster for the Minority Engineering Program Office (MEPO). She says it’s amazing to see how much North Campus has changed! (2002)

Jennifer (Tipa) Beedon (BSE ’95) graduated from Harvard Business School on June 6, 2002, with a master’s degree in business administration. She and her husband relocated to California this summer, as Jennifer has accepted a job as a manager of business development with Guidant Corporation. (2002)

Shawn Way, P.E., (BSE ‘95) now resides in Houston, Texas. His primary occupation is husband and father, to his wife (Inna Pereverzeva) of 3 years and their two lively children, Lisa and Alex, respectively. His other job is at Tanox, Inc. where he is Engineering Manager for operations, overseeing the maintenance and engineering of clinical facilities and generally harassing quality assurance. (2003)

Kim Wicklund (BSE ’95) graduated with her Ph.D. from UC-Berkeley’s Chemical Engineering Department in May 2001. She spent a year working as a research scientist, then moved to a sales/applications scientist position at a digital imaging/systems engineering company that specializes in fluorescence microscopy applications. Kim’s based in San Francisco, so if anyone is in the area, drop her a line! (2003)

Nicole Woltschlaeger (BSE ’95) and her husband, Erik Zamirowski (BSE ME 95), are the proud new parents of a beautiful little girl, Kirsten. She was born two weeks early on June 6, 2005 and was 7 lb 15 oz, and 20.5 inches long. Nicole quit her job as a senior process engineer with Unilever to be a full-time stay-at-home mom. (2005)

Walter D Carlson (BSE ’96, MBA ’03) was working at GM Lansing Car Assembly when it closed last May. Two days after leaving GM Lansing Car Assembly he started with the team at GM Lansing Delta Township. The plant has been under construction for the past 26 months. On May 26, 2006 they rolled out the first Saturn Outlook. Walter is currently working in the paint shop as a group leader managing the Topcoat Review and EOL Areas. He has started racing ASA Late Models and is in his third year of driving the Vitroco Chevy (2006)

Andrea Cousino (BSE ’96) has been working for Accenture for five years and was just promoted to Manager this March. She traveled in Europe for three weeks this year with fellow ChE alum, Susan Maskery. (2001)

Phil Cusick (BSE ’96) just completed his MBA at NYU and will start working for BearStearns,a New York investment bank in August. He was recently engaged; no wedding date has been set yet. (2001)

Brian Elliott (BSE ’96, MS Public Affairs, ’98) works for Clean Water Action Alliance of Minnesota as an Energy Project Organizer. (1999)

Kevin Fok (BSE ’96, MBA ’02) is manager of marketing at Ovonic Fuel Cell Company and is responsible for marketing, business development and fuel cell systems integration. He recently led a team in exhibiting an operating fuel cell system at the National Hydrogen Association Annual Hydrogen Conference 2007 in San Antonio, TX. (2007)

Venu Ghanta (BSE ’96) is currently serving as a Peace Corps volunteer in Janakpur, Nepal. He is a secondary school science teacher and hopes to have a water and sanitation engineering focus for his secondary project. You can contact him at venug22@yahoo.com. (2003)

Dieter Schweiss (MSE ’96) married Leila Ann Grubby on March 22, 2002, and on November 18, 2002, their son, Devin Peter Schweiss, was born. He is currently working as a Technical Services Engineer at Epic Systems Corporation in Madison, WI. (2005)

Robert Solem (BSE ’96) and Marie Wiescinski Solem (BSE ’96) recently received MBAs from the Kellogg School of Management. They are both consultants with the Chicago office of The Boston Consulting Group and recently moved from Evanston to Chicago. Marie and Rob can be reached at msolem2003, and rsolem2004, @kellogg.northwestern.edu. (2005)

David Spitzley (BSE ’96) and Sherri Slotman (BS ’96, MSW ’97) were married in Hawaii in September 1998. They currently live in Southfield, MI, where David is a principal researcher and project manager for the LifeCycle Management group at Battelle Memorial Institute. (1999)

Becky J. Vander Eyk (BSE ’96) just finished her MBA at Harvard Business School in June '01. She's working in Business Development for Advanced Payments at American Express, and living in Hoboken, NJ. Becky is enjoying the job very much aside from having her office relocated to Stamford, CT, after the Amex building was damaged in the WTC disaster. She recently returned from a 5 week trip around Asia, including Japan, China, Thailand and Cambodia. (2001)

Marie (Wiescinski) Solem (BSE ’96). See, Robert Solem (BSE ’96)

Ellyne Buckingham (BSE ’97) is still at Procter & Gamble in Cincinnati, OH, and is senior process development engineer in the paper division. She married another P&G’er, Mike Prodoehl, in Michigan on Saturday, June 28, 2003. (2003)

Sean Connors (BSE '97) was recently promoted to engineering manager for Avon’s Morton Grove site and is in an MBA program at Northwestern University. (2007)

Dom DeCaria (BSE ’97) just started a new job at Noveon, Inc., in Avon Lake, Ohio, just west of Cleveland. He'll be a process engineer for a facility that makes thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU). His e-mail address is dom_decaria@yahoo.com. (2003)

Tommy Golczynski (BSE '97) worked initially for Stone & Webster doing oil refinery/petrochemical plant design in Houston, TX. He left to join a start-up consulting company in Houston for the offshore oil industry, Multiphase Solutions. He is general manager and has authored/presented papers throughout the world, most recently in Southeast Asia and Africa. (2004)

Jonah Klein (BSE '97) is working as a process engineer for Degussa Corporation, where he is part of a technology & process group that supports manufacturing sites in North America. Jonah graduated with an MS in BiomedE and a PhD in ChE from the University of Florida, where he also met his wife, Monica Sung. They live in Mobile, AL, where Monica attends medical school at the University of South Alabama. Monica and Jonah were married in June, 2004. (2005)

Kerri Oikarinen (BSE ’97) and Travis Fischer (BSE ’98) were married on March 24, 2001. Travis and Kerri live in Ypsilanti, Michigan. Travis is working at WorldCom as an LAN/WAN engineer and Kerri is working at Visteon as a product design engineer. (2001)

David Maurer (MS ’97), an avid football fan, has just completed his rotational engineering period at Motorola, Inc. in Phoenix, AZ. He was placed in a process development engineering position in the GaAs production facility. David is a member of AIChE and the Motorola Volunteer Program. He would like to extend his warmest wishes to all, especially with winter fast approaching. (1999)

Steve Silarski (BSE ’97) has worked at the Exxon Baton Rouge Refinery since graduation. He started as a process engineer in Hydrocracking/Hydrofining, then was assigned as the Air Quality Engineer for the site, ensuring regulatory compliance. From there he moved into a coordination role, working the logistics for crude deliveries and optimizing feed slates to crude units. Recently, he stepped into another coordination role where he is optimizing operations for coking units, as well as working feed import/export issues and logistics. (2000)

Atisa Sioshansi (BSE ’97, MSE ’97) after a great career with P&G, is now in Silicon Valley working for a startup automotive internet company. The company is still in stealth mode—you should hear about it over the next few months. She wishes the best to the department and alumni! (2000)

Jeff Draper (BSE ’98) and Kim Snodgrass (BSE ’97) left Chicago and Abbott Laboratories to relocate in Butte, MT in February 2005.  Jeff is developing acoustic mixing equipment for bioreactors at a small R&D company. Kim completed a master’s degree in environmental engineering in May 2007.  They both are enjoying the outdoor opportunities of living in the mountains. (2007)

Sam Wall (BSE ’97) is going back to school for an advanced degree, after working as a development engineer at a Bay Area biotech for the last four years, This fall he will be starting a joint Ph.D. program between UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco in bioengineering. In addition, Sam recently became engaged to fellow Michigan graduate, Brita Graham, and they plan to marry next year. (2002)

Amanda (Uhrick) Reinfeld (BSE ’97) has been working with BP/Amoco since graduation. She is currently working within their Chicago trading and supply organization, although she resides in Boston. She is married and has a 15-month-old daughter, Sophia. (2007)

Carrie Worthen (BSE ’97) has been working for DuPont since graduation and recently was working as a safety manager and quality engineer at the DuPont Holographics site in Logan, Utah. She’s decided to stay in Utah and is now working as a health and safety services coordinator for the University of Utah Environmental Health and Safety Department. She got married in January 2004 in Las Vegas and is living in Kaysville, Utah. (2004)

Amit Advani (BSE ’98) is currently living in Mumbai, India. In 1999, he started his own company, Bombay Fluid System Components Ltd, in association with the Ohio headquartered Swagelok Company. His company is the regional partner of Swagelok Company in India, and is in the business of fluid system components for instrumentation applications in most major process sectors. Amit is currently the managing director of the company and is responsible for the overall operations, growth, and strategy. He got married in February 2002 to Pooja Tulsiani, who attended the university at the same time he did. (2001)

After completing his PhD in bioengineering at Rice University, Jeremy Blum (BSE ’98) worked in Northern Iraq as a medical education and research consultant for an international relief and development organization from March 2004 to February 2005. The focus of his work was supporting and implementing projects in higher education at the local universities with a specific focus in the area of biotechnology. Jeremy also taught a graduate course on the scientific method and on the engineering approach to problem solving (many were concepts taken from ChE 230). Jeremy is starting a postdoctoral fellowship in biomedical engineering at Yale University. (2005)

Andrea Brown (BSE ’98) is a project management associate at Eli Lilly and Company and campus recruiter for Lilly engineering recruiting. She plans to marry Michael Ferguson (UIUC engineering grad) on September 6, 2003, in Indianapolis, IN. (2003)

Sam Catalano (BSE ’98) and Andrea Vitiello were married on November 18, 2006. Sam was also recently appointed technical service engineer for the Crude/Vacuum Unit at Marathon Petroleum Company’s 105,000 BPD Refinery in Detroit. (2007)

Sarah Cunningham (BSE '98) married longtime beau, Brendan, on December 31, 2003. Brendan and Sarah have been together since high school. Her name has changed officially...she's Sarah Kusisto now. Brendan is a nuclear engineering officer stationed on the USS Nimitz in San Diego and she is working as a process engineer at Illumina, also in San Diego, where she works in their oligonucleotide manufacturing area. (2004)

Matt Daily (BSE ’98) wife, Roni, gave birth to their son, Hunter, on Valentine’s Day. He’s growing fast and learning new things every day. They moved to Syracuse, NY in June, where he has started medical school at Upstate Medical University Syracuse. (2005)

Mathieu Delahaye (MSE ’98) is doing fine in France, where he is in charge of research and development of new water treatment processes (drinking water and waste water) in several countries (France, Italy, Spain). He is working for SAUR, which is the fourth largest water treatment company in the world. (2002)

Kimberly Dillon (BSE ’98) After a fantastic six week trip through Europe following graduation, she moved to Seattle to start work with The Boeing Company in the Chemical Support group for the 747, 767 and 777 airplane manufacturing factory. She recently switched jobs and is working in the procurement organization as a Finance Analyst. Outside of work, Seattle is a great place to live, and she enjoys life out there. (1999)

Kim SnodgrassJeff Draper (BSE ’98). See (BSE ’97)

Travis Fischer (BSE ’98) and Kerri Oikarinen (BSE ’97) were married on March 24, 2001. Travis and Kerri live in Ypsilanti, Michigan. Travis is working at WorldCom as an LAN/WAN engineer and Kerri is working at Visteon as a product design engineer. (2001)

Steve Gray (BSE ’98) married Emily Sayers, his college sweetheart, the summer after graduation. He began pursuing a degree in dentistry at UM in fall 1998. Steve graduated in April 2002 with a D.D.S. Last fall Steve and his wife had their first child, a boy named Ezekiel (“Zeke”) David Gray. Zeke was 8 lb.,15oz., 22.5 inches long- a big boy! He and mom are doing well. (2002)

Don Gualdoni (BSE ’98) graduated with his MBA in marketing and strategy from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University in June. He accepted a position as an associate with McKinsey & Co., based out of the Miami office. (2003)

Debra Hausman (BSE ’98) started working for Procter & Gamble Pharmaceuticals in January 1999. She is a process engineer in a group called Market Support Technology Organization. It is comprised of both Process Development and Product Supply people (I'm a Product Supply person). They supportcurrent brands when the plants don't have the time or resources to work on longer-term projects. She supports projects at our plants in Norwich, NY and Manati, Puerto Rico. She really enjoy the work and the travel. She is taking courses towards a Masters in Industrial Pharmacy through video-conference with the University of Cincinnati and will apply to the graduate program soon. She did not take a long break between graduation and her employment, but she was able to spend nine days this summer horse-back riding around the Ring of Kerry, Ireland. She was also back at U of M recruiting at the Career Fair. She hopes that the new grads keep in mind that the recruiters were in their shoes not too long ago, so they shouldn't feel intimidated. (1999)

Helen (Hennighausen) Schiavone (BSE ’98) and her husband, Sebastian (BSEEE ’98), recently added a daughter to their growing family. Ekaterina Schiavone was born at home on March 27. Her older brother, Gabriel, just turned two in May. She’s enjoying life as a full-time mom at their home on beautiful Whidbey Island, 45 minutes north of Seattle. (2006)

Lisa Ingall (BSE ’98) received her master’s degree in project management from the George Washington University School of Business in Washington, DC, in May 2007 and was awarded the School of Business Project Management Program Award for Excellence by the business school faculty. Lisa plans to use her degree in her position as a senior certified project manager at IBM. (2007)

Sujata Naik (BSE ’98) spent two years in Peace Corps Madagascar doing health education after graduation. She is now a process development engineer for the Hair Care Unit in Procter and Gamble in Cincinnati. (2002)

Rachael Schmedlen (BSE ’98) is entering the fifth year of a Ph.D. program in bioengineering at Rice University, where she has been working on the development of elastic hydrogel scaffolds for tissue engineered vascular grafts. If all goes well, she will be Dr. Schmedlen by May or August of 2003! Following graduation, she hopes to find a job in the biotech industry. (2002)

Stephanie (Schultz) Coleman (BSE ’98) and her husband, Ray, and welcomed their first baby, Joseph Ray, on October 17th, 2004. Joseph weighed 9 lbs, 10 oz. Stephanie is currently work at Ford Motor Company and taking eight months off to care for the new little one. (2004)

Michael Sproule (BSE '98) has worked for Ford Motor Company/Visteon Corporation for seven years. He most recently joined Visteon's advanced materials department supporting research and development of polymers for automotive interior applications. Michael wed Diahann Pearson in the fall of 2003. (2004)

Rosalin Tjia (BSE ’98) is now happily employed at Abbott Laboratories, in North Chicago. Her position is Process Support Engineer, supporting the manufacturing of an active pharmaceutical ingredient via distillation. Distillation, who would have thought? She lives in Chicago currently and loves the city, in spite of the huge amount of snow they get in the winter and the blistering heat in the summer. (2000)

Isaac Yue (BSE ’98) graduated from Harvard School of Dental Medicine on June 6, 2002, cum laude. He will be attending the University of Illinois at Chicago in September for a post-doctoral residency in orthodontics. (2002)

Naoko Akiya (MSE ’99, PhD ’01) has been working for Dow Chemical in Freeport, Texas, in the Research Assignment Program, a rotation program for new hires in R&D since the end of June 2001. She will be done with the program by mid-August, at which point she will join the Reaction Engineering discipline in Corporate R&D. Naoko and her husband are moving into a house in a suburb of Houston, which they are building in July of this year. They thoroughly enjoy being back in Texas! (2002)

Andrew Bayley (BSE ’99) is in the PDP (Professional Development Program) at BASF and has had the opportunity to work as a project engineer, operations engineer, research engineer, and now as a technical service representative. I spent time at plants in Ohio, Louisiana, and Michigan before taking a permanent placement in Livonia, MI, (2001)

Andrea (Bologna) Barringer (BSE ’99) has a new baby boy, Jonathon Thomas Barringer, born March 22. Andrea is still working as a sales account manager at Lear Corporation. (2004)
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Jennifer Braganza (BSE ’99, IOE ’01) relocated to Hanover, Germany with Continental AG, an automotive supplier, in January 2004. She currently works in Portfolio Management for the Passenger and Light Truck Division. The past two years have been filled with making new friends from all over the world and travelling around Europe. The summer will be filled with lots of excitement as Germany hosts the World Cup.

Carmita (Burnette) Vaughan(BSE ’99) has decided to leave the corporate world and use her powers for good! She has been accepted as a Broad Resident, a two-year residency that recruits MBA grads from the private sector and places them in senior leadership roles in urban school districts. As such, she is currently working as a project manager for the Chicago Public Schools reporting to the COO. She and her husband, Damon, are enjoying their first year of marriage! (2005)

Jennifer Casteel (BSE ’99) is working at Hewlett-Packard in Roseville, CA, as an engineering manager. During the past year, she finished her MBA and got married—it’s been very exciting and busy! (2001)

Dustin Clinard (BSE ’99) is moving to Wisconsin to work for BASF. He filed a patent application within the first six months of graduation. Very exciting! (2001)

Jamey Condevaux (BSE ’99) is still working in the world of combustion and propulsion (mostly air and space) in Michigan. He and his wife just welcomed twin boys, Luc and Teo, into the world in Fall 2006! (2007)

Nicole Coy (BSE ’99) lives in Washington, D.C. and works for the United States Patent and Trademark Office. This fall she will be attending George Mason Law School where she will study intellectual property. (2001)

Tom Kaminski (BSE ’99) is still working with Accenture (based out of Detroit). He recently became engaged and will be getting married in May 2004. (2003)

Benita (Kuo) Comeau (BSE ’99) married Jon Comeau (MSE EE ‘99) on May 18, 2002, in Minneapolis. Benita and Jon will be leaving their jobs at Agere Systems in Minneapolis, and moving to Atlanta where they’ll both be attending Georgia Tech for graduate school. (2002)

Thomas Kaminski (BSE '99) got married in Ann Arbor in May and moved to Durham, NC in June. He will continue working for Accenture and is now based out of their Raleigh office. (2004)

Charley Lloyd (BSE ’99) married Malcolm Eaton on July 21, 2007 in a small, family ceremony in Warren, Michigan. Charley received a promotion in 2006 to assistant director for diversity for the College of Computer, Mathematical and Physical Sciences at the University of Maryland and most recently was appointed acting director for the same unit. (2007)

Jenny Ma (BSE ’99) is working as a process engineer at 3M in Cottage Grove, MN. She married Chris Harvey on June 28, 2003, in Michigan. Chris and Jenny met at 3M in 1998. They plan on staying in the Saint Paul area . . . for now (2003)

LaRuth McAfee (BSE '99) received Dr. Martin Luther King Leadership Awards at MIT in February 2004. LaRuth, a doctoral student in chemical engineering, is treasurer of the Graduate Student Council (GSC) and co-chair of the Black Graduate Students Association. While serving as chair of the GSC’s Orientation Committee, she put together a graduate student volunteer day, which is now a regular part of orientation. In addition to her work on campus, McAfee tutors children in math and science on Saturday mornings in a Cambridge church. (2004)

Andrea Messmer (BSE ’99) is based in Poi Pet, Cambodia where she is a technical advisor for the government of Cambodia on a program that returns and reintegrates victims of child-trafficking from Thailand. In her spare time, she runs a children’s library and coordinates small-scale development projects around Poi Pet. (2007)

Matt Skindzier (BSE '99) had been living in Chicago, IL since graduation. Matt graduated from the manufacturing professional development program at Abbott Laboratories in 2003 and spent the last year as a materials management supervisor in Abbott's Hospital Products Division. Matt was recently accepted to the MBA program and the Tauber Manufacturing Institute program (TMI) at Michigan, and returned to Ann Arbor this summer. (2004)

Elizabeth (Peckham) Stavens (BSE ’99) graduated in August 2001 from Purdue University with an M.S. in chemical engineering and joined the ExxonMobil Process Research Labs (EMPR) in Baton Rouge, LA. She recently got married (September 2001) to Kevin Stavens. Liz and her husband met at Purdue during a summer internship in 1998 and he also now works at EMPR. (2002)

Megan Peplinski (BSE ’99) is working as a Six Sigma Black Belt at the DuPont Belle Plant in Belle, WV. She is pursuing her master’s in business administration from Indiana University, and she is expecting to graduate in the fall of 2003. Megan plans to marry Kevin Reehling in October 2002. (2002)

Cynthia (Postema) Frayman (BSE ’99) married her high school sweetheart, Chuck Frayman, in 1999 and now resides in Mundelein, IL (a suburb of Chicago). She works at Abbott Laboratories in North Chicago as a senior controls engineer. (2003)

Kelly (Ries) Westerfield (BSE ’99) and her husband, Aaron, welcomed Shawn Michael Westerfield into their family on November 23, 2004. Kelly has returned to work at Procter and Gamble as a senior engineer in skin care product development. (2005)

Aisha Rengan (BSE ’99) completed a professional master of science degree in industrial mathematics at Michigan State in December 2001 and is now working at Guidant in Santa Clara, CA, as a quality/process engineer. She got married on April 7, 2002. During the summer of 2001 she worked at Guidant in California where she spent a lot of time with Benita Kuo who was working in the area. (2002)

Johanna E. Rovira (MSE ’99) moved back to her native Puerto Rico in October 2006, to start working at Eli Lilly (Guayama site). Her email is johannar@umich.edu. (2007)

Matt Skindzier (BSE '99) has been living in Chicago, IL since graduation. Matt graduated from the MPDP (Manufacturing Professional Development Program) at Abbott Laboratories in 2003 and has spent the last year as a Materials Management Supervisor in Abbott's Hospital Products Division. Matt was recently accepted to the MBA and TMI programs at Michigan, and will be returning to Ann Arbor this summer.

Arul Thirumoorthi (BSE ’99) was assigned in April to Engineering R&D at the BASF Group headquarters in Ludwigshafen, Germany for two years. He works there with extraction technologies, focusing on debottle-necking, scale-up and process evaluation using theoretical methods as well as experimentation in their extraction process laboratory. Arul joined BASF’s Professional Development Program (PDP). During the 18 month course of the program, he worked on process simulation for R&D in Wyandotte, MI as well as Supply Chain Logistics in Mt. Olive, NJ and process engineering in Houston, TX. (2001)

Kristen (Walkush) Yeh (BSE ’99) and her husband, Elbert, welcomed a new member to their family last fall. Nathan Hao-Ran was born on November 15, 2003. Kristen and her family have moved back to Michigan and now reside in Grand Rapids. Kristen is enjoying her new career as a stay-at-home mom. (2004)

Eric Bernath (BSE ’00) has moved from Huntington Beach, CA to Charlottesville, VA to attend the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia. He plans to return to California after completing his MBA to continue work in the biomedical industry. (2006)

Kelvin Chan (BSE ’00) completed his PhD in chemical engineering at MIT in August. His research focused on making structurally well-defined polymeric thin films for biological and microelectronic applications using chemical vapor deposition. (2005)

Kay (Chow) Timbers (BSE ’00). See, Jon Timbers (BSE ’00).

Matt Duncan (BSE ’00) is a member of the technical staff of the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board, which is a federal agency located in Washington D.C. He plans to attend Princeton University next year to study for a master’s degree in chemical engineering. After graduation he plans to return to work at the DNFSB. (2001)

Deanna Mouro (BSE ’00) has moved to Pennsylvania (about 30 miles north of Philadelphia) to work in Pharmacuetical Research and Development at Merck & Co., Inc. She plans to go to grad school sometime in the future. (2001)

Michael Paczas (BSE ’00) graduated from the University of Michigan Medical School in 2004. He’s currently living in Cleveland, OH while pursuing a residency in Orthopaedic Surgery at University Hospitals of Cleveland/Case Western Reserve University. Go Wolverines! (2004)

Andy Rusiniak (BSE ’00, BiomedE ’01) started working for Eli Lilly in June of this year in the Fermentation Development department. On November 2, 2002, he will be marrying Lani Pascual. (2001)

Kim Sarquis (BSE ’00) has been living in San Francisco, CA and working at Genentech, Inc., since graduation. She’s now working in the manufacturing science and technology department as a process engineer. (2006)

Jon Timbers (BSE ’00) and Kay (Chow) Timbers (BSE ’00) relocated with the Dow Chemical Company to Joliet, IL in July 2006. Jon accepted a job with the polystyrene production plant in Joliet and Kay is working at Dow’s “Great Stuff” plant in Wilmington, IL. (2006)

Sameena N. Ahmed (BSE '01) and Jason J. Akbar (LS&A BS '01) were married on July 27, 2002 and welcomed their first child, Amir Jamal Akbar, on August 3, 2005 at the Good Samaritan Hospital in Cincinnati, OH. The couple recently brought their son to visit the university where his parents met eight years ago, on their first day on campus as freshmen! They look forward to many more wonderful visits to Ann Arbor. Sameena is a project engineer for L’Oréal USA and Jason is completing his residency in radiology at the University of Cincinnati.

Rebecca Aron (BSE '01) completed her master's degree in biomedical engineering from U-M in 2002 and has been working for Guidant Corporation, a large medical device company, in St. Paul, MN for the past two years. This fall she's back in Ann Arbor to continue her education in medical school. (2004)

Nate Barber (BSE ’01) was married May 12, 2001, just 14 days after graduation. He moved to Aliso Viejo, CA (Southern California) and is employed by Fluor Daniel as a Process Engineer. Nate is working on dynamic simulation and with reliability, availability, and maintainability analysis. (2001)

Brandon "BT" Cesul (BSE ’01, MEng Space Systems '02 ) was elected president of the U-MAlumni Association for Dayton OH. He took a sabbatical from his job at Wright Patterson AFB for 8 months to work on his PhD. BT was married on October 21, 2005 to Karen Campo (BS Psych '03)! (2005)

Julie Champion (BSE ’01) married Kevin Boulware on April 8, 2006. Julie and Kevin are working on their PhDs in chemical engineering at University of California, Santa Barbara. (2006)

Prerna Chaudhry (BSE ’01) and Aashish Maheshwari (BSE ’01, MENG ’02) were recently engaged, in a traditional Indian ceremony! They were honored that Professor Wilkes and his wife, Mary Ann, were able to make it for the engagement festivities! Prerna and Aashish are excited about their upcoming wedding, which will be in India this December. They are both very thankful to the ChE Department, as this is where they met! Prerna works for General Mills in Minneapolis and Aashish works for Amgen in California. (2005)

Mark Dettling (BSE ’01) completed his master’s degree in natural resources at Cornell University in May 2005. He plans to pursue a career in wetlands ecology. (2005)

Jeff Dowell (BSE ’01, MSE ’01) worked in BASF’s PDP rotation program after graduating in 2001. He now is working in Toyota’s Materials Engineering Department at their Ann Arbor location. (2003)

Darrick Gross (BSE ’01) moved to Philadelphia after graduation to work as an assistant director for a non-profit organization working on environmental campaigns, such as fighting to save the national wildlife refuge in Alaska. His next job was as a lab manager for a cancer biology laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania where he was coauthor for a publication in Science. Now Darrick is working towards a PhD in chemistry, investigating transport across the nuclear membrane using electrochemical techniques. (2005)

Nathan Hoffman (BSE ’01) is still working for GE as a production engineer but relocated to the Albany, NY area. He was recently engaged and will get married in May 2007. (2006)

Nadia Ismail (BSE ’01, MSE ’02) is a facilities engineer with ExxonMobil Malaysia in the Upstream Production Company and gets to visit offshore oil and gas platforms every month. She and her husband, Hafeiz, welcomed their son, Noah Azlan, into the world last October. They both miss Ann Arbor and its people very much and hope to visit Ann Arbor again. Nadia says she still enjoys reading Harry Potter books! (2005)

Mike Iwaniw (BSE ’01). See, Regina (Staniszewski) Iwaniw (BSE ’02).

Efy Karagiannis (BSE ’01) joined GE Plastics after graduation and settled in upstate NY, just outside of Albany. She’s recently become a manager in a small manufacturing operation and bought a small cottage on a lake in the country.

Irene Kokkinos (BSE ’01) has been living in Green Bay, WI since graduation. She is a process engineer for Procter and Gamble at a paper products manufacturing site. She says to tell everyone to buy Puffs tissues! (2003)

Rachel Latvala (BSE ’01) is repairing restaurant equipment while pursuing a massage certificate at the Ann Arbor Institute for Massage Therapy. Next year she plans to apply for a teaching position in Japan where, in addition to learning Japanese, she hopes to learn acupuncture. (2003)

Janette Nunn (BSE ’01) has been working at Ford since graduation. She is a product design engineer for fuel systems. She recently bought a condo in Plymouth and is a student at the University of Michigan Business School, working towards an MBA. (2005)

Ken Qian (BSE ’01) and his wife, Chelsea Wang, moved to Manchester, CT, where he has begun working on a PhD in pharmaceutics at the University of Connecticut. They love the summer in New England. (2006)

Terri Stewart (PhD '01) was named to lead Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's Environmental Biomarkers Initiative. Through this initiative, researchers will discover and use biomarkers to transform environmental science. Terri's role is to implement the technical program, recruit new capabilities and staff, and develop the initiative's business strategy.
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Andy Valiquett (BSE '01) received his master’s in pharmaceutical engineering from U-M in 2002 and is working at Eli Lilly and Company in Indianapolis. He is working in the technical service and process engineering departments in dry product manufacturing, specifically for the validation and launch of Cymbalta and Cialis. Andy was married in May of 2002. (2004)

Dan Viaches (BSE ’01) and his wife, Laura (BBA ‘01), have recently moved to Boston to attend Harvard Business School, where they are pursuing their MBAs together. (2006)

Michelle Wu (BSE ’01)and her husband, Dan Hodge, have moved to the biggest littlest state, Rhode Island. Michelle now works as an engineer at Amgen, a biotech company. (2007)

Philip Dooley (BSE ’02) joined the Air Force (as 2nd Lt) in April 2003. In September 2004 he married Joia Woodford and this year they had their first child, Keenan Lawrence, on March 10. Phillip graduated from U–M medical school in 2007. He was promoted to captain when he graduated and moved to Eglin Air Force Base, FL to begin a family medicine residency program that will last until 2010. (2007)

Tracy L. Matson (BSE ’02) has been living in Green Bay, WI since graduation. She is working as a process engineer for Procter and Gamble at a paper manufacturing site, specifically in Charmin. (2003)

Laura (Mendricks) Afflerbaugh (BSE ’02, MENG ’03) married another U–M alumnus, Todd Afflerbaugh (Architecture), in September 2005. She moved from Seattle to San Francisco in March of this year to work for Genentech in their Small Molecule Pharmaceutical Sciences Program. Her new position involves creating formulations for small molecule oncology drugs. (2007)

Jessica Motyl (BSE '02) recently completed GE's operations management leadership program and is now working as a process engineer for GE infrastructure, water and process technologies. She resides in Oceanside, CA and spends her free time training for and competing in triathlons. (2004)

After working for three years and travelling to China with Lexmark International, Decker Ringo (BSE ’02, BSEME ’02) plans to return to school this fall. He will be pursuing a master’s degree with the Technology and Policy Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (2006)

Adarsh Radadia (BSE ’02) is in the ChE PhD program at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). He married his better half, Deepa Vasoya, December 2006 in India. He is developing MEMS-based gas chromatograph for the Department of Defense in his research work at UIUC. (2007)

Regina (Staniszewski) Iwaniw (BSE ’02) started work at Dow Chemical in Midland, Michigan as a process engineer after graduation. She is still with Dow and is now working with the latex business in the technology center. Regina married another ChE alumnus, Mike Iwaniw (BSE ’01), in September 2003. Mike also works for Dow Chemical in Engineering. They added a new addition to their family—daughter, Rachel Leigh—who was born May 24, 2006. They are excited and happy to have Rachel in their lives.

Last September Barry Wolf (PhD ’02) and his family moved to Menlo Park, California so he could join PDL BioPharm’s cell culture process development group, headed by Amit Varma (PhD ’94), located in Fremont, CA. Barry and his wife, Sarah Jacobson, a dermatologist, have a new family member, Abigail Elsie, who was born last October. (2007)

Tamika L. (Young) Banks (BSE '02) has been working at Masco Corporation in Taylor, MI for the past 2 1/2 years as a corporate environmental engineer. She and her husband, Terrence, welcomed second child, Terrence James, Jr., in October 2006. Tamika is pursuing a master’s degree in industrial and manufacturing engineering at the U–M, Dearborn. (2007)

Following graduation, Paul Albertus (BSE ’03) used his Roger Jones Fellowship to study English literature for about nine months at the University of York in England. The fellowship also provided for travel, so he had the opportunity to visit a number of European countries. Following a summer in Michigan, he moved to Berkeley to begin a PhD program in chemical engineering. He made it through the first year and is beginning research on the modeling of battery systems, in accord with his interest in hybrid vehicles.

Thanks to the cooperation of Chemistry Professor Brian Coppola, and chemistry laboratory manager Jack Novodoff, Leroy Covington (BSE ’03) got engaged to long-time friend and Michigan alumnus, Janicca Buggs (LSA Psych ‘01), June 2006 in 1640 Chemistry Building. The romantic proposal, which included a bed of roses and lavender scented candles, took place exactly 2825 days after they met in that room as Chemistry 130 students in Fall 1998. (2006)

Cathy (Ehehalt) Way (BSE ’03) is working for Precisia, as a project engineer in their technical group. She is alsodeveloping and heading up their quality control program. Cathy married Luke Way in May 2005. They are enjoying married life and have just adopted two kittens. (2005)

S. Kelvin Lau (BSE '03) moved to Worcester, MA after graduation in April 2003 to take a job at Abbott Bioresearch Center. He provides technical support for downstream purification of a monoclonal antibody manufacturing process. (2004)

After 2-1/2 years as a post-doc at the U–M College of Pharmacy, Kurt Seefeldt (PhD ’03) started a new position at Schering-Plough in New Jersey in August 2005. Kurt is a senior scientist in the Analytical Development Division, characterizing solid-state pharmaceutical materials. He still enjoys photography when he finds time between the demands of his dog (Emma), wife (Teresa), and children (Max and Alexa). (2005)

Brett Acker (BSE ’04) got married this year. He is working as a process engineer and living in Baltimore, MD. (2007)

Michael Doornbos (BSE ’04) was engaged to Amy Cappo in April 2005 and they were married in their hometown of Midland, MI on July 28, 2007. Michael works at Dow Corning Corporation in Midland, MI as a process engineer. (2007)

Jessica Mattis (BSE '04) announces her engagement to Marco P. Marquez-Cadena. Both work at General Motors, Jessica as a process engineer in the Paint Shop of GM Pontiac Assembly Center, and Marco as a business manager of the Paint Shop of GM Toluca in Mexico. They are planning to be married in 2008. (2006)