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1997
Alumni News
Walter Roscello Jr., (B.S. '90) left his job with the Navy and took on a position created for him at the University of Chicago Medical Center. He works with doctors, physicists and medical physicists on creating 3-D images from x-rays, MRI and CAT scans for use in cancer treatment. Walter lives in a 104-year-old Victorian house in Chicago's Hyde Park, together with his wife, Zoa Conner (see below), and their cat, Zelda.
Zoa Conner (B.S. '91) went to graduate school in physics at U of Maryland on a prestigious National Physical Science Consortium Graduate Fellowship. She became the first student from the U.S. to join the "Super-Kamiokande" experiment in Japan, which evolved into the world's premiere neutrino observatory and proton decay experiment. Zoa worked on almost all aspects of the experiment that required frequent extensive travel to Japan, as well as travel across the U.S. to collaboration meetings. She is now at U of Chicago on a Robert McCormick Postdoctoral Fellowship. She has begun to work on STACEE, an atmospheric Cherenkov detector that will study Active Galactic Nuclei and other sources of high-energy cosmic radiation.
Raymond W. Schmitt (B.S. '72), now a senior scientist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, received a Guggenheim Fellowship to study double diffusive convection and oceanic mixing.
Barry Holstein (B.S. '65; Ph.D. '69) wrote his thesis on weak interaction theory under the direction of Lincoln Wolfenstein. After a two-year post-doc at Princeton he accepted a position at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst where he is now professor of physics. He has lived in Amherst since, except for a two-year stint at the National Science Foundation as well as time spent in visiting positions at Princeton and at the University of Washington. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and was recently awarded a Humboldt Senior Scientist Research Fellowship under which he will spend a year at Kernforschungszentrum Jülich, Germany. He has published numerous papers as well as three books, one of which "Topics in Advanced Quantum Mechanics," Addison-Wesley (1992) is strongly influenced by material learned during his time at Carnegie Mellon and is dedicated to the memory of former physics department member and department head Julius Ashkin.
Paul A. Medwick (B.S. '88) completed his Ph.D. in applied physics at Cornell University in 1994. His dissertation work involved the study of glass-like excitations in bulk solids and thin films. During graduate studies he was an IBM Fellow in the Physical Sciences and a U.S. Department of Sciences and a U.S. Department of Education for National Needs in Materials Physics Fellow. Paul is now a senior development physicist with PPG Industries, Inc. in the Vacuum Coatings Group at PPG's Glass Technology Center near Pittsburgh. His present work involves research and development of multilayer optical thin films for fenestration applications. He is a member of the American Physical Society, the Materials Research Society and the Society of Vacuum Coaters.
Hugh Pendleton (B.S. '56; Ph.D. '61) is a professor of physics at Brandeis University. He is a participant in the Philosophy and History of Science Workshop. Hugh has been a member of the Faculty Senate for the last five years, and its chair for two of them. Hugh has been pondering string theory and teaching the occasional course on it for the last 20 years, and wants to "put the fruit of those ruminations on a website."
