Donald R. Baer (B.S. ’69) received a Ph.D. in physics from Cornell University. He is a senior chief scientist at Pacific Northwest National Lab where he is the Technical Group Leader for Films and Interfaces in the Interfacial Chemistry and Engineering Group. In addition, he codirects the Joint Institute for Nanoscience together with the University of Washington.

Lisa M. (Bates) Eley (B.S. ’95) purchased her first house and moved to the tundra of Minnesota upon graduation from Carnegie Mellon to attend graduate school at the Mayo Clinic. Lisa volunteered with the Child Life Program at the Mayo Children’s Hospital and explored her interests in the fields of neurosurgery and brain research. In June 2001, she completed a Ph.D. in biomedical engineering/biomedical imaging. Her thesis research investigated methods to improve stereotactic navigational system accuracy during neurosurgical procedures to compensate for intra-operative brain shift. She is a senior consultant with Booz Allen Hamilton, a technical consulting firm in Arlington, Virginia, and provides technical support for a DARPA program on brain/machine interfaces. She and her husband (also a Mayo Ph.D.) are overseeing construction of their new house in northern Virginia.

Frederick L. Culp (B.S. ’49, M.S. ’60) received a Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University. He retired as professor and chairman of the Department of Physics at Tennessee Technological University in 1986. His book “Understanding the Universe” was published by Vantage Press in 2001.

Larry Glasser (Ph.D. ’62) recently finished a stint as chair of the Physics Department at Clarkson University. He is now Co-PI on an NSF grant to set up the Clarkson Center for Quantum Device Technology. One of his nine grandchildren expects to enter Carnegie Mellon this fall.

Prabhakar Misra (M.S. ’81) earned a Ph.D. in physics from The Ohio State University in 1986. After a postdoctoral fellowship at Ohio State, he joined the faculty of Howard University in Washington, D.C., where he is a professor of physics and heads the Laser Spectroscopy Laboratory in the Department of Physics and Astronomy.

Janelle Molloy, Ph.D. (B.S. ’84) is associate professor in the Department of Radiation Oncology at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, since 1990. She has recently begun a research program incorporating ultrasound into radiation oncology treatment planning.

Andrew Presby (B.S. ’97) joined the U.S. Navy after graduation and completed Naval Nuclear Power Training in 1998 and Submarine Officer Basic Training six-months after that. He has served on the U.S.S. Houston, a Los Angeles class fast attack submarine out of San Diego, California, for the past three years. This included a six-month Western Pacific deployment during which he made port calls in Japan, Korea, Saipan, Guam, the Philippines and Australia. The boat moved up to Bremerton, Washington in late 2001 for a two-year refit and modernization period. He intends to transfer to Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey Bay, California, for two and a half years where he will be studying space systems engineering and applied physics.

Joseph Staniszewski (B.S. ’50) retired from Radio Corporation of America (RCA) in 1989 after a long career in space physics that he began following the Soviet Union’s 1957 launch of Sputnik. Among the projects he worked on was the Ranger Program, which returned continuous sequences of television pictures of the lunar surface. Some of these images were later used in selecting a safe landing area for the Apollo’s Lunar Module.

Eldred F. Tubbs (B.S. ’49) received a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University, applying optical spectroscopy and microwave measurements to study ionized helium. He took a job in the Research Center of American Optical Company, then moved to the Microwave Physics Laboratory of Sylvania. In 1963 he moved to the Physics Department of Harvey Mudd College where he worked on the measurement of spectral-line strengths to study solar iron abundance. He joined the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 1979, where he remained until retirement in 2001.student role model. It also allows the Carnegie Mellon mentors to make a great contribution to society, while providing them a rather unique learning experience.