Alumni Profile Collection

Browse through our collection of stories about alumni of both our undergraduate and graduate programs at Duke Physics. Keep in touch! Email us with your news.

  • Sheila Brown Bailey, undergrad 1967, is a photovoltaic researcher at NASA’s Glenn Research Center.
  • Joshua Bienfang, undergrad 1994, is a physicist at the National Institute for Standards and Technology.
  • Roger Byrd, PhD 1978, designs satellite instruments and software to detect nuclear testing, Sandia National Laboratory.
  • Susan Clark, undergrad 2004, is a postdoc at the Joint Quantum Institute between University of Maryland and the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
  • Chris De Pree, undergrad 1988, teaches undergraduates and writes books at Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia.
  • Nasser Demir, PhD 2010, is an assistant professor in physics, Kuwait University.
  • Colleen Fitzpatrick, PhD 1983, has been a small business owner, both as a physicist and a genealogist. Here and here.
  • Jacob Foster, undergrad 2003, earned a PhD in physics and is now a postdoc in the sociology department at the University of Chicago.
  • John Gibson, undergrad 1951, had a career in the Air Force, and did operations and economics research.
  • Calvin Howell, PhD 1984, is a Duke Physics professor and director of TUNL. Here and here.
  • Kyozi Kawasaki, PhD 1959, won the Boltzmann Medal in 2001.
  • Le Luo, PhD 2008, is an assistant professor at IUPUI.
  • Christopher Lester, undergrad 2008, won a DOE Fellowship.
  • Gary Lunsford, undergrad 1962, is a senior process improvement consultant ARINC Engineering Services.
  • Ariana Minot, undergrad 2010, is an NSF Graduate Fellow.
  • Leslie Molony, undergrad 1975, is an executive in the pharmaceutical industry.
  • Bryon Neufeld, PhD 2009, is a postdoc in the Nuclear Theory Division at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Here and here.
  • Xin Qian, PhD 2010, is a Millikan Fellow at Caltech.
  • Will Sager, undergrad 1976, is a professor of oceanography and geophysics at Texas A&M.
  • Jay Strader, undergrad 2002, is a Hubble Fellow at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
  • Scott Wilburn, PhD 1993, is Los Alamos program manager for the DOE office of nuclear physics.
  • Scott Zoldi, PhD 1998, is VP of analytic science at FICO.