From SSU to Nuclear Subs

Daniel Hogan, who will receive his B.A. in physics from Sonoma State University in May 1999, was recently accepted into the U.S. Navy’s nuclear submarine officer program.

Dan will attend officer candidate school in Florida this summer and then enter the nuclear propulsion program, which is restricted to college graduates with degrees in math and science. He will study nuclear physics, chemistry, thermodynamics, electrical engineering, and reactor and core dynamics in Charleston, South Carolina and then work with nuclear reactors and submarines at two more schools. Finally he will be ready to operate the nuclear reactors on submarines.

The second winner of the Department’s Horace Newkirk Assistantship in 1998, Dan came to SSU from UC Irvine, where he was an art major.