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(1983) is a software engineer for Bender RBT Inc..

(1998) is an Optical Engineer at L-3 Communications, He formerly worked at JDSU in Santa Rosa.

(1989) teaches physics and chemistry at Pacific Grove High School in Pacific Grove, CA. He earned an M.S. in science education at Montana State University in 2005.

(2000) is an engineer at JDSU in Santa Rosa.

(2012) is a semiconductor equipment supervisor at Keysight Technologies in Santa Rosa.

(1977) runs a jewelry-making business in Santa Fe, NM.

(1992) is the senior worldwide business development manager at IMRA America, Inc. He has worked at several companies in the laser field since earning an M.S. in physics in 1995 at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis.

(1981) is a materials and process engineer with Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Center in Palo Alto. He has worked on the Hubble Space Telescope, the Spitzer Space Telescope, and numerous other satellites.

(1997) is maker relations manager with the Maker Faire organization in San Francisco. She was for many years a group manager, managing software to acess validate, analyze, visualize, and report aerometric data, at Sonoma Technology, Inc. in Petaluma.

(1986) passed away 13 September 2008. He was an assistant professor in radiation oncology at the University of Virginia, where he did research in the radiosensitization of prostate cancer. He earned his Ph.D. in cellular and molecular radiobiology at Colorado State University in 1995 and his M.S. in biomedical engineering from California State University, Sacramento in 1988. (photo).

(1978) is a science writer and programmer. His latest book is The Psychobiotic Revolution, and his latest website is Psychobiotic Revoluiion.

(1975) retired in 2014 after many years as an engineer at Lockheed Martin Space Systems in Palo Alto. He worked on software for several space missions, including the Spitzer Space Telescope and the forthcoming James Webb Space Telescope.

(1987) is the principal of JRJ Simulation & Design, providing consulting services in physical, numerical, and biological modeling. He earned his Ph.D. in physics in 1996 at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he developed 3-D bioacoustic simulations for modeling dolphin biosonar and hearing. He continues to do research in bioacoustic modeling, dolphin biosonar, and marine mammal hearing.

(1988) is an journalist in France, where he runs a regional press agency. Formerly manager of the International Herald Tribune website in Paris, he has also been a senior software engineer with Wells Fargo Online Financial Services and a computer graphic specialist and accelerator system operator at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center.

(2001) was recently a part-time mathematics instructor at Chaffey College in Rancho Cucamonga. He earned an M.S. in physics at San Francisco State University in 2004, and did further graduate work in physics at the University of California, Riverside.

(2013)  has worked for Cable.com LLC in Fairfield and Ridge Communications in San Ramon.

(2013) is an electro-optical engineer at Lockheed Martin Space in Palo Alto. She earned an M.S. in physics at San Diego State University. Formerly an optical engineering intern at Cymer in San Diego, she also interned at Raydiance in Petaluma.

(1985) is writing apps for the iPhone and iPad.

(2014) is a business process analyst at Autodesk, Inc. in Mill Valley.

(2002) is the CFO at DeepNet Computer Consulting. She was formerly Diagnostic Test Engineer with Alcatel-Lucent.

(1978) is the senior manager of global clinical applications and IT liaison for the biostatistics and clinical data management groups of Allergan in Irvine, CA. He also writes a blog.

(2000) is a software engineer. He has worked at Rentrak in Portland, OR. He earned a second bachelor’s degree in mathematics in 2011 at Cameron University in Oklahoma, and he formerly developed software for Tridactyl, LLC, a start-up company specializing in I-Phone apps.

(1975) was director of the engineering support division at the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site in Richland, Washington.

(1986) is a nurse in an intensive care unit at a hospital in the Sacramento area. She has taken classes in photography and took the photos of the Department’s reunion in 2001.

(1986) is a physician assistant in the Emergency Department of the Camp Pendleton Naval Hospital. He earned a Master of Medical Science degree at Midwestern University in 1999. Formerly wastewater permits manager for the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality, he has also worked in the department of public works in Santa Paula and has been a lecturer in civil engineering at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, where he received his M.S. in civil and environmental engineering in 1989.

(1998) was CEO of Mockworld, a developer of Real-Time 3D First-Person Shooter and Multiuser Games. He also operated the online games portal Shockwave3D.com.

(1986) is a self-employed property manager in San Francisco. She received her Ph.D. in biomedical physics at UCLA in 1994 after winning a fellowship upon graduation from SSU.

(1985) is a tutor in Hawaii. He earned an M.S. in physics at San José State University in 2000, and did further graduate study in physics at the University of California, Riverside.

(1984)

Now retired from a career in Astronomy technology. Continuing Astronomy outreach and work with clubs and amateurs.

(2003) is a senior test engineer at Dish Network in Colorado. He was formerly a metrology process engineer at GE/PrimeStar Solar in Arvada, CO.

(1992) is a research and development engineer doing microwave design for Tektronix in Beaverton OR. He formerly worked for many years for Hewlett-Packard and Agilent.

(1979) passed away 2 January 2013 in Florida, where he had written that he enjoyed spoiling grandkids, assisting his wife Dianne with her two APHA Paint horses, riding and working on motorcycles and working on his tan. He was busy teaching the basics of physics and astronomy to several of his grandchildren and was an active Cub Scout Den Leader. He had retired in 2008 as a Senior Staff Research Engineer from the Skunk Works in Lockheed Martin.

(1975) retired to Port Townsend, WA after various engineering positions in the semiconductor industry. He is the author of a blog on nanotechnology and the websites BuildingGadgets.com and UnderstandingNano.com. He has coauthored several books on electronics and nanotechnology, of which the most recent is Complete Electronics Self-Teaching Guide with Projects.

(1982) is a research associate professor in Northwestern University’s Synchrotron Research Center. He was formerly a research beamline scientist and a senior research associate at the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory. He earned his Ph.D. in applied physics at Cornell University, where he worked at the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source, in 1989.

(2009) is a healthcare facility administrator in Oregon City, OR.

(2008) is a product line manager at Alluxa, Inc. in Santa Rosa. He previously worked at Deposition Sciences, Inc. in Santa Rosa.

(2018)

is the Laboratory Manager (IST III) for the physics & astronomy department at SSU.

(1985) is at the Chabot Space and Science Center in Oakland, where he writes and produces planetarium shows, develops exhibits and public programs, and writes a biweekly blog on the KQED Science site. Formerly head observer at the Naval Prototype Optical Interferometer Observatory, an editor and writer on NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, and a telescope operator on the Kuiper Airborne Observatory, he has also taught high school mathematics and physics as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Cameroon.

(1975) is retired from the merchant marine, where he was a radio electronics officer. Now living in Auburn, CA, he is the owner of a computer networking/service/consulting firm, Olympic Computer Services, Inc., serving the marine industry in the Northwest.

(2014) is a dealer at Graton Resort & Casino in Rohnert Park.

(1984) s a programmer with Western Industrial X-ray, Inc. in Fairfield.

(1976) is a graduate student and teaching assistant in physics at the University of Nevada, Reno. He served as an intern with the Committee on Science and Technology of the U.S. House of Representatives during the summer of 2016.

(2004) is a senior epidemiologist for the state of Tennessee. He earned a Masters in Public Health, specializing in both Epidemiology and International Health, at the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 2009.

(1980) is the principal of Serve Rite, an engineering services firm in Sonoma. He was formerly an engineer at Thermo Jarrel-Ash.

(1982) passed away 12 August 2010. She was a volunteer at the SSU Observatory for many years after her graduation, and she earned an M.A. in history at SSU in 1990 with a thesis on astronomer Heber D. Curtis. She also earned a B.A. in history at the University of Cincinnati many years before coming to SSU.

(1976) is a lead engineer with the Boeing Company in Colorado. He earned an M.B.A. in finance at the University of Denver in 1985.

(1974) retired in 2019 as the principal of Computerized Data Systems, Inc, a consultant firm in Houston.

(1981) is a somatics trainer in Sebastopol. She earned an M.A. in biophysics at the University of California, Davis in 1984.

(1994) is a controlled document specialist at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, where she was formerly an accelerator operator. She earned a teaching credential and a master’s degree at Stanford University in 1995.

(2003) has taught conceptual physics at San Francisco State University. He has also taught physics and astronomy at the College of Marin, SSU, and Santa Rosa Jr. College. He holds previous B.S. (UC Berkeley) and M.S. (Stanford) degrees in electrical engineering.

(2005) is a senior coating engineer at II-VI Optical Systems, Inc. in Murrieta, CA.

(1986) is a senior quality engineer with TheraSense, now part of Abbott Diabetes Care, in Alameda.

(1995) is a manager at Winsoft in Santa Ana.

(1988) was promoted to technical fellow at Edmund Optics in New Jersey in 2018. Formerly director of thin films development at Axsun Technologies, he previously built a thin film laboratory while simultaneously working at MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory and earning an M.S. in electro-optics engineering at Tufts University. He worked at Optical Coating Laboratory, Inc. while a student at SSU.

(2003) retired in 2015 as equipment technician for the School of Science and Technology and the Department of Chemistry at Sonoma State University. He is now working on his art and music career in Port Angeles, WA.

(2005) was a process engineer doing molecular beam epitaxy and ion implantation in the High Frequency Technology Center at Agilent Technologies in Santa Rosa until an industrial accident.

(1976) is an associate professor of physics at Westminster College in Utah. He earned his Ph.D. in computational physics at the University of Utah.

(2001) is a staff engineer with Schafer Corporation in Albuquerque. He was formerly a graduate student and research assistant in the department of chemical and nuclear engineering at the University of New Mexico.

(2014) is a graduate student and teaching assistant in physics at Montana State University.

(1988) is an account manager with Helsinn Therapeutics; a family owned Swiss pharmaceuticals and chemicals manufacturing concern. He lives in Tracy.

(1982) is now an artist and photographer. He formerly managed a team of engineers for Polaris Networks in San Jose.

(2004) is a reliability technician currently on assignment at Keysight Technologies in Santa Rosa.

(1989) passed away on 3 May 2015. He was a senior consultant with Manex, a non-profit NIST affiliate, helping small to mid-sized manufacturers to be more competitive. He had previously worked at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and at Read Write systems. He earned an M.B.A. degree at Santa Clara University in 2008.

(1984) is the executive director of the Activities & Attractions Association of Hawaii, where she directed the creation of Pono Rez, a Central Reservation/Global Distribution system for Hawaii’s activities & attractions. She earned an M.B.A. at the University of Hawaii in 2002.

(1990) is the lab technician in the Chemistry & Physics Department at Santa Rosa Jr. College.

(1989) is a capture manager/solution architect at Hewlett Packard Enterprise in the Sacramento area.

(1993) teaches physics at Santa Rosa High School.

(2004) is a health coach in Emeryville. She worked as a research and instrument analyst at the Space Telescope Science Institute from 2008 to 2013. She earned her M.S. in astronomy at San Diego State University in 2008. Formerly a telescope operator at the Very Large Array of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Socorro, NM, she worked at NRAO and also at the Hubble Space Telescope during summers while a student at SSU. She has been featured on the Hubble website.

(1978) is a member of the DSP/BIOS Kernel development team at Texas Instruments in Santa Barbara, CA. He was formerly manager of DSP applications development with Ericsson IP Network Edge & Access in Santa Barbara. He received an M.S. in scientific instrumentation at UC Santa Barbara in 1980.

(2008) is the chief technology officer of GeoOrbital in the Boston area. His company produces an electric bicycle wheel that has attracted some attention. He formerly worked in the propulsion department at SpaceX in Hawthorne, CA. He earned an M.S. in mechanical engineering at UCLA in 2009.

(2007) is a quality engineer at Alluxa in Santa Rosa. She spent a year teaching English in Taipei, Taiwan, where she was also an engineering consultant to East-Tender Optoelectronics Corp.

(2015) is a staff geologist with Lettis Consultants International, Inc. in San Rafael.

(1983) passed away 4 June 2020. She retired in 2018 after thirty-five years as a lecturer in the SSU Department of Physics and Astronomy. She taught several introductory laboratory courses.

(1980) retired in 2018 as a senior scientist for Met One Instruments, Inc. in Grants Pass, OR. He formerly held similar posts at MesoSystem Technology and Hach Homeland Security Technologies in Grants Pass, OR. He has also been on the faculty of Linfield Research Institute and the Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology, where he earned his Ph.D. in applied physics in 1985. He was honored as one of Sonoma State University’s Distinguished Alumni in 1995.

(1998) is an estate and trust manager with Lifetime Advocacy Plus in Seattle.

(2007) is a senior software engineer with View Dynamic Glass (formerly Soladigm) in Olive Branch, MS.

(1995) is director of business development for Edmund Industrial Optics.

(1993) is the physical sciences technician at College of Marin.

(2017) is an associate at Sage Renewable Energy Counsulting in San Rafael. He previously conducted research at the Wolfram Summer School and at CERN.

(1982) is a senior program manager at General Atomics in the San Diego area.

(1997) is a senior software engineer with SUSE in the Sacramento area. He formerly worked for Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company.

(1993) is a quality supervisor at Amy’s Kitchen in Santa Rosa. He was formerly the quality manager at Dynatex International, a manufacturer of semiconductor equipment and materials in Santa Rosa.

(2009) is a hazardous materials specialist for the Contra Costa County Health Services Hazardius Materials Programs. He earned an M.S. in physics at California State University, Fresno in 2012. He did research in experimental particle physics at CERN.

(2009) is a mathematician at Grand Vision Gaming in Reno, NV.

(1988) teaches physics, astronomy, and other science courses at West Valley College in Saratoga. He was formerly a lecturer in physics at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. He earned his Ph.D. in physics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, in 2001 after doing research at the HERA accelerator in Hamburg, Germany. He earned his master’s degree in physics at San Francisco State University.

(1980) is a professor emeritus of applied aviation sciences at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. He earned his Ph.D. in astronomy at the University of Florida in 1987.

(1986) retired in 2009 after 33 years as a psychiatric technician at the Sonoma Developmental Center.

(2012) is a software engineer at Raytheon in Arizona. She earned a master's degree in applied physics at Northern Arizona University in 2014.

(1983) is a part time senior analyst with Distributed Utility Associates in Livermore. He is also a consulting analyst with the California Energy Storage Alliance (CESA) in Berkeley. Jim is also principal of his own consulting firm, E&I Consulting, in Oakland. He provides consulting services involving benefits, markets, applications and R&D related to 1) electrical generation fueled by renewable energy and 2) distributed energy resources (DERs) including distributed electrical generation and storage. A three-time candidate for Congress, he earned a B.A. with a double major in physics and management and he earned an M.A. in management at SSU.

(2012) is an audio software quality assurance engineer at Amazon Lab 126. He previously worked at Knowles Intelligent Audio in Mountain View and SGS in Lenexa, KS.

(1985) is the Chief of the Imaging Guided Intervention Branch of the Cancer Imaging Program in the National Cancer Institute. He also teaches part-time in the Johns Hopkins University school of medicine. He was formerly an assistant professor of radiological sciences and biomedical physics at UCLA, where he received his Ph.D. in 1993.

(1987) is a pilot with United Airlines, flying to Latin America from Miami. He served as an officer in the U.S. Air Force after graduation from SSU.

(1991) is a physicist at PNI Sensor Corporation developing new orientation algorithms and working with magnetic sensing technology. Previously he worked as an electrical engineering consultant developing a custom RF network analyzer, and before that for seven years as a microwave engineer at Agilent Technologies.

(1993) teaches mathematics and science at Cooley Middle School in Roseville. Formerly a teacher at Cross & Crown Middle School in Rohnert Park, he earned his teaching credential at SSU in 1994.

(1984) is a self-employed tax consultant in Kansas. He earned an M.S. in nuclear engineering at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in 1986.

(2009) is an intern engineer at Zeiss XRM in Okaland. He was formerly an account executive at Ricoh Americas Corporation.

(1993) is managing urgent care at the Sonoma Specialty Hospital in Sebastopol. She has been an emergency room physician at Frank Howard Memorial Hospital in Willits and several other hospitals. She earned her M.D. at the University of California, San Francisco in 1997 and did her residency in Santa Rosa.

(2002) is an assistant research scientist in the Center for Applied Structural Discovery of the Bioldesign Institute at Arizona State University, where he completed his Ph.D. in 2014. After graduation from SSU he worked seven years as an engineer in the diabetes care division of Abbott in Alameda and at Symmetricom, Inc. in Santa Rosa. Now a member of the Scottsdale Philharmonic previously played in the Sonoma County Philharmonic.

(2000) is a professional real estate investor in Albany, OR. He was formerly a research and development engineer with Hewlett-Packard in Corvallis, Oregon.

(1982) is a tax advisor at H&R Block. She was formerly a pilot with United and other airlines.

(2012) is a chemistry instructor at Santa Rosa Jr. College. He earned his Ph.D. in chemistry at UCLA in 2018. As a UCLA Collegium of University Teaching Fellow he developed and taught his own general education class, “Communicating Science: Chemistry in the World Around Us.” In 2017 he was was one of just five UCLA teaching assistants to receive a Distinguished Teaching award.

(1995) is teaching physics at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. He earned a Ph.D. in physics, with a dissertation on black holes and extra dimensions, at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2010. Previously he earned a certificate of advanced study in theoretical physics at the University of Cambridge after spending a year at the University of Heidelberg on a Barry Goldwater Scholarship.

(1995) is a graduate student and teaching assistant in physics at the University of California, Riverside. He has taught physics and astronomy at Moorpark College in Moorpark, CA. He was previously a lecturer in physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he received his M.A. in 2002. He earned a certificate of advanced study in theoretical physics at the University of Cambridge in 1996 after spending a year at the University of Heidelberg on a Barry Goldwater Scholarship.

(2005) is teaching science at the Jewish Community High School of the Bay in San Francisco. She formerly taught at Westmoor High School in Daly City. She earned her teaching credential at San Francisco State University in 2012.

(2010) is the production manager at California Cider Company, the maker of Ace Cider, in Sebastopol.

(1990) has taught science at Summit High School in Bend, OR and at Petaluma High School.

(2007) is the CEO of OneDayLabsNew Skin Media, santa rosa, which specialized in website development, branding, and marketing for professional photographers, and Web and Interactive Media Professionals, a community of designers, programmers, marketing specialists, search engine optimization experts, social media gurus and just about anyone having to do with the evolving technological world. She has published a book on designing a website in one day. She also does photography.

(1977) retired in 2008 as a programmer analyst and software engineer. After graduation he taught math and science in Swaziland as a Peace Corps Volunteer.

(2015) is a graduate student and teaching assistant in physics at the University of Nevada, Reno. She spent the summer of 2015 as an Outreach Intern with the American Physical Society after winning one of the twelve national internships sponsored by the Society of Physics Students.

(2010) is a software engineer at Pandora. He earned a master's degree in compuer and information technology at the University of Pennsylvania in 2014.

(2004) is chief operating officer and HIPAA privacy officer at dmi Networking Inc. in Santa Rosa.

(1982) is a consultant on management and process engineering with Rebecca Robinson Associates, Inc. in Rough and Ready, CA. He also does consulting in optics.

(1978) is a senior technical staff member at IBM BigFix, developing products and services that enable enterprises to manage the security and compliance of desktops, servers, and mobile computing devices.

(1971) was chief scientist of Variance Dynamical Corp. in Kasilof, Alaska when he passed away on 21 October 2008. He earned a Ph.D. in geophysics at the University of Alaska, where he taught courses in philosophy and developed a physics program for the Alaska native community. He was at one time president of Earth Science Consulting and Technology Corp. and of the Fairbanks Native Association, Inc. He was also a consultant in mathematical neuropsychology in Anchorage.

(1978) is managing partner with the Bennett Valley Group, Inc., a marketing and consulting firm in Santa Rosa, and also teaches business courses at College of Marin and Dominican College. He has served on the Board of Directors of the SSU Alumni Association. He was formerly an account executive with Socratic Technologies, a market research firm in San Francisco and for many years a business customer research consultant for Hewlett-Packard. A former chair of the Bennett Valley School Board, he earned an M.B.A. at the University of California at Berkeley in 1980.

(1975) passed away 23 March 2008. She studied in the Energy and Resources Group at the University of California, Berkeley and earned a master’s degree in psychology at SSU. She worked in alternate energy and computer programming.

(2008) is a graduate student in optics at the University of Rochester. In 2013 he earned an M.S. in physics at San Diego State University, concentrating on electro-optics.

(2005) is president of Grauling Research, Inc. in Windsor. He was formerly the equipment division manager at Deposition Sciences Inc. in Santa Rosa.

(1981) is an internet software consultant in Tahoe City.

(2000) develops infrared sensors at Teledyne Scientific & Imaging in Camarillo. He formerly worked on focal plane arrays capable of single photon detection at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. He earned a Ph.D. in physics at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell in 2009.

(1989) is a Fleet Implementation Officer in the U.S. Navy. Formerly a naval pilot, he now uses his physics background to conduct analysis on underwater acoustics.

(2005) is a paratransit driver in Chico.

(1992) is on a special assignment for the 2017-18 school year as district coordinator for online learning in the 4J School District in Eugene, OR. He usually teaches mathematics at Churchill High School in the district. From 2004-06 he taught high school mathematics, including International Baccalaureate courses, at the European School in Heredia, Costa Rica. Previously he taught math and science at Geyserville Educational Park, along with numerous courses for Sonoma State University’s PreCollege Programs.

(2001) is director of special projects and data management at Telecare Corp. in Alameda. He was formerly a business analyst with Pacific Pulmonary Services in Novato. For ten years he was an educational developer and information technology consultant on the NASA Education and Public Outreach team at Sonoma State University.

(1998) is a program analyst with E&J Gallo Winery in Modesto.

(2001) is a STEM Evangelist at Microsoft in Washington state. She earned an M.Ed. at Harvard University in 2016. Before that she taught physics at American River College and Hartnell College. She earned her Ph.D. in nuclear physics at the University of California, Davis in 2009.

(2012) is a solutions marketing engineer at Keysight Technologies in Santa Rosa. He received both an MS in electrical engineering and an MBA at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo in 2014.

(1996) is the chair of the physical sciences department at Folsom Lake College, where he teaches physics and astronomy. He earned an M.S. in physics at Michigan State University.

(1977) is retired from his position as a software engineer at Lockheed Martin in Sunnyvale.

(1975) has been an architect, builder, and chef. He now works as a preservations consultant with the Preservation Sanctuary Learning Center in Calistoga.

(2005) is a technician with Broadcom Inc.

(1997) is the principal of Hayes Graphics in Camarillo. He was formerly a computer specialist with the high energy astrophysics division of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, MA, where he worked on the Chandra X-ray Observatory.

(1980) is teaching middle and high school science and math in Sonoma County. He earned his teaching credential at SSU in 1998 after working as a thin film design and project engineer at Optical Coating Laboratory, Inc., Santa Rosa for 15 years.

(2011) is global transformation manager at Keysight Technologies in Santa Rosa. He earned an MBA at California Southern University in 2018.

(1985) from San Francisco, has lived in Vietnam since 1998. He is currently General Director of BriskHeat Vietnam doing manufacturing. Previously he was an entrepreneur and founder of Corigo, Inc. He earned an MBA from the University of Hawaii, Shidler College of Business in 2013.

(1978) performs expert witness investigations and testimony for attorneys and insurance companies related to building codes, construction defects, personal injury, and ADA in Santa Barbara. He is a former chief of building and safety for the city of Santa Barbara and is currently a member of the California State Historic Building Safety Board.

(1975) is President and CEO of ClearOne Communications. In 2007 she won Frost & Sullivan’s 2007 Audio Conferencing CEO of the Year award. Formerly vice president for product line management of Oplink Communications in San Jose, she earned an M.S. in physics at Drexel University in 1979. She was chosen as one of SSU’s Distinguished Alumni in 2011.

(1972) is the owner of four businesses (BREWS on Main; BREWS on the Alley; Xtreme Fitness and GC Residential Deveopment) in upstate South Carolina. He was the director of Innovista Partnerships, the research district established by the University of South Carolina, from 2010 to 2013. He retired in 2009 from his position as head of Global Chemical Operations for Swiss drug maker Roche Pharmaceuticals. He was responsible for the production of Roche's chemically produced pharmaceutical active ingredients at four factories in Europe and three in North America. He has also served as chairman of the South Carolina Governor’s Task Force on Workforce Education, the South Carolina Chamber of Commerce, and was founding chair of the School Foundation. He is currently chair of the South Carolina Research Authority. He was one of SSU’s Distinguished Alumni in 2003. In 2005 he was further honored with the Ashpy P. Lowrimore award of the United Way of Florence County.

(1992) is the information technology manager for Service Employees International Union Local 1021 in northern California. He earned a master's degree in computer science at Regis University in 2006.

(1982) is now a self-employed property manager. For 31 years he was a network engineer at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, where he worked on the Energy Sciences Network and other projects.

(1978) is the principal of Hertz Research, a polling and software company in Bodega Bay. He often teaches a course in the SSU Department of Political Science, in which he earned his M.A. in 1989.

(2005) is an officer in the Coast Guard Reserves and also working as a hopital administrator for the Department of Veterans Affairs. He earned an M.S. in aeronautical science at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in 2014.

(2009) is a metrology engineer at Zygo Extreme Precision Optics in Richmond.

(1987) and her husband own and operate a thoroughbred horse farm in Paris, Kentucky. They are authors, whose first novel won the Pinnacle Book Achievement Award for fantasy and romance. She and her son have published a juvenile novel about Minecraft and are working on another. She was formerly the principal of Lawrence Cook Middle School in Santa Rosa.

(1987) is an application developer at Intel in Hillsboro, OR.

(2003) is a senior quality electrical engineer at Zero Motorcycles in Scotts Valley.

(1971) retired in 1999 from teaching physics at Piner High School in Santa Rosa. He is a past president of the Northern California/Nevada section of the American Association of Physics Teachers. Active in ham radio, he helps teach electricity to Sonoma Valley High School students.

(1983) is a teaching assistant, teaching science at Forestville Elementary School. She was formerly an engineer at Optoelectronics.

(2006) is a security operations technician with EdgeWave.

(2015) is a teaching fellow at KIPP Prize Preparatory Academy in San Jose. He was formerly the production coordinator at Seedles LLC in San Rafael.

(1996) is the global sales and operations planning leader at GE Healthcare in Wisconsin.

(1990) is principal of Designed Solutions, a worldwide software consulting firm based in Colorado.

(1999) is an officer in the U.S. Navy, currently the communications officer aboard the USS Pennsylvania, a nuclear submarine based in Bangor, Washington.

(1974) passed away in 2014. He and his wife operated a tour business in Napa.

(1995) is a a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist practicing in Santa Barbara. He was formerly a counselor with the Academy of Healing Arts for Teens, running groups to raise social and emotional intelligence. He earned an M.A. in Clinical Psychology from Antioch University Los Angeles.

(2011) is a calibration technician at International Process Solutions in San Carlos, CA.

(1975) is the head of the Emergency Preparedness and Response section and radio-analytical laboratory at the Swedish Radiation Protection Authority. The recipient of a National Center for Atmospheric Research fellowship upon graduation from SSU, she earned her Ph.D. in physical chemistry at the University of California, Riverside.

(1988) is retired and living in Healdsburg, where she and her husband formerly ran a construction business.

(1993) is the manager of the NMR Facility of the University of Vermont. She was formerly associate director of the Magnetic Resonance Facility in the Chemistry Department of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She did postdoctoral research in biochemistry at the University of Vermont after earning her Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Biophysics at Oregon State University in 2001.

(2004) is a systems engineer at Raytheon in Huntsville, AL. She previously workeed at Boeing in Kent, WA. She earned an M.S. in aerospace engineering sciences at the University of Colorado at Boulder in 2005.

(2014) is a materials engineer at BAE Systems in San Jose. He earned an M.S. in materials engineering at San José State University in 2017.

(1993) is a research scientist (epidemiology/biostatistics) at the California Department of Public Health. She earned Ph.D. in epidemiology at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa in 2018. She earned an M.S. in tropical conservation biology at the University of Hawai’i at Hilo in 2008 and a second M.S., in public health, at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa in 2011. She formerly worked in the Education and Public Outreach program of the Chandra X-ray Observatory at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory.

(1990) and her husband operate the Jewell Ranch in Sebastopol, where they have apple orchards, grape vineyards, and a trucking business.

(1971) is a senior project manager with Teradata in San Diego. He earned an M.S. in physics at San Francisco State University in 1972 and another, in systems management, at the University of Southern California in 1978.

(2009) teaches physics and chairs the science department at the Army and Navy Academy in the San Diego area. He continues to be an avid astrophotographer.

(2016) is working as a materials and process engineer at Sonoma Photonics, a subsidiary of Northrop Grumman, in Santa Rosa. He was formerly a materials and process engineer associate at Deposition Sciences Inc. in Santa Rosa, where he headed the photolithography department.

(2016) I am currently working as a Quality Engineer for VIAVI Solutions. Previously I worked as a Material and Process Engineer for Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin.

(1980) passed away sometime in the period 2013-2019. He had retired after working as an engineer at Ford Aerospace, Rockwell Avionics, Lockheed Space Operations Company, Daden Engineering and KW Microwave in southern California. He designed hardware and software components and systems.

(2007) is a senior test engineer at Sensys Networks in Berkeley. He was for several years an education resource developer in SSU’s Education and Public Outreach Group.

(1985) is an administrative patent Judge in the Dallas area. He was formerly a senior patent attorney with BlackBerry in Texas and with Alston & Bird LLP in Atlanta. He earned an M.S. in electronic engineering at California State University, Fullerton and a J.D. at Washington & Lee University in Virginia.

(1993) is a founder of the Boulder Developer Collaborative, LLC, and a lead developer at Planet Ecosystems.

(1994) is an associate professor of earth and atmospheric sciences at the University of Alberta. Formerly a postdoctoral researcher in the department of geography at the University of California at Berkeley, he earned his Ph.D. in earth and ocean sciences at the University of British Columbia in 2000. His research in glacier dynamics has taken him to the Yukon, Antarctica, and points in between.

(1980) is running three on-line businesses: HeirloomStories.com and Elderhood.com, for the “third stage of life.” He is also a docent at Torrey Pines State Reserve and the Museum of Man.

(1972) has taught physics and mathematics at several colleges in New Mexico. He earned his Ph.D. in theoretical physics at the University of New Mexico in 1992.

(2011) teaches mathematics and computer science at Kehillah Jewish High School in Palo Alto.

(1980) is the principal of David Kelson Sound, Inc., which provides full production sound and production video assist services for the motion picture and television industries.

(1992) is a software engineer in the defense and space industry.

(1987) passed away in November 2007 after tutoring mathematics, chemistry, and physics at Santa Rosa Jr. College for many years. She earned a degree in accounting and worked in that field before coming to SSU. She was proud to be an SSU physics graduate.

(1992) is a data archive specialist at the Space Telescope Science Institute..

(1990) is teaching fourth grade at Woodland Star Charter School in Sonoma. He has been the principal of Bill Kobabe Woodworking in Petaluma and a teacher of woodworking and physics at several schools. He earned a teaching credential at CSU, Monterey Bay.

(1992) is a principal process engineer and coatings development lab manager for Viavi Solutions (formerly Flex Products, a division of JDSU) in Santa Rosa. In 2009 he graduated from the Empire College School of Law and was admitted to the California Bar.

(2015) is an engineer and assistant project manager at Bayside Insulation, Inc. in Concord. He is currently overseeing the installation of the insulation for the heating/ cooling system at the new Apple Campus.

(1981) passed away 8 August 2010. He was an engineer who worked at Optical Coating Laboratory, Inc. and several other companies, the last being Cierra Photonics in Santa Rosa. He was also known as a tennis player.

(1994) is an advanced physics research specialist in the Display Materials and Systems Division of 3M in St. Paul, MN, where he is currently working on automotive sensor applications as well as displays. He received his Ph.D. in physics at the University of Alabama in Huntsville in 1999, where he worked on the use of Fresnel lenses in a proposed space-based extensive air shower observatory called the Orbiting Wide-angle Light-collector (OWL).

(1984) teaches physics and calculus at Tamalpais High School in Mill Valley, CA, and has taught part-time at SSU. He spent 2002-03 at Tufts University where he wrote a book, The Physics of Music and Musical Instruments, while holding a prestigious Wright Fellowship. He earned his M.S. in physics in 1990 at DePaul University.

(1983) is a self-employed IT consultant in the Bay Area. He was formerly the network administrator for Pacific Lists, Inc., a list brokerage and management company in Corte Madera.

(1969) is a professor emeritus of computer science at Southern Oregon University, now living in Corvallis, OR. He earned an M.A. in mathematics at SSU in 1970 and a Ph.D. in information and computer science at the University of California, Irvine in 1977.

(2003) teaches mathematics at Menlo College in Atherton. He is known for his invention of an inexpensive device to self-inject epinephrine. He earned a Ph.D. in mathematics at the City University of New York in 2011.

(1994) is the director of quality assurance at JenaValve Technology, Inc. in Irvine. He earned an M.B.A. at the University of San Francisco in 2007.

(2014) Jacob earned his PhD in Materials Science and Engineering in 2020 at the University of California, Riverside in the lab of distinguished professor Alexander A. Balandin. His graduate research concerned thermal transport of low-dimensional materials composites. He currently works at Intel Corporation in Plasma-enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition of dielectric thin films.

(2014) is a graduate student in materials science and engineering at the University of California, Riverside. He previously worked at Keysight Technologies in Santa Rosa.

(1994) was formerly a quality control technician with ARM Systems in Cotati.

(2008) is an electrical engineer at RETECH Systems LLC in Ukiah. He formerly worked at Twin Creeks Technologies in San Jose. He earned a master’s degree in electrical and electronic engineering at California State University, Sacramento in 2014.

(1985) runs a thin film consulting business in Brookings, OR. He worked as an engineer at JDSU in Santa Rosa for more than thirty years and then as an engineering manager at Deposition Sciences, Inc. for two. He holds nine patents in the field of thin film technology.

(1997) is a full-time physics and astronomy instructor at Portland Community College. He earned a master's degree in chemical and life sciences at the University of Maryland, College Park in 2014. He earned his teaching credential at SSU in 1999 and an M.S. in astronomy at Swinburne University of Technology in 2003.

(1987) is an associate professor in the School of Engineering of the University of California, Merced. She earned her Ph.D. in materials science and engineering at Northwestern University in 1994.

(2002) is a videographer and editor with the Dow Jones Media Group. He received certification in film production from the Center for Digital Imaging Arts at Boston University in 2008.

(2002) was formerly a graduate student and research assistant in science and engineering of materials at Arizona State University.

(1993) teaches mathematics and science at Foresthill High School/in Foresthill.

(2003) is a high pressure team lead for sample environment within the Neutron Sciences Directorate at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He was formerly a systems engineer with United Space Alliance working with hazardous gas detection systems in and around the space shuttle at the Kennedy Space Center. He earned an M.S. in industrial engineering from the University of Tennessee Knoxville in 2015.

(2009) is a product design engineer at II-VI Inc. He earned an M.Sc. in mechanical engineering at Manchester Metropolitan University in 2012.

(2017) is a graduate student pursuing an M.S. in magnetic resonance medicine at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in West Hollywood.

(1997) is a full-time mom in Monument, CO. Formerly an engineer at Cisco Systems, Inc. in Petaluma and Next Level Communications, Inc. in Rohnert Park, she has served as a member of the executive board of the SSU Alumni Association.

(1988) is an information technology consultant, private pilot, and aircraft owner. He currently manages the IT support group in the College of Natural Resources and Sciences at Humboldt State University, where he earned an M.S. in mathematical modeling in 1998.

(1983) retired in 2013 after fourteen years as an instructional assistant in mathematics at Berkeley City College. He had previously taught in a prison and at Solano Community College and worked as a telescope operator at Kitt Peak National Observatory.

(1996) is a senior systems analyst with Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) in Monument, CO. He was formerly an assistant vice president for network services at North American Mortgage Company, where he managed the voice and data networks for the company’s 300 branch offices.

(2005) earned an M.S. in mechanical engineering at the University of Colorado, Boulder in 2007.

(2003) is an illustrator and writer, currently working with Wonder Workshop and Paperwheel, both in the Bay Area. She earned a master's degree in children's book illustration at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, England in 2017.

(2009) is the quality systems manager at Photop Advanced Coating Center (II-VI) in Santa Rosa. He was formerly a quality engineer with Sonoma Photonics, a subsidiary of Northrop Grumman Corp., in Santa Rosa.

(1995) died of a heart attack on 22 April 2020. He was an aerospace engineer at the University of California at Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory for more than twenty years. He earned his M.S. in physics at San Francisco State University in 1997.

(2004) is a senior design engineer for Kollmorgen in Radford, VA, where he designs electric motors. He also works for the Missile Defense Agency.

(2004) Currently working as a Senior Engineering Manager for the Controllable Solid Rocket Propulsion Design Group for Aerojet Rocketdyne in Huntsville, Alabama.

(1990) is a senior product engineer at NVIDIA in Santa Clara.

(1967) is retired. She worked for IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Apple, Electronic Arts, Adobe, and other companies in various software development, marketing, and excecutive positions. The Department’s first graduate, she earned an M.S. in computer science at the University of California at Berkeley in 1976.

(2007) is a senior SIEM (security information and event management) engineer at Leidos in Portland, OR. He is also working on a master's degree in system engineering at Johns Hopkins University.

(1975) is a senior account executive for IBM SPSS Software selling data mining and analytical software to the financial industry.

(2016) is a product marketing engineer at Keysight Technologies in Santa Rosa.

(2004) when last heard from was a pilot with Atlantic Southeast Airlines. He graduated from the Commercial Airline Pilot Training program at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Florida in 2005.

(1983) is an applications and sales engineer at Dillon/Quality Plus, Inc. He is also the guitarist for the Pulsators.

(1975) is an independent wealth management advisor in Petaluma. He did similar work for 18 years with Merrill Lynch in Santa Rosa and has been the business editor of KFTY Channel 50. A past president of the SSU Alumni Association, he earned a second bachelor’s degree in mathematics at SSU in 1976 and an MBA at Pepperdine University in 1983.

(1983) is a quality engineer at ViaviSolutions (formerly JDSU) in Santa Rosa.

(1975) is now business development manager for the McBride Group, concentrating on offering “Remembrance and Reflections” video services for those who wish to recount their life in a professional video format. He had a long career in sales with such companies as Optical Coating Laboratory, Inc. and Oerlikon (formerly Balzers). A past president of the SSU Alumni Association, he earned his M.A. at the American Graduate School of International Management in 1977.

(2007) is an engineer at Deposition Sciences, Inc.. a wholly owned subsidiary of Lockheed Martin Corporation in Santa Rosa.

(1991) is vice president for research and development of Photon Sciences, Inc., a startup company developing photonic devices for high speed data in Albany, NY. He was formerly director of PVMC Technology Programs at SEMATECH in Albany. He earned an M.S.E. in electronic materials and devices at San José State University in 1996 and an M.B.A. at the State University of New York Oswego in 2016.

(2005) is a a member of the quality management tam of the Hilti Group in Austria. He was formerly a lifecycle support engineer working on solar electric inverters for Fronius International GmbH in Wels, Austria.

(1985) is the project manager responsible for the primary mirror generation of the Giant Magellan Telescope Observatory (GMTO). He has worked for many years at the University of Arizona, where he has held such positions as program manager for the Center for Astronomical Adaptive Optics, project manager for the Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer, and deputy project manager for OCAMS suite of cameras for the OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Return Mission.

(1993) is an HV Battery Project Leader at Byton. He was formerly a senior engineer building batteries for satellites with SSL in Palo Alto. He earned an M.S. in mechanical engineering at UC Davis in 1995.

(1996) earned a master’s degree in experimental particle physics at Purdue University in 2000. He later worked at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

(2014) is a data scientist working on clinical informatics at the University of California, San Francisco. He earned a master's degree in computational and mathematical engineering at Stanford University in 2018.

(1989) is a senior print application engineer with at Kateeva, a leader in inkjet printing of OLED materials, in Newark. He formerly worked at Qcept Technologies, a developer of non-visual defects detector technology in Fremont. He earned a Ph.D. in experimental nuclear physics at the University of California, Davis in 1995.

(2012) is a data scientist working on clinical informatics at the University of California, San Francisco. He earned a master's degree in computational and mathematical engineering at Stanford University in 2018.

(1982) is a global developer at Autoliv in Ventura.

(1978) is the president of Polaris Battery Laboratories, LLC, a lithium ion processing center in the Portland, OR area. He is also a board advisor or partner to several other companies in energy systems, and he is co-chairman of the Oregon Electric Vehicle Finance Steering Committee. He was formerly vice president of Motorola's Energy Systems Group in Lawrenceville, GA.

(1990) is the director of organization at Neo Metrics, a business intelligence consultancy based in Madrid, Spain and now part of Accenture. He also invents and publishes logic puzzles. He earned an M.S. in physics at the University of Michigan in 1991 and an M.S. in mathematics at Bowling Green State University in 1993.

(1990) is an author and website editor. He earned a Ph.D. in atmospheric physics at the Oregon Graduate Institute of Science & Technology in 1995.

(2011) is teaching integrated science in San Rafael. She earned her teaching credential at SSU in 2012.

(1981) is a professor and past chair of the Department of Mathematics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he works on the N-body problem of classical mechanics. He earned his Ph.D. in mathematics at the University of California at Berkeley. He has been a Sigma Xi Distinguished Lecturer and (in 2018) an Eisenbud Professor at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley.

(1976) retired in 2015 after 24 years as a disclosure analyst with Jones Hall, a municipal bond law firm in San Francisco.

(1990) is an anesthesiologist associated with the Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care at the University of Pittsburgh. He earned his M.D. at the State University of New York at Brooklyn in 1998 and completed his residency in anesthesiology at the University of Pittsburgh in 2002.

(1982) conducts research in the Space and Geophysics Laboratory of the Applied Research Laboratories of the University of Texas at Austin, where he earned his Ph.D. in theoretical physics in 1991.

(1993) is Hawaii Enablement Site Lead for Bayer Crop Science in Hawaii. He earned a master's degree in engineering at North Carolina State University in 2001.

(1988) is retired. He was formerly Information System Manager at the Pacific Coast Tariff Bureau in Alameda, CA.

(2013) is a measurement technician at USConec, Ltd. in North Carolina. He was previously an associate materials engineer at Deposition Sciences, Inc., in Santa Rosa.

(1975) is a retired laboratory technician in Kingman, AZ.

(1976) is a consultant. He was formerly director of research at 10x Technology in Libertyville, IL and for a long time a senior research specialist with the 3M Display and Graphics Business Laboratory in Petaluma.

(1974) is retired and living in Hawaii. He served as the Department’s equipment technician until 1982.

(1996) is an environmental consultant and jewelry designer in San Luis Obispo.

(2006) is a technical support engineer at EandM in Healdsburg.

(1974) retired in 2005 from his position as a computer systems supervisor in the Division of Emergency Services and Homeland Security of the Utah Department of Public Safety.

(2017) is a metrology engineer at VIAVI Solutions in Santa Rosa.

(1989) is the vice president of product management for MedAptus in Boston, MA. He was formerly director of product management for ABILITY Network's innovation office in Boston. He started his career participating in rocket-launching experiments for the Boston University Center for Space Physics.

(1985) is vice president for external realitons at Extenet Systems in the Chicago area. He was formerly an area director at T-Mobile.

(1974) was for many years a reporter, covering chemical demilitarization, technology and schools for the Pueblo Chieftain in Pueblo, Colorado.

(1989) is the physics instructor at Reedley College. She earned her M.S. in physics at California State University, Fresno in 1999.

(2001) is a senior manager at HydroPoint Data Systems in Petaluma. He also consults on renewable energy, energy efficiency, and finance.

(2007) when last heard from, was a graduate student and teaching assistant in physics at California State University, Long Beach.

(1996) is an engineering manager at TriVascular Technologies, Inc. (now part of Endologix) in Santa Rosa. He formerly worked at Medtronic and JDSU, both in Santa Rosa.

(1978) is Director of SiC Technology at Microsemi PPG in Oregon. Former positions include vice president of engineering of Zeus Semiconductor and vice president of technology for Sarif, both in Vancouver, Washington. He earned his Ph.D. in applied physics at the Oregon Graduate Institute of Science & Technology in 1982.

(2000) earned an M.F.A. in the New York University Graduate Acting Program and has appeared in a number of plays in New York City and elsewhere. Formerly a marketing engineer in the electronics and solutions group at Agilent Technologies in Santa Rosa, she was SSU’s student commencement speaker in 2000.

(2007) is a naturopathic doctor in Sebastopol. He received his Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine degree in 2017 from Bastyr University in San Diego. He formerly worked as a youth camp coordinator for Cal Adventures.

(1993) is teaching mathematics at the Assumption College English Program in Bangkok, Thailand. Formerly a nuclear medical science officer in the health physics department at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., he earned an M.S. in physics at the University of North Dakota.

(2016) is a quality control chemist at Pharmacyclics, an AbbVie Company, in Sunnyvale. She formerly worked at Dow Pharmaceutical Sciences in Petaluma.

(1985) is the principal of Christopher’s Designs, a residential design studio in Santa Rosa, and the director of marketing for the International Footbag Players’ Association.

(2001) teaches science at Greenbrier Academy for Girls in West Virginia, He previously taught in the Philadelphia area. He earned his teaching credential in 2002 at SSU.

(1993) is a professor of physics at Texas Tech University. He is a member of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) team that published the first direct detections of gravitational radiation. The team has received many awards, including the Breakthrough Prize in 2016, the Breakthrough of the Year Award from Physics World in 2016 and 2017, and the Einstein Medal in 2017. Leaders of the team have received several additional prizes, including the Nobel Prize in physics in 2017. He retains an adjunct appointment at Pennsylvania State University, where he was a professor of physics and director of the Center for Gravitational Wave Physics until the end of 2014. He was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2013 “for leadership in understanding how neutron stars can produce gravitational waves, for creating better methods to search for these waves, and for demonstrating how gravitational wave observations can be used to probe the structure and dynamics of neutron stars.” He received his Ph.D. in physics in 1998 at Caltech, where he was awarded the Milton and Francis Clauser Doctoral Prize “awarded annually to the Caltech PhD candidate whose research is judged to exhibit the greatest degree of originality as evidenced by its potential for opening up new avenues of human thought and endeavor as well as by the ingenuity with which it has been carried out.” He was awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship upon graduation from SSU.

(2002) is a Realtor in Sebastopol. Formerly a science teacher at Maria Carrillo High School in Santa Rosa, he earned his teaching credential at Sonoma State University in 2003.

(1983) is an airway transportation systems specialist with DataPath in Hawaii. He was formerly a military pilot.

(1985) is a production engineer with The Switch Lab in Sebastopol. He has been a senior software engineer and web developer with several companies, and he is working on a novel. A pilot, he is on the board of the CAFE Foundation.

(1969) passed away on 23 June 2017. One of the Department’s first four graduates, he worked for many years for the County of Sonoma, ultimately as information systems project manager.

(1991) is a consultant on environmental and transportation issues in Marin County. He is currently working on exposure to magnetic radiation. He has taught part-time in the Department of Geography and Human Environment at San Francisco State University, where he earned an M.A. in 2005.

(2006) is a patent attorney and head of intellectual property practice at Inventus Law in Palo Alto. He earned his law degree at the University of New Mexico before coming to SSU.

(1987) is a professor of finance, banking, and mananagement at Pannasastra University of Cambodia and a founding board member of the Raja Virak University and Tejas Technology Innovation Center-Business Incubator. He is also a board member of the Parliamentary Institute of Cambodia. He earned a Ph.D. in spectrochemistry at Ecole centrale Paris (now part of CentraleSupélec) in 1991.

(1974) is a retired programmer living in Novato.

(1997) is the Coating Process Engineering Manager at Viavi Solutions (formerly JDSU, OCLI) in Santa Rosa.

(1991) is teaching science at Hokkaido International School in Sapporo, Japan. He has also taught physical sciences at the Branson School in Ross. and at El Molino High School in Forestville since earning his teaching credential at SSU. He earned a master’s degree in science education at the University of Washington in 1999.

(1982) passed away in January 2016. He was for many years a software engineer at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Charlottesville, VA, where he developed software for the Atacama Large Millimeter Array.

(1978) is a supplier quality engineering manager at Lumentum (formerly JDSU) in San Jose. He has held similar positions with several other technical firms in the Bay Area. He has published papers on overlay metrology and the implementation of coherence probe microscopy.

(1981)  is Telescope Engineer/Chief Observer for the Big Bear Solar Observatory 1.6-meter New Solar Telescope. He was formerly site manager of the National Solar Observatory’s McMath-Pierce Solar Telescope at Kitt Peak. He received the AURA Technology and Innovation Award in 2001 and earned an M.S. in astronomy from the University of Western Sydney in 2003.

(1984) has launched LookingUP! Astronomy Services, LLC, a business that brings astronomy to the resorts and camps in the Big Bear Lake area of southern California. She formerly worked at Steward Observatory as Interferometry Technical Specialist for the Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer and was previously the technical writer for the SOLIS project at the National Solar Observatory.

(2011) has been promoted to data scientist with Kaiser Permanente in the Bay Area. He earned a master's degree in statistics at San Jose State University in 2016.

(1983) is now working in the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He formerly did high energy physics research in the Center for Experimental Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics at the University of Washington. Before that he was database leader for the Solenoidal Tracker At RHIC experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory. He earned his Ph.D. in physics in 1995 at the University of California, Davis while participating in the DiLepton Spectrometer experiment.

(1995) is an independent engineer manging data collection teams in Guatemala. He earned an M.S. in reliability engineering at Galileo University after returning from SSU to his native country.

(1984) is a senior software engineer with Rockwell Collins in the Bay Area. He earned an M.S. in physics at the University of Arizona.

(1971) is a retired international business and product development consultant living in Sebastopol. He earned his Ph.D. in psychophysiology at World College and University, UNESCO, in 1982.

(1973) taught physics and astronomy for many years at Punahou School in Honolulu, where he chaired the science department and was director of the school’s challenge ropes course. He earned a masters degree in educational administration at the University of Hawai’i.

(2004) is the principal of Future Concepts in Olivehurst, CA. He also works for PG&E. Formerly an energy analyst with the California Energy Commission, he earned an M.S. in physics at the University of California, Davis in 2005.

(2005) is a postdoctoral researcher at the Missouri University of Science and Technology. He earned a Ph.D. in physics at the University of Oregon in 2016. He is a member of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) team that published the first direct detections of gravitational radiation. The team has received many awards, including the Breakthrough Prize in 2016, the Breakthrough of the Year Award from Physics World in 2016 and 2017, and the Einstein Medal in 2017. Leaders of the team have received several additional prizes, including the Nobel Prize in physics in 2017.

(1987) is a professor of physics and astronomy and director of the 3+2 engineering program at St. Mary’s College of California. He earned his Ph.D. in physics in 1994 at the University of California, Davis.

(2010) is a mechanical/fluid process engineer working on liquid lenses with Corning in Santa Barbara. She was formerly an engineer with Illumina in the San Diego area. She earned an M.S. in mechanical engineering at Santa Clara University in 2014.

(1979) works in information security with a large insurance company in Munich, Germany. He earned a Ph.D. in experimental particle physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1987 and did postdoctoral research at CERN, the University of Mainz, and the Max Planck Institute.

(1988) is a nuclear medicine technologist at Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital. She also performs PET/CT scans for DMS Health, a mobile imaging company. For eighteen years she was a clinical coordinator and instructor in Radiologic Technology at Santa Rosa Junior College and a lecturer at SSU. She earned a master’s degree in an interdisciplinary major, Aging and Medical Facilities, at SSU in 1997.

(1991) is a mechanical designer at Ventek International in Petaluma.

(1972) has retired after teaching mathematics and physics for many years at Windsor High School and bilingual mathematics and science in the Department of Chicano and Latino Studies at SSU. Honored with a $15,000 Outstanding High School Teachers of America award by the Carlston Family Foundation in 2001, he was one of SSU’s Distinguished Alumni in 2002.

(1976) has retired after 23 years as a network operations specialist with Sprint in Sacramento. He now works part-time for the California Department of Parks and Recreation at Lake Oroville State Recreation Area.

(1984) is an engineer/scientist buying and building state of the art spectral measurement equipment to accurately measure the thin film coatings at Viavi Solutions (formerly JDSU). He was awarded a patent for contributions to a hand held instrument for measuring the color shift by angle of ink on $20 bills.

(1989) is an associate professor of astronomy at Indiana University. In 2009 she was awarded a prestigious Faculty Early Career Development Program award by the National Science Foundation. She was formerly an NSF Astronomy & Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellow, dividing her time between Yale University, where she earned her Ph.D. in astronomy in 2003, and Wesleyan University, where she earned an M.S. in astronomy in 1997.

(1988) is Head of Global IT Transformation for Swissport, the world’s largest ground handling company in the aviation industry. He is responsible for transforming their distributed IT departments and IT systems into a single department with standards and processes. Until recently he was the head of the global IT delivery center for Sulzer in Winterthur, Switzerland. He was formerly a manager with the Swiss national railway. He earned a Ph.D. in physics at the University of Illinois in 1998 and afterward was a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Metals Research in Stuttgart, Germany.

(1994)  is a compliance advisor at CoreLogic Flood Services in Texas.

(2007) is a product development engineer at Analog Devices in Santa Rosa. He was formerly a test engineer at Microsemi Corporation in Santa Rosa.

(2013) is a locksmith in Santa Rosa.

(1994) is a visiting professor at New York University Abu Dhabi and an astrophysicist with Eureka Scientific. He also makes science-themed documentary films with Les Films Kookaburra. He earned his Ph.D. in astrophysics at Stanford University in 2000.

(1984) is now studying Chinese and consultion for motion control products in Taiwan. He retired after many years with Maxon Precision Motors, Inc., Burlingame, where he was vice president of electronics sales and marketing.

(1986) is working with the Fratelli Group, a public affairs firm in Washington, D.C. He was formerly the deputy staff director of the House of Representatives Committee on Science. From 1999 to 2002 he was the founding Executive Director of the Forum on Technology & Innovation. As the American Physical Society’s Congressional Fellow for 1998 he worked in the office of Senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut. He earned his Ph.D. in physics at the University of California, San Diego, where he was an IBM fellow.

(1986) is a product manager for Viavi Solutions (formerly JDSU, OCLI) in Santa Rosa. He is also a realtor with Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage.

(1992) is a site supervisor at the Santa Rosa Junior College Children’s Center.

(1996) is program manager for the special products group at Deposition Sciences, Inc. in Santa Rosa.

(1997) is District Manager of Burney Water District in Burney, CA. He was formerly a product safety engineer at Agilent Technologies in Santa Rosa.

(2008) is a graduate student and research asssistant in aerospace engineering at San Diego State University. In spring 2013 she worked at NASA Langley Research Center in Virginia.

(1990) is Water Conservation Programs Coordinator for the City of Portland Bureau of Water Works. He works in the engineering department performing water efficiency surveys and providing technical assistance to the commercial sector.

(1988) is a senior quality analyst engineer at Riverbed Technology in Sunnyvale. He was formerly a software engineer at Xilinx in San Jose. and a control systems programmer at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center.

(2012) is tutoring physics at SSU and working in a Santa Rosa restaurant.

(1994) is a senior application engineer at Keysight Technologies in Santa Rosa.

(1982) sold Michel-Schlumberger Benchland Wine Estate and retired in 2012. He and his wife Barbara were recognized by SSU with an Alumni Community Achievement Award in 2007.

(2003) is a laboratory analyst for the city of Santa Rosa at the Laguna Wastewater Treatment Plant. She has been a chemist at Analytical Sciences in Petaluma and a quality engineer at Triformix. She has also taught physics and chemistry at Jesse Bethel High School in Vallejo and worked as an optical engineer developing three-dimensional graphics systems with Real D in Beverly Hills.

(2017) operates scanning electron microscopes and focused ion beam devices for Keysight Technologies in Santa Rosa.

(2007) is a program engineer at Grauling Research Inc. in Santa Rosa. He was formerly at Deposition Sciences, Inc. in Santa Rosa.

(1974) is the owner of Sport Select, providing software to ski areas and sporting goods stores.

(1971) is a professor emeritus at Napa Valley College, where he taught physics, engineering, and mathematics for many years. He earned an M.S. in geology at the University of Colorado.

(1992) retired from his position as program manager for environmental cleanup (PCBs

(1974) is a pilot with Alaska Airlines, based in Seattle. He has flown for Alaska and Eastern Airlines for a total of 34 years. Before that he flew in Antarctica in support of NSF polar research projects while a pilot in the U.S. Navy.

(2003) is the Department Director of the Resource and Referral Department for the Community Child Care Council of Sonoma County.

(1981) is a professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Chicago. She was elected a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics in 2012 and a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2015. She was a professor in Northwestern University’s Department of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics from 1993 to 2015. She earned her Ph.D. in physics at the University of California at Berkeley.

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is a professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Chicago. She was elected a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics in 2012 and a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2015. She was a professor in Northwestern University’s Department of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics from 1993 to 2015. She earned her Ph.D. in physics at the University of California at Berkeley.

(1982) is a consultant in thin film design and manufacture for R&D and production groups. He was for many years a senior scientist with AFG Development Corporation in Petaluma, where he developed new window coatings for buildings and cars.

(2002) produces pasture-raised meat and eggs as the manager of Green Star Farm in Sebastopol. She was formerly the program manager in the NASA Education and Public Outreach Team at Sonoma State University.

is an independent translator of Japanese working in Tokyo. He earned a master's degree in international relations at the University of California, San Diego.

(2004) was until recently working with electron beam coating machines at Research Electro-Optics, Inc. in Boulder, CO.

(1997) was for many years a research engineer in the Applied Optics Laboratory at SRI International in Menlo Park. Formerly he was a program manager at Deposition Sciences Inc. in Santa Rosa.

(1983) was for many years an astronomer at the Apache Point Observatory in New Mexico working on the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. An employee of New Mexico State University, she earned her Ph.D. in astronomy at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln.

(1981) is the principal of Golden Gates, a Petaluma-based company that specializes in custom automatic gates and entry systems.

(1993) is the world’s leading YouTube content creator for electric scooters. Along the way he ran SF Operations for Lime, restored million dollar race cars, co-founded a Cafe/Motorcycle shop in San Francisco, won a motorcycle roadracing championship and was a laser product manager for Coherent, Inc. in Santa Clara.

(1993) founded and directs Rivendell Heights, Inc., a provider of contract research for medical device development and testing. Specialties include electroretinography, psychophysical eye tracking, infrared, visible and x-ray imaging systems, and instrument design. The holder of three patents in image processing and fiber-optics, he is now based in Middletown and working on the design and test of infrared illumination systems for primate gaze tracking and vision performance tests useful in translational drug development.

(1991) is a psychologist practicing adult individual psychotherapy in San Francisco, where she opened a new office in 2018. She earned a doctorate in clinical psychology at Meridian University.

(2012) is the co-owner executive producer of the Vesuvius Group, LLC, an international collaborative of creatives specializing in developing online environments for community-building.

(1985) is a technical writer currently working at the naval warfare center in Indiana. He is has worked for Northrop Grumman and on NASA’'s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope.

(1986) works in ophthalmic lens design and new product development in the San Diego area. She was for twenty years an optical engineering manager at Signet Armorlite, Inc., a manufacturer of ophthalmic lenses in San Marcos.

founded Motion Engineering, Inc. (now part of Kollmorgen in Santa Barbara in 1990 and served as its chief technical officer, a position he now holds with Kollmorgen. He earned his Ph.D. in physics in 1977 at UC Santa Barbara.

(2003) is a postdoctoral researcher at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where she works on the nEXO detector. which will be searching for neutrinoless double beta decays in liquid xenon. She earned a Ph.D. in experimental particle physics at Texas A&M University in 2013 with research on the LUX (Large Underground Xenon Detector

(1991) is the Director of Studio Operations of Autistry Studios, a non-profit organization to help teens and young adults with social, communication, and learning differences become successful independent adults, in Marin County. A long-time programmer, webmaster, and businessman, he earned a master’s degree in physics at California State University, Northridge in 1991, and a second master’s in astronomy at Indiana University in 1997.

(1993) is the chief executive officer of Sonoma Clean Power, the new, locally controlled electricity provider in Sonoma County. He was selected one of SSU's Distinguished Alumni in 2017. He was formerly chief sustainability officer of Codding Enterprises in Rohnert Park, managing the transition to sustainable development through awareness education, training, policies and certification of all construction at Sonoma Mountain Village. He earned his M.S. in Energy Engineering at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell in 1994.

(2007) is a process engineer at View Dynamic Glass in Milpitas.

(2012) works for Clear Capital in Truckee.

(2002) is an IC test technician at Keysight Technologies in Santa Rosa.

(2015) is an optical test engineer at OSRAM Opto Semiconductors GmbH in Portland, OR. He was a summer intern at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in 2015. He won one of the twelve national internships sponsored by the Society of Physics Students.

(2004) is a lieutenant and surface warfare officer (nuclear

(1983) is a technical application specialist for the City of Santa Rosa in charge of administrating the city's Enterprise Resource Planning System. He formerly worked for ITT BIW Connector Systems and Royce Instruments, Inc.. He earned a second B.A., in management, at SSU in 1992, and an MBA, with a specialization in MIS, at the University of Arizona in 1994.

(1985) is now retired. He was formerly the project coordinator for the National Center for Data Mining/Laboratory for Advanced Computing at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he earned an MBA in 1996. He has taught English in Japan and high school mathematics and physics as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Cameroon.

(1991) is an engineering project administrator at Sappi Fine Paper North America in Maine.

(2005) is an R&D Program Manager accountable for semiconductor and industrial new product development at Advanced Energy in Fort Collins, CO He formerly worked at 3M’s Optical Systems Division in St. Paul, MN. He earned a master’s degree in management of technology at the University of Minnesota in 2012.

(1991) is a consulting software architect at Auris Health, Inc in Carlsbad. He earned an M.S. in computer and engineering science at SSU in 2004.

(1974) retired in 2015 as a firmware test engineer after a 38 year career with Keysight Technologies (formerly Agilent, formerly Hewlett-Packard

(1979) is an integrated circuit engineer in Boise, ID. He earned an M.S. in materials science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

(2003) educates the public about astronomy at the Ukiah Latitude Observatory. She also tutors mathematics at the Tutoring Center.

(1976) is an integrated circuit designer of 40+ Gbps communications chips with Applied Micro Circuits Corporation (AMCC

(1984) is a software engineer working in the Sacramento area. He served as an officer in the U.S. Navy after graduation from SSU.

(1986) is an application development and support manager at Berkshire Hathaway Homestate Companies in the Bay Area.

(1990) is an instructor of astronomy and head of the astronomy program at Santa Rosa Jr. College. He was formerly a part-time lecturer there, at San Francisco State University, where he earned an M.S. in earth and space science in 1994, and at SSU..

(2016) is a mechanical engineer and product designer with Sonoma Coast Designs.

(1991) is vice president of customer success at Uplogix, a software company in Texas. He earned his Ph.D. in physics at the University of Washington in 1998 with research in experimental particle physics at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center.

(1984) is a software research and development engineer at Keysight Technologies in Colorado. He is also the principal of Brenton White Company.

(1999) retired from his position as manager of inside sales at DEY L.P., a pharmaceutical manufacturer in Napa, in 2003. He is now active in community and charitable organizations in Lincoln, CA.

(1989) is a research support specialist at Cornell University’s Space Sciences Lab. He was for many years an electronics technician at the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope in Hawaii.

(1984) is an optical engineer and consultant specializing in signal processing algorithms and optics in Oregon. He has worked on bioparticle detection at Hach Homeland Security Technologies in Grants Pass, OR, coherent laser radar at Coherent Technologies in Boulder, CO, and experimental quantum optics at the University of Oregon since earning his Ph.D. in applied physics at the Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology in 1992.

(2006) is a youth program coordinator for Women’s Mountain Passages, a non-profit agency devoted to improving the lives of women and youth in Quincy, CA.

(2000) is an asphalt quality control technician in Battleground, WA.

(2009) is a remote solar designer for Sungevity Solar Home Specialists in Oakland, CA. He uses satellite imagery to remotely determine the solar potential of rooftops and uses point recognition software to design and place digital solar arrays.

(2016) is a Data Governance Analyst on-site at Nike (through Randstad). She formerly worked in data governance at Stanford University.

(2016) is a data governance associate at Stanford University. She formerly worked at Keysight Technologies in Santa Rosa.

(1973) is a principal of MCTS, a consultant for manufacturing companies implementing productivity improvement and employee involvement. He earned a Master of Arts in Teaching degree in physics at UCLA in 1975.

(1994) is senior marketing manager for polyamides and foams at BASF in Jakarta, Indonesia.

(2002) is working in health physics at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard. He earned a Ph.D. in physics at Oregon State University in 2008.

(2013) is a process development engineer at MiaSole, a thin-film solar manufacturer in Santa Clara. She earned an M.S. in physics at Colorado State University in 2017. She was formerly a research associate at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, where she developed software for enhancing nuclear reactor simulation modeling and data analysis.

(2001) is a subsystem manager for the LSST camera optics at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Formerly an engineer at Optical Coating Laboratory, Inc., Santa Rosa, he earned an M.S. in optical sciences at the University of Arizona.

(2006) is a control systems engineer at 3D Systems in the San Diego area. He previously worked at Control Technology Inc.

(1975) is a chiropractor in Santa Rosa. He is Board certified in Chiropractic Orthopedics, a Certified Chiropractic Sports Physician, and a California Qualified Medical Examiner.

(2009) is a software engineer for the family calendar app Cozi . For two years she taught with the Women's Coding Collective. Formerly a technical assistant in the Director’s Office for the Chandra X-Ray Observatory at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, MA, she earned a master's degree in astronomy at Wesleyan University in 2011. A poster based on her thesis research won a Chambliss Astronomy Achievement Student Award at the June 2012 meeting of the American Astronomical Society. She did research in radio astronomy at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in summer 2009.

(2009) is a software engineer working on embedded systems development for Roku.

(2007) is a manufacturing engineer at Joby Aviation, a transportation VTOL aircraft startup in Santa Cruz. He formerly worked at Kespry in Menlo Park, and Spectra-Physics in Sunnyvale.

(2010) is a network engineer at Cisco in Austin, TX.

(1969) is an engineer working for the Food and Drug Administration on approval and regulation of medical devices with embedded software such as MRI, CAT-scan, ultrasound, pacemakers, infusion pumps and dialysis. He was formerly a consulting software engineer with Legendary Systems, Inc. and was a self-employed software engineer for many years. He earned an M.Ed. at Hyles-Anderson College in 1983.

(1983) is the Facility Security Officer (FSO) and Information Systems Security Manager (ISSM/ISSO) for MIT Lincoln Laboratory in the Advanced Satellite Communications group, at the Los Angeles Field Site. He has held similar positions at the RAND Corporation, Millennium Space Systems, Boeing, and Northrop Grumman. He was able to view the James Webb Space Telescope in person twice before it was launched.