Weiss Group Alumni


Jamie Arnold

M.S. Student 1994-1997

Current Address:
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA 16802
USA
(814) 863-8703
jja5@psu.edu

Jamie is a researcher in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Penn State.


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Lloyd Bumm

Post-doctoral Fellow and Research Assistant Professor 1993-2001

Current Address:
Department of Physics & Astronomy
University of Oklahoma
440 W. Brooks St.
Norman, OK 73019-2061
USA
(405) 325-3961 x36107
bumm@nhn.ou.edu

Lloyd is an assistant professor in the University of Oklahoma Physics & Astronomy Department.


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Michael T. Cygan

Ph.D. Student 1991-1997. Post-doctoral Associate 1997.

Current Address:

mcygan@erols.com

Mike was a National Research Council Post-doctoral Fellow at the Naval Research Lab working on chemical sensors. He later worked at a start-up company in Boston.
Now he works as an Examiner at the US Patent Office.


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Zachary J. Donhauser

Ph.D. Student 1998-2003

Current Address:
Department of Chemistry
Vassar College - Box 458
124 Raymond Avenue
Poughkeepsie, NY 12604
USA
(845)437-5739 zadonhauser@vassar.edu

Zach was a post-doctoral fellow with Prof. Will Hancock in the Penn State Bioengineering Department.
Now, he is an assistant professor in the Vassar College Chemistry Department.


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Terrence G. D'Onofrio

Ph.D. Student

Current Address:
Senior Scientist
Geo-Centers, Inc.
Gunpowder Branch, P.O. Box 68
Aberdeen Proving Grounds, MD 21010-0068
(410) 436-5755
(410) 436-7317 fax
terrence.donofrio@sbccom.apgea.army.mil

Terry is a senior scientist with the US Army at Edgewood working on chemical warfare defense.


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James H. Ferris

Ph.D. Student 1989-1997

Current Address:
Laboratory for Research on the Structure of Matter
Department of Materials Science & Engineering
University of Pennsylvania
3231 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
USA
(215) 573-6123
(215) 898-8296 fax
jferris@eaglabs.com

Jim was a post-doc in the Bernasek lab in the Chemistry Department at Princeton University.
Then, he was in charge of scanning probe microscopy at the Laboratory for Research on the Structure of Matter at the University of Pennsylvania.
Now, he is an Scientist in Microscopy and Microanalysis at Evans Analytical Group.

Evans Analytical Group
104 Windsor Center Drive, Suite 101
East Windsor, NJ 08520
USA
(609) 371-4800
(609) 371-5666 fax
jhferris@eaglabs.com


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Daniel J. Fuchs

Ph.D. Student 1998-2005


Tracy M. Graham

M.S. Student 1995-1997


tracybelle@comcast.net

Tracy was a Research and Development Chemist in the Liquid Separations Department at Supelco.
Now, Tracy works for the Waters Corporation.


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Patrick Han

Ph.D. Student 1998-2005

Current address:
Department of Chemistry
Texas A&M
College Station, TX
pxh164@psu.edu

Patrick is currently a Post-Doctoral Fellow with Prof. Wayne Goodman at the Texas A&M Department of Chemistry.


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Anat Hatzor

Post-doctoral Fellow 1999-2001

Current Address:
Bell Laboratories 1D-246
Lucent Technologies
600 Mountain Avenue Murray Hill, NJ 07974
USA
(908) 582-5768
hatzor@lucent.com

Anat was the National Area Expert in Chemical Advances in Nanolithography for the National Nanofabrication Users Network.
She is now a post-doctoral member of technical staff at Bell Laboratories and at Columbia University.


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Jennifer J. Jackiw

Ph.D. Student 1994-2000

Current address: Department of Sciences
John Jay College of Criminal Justice/CUNY
445 West 59th Street
New York, NY 10019
(212) 237-8073
jjackiw@jjay.cuny.edu

Jenny worked on Chemical Weapons Ban Treaty issues at the National Academy of Sciences.
Now, she is an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at John Jay College of Criminal Justice of the City University of New York.


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Jen Johnson

M.S. Student 1995-1997

Jen is currently teaching chemistry to advanced high school students in Virginia.


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Alex Kandel

Post-doctoral Fellow 1999-2001

Current Address:
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN 46556
USA
(574) 631-7837
S.A.Kandel.1@nd.edu

Alex is an assistant professor in the Notre Dame Chemistry & Biochemistry Department.


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Marilyn M. Kamna

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Ph.D. Student 1992-1997

Current Address:
Intel Corp.
Marilyn's boss Santa Clara, CA
USA
(408) 653-7907
(408) 765-2420 fax
marilyn_kamna@ccm.sc.intel.com

Marilyn is working as a Senior Process Engineer at Intel in the Technology and Manufacturing Group in Santa Clara, CA.


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Chris Keating

Post-doctoral Fellow 1998-1999

Current Address:
Department of Chemistry
The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA 16802-6300
USA
(814) 863-7832
keating@chem.psu.edu

Chris is an assistant professor in the Penn State Chemistry Department!


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Kevin Kelly

Post-doctoral Fellow 1999-2001

Current Address:
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Rice University
Houston, TX 77251-1892
USA
(713) 348-3565
kkelly@rice.edu

Kevin is an assistant professor in the Rice University Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering.


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Kyle R. Krom

Ph.D. Student 1991-1997

Current Address:
BASF
Princeton, NJ
USA
kromk@basf-corp.com and Kyle@ImaKrom.com and krk@nano.psu.edu

Kyle is working as a Research Chemist/System Administrator, in the Agricultural Products Research Division of BASF, which was previously American Cyanamid.


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James G. Kushmerick

Ph.D. Student 1994-1999

Current address:
Naval Research Laboratory
Washington, DC 20375
(202) 404-6017
(202) 767-9594 fax
kushmerick@nrl.navy.mil

Jim was a post-doc with the Chem Lab on a Chip Project at Sandia National Laboratories.
He was at the Center for Bio/Molecular Science & Engineering at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, DC as a contractor with Geo-Centers, Inc.
Now, he is a scientist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology.


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Penelope Lewis

Ph.D. Student 1999-2005

Current Address:
Department of Chemistry
Skidmore College
815 North Broadway
Saratoga Springs, NY 12866
(518) 580-5131
(518) 580-5139 fax
plewis@skidmore.edu

Penelope was a visiting assistant professor in the Skidmore College Department of Chemistry.
Then, she was a post-doctoral fellow with George Flynn in the Columbia University Chemistry Department.


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Brent Mantooth

Ph.D. Student 1998-2005

Current Address:
Senior Scientist
Geo-Centers, Research & Development Center
George Mason University
Discovery Hall (PW2) - Rm 166
10900 University Blvd.
Manassas, VA 20110
(703) 993-9445
bmantooth@geo-centers.com

Brent is a scientist at the Geo-Centers Basic Research Laboratory.


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Greg McCarty

Ph.D. Student 1996-2001

Current Address:
Penn State Nanofabrication Facility
Materials Research Institute
The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA 16802
gsm107@psu.edu

Greg was on the staff of the Penn State Nanofab Center.
Then, he was a post-doc with Prof. Mark Wightman at the University of North Carolina.
Now, he is an Assistant Professor at the joint University of North Carolina, North Carolina State University Department of Bioengineering.


Joseph A. Meyer

Post-doctoral Fellow 1990-1992

Current Address:
4737 North Paulina #2
Chicago, IL 60640
(312) 728-6005
meyerja@aol.com

Joe is currently consulting for financial and investment firms.


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Jason D. Monnell

Ph.D. Student 1998-2005

Current address:
University of Pittsburgh
971 Benedum Hall
Pittsburgh, PA 15261
(412) 624-8608 phone
(412) 624-0135 fax
jmonnell@engr.pitt.edu

Jason is currently the Laboratory Manager and Research Associate in the Civil and Environmental Engineering department.


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Thomas P. Pearl

Post-doctoral Fellow 2000-2003

Current address:
Department of Physics
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC 27695-7518
(919) 513-7360
(919) 513-0670 fax
tppearl@ncsu.edu

Tom is currently an Assistant Professor at the North Carolina State University Department of Physics.


Sherman Ponder

Post-doctoral Fellow 2000-2001


Sherman is currently working in the environmental clean-up industry.


Erica N. Schulman

Post-doctoral Fellow 1994-1996

Current Address:
VTerm
Vienna, VA
ens@ix.netcom.com

Upon leaving Penn State, Erica took a position at Lockheed-Martin in their satellites division. Erica is head of web and Java development at CheckAGAIN, a startup company in northern Virginia specializing in electronic representments.


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Stephan J. Stranick

Ph.D. Student 1989-1994

Current Address:
National Institute of Standards and Technology B248
Chemistry Division
Gaithersberg, MD 20899
(301) 975-2348
(301) 926-6689 fax
stephan.stranick@nist.gov

Steve is a member of technical staff at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, where he has set up a number of extraodinary near-field scanning microscopes, including ones for the vibrational infrared and for local Raman spectroscopy.


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E. Charles H. Sykes

Post-doctoral Fellow 2002-2004

Current address:
Department of Chemistry
Tufts University
Medford, MA 02155
ech@nano.psu.edu

Charlie was a staff scientist for a year at UNCC.
He is currently an Assistant Professor at the Tufts University Department of Chemistry.


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Hirofumi Tanaka

Post-doctoral Fellow 2002-2003

Current Address:
Research Center for Molecular-scale Nanoscience
Institute for Molecular Science
National Institutes for Natural Science
5-1 Higashiyama, Myodaiji, Okazaki 444-8787
Japan
+81-(0)564-59-5537
fax:+81-(0)564-59-5510
htanaka@ims.ac.jp

Hiro is currently a staff scientist at the Institute for Molecular Science.


Michael G. Yoshikawa Youngquist

Post-doctoral Fellow 1993-1994

Current Address:
Michael G. Youngquist
Director, Engineering
Arcturus Bioscience, Inc.
400 Logue Avenue
Mountain View, CA 94043-4019
tel 650-962-3020
fax 650-962-3039
myoungquist@arctur.com
mgy@alumni.caltech.edu

Mike was a founder and manager of instrumentation engineering at Ciphergen Biosystems. Ciphergen (NASDAQ: CIPH) developed the world's first protein biochip system based on fundamental advances in laser-based biomolecular detection systems and technologies developed for the semiconductor industry.


Now, Mike is Director Engineering at Arcturus Bioscience.


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