My advisors and past advisees, with most recent positions known:

Gary S. Collins,  Hyperfine Interactions Group, Physics, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, USA

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My own research advisors

• Noémie Benczer Koller, PhD advisor, Professor of Physics, Rutgers University.   Contributions of Women of Physics entry, UCLA
• Christoph Hohenemser, Postdoctoral Advisor 1977-79.  Colloborator 1979-85.  Professor Emeritus, Clark University.  A photo is here. 

Postdoctoral and Senior Associates

• Farida Selim, Postdoc 05-07.  Research Assistant Professor, Physics, Washington State University  (selim-at-wsu.edu).
  
• Matthew O. Zacate,  Postdoc 99-03; Research Assistant Professor 03-04.  Assistant Professor, Physics, Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights, KY (zacatem1-at-nku.edu).
• Luke S.-J. Peng, Postdoc 98-99.  Consultant, Superconductor Technologies, makers of superconducting products for wireless networks.

PhD Students

• Luke S.-J. Peng, PhD 1998, postdoc 98-99.  Consultant, Superconductor Technologies, makers of superconducting products for wireless networks.
• Bin Bai, PhD 1998. Senior Test Engineer, Micron Computers, Boise (binbai-at-micron.com).
  
• Praveen Sinha, PhD 1995.  Co-founder and CEO, Novashield, Inc.; software to protect against computer viruses in real time (psinha-at-novashield.com).
  
• Jay (Jiawen) Fan, PhD 1992. Scientist, North American Scientific, Los Angeles (medical radioisotopes) (jay.fan-at-nasmedical.com).
  
• Steven L. Shropshire, PhD 1991. Associate Professor, Physics, Idaho State University.  Here is a photo of Steve singeing an assistant's beard while demonstrating a "fire vortex".
  
• Reinhardt B. Schuhmann, PhD 1988 (Clark University).  Managing Editor, Physical Review Letters (reiny-at-aps.org).  Here is a photo of him on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Physical Review Letters.
  
• Ataur Rahman Chowdhury, PhD 1985 (Clark University). Associate Professor, Physics, U. Alaska Fairbanks (ffarc-at-aurora.alaska.edu).  Here is a photo.
  
• Carl Allard, PhD 1985 (Clark University). Positron emission tomographer.  Deceased 1988.

MS Students

• Xia (Sean) Jiang, MS 2008.  Continuing graduate study in medical physics at the University of Chicago (jiangxia-at-uchicago.edu)
  
• Arriety Lowell, MS 2007.  Returning to Wisconsin to teach physics (arriety at turbonet.com)
  
• Xiao Wang, MS 2006.  Continuing education in biological physics at the University or Rochester, fall 2007 (xiao_wang at wsu.edu)
• Lai Wang, MS 2005.  Continuing graduate study at  George Washington University (lai_wang at wsu.edu).
  
• Egbert Rein Nieuwenhuis, MS 2005, University of Groningen, The Netherlands (E.R.Nieuwenhuis-at-student.rug.nl).
• Denys Solodovnikov, continuing graduate study at WSU in Kelvin Lynn's group (densol at wsu.edu). 
  
• Jipeng Wang, MS  2004.  Continuing graduate study in engineering at Arizona State U (middle9831023 at msn.com).
  
• Li Kang, MS 2004.  Returned to China to seek employment (chamdoonow at hotmail.com). 
  
• Aurélie Favrot, visiting student 2003, Institute Nationale des Sciences Appliquées, Rennes, France (aurelie.favrot-at-caramail.com).
• Matt Petersen, BS Idaho 1999.  Ph.D. candidate in chemistry at Univ Utah (onethousandone-at-yahoo.com).
  
• Harmen Thys Nieuwenhuis, MS 1998, University of Groningen.  MBA, Oxford University (harmenthys-at-hotmail.com).
  
• Mingzhong Wei, MS 1998.  Continued education in computer science (mwei-at-eecs.wsu.edu).
  
• Bruce Meeves, MS 1994.  Instructor, Physics, Colorado School of Mines (bmeeves-at-mines.edu).
  
• John Sy, MS 1992.  Taught college physics, now computer scientist.
• Gil-Hong Kim, MS 1991.
• Steven Parry, MS 1990.
• Khushairi Zainun, MS 1989.
• Gregeory McGhee, MS 1989.  Lead Systems Analyst, Black Knight Technology. (gmcghee-at-bktech.com).
  
• Hwa-Jae Jang, MS 1988.  Continued graduate study at SUNY Buffalo.
• John Ochab, MS 1980 (Clark University).  PhD in physics (Univ Maine, Orono).

Undergraduate and High School Students

• Samantha Cawthorne, 2009 REU summer participant from Clemson University (scawtho at clemson.edu).  Senior physics major at Clemson.
  
• Megan Lockwood, 2008 REU summer partipant from New Mexico State Univ. (mml at nmsu.edu). Graduate study in physics at Ohio State University starting 2009.
  
• Justin Ahn, Pullman High School Graduate 2008.  Undergraduate study at Northwestern University (justinahn2012 at u.northwestern.edu)
• Ashley Dorwart, 2007 REU summer participant from Nebraska Wesleyan University (adorwart at nebrwesleyan.edu).
  
• Stephanie Lage,  BS 2007.  Graduate study in mathematics at the University of Colorado starting 2007 (stephlage621 at hotmail.com). 
  
• Morgan Emerson,  BS 2007.  Graduate study in physics at Oregon State University starting 2007 (morgan_emerson at yahoo.com).
  
• Kyle Slinker,  Pullman High School Graduate 2006. Undergraduate study in physics at the University of Washington starting 2006 (kslink at gmail.com).
• Phil Peterman, BS 2006.  Graduate study in physics at U. Penn starting 2007 (philbert at wsu.edu)
  
• Slade Jokela, BS 2001.  Graduate student in physics at WSU; completed PhD degree with Matt McCluskey (sjokela-at-wsunix.wsu.edu).
  
• Bonner C. Walsh, BS 2001.  Received law degree from Southern Methodist University in about 2005 (bwalsh-at-mail.smu.edu).
  
• Andrew Janssen.
• Kirk Burris, BS 1991
• Phillip Himmer, BS 1990.  Graduate student in electrical engineering at Montana State University (phimmer-at-yahoo.com).
  
• Stacy Irwin, BS 1989
• Andrew Vaught, BS 1989
• Reinhardt B. Schuhmann, BS 1982 (Clark University), Managing Editor, Physical Review Letters. 
  
• Gil P. Stern, BS 1981 (Clark University)
• Samuel W. Porter, BS 1980 (Clark University)

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