I started at Farmingdale in September 1969, where I remain today. I worked in the bubble chamber group under Juliet Lee-Franzini who I believe started at Stony Brook in either 1968 or early 1969. I was recruited through her husband Paolo who as at Columbia. My PhD advisor, Dick Plano at Rutgers, was a collaborator with the Columbia bubble chamber group. I also worked under Malcolm Skolnick who arrived in about 1966. For a time, I headed the campus Computer Assisted Instruction lab.
Ben wandered from academia into industry after some post-doctoral research on liquid crystals and phase transition. He worked as a simulation specialist on instrumentation and control of nuclear reactor and boiler until 1984, being finally convinced that continuing to work for the US nuclear industry would be hazardous to the welfare of his young family. He joined Bell Communications Research and later AT&T Bell Labs and spent close to two decades in telecommunications and fiber optics R&D. He was sent to Beijing, China by Lucent Technologies for two years on an expatriate assignment. After a short year-long span of early retirement, he is now working as a part-time consultant for AT&T Labs. Ben lost his first wife, Yann-Chiao, also a SUNY alumnae, in 1996 after 20 years of marriage. His last visit to Stony Brook was to join the celebration part for Prof. C. N. Yang's retirement. Ben was married on Thanksgiving Day 2000 to Lucy and they now live in Dayton, NJ. He can be reached by email at: fanc@att.com.
President of Applied Info in Somerset, NJ.
Taught High School Physics for 30 years (retiring in 2004). He is President of Breadquarters, Ind., purveyors of gourmet baked goods to many locations in the Hamptons. He loves observational Astronomy from his dark sky location.
Home improvement contractor in West Hempstead, NY. He would like to hear from the girls and guys he met in Irving and O'Neill dorms in '72 and '73.
Physician at Good Samaritan Hospital.
Received an MS in health physics (radiation protection) at the University of Michigan in 1976. Then he worked for 1 1/2 years as a health physicist (HP) at Columbia University in NYC. In 1978 he appeared nation-wide on a TV commercial for Dannon yogurt (having decorated his Stony Brook and Michigan dorm rooms with thousands of lids from their yogurt tops). Alas, Hollywood never called, so then it was on to Commonwealth Edison Co. in Chicago (the electric utility serving northern illinois) from 1978 to 1998 as an HP at Zion Nuclear Station and then in the corporate office. Got laid off in 1998. After attending a local computer programming school, he worked at Hewitt Assoc. (they run health and welfare plans for many large companies) near Chicago. In June he started work as a contractor technical writer for Abbott Labs, a pharmaceutical company near Chicago. Fred has two daughters (18 & 13) and a son (15).
EDi specialist in the IT Dept of Tanning Research Labs in Ormond Beach, FL.
Teaches Math at Bostin Latin School in Boston, MA.
Engineer at Brookhaven National Laboratory.
Earned an MS in Materials Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology in 1985 and an MS in Engineering Management at Wayne State University in 1996. He was a member of AT&T Bell Labs technical staff 1980-1990, and is currently a Technical Fellow in the Electronics Division of Ford/Visteon in Dearborn, MI. He is married with two daughters (18 & 21).
Surgeon in Scottsdale, AZ.
Received the PhD in 2001 from UC Santa Cruz, and is currently an Astronomer at NASA Ames Research Center, working on searches for extrasolar planets by the transit method.
Industrial Engineer with Pall Corp. in Hauppauge, NY.
Civil Engineer in Croton-on-Hudson, NY, and a part-time ski instructor at Thunder Ridge. He enjoys Enduros/cycling, and has two daughters (10 & 12).
Joined the Air Force after graduation and flew B-52s in the Gulf War. He is now with the FBI working in Lower Manhattan. He says that he's "followed an atypical career path for a Physics student, but 'F=MA' and 'V=IR' have held me in good stead in much of my work."
Decided against a career in physics, instead going into international trade law. He is currently Counsel to the Vice Chairman of the U.S. International Trade Commission in Washington, DC. He'd love to hear from his old classmates.
Teaching Physics and Math at Chester High School in Chester, NY.
Featured speaker at the Department Commencement ceremony on May 23. Tina is presently serving as a member of the staff of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science.
Teaching AP Physics on Long Island. Ed reports that he recently took his students on a field trip to Brooklyn's Urban Glass. "Urban Glass is the world's only public access glass-making facility, and offers tours, courses at all levels and a fascinating gallery of hand-made glass artwork created by some of the world's finest artisans. Additionally, the subject of glassmaking is an ideal application of the properties of calorimetry (heat transfer), fluid flow (viscosity), as well as a host of other topics in physics."
Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Microbiology & Immunology at Cornell University.
Teaches High School Physics in Dix Hills, NY. He wrote and published "Advance Organizers: Physics," graphic organizers used to teach High School Physics.
Accepted an Assistant Professor position at Purdue University, Department of Physics.
Pursuing a graduate degree in Chemistry at Stony Brook.
Deputy Chief Technology Officer, Homeland Security and Professional Services of Lockheed Martin Information Technology in Washington, DC.
Satellite Controller with Sirius Satellite Radio.
Doing graduate work in Physics at Cornell University.
Last modified 1/18/04