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Our physics alumni include:

James Cronin – Professor of Physics and Nobel Prize winner

Donald Clayton – Professor of Physics and recipient of the NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal

Bryson DeChambeau – Winner of the 2020 US Open Golf Championship

Mariam Ishaque – Neurosurgeon in the UVA Health System.

Alonso Gutierrez – Chief of Medical Physics at Miami Cancer Institute

Shannon Clardy – Professor of Physics and principal oboist with the Little Rock Wind Symphony

Stephen Ornes – Science writer for Discover, New Scientist, CR magazine, Science News for Kids and other outlets

Lee Pondrom – Professor of Physics, discovered fundamental characteristics of mesons

Roy Holt – Experimental Physicist, pioneered the study of the nucleon

Careers Upon Graduating

Physics teaches you critical thinking and problem-solving skills, so it applies to any field where important decisions must be made based on evidence. After they graduate, our students have:

.. become engineers for cyber security, software, systems, mechanical, manufacturing, and electrical engineering at companies such as Texas Instruments, AT&T, Intel, Lockheed Martin, Ericsson, Raytheon, Palo Alto Networks, Libby, L-3 Communications, Triumph Group, ASC Process Systems, Kapsch TrafficCom. Critical Start, VAIROG EU, JJA, National Instruments, DRS Technologies, Stryker, MartinasWeb.com, Jokari, …

Or they went to medical schools such as UT Southwestern, Texas A&M, UT Health Sciences Center San Antonio, Rockefeller University, …

Or they became medical physicists at Miami Cancer Institute, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Grove Consulting, …

Or they went into doctoral programs in Physics at 色花堂_色花堂 98堂, Stanford University, Harvard University, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Montana State University, Vanderbilt University, University of Colorado Boulder, University of Minnesota, …

Or they went into post-graduate programs in Chemistry, Oceanography, Quantum Informatics, Mathematics, Financial Engineering, Statistics, Computational Biology, …

Or they went into professions such as banking analysis, corporate management, intellectual property, petroleum analysis, physics for the US military, flight controller, private tutor, science writer, theology, …