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Class of ’17 Physics Majors Placed into Dual-Degree Programs

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Keon Kim will complete his (Physics+Mechanical Engineering) 3:2 dual-degree program at Wash U.
“Air” Li will complete her (Physics+Computer Engineering) 3:2 dual-degree program at Wash U.
Huy Do is completing his (Physics+Electrical Engineering) 3:2 dual-degree program at Wash U.
Phil Kesik will complete his (Physics+Mechanical Engineering) 3:2 dual-degree program at University of Illinois-Chicago
Adam Muellers will complete his (Physics+Mechanical Engineering) 4:2 dual-degree program at University of Illinois-Chicago
Jake Thaker will complete his (Physics+Mechanical Engineering) 3:2 dual-degree program at Illinois Institute of Technology
John Derrig will complete his (Physics+Mechanical Engineering) 3:2 dual-degree program at SIUE.
Arham Sattar will complete his (Physics+Electrical Engineering) 3:2 dual-degree program at Milwaukee School of Engineering.
Kyle Moody will complete his (Physics+Agricultural & Biological Engineering) 4:2 dual-degree program at UIUC.

Class of ’17 Physics Majors placed into Masters Programs

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Shane Zhou: Masters program in Materials Science & Engineering at Georgia Tech, and has also arranged a paid summer research internship in the Physics Department at Georgia Tech.
Matt McGill: Masters program in Mechanical Engineering (“Control Systems”) at the University of Minnesota.
Jake Nave: Masters with a thesis program in Mechanical Engineering at University of South Florida.
Troy Southard:  Masters program in Mechatronic Systems Engineering (“Robotics”) at Denver University.
Alexis Liu: Masters program in Computer Science at the Seattle campus of Northeastern University.
Regine Sun: Masters program in Statistics at Columbia University.

Class of ’17 Physics Majors placed into PhD Programs

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Andy Ding will enter graduate school at the Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo. For the summer before that, he has been accepted into a competitive summer school on experimental quantum computing, and following that has a paid summer research internship arranged. He has also been offered a research opportunity at the University of Vienna, which may lead him to defer matriculation at Waterloo.
Simon Liu will enter the U of I Astronomy PhD program, where he plans to attend, but is deferring for one year so as to return to Caltech for a year to assist with deployment of one of his projects there before entering graduate school in astronomy at the University of Illinois. The first part of his summer was spent finishing up his research efforts at IWU.
Jason Chen will enter a graduate program in theoretical Astrophysics at the University of California, Davis.
Krystyna Lopez was selected as an American Physical Society Bridge Fellow in the Bridge to the Doctorate Program in Physics at Indiana University. She is the IWU Bill Murphy Research Assistant for Summer 2017.
Chris Rudnicki will enter a graduate program at UC-Riverside for a PhD in Mechanical Engineering.
Toan Le will enter a graduate program in Electrical & Computer Engineering at UW-Madison, where he plans to continue doing research with our collaborator, Prof. Andreas Velten.

Cassidy Elgeness ’17 – Class News Editor

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Hi everyone! I am your class news editor.  The class news letter is a place to post your latest news during our last semesters and after IWU.  Send me your updates via classnews@iwu.edu or click on the mouse icon in the right column.  Let me know about jobs, grad school, awards, travel, life events, IWU get togethers, and anything else you’d like to share with your classmates!

You have an alumni website where you can:  See the calendar of alumni events, Use the directory to find fellow titans in your area, Find out about all things HOMECOMING, join an alumni regional club in places like Chicago, Washington  DC, or affinity group like Young Alumni Council, Pride Alumni, Multicultural Alumni Network, or Council for IWU Women.  The only thing you need to log on for is using the directory.  If you need your Titanpride ID email us at iwualum.@iwu.edu.  We are happy to help you with any questions you may have.

Kyle Serafico ’17

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Kyle Serafico  ’17 is the winner of a $500 mini grant to help launch a medication adherence campaign aimed at patients at the Community Health Care Clinic. Serafico’s funding will help launch the new ‘Rock Your Meds’ campaign at the CHCC. The campaign is dedicated to increase patients’ adherence to their medication regimens, and the grant will help establish a medication adherence protocol that includes producing education materials in both English and Spanish for CHCC staff to use during patient interactions. Congratulations, Kyle!

You can read more here.

Martha Aguirre ’17

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Martha Aguirre ’17 presented her research entitled “Building Global Citizens: The benefits of teaching towards communicative language learning”. Her research discussed how a more natural approach to language learning is effective when trying to teach a second language because it is more authentic, student centered, and fun. Congratulations, Martha!