Students

 

Even at Los Alamos I enjoyed working with students.  I have also mentored many undergraduate students.  I stay in contact with many of my former students, but if I have lost touch with you please drop me a line.

 

Current Students:

 

Kevin Cramer: Ph. D. Student 

 

Greg Dutro: M.S. Student. 

 

 

Current Positions of Former & Current Graduate Students:

 

Matt Ward: U. of Illinois. Manager at Intel Corporation. 

 

Arif Ali: U. of Illinois.  Contract Staff Member at Los Alamos National Laboratory & U. of Chicago medical school student.  Arif is also serving in the U.S. Air National Guard.

 

Cindy Bolme:  MIT Ph.D. candidate working on doctorate research at Los Alamos National Laboratory.  Cindy was a Los Alamos Foundation Scholarship winner and worked with me for many years.

 

Chris Bulian: Ph.D candidate at South Dakota School of Mines.

 

Kevin Moore: Texas Tech.  Currently working at Raytheon. 

 

Bryan Bockmon:  Texas Tech.  Working at Applied Research Associates in Denver, CO with explosives applications.

 

Nathan Burnside:  BYU.  Staff Member at Los Alamos National Laboratory working on initiation.

 

Seth Jonas: Ph. D. candidate at John Hopkins.  Was a Hertz Foundation Fellow. 

 

Yoni Malchi:  Ph. D. Candidate at Penn State.  Also working at Los Alamos in the summer. I am serving on his committee.

 

Ming-Hsun Wu:  Ph. D. Candidate at Penn State.  We worked on gaseous DDT in microtubes.

 

Puneesh Puri: Ph. D. Candidate at Penn State. I serve on his committee.

 

Ryan Houim: Ph. D. Candidate at Penn State.  Ryan is working with me informally on follow-on work from my class last semester.  We hope to publish a paper.

 

 

Postdoctoral Students:

 

Michelle DeCroix:  Staff Member at Los Alamos National Laboratory working on threat reduction topics.

 

Laine Berghout: Faculty at Weber State University.

 

Keith Gonthier:  Faculty at LSU

 

Bryce Tappan: Staff Member at Los Alamos National Laboratory working on metal foams and enhanced blast explosives.

 

 

 

Official Mentor Program:

 

Jeff Abes:  Staff Member in Engineering Sciences and Applications