Alumni
Alumni Profiles
Claire (Weiss) Brennan ('07)
After graduating from Lawrence in 2007, Claire (Weiss) Brennan went on to earn her PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Connecticut (UConn). During her summers in graduate school, Claire traveled to Maryland to continue her research on complex oxide thin film materials at the Army Research Laboratory (ARL) in Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland. She received the SMART (Science, Mathematics, and Research for Transformation) Scholarship in 2009, which provided the opportunity for her to work at ARL after graduating from UConn. Claire worked at ARL from 2012-2014, where her research focused on ceramic materials for armor and energy storage applications. She then moved back to the midwest in late 2014 to pursue a new career path in the Aerospace industry. Claire has been working at UTC Aerospace Systems in Rockford, IL since January 2015, where she works in the Materials and Process Engineering group, performing failure analysis on a variety of aircraft components as well operations support and design support for various electronic components. In her spare time, Claire loves reading and spending time with her husband, Bobby, daughter, Coraline, and dog, Rosie.
Paul Schonfeld ('05)
Paul Schonfeld (’05) is in his sixth year of teaching physics and computer science at Marshall School in Duluth, Minnesota where he also coaches the robotics team. He was a natural sciences interdisciplinary major (physics & geology) at Lawrence. He drew inspiration as an undergraduate from 1) a 2003 NSF REU summer program in Alaska, 2) the physical electronics course (PHYS 220) he took with Professor John Brandenberger, 3) geology courses with Professor Marcia Bjørnerud (that led to a two-year job after graduation making educational videos for W.H. Freeman), and 4) a project he proposed during his ACM study abroad program in Costa Rica called “Studying the Physics of Waves.” Paul continues to study the waves of Lake Superior on surfboard, wearing his wetsuit.
From 2008-2010 Paul worked for i-cubed, LLC, helping develop tools for processing satellite imagery. After a 5-month hiatus in Peru (which involved surfing), Paul return to school at UW-La Crosse, where he earned his Masters of Education and his teaching license. After completing his student teaching at Little Chute High School, Paul landed at Marshall School. He says “I am happy to be at a school that supports a Liberal Arts education … [T]his year I look forward to collaborating with a colleague and students on a class [on] making digital music through programing and electronics.”
Graduates of the Lawrence Physics Program
2019
Constable, Ben
Fletcher, Emma
Garrido Tomasini, Julian
Germaine, David
Jensen, Jeremiah
Kerin, Sam
Latour, Giorgio
Loehrke, Sabrina
Manning, Zach
Myers, Lucas
Nirwan, Ripudaman Singh
Shon, Alex
Swanson, Kate
Xie, Junlin
2018
Gardill, Aedan
Trong Nam, Anh Hoang
Kortenhof, Theodore
Loeffler, Nicholas
Mangian, John
Rabideau, Zachary
Tomhave, Benjamin
2017
Ashmore, Rylo (m)
Jarjour, Sami
Kiehl, Christopher
Lex, Alicia (m)
Liberko, Joseph
Marshall, Albert
Poole, Cody
Ranumas, J.P. (Jatuporn)
Ristow, Clayton
Roedl, Erika
Roque, Benjamin
Shahbazi, Alexander
Yu, Peiying
2016
Clark, Benjamin
Cook, Owen
Edwards, Kirstin
Elizondro Rueda, Eduardo (m)
Grudichak, Scott
Hosmer-Quint, John
Lapp, William
Le, Phong (m)
Lindley, Rachel
Micinski, Emma
Sussman, Leo
Tse, Jeffrey (m)
Tse, Timothy (m)
Wang, Kangkang
Weikel, Stephen
2015
2015Betzold, Amber
Coenen, Ashley
D'Souza, Sanfer
Doares, Andrew (Drew)
Kozloff, David
Liang, Tianchu (Alex)
Martinez Zambrano, Daniel
Rasmussen, Tanner
2014
Cullen, Joseph
Friend, Michael (m)
Gabriel, Hannah
Herman, Alyssa (m)
Hoang, The Gia (m)
Jakes, Will
Lohrmann, Erich
Patterson, Alex
Sinai-Yunker, Cooper
Van de Graaff, Michael
Wennerstrom, Michael
2013
Black, Gus (m)
Dempsey, Jack (m)
Mayer, Karl
Price, Micah
Thayer, Travis
Williamson, Ellie
Wright, Aaron
2012
Darrell, James
Exarhos, Stephen
Klocke, Melissa
Miller, Joia
Qiu, Fangzhou (Frederick)
Readinger, Adam
Strehlow, Henry
Van Hoozen, Brian
Zhang, Zhe
2011
Corsbie, Chris (m)
Bodee, Brad
Bodnar, Carol
Choudhury, Faraz
Frater, Eric
Glenn, Lawrence
Gray, Kelsey
Knoedler, Andrew
Lerch, Amelia
Stephenson, Alyssa
2010
Meichle, David
Niederriter, Rob
O'Halloran, Joe
Treiman, Michael
Ziege, Julia
2009
Anderson, Matt
Fulton, Daniel
Harbage, David
Huck, Peter
Malyshev, Gennady
Marheine, Sarah
Peck, Emily
Phillippi, Andrew
Robert, Domi
Rude, Sara
Smoniewski, Jason
Solberg, Jeffery
Toussaint, Ted
Van Camp, Mackie
Zehfus, Corey
2008
Bajracharya, Anmol
Curry, Sarah
Dowd, Will
Garbacik, Erik
Geisthardt, Russell
Gerrity, Randy
Halverson, Max
Hector, Julian
Kane, Andrew
Maas, Robert
Megow, Erik
Pierquet, Michael
Rubin, Jacob
Sit, Stefany
VanArsdale, Michael
Weber, Karl
2007
Exarhos, Annemarie
Ha, Bao
Hawley, Chris
Lasowski, Matt
Rice, Brandon
Schneck, Maureen
Schwert, Brent
Weiss, Claire
2006
Borej, Bart
Burton, Amanda
Casner, Dan
Dolan, Kyle
Douglas, Nat
Goil, Aditya
Griffith, Jon
McNeil, Henry
Rodenbeck, Joe
Ryan, Duncan
Silwal, Rupesh
Stackpole, Matt
Teodoro-Dier, Adriana
Tipping, Bradley
2005
Bhinge, Rahul
Brown, Edward
Dogaru, Alex
Evans, April
Hahn, Steven
Kost, Lauren
Kunwar, Samridha
Mauro, Nick
Schonfeld, Paul
Warmington, Leighton
2004
Dietrich, Matt
Gooden, Dmitri
Kaminski, Scott
Kruesi, Liz
Levin-Koopman, Jason
Mills, Dwight
Milne, Michelle
Schendel, Megan
2003
Curtis, Val
Growdon, Mark
Heitman, Kristen
Kohlmann, Steve
Krupka, Nick
Peterson, Ace
Phelps, Chris
Robinson, Kim
Sonderegger, Evan
Wells, Joe
Witt, Suzanne
2002
Dralus, Danica
Jung, Ryan
Marksteiner, Quinn
Phillips, Wellington
Thuecks, Derek
Tice, Dane
Sampson, Robin
2001
Bluett, Jaques
Cross, Josh
Gauthier, Rudy
Johnson, Leif
Kopp, Angela
Pelzer, Adam
Regal, Cindy
Schmitt, Stuart
Theiss, Adam
Vande Hey, Josh
Warrick, Jay
Yakes, Michael
2000
Dunleavy, Teresa
Kondratko, Paul
Reeves, Jessica
1999
Beck, Tim
Brubaker, Erik
Fernandez, Luz
Holst, William
Moore, Eric
Nongkynrih, Neville
Sezer, Ben
Steffen, Leta
Tamamoto, Brent
Taylor, Kurt
Trigg, Scott
Walby, Chad
1998
Donnelly, Michael
Dostal, David
Lewandowski, Amie
Nishimura, Michael
Nornberg, Mark
Shaw, Scot
Truitt, Jim
1997
Bassett, Alfred
Delaney, Scott
Feist, Jeffrey
Fiora, Renate
Harrington, David
Kimball, Paul
Miller, Tim
Murschel, Scott
Schmidt, Chris
Smith, Wade
Stenner, Michael
Syed, Sheyum
Thompson, Todd
Thorne, Adam
Tong, Anthony
Tourdot, William