Featured Alum
Our Alumni Dare to be Significant.
The Stetson University Physics Department proudly salutes
the accomplishments of all our alumni with this page.
We invite you to meet our Featured Alumni:
- MEET OUR NEWEST FEATURED ALUM!
David Hill, Stetson Class of 1998 - Research Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, UNC Chapel Hill and Department of Medicine, UNC CHapel Hill.- Robert Bedford, Stetson Class of 1998 - senior electronics engineer, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
- Renée (Dickinson) Butler, Stetson Class of 2005 - medical physicist, Department of Radiology, University of Washington Medical Center
- Rick Sowers, Stetson Class of 1985 - transportation engineering consultant (focus on water resources and envinromental permitting)
- Amanda (York) Ely, Stetson Class of 2000 - research scientist, RTI Biologics
- April (Teske) Van Hise, Stetson Class of 2001 - assorted technical positions at National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, DuPont Central Research and Development, Forensic Analytical Services, Inc., DuPont Chemical Solutions Enterprise...
- Paul Hastings, Stetson Class of 1987 - vice president, sales and business development, Impact Weather, Inc.
- Garrett Granroth, Stetson class of 1993 - instrument scientist, Spallation Neutron Source, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- Amy (Johnson) Hayes, Stetson class of 1996 - high school physics teacher
- Dave Morton, Stetson class of 1987 - professor of mechanical engineering, University of Texas at Austin
- Raoul Sanchez, Stetson class of 1990 - pediatrician
- Sean Washburn, Stetson class of 1976 - associate professor and chair of the Physics & Astronomy Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Dan Stevenson, Stetson class of 1974 - director, Center for Advanced Network Research
- Tom Moore, Stetson class of 1978 - professor of physics, Rollins College
- Bill Newsome, Stetson class of 1974 - investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and professor of neurobiology at Stanford University
Learn about more career paths in physics...
What can YOU do with a physics degree?
One of our alumnae, Renée (Dickinson) Butler '05, wrote back to us a year or so after she graduated to tell us about how she was adjusting to graduate school. She's since obtained a master's degree in medical physics, in part because of contact she had with one of our featured alumni. She shares this comment:
"I remember pondering on several occasions during my time at Stetson where I would be headed after graduation. The Physics Department at Stetson established an annual 'Featured Alum' where they invite an alum to come back and share there experiences beyond their B.S. education. The one featured alum I can recall speaking with was David Morton and it was during that afternoon I realized there are so many more options for Physics majors than taking the next 'logical step' of getting a Ph.D in Physics. That was my junior year. Between then and now, I took a internship at Clemson in Bioengineering and have ultimately ended up in Medical Physics. I guess what I am saying is...
...explore your options. Determine what you like and don't like. Do a bit of research. You may just stumble onto a field you could spend your life learning more and more about while thoroughly enjoying it (or at least the majority of)!"
