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ALUMNI!NEWSLETTER!OF!THE!DEPARTMENT!OF!BIOLOGY!AT!TEXAS!STATE!UNIVERSITY!
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Our First Alumni Newsletter
by!Joe
Tomasso!
Welcome to our inaugural alumni
newsletter. We will try to send one out
twice a year and content will be driven
mainly by what our graduates send us.
Hopefully we can help people reconnect
with old classmates and professors.
The Biology Department now consists of
50 faculty members, six staff members,
about 100 MS students, about 30 PhD
students, about 1,500 BS majors, and
about 5,000 other students who take one
or more of the many service courses offered
in the Department. It is a big place and
chaos reigns.
Until the early 1990s, the Department was
located in the Science Building near Old
Main. Since then, it has moved to the
Supple Science Building on West Campus.
The Aquatic Resources (formerly Aquatic
Biology) program was housed in the old
fish hatchery buildings on the lower
campus near the JC Kellam building. In
1983, the Freeman Aquatic Biology
Building opened on this site. In 2011, the
Department opened a new Research
Greenhouse complex on North Street near
the Supple Building. We also now have a
field lab on Spring Lake. The next addition
will be a set of seven research labs in the
proposed Science and Engineering
Building that will be located just downhill
from Supple Science.
Our web site
(www.bio.txstate.edu)
contains a wealth of information on
programs, faculty, and departmental news.
The web site also has a link to the
departmental Facebook page.
Our initial request to alumni for
information had a great response. The
“What’s Up?” section of the newsletter
contains information on over 100 of our
alumni. Hopefully, we will have a similar
response for every newsletter.
To make the newsletter a success, we need
your help. If you move, get promoted,
retire, have kids or grandkids, let us know.
All communications related to the
newsletter can be sent to me at
[email protected]. Contributions
for the next issue should be received by
April 15th.
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Distinguished Alumnus
Dr.!Kenneth!Wilson!(BS!1964,!MS!1966)!was!honored!as!
one!of!five!Texas!State!Distinguiushed!Alumni!for!2013.!
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Gary Aron to Retire
Dr.!Gary!Aron!(center)!will!retire!after!!40!years!of!serZ
vice!to!the!Department!and!University.!
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Ken Wilson Named Texas State
Distinguished Alumnus
Kenneth Wilson received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Texas State in 1964 and
1966. After receiving his Ph.D. from Texas A&M University, Ken completed post-doctoral
work at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. He taught and conducted research at
the University of Zurich in Switzerland for ten years before relocating to California, where
he was a researcher and Vice President for Biotechnology at Cetus Corp. and ABI Corp.
In 2000, Wilson and his wife, Verena, traveled to Southeast Asia, where they discovered the
region’s urgent need for modern services in areas ranging from education and healthcare to
urban planning and clean water. They established the Kenneth J. and Verena Wilson Asian
Faculty/Student Exchange Program through Texas State’s Center for International Studies.
Under the program, Texas State faculty members and students help institutions in
Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam through the exchange of information and expertise in areas
of need.
Since 2008, Wilson has taught at the Royal University of Phnom Penh in Cambodia on
numerous subjects such as molecular biology, biochemistry, toxic metals, fish genetics and
inquiry-based learning.!
Dr.!Kenneth!J.!Wilson
Maureen Lemke, a Senior Lecturer in the Biology Department, recently wrote: “As a faculty member who has participated in a Wilson
project, I can emphatically say that not only do people and institutions in Asia benefit, but Texas State participants also gain from the
interaction. I was part of a team that wrote an inquiry-based integrated science curriculum for freshmen students at the Royal University of
Phnom Penh. The Wilson program has supported the team on two trips to Phnom Penh, where we initially observed the campus and
searched for local materials to use in the curriculum and conducted a two-week support workshop. Last summer, we were part of a five-week
workshop that introduced faculty members from two Cambodian universities to teaching by inquiry. This summer we will be taking Texas
State students on a Study Abroad trip to work alongside Cambodian students in a science education program. Ken Wilson has had a farreaching impact both in Asia and at Texas State.”
How far we’ve come: A biology laboratory in the Old Science Building, circa 1918
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Gary Aron
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by!Bob
McLean, Regent’s Professor!
I have had the privilege of having Dr. Gary
Aron (center in photo at right, along with
former gradaute students Eric Weaver, left,
and Rodney Rohde) as a colleague and
friend for over 20 years. During this time the
microbiology program has grown from a
small handful of students during the early
1990s to the second most popular major
(behind general biology) in the department.
As microbiology advisor and professor, Gary
Aron played a key role in this growth.
Dr. Aron joined Texas State University (then
Southwest Texas State University) as an Assistant Professor in 1974, was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 1980 and to full
Professor in 1984. He was the inaugural recipient of the Homer E. Prince Professorship of Microbiology, a position he held from 2001 until
2013. He is originally from New York City and received his BS and MS in Microbiology at St. John’s University. He attended Penn State to
study bacterial viruses (bacteriophages) and received his PhD in Microbiology in 1971. Gary and his wife Janet (also from the New York City
area) moved to Houston, Texas, in 1971 so that he could do a postdoc at Baylor College of Medicine.
Gary has taught a number of courses at Texas State, including non-majors Microbiology (Principles of Microbiology, Bio 2440) and is
probably best known for teaching Virology (Bio 3442) and Immunology (Bio 4426). Students learned a lot from him (good science,
professionalism and responsibility, as well as his love for Penn State). Dr. Aron was always well-prepared for his classes and labs and so, in that
manner, students had a good example of professionalism and reliability. On at least one occasion, several students wore Penn State shirts during
a Virology exam. Many students took Dr. Aron’s virology and immunology courses in preparation for medical and other professional
programs. On several occasions, I have heard from our graduates who were in medical school about how well-prepared they were for the
infectious disease part of their curriculum due to Dr. Aron’s classes.
Gary has mentored a number graduate students who went on to distinguish themselves and the accompanying picture in this article shows two
of them – Eric Weaver, now a faculty member at the Mayo Clinic, and Rodney Rohde, currently Professor and Chair of Clinical Lab Sciences
Program at Texas State. At least two of his former graduate students completed medical school, and several had careers in public health
laboratories including the Texas Department of Health.
Gary was very active in the Texas Branch of the American Society for Microbiology (ASM), serving as branch treasurer from 2003 through
2011. He also helped organize five spring meetings and one fall meeting of the organization. Through the Texas Branch of the ASM, he
indirectly mentored many students and young faculty members from other universities. The Texas Branch ASM honored him in 2012 with a
lifetime service award.
On behalf of the Department of Biology and particularly the microbiology program, we thank Gary for his over 40 years of service and wish
him and his wife Janet well in their upcoming retirement.
Dr. Aron can be contacted at [email protected].
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WHAT’S UP?
Keeping tabs on our graduates
1953
Bonorden (‘75). They have two sons and
two grandchildren.
Michaelroy Stern (BS) earned an
MEd from Texas A&M in 1989 and is
now retired after a career as a science
teacher.
Ernest Joe Harber (BS, MA 1957)
served in the U.S. Army from 1953 to
1956, assigned to Brook Army Medical
Center. He taught biology and chemistry
at San Antonio College for 36 years,
including 17 years as Chair of the
Department of Biological Sciences. He
retired in 1994 and lives in San Antonio
with Jo Ann, his wife of 55 years.
Van Burruss (BS) served in the U.S.
Army, worked for Texas Parks and
Wildife, and taught high school before
retiring in 2004. He is married with two
sons and three grandchildren.
1967
Roy Kilzer (BS) and his wife, Linda
(Texas State ‘71) live in Midland.
W illiam Taylor (BS) earned an MS in
Biology and Chemistry from East Texas
State University and served over 40 years
in the US Air Force as an aerospace
physiologist. He is married to Patricia
Anne Walker and the have one son who
is a captain in the US Army.
1968
Stan Hartgraves (BS) spent twenty
years in the Air Force conducting
aerospace medical research. While in the
Air Force, he earned a Ph.D. at the
University of Southern California. He
now serves as Professor and Director of
the Physical Therapy Program at West
Coast University.
Ann Jeanette Stewart (BS) taught
eighth-grade science for eight years
before switching to substitute teaching
for the past 20 years. She is married to
Ed Stevens. They have two sons and
three grandchildren.
John Young (BS, MA 1971) retired in
2002 from the Texas Natural Resource
Conservation Commission. He lives in
Manchaca.
1969
W ade Butler (BS) worked as a fisheries
biologist for the Texas Parks and Wildlife
Department from 1969 until 1984. He is
now a self-employed wildlife artist.
Brian Denman (BS) served in the US
Navy after graduation. He now lives in
Gonzales with his wife Ellen Marie
1970
1971
1972
Larry Barker (BS) received his MD
from the University of Texas Medical
Branch in 1976. He was in private
practice (internal medicine and geriatrics)
in Sherman for eleven years and is now
an oncologist with Texas Oncology.
Don Denison (BS, MS 1976) is a
commercial product manager for Flotek
Industries, Inc. in Houston. In 2007, he
initiated the Denison-Koehn Endowed
Scholarship at Texas State.
1974
Alan Moore (BS) earned a DDS in
1978 from the UT Dental Branch in
Houston. He practices in Austin.
1975
Joe Dallal (BS) earned an MS in
Chemistry from Texas State, after which
he worked as a cosmetic chemist for
Redken, Zotos, and now Ashland
Specialty Ingredients. He lives in San
Antonio with his wife. They have three
children.
Larry Robertson (BS, MS 1977) is
President of Robertson Environmental
Consulting Group, which focuses on
indoor air quality. He has been married
for 37 years to Virginia Peterson, also a
Texas State graduate. They live in Jewett,
have a son and daughter and two
grandsons.
1976
Tommy Acosta (BS) has been a senior
environmental laboratory chemist for the
San Antonio Water System for 27 years.
Jim Cooper (BS) has worked for Dow
Chemical Company for 37 years. He
lives with his wife on the San Bernard
River south of Lake Jackson. They have
two children and four grandchildren.
Oscar Garcia (BS) is a leader in Ticona
America's Field Technical Services near
Alice. He and his wife Velma have two
children. One is a Texas State graduate
and the other is currently attending
Texas State.
1977
Mike Peters (BS) retired in 2011 from
the environmental staff of Commercial
Metals Company. He is currently
enjoying family and consulting for the
Texas metals industry.
W . Glyn Landrum (MS) and his wife
Pam own Current Electric, Inc. in San
Marcos, specializing in electrical remodels. They have four grandchildren.
Fred W erkenthin (BS, MS 1980) is
an attorney with Booth, Ahrens, and
Werkenthin, P.C. in Austin. He and his
wife Debbie have five children.
1979
David Furr (BS) has worked in the
medical devices industry for most of his
career. He currently operates his own
consulting firm. David lives in Austin
with his wife Dee. They have two
daughters and two grandchildren.
Boyd Carr (BS) has spent the past 36
years as a research technician at the UT
Medical Branch in Galveston. He and his
wife have two grown daughters.
1982
Eddie Hess (BS) is national sales
director for Gardner Gibson. He lives in
Seguin with his wife Cathy Rix Hess
(‘81). They have two sons.
W esley Box (BS) worked for the Texas
Water Commission for five years and in
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and is now a science teacher and vice
principal at an Austin high school.
Wesley is married to Libby Lowe (‘83),
and they have three children.
1983
Greg Gilcrease (BS) graduated in
1987 from the UT School of Dentistry
in Houston and practices in San Marcos.
wife Laurie live in Dripping Springs and
have two sons and a granddaughter.
area. He and his wife Mary live in Keller
and have three sons.
Doug Stemke (BS) earned a PhD from
Louisiana State University and is now an
Associate Professor of Biology at the
University of Indianapolis. He is married
and has one child.
After graduating, Rodney Rohde (BS,
MS 1992) spent about ten years working
for the Texas Department of Health
Services. He returned to Texas State as a
faculty member in Clinical Laboratory
Science and completed a PhD at Texas
State in Education in 2010. He is now
Professor and Chair of the Clinical
Laboratory Science Program. Rodney
and his wife Bonnie have a son and
daughter.
1987
W ayne Radwanski (BS) is a general
dentist practicing in Austin. He and his
wife, Linda, live in Austin. They have
four grown daughters and two grandchildren.
Leisa Chambers McLelland (BS) is
married, has two children, and lives in
Austin.
1984
Gena Janssen (BS, MS 1991) worked
as an endangered species biologist for the
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department
from 1992 until 2000 and now works for
an environmental consulting firm. She
has two children and lives in Austin.
Mike Bira (MS) worked as a field
biologist for the Texas Water
Commission from 1984 until 1988 and
is now an environmental scientist for the
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
in Dallas. He is married to Kristi
Williamson and they have two daughters.
Sandra Skrei Mock (MS) has worked
for several non-profit conservation
groups. She is now doing consulting and
special projects.
1985
Tommy Ellerbee (BS) is a manager at
the Texas Department of Health Services
in Austin. He is married to Mindy
Granger Ellerbee (‘84) and they have
three children.
Nathan Smyth (BS) served in the U.S.
Army from 1985 until 2006. He is
currently an Assistant Dean at the
Pennsylvania College of Technology. He
is married to Susan Smyth and they have
a son and two daughters.
1986
Roy Kleinsasser (MS) recently retired
from the Texas Parks and Wildlife
Department.
1988
Theresa Nozer (BS) completed a
Doctor of Veterinary Medicine at Texas
A&M in 1995 and married Robert
Hardy, a classmate at TAMU. They live
in Austin where he has his own
veterinary practice and she works part
time while concentrating on raising their
son and daughter.
W illiam Watson (BS) received his
PhD from the University of North Texas
and is now a forensic DNA analyst.
1991
Kevin Dees (BS, MS 1994) is Chair of
the Division of Math and Science at
Wharton County Junior College. He and
his wife Stephanie have two daughters
and live in Needville.
Kevin Mayes (MS) is an aquatic
biologist with the Texas Parks and
Wildlife Department and lives in Buda.
1992
Steven Trumble (BS) earned a PhD
from the University of Alaska in
Fairbanks. He is currently a Professor of
Biology at Baylor University. Steven lives
in Waco with his wife Suzanne and two
children.
Joanna
Hestilow
Brand (BS)
completed a degree in Physician Assistant
Studies at the UT Medical Branch in
Galveston. She has worked as an
interventional cardiologist at Austin
Heart since 2001.
1989
Kelly Cooper (BS) is a data support
specialist at Plumas National Forest in
California.
Tim Raabe (BS, MS 1991) received his
Ph.D. from UT Austin in Zoology. He
began as a faculty member at St. Mary’s
University in San Antonio in 1997 and is
now a Professor and Chair of the Biology
Department. Tim is married to Linda
Lozano Raabe, also a Texas State grad,
and they have two daughters.
1990
Randy Palachek (MS) is a biologist
and manager for Parsons Water and
Infra-structure in Austin. He and his wife
Janet have three sons.
Richard Bosch (BS) is a laboratory
supervisor for the City of Austin. He is
married to fellow Texas State student,
Sandra Bosch. They have one son.
Kirk Smith (BS) retired from the Texas
Water Commission in 1998. He and his
James Clapp (BS) is a molecular
account manager for Roche Molecular
Diagnostics in the Dallas/Fort Worth
1993
Mark Kaderli (BS) has worked in
medical sales and sales management since
graduating; first with Eli Lilly, then with
Bausch & Lomb, and currently with
Diopsys. He is married with three
children.
Brent W halin (BS) earned an MS in
Physical Therapy. He and his wife,
Dianna, have four sons; the oldest
graduated from Texas State in 2010.
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Lenore Depagter (BS) has been practicing internal medicine and pediatrics
for 13 years. She lives in San Marcos
with her husband and five-year-old
twins.
Dennis McCarty (BS) graduated from
the University of Houston College of
Optometry in 2007. He now has a
private optometry practice in Cedar Park.
1995
Derek Albus (BS) graduated from
Baylor College of Dentistry in 1998 and
is now in private practice in Dallas. He
and his wife Sarah have two sons.
Scott Jecker (BS, MS 1997) is founder
and President of the Whitenton Group,
Inc., an environmental consulting firm.
He lives in Martindale.
1996
Shelly Hinson (BS) is a chemistry
teacher and Chair of the Science Department at Duncanville High School. She is
married to Robert Cooper (‘97) and they
have two children.
Melanie Thomas Miller (BS) is a
physical therapist in Austin. She and her
husband Jeff have two sons.
Nichola W illiams Oka (BS) is a
quality assurance specialist at Galderma
Laboratories in Fort Worth
Travis Rothwell (BS) is a regional implant specialist for Henry Schein Dental
in Austin.
Krista Ahlhorn Rumbaugh (BS)
earned an MS in physical therapy. She
works part time in an outpatient physical
therapy clinic and spends "the rest of my
time running a family.”
T. W ayne Schwertner (MS) earned a
PhD from Texas A&M in 2005 and is
now an Assistant Professor at Tarleton
State University.
1997
Stephanie Broussard (BS) is a nurse
practitioner in the neonatal ICU at
Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital
in Houston.
Matt Cecalek (BS) is a physical therapist. He is married and has two sons.
2012. Shayna is married and has two
daughters.
Steven Colwick (BS) is Vice President
for Corporate Finance at the Texas Division of Comerica Bank in Fort Worth.
He completed an MBA at Texas Tech in
1999.
Adrian Chavez (BS) teaches physics at
Coronado High School in El Paso.
Lisa Marengo (MS) is an epidemiologist with the Texas Department of
State Health Services.
2001
John Senter (MS) teaches biology
courses at Austin Community College.
Greg Southard (BS, MS 2000) is an
aquatic animal health inspector for the
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department in
San Marcos.
1998
Michael Ibarra (BS) is a senior data
manager at a pharmaceutical research
firm. He lives near San Marcos and has
two daughters.
Elizabeth Powell Kallus (BS) is a
cardiac sonographer in Plano. She and
her husband Kevin (‘98) have a son and
live in Frisco.
Heather Larson Laney (BS) is Vice
President for Project Management and
Construction at American Campus
Communities. She married Texas State
alum Michael Laney in 2002 and they
have five children.
Nathan Pence (BS, MS 2002) works
for the Edwards Aquifer Authority. He
currently serves as the Interim Executive
Director of the Edwards Aquifer Habitat
Conservation Plan.
1999
Jeff Breeden (BS, MS 2002) earned a
PhD in Wildlife Science from Texas
A&M Kingsville in 2005. He is currently
an Associate Professor of Wildlife Management at Tarleton State University.
2000
Shayna Soslow Aldrich (BS) has
been teaching science for 14 years at
Fredericksburg Middle School. She
completed an MS from Texas Tech in
Gina Lobban Henry (BS, MS 2003)
is married and has two children.
Aly Sergie (BS) graduated from Baylor
College of Dentistry in 2006 and completed a general dentistry residency in
2007. He owns his practice, InFocus
Dentistry, in Dallas. Aly and his wife,
Amera, have one daughter.
Leigh Ann Harris Mitchell (BS)
taught science for seven years and is now
an office manager. She and her husband
have a son and still live in Texas.
Christie Stephens (BS) lives in Gun
Barrel City.
Joe Treviño (BS) is the Microbiology
Supervisor at Citizens Medical Center
Laboratory in Victoria.
2002
Julie Riegel Uphoff (BS) is a lead
clinical research associate at INC
Research. She and her husband, James
(‘00) live in Pflugerville.
2003
Katy Furtwangler Cox (BS, MEd
2005) taught high school biology for six
years and now coordinates Sunday school
for a Methodist church in Houston. She
married Brian Cox (a Longhorn) and
they have a daughter.
Cameron Miller Salas (BS) received
her BS in nursing from TCU in 2005
and has worked as a nurse since then. She
has been married for nine years and has
three children.
Since graduation, Christie Mahaffey
(BS) spent four years as a lab tech at the
UT Southwestern Medical Center and
recently graduated from chiropractic
school. She, along with her husband and
their three cats, are moving to Austin
where she will open her practice,
Barefoot Chiropractic, this fall.
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Dusty McDonald (MS) works at the
P.R. Bass Marine Fisheries Research
Station (TPWD) in Palacios.
2004
Jane Lee (BS) received the DO degree
from Kansas City University of Medicine
and Biosciences in 2010 and completed a
residency in family medicine in 2013.
She is now a family practice physician in
San Antonio.
2005
Margaret Bradley Putonti (BS)
graduated from the UT Dental Branch in
Houston in 2010 with a DDS. She
practices dentistry in Baytown. She
married Matthew Putonti in 2007. They
live in Crosby with their two sons.
2006
Ross Maddox (BS) graduated from
dental school at the UT Health Sciences
Center–San Antonio in 2011 and is
practicing at Balcones Family Dental in
Austin.
Robert McGlaun (BS) earned an MS
from Texas A&M-Corpus Christi and is
a fisheries biologist for the National
Marine Fisheries Service. He and his wife
Kimberly have a son and live in Corpus
Christi.
Cyndee Watson (MS) is a biologist
with the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service in
Austin.
2007
Anne Bolick (MS) is a fish biologist for
the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service in
northern California.
Brandon Delbosque (BS) earned an
MS in Physician Assistant Studies and
works as a physician assistant in the San
Antonio Orthopedic Group.
Johnson Ross Perez (BS) is a financial
advisor for Edward Jones in Fort Worth.
He is married to Texas State alumna
Paige Buckley Perez and they have one
child.
Johnson Ross Perez (BS) is a financial
advisor for Edward Jones in Fort Worth.
He is married to Texas State alumna
Paige Buckley Perez and they have one
child.
Ryan Klitgaard (BS) is a first-year
medical student at Texas Tech.
Jessica
Perez
Shimek recently
graduated from the Texas A&M Baylor
College of Dentistry and is working as an
associate dentist in a private practice in
Sugar Land. She is married to Patrick
Shimek, a fellow Bobcat.
Lorena Rangel (BS) earned an MS in
plant pathology from Oregon State
University and is now in the plant
pathology PhD program at the University of California at Davis.
2008
J. Eric Dedden (MS) is a laboratory
assessor for the Texas Commission on
Environmental Quality. He has a son,
John, who is 16 years old.
Susan Cisneros (BS) works as a
scientist in the quality assurance section
of Life Technologies in Austin. She is
married with two children and one
grandchild.
Stuart Van Delden (BS) earned a
Doctor of Pharmacy degree from the
University of Houston in 2012 and is
now a pharmacist for HEB in Corsicana.
His first child is due in early 2014.
Seth W ardell (BS) is a senior clinical
cell therapy specialist at the University of
Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. He
is married with one daughter.
2011
Larry Larralde (MS) is an aquatic
biologist with the San Antonio River
Authority. He is married to Emily
Casanova and they have two children.
Irfan Syed (BS) is a healthcare business
analyst for Covenant Management
Systems. He will start law school in 2014
and focus on healthcare policy and
hospital law.
Meredith Todd (BS) is a supervisor at
the Blood and Tissue Center of Central
Texas in Austin.
Mimi W allace (PhD) is a pretreatment
coordinator with the Texas Commission
on Environmental Quality.
Kyle W illiams (BS) works for the
Lower Colorado Rivr Authority in their
environmental lab. He lives in Kyle.
2009
2012
Macy Beauchamp (BS) is a Natural
Resource Specialist at the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. She
has two daughters and lives in Leander.
Drew Davis (MS) is a PhD student at
the University of South Dakota.
Vincent Farallo (MS) is a PhD candidate at Ohio University studying the
ecology of salamanders.
Jonathan Parmer (BS) lives in Fort
Lauderdale where he works as an account
manager for Thermo Fisher Scientific.
2010
Stefanie Ashby (BS) lives in Austin
and works as a research coordination
specialist for PPD, Inc.
Jenna Pruiett Cedillo (BS)
is
attending the University of Houston
College of Optometry.
Michelle Downey (MS) is currently
working toward a Ph.D. at Rice University. She is married to Lee Downey (‘11).
Andres Gonzales (BS) is still at Texas
State earning an MS in Biochemistry.
Nimi Karunarathna (PhD) is a postdoctoral research associate at Texas
A&M University where her husband,
Sampath Jayarathna, is working toward a
PhD in computer science. They have a
four-year old son, Pahan Jayarathna.
Amanda Lindberg (BS) is working
toward an MS in Applied Geography at
the University of North Texas.
Robin McCain (BS) lives in Houston.
David Morgan (MS) is a biologist with
POWER Engineers, Inc. He married
Erin Morgan last year and they live in
Austin.