In 2004, I graduated magmum cum laude with a BA in physics (honors) and mathematics (and a minor in economics) from Vanderbilt University, located in Nashville, Tennessee. I am now attending the University of California at Berkeley for physics where I am doing quite well. At Vanderbilt, I was honored with a full tuition McMinn Honor scholarship. Below are the classes I took at Vanderbilt. I received a GPA of 3.96. I now have a fellowship funded by the Department of Defense. I plan to eventually become a research professor of physics.
Anth: 103 and 104,
Astr 250B,
Econ: 100, 101, 115W, 226, 231, 245, and 273,
Math: 170AB, 204, 208, 214, 218, 218L, 242,
261, and 267,
Phil 100,
Phys: 121ABLab, 223, 225ABLab, 227AB,
229AB, 240A, 250A, 251AB, 291A, and 296,
Psyc 101,
STH 203
My activities are more limited now that I am a graduate student; I am the bone marrow coordinator or Rotaract and I still work on my music. I have also recently started an internet business which I hope to be open to the public soon. I was involved in many activities as an undergraduate at Vanderbilt. I was the President, Vice President, and Treasurer of the Society of Physics Students and the Vice President of the Vanderbilt Music Society. I was in Vanderbilt Students Meeting for the Awareness of Cancer (V-SMAC) as well, organizing a annual Bone Marrow Registration Drive getting about 600 participates. Also, I worked under Professor Norman Tolk in the Department of Physics and Astronomy.
During the summer of 2001, I researched with the Center for Molecular and Atomic Studies at Surfaces (CMASS). I received the VUSRP grant for this research and was adopted into Vanderbilt's REU group. The picture below was of me and the REU group before we went on a General Jackson cruise. I'm the one standing on a chair in the back.
For the summer of 2002, I worked at IBM in California researching some of the same things that I did with Vanderbilt's Physics Department, namely spintronics.
During the summer of 2003 and 2004, I worked on more spintronics at Vanderbilt. Now I am doing research at Berkeley on "multiferroics." For more info, please see my Physics site.
