Graduate Schools Our Majors Attend For students interested in a research career, it is critical that their undergraduate study be of the excellence needed to gain admission to the top graduate schools.  At Northwestern, our faculty have ready access to many of the world's greatest research facilities, including the Hubble Space Telescope and the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, thus providing our undergraduates with outstanding opportunities to study cutting-edge science and technology.  Also, Northwestern is a pioneer in creating innovative multi-disciplinary education, as best demonstrated by our Integrated Sciences Program, a program that melds mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, geology, and computer science into a single curriculum. Here is a partial listing of the outstanding graduate programs that some of our more recent graduates are attending: Student BA Year   University Program Notes Sean Andrews 2001 Hawaii Astrophysics Thomas Bay 2000 Stanford Physics Laura Blecha 2005 Caltech Physics Laura attended Cambridge University for one year on a Gates-Cambridge Scholarship before entering Caltech. Semyon Blinstein 2007 UCLA Mathematics James Chisholm 1998 Chicago Physics James received his PhD in 2005 and is now a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Fundamental Theory at the University of Florida. Janet Colucci 2004 Michigan Astrophysics Samuel Eckels 2007 Wisconsin Mathematics Steven Ehlert 2007 Stanford Astrophysics Steve is spending a year at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg, Germany, as a DAAD Fellow before beginning his graduate study. Matthew Gill 2007 UC San Diego Mathematics Chris Greer 2002 Chicago Physics Chris is the recipient of a three-year NSF graduate fellowship. David Guarrera 2003 MIT Physics David also spent a year at Cambridge as part of a National Science Foundation Fellowship. John Hewitt 2004 Northwestern Physics John is continuing his undergraduate research in astrophysics with Professor Farhad Zadeh. Mia Ihm 2005 UC Berkeley Physics Mia is the recipient of a three-year NSF graduate fellowship. Jeffrey Kaplan 2007 Caltech Physics Jeff has been awarded a Feynmann Fellowship. Daniel Krop 2000 Indiana High-Energy Physics Dan received his PhD in 2007 and is now a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Enrico Fermi Institute at the University of Chicago. Aaron Lee 2007 UC Berkeley Astrophysics Aaron spent a year at Cambridge working on a Certificate for Advanced Study in Mathematics before entering Berkeley. Thomas Lippman 2007 Stanford Physics Jennifer Marshall 2000 Ohio State Physics Robert McElrath 1998 Wisconsin Physics Rob completed his PhD in 2003 and is now a Postdoctoral Research Associate at UC Davis, working in particle theory. Anne Metevier 1997 UC Santa Cruz Astrophysics Anne received her PhD in 2003, and is now an NSF Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellow in the Santa Cruz Center for Adaptive Optics. Taejin (Lance) Min   2007 Illinois Physics Sasha Muratov 2007 Michigan Astronomy Philip Nutzman 2004 Harvard Astrophysics Ryan O'Leary 2005 Harvard Astrophysics Ryan received a six-year Fellowship to attend Harvard. Brian Patt 1999 MIT Physics Brian recently completed his PhD thesis, which was on string theory.  His advisor was Nobel Laureate Frank Wilczek. Kathleen Ratcliff 2002 UC Berkeley Biophysics Robert Rettew 2007 Georgia Tech Physics Robert is a President's Fellow in Georgia's Center for Excellence in Photovoltaics. Adam Sefkow 2002 Princeton Plasma Physics William Shepherd 2007 Northwestern Physics Will has been awarded a GAANN Fellowship for his first year of graduate study. Mengkai Shieh 2004 Stanford Medical School Ethan Siegel 2000 Florida Physics Two graduates from our PhD program are also at Florida, as members of the physics faculty. David Smith 2001 Princeton Plasma Physics Jeffrey Tran 2000 Illinois Physics Matthew Turk 2003 Stanford Physics David Westbrook 2000 Rochester High-Energy Physics Robert White 2000 Washington (St. Louis)   Planetary Sciences Kenneth Yu 2003 Caltech/Southern Cal Joint Program in Biophysics & Medicine Geralyn Zeller 1994 Northwestern Physics Geralyn "Sam" Zeller won the 2003 Mitsuyoshi Tanaka Dissertation Award, an award sponsored by the American Physical Society that recognizes outstanding PhD research in the area of particle physics.  Dr. Zeller is now studying neutrino oscillations at Fermilab as a Research Associate with Columbia University. Other alumni who chose to enter research careers, but who graduated a few years further back, include: Professor Barbara Ryden (WCAS 1980, PhD Princeton 1987), now on the faculty at The Ohio State University.  Professor Ryden has recently written a well-received textbook, "Introduction To Cosmology", published by Addison-Wesley. Professor Steven Majewski (WCAS 1980, PhD Chicago 1987), now on the faculty at the University of Virginia.  Professor Majewski has won several honors, including being named a Packard Fellow, a Cottrell Scholar, and a National Science Foundation Young Investigator.