Alumni News

Starting this year, we are including items about our alumni in the newsletter. Please send us any interesting information, and we will try to include it next year.

Shizu Lee (B.A., 1997) is in the Ph.D. program in Economics at UCLA. "What I particularly liked about math was that once in a while there were problems that I just could not solve, and after spending hours and hours thinking about them, I was able to solve them. I really liked the feeling of being lost in my thoughts and the immense satisfaction I would get when I was finally able to solve the problems."

Kathy Temple (B.S. and UW President's Medalist, 1999) is working on a Ph.D. thesis in Mathematics at the University of Wisconsin; her field of specialty is probability. About her experience with UW Mathematics, Kathy says that she "really appreciated that I felt a part of the department, which gave me a home within the university."

Thomas Carlson (B.S. and Dean's Medalist, 2002) is now enrolled in the Master of Divinity program at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (TEDS), and is almost halfway through his degree program. Thomas says, "Even though I'm not involved in a math-driven profession at present, I appreciate my math major for teaching me careful reasoning and analytical skills, which are extremely important when one is exploring theology and its implications for life."

Ernie Esser (B.S., 2003) was a member in our model contest winning teams in 2002 and 2003, and is now a math graduate student at UCLA. He came back last summer to give a lecture at SIMUW.

Lauren Sandven (M.A., 2003) just started in a tenure-track faculty position at Shoreline Community College.

Mike Story (M.S., 2004) now has a temporary associate faculty position at Shoreline.