Biology Alumni Bulletin Board

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2005
Name: Rebecca J. Brown
Graduated: 2005
Entry Date: 7/10/07
Email: rjb1@novasterilis.com
Occupation:  Research Assistant II
Biography: Just a few weeks prior to leaving SUNY, I was hired as a research assistant at a start-up laboratory in Lansing, NY called NovaSterilis, INC. The primary goal of NovaSterilis is the terminal sterilization of human allograft tissues through the utilization of carbon dioxide in the supercritical state. Currently funded in part by two grants, NovaSterilis was recently awarded with the 2007 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award (small business category) given by the EPA.

Name: Michelle Dean
Graduated: 2005
Entry Date: 3/15/07
Email: michelle.l.dean@uconn.edu
Address: 154 Chaffeeville Rd.,  Storrs, CT 06268
Occupation: Graduate Assistant
Biography:  I have to say i'm a bit of a traitor. I currently am graduate student at the University of Connecticut going for my PhD in Chemistry with research mainly focused in the area of Chemical Education working under Tyson Miller. As a part of this program I am also required to do extensive wet lab research as well. Currently I'm a research assistant working for Christian Bruckner in a synthetic organic lab making various porphyrin derivatives. However, I guess it all comes back to how they can be used in biological systems.
Also as a side note- I am on the GSSPC (Graduate Student Symmposium Planning Committee- a symposium at the ACS national meetings.) So be sure to join us if you're there at the 2008 Philly Meeting

Name: Joe DeSantis
Graduated: 2005
Entry Date: 7/25/07
Email: JDesant27@hotmail.com
Occupation:  10th grade Living Environment and 7th grade Life Science teacher in the Bayport-Blue Point School District on Long Island.
Biography:  I've been teaching and working on my masters at Stony Brook University, and fishing... A lot of fishing

Name: Monica Marlowe
Graduated: 2005
Entry Date: 12/14/05
Email: lomar420@aol.com
Address: 807 Duncan Ave., Myrtle Beach, SC 29572
Occupation: Grad Student; SCI 101 Instructor

Name: Bret Pearsall
Graduated: 2005
Entry Dates: 10/25/06, 1/2/08
Email: bretskie27@hotmail.com
Occupation:  Environmental Specialist, Dept of Environmental Health and Safety, Binghamton University
Biography:   2006 Entry:  Upon graduating from SUNY Cortland I took a position as a chemist with the largest environmental compliance company in North America. I'm currently involved in site assesments as well as working in conjunction with goverment, state and private industries to remove thier hazardous waste and chemicals according to RCRA and D.O.T. guidelines.  2008 Entry:  After slaving 70 hours a week for a year and a half as an Environmental Chemist and traveling all over the Northeastern U.S. I have taken a job with the Department of Environmental Health and Saftey at Binghamton University. As the Environmental Specialist I will bring my knowledge of Federal and State regulations regarding hazardous waste to the SUNY system.

Name: Jennifer Wagner
Graduated: 2005
Entry Dates: 8/3/06; 8/30/07
Email: jdubs914@aol.com
Address: 3005 Barbara Street, Anchorage, AK 99517
Occupation: environmental regulatory scientist
Biography: 2006 Entry:  I moved to Alaska in Dec. 05 and have recently found a position working to keep up environmental regulations for companies in the Arctic Slope of Alaska.  2007 Entry: I've been enjoying the winters here with snowboarding, ice skating, and snow shoeing. The summer's are amazing and it gives me time to play around a lot outdoors. I've been doing a bunch of fishing, white water rafting, hiking, biking, birding, camping, etc. I've been working for MACTEC, Inc. as an environmental scientist. So far I've done work with wetland delineations and remediation projects.

2006

Name: Thomas Crary
Graduated: 2006
Entry Date: 8/8/07
Email: ridequik@yahoo.com
Occupation: Custom woodworker and metal fabricator for Lavelle's Scenic Studio
Biography: I took a year to live in Cortland, thinking that I was going to take grad classes. Having gone into cortland with the intent of becoming a chiropractor and having that dream set sail around my junior year; I was lost to say the least. Now, free of a minimum wage job, I am building sets for company promotions and TV shows in NYC. I know it has very little to do with my degree, but it is a means to an end. I am gaining skills with woodworking and metal fabrication. Once I get the funds; I plan on building eco-friendly houses. Geothermal heating systems, recycled materials, and the like, will be included in the houses. So if anyone wants a house in about 3-5 years, in ithaca or vermont, you know who to call. Great site, I will keep in touch. Cheers, Tom.

Name: Heather Golightly
Graduated: 2006
Entry Date: 6/26/08
Email: hgolightly@rossvet.edu.kn
Biography:  After graduating, I lived in California for a year doing research on Common Murre nesting habits. Then spent a month in Holland at a rehabilitation center for seals (Zeehondencreche). I am currently a veterinary student at Ross University, St. Kitts, West Indies. I plan to graduate in 2011 and continue working towards a career in wildlife medicine.

Name: David McCartt
Graduated: 2006
Entry Date: 2/1/08
Email: dm97@cornell.edu
Biography: About 8 months after graduation I began working for the Macaulay Library of Natural Sounds at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology in Ithaca, NY.  I enjoy helping the library build and maintain the world's largest archive of animal sounds.  Much of my spare time is spent birding, motorcycle touring, generally enjoying the outdoors, and keeping up with the latest conservation issues facing the planet.

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