Physics & Astronomy Placements
Teaching physics and astronomy within the context of a liberal arts education equips graduates with the knowledge, skills, and experience necessary to continue on to a variety of careers and/or graduate school opportunities.
Previous graduates' career and professional placements have included:
• Systems Analyst, Lexmark Corporation (Kentucky)
• Nuclear Engineer, BWX Technologies, Inc. (Virginia)
• Astronomer, Cerro Tololo Observatory (Chile)
• Physics Teacher, Plainfield Community School Corporation (Indiana)
• Department Chair: Atmospheric Sciences, University of Chicago (Illinois)
• Manager of Information Technology, Eli Lilly (Indiana)
• Environmental Engineer, Woodward-Clyde Corporation (California)
Graduate school placements have included:
• Indiana University School of Dentistry
• Rutgers University
• Indiana University School of Medicine
• Notre Dame University
• Wright State University
• Vanderbilt University
• Purdue University
• Medical College of Ohio
• Brown University
• Georgia Institute of Technology
• Pennsylvania State University
• University of Illinois
• University of Wisconsin
• University of Maryland
• University of North Carolina
• University of Colorado
• University of Connecticut
• Ball State University
• University of Cincinnati School of Medicine
Alumni Profiles
John Frederick, Ph.D. '71
Chair, Dept. of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
M. Timothy Kosfeld, III, M.D. '81
Internist, Saint Louis, MO
Daniel Heighway '86
Manager of Information Technology at Clinton Laboratories Eli Lilly
Terre Haute, IN
Margaret Becker '91
Environmental Engineer
Woodward-Clyde Corporation
San Francisco, CA
J. Chris Howk, Ph.D., '94
Postdoctoral Fellow
M.D., Johns Hopkins University