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Goroff Named Dean of Faculty
The incoming vice president and dean of the faculty, Daniel Goroff of Harvard University, began his new appointment at HMC this summer. Goroff was on campus in May for Student Presentation Days as well as meetings with departments, trustees and senior staff.
“Those presentations just blew me away,” he said. “The work was not only professional, but in many cases down right ingenious. I salute the students as well as their sponsors and advisors.”
 Goroff says that his impressions of the Clinics and projects confirm what he has been learning in meetings all over campus. “Part of the dean’s job is to help represent us,” he explained, “so
I have been asking lots of people what words I should use to capture the spirit of Harvey Mudd College. The same descriptions keep coming up: as individuals, we Mudders are innovative, imaginative, intense and unconventional; in groups, Mudders are collaborative, community-minded and good communicators with excellent leadership and teamwork skills.”
Teamwork is especially important to Goroff, who spoke during interviews for the deanship about higher education as not just a way of investing in human capital, but also a way of developing social capital. “I like to seek out and foster situations in which the whole can be more than the sum of the parts,” he said. “Social capital is what enables people to cooperate on making these kinds of situations work out for the best.”
Goroff explained, “If scientists and engineers are only capable of carrying out specified or routine technical tasks on their own, that’s not good enough anymore. Other countries can train workers like that less expensively and on massive scales. What the U.S. needs are young scientists and engineers who can innovate, lead, network, cooperate and connect with the world. HMC is accomplishing this in uniquely successful ways, and that should be a source of enthusiasm and pride for all of us.”
Current national and international trends have fascinated Goroff in his role as co-director of the Sloan Scientific and Engineering Workforce Project based at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He also chairs the U.S. National Commission on Mathematics Instruction at the National Research Council. As director of the Joint Policy Board for Mathematics for the term beginning in 1998, Goroff testified about scientific education and research priorities both by the House and again by the Senate during the 106th Congress.
Goroff’s advocacy for scientific education and research led to positions with the National Research Council as a division director in 1996–97, and with the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, where he worked for the President’s Science Advisor in 1997–98.
HMC President Jon Strauss, in his March announcement, said that Goroff is ideally suited to the dean of faculty position by virtue of background, interests and personality. “We expect he will provide strong leadership for our academic program, for teaching excellence, for our living-learning environment, for interdisciplinary problem solving, and for learning by doing through Clinic projects and undergraduate research,” said Strauss. “We are particularly enthused by his commitment to societal relevance which is a cornerstone of our mission.”
Goroff said of his appointment: “Harvey Mudd College has an unmistakable sense of energy, innovation and purpose that draws people to it. I am excited about joining a community that attracts such excellent students, such dedicated faculty and staff, and such active alumni and supporters.”
A 1988 Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Prize winner, Goroff has taught courses for the departments of mathematics, economics, physics and history of science at Harvard, where he also served as a resident tutor at Leverett House and as associate director of the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning. In pursuing his work on nonlinear systems, chaos and decision theory, he has held visiting positions at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques in Paris, the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley, Bell Laboratories in New Jersey, and the Dibner Institute at MIT.
Goroff earned his B.A.-M.A. degree summa cum laude at Harvard as a Borden Scholar, an M.Phil. in economics at Cambridge as a Churchill Scholar, and a Ph.D. in mathematics at Princeton as a Danforth Fellow.
Goroff’s appointment follows a nationwide search by an HMC committee that was chaired by Professor of Mathematics Henry Krieger, and that worked with The Diversified Search Companies of Philadelphia. In addition to his appointment as dean, Goroff will hold positions in both mathematics and economics. He succeeds Professor of Physics Thomas Helliwell, who served as interim dean of faculty during 2004/05.
Faculty Development to be Headed by Sullivan
 Dean of Faculty Daniel Goroff has appointed Lisa Sullivan, associate professor of economics, to the new position of associate dean for faculty development. The position is a one-year, half-time administrative post with responsibilities that include assisting faculty with grant proposals and taking on special projects proposed by the dean of faculty.
Sullivan was the first associate dean for academic affairs, a position she held for four years. Since 2003, she has administered the Mellon Faculty Development Grants, a program that provides funding for faculty and departmental projects in the humanities at Scripps College and HMC.
Sullivan studies the comparative history of work, Medieval and early-American economic history, and the economics of higher education.
Commencement 2005: Bagpipes and Bond
 Brianne Boatman ’05 led this year’s graduates to their seats as she played the bagpipes, the first time such music has been played at an HMC Commencement ceremony. The sight of the instrument may have brought to mind its clever use as a flamethrower in “The World is Not Enough” for commencement speaker Michael G. Wilson ’63. Wilson co-produced that movie and several other James Bond blockbusters. Also a leading expert on 19th-century photography, Wilson spoke to the Commencement crowd about “Public Engagement with Science and the Role of Censorship.”
\Wilson remarked that it is crucial to career advancement and to the future of science and technology that graduates take a lead in communicating with the public. “You must engage the public in a dialogue about science in a common language so they are able to make informed judgments. But in order to do so, you must be able to communicate your ideas. That is why the scientific generalist, with a solid grounding in the liberal arts, is especially relevant today.”
He also called censorship “the greatest impediment to public dialogue on any subject.”
He warned graduates not to allow their own passionately held views to “cause you to call for censorship when you hear something with which you disagree.”
The text of Wilson’s talk can be found online at www.hmc.edu/headline/wilson_commencement_speech.html
 Student keynote speaker Bradley Greer, engineering major and former president of West Dorm, likened HMC to the World’s Strongest Man Competition, calling it “a place that can offer enough of a challenge to make you push your limits.... If we’ve learned anything, it’s how to work through our weakness past our pain and roll with the punches, no matter how big or ill-timed.”
Downtime is Prime Time for World Community Grid
Sun Microsystems co-founder and CEO Scott NcNealy’s now-famous statement “the network is the computer” was never more true than it is today, and evidence of it can be found on some of the computers at Harvey Mudd College, thanks in part to the work of a staff member and an HMC alumnus.
The college is a leading participant in an innovative project called World Community Grid that allows unused central processing unit (CPU) cycles on computers throughout the world to work on large computational projects via the Internet. Because of this, these projects, which have important humanitarian benefits, can be completed in much less time and at a lower cost.
Since joining the World Community Grid on Nov. 16, 2004, HMC computers have delivered more than 18 years’ worth of computational time to the grid’s current project. This ranks the college among the top 40 teams in the world in the volume of work it has contributed. HMC’s involvement in the project was the idea of Andy Davenport, network manager in the college’s Computing and Information Services Department.
“I learned about the project the day before it was rolled out,” Davenport said. “When I saw the humanitarian benefits it offered, I knew we should get involved.”
The software, named “Rosetta,” is installed on many of the Windows-based PCs in the labs across campus and works in the background or like a screensaver when the computer is unattended. When available, the computer sends a message to the grid, essentially saying, “My CPU is available. Give me a problem to work on.” Using advanced encryption to avoid security issues, the problem and its results are transmitted back and forth via the Internet.
The current project involves protein folding, the process in which linear chains of amino acids fold into a complex, three-dimensional structure. Knowing a protein’s 3-D structure is a key step in understanding the protein’s function, and in the case of proteins involved in disease, a key step in designing small molecule inhibitors that can be used as potential drugs. Researchers estimate that human cells produce approximately 30,000 different proteins; the complete set is known as the human proteome.
Accurate experimentally determined structures are available for only a small fraction of these 30,000 proteins. By using the combined resources of the World Community Grid, researchers hope to use computational methods to predict the structure of a large number of proteins from the human proteome, thus opening multiple avenues of research into basic biology and applied medicine.
Karl Haushalter, assistant professor of chemistry and biology at HMC, sees benefits from the project for researchers like himself who investigate the structure and behavior of DNA. “Predicted structures, like those being generated by World Community Grid, are very helpful in our research. There are many LEGO-style building blocks, or motifs, that exhibit similarities in structure based on their function. As a result, we can use the predictions to help determine their function. If, for example, the structure resembles a DNA repair protein, I might choose to look at it.”
The World Community Grid is a project sponsored in large part by IBM Corporation, which provides hardware, software, technical services, hosting, maintenance and support. Another project partner is United Devices, which developed the grid software platform that enables World Community Grid to operate. HMC alumnus Jeff Lawson ’99 is senior software architect at United Devices in Austin, Texas, and guides the technical direction of the product and the design and implementation of its software. United Devices’ grid software has benefitted numerous other community projects, including cancer research and the development of anthrax and smallpox vaccines.
From his dorm room at Harvey Mudd College, Lawson helped to start the non-profit organization distributed.net with the similar goals of doing large-scale distributed computing. “I designed and implemented much of the client and server code that formed the basis of distributed.net, which continues to operate today.” Lawson continues to maintain the non-profit in his free time.
After graduation, Lawson worked at Microsoft in Redmond, Wash., but left after 14 months to join United Devices, along with other members of the distributed.net team. “My work at United Devices builds on the distributed computing experience that I gained doing distributed.net. Naturally, Professor [Robert] Keller’s Parallel Programming course [in the Computer Science Department] has since been invaluable, too.”
Grad Stats
Women – 43, Men – 112
percentage going to graduate school – 42%
percentage going to industry – 48%
other – 10%
Average salary accepted – $58,500
Class gift – (74% participation) $2,005 (plus a $2,005 match from the Strausses) for jukebox in Jay’s Place and furniture for Galileo Hall lobby
The Presidential Search is On
A Presidential Search Committee appointed by the HMC Board of Trustees is working to identify Harvey Mudd College’s next president, who will succeed President Jon Strauss.
The committee’s members include outstanding leaders from the Mudd community—faculty, administration, trustees and alumni. In addition, the committee has retained A.T. Kearney Education Practice to assist with the search process.
True to the nature of HMC, the process has been a collaborative one. Members of the committee and A.T. Kearney personnel met over several days with representatives from every college constituency. The committee then used this information to compile a list of qualifications and attributes for HMC’s next president.
This list formed the basis of an advertisement as well as a specification for the presidential search. The position has already been advertised in a number of publications, including the Chronicle of Higher Education, Black Issues in Higher Education, Hispanic Outlook on Higher Education and Women in Higher Education. Hundreds of letters are also being sent to presidents, deans and senior officers at colleges, universities and non-profits throughout the country.
Once the committee begins receiving nominations, the formal screening process will start. This should continue through early fall, when the committee will interview the most promising candidates and select the finalists who will visit the campus. The process is scheduled to be completed by late-December 2005, at which point a new president could be announced.
The committee continues to look for promising candidates. Nominations may be sent by e-mail to shelly.storbeck@es.atkearney.com. The formal screening process is underway, so nominations should be sent promptly.
Incoming Class of 2009
200 students will make up the frosh class of 2009. Here’s a brief introduction:
Male 64.5%; Female 35.5%
Californians 47%
Countries represented 6; States represented 32
Intended majors: engineering (40%); physics (11%); computer science (9.5%); mathematics (9%); chemistry (8%); undecided (7.5%); biology (5.5%); chemistry/biology (4.5%); computer science/mathematics (2%); independent program of study (1.5%); no answer (1.5%)
Research Grants Awarded
The HMC Center for Environmental Studies awarded six grants for summer research. In addition to sponsoring Clinics and educational events, each summer the Center provides opportunities for students and faculty to pursue leading-edge research on environmental topics. The projects are:
Developing Multiple Alternative Energy Solutions to Meet Tomorrows Needs. Student researchers: seniors Michael Bigelow, Vicky Luyapan, Catherine Meyers and Jessica Riley. Research advisors: Haile-Selassie Rajamani, Bradford University, UK; Tony Bright, HMC Department of Engineering
Impacts of Pollution on Native and Exotic Plant Ecosystems. Student researchers: Mikel Grenzner ’06 and Ryan McCarthy ’07. Faculty advisor: Steve Adolph, Department of Biology
Energy Efficient HVAC Devices for Humid Climates. Student researcher: Sara Al-Beaini ’06. Research advisors: Nasreen Ghaddar, Mechanical Engineering Department, American University in Beirut; Mary Cardenas, HMC Department of Engineering
“Lizardnet”: Developing and Testing a Non-Invasive Sensor System for Tracking Wildlife. Student researchers: Alejandro Enriquez ’06, John Hicks ’05, Kapy Kangombe ’07 and Jim Segedy (Goucher College). Faculty advisors: Mike Erlinger (Computer Science Department) and Steve Adolph (Department of Biology)
Computational Solutions to Navier-Stokes and Water Quality at Huntington Beach, Calif. Student researcher: Joe Majkut ’06; Research advisors: Oliver Fringer, Environmental Fluid Mechanics Lab, Stanford University; Andrew Bernoff, HMC Department of Mathematics
Lead in Soil from Vehicle Emissions. Student researchers: Jeffrey Rubinstein ’08 and Michael Daub ’08 (Williams College). Faculty advisor: Hal Van Ryswyk, Department of Chemistry
TRUSTEE NEWS
Joining and Leaving the Board
Howard Deshong ’89 and Raymond Grainger ’88 recently joined the board of trustees. Deshong is the immediate past president of the Alumni Association Board of Governors.
Those resigning from the board recently include Al Dorman (after 17 years), Stephen Lukasik (18 years) and Willis B. Wood Jr. (21 years). William Zimmerman (23 years) was elected to emeritus status.
In Memoriam- Robert Kirby, trustee
 Robert “Bob” Kirby, 80, died in Los Angeles April 13. Kirby joined the board in 1998 and served on the Investment Committee. “He was a good friend and trusted advisor to me, to the college and to his fellow members of the board,” said President Jon Strauss.
The Kirbys established the Marvel and Robert Kirby Endowed Scholarship and contributed generously to the Hoch-Shanahan Dining Commons and the Joseph B. Platt Chair in Effective Teaching. They also established the Robert and Marvel Kirby Fellowship for graduate students in Stanford University’s earth sciences program. Kirby was a Stanford graduate and earned his MBA at Harvard University.
Kirby, who served as senior partner of Capital Group Partners, is survived by Marvel, his wife of 33 years, eight children and 13 grandchildren.
Faculty News
Mudd Prize Goes to Olson '62
Richard G. Olson ’62, professor of history and Willard W. Keith Jr. Fellow in the Humanities, was awarded the Henry T. Mudd Prize at the Harvey Mudd College Commencement ceremony May 15.
Olson was commended for 29 years of exemplary service to the college. He was cited for his efforts “to recruit exceptional colleagues; for his supportive leadership for a great variety of academic program initiatives; for his strong commitment to diversity and community awareness efforts; and for his commitment to our students.”
In addition to teaching, Olson served as chair of the faculty, from 1998 to 2001, directed The Claremont Colleges Program on Science, Technology, and Society from the early- to mid-’90s, was director of the Freshman Division from 1987 to 1990 and chaired
the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences from 1982 to 1985. He has been a member of various diversity committees over the years and has provided valuable input to the college’s diversity efforts.
“If scientific developments are to be inclusively directed toward the needs of all, one important way that this must happen is through the involvement of more members of minority groups as members of the scientific community,” he wrote in a 1995 document encouraging underrepresented minority participation in science and engineering.
Olson studies the interrelationships between the natural sciences and other cultural domains, including moral philosophy, the social sciences, political ideology and religion. He is author of the book “Science and Religion, 1450–1900, From Copernicus to Darwin” released in December 2004.
The Henry T. Mudd Prize is awarded each year at commencement to a member of the college community whose service to the college and its mission is exemplary. The award is named after Henry T. Mudd, who served as a founding trustee and chair of the board for 23 years. He was instrumental in the creation and early development of the college named for his father, Harvey S. Mudd.
Cheers for Chair
A new endowed chair funded by trusts was established by Trustee Emeritus John Leland (Lee) Atwood. This new $2.9 million Atwood Endowed Chair of Engineering Science will support the Chair of the Department of Engineering, currently Anthony Bright.
Briefly
Isabel Balseiro has been promoted to professor of comparative literature. She also holds the Alexander and Adelaide Hixon Professorship in the Humanities. With the college since 1993, her research areas are contemporary writers and film makers of Africa and South America, cultural and race studies, and film and postcolonial literature.
Carl Baumgaertner was honored with HMC’s first Clinical Professorship of Engineering. Initiated by Patrick Little, J. Stanley and Mary Wig Johnson Associate Professor of Engineering, the professorship was created to honor Baumgaertner’s significant professional engineering experience, deep understanding of the opportunities afforded by clinical practice, and passion and commitment to undergraduate engineering education. Baumgaertner came to HMC after a success-ful career as a professional electrical engineer and manager of engineering projects at Honeywell. Baumgaertner said the honor was “the greatest surprise I’ve ever had in my life. Being at HMC has been a fantastic exper-ience, better than all my years in industry.”
Beginning in fall 2005, Jon Jacobsen will begin a two-year term as Howard and Iris Critchell Assistant Professor. This professorship is awarded to a junior professor with an unusual talent for mentoring and counseling students. He joined the mathematics faculty in 2002.
Vatche Sahakian, assistant professor of physics, has been named for the second year as the faculty member in residence for the faculty apartment in the Frederick and Susan Sontag Residence Hall. Sahakian said he will be expanding the popular Sunday Dinner at Sontag into a cook-off that will net the winner a $150 dinner for two at a restaurant of his/her choice.
Lesley Ward, presented “An Introduction to Wavelets: Telephones, Fingerprints, and Hyperviolins” and shared her experiences in the math, science and engineering fields at College of the Redwoods April 8. Her lecture was part of an event that celebrated women active in these fields and that encouraged more young women to think about such careers.
Three faculty members were recently promoted to associate professor with tenure:
Zachary Dodds is a robotics expert in the Computer Science Department. His research lies in the area of vision-based control, specifically robotic hand-eye coordination, for which he has developed a higher-level specification language. He is working to support education and research in mobile robotics through the World Acquisition Robotics Toolkit project.
Adam Johnson, Department of Chemistry, is an expert on ligand design for organometallic chemistry. In 2004/05, he received a faculty research grant to study catalytic hydroamination of aminoallenes with chiral titanium complexes.
Elizabeth Sweedyk, Computer Science Department, focuses her research on software engineering and the technical aspects of computer games. With an NSF grant, she and HMC anthropologist Marianne de Laet created a pioneering interdisciplinary course that teaches women to build computer games for women.
IN MEMORIAM — Richard H. Popkin, 81, a professor of philosophy at HMC from 1960 to 1963, died April 18. While at HMC, Popkin published “The History of Scepticism From Erasmus to Spinoza,” which he continued updating through a 2003 edition. Popkin left HMC to become the first chairman of the Department of Philosophy at UC San Diego. He is co-founder, along with Paul Dibon of Amsterdam, of the International Archives of the History of Ideas and founder of the scholarly Journal of the History of Philosophy. Popkin is survived by his wife, Juliet, two daughters and five grandchildren.
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Staff News
Advancement Officer Named
 Charles Rasberry is interim vice president for college advancement. The former vice president of university relations at Loyola Marymount University, he has successfully directed five comprehensive campaigns at various organizations and has a consistent track record helping organizations achieve their strategic objectives and visions.
Staff Honored
Kathy Morrison, administrative aide in the Department of Physics, received the 2005 Mary B. Binder Prize for outstanding service. Morrison has been with HMC a total of 20 years, serving in Academic Affairs, Admission, Development and now Physics. In addition to her lively sense of humor and friendliness, her volunteer efforts organizing campus blood drives was also noted.
Linda Dell’Osso was honored in May by the Pomona Unified School District for her contributions to the schools there. She is director of E•SMART (Engineering, Science, Mathematics Applications Resource Team), formerly MESA (Math, Engineering, Science Achievement), which engages students in hands-on projects, field trips, and college and career planning activities. A nominator noted, “[Dell’Osso] understands the need to foster educational equity and academic excellence within our schools and has been an articulate advocate for ensuring that all students have access to rich experiences in math and science.”
Recent Hirings, Promotions, Retirements
Youlonda Copeland-Morgan was named vice president of admission and financial aid in March. She has worked in admissions and student financial aid for 25 years. She was recently inducted into The College Board’s College Scholarship Service Hall of Fame.
The Business Affairs Office has hired Erin Watkins, a former Deloitte and Touche employee, as assistant treasurer for finance. A restructuring of this department also led to several promotions: Laura Clark is assistant vice president for finance and budget; Theresa Potter is assistant vice president for facilities and emergency preparedness; Debra Heavenston is assistant vice president for human resources; and Kimberly Rogers is associate director of human resources.
At its May meeting, the HMC Board of Trustees approved Karen Angemi, executive assistant to the president, as the secretary of the corporation. She is also the discriminatory harassment grievance officer. Janet Kroll, formerly of Claremont McKenna College, is the new administrative assistant to the president. The Office of Institutional Diversity hired former Upward Bound administrative aide Leticia Molina as its new administrative assistant.
Employees retiring this year included Barbara Bergmann, director of trustee relations and events, after 14 years; Chi Pham, Department of Chemistry technical assistant, after 19 years; and Deren Finks, vice president and dean of admission and financial aid, after 17 years. During Alumni Weekend, during which he received an Honorary Alumnus award, he was recognized as having admitted almost half of the current alumni.
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 Student News
Outstanding Again
in MCM
Seniors Clay Hambrick (physics), Katie Lewis (mathematics) and Lori Thomas (mathematical biology) earned top honors in this year’s International Mathematical Contest in Modeling held in February.
The interdisciplinary team of Hambrick, Lewis and Thomas earned Outstanding honors, one of only 10 teams—out of 664 worldwide entries—to earn this honor. Three other HMC teams earned Meritorious. Fifteen HMC students participated in this year’s competition, which gives each team of three 96 consecutive hours to develop a mathematical model and write a formal paper describing their work. This year’s problems concerned flood planning downstream of Lake Murray in central South Carolina; optimizing tollbooths on a highway barrier-toll plaza; and modeling and management of a nonrenewable/ exhaustible resource (of the team’s choice).
HMC’s Outstanding team chose the first problem, and their solution earned them The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics’ prize, which includes $300 per team member, three one-year student memberships in SIAM, and travel support to present their work at the national SIAM meeting. Additionally, their work will be published in the Journal of Undergraduate Mathematics and its Applications.
Teams earning Meritorious were seniors Steven G. Avery, Tim Carnes and Eric J. Malm; juniors Benjamin Azose, Alan Davidson and Julijana Gjorgjieva; and juniors Lia Corrales, Michael Coupland and Nick Rauh. The team of Pyry Matikainen ’07, Jacob Pugh ’06 and Stephen Yu ’07 earned Honorable Mention.
Programming Skills Earn Third Place
Harvey Mudd College continued its tradition of doing well—with all HMC teams placing in the top 20—at the regional level of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) yearly programming contest held in November. Sixty-two teams representing 21 schools participated in the contest for the Southern California region.
Team HMC Hammer—Matt Beaumont-Gay ’05, Jonah Cohen ’05, Dan Halperin ’06—placed third after the much-larger UC San Diego (2nd) and California Institute of Technology (1st). The three other HMC teams and their regional ranking are HMC 42 (seniors Brian Bentow, Tim Carnes, Jeff Hellrung), 7th place; HMC Escher (frosh Greg Minton, Brian Rice, Steven Sloss) 13th; and HMC Monte Carlo (Chris Erickson ’06, Mac Mason ’06, Cal Pierog ’05), 15th.
Each team of three students used C, C++ or Java to solve six to eight problems within five hours. One machine was provided to each team, leaving one or two team members free to work out an approach. “Often, deciding which problems to attack first is the most important skill in the contest,” said Zachary Dodds, an ACM coach and Iris and Howard Critchell Assistant Professor of Computer Science. “The problems test the identification of underlying algorithms as much as programming savvy and speed.”
Winners of regional competitions advanced to the World Finals, this year won by Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. Michael Vrable ’04, now a computer science graduate student at UCSD was on the UCSD second-place team and competed in the World Finals in China.The ACM contest fosters creativity, teamwork and innovation in building new software programs, and enables students to test their ability to perform under pressure. It is the oldest, largest and most prestigious programming contest in the world. Harvey Mudd College placed second in regionals last year and won the World Finals in 1997.
Putnam Team Ranks 11th
Cleverness and problem-solving skills were put to good use in the 2004 William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition, taken nationwide by 3,733 students. Even though the median score this year was 0 out of a total 120 points, 45 of the 60 HMC students who participated scored above the median. Placing 11th out of 515 schools was the team of Eric Malm ’05, Jason Murcko ’05 and Jeff Hellrung ’05. Malm, Murcko and Brian Rice ’08 made the individual Top 200 list. The students who made the Top 500 list were Hellrung, Nick Rauh ’06, Gregory Minton ’08, Alex Eustis ’06, Jonathan Azose ’07, Reid Howard ’06 and Gwen Spencer ’05. Putnam Seminar coaches are mathematics faculty Andrew Bernoff and Francis Su.
Hertz Honor Goes to Pivonka
 The Fannie and John Hertz Foundation named Adam Pivonka ’05 one of the nation’s future innovators and leaders in business, government and academia. He competed with almost 700 applicants for one of the 15 awards that provides recipients with up to $240,000 in funding over a five-year period. Pivonka, a physics major, graduated with high distinction and also received departmental honors (physics and HSS), a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship Award, and the Radley Prize from the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences.
Mudders Studying Abroad
Chemistry major Whitney Duim ’05 became the first HMC student to receive a Gates Cambridge Scholarship, founded in 2000 by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to support international scholarship at the University of Cambridge. Duim will study colloid and interface chemistry with Stuart Clarke in the Department of Chemistry at Cambridge University, building on her research experience with HMC professors Gerald Van Hecke ’61 and Kerry Karukstis, with whom she studied the phase diagrams of lyotropic liquid crystals.
Mathematics major Carl Yerger ’05 received a Churchill Scholarship to study at the Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics at Cambridge. He will pursue a certificate of advanced study in Part III of the Mathematical Tripos. While at Mudd, Yerger did research in combinatorics and graph theory with Professors Art Benjamin and Francis Su and submitted 11 publications to various mathematical journals. Yerger is HMC’s 12th Churchill Scholar.
Mathematics major Gwen Spencer ’05 was awarded the Thomas J. Watson Fellowship for one year of post-baccalaureate study outside the United States. She earned the fellowship with her proposal, “Reinterpreting the Gender of Science and Technology in Emerging Economies,” and will travel to Tanzania, Swaziland, India and Ireland for 12 months. In fall 2006, Spencer will enroll as a Ph.D. student at Cornell University in the Operations Research and Industrial Engineering Department, where she will be supported by a Cornell Graduate Fellowship.
Cheering Section/ HMC Athletes in CMS Sports, Spring 2005
Baseball—14-25-1 overall; 8-16 in SCIAC (6th)
Sean Fogarty ’06, pitcher
Tyler Jank ’06, third baseman
Golf—6-1 in SCIAC (4th); 5th in SCIAC Championships
Corwin Cole ’07
Men’s Tennis—15-13 overall; 9-1 in SCIAC (3rd); SCIAC Championships, 3rd
Chris Jazwa ’05
Carl Yerger ’05
Women’s Lacrosse—14-4 overall
Kristen Huff ’07, goal keeper
Corina Tom ’08, defense
Track and Field— SCIAC Men’s Champions, 7-0 Dual Meet record;
Women 6-1 Dual Meet Record (2nd), 2nd in Championships
Asaf Bernstein ’08, 5000
Victor Camacho ’07, 800 (5th place SCIAC)
Nate Chenette ’07, 5000
Andy Chin ’07, 200 & 400
Jeff Jones ’08, 5000
Brian Kirkpatrick ’07, 100 & 200
James Moore ’07, 5000
Katie Mouzakis ’07, steeplechase (SCIAC runner-up, 2nd Team All-SCIAC; 5th in 5000)
Susanna Ricco ’06, shot put (SCIAC runner-up, 2nd Team All-SCIAC; 3rd in discus; 4th in hammer)
Brad Tennis ’06, 100 & 200
Kyle Zarzana ’07, 5000
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