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Retired General Manager, U.S. Steel, Africa; Mining Engineer, Manager of Mining Engineering, Director of Mineral Development and Director of Lands and Minerals, Oliver Mining Company, Ishpeming, MI; Hull-Rust Mine, Minnesota Hibbing District; Served in the U.S. Navy during WWII; Director, Raw Materials Property, U.S. Steel, Pittsburgh, PA; Chairman and Managing Director of a green fields fluorspar venture; Several . . .

Christopher Middlebrook aims to speed the flow of information throughout printed circuit boards and processing chips. "We need to couple light between devices with the lowest amount of loss possible," says the ECE associate professor, whose research focuses on optics and photonics. To do that, he is developing new waveguides using Siloxane. The material was developed by Dow Corning, which is funding Middlebrook's research. . . .

Carrie Halborg Schaller ‘87 retired from Midland, Michigan-based Dow, Inc. in 2022, capping off a career with the materials science leader spanning 35 years. Schaller served as the business process director for manufacturing operations at Dow, overseeing systems for manufacturing, engineering, and environmental health and safety operations. She led the team that implemented the next generation of tools and processes . . .