Alumni and Friends

Born in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1911, Melvin Calvin received a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from the Michigan College of Mining and Technology in 1931 and a PhD in chemistry from the University of Minnesota in 1935. He began his academic career in 1937 at the University of California at Berkeley, where he stayed for the remainder of his career. He died in 1997. Calvin was the first scientist to unravel the . . .

Ming-Ming Zhou, PhD is the Dr. Harold and Golden Lamport Professor and Chairman of the Department of Structural and Chemical Biology, and Co-Director of the Experimental Therapeutics Institute at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. He is also a Professor of the Departments of Oncological Sciences, and Pharmacology and Systems Therapeutics at Mount Sinai. His research is directed at understanding the fundamental . . .

Erin received a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Michigan Tech in 1998. She then went on to earn a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Connecticut in 2004, where she graduated at the top of her class. After graduating from Michigan Tech, Erin begin working at Dow Corning Corporation as a development chemist in the healthcare industry. After spending two years in that role, . . .