Alumni and Friends

Ping Yang graduated from Michigan Tech with a PhD in Chemistry in 2005 and is the Deputy Director of the G.T. Seaborg Institute for Transactinium Science and a Staff Scientist in the "Physics and Chemistry of Materials" group of the Theoretical Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL).  She has extensive experience in computational approaches to modeling electronic structure and reactivity of actinides, surface . . .

M.S. (1962) and Ph.D. (1963) in Chemistry, University of Illinois - professor of cell biology, University of New Mexico - director, University of New Mexico Center for Non-Invasive Diagnosis - deputy director, University of New Mexico Cancer Center - distinguished academic career from Stanford, Penn State, Los Alamos to University of New Mexico. From 1996 Induction to the College of Sciences and Arts Academy

After graduating from Michigan Tech in 1966 with a B.S. degree in Chemistry, Robert Nelson started a distinguished business career working for several chemical companies. He also did graduate work at Wayne State University. In 1974 he began selling stock plastic shapes and finished goods for an industrial plastics distributor. Abbot Plastics, of which he is half-owner, co-founder, and current President, was started . . .