Alumni and Friends

"Being a graduate student at Michigan Tech was an invaluable experience. I was exposed to opportunities unavailable at the larger universities while at the same time performing research in an unsurpassed environment. The faculty's genuine interest in my education more than prepared me for a career in academia."

James Spain was born in Washington, D.C. and grew up in Arlington, Virginia.  At the age of 11, he moved to Florida, and at 17 to New Orleans, Louisiana, where he graduated from High School.  He earned a BS in Chemistry from Michigan College of Mining and Technology (now Michigan Technological University) in 1951.  He went on to earn his MS in Biochemistry from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1953 and his PhD in Chemistry . . .

Dr. Winans received his B.S. in Chemistry from Michigan Tech in 1971 and a Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from Cornell in 1975. He joined the Chemistry Division at Argonne National Laboratory where he is now Senior Chemist. In his distinguished career in fuel science he chaired conferences, served on review panels for DOE, NSF, and universities, and he is on the editorial board of several journals. In 1988 he received the . . .