Alumni and Friends

Dave Peters '87, BS, chemistry, from Dansville, Michigan, works for BASF in technical services. He chose to come to Michigan Tech because a high-school teacher told him he wouldn't succeed here. "I wanted to prove him wrong," Peters remembers. He says he proved to be "stupid but saveable." "My grades weren't great," he says. "But after being here and doing what I needed to do to get a degree, I knew I could go anywhere . . .

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 . . .

Monica, a chemistry major, received her bachelor’s degree from Tech in 1978. She then continued her education at the University of Toledo, earning a master’s degree in pharmaceutical science in 1980. Next, she started on her quest for a PhD in Pharmacology at the University of Kentucky. During this time she worked as a Research Assistant. She received her doctorate in 1983. From 1983 to 1984, she was a . . .