In the last few years several graduates of the UAlbany Physics Department entered graduate school:
gradschool
2022 - Present
2026
• Joseph Cordone and Nathan Zwack (University at Albany - CNSE)
• Atticus Savage (Syracuse University)
• Mia LaMontagne (University of Rochester)
• Abigail Greco (Johns Hopkins University - Space Systems Engineering)
• Casey Rojas (Russell Sage College - Post-baccalaureate Pre-Med program)
2025
• Reth Lopes (Stonybrook University)
• Chad Wamsganz (University at Albany)
2023
• Henry Ashley (University at Albany)
• Santiago Vargas-Daniels (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
• Kelly Nagel (University of Maryland, College Park)
2022
• Dylan Van Allen (Syracuse University)
• George Homenides (University of Alabama)
• Caroline Corona (University of Iceland)
2017 - 2021
2021
• Carli Pelletier (Indiana University)
• Justin Pickett (The Ohio State University)
2020
• Andrew Knutson (University at Albany)
• Erik Trippi (University at Albany)
2019
• Shane Carney (University at Albany)
• Emily Flanagan (Brandeis University)
2018
• Yujia Huang (University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center)
2017
• John McFarland (Florida State University)
• Michael Dolce (Tufts University)
• Udit Gupta (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign)
2011 - 2016
2016
• Bertrand Carado (University at Albany)
• Ashley Chontos (University of Hawaii)
• Jack Genovesi (South Dakota School of Mines)
• Nicole Wallack (California Institute of Technology)
2015
• Nick Carrara (University at Albany)
• Xinzhong Chen (Stony Brook University)
• Eric Dohner (University at Albany)
• Ryan Hood (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
• Thomas Yocono (Stony Brook University)
2014
• Sam Agnello (University of Rochester)
• Anneliese Antonucci (Ohio State University)
• Carisa Miller (University of North Carolina)
• Chris Myers (University at Albany)
• Cody Schlafer (North Carolina State University)
• Steven Young (University at Albany)
• Yexin Zheng (Polymer Science, University of Akron)
2013
• Daniil Gladkov (University of Oregon)
• David Jenkins (University of California, Santa Cruz)
• Ryan Richards (Stony Brook University)
• Zachary Richards (University at Albany)
• Stephanie Racz (University at Albany)
• Seth Shapiro (Carnegie Mellon University)
• Jared Spaulding (University at Albany)
• Vicky Tang (University at Albany)
2012
• Troy Broderick (University at Albany)
• Kate Burleson-Lesser (City University of New York)
• Christopher Coronel (State University of New York at Binghampton)
• April Jeffries (Arizona State University)
• Jessica Kim (University at Albany)
• Mathew Wright (University at Albany)
• Kevin Wynne (University at Albany)
In the last few years several UAlbany physics majors successfully completed REU (or Internship) programs:
internships
2022 - Present
2024
• Abby Greco (Space Camp, U.S. Space and Rocket Center)
• Alex Balarezo (University of Rochester)
2023
• Soeun Bang (Center for Internet Security)
2022
• Soeun Bang (IBM)
2017 - 2021
2021
• Kelly Nagel (University at Albany)
• Mary Fucci (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
• Caroline Corona (Sustainable energy research, Iceland)
2020
• Santiago Vargas (Columbia University)
2019
• Justin Picket (Boston University)
• Gilian Thompson ((Software) automations specialist (TD Bank))
2017
• Michael Dolce (Brookhaven National Lab)
2011 - 2016
2015
• Ashley Chontos (Stanford University)
• Nicole Wallack (Cornell University)
2014
• Nicole Wallack (American Museum of Natural History)
• Thomas Yocono (Stony Brook University)
2013
• Eric Dohner (University at Albany)
• Carisa Miller (University of Washington)
• Steven Young (University of Wisconsin)
2011
• April Jeffries (University of Nevada)
• Maggie Lovell (National Institute of Standards and Technology)
Awards received by UAlbany physics majors:
- Emily Mangus, 2018, Presidential Award for Undergraduate research
- Nicole Wallack, 2016 Chancellor’s Award for Student Excellence
- Ali Chaudry, 2011 Provost's Award in Undergraduate Research
Many undergraduate students involved in research publish their work before graduation.
awards
Non-academic jobs:
(This is an incomplete list, and will keep updating it as best we can. It is mainly intended to show the variety of jobs one can get after a Physics BS. - more information can be found here)
- Josh Martin, 2021, TikTok tutor
- Gilian Thompson, 2019, (Software) automations specialist (TD Bank)
- Emily Mangus, 2018, Optical Engineer, Northrop Grumman
- Madison Wyman, 2018, Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory
- Sean Fallon, 2015, Physics software and hardware developer, Bristol Instruments
*We try to keep this page as complete as possible, but names do get missed
jobs