Undergraduate Student Successes

In the last few years several graduates of the UAlbany Physics Department entered graduate school:

gradschool
2026
2026
  • Joseph Cordone and Nathan Zwack (University at Albany - College of Nanoscale, Science & Engineering)
  • 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
2025
  • Reth Lopes (Stonybrook University)
  • Chad Wamsganz (University at Albany)
2023
2023
  • Henry Ashley (University at Albany)
  • Santiago Vargas-Daniels (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
  • Kelly Nagel (University of Maryland, College Park)
2022
2022
  • Dylan Van Allen (Syracuse University)
  • George Homenides (University of Alabama)
  • Caroline Corona (University of Iceland)
2021
2021
  • Carli Pelletier (Indiana University)
  • Justin Pickett (The Ohio State University)
2020
2020
  • Andrew Knutson (University at Albany)
  • Erik Trippi (University at Albany)
2019
2019
  • Shane Carney (University at Albany)
  • Emily Flanagan (Brandeis University)
2018
2018

Yujia Huang (University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center)

2017
2017
  • John McFarland (Florida State University)
  • Michael Dolce (Tufts University)
  • Udit Gupta (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign)
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
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
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
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
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
2024
2024
  • Abby Greco (Space Camp, U.S. Space and Rocket Center)
  • Alex Balarezo (University of Rochester)
2023
2023

Soeun Bang (Center for Internet Security)

2022
2022

Soeun Bang (IBM)

2021
2021
  • Kelly Nagel (University at Albany)
  • Mary Fucci (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
  • Caroline Corona (Sustainable energy research, Iceland)
2020
2020

Santiago Vargas (Columbia University)

2019
2019
  • Justin Picket (Boston University)
  • Gilian Thompson ((Software) automations specialist (TD Bank))
2017
2017

Michael Dolce (Brookhaven National Lab)

2015
2015
  • Ashley Chontos (Stanford University)
  • Nicole Wallack (Cornell University)
2014
2014
  • Nicole Wallack (American Museum of Natural History)
  • Thomas Yocono (Stony Brook University)
2013
2013
  • Eric Dohner (University at Albany)
  • Carisa Miller (University of Washington)
  • Steven Young (University of Wisconsin)
2011
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