Education
- Sycamore High School, Sycamore IL (1984-1988)
- Northern Illinois University, DeKalb IL (Summers '86, '87, '88), G.P.A. 4.00
- Macalester College, St. Paul MN (1988-1992), G.P.A. 3.45
- earned B.S. in Chemistry (ACS approved), with honors
- Hughes Research Scholar (1990-1992)
- Phi Lambda Upsilon Honors Society
- won Jon Howe Scott Sophomore Chemistry Prize
- won Analytical Chemistry Prize
- Duke University, Durham NC (1992-1994), graduate courses in chemistry
- North Carolina State University, Raleigh NC (1995-1998), G.P.A. 3.78
- earned Certificate for Computer Programming
- Upsilon Pi Epsilon Honors Society
- University of Wisconsin, Madison WI (1998-2000), G.P.A. 3.40
- earned M.S. May '00
- emphasis upon compilers, language, hardware, algorithms
Computer Languages
- C
- C++
- Fortran
- Java
- Scheme
- Perl
- HTML
- Open GL
- SQL
- Visual Basic