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Ron Van Dell
'79Alumni spotlight | A new way to harvest solar energy "A lot of people think of solar panels as being all there is to solar" says Ron Van Dell, President and CEO of Austin-based SolarBridge Technologies. "They tend to think if panels were cheaper, then solar would be affordable. But, with the price of solar panels falling fast, what used to be the dominant cost is now less than half the total" Of the rest, the most important . . .
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Christopher Gosling
'79, '80Chris Gosling is the Director of UOP’s Refining Technology Development group that is responsible for the development of new Hydroprocessing, FCC, Gasoline, Heavy Oil, and Renewable Energy technologies. Chris joined UOP in 1980 after graduating from Michigan Technological University with BS and MS degrees in Chemical Engineering. He has held various positions within UOP, working in a wide variety of different . . .
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Karl Burgher
'80, '82Karl obtained a BS in 1980 and an MS in 1982 in Mining Engineering from Michigan Tech. From here he went on to Missouri-Rolla and earned another BS in Economics as well as a PhD in Mining Engineering specializing in pricing and econometric modeling. Karl is currently the special assistant to the President for Strategic Planning at Indiana State University. He also has another primary affiliation as a management consultant . . .
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Boost the New Graduate Emergency Fund
Our industrious Graduate Student Government has seeded the newly created Graduate Student Emergency Fund with donations raised from a laser tag event. Please help them build this fund to give meaningful help to a graduate student who finds themselves in sudden need of help.