Department of Mathematical Sciences

Department of Mathematical Sciences Department Alumni

Department of Mathematics Alumni

Many faculty members of the Department of Mathematical Sciences have gone on to achieve great success in their careers. The following list contains active duty military alumni, retired military alumni, and civilian alumni. If you are a former faculty member and would like your information included on this list, please e-mail us!

Active Duty Military (with Branch)

LTG Rhett Hernandez (FA)	Commanding General, ARCYBER.
MG Jim Madora (ADA)	Director, Program Analysis and Evaluation, Office of the G-8.
MG Ron Johnson (EN)	Former Commanding General, United States Army Engineer Division, Pacific Ocean.
COL Jeff Appleget (FA 49)	Commander, White Sands Missile Range TRADOC Analysis Center (TRAC).
COL Kendall Cox (EN)	Former Commander of the Engineer Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division.
COL Chris Fowler (FA 49)	Faculty, US Army War College, Carlisle Barracks; currently on duty as Chief, Commander’s Initiative Group, Multi-National Forces-Iraq, Camp Victory South, Baghdad.
COL Hoa Generazio (FA49)	Military aide (Executive Officer) to the Deputy Undersecretary of the Army for Operations Research.
COL Dan Grey (EN)	Commander of the 20th Engineer Brigade, XVIII Airborne Corps.
COL Mike Linnington (IN)	Former Commander of the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division.
COL Bill Nanry	Director of the Army Quadrennial Defense Review Office; also served as senior analyst and Division Chief on the Southwest Asia warfighting division at the Center for Army Analysis.
COL Jim Rowan (EN)	Former Commander of an Engineer Brigade.
COL Robert Rowlette (EN)	Commander and District Engineer of the Engineer District, Louisville, KY.
COL Charles Smithers (EN)	Assistant Chief of Staff Engineer, 3rd Army/ARCENT; commanded the 14th Engineer Battalion at Fort Lewis, WA.
COL Louis Yuengert (FA)	Former 1st Regimental Tactical Officer for the United States Corps of Cadets. Selected for Brigade Command.
LTC(P) Phil Beaver (FA49)	Senior Service College, Washington, DC.
LTC Hugh Bell (ADA)	Director of the Air and Missile Defense Battle Lab; also commanded the 1-6 ADA Battalion (THAAD) and served as the Senior Air Defense Advisor to the Royal Saudi Air Defense Forces.
LTC Jon Christensen (EN)	Director of the Air and Missile Defense Battle Lab; also commanded the 1-6 ADA Battalion (THAAD) and served as the Senior Air Defense Advisor to the Royal Saudi Air Defense Forces.
LTC Wid Scott Crawford (SF)	Former Professor of Military Science at Arizona State University.
LTC Dennis Polaski (EN)	Former Deputy District Engineer, Okinawa; also served as Division Chief, Battle Command Training Program, Fort Leavenworth. Currently in Japan.
LTC Greg Singleton (AR)	Commanded 3-8 Cavalry Battalion (1st Cavalry Division) through two deployments to Kuwait. Also served as the Deputy Executive Assistant to the Director of J-8.
COL Rick Stevens (EN)	Former Commander of the 11th Engineer Battalion. Currently at Office of the G-8 Program Analysis and Evaluation.
MAJ Shane Kimbrough (AV)	Selected as NASA Astronaut, Spring 2004.

Retired Military (in alphabetical order)

BG(R) Chris Arney	Former Head, D/Math; currently Associate Director of the Division of Mathematics and Program Director for Cooperative Systems at the Army Research Office
MAJ Arthur Bonifas	Killed by North Korean soldiers in 1976 while leading a United Nations squad in an effort to trim a tree blocking the line of vision between two U.N. guard posts. For more information, see http://www.korea.army.mil/org/jsa/axemurder.html
GEN(R) Omar Bradley	Taught in the Department from 1919-1923. Later went on to serve as the Commandant of the Infantry School (1943) and to command the 2nd Corps in Africa and Sicily during World War II. Chosen by General Eisenhower to command the 1st U.S. Army in the Normandy invasion, and his soldiers liberated Paris and seized the first bridgehead over the Rhine River. General Bradley also served as the Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army in 1948 and as the first Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in 1949-50.
COL(R) Joseph Brown	Former Infantry Battalion Commander
BG(R) Frank Giordano	Former Head, D/Math; currently Professor at the Naval Postgraduate School.
GEN(R) Robert E. Lee	Taught in D/Math in 1829 as a cadet/instructor. Subsequently became the Superintendent of USMA and the commander of the Department of Texas. In 1861, he was offered field command of the Union Army by President Lincoln, but he declined. Later he became the commander of the Army of Northern Virginia and then the Commander in Chief of all Confederate Armies during the Civil War.
COL(R) Bruce Porter	Commanded the Engineer Brigade in the 4th Infantry Division.

Civilian

Dr. David Anderson	Finance and Banking Environment
Dr. Ethan Berkove	Lafayette College
Dr. Erik Bollt	Clarkson University
Dr. Duff Campbell	Hendrix College
Dr. Mary Jane Graham	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories
Dr. David Haroldsen	National Security Agency
Dr. Michael Jones	Montclair State University
Dr. Maya Kiehl	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Dr. Jeffrey Leader	Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Dr. Richard Marchand	State University of New York at Fredonia
Dr. Michael Marcozzi	University of Nevada-Las Vegas
Dr. Ara Pehlevanian	Finance and Banking Environment
Dr. James Rolf	United States Air Force Academy
Dr. Greg Spradlin	Embry-Riddle University
Dr. Diana Thomas	Montclair State University
Dr. Gideon Weinstein	Montclair State University

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