Emma Sargent ’24
Emma Sargent won the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Student Excellence in 2024, SUNY’s highest award for an undergraduate. She started the Master’s program in Medical Physics at Louisiana State University in Fall 2024.
Job Titles
Examples of job titles for our graduates:
- Lab Engineer
- Research Scientist
- Controls Engineer
- Systems Engineer
- R&D Engineer
- Software Engineer
- Integration Engineer
- Industrial Strategy Advisor
- Medical Device Sales Representative
- Optometrist
- Optical Technician
- Opto-Mechanical Manufacturing Technician
- Physics Teacher
- Senior Engineer
- Senior Calibration Technician
- Metrologist
- Counselor
Heather LaValle ’16
Heather LaVallee received her Doctor of Optometry (OD) in 2020 from the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences. She is currently an optometrist with Southeast Eye Associates in Corbin, KY.
Employers
Graduates from SUNY Brockport’s Department of Physics have obtained jobs at companies or government agencies such as:
- Various high schools or universities
- Kennedy Space Center, NASA
- Office of Management and Budget, The White House, Washington DC
- Corning
- L3 Harris
- AstroCamp
- Integrated Nanosystems Center, University of Rochester
- MGA Research Co.
- Transcat
- QED Technologies
- Zimmer Biomet
- Quest Global
- Southeast Eye Associates
Summer Internship & Research Experience for Undergraduate (REU) Opportunities
Each summer, students have opportunities to participate in the Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP) with full financial and housing support. In addition, our undergraduates have opportunities to work as interns or conduct research at various institutions. Recently, our students have worked at the following places:
- National Radio Astronomy Observatory
- University of Hawaii, Manoa
- Clemson University
- St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
- University of Maryland
- Transcat
Graduate School Opportunities
Recently, our students have been enrolled in the following universities to pursue master’s, PhD, or other doctoral degrees in fields such as physics, engineering, materials science, astronomy, education, mathematics, statistics, scientific computation, or optometry after graduation:
- University of Rochester
- University of Maryland, College Park
- Louisiana State University
- Binghamton University
- Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences
- University of Central Florida
Alumni Destinations
Kevin Grossman ’12
Kevin Grossman received his PhD in materials science and engineering from the University of Central Florida in 2017. He now works for NASA as a Research Scientist at the Kennedy Space Center.
Scott Lewis ’24
Scott Lewis graduated early and took a job in December 2023 as a counselor at AstroCamp in Idyllwild, CA.
Vincent Daviero ’24
Vincent Daviero started as a Medical Device Sales representative at Zimmer Biomet, and is now a Controls Engineer at Quest Global in Ballston Lake, NY.
Nicole Zhe ’22
Nicole Zhe (physics and geology double major) received her Master of Science in Education from the University of Rochester and is teaching high school physics in Annapolis, MD.
Nolan Coble ’20
Nolan Coble was a recipient of the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Undergraduate Excellence in 2020. He is currently a doctoral student in the Applied Mathematics & Statistics, and Scientific Computation program at the University of Maryland.
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Brandon Parks ’21
Brandon Parks is a Senior Engineer with MGA Research Co. in Akron, NY.
Jeremy Mehta ’13
Jeremy Mehta received his Master of Arts in teaching, physics (2018) and his PhD in physics (2019) from Binghamton University. He is currently an Industrial Strategy Advisor in the Office of Management and Budget in Washington, DC.
Colin Steiner ’23
Colin Steiner started the PhD program in materials science at the University of Rochester in Fall 2023.