Philip Wilk, ’95, sent us an email this morning in which he wrote: “I have some new digs. I took a new job with the Department of Energy in April 2011. I run the Heavy Element Chemistry research program for the Office of Basic Energy Sciences. I am focused primarily on the actinides. I am working fairly closely with programs in the national labs, as well as a bunch of universities. I miss California, but there are many wonderful things happening here in DC. I noticed a new name on the shingle outside the reactor facility; I hope the reactor program is healthy and strong.”
You can learn more about Phil’s new position and the Heavy Element Chemistry program by following the links. Phil’s interest in heavy and super-heavy elements (the ones that keep getting added to the end of the periodic table) dates at least as far back as his graduate student days at UC Berkeley, and he was an energetic part of Reed’s reactor team in the early 90’s.