The University of Mississippi
Science Notable Alumni
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  Nadim M. Aziz   (BSCE '78; MS '80; PhD '84)
  • Department Chair and Professor of Civil Engineering, Clemson University
  James W. Barnette  (BSCE '58)
  • President of Coastcon Corporation in Corpus Christi, TX
  • UM 2001 Engineers of Distinction Award
  Henry C. Brevard, Jr.  (BSCE '43)
  • Founder of B&B Concrete in Tupelo, MS
  • UM 1987 Engineers of Distinction Award
  Joseph Cerny   (BSCHE '57)
  • Head of Nuclear Science Division, Associate Director of Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, and Professor of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
  Jerry Harris   (BSEE '73)
  • Chair, Department of Geophysics, Stanford University

R. Glynn Holt R. Glynn Holt   (BS '82, PhD '88)
  • NASA payload specialist (alternate) crew member for the Second United States Microgravity Laboratory, which flew aboard the space shuttle Columbia in 1995
  • Professor of Physics, Boston University
Richard E. Mayo   (BSCHE '59)
  • Subsystem Manager, NASA Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston, TX

  Paul Whitfield Murrill   (BSCHE '56)
  • CEO of Gulf States Utilities in Beaumont, TX
  • Former Chancellor of Louisiana State University

Bill Parsons Bill Parsons  (BE '79)
  • Director of NASA's Kennedy Space Center
  • Former Director of John C. Stennis Space Center
  John Prados   (BSCHE '51)
  • Served as Acting Chancellor of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville campus

  Dr. Pedro "Pete" Rodriguez (PhD '97)
  • Director of the test laboratory in the Engineering Directorate at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center
  • Led the solid rocket booster accident investigation team following the Space Shuttle Columbia accident in February 2003
  • Inventor of a portable, battery-operated lift seat for people suffering from arthritis
  J. Gorman Schaffer  (BSCE '67)
  • Principal and Executive Vice President of Neel-Schaffer, Inc., Jackson, MS
  • UM 2000 Engineers of Distinction Award
  • Fellow of the American Council of Engineering Companies
  Prescott Sherman   (BSCE '38 )
  • Retired President of PASCO Realty and Development Corporation
  • UM 2003 Engineers of Distinction Award
  T. Paul Teng   (MSCE '66)
  • Director, Office of Infrastructure R&D, Federal Highway Administration

  Chun-Tsung Wang   (MSCE '66)
  • Former President of National Taiwan Ocean University

  Richard Baxter Wilson   (BA '61)
  • Retired CEO of Mississippi Power & Light

  William G. Yates, Jr.   (BSCE '63)
  • President, W.G. Yates & Sons, the largest construction company in Mississippi and ranked in the top 50 in the United States
  • UM 1992 Engineers of Distinction Award

   

 


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