Staff
Supervisory Staff
Director
Reactor Operations Manager
Operations Supervisor
Amelia Schaeffer
Training Supervisors
M Benesch
Genna Childers
Requal Supervisor
Kaitlyn Li
Projects Supervisor
Nicholas Lutz
[ Supervisory Staff | Senior Reactor Operators | Reactor Operators | Supervisory Committees ]
Senior Reactor Operators
- Toria Ellis
- M Benesch
- Kaitlyn Li
[ Supervisory Staff | Senior Reactor Operators | Reactor Operators | Supervisory Committees ]
Reactor Operators
- Gavin Dury
- Ismayn Ditter
- Riyaz Ditter
- Pratik Kafle
Reactor Operations Committee
- Kathy Oleson (Dean of the Faculty)
- Jerry Newhouse (Reactor Director)
- Toria Ellis (Reactor Operations Manager)
- April Sams (Radiation Safety Officer)
- Kori Lay (EHS)
- Amelia Schaeffer (Operations Supervisor)
- Lucas Illing (ROC Chair)
- Jerry Shurman
- Steve Reese
- Wayne Lei
- Norm Dyer
[ Supervisory Staff | Senior Reactor Operators | Reactor Operators | Supervisory Committees ]
Previous Staff
NOTE: This list is correct to the best of our knowledge, but may contain errors or omissions. Please send any corrections to reactor@reed.edu
Directors
- Arthur Scott (June 1968 - Sept 1973)
- Larry Church (Sept 1973 - Sept 1980)
- Michael Kay (Sept 1980 - Sept 1986)
- J. Michael Pollock (Sept 1986 - Sept 1987)
- Larry Ruby (Sept 1987 - April 1990)
- J. Michael Pollock (April 1990 - April 1994)
- Stephen Frantz (April 1994 - June 2011)
- Melinda Krahenbuhl (June 2011 - June 2020)
- Stephen Frantz (March 2020 - October 2020)
- Jerry Newhouse (October 2020 - )
Associate Directors/Reactor Operations Manager
- Curtis Keedy (June 1968 - 1972)
- Michael Pollock (1972 - 1974)
- Michael Pollock (Sept 1987 - April 1990)
- Paul Terdal (March 1992 - Sept 1993)
- Juliet Brosing (Oct 1993 - May 1994)
- Joshua Filner (June 1994 - June 1997)
- Christopher Melhus (June 1997 - June 1999)
- Ryan Gaffney (Aug 1999 - May 2000)
- Juliet Brosing (Jan 2001 - June 2001)
- Eric Weis (June 2001 - May 2003)
- Rachel Barnett (May 2003 - June 2006)
- Susan Beaver (July 2006 - May 2007)
- Vanessa Holfeltz (May 2007 - July 2009)
- Robin Bjorkquist (July 2009 - June 2011)
- Reuven Lazarus (June 2011 - June 2013)
- Brian Fairchild (July 2013 - December 2014)
- Christina Barrett (June 2015 - Sept 2017)
- Ilana Novakoski (Sept 2017 - May 2019)
- Toria Ellis (May 2019 -
Operators
| First Name | Last Name | Major | RO License Date | SRO License Date |
| Robert | Anholt | Chemistry | 1968 | |
| Patrick | Call | Physics | 1968 | |
| Curtis | Keedy | 1968 | 1984 | |
| (James) | Pollock | Chemistry | 1968 | 1987 |
| Richard | Davis | Chemistry | 1969 | |
| Lawrence | Butcher | Physics | 1972 | |
| Debra | Hankins | 1972 | ||
| Mary | Ondrechen | 1972 | ||
| Sean | Hawley | 1973 | ||
| Kathryn | Higley | Chemistry | 1974 | 1975 |
| David | Holinstat | Psychology | 1974 | 1976 |
| Jon | Youngberg | 1974 | ||
| Samuel | Chemistry | 1975 | ||
| Sandra | Moffet | Physics | 1976 | |
| Jeffrey | Parker | Physics | 1976 | 1976 |
| Adriane | Pennington | Chemistry | 1976 | |
| Thomas | Biology | 1976 | 1977 | |
| Byron | Gaddis | Biology | 1977 | |
| Ellen | Hochheiser | Bio-Chem | 1977 | |
| Ron | Kathren | 1977 | ||
| George | Toombs | 1977 | ||
| Brandan | Borgias | Chem-Physics | 1978 | 1979 |
| Mark | Hybertsen | Physics | 1978 | 1980 |
| Patrick | Roberts | Physics | 1978 | |
| Geoffrey | Tyson | Biology | 1978 | |
| Granger | Banks | Chemistry | 1979 | 1979 |
| Tamar | Enoch | Biology | 1979 | 1979 |
| Kelly | Kenison (Falkner) | Chemistry | 1979 | |
| David | Kleiner | 1979 | 1979 | |
| Janet | Bonar | Physics | 1980 | |
| Christopher | Grant | Chem-Physics | 1980 | 1982 |
| William | Kallman | Chemistry | 1980 | |
| Kil Dong | Kwak | Biology | 1980 | 1980 |
| Paul | Shaffer | Chemistry | 1980 | 1980 |
| Charles | Fairfax | Chemistry | 1981 | |
| Michael | Kay | 1981 | 1981 | |
| Ross | Mercer | NA | 1981 | 1981 |
| Eric | Pesetsky | Psychology | 1981 | 1981 |
| James | Quinn | Chemistry | 1981 | 1981 |
| Doug | Richardson | 1981 | 1981 | |
| Quentin | Hanley | Chemistry | 1982 | 1983 |
| Jason | Shohet | Chemistry | 1982 | |
| Timothy | Mitts | NA | 1983 | 1983 |
| Tuan | Pham | Biology | 1983 | |
| Susan | Abe | Math | 1984 | 1985 |
| Alana | Boland | Physics | 1984 | 1985 |
| Larry | Church | NA | 1984 | 1984 |
| James | Honan | 1984 | ||
| Charles | Lefevre | 1984 | ||
| John | Lyngdal | Chemistry | 1984 | 1984 |
| James | Mohan | NA | 1984 | 1984 |
| Katherine | Widdowson | Chemistry | 1985 | |
| Craig | Deforest | Physics | 1986 | |
| (Douglas) | Jensen | Physics | 1986 | 1987 |
| Steven | Jones | Chemistry | 1986 | |
| Paul | Terdal | Physics | 1986 | 1987 |
| Matthew | Blackwell | Chemistry | 1988 | |
| Jeffrey | Bradford | Physics | 1988 | 1989 |
| Sarah | Herbelin | Chemistry | 1988 | 1989 |
| Chloe | Lewis | Math | 1988 | |
| Lawrence | Ruby | NA | 1988 | 1988 |
| Michael | Begel | Physics | 1989 | 1990 |
| Juliet | Brosing | NA | 1989 | |
| David | Moriwaki | Physics | 1989 | |
| Ernest | Argetsinger | English | 1990 | 1991 |
| Jed | Johnson | History | 1990 | |
| Anna | LeRoux | Physics | 1990 | 1991 |
| Inga | Sidor | Chemistry | 1990 | |
| Eric | Biology | 1990 | 1991 | |
| Gabriel | Brandt | Chemistry | 1991 | |
| Joshua | Filner | Chemistry | 1992 | 1993 |
| Andrew | Funk | Physics | 1992 | 1994 |
| Aaron | Mackey | Biochem | 1992 | 1994 |
| Justina | Bolz | Chemistry | 1993 | |
| Katherine | Hamer | 1993 | 1993 | |
| Morning Dove | Howard McCreary | Biology | 1993 | |
| Noah | Iliinsky | Physics | 1993 | |
| Valerie | Risk | Physics | 1993 | |
| Phillip | Wilk | Chemistry | 1993 | 1994 |
| Wendy | Evans | Biochem | 1994 | 1995 |
| Christopher | Ghormley | Chemistry | 1994 | 1995 |
| Katharine | Reeves | Physics | 1994 | |
| Patricia | Bennett | Physics | 1995 | |
| Stephen | Frantz | Physics | 1995 | 1995 |
| Traci | Hilton | Bio-Chem | 1995 | 1996 |
| (Yi-Ming) | Huang | Bio-Chem | 1995 | |
| Christopher | Melhus | Physics | 1995 | 1996 |
| Aubin | Whitley | Physics | 1995 | 1996 |
| Nathan | Carstens | High School | 1996 | |
| Silas | Cook | Biochem | 1996 | 1997 |
| Brian | Halbert | Physics | 1996 | 1997 |
| Claire | Jouseau | Biology | 1996 | 1997 |
| Chris | Meacham | Philosophy-Physics | 1996 | 1999 |
| Eric | Saunders | Linguistics | 1996 | |
| Matthew | Shaw | Physics | 1996 | |
| Gretchen | Vanderbeek | Biology | 1996 | 1997 |
| Zoe | VanHoover | Physics | 1996 | 1997 |
| Jeanette | Blaine | Chemistry | 1997 | |
| Tobias | Boes | English Lit | 1997 | 1998 |
| Jesse | Brown | Psychology | 1997 | |
| Ryan | Gaffney | Physics | 1997 | 1998 |
| Emilia | Olson | Physics | 1997 | 1999 |
| Amaria | George | Physics | 1998 | 1999 |
| Lien | Ngo | Chemistry | 1998 | |
| Michael | Perry | Math-Physics | 1998 | |
| Patrick | Reuther | Math-Physics | 1998 | |
| Ryan | Richter | Math-Physics | 1998 | 1999 |
| Ben | Tombaugh | Math | 1998 | |
| Eric | Weis | Chemistry | 1998 | 1999 |
| Alexander | Austin | Math | 1999 | |
| Jack | Barnett | Physics | 1999 | 2000 |
| Jay | Bodzin | Political Science | 1999 | 2000 |
| Reid | Burkland | Philosophy | 1999 | 1999 |
| Jesse | Helm | 1999 | ||
| David | Jordan | Economics | 1999 | |
| Kater | Murch | Physics | 1999 | 2000 |
| Matieu | Brener | Physics | 2000 | 2001 |
| Timothy | Cassidy | Physics | 2000 | 2001 |
| Cilicia | Dorn-Lopez | Biology | 2000 | 2001 |
| Ann | Erickson | Physics | 2000 | 2002 |
| Nicole | Ford | Biochem | 2000 | 2001 |
| Rudy | Gilmore | Physics | 2000 | 2001 |
| (Brian) | Hoefler | Bio-Chem | 2000 | 2001 |
| Kristina | Lestik | Chemistry | 2000 | |
| Joaquin | Ramsey | Chemistry | 2000 | |
| David | Rosoff | Math | 2000 | 2001 |
| Dan | Spoth | English | 2000 | |
| Nancy | Van Prooyen | Bio-Chem | 2000 | |
| Jonathan | Young | Bio-Chem | 2000 | |
| Rachel | Barnett | Chemistry | 2000 | 2001 |
| Lily | Cool | Physics | 2001 | 2002 |
| Erin | Freed | Psychology | 2001 | |
| Eric | Lawrence | Math-Physics | 2001 | 2002 |
| Megan | Othus | Math | 2001 | 2002 |
| David | Rubin | Physics | 2001 | 2002 |
| Seth | Samuel | Math | 2001 | |
| Alex | Bram | History | 2002 | |
| Kathryn | Bray | Chemistry | 2002 | |
| Nicholas | Chaimov | Chemistry | 2002 | 2003 |
| Stephen | Katz | Math | 2002 | 2003 |
| Ariah | Kidder | Physics | 2002 | 2003 |
| Judy | Kim | Physics | 2002 | |
| Andrea | Neuhoff | Religion | 2002 | 2003 |
| Peter | Rovegno | Physics | 2002 | |
| Joy | Wattawa | Bio-Chem | 2002 | |
| Gabriel | Ycas | Physics | 2002 | |
| Carl | Anderson | Chemistry | 2003 | 2004 |
| Andre | Bach | Physics | 2003 | 2004 |
| Nicholas | Blanchard -Wright | Biology | 2003 | |
| David | de Regt | Physics | 2003 | 2004 |
| Oren | Elrad | Physics | 2003 | |
| Derek | Galligan | Biology | 2003 | |
| Jesse | Hallett | Linguistics | 2003 | |
| Beverly | Lau | Physics | 2003 | 2004 |
| Kristen | Lavavej | Studio Arts | 2003 | 2004 |
| Maureen | Steckler | Psychology | 2003 | 2004 |
| David | Williams | Physics | 2003 | |
| Jessica | Biology | 2003 | 2004 | |
| Juliana | Arrighi | Biology | 2004 | 2005 |
| Drew | Atwater | Physics | 2004 | 2005 |
| Susan | Beaver | Chemistry | 2004 | 2005 |
| William | Draper | Biochem | 2004 | |
| Tyler | Freeman | Philosophy | 2004 | |
| Ben | Greenspan | Math | 2004 | 2005 |
| Jeremy | Harper | Math | 2004 | |
| Vanessa | Holfeltz | Math | 2004 | 2005 |
| Matthew | King | Biology | 2004 | |
| Toms | Kreicbergs | Physics | 2004 | |
| Elliot | Naidus | Chemistry | 2004 | 2005 |
| Derek | Oldridge | Physics | 2004 | 2005 |
| Zach | Schultz | Physics | 2004 | 2005 |
| Jacob | Schwartzman | Biology | 2004 | |
| Jason | Seifter | Physics | 2004 | 2005 |
| Kayce | Spear | Chemistry | 2004 | 2005 |
| Craig | Wagner | Physics | 2004 | 2005 |
| Trevor | Biology | 2004 | ||
| Rachel | Bond | Biology | 2005 | 2006 |
| Quincy | Cardinale | Psychology | 2005 | |
| Asher | Davidson | Physics | 2005 | |
| Allison | Edgar | Biology | 2005 | |
| Michael | Flashman | Physics | 2005 | |
| Ryan | Gersovitz | Psychology | 2005 | |
| Hilary | Gray | Classics | 2005 | 2006 |
| Edward | Griffith | Physics | 2005 | |
| Cindy | Joe | Physics | 2005 | 2006 |
| Judith | Levine | Biology | 2005 | |
| Grant | Meadors | Physics | 2005 | 2006 |
| Tracy | Mehoke | Math | 2005 | 2006 |
| Marianna | Mullens | Religion | 2005 | 2006 |
| Joseph | Parmalee | Sociology | 2005 | 2007 |
| Zoe | Rem | Classics | 2005 | |
| William | Rosenbaum | 2005 | ||
| (Emmett) | Sartor | Chemistry | 2005 | 2006 |
| Rebecca | Schoenberg-Jones | Math | 2005 | 2006 |
| Julia | Schornack | Physics | 2005 | 2006 |
| Griffen | Thoma | Math | 2005 | 2006 |
| Gillian | Woodruff | Biology | 2005 | 2006 |
| Robin | Bjorkquist | Physics | 2006 | 2007 |
| Steven | Case | Physics | 2006 | 2007 |
| Michael | Chaffin | Physics | 2006 | 2007 |
| Thomas | Chartrand | Math-Physics | 2006 | 2007 |
| Benjamin | Fischer | Math | 2006 | 2007 |
| Alex | Gurfinkel | Physics | 2006 | |
| Matthew | Jemielita | Physics | 2006 | |
| Sarah | Kemp | Physics | 2006 | 2007 |
| Jordan | Kohn | Chemistry | 2006 | |
| Eric | Lindsey | Physics | 2006 | |
| Anna | McGee | Psychology | 2006 | |
| Alexander | Ragus | Physics | 2006 | |
| Emma | Seward | 2006 | ||
| Christine | Anthropology | 2006 | ||
| Molly | Biology | 2006 | 2007 | |
| Tiffany | Biology | 2006 | 2007 | |
| Constance | Bailey | Bio-Chem | 2007 | |
| Fluffy (Tara) | Cass | Chemistry | 2007 | 2008 |
| Rachel | Fordyce | Physics | 2007 | |
| Angela | Frey | Art History | 2007 | 2008 |
| Kimberly | Hartfield | Chemistry | 2007 | |
| Casey | Hurstell | History | 2007 | |
| Reuven | Lazarus | 2007 | 2008 | |
| Carl | Rodriguez | Physics | 2007 | 2008 |
| Jonah | Simpson | Anthropology | 2007 | |
| Erin | Smith | Biology | 2007 | 2009 |
| Mace (Sarah) | Spiegel | English | 2007 | 2008 |
| Daniel | Wall | Psychology | 2007 | |
| Kaileigh | Ahlquist | Biology | 2008 | |
| Caleb | Arata | Chemistry | 2008 | |
| Sophie | Berkman | Physics | 2008 | 2009 |
| Rosie | Cottingham | Physics | 2008 | 2009 |
| Todd | Garon | Math | 2008 | |
| May-Ling | Li | Physics | 2008 | |
| Celia | Oney | Classics | 2008 | 2009 |
| Maggie | Post | Physics | 2008 | |
| Nick | Salter | Math | 2008 | |
| Laura | Sard | Linguistics | 2008 | 2009 |
| Jeremy | Silver | Physics | 2008 | 2009 |
| Mary | Solbrig | Math | 2008 | 2009 |
| Moriah | Tobin | Physics | 2008 | 2009 |
| Harry | Traulsen | Chemistry | 2008 | |
| Stephen | von Kugelen | Chemistry | 2008 | 2009 |
| Matthew | Carlson | Math | 2009 | 2010 |
| Kathleen | Conahan | Studio Arts | 2009 | 2010 |
| John | Dieterle | 2009 | ||
| Erik | Green | 2009 | 2010 | |
| Alina | Kassenbrock | Chemistry | 2009 | 2010 |
| Benjamin | Larson | 2009 | 2010 | |
| Daniel | Lidral-Porter | Mathematics | 2009 | |
| Ellen | McManis | Physics | 2009 | 2010 |
| Briana | Patton | Biology | 2009 | |
| Neal | Reynolds | Physics | 2009 | 2010 |
| Brandy | Ryan | 2009 | ||
| Ahmad | Shabbar | Physics | 2009 | 2010 |
| Mike | Vignal | Physics | 2009 | 2010 |
| Wesley | Physics | 2009 | 2010 | |
| Ian | Flower | Physics | 2010 | 2011 |
| Evan | Green | 2010 | ||
| Lucas | Howard | Physics | 2010 | 2011 |
| Kathryn | Linthicum | Chemistry | 2010 | 2011 |
| Cristian | Panda | Physics | 2010 | |
| Evan | Pikulski | Chemistry | 2010 | |
| Neha | Rao | Chemistry | 2010 | 2011 |
| Michael | Reichert | Philosophy | 2010 | 2011 |
| Marcus | Robinson | Mathematics | 2010 | |
| Juliet | Shafto | Psychology | 2010 | |
| Elisabeth | Thomas | Physics | 2010 | 2011 |
| Patrick | Wijngaard | Bio-Chemistry | 2010 | 2011 |
| Florence | Williams | Studio Arts | 2010 | 2011 |
| Gray | Physics-Psychology | 2010 | ||
| Hannah | Allen | Chemistry | 2011 | 2012 |
| Prakher | Bajbai | Physics | 2011 | |
| Daniel | Dashevsky | Biology | 2011 | 2012 |
| Gianmarco | Greci | Philosophy | 2011 | |
| Kelsey | Houston-Edwards | Math-Philosophy | 2011 | |
| Audrey | Humphrey | Math-Physics | 2011 | 2012 |
| Isaac | Khader | Physics | 2011 | 2012 |
| Melinda | Krahenbuhl | Chem Engineer | 2011 | 2011 |
| Trevor | Lohrey | Chemistry | 2011 | 2012 |
| Molly | Maguire | Math-Physics | 2011 | 2012 |
| Huy | Nguyen | Physics | 2011 | 2012 |
| Veronica | Stewart | Chemistry | 2011 | 2012 |
| Christopher | Vittal | Mathematics | 2011 | 2012 |
| Andrew | Warren | Mathematics | 2011 | 2012 |
| Erin | Weisenhorn | Bio-Chemistry | 2011 | 2012 |
| Drew | Blount | Mathematics | 2012 | |
| Maddie | Brandt | Mathematics | 2012 | |
| Hannah | Choi | Biology | 2012 | 2013 |
| Liz | Grace | Physics | 2012 | |
| Xander | Harris | Physics | 2012 | |
| Wilson | Horner | Biology | 2012 | 2014 |
| Jake | Luton | Bio-Chemistry | 2012 | 2013 |
| Alexandra | Mariani | Biology | 2012 | 2013 |
| Jared | Milfred | 2012 | ||
| Jossef | Osborn | Biology | 2012 | |
| Rachael | Otto | Chemistry | 2012 | 2013 |
| Grace | Poetzinger | Physics | 2012 | |
| Erin | Sheffels | Bio-Chemistry | 2012 | 2013 |
| Michaela | Voorhees | Biology | 2012 | |
| Lily | Ben-Avi | Biology | 2013 | 2014 |
| Miguel | Conner | Physics | 2013 | 2014 |
| Joshua | Hepworth | Physics | 2013 | 2014 |
| Lydia | Kerns | Physics | 2013 | |
| Simran | Mahtani | Physics | 2013 | 2014 |
| Charles | McIntyre | Physics | 2013 | 2014 |
| Stephan | Okar | Physics | 2013 | |
| Evan | Peairs | Physics | 2013 | 2014 |
| Nathan | Showell | Physics | 2013 | 2014 |
| Marin | Sklan | English | 2013 | |
| Natalie | Stone | Physics | 2013 | 2014 |
| Riley | Thornton | Physics | 2013 | |
| Reilly | Villanueva | Mathematics | 2013 | 2014 |
| Timothy | Tyree | 2014 | ||
| Amanda | Asato | Chemistry | 2015 | |
| Audrey | Dannar | Chemistry | 2014 | 2015 |
| Yuka | Esashi | Physics | 2015 | 2016 |
| Hunter | Gill | Physics | 2014 | |
| Kevin | Freymiller | Physics | 2014 | 2015 |
| Vincent | Griffith | Physics | 2014 | 2015 |
| Kristin | Hirata | Chemistry | 2015 | |
| Joewie | Koh | Mathematics | 2014 | 2015 |
| Benjamin | Morrison | Physics | 2015 | 2016 |
| Helena | Pedrotti | Economics | 2014 | |
| Edgar | Perez | Physics | 2014 | 2015 |
| Alexander | Pan | Mathematics | 2014 | |
| Sarah | Black | Physics | 2014 | 2015 |
| Malcolm | McCarthy | Physics | 2014 | 2015 |
| Abrahams | Alex | 2015 | ||
| Gill | Hunter | 2014 | ||
| Benjamin | Morrison | Physics | 2015 | 2016 |
| Andrew | Simler | 2016 | ||
| Sarah | Brodessor | Chemistry | 2015 | 2016 |
| Natalie | Hawkins | Biology | 2015 | |
| Palak | Jain | Math | 2015 | |
| Trent | Freeman | Comp Sci | 2015 | 2016 |
| Anthony | Loya | Physics | 2015 | 2016 |
| Helen | Zhang | Physics | 2015 | 2016 |
| Marjorie | Oxley | History | 2015 | 2016 |
| Matyas | Szabo | Physics | 2016 | 2017 |
| Emmett | Kahn | Math | 2016 | |
| Colin | Whimore | History | 2016 | 2017 |
| Christina | Barrett | Biology | 2012 | 2013 |
| Zach | Beadle | Physics | 2016 | 2017 |
| Maileen | Nakashima | Chemistry | 2016 | 2017 |
| Gabe | Yeung | Econmics | 2016 | 2017 |
| Rhody | Kaner | Comp Sci | 2015 | 2017 |
| Mitzi | Zitler | Economics | 2016 | 2017 |
| Gray | Perez | Physics | 2016 | 2017 |
| Ilana | Novakoski | Chemistry | 2014 | 2016 |
| Nick | Egan | Sociology | 2016 |