Fall 2007
Student of light: Recent grad transcends boundaries
“When you come to a fork in the road,” said Yogi Berra, “take it.”
Xavier Perez-Moreno has done just that.
Last spring the effusive, pony-tailed Spaniard received a Ph.D. conferred by Washington State University and The Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium. WSU officials think he is the first Cougar to earn a doctoral degree jointly with a foreign institution.
Xavi (SHAH-vee), as his friends call him, clearly isn’t big on either/or choices. Besides bridging universities on two continents, his dual degree also combines different kinds of research and departments: theoretical physics here, experimental chemistry at Leuven.
But Xavi didn’t set out to break institutional … » More …