Linda Kenoyer
Graduate Research Assistant
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Linda joined the Knowlton Research Group in December of 2005 after "retiring" from a very brief career as a semiconductor engineer at Micron Technologies. The term "non-traditional" does not even begin to describe her life and career. She completed a B.S. degree in Physics at the University of Washington in 2001 at the age of 46, and eventually earned a M.Eng degree in Materials Science and Engineering from Boise State University in 2005 (age 50). All this after a colorful life that included attending five other colleges and universities for about one year each, a career as an urban firefighter and emt, working as a cab driver, karate teacher, school bus driver, secretary, craft sales-hippie, housekeeper, ski trail groomer, math teacher, and engineering technician. She has built a house on an island, bicycled across Canada and the US, traveled in five continents, lived in eight states and three countries, climbed mountains, protested against wars, started two book groups, offended many people, and failed to publish a single novel. She likes to ski, hike, kayak, play hockey, bicycle, tap dance, cook, knit, take photographs, operate heavy machinery, and tell stories. She has a sense of direction and a sense of humor, but no fashion sense or common sense. She always tries to remind the students in the lab that she is not their mother, but they ignore her.
Favorite Quote:
"If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research." - Albert Einstein