2013 Commencement - M-OSRP's Dr. Jim Mayhan
Posted on January 02, 2014
M-OSRP’s Dr. Arthur B. Weglein and Dr. Jim MayhanAt 65, Jim Mayhan completed his Ph.D. in physics and earned the distinction of being UH’s oldest graduate in the December commencement ceremonies.
After more than 33 years at ExxonMobil, Mayhan retired and decided to pick up where he left off in the early 70s.
“I started graduate school in physics at Purdue University during the Vietnam War,” said Mayhan, who received his bachelor’s degree in physics from Louisiana State University. “Federal funding for physics was rapidly shrinking to help fund the war, so I decided to transfer to the graduate business school and received a Master of Science in Industrial Administration.”
Mayhan has accepted a postdoctoral fellowship with M-OSRP/Department of Physics at UH. He looks forward to making the new advances and further contributions that are required to address the outstanding and pressing challenges in exploration seismology.