1955
Born to Wallace Vanderwalker and Mary (Wrzesien) Vanderwalker in Springfield, MA.
1977
Earns a Bachelor of Science from Boston College.
1980
Receives the Presidential Student Award from EMSA.
1981
Obtains a Doctor of Philosophy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
1981
Is a NATO Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Oxford in England until 1982.
1983
Teaches as an assistant professor at SUNY Stony Brook until 1985; Earns the Stony Brook Research Award for First-Year Faculty.
1984
Publishes the paper “The nucleation of Ni silicides on dislocations and twins in silicon.”
1984
Publishes the paper “A Dark-Field TEM Method for Crystal Structure Determination of Cu-Rich Phases on Twins in Silicon.”
1984
Publishes “Defects, Atomistic Aspects, The influence of Cu on dislocation motion in Si.”
1985
Publishes the short note “The effect of doping on the motion of partial dislocations in silicon.”
1985
Publishes the paper “The dependence of Li phase nucleation on the structure of partial dislocations in silicon.”
1986
Publishes the short note “Hydrides on dislocations in silicon.”
1986
Is a materials research engineer with the U.S. Army Material Technology Laboratory (Army Research Laboratory) until retiring in 1994.
1989
Publishes the papers “Fracture in Titanium Diboride” and “Hydride Formation on Dislocations in Titanium.”
2021
Maintains membership with the New York Academy of Science.