{"id":20427,"date":"2025-08-11T18:47:46","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T18:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/give\/?p=20427"},"modified":"2025-11-10T22:48:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T22:48:05","slug":"honoring-a-father-and-his-love-of-physics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/give\/news\/2025\/08\/11\/honoring-a-father-and-his-love-of-physics","title":{"rendered":"Honoring a father and his love of physics\u202f"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading is-style-highlight-paragraph-large has-h-2-font-size\">How a tech CEO pursued her passion for physics at the University of Washington Bothell.\u202f&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>When Carol Miu was a girl, her father, Patrick Miu, instilled in her a love of physics. Later in life, she returned to that interest as an adult learner at UW Bothell.\u202f&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading is-style-highlight-paragraph-large has-purple-400-color has-text-color has-link-color has-h-3-font-size wp-elements-02f90fbd373b4edb71c01a86b25837fe\">A shared love of learning<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Patrick Miu was a lifelong learner and a renaissance man. He was born and raised in Hong Kong before moving to New York as an international student, where he completed degrees in computer science and statistics at Stony Brook University. He stayed in the United States and worked as a software engineer for various banks before becoming a stay-at-home dad to his three children.\u202f<\/p>\n\n\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" aria-hidden=\"true\" viewbox=\"0 0 31.93 23.66\" width=\"34\">\n  <path fill=\"currentColor\" d=\"M19.94 23.655h11.988V12.578h-6.6a6.63 6.63 0 0 1 .662-3.486 8.55 8.55 0 0 1 5.721-4.722V.001a14.8 14.8 0 0 0-8.687 4.768q-3.089 3.606-3.089 9.994v8.893Zm-19.938 0H11.99V12.578h-6.6a7.5 7.5 0 0 1 .631-3.575q1.47-3.277 5.763-4.633V.001a14.54 14.54 0 0 0-8.771 4.788c-2 2.427-3.008 5.781-3.008 9.974Z\"><\/path>\n<\/svg><p>&ldquo;I had a copy of Newsweek that came in the mail in fall 1989. I kept that issue for years and years, because I thought Neptune was so beautiful.&rdquo;&#8239;<svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" aria-hidden=\"true\" viewbox=\"0 0 31.93 23.66\" width=\"34\" style=\"transform:rotate(180deg);transform-origin:center\">\n  <path fill=\"currentColor\" d=\"M19.94 23.655h11.988V12.578h-6.6a6.63 6.63 0 0 1 .662-3.486 8.55 8.55 0 0 1 5.721-4.722V.001a14.8 14.8 0 0 0-8.687 4.768q-3.089 3.606-3.089 9.994v8.893Zm-19.938 0H11.99V12.578h-6.6a7.5 7.5 0 0 1 .631-3.575q1.47-3.277 5.763-4.633V.001a14.54 14.54 0 0 0-8.771 4.788c-2 2.427-3.008 5.781-3.008 9.974Z\"><\/path>\n<\/svg><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"266\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/give\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2025\/08\/Patrick-Carol-Miu-1983_w-266x300.jpg\" alt=\"Historic photo of Patrick Miu and Carol Miu from 1983, when Carol was a baby.\" class=\"wp-image-20429\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/give\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2025\/08\/Patrick-Carol-Miu-1983_w-266x300.jpg 266w, https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/give\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2025\/08\/Patrick-Carol-Miu-1983_w-768x866.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/give\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2025\/08\/Patrick-Carol-Miu-1983_w-600x677.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/give\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2025\/08\/Patrick-Carol-Miu-1983_w.jpg 798w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 266px) 100vw, 266px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Patrick and Carol Miu in 1983<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHe got me into all sorts of stuff when I was a kid,\u201d Carol Miu said. \u201cHe had me reading the Wall Street Journal \u2014 the whole thing \u2014 by the time I was 8 years old. He taught me about the stock market, advanced math, circuits and electronics.\u201d\u202f<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Miu said she was even taught how to solder by her father, and with his guidance, she learned computer programming in BASIC, Java, and R.\u202f<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of her father\u2019s main interests was physics and trying to understand what was left to learn about the universe, she recalled. He was fascinated by the research of Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking and shared his interest with his children.\u202f<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One memory that stands out to Miu is watching the science TV show NOVA on PBS in the late \u201980s with her father. Together they learned about the Voyager 2 spacecraft and saw pictures of Neptune sent back through space. \u201cI had a copy of Newsweek that came in the mail in fall 1989. I kept that issue for years and years, because I thought Neptune was so beautiful.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading is-style-highlight-paragraph-large has-purple-400-color has-text-color has-link-color has-h-3-font-size wp-elements-9fbcc4063df1ade21ad4c9a09a70d678\">A move away from science and back<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>A decade later, Carol Miu started college at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, still unsure of what path to follow. As part of the college\u2019s requirements, all undergraduates had to take classes in physics. Despite doing well in those classes, Miu decided to pursue economics instead. At the time, Miu said, there was a lot of sexism in the hard sciences, and after being bullied by a teaching assistant, she believed the physics department wouldn\u2019t be a welcoming place for her.\u202f<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After graduating from MIT, Miu pursued a career that included roles as a marketing lecturer, litigation consultant and product manager. This eventually led to her working for mobile games developer PeopleFun where she helped create the popular Wordscapes app.\u202f\u202f<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then came a life-altering day in fall 2012 that Miu said she still remembers clearly: Her father had a brain aneurysm that left him physically and mentally impaired. The date \u2014 September\u202f 14 \u2014 continued to have significance for Miu as each year thereafter she and her father celebrated his survival.\u202f<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On that day in 2015, scientists detected gravitational waves in space at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory. By September of 2020, Miu was researching those same waves from LIGO. \u202f<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI thought that was really significant because of the alignment of the dates.\u201d Miu said. \u201cOne was a tragedy, and one was such an amazing scientific discovery exactly three years later. But also, he was the one who called it to my attention, and approximately five years after that I was doing computational physics to research that very phenomenon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEverything connected in a way that was harmonious.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading is-style-highlight-paragraph-large has-purple-400-color has-text-color has-link-color has-h-3-font-size wp-elements-f2dfcf59efcea677b2592df0c235c2f3\">The winding journey to UW Bothell<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Patrick Miu passed away in 2017, and when the COVID pandemic struck, Carol Miu was looking for a way to heal from his passing. She was stuck at home in Texas and missing her father. Learning physics seemed like the best way to honor him.\u202f<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She started with remote classes at a community college, but soon a friend, Jack Bayley (Physics \u201920), introduced her to Joey Key, an associate professor at UW Bothell \u2014 and the connection made all the difference.\u202f<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Key told her: \u201cNo physics experience? No problem. No funding? No problem. Not enrolled? No problem. You can do data science. You can do Python programming. I&#8217;m going to put you in my gravitational wave research group!\u201d\u202f<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"767\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/give\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2025\/08\/Carol-Miu-Jennifer-McLoud-Mann-Joey-Key-Jack-Bayley-2025_w-1024x767.jpg\" alt=\"Carol Miu, Dr. Jennifer McLoud-Mann, Dr. Joey Key and Jack Bayley pose in the hallway of a UW Bothell building.\" class=\"wp-image-20432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/give\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2025\/08\/Carol-Miu-Jennifer-McLoud-Mann-Joey-Key-Jack-Bayley-2025_w-1024x767.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/give\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2025\/08\/Carol-Miu-Jennifer-McLoud-Mann-Joey-Key-Jack-Bayley-2025_w-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/give\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2025\/08\/Carol-Miu-Jennifer-McLoud-Mann-Joey-Key-Jack-Bayley-2025_w-768x575.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/give\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2025\/08\/Carol-Miu-Jennifer-McLoud-Mann-Joey-Key-Jack-Bayley-2025_w-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/give\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2025\/08\/Carol-Miu-Jennifer-McLoud-Mann-Joey-Key-Jack-Bayley-2025_w.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Carol Miu, Dr. Jennifer McLoud-Mann, Dr. Joey Key and Jack Bayley<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By summer 2020, Miu had started working with Key and Ansel Neunzert on undergraduate research that would automatically flag line noise (narrow spectral artifacts) in LIGO data. Miu continued to work at PeopleFun, supporting the research in her spare time.\u202fThen in 2022, she was promoted to the firm\u2019s CEO position.\u202f\u202f<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Miu said she enjoyed the challenge of running the company but wanted a change that would enable her to focus more on her own learning and growth. This led to her decision to resign from her position as CEO in 2023 to pursue physics full-time, moving across the country to enroll in UW Bothell\u2019s Physics major.\u202f<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading is-style-highlight-paragraph-large has-purple-400-color has-text-color has-link-color has-h-3-font-size wp-elements-2f926033cf851492b2e66435effbdb5c\">Physics research at UW Bothell<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>While pursuing her new undergraduate degree, Miu continued her computational research with Key and Neunzert.\u202f<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Key is \u201cnot only a trailblazer in gravitational wave astronomy,\u201d Miu said, \u201cbut is the strongest advocate for students I have ever seen.\u201d\u202f<\/p>\n\n\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" aria-hidden=\"true\" viewbox=\"0 0 31.93 23.66\" width=\"34\">\n  <path fill=\"currentColor\" d=\"M19.94 23.655h11.988V12.578h-6.6a6.63 6.63 0 0 1 .662-3.486 8.55 8.55 0 0 1 5.721-4.722V.001a14.8 14.8 0 0 0-8.687 4.768q-3.089 3.606-3.089 9.994v8.893Zm-19.938 0H11.99V12.578h-6.6a7.5 7.5 0 0 1 .631-3.575q1.47-3.277 5.763-4.633V.001a14.54 14.54 0 0 0-8.771 4.788c-2 2.427-3.008 5.781-3.008 9.974Z\"><\/path>\n<\/svg><p>&ldquo;[Joey Key] is not only a trailblazer in gravitational wave astronomy but is the strongest advocate for students I have ever seen.&rdquo;&#8239;<svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" aria-hidden=\"true\" viewbox=\"0 0 31.93 23.66\" width=\"34\" style=\"transform:rotate(180deg);transform-origin:center\">\n  <path fill=\"currentColor\" d=\"M19.94 23.655h11.988V12.578h-6.6a6.63 6.63 0 0 1 .662-3.486 8.55 8.55 0 0 1 5.721-4.722V.001a14.8 14.8 0 0 0-8.687 4.768q-3.089 3.606-3.089 9.994v8.893Zm-19.938 0H11.99V12.578h-6.6a7.5 7.5 0 0 1 .631-3.575q1.47-3.277 5.763-4.633V.001a14.54 14.54 0 0 0-8.771 4.788c-2 2.427-3.008 5.781-3.008 9.974Z\"><\/path>\n<\/svg><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>And Neunzert, she said, is \u201cthe best science communicator I have ever met. They can think for 5 seconds and explain anything clearly. It&#8217;s really a gift.\u201d\u202f<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nearing the end of her degree work, Miu switched her research focus to electronics. She teamed up with fellow student Joey Del Gianni and lecturer Subramanian Ramachandran to design and build an open-source device that allows students to measure the speed of light. The speed of light lab kits are usually $10,000 each, Miu noted, but with their design science teachers can make their own version for under $200.\u202f<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"561\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/give\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2025\/08\/Subramanian-Ramachandran-Carol-Miu-Joey-Del-Gianni-2025_w-1024x561.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Subramanian Ramachandran, Carol Miu and Joey Del Gianni post in front of their project poster.\" class=\"wp-image-20430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/give\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2025\/08\/Subramanian-Ramachandran-Carol-Miu-Joey-Del-Gianni-2025_w-1024x561.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/give\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2025\/08\/Subramanian-Ramachandran-Carol-Miu-Joey-Del-Gianni-2025_w-300x165.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/give\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2025\/08\/Subramanian-Ramachandran-Carol-Miu-Joey-Del-Gianni-2025_w-768x421.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/give\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2025\/08\/Subramanian-Ramachandran-Carol-Miu-Joey-Del-Gianni-2025_w-600x329.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/give\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2025\/08\/Subramanian-Ramachandran-Carol-Miu-Joey-Del-Gianni-2025_w.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Dr. Subramanian Ramachandran, Carol Miu and Joey Del Gianni<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Miu so appreciated Ramachandran\u2019s mentorship that she nominated him for an Outstanding Undergraduate Research Mentor award, which he won in May 2025. As Miu recalled, he has the same experimental spirit that her father had. \u201cI love his hands-on learning approach in which I was supposed to tinker and make mistakes while learning.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading is-style-highlight-paragraph-large has-purple-400-color has-text-color has-link-color has-h-3-font-size wp-elements-3e6a0996107751a950e7f822e3daf310\">An endowment for physics\u202f<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>After graduating from UW Bothell in March 2025, Miu decided she wanted to give back to the University to honor her father\u2019s love of physics and to show gratitude to the Division of Physics. She established the Miu Endowment for Physics in June 2025 in support of student education and research.\u202f<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When she wondered what her father would say about her getting a degree in physics, Miu said, \u201cI think he&#8217;d be surprised and proud. I don&#8217;t think he would have predicted that I would have chosen this route or to honor him in this way. I think he would have had a very good, long, proud laugh over it.\u201d\u202f<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/give\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2025\/08\/Jennifer-Mcloud-Mann-Carol-Miu_w-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Jennifer-Mcloud and Carol Miu pose in front of a sunset.\" class=\"wp-image-20431\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/give\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2025\/08\/Jennifer-Mcloud-Mann-Carol-Miu_w-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/give\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2025\/08\/Jennifer-Mcloud-Mann-Carol-Miu_w-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/give\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2025\/08\/Jennifer-Mcloud-Mann-Carol-Miu_w-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/give\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2025\/08\/Jennifer-Mcloud-Mann-Carol-Miu_w-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/give\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2025\/08\/Jennifer-Mcloud-Mann-Carol-Miu_w.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Dr. Jennifer McLoud-Mann and Carol Miu at the 2025 UW Bothell Recognition Reception<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Miu said that for her part she wants \u201cto stuff as many lives as I can into this one life\u201d and hopes to go to culinary school next \u2014 even while she keeps physics close to her heart. She has already passed on her love of science to her 10-year-old daughter who wants to be a \u201cspace chef\u201d when she grows up.\u202f<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She said she also knows that, in her many \u201clives\u201d still to come, UW Bothell will play a big part.\u202f\u202f<\/p>\n\n\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" aria-hidden=\"true\" viewbox=\"0 0 31.93 23.66\" width=\"34\">\n  <path fill=\"currentColor\" d=\"M19.94 23.655h11.988V12.578h-6.6a6.63 6.63 0 0 1 .662-3.486 8.55 8.55 0 0 1 5.721-4.722V.001a14.8 14.8 0 0 0-8.687 4.768q-3.089 3.606-3.089 9.994v8.893Zm-19.938 0H11.99V12.578h-6.6a7.5 7.5 0 0 1 .631-3.575q1.47-3.277 5.763-4.633V.001a14.54 14.54 0 0 0-8.771 4.788c-2 2.427-3.008 5.781-3.008 9.974Z\"><\/path>\n<\/svg><p>&ldquo;I think UW Bothell is just a part of my life forever now. I&rsquo;m really feeling that sense of belonging here. 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