New Dimensions

Bio: Stan Zygmunt is a retired chemical engineer who moved to the Grand Valley two years ago with his wife, Larrayne, a retired teacher. Stan spent the first part of his engineering career working in oil refineries in Louisiana and Wyoming, the second part as a partner in an engineering consulting company providing chemical process design and environmental services to a variety of industries, and finished his work life at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. At Los Alamos, Stan initially developed waste treatment processes and later worked on the Laboratory’s role in the United States Plutonium Disposition Program, which is a program to demilitarize surplus plutonium. He was project leader for coordination of similar work with Russia and project leader for testing a prototype process for recovering plutonium from surplus weapons and preparing the plutonium for further processing.

Stan is an avid fly fisherman and enjoys building and flying remote control airplanes. He will claim to be an RC pilot when his flight time exceeds his plane repair time.

As a New Dimensions Lifelong Learning Institute volunteer, Stan helps with marketing and course development, and is a class instructor.