TO: The UMBC Community FROM: Larrabee Strow, Research Professor of Physics, and Sergio DeSouza Machado, Research Assistant Professor of Physics We are deeply saddened to report that Scott Hannon passed away Thursday night after a nearly two-year battle with cancer. Scott received his BA, and in 1990, his MS in Physics from UMBC. He remained at UMBC for the next 22 years as a Research Assistant in the Physics Department/Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology. Scott’s early work in the Physics Department’s Atmospheric Spectroscopy Laboratory involved laser spectroscopy of carbon dioxide and nitrogen molecular collisions, providing a new model for …