Evan Garrison, 24, died on September 13, 2018. He graduated in 2017 from University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) with degrees in Physics and Math. He was a graduate student in the physics Ph.D. program at ASU. He had been a Teaching Assistant in Physics at ASU since fall 2017 and worked as a Research Assistant, studying electronic band structure of green phosphorene nanoribbons. He passed his Ph.D. comprehensive exam and completed a scientific journal article for the American Institute of Physics' AIP Advances. He is survived by his parents, two brothers, a nephew, grandparents and more than 30 first cousins, aunts and uncles. Funeral will be Saturday, Oct. 27, 1:30 p.m., at First Presbyterian Church of Birmingham, 2100 Fourth Ave. North. Donations may be made to UAB, designated to the Evan Garrison Memorial Fund for a Scholarship in Physics.