Brian Mulcahy and Qian “Elizabeth” Xu were married in Shenandoah National Park Saturday, July 3, 2010.
Brian is the son of Leo and Heide Mulcahy of Covington. Elizabeth is the daughter of Tie Xu and Lily Wang of Herndon.
Brian graduated in 2003 from Alleghany High School and the University of Virginia in 2007 with majors in physics and chemistry. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate in physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, researching superconductivity.
Elizabeth is a 2002 graduate of Thomas S. Wooten High School in Rockville, Md., and a 2006 graduate of the University of Virginia with majors in physics and chemistry and a minor in mathematics.
She is currently a Ph.D. candidate in biophysics at the University of California at Berkeley, researching breast cancer.
While Elizabeth is completing her degree, Brian is on leave from the University of Illinois and working on plasma technology as applied to material science at Acree Technologies in Concord, Calif.
The couple honeymooned in the Adirondack Mountains in New York and currently resides in Berkeley, Calif.