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Will Selman, B.S. 2003, releases Brown Pelicans at Rabbit Island in southwest Louisiana that were rehabilitated after
the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Selman and other biologists have observed flying and foraging of translocated Brown Pelicans with native pelicans, so it is likely the pelicans will remain in southwest Louisiana. Selman, a wildlife biologist for the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Coastal and Non-game Resources, completed his doctoral degree in the department of biological sciences at the University of Southern Mississippi. His dissertation was on the conservation and ecology of the Yellow-Blotched Sawback (Graptemys flavimaculata), a threatened, riverine turtle species that is endemic to the Pascagoula River system of southeast Mississippi. He is stationed in Rockefeller Wildlife Refuge, which is located in Cameron and Vermilion parishes in southwestern Louisiana. The refuge is known for its diversity of wildlife and its pioneering research on marsh ecology and recovery of the American alligator. Selman is married to the former Christine Cherry, B.A. 2004.
dissertation was about representations of celebrity culture in contemporary American fiction. He served as fiction editor of The Carolina Quarterly for three years. For the 2010-11 academic year, he is a visiting assistant professor of English at Davidson College in Davidson, N.C.
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Louise Chandler, B.A. 2005, is an associate
attorney with the HF Law Group in Memphis, working in the areas of personal injury, intellectual property, medical malpractice, and commercial litigation. She
earned her juris doctorate from the University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law in 2009. While attending law school, she received the CALI award in Torts I. She was a member of the Moot Court Board, and a member of the Duberstein Bankruptcy Moot Court Team for 2008 and 2009. Chandler had an
externship with Judge David S. Kennedy and Judge Paulette J. Delk at the United States Bankruptcy Court in the Western District of Tennessee and clerked for Judge John R. McCarroll, Circuit Court Division 1. She is a member of the Association for Women Attorneys, where she is the current newsletter chair, as well as a member of the Memphis Bar Association, Tennessee Lawyer’s Association for Women and the Tennessee Bar Association. She and her husband, Jay Biedenharn, B.A. 2005, a Methodist minister, live in Memphis.
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