2010
2009 Jennifer Ann Curry (BA)
Derek Carson (JD ’10) joined
Dr. Marie Chisholm-Burns (MBA) received the
graduated from Mississippi
the Cantey Hanger law firm as
American Society of Health-System Pharmacists
College School of Law. Curry
an associate. He is a former law
Research and Education Foundation’s 2013
worked for the Rollins Law Firm
clerk for U.S. District Judge Terry
Literature Award for Sustained Contributions.
in Ridgeland, Miss., during her
R. Means.
The award recognizes important contributions by pharmacists to biomedical literature. Chisholm-
three years of law school and
Burns is dean of the College of Pharmacy at the
now is an associate attorney
2012
there.
University of Tennessee Health Science Center.
Adrienne Mask (BFA) is an art director at Janet Dale (BA) is an assistant visiting professor
Signature Advertising.
Johna J. Likins (BA) married Matthew Smith on top of the lighthouse in Biloxi, Miss., on Sept. 27.
in the Department of Writing and Linguistics at Georgia Southern University. She earned her MFA
Britten Rush (BSEE) joined A2H as an electrical
from Georgia College and State University in May.
designer.
Mark T. Jobe (BBA) joined the Glankler Brown
Lindsey True (BA) is operations coordinator for
the PhD Project, an award-winning program with a
law firm as an associate.
Leadership Memphis.
vision to create a more diverse corporate America
Cathy Reece (BFA) is an art director at Signature
2013
professors. Reid is one of only 99 male African-
Advertising.
Sarah Brock (MFA) joined MBI (Memphis
American accounting business school professors
Business Interiors) as a designer.
in the U.S.
Joseph Reid (PhD) joined the faculty of North Carolina A&T State University. He participated in
by increasing the number of minority business
Laura Kunces (MS ’09) Growing up as a competitive swimmer, Laura Kunces (MS) has always been interested in sports nutrition. She was a freestyle sprinter on the University of Connecticut’s Division I women’s swim team for four years. “I still swim, but now I train and compete in triathlons and marathons in my little spare time,” Kunces says. And little there is. Kunces is a doctoral candidate in the top-ranked Department of Kinesiology program at UConn. She serves as adviser to dietetic interns and consultant to lab groups and research studies. Kunces also is a lecturer; a guest reviewer on nutrition-related topics for the Journal of Strength & Conditioning; and provides nutrition counseling to athletes. Is it any wonder, then, that Kunces received the EAS Academy Graduate Scholarship Award from the Collegiate & Professional Sports Dietitians Association? The award recognizes special achievement and contributions to advanced practice sports nutrition. Kunces is involved in a variety of nutrition-related projects while pursuing her PhD. She has designed, managed and participated in exercisenutrition studies in clinical, sport and basic science settings. She’s studied everyone from veterans, patients with diabetes and cardiovascular disease and Division I college athletes to elite Ironman World Championship and ultra-endurance athletes. Her research includes studying gastrointestinal distress after triathlons, triathlete heart rate studies and the metabolic effects of diet on athletes running a 100-mile race through mountainous terrain. “Endurance athletes, especially some of the ultra-endurance athletes we are working with now, are very unique in the way they train, eat and compete,” Kunces says. Although she loves teaching, Kunces says she’s not sure what her first “real” job will be. “My dream job would be to someday work as a dietitian or exercise physiologist with Olympians or professional athletes.”
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