takeaway:
bat e s no t e s
Jackie Ordemann ’15 school in Paris....Audrey Grauer works as admissions coordinator at New Roads School in Los Angeles....Olivia Gregorius and Emma Lutz embarked on a self-supported, 2,000-mile bike trip along the Pacific Coast last summer to promote female empowerment. Partnering with Bates professor Aimée Bessire and her organization Africa Schoolhouse, they raised money for an all-female boarding school being built in Tanzania.... Cameron Griffin couldn’t be happier working as the buyer for Wayfair’s pet and recreation categories....Elena Jay works in the admission department of the Steppingstone Foundation in Boston, a nonprofit dedicated to programs for underserved public school students....Katie Kirwin works as a research associate for Codiak Biosciences, a biotech startup....Megan Lapp ran the 2016 Boston Marathon on behalf of the Wellesley Scholarship Foundation. Megan works as an associate with Boston Consulting Group....Henry Lee works at MediaRadar, an ad sales analysis software company in New York....Kara McGowan joined the Peace Corps in the Dominican Republic as a primary literacy promoter....Rebecca O’Neill spent a year doing 1,700 hours of national service for AmeriCorps, working with migrant students and English-language learners in Watsonville, Calif. She now teaches Spanish and coaches rowing at Blair Academy in New Jersey....Nicholas Pray enrolled in UConn School of Dental Medicine’s Class of 2020....Lucas Wilson-Spiro, in Boston, works freelance as a theatrical video engineer, electrician, carpenter, and stagehand. He was the lighting associate for the acclaimed world premiere of Dan Hurlin’s Demolishing Everything with Amazing Speed.
2016 Reunion 2021, June 11–13 class co-presidents Sally Ryerson sallyryerson@gmail.com Andre Brittis-Tannenbaum andrebt44@gmail.com
Brittany T. Reid ’16 and Brittany M. Reid were married July 5, 2016. “Yes, we do have the exact same first and last name, spelled the exact same way.”
Marlborough, Mass....Hyo Sun “Sunny” Hong teaches Spanish at the Maine School of Science and Math....Alexandra Arax LeFevre is in Yerevan, Armenia, on a Fulbright fellowship....Megan Lubetkin headed to Delhi and Dunagiri, India, with project partner Miles Schelling to conduct their Davis Project for Peace....Jia-Ahn Pan started a chemistry Ph.D. after finishing a summer rotation in the Univ. of Chicago’s Talapin lab....Brittany T. Reid and Brittany M. Reid were married July 5, 2016. “Yes, we do have the exact same name spelled the exact same way” except for their middle names. “Thank you, Bates, for allowing me to grow and prosper while attending. Also, thank you for bringing me, my wife, and son together in Lewiston for my senior year!” Brittany T. works as a mortgage loan processor/ account executive for Boston Private Bank & Trust....Bianca Sanchez is teaching English for a year in Hiroshima....Allen Sumrall began a combined JD/ Ph.D. program in government at the Univ. of Texas at Austin.... Marit Wettstein is a lab technician at the Harvard Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology.
media outlet: Science News
headline:
Lead’s damage can last a lifetime, or longer
date:
March 19, 2016
takeaway: How lead might play a part in brain disorders Science News points to new research by Jackie Ordemann ’15 and her Bates thesis adviser, former chemistry professor Rachel Austin, that suggests how lead could play a part in brain disorders like schizophrenia, Alzheimer’s, and Parkinson’s. Reporter Meghan Rosen says that lead might “do its dirty work” by “masquerading as zinc,” a helpful trace element in human physiology that “lets proteins flip genes on and off like a light switch.” Ordemann and Austin, who is now a professor at Barnard, say that when lead substitutes for zinc, it can “disrupt optimal neurological functioning during development and much later in life.” Their research was published in the journal Metallomics. After working at an organic vegetable farm in Maine for a year, Ordemann is now at Tufts Medical School in its Maine Track Program.
Phil Dube is a Capital Fellow in Sacramento, Calif....Tom Fitzgerald works at Concentric Energy Advisors, a boutique energy consulting firm based in
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