2013 Emma Tesman tesmane@dickinson.edu Melanie Levine started a master’s program in social studies education at Columbia University Teachers College.
2014 Tom Wang wang.yonghang@yahoo.com Mark Kyle Farina attended [Associate Professor of Religion & Judaic Studies] Ted Merwin’s Chicago alumni event at Max and Benny’s in Northbrook, Ill. Other attendees included William Schroeder ’12, Paul Gaver ’15, Charles Cable ’15 and Adam “Gavin” Gutman. (See picture, Page 52.)
Since May 2015, Annabelle Gould has been working for Hearst Corporation in New York City, first under luxury and lifestyle advertising directors as an executive assistant for Veranda magazine and Elle Décor. Recently, she became an account coordinator for the luxury, fashion & men’s group of Hearst Digital Media, working with publications such as Town & Country, Esquire and Harper’s Bazaar. She writes, “On a personal note, I completed my first half marathon in East Hampton, N.Y., in October and raised over $2,000 in honor of my sister, Eloise Gould, for CureSearch, a foundation devoted to pediatric cancer research—a foundation that my family is deeply devoted to. I reside on the Upper East Side in Manhattan and am loving it. I am happy to talk with Dickinsonians who are interested in pursuing careers in New York City.” Tania Marinos was named to the 69th class of Coro Fellows in Public Affairs for 2016-17. The Coro Fellowship uses the community as a classroom to train the next generation of change makers. Competitively selected applicants join an intimate cohort of 12 participants, each in five cities for the nine-month program, with each cohort encompassing a wide range of communities, interests, ideologies and experiences. Marinos is a participant in the Coro St. Louis Fellows Program.
2015 Aaron Hock hock.aarons@gmail.com Maggie Baldridge’s article “New government report
explores tension between religious liberty and civil rights” was published in Constitution Daily. She is an intern at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia.
The Washington Post’s Answer Sheet, an online resource about education, published Leanna Diggs’s article “We Can No Longer Teach a Whitewashed History.” Leanna is serving with Teach for America as a 9th-grade algebra teacher at Miami Edison Senior High School in Miami, Fla. Jamie Leidwinger writes, “I am finishing out an internship at Q2 Music, the contemporary classical brand of WQXR (New York City’s classical music station, a division of WNYC). I have been booking and producing a series of Instagram takeovers with contemporary classical musicians, including Pulitzer Prize winner Caroline Shaw, Rome Prize winners Chris Cerrone and Nina C. Young, the Grammy Award-winning vocal collective Roomful of Teeth and more. I also recently started my master’s degree in music composition at the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins under the tutelage of Dr. Amy Beth Kirsten.” Casey Merbler is the project coordinator for the
Waterfront Partnership of Baltimore’s Healthy Harbor Initiative. She works on a variety of projects, including managing the social media accounts for Healthy Harbor and “Mr. Trash Wheel,” coordinating the annual Floatilla for a Healthy Harbor paddling event, planning fundraisers and hosting Inner Harbor Eco Tours for Baltimore City school groups.
2016 Siobhan Pierce siobhanpierce27@gmail.com Cynthia Baur, a current apprentice at the
Dickinson College Farm, was awarded the Christine Wilson Prize from the Society of Anthropology of Food and Nutrition for her paper, “An Analysis of the Local Food Movement in Carlisle, Pennsylvania,” which was based on her senior thesis. The Wilson Prize is awarded to outstanding undergraduate and graduate student research papers that examine topics within the perspectives of nutrition, food studies and anthropology. Baur’s work involved extensive ethnographic, participant-observation fieldwork at several farms in the local area, at the Farmer’s on the Square board meetings, as well as numerous interviews with people active in the local food movement in central Pennsylvania.
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Zhen Li ’11 and a Yale research team recently published a breakthrough paper on the Zika virus and how it affects babies born to infected mothers. While studying neural stem cells, Li discovered that one of the common causes of microcephaly, the type of brain damage found in babies affected by Zika, is damage to these neural stem cells. The realization, accompanied by the knowledge that Zika and hepatitis C belong to the same viral family, prompted Li and the research team to test the hepatitis C drug Sofosbuvir on Zika-infected cells. The drug proved to have the same inhibitory effect, and the research team now intends to explore how the virus infects and kills the neural stem cells. After graduating with his Ph.D. in neurology, Li will head in another direction as president and CEO of a startup he founded recently that specializes in new medical devices. The company’s first device will warn people at risk for cardiovascular conditions such as arrhythmia, hypertension, heart attack and stroke. “We, as Dickinsonians, want to bring positive influence to the world, through actively thinking, learning and doing, rather than following blindly what is handed down to us,” Li says. “We are not afraid of change and the unknown but rather cherish it.” Read more at dson.co/zhenli11.
Ted Hinnenkamp signed a contract with the Spanish basketball team Fundación Baloncesto León, a member of the Liga EBA, a division of the Spanish professional basketball system.
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