Lawrencían Chronicle, Fall 2019
ALUMNI NEWS Upon earning a Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy (MALD) from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in 2017, John Bidwell (BA, 2002) moved to Camp Pendleton, CA, to lead a small team of Marines responsible for testing the Marine Corps’ new Amphibious Combat Vehicle. Earlier this year, however, he received a promotion to lieutenant colonel and a wonderful opportunity to be the next Marine Attaché in the U.S. Embassy, Muscat, Oman. To prepare for the job, he has been studying Modern Standard Arabic in Washington, D.C., since April. He will continue to study Arabic and also attend additional training next year. He expects to move to Oman in July 2020 and remain there for three years. During that time, he will represent the Department of Defense abroad, serve as military advisor to the U.S. ambassador, report on in-country and regional political-military activities, and support U.S. military security cooperation activities in the region.
Johannah White (BA, 1992) is now the OER & Instruction Librarian at Baton Rouge Community College. She advocates for increasing faculty use of OER, offering help adapting or creating OER. She is also a member of the second cohort to complete the Open Education Leadership certificate from SPARC this June. Additionally, she presented at the OLC Innovate conference on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusiveness Goals Using OER in April.
Since September 2018, Howard Solomon (PhD, 1997) has been serving as Minister Counselor for Economic and Political Affairs and Acting Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Mission to the UN and other International Organizations in Geneva, Switzerland.
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