Alumni News
Ashleigh Jugan, environmental science ’18 and Nick Barber, geoscience ’18 got engaged June 1st in Rittenhouse Square. They were preparing for their big move across the pond, and Nick decided to pile on one more milestone before graduation commenced. After Nick spent a summer doing field work in Montana, they reunited in time to see their loved ones one more time before stepping on the plane to Cambridge. Seven months later, they have both settled happily into life at Cambridge. Nick is busily preparing for his first PhD field season in East Java, Indonesia, and is active in undergraduate geology teaching and post-graduate student affairs at Churchill College. Ashleigh works for the Cambridge Conservation Initiative (CCI) in their services group, and in her spare time is co-Green Officer for Churchill College and manages the college gardening society. They still make time to travel, explore the UK, and play with their pet bunny.
From top: Chantee Steele and Andre Butler; Ashleigh Jugan and Nick Butler; Henry Patrick Mullan
Caitlin Mullan (nee McRae), BS/ MS chemical engineering ’13, works for Ashland LLC as a process safety engineer in Wilmington, Delaware, supporting their plants on a global
scale. Cate married John Mullan in 2016. She gave birth to their son Henry Patrick Mullan in February. Chantee Steele, accounting and finance, ‘13, got married in July 2018 to Andre Butler. After Drexel, she worked at Deloitte for five years as a consultant, and was promoted to manager right before she left last fall to pursue her MBA Degree at The Wharton School. Alicia Wieand Del Real, finance ’03, completed her master's degree in organizational dynamics at University of Pennsylvania. She now leads the Center for Advanced Emotional Intelligence (AEI) as president, partner, and executive coach. Alicia knows individuals can change the world, sometimes they just need a little help. Alicia focuses on the whole person to help leaders increase both self-awareness and social awareness resulting in meaningful and sustainable growth. She teaches emotional intelligence and lectures at University of Pennsylvania and Lake Forest College. Alicia continues to be grateful for the strong foundation and early leadership opportunities provided by Drexel University.
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40 Under 40
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ach year, 40 inspiring and entrepreneurial alumni are featured in Drexel Magazine’s spring issue. This year’s list included CongressBundestag Youth Exchange for Young Professionals fellowship recipient Farrah Moldover, materials science engineering ’11 and Mik Schulte, a 2015 custom-designed major in corporate policy and environmental risk management. In addition to developing her German language skills, says Moldover, her “exposure abroad helped prime me to assume a significant role in an increasingly global economy and interdependent world as an engineer.” In the same writeup, Mik, 26, now an operations analyst for The World Bank, says the co-op program and Pennoni’s custom-designed major are easily Drexel’s competitive advantage. “I sell this to employers every time I do an interview — because I'm always asked how I have the work experience I do for being my age,” Mik says. “Drexel accelerated my timeline to be marketable. Universities are places of
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learning, but they’re also tasked with preparing us for the next 35 years or so of our career. I have had opportunities that would never have materialized were it not for the combination of on-the-job realities I gained through co-op along with the focused guidance, specialized coursework and support that came from the custom-designed major program.”