Weddings/Rosebuds

James R. Hicks (ME, 2001) and wife, Molly, welcomed their second daughter, Isla James, February 11, 2022. She joins big sister, Lucy Rose, born in 2018. The family lives in Valparaiso, Indiana. Jim is the president of J.W. Hicks, Inc. Isla’s grandfather is James W. Hicks (ME, 1973).

David R. Schue (CPE, 2004) and his wife, Molly, had their first child, son Leo Park, on April 10, 2022. The family lives in Amherst, New Hampshire. David is a technical staff member at Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Lincoln Laboratory.

Gareth A. Shields (EE, 2008) and his wife, Alysen, welcomed twins, Caleb and Dawson, to their family in April 2022. The family lives in Bargersville, Indiana. Gareth is a principle electrical engineer with Raytheon Technologies Corporation.

(CE, 2011) and husband, Spencer R.S. Bohlander (ME, 2013), had their second child, daughter Amelia Evelyn, on May 9, 2022, in Indianapolis. Jennifer is a structural engineer with HNTB Corporation while Spencer is a drilling engineer with Dixon Directional.

(CS/SE, 2012) and husband, Kevin, welcomed their first child, son Jules, on July 17, 2022. The family lives in Chicago. Lindsay has been a software engineer with Thompson Reuters.

Carly (Heibel) Brnakova (SE, 2015) and husband, Michael, had their first child, son Otto Leland, on May 7, 2022. The family lives in the Salt Lake City area. Carly is a senior software engineer at HireVue and has also started her own group fitness business, Wild Plyo.

Stefani Vande Lune, M.D., J.D., (BSAB, 2006/MSBE, 2008) married Zack Peterson on March 11, 2022, in Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina. They live in Portsmouth, Virginia, where Stefani is an emergency medicine doctor with the U.S. Navy. Casey Troccoli (EP/OE, 2016) married Brett Siani on June 10, 2022, in Hebron, Illinois. They now reside in Palatine, Illinois. Victoria Becker (BE, 2016) was a bridesmaid.

Kristina Lawyer, PhD, (ME, 2008) married Palmer Smalley on June 1, 2022, on the lift hill of the Magnum XL-200 rollercoaster at Cedar Point amusement park in Ohio. The couple lives in Anderson, Indiana. Kristina is a senior engineer at BorgWarner. Kyra E. Edmondson (BE, 2017) married Caleb Targgart on April 2, 2022, in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where the couple resides. Kyra is a senior manufacturing engineer with Paragon Medical. Other alumni in the wedding included father of the bride Jon S. Edmondson (PH, 1980), maid of honor Leia Edmondson (CHE, 2019), and bridesmaid Chelsie Donnelly (CE, 2016).