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1966
Julie McGraw Brown (MA) has published a book, Health and Medicine on Display: International Expositions in the United States, 1876–1904 (MIT Press), which examines how the exhibits at international expositions, the primary media events of their time, showcased innovation in health and medicine. Julie is an independent scholar as well as a research associate in the Department of Medicine, Science, and Society at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History. . . . Thomas Greco S (MBA) writes that he has published a new book, The End of Money and the Future of Civilization (Chelsea Green Publishing).
1969
Mike Plaut (PhD) writes: “I retired in June 2008 from a 35-year career on the faculty of the University of Maryland School of Medicine, where I served as associate professor of psychiatry and assistant dean for student affairs. My wife, Judy, and I live on Topsail Island, N.C., and I have a part-time practice in nearby Hampstead, specializing in the treatment of sexual dysfunction. I will also be doing some teaching at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington this fall. I continue some writing, speaking, and research as well. However, it is also nice to have more time for playing my clarinet with two seniors groups, travel, our new dog, and reading Rochester Review!” . . . Bob Kulpinski (MS) (see ’73 undergraduate).
1974
Eugenia Poporad Vanek W (EdD) (see ’74 Medicine and Dentistry).
1979
Jane Dubin (MS) (see ’78 undergraduate). . . . Kurt Oughstun (PhD) has published the second volume of a two-volume text on electromagnetic wave theory, Electromagnetic and Optical Pulse Propagation. He writes: “The work published in volume two has its origin in my PhD thesis at the Institute of Optics. George Sherman was my research advisor, Carlos Stroud was my dissertation advisor, and Emil Wolf was the chair of my thesis committee. The committee was rounded out by Brian Thompson.”
1983
Kathy Waller S (MBA) (see ’80 undergraduate). . . . Kathleen Flanigan (MS) (see ’82 undergraduate).
1984
Rich Lozyniak S (MBA) (see ’83 undergraduate).
1985
John Bay (MS) is the executive vice president of sales and marketing at aVinci Media, a producer of technologies to help consumers turn digital photos and videos into multimedia productions.
1986
Leonard Freedman (PhD) has joined Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University as a vice dean for research. In the newly created position, he is charged with helping integrate the educational and research expertise of the faculty and with building alliances with other medical centers and research facilities. . . . Chris Sadler S (MBA) has been appointed deputy chairman of the Australian financial services company, Austock. . . . Bob Kulpinski (MS) (see ’73 undergraduate).
1991
John McNeill (MS), an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, has published a book for engineers working in analog and digital integrated circuit design, The Designer’s Guide to Jitter in Ring Oscillators (Springer, 2009).
1992
Rodney Morrison W (MS) (see ’91 undergraduate).
1994
Chris Agnew (MS) (see ’91 undergraduate). . . . Tim Kasser (PhD), a professor of psychology at Knox College in Galesburg, Ill., writes that he has coauthored a book, Meeting Environmental Challenges: The Role of Human Identity (Green Books). The book develops strategies, based on psychological research, to mobilize the public more effectively to change behaviors that are environmentally unsustainable.
1995
Andrew Myers (PhD) has been named the director of the Kansas Polymer Research Center and Business and Technology Institute at Pittsburg State University in Pittsburg, Kan.
1996
Chris Agnew (MS) (see ’91 undergraduate). . . . Linda Palmeri Jacobson S (MBA) (see ’91 undergraduate).
1999
Mark Osorio Lederman S (MBA) (see ’98 undergraduate).
2006
Aaron Carpenter (MS) (see ’05 undergraduate).
2008
Bob Muhlnickel (PhD) began a tenure track teaching position in philosophy and English at Monroe Community College, outside Rochester, in September.
2009
Benjamin Castaneda Aphan (PhD), who teaches at Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru, in Lima, Peru, has been awarded a Lindbergh Foundation grant in health for his project, “Developing Computerized Screening for Early Detection of Tuberculosis in Peru.” The Lindbergh Foundation identifies and supports researchers around the world in the symbolic amount of $10,580, which was the cost of building Charles Lindbergh’s plane, the Spirit of St. Louis, in 1927.
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