Class Notes

River Campus Graduate

1951

Vita Krall (PhD) has been named a Cambridge Who’s Who Professional of the Year in clinical psychology. Each year only two men and two women receive the honor in each discipline. Vita is the author of three books on child and adolescent development and operates her own private practice.

1969

William Schafer W (EdD) (see ’64 undergraduate).

1970

John Bassett (PhD) has been named chair of the board of directors of the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities. He completed a 10-year tenure as president of Clark University in Worcester, Mass., in June. He becomes the president of Heritage University in Washington state this summer.

1975

Mary Sojourner (MA) writes that she has released two books in 2010: a novel, Going Through Ghosts (University of Nevada) and a memoir of a gambling addict, She Bets Her Life (Seal Press).

1976

James Jimenez S (MBA) (see ’75 undergraduate).

1981

Brian Mitchell (PhD), the president of Bucknell University, has been named chair of the board of trustees of Merrimack College in North Andover, Mass. Brian earned his bachelor’s degree from Merrimack in 1974.

1985

Mary Ho (MA), the founder and president of the China Millenium Council in Rochester, has partnered with the United Way of Greater Rochester to launch the Rochester Asian American Leadership Program. The program’s mission is to provide leadership training to members of the Rochester area’s Asian American communities to increase their engagement through leadership positions, in local government, civic organizations, and nonprofits.

1987

Art Altman (MS) writes that he is managing research in energy market modeling and energy derivative risk management for the Electric Power Research Institute in Palo Alto, Calif. . . . Michael Burneal S (MBA) (see ’80 undergraduate).

1991

Thabiti Lewis W (MA) (see ’90 undergraduate).

1994

Rama Nambimadom (PhD) has been promoted to executive vice president of Pimco, a global investment management firm based in Newport Beach, Calif.

1995

Thomas Farrell W (MS) (see ’88 undergraduate).

1997

Rochelle Steiner (PhD) has been named dean of the University of Southern California’s Roski School of Fine Arts. . . . Julie Taddeo (PhD) (see ’87 undergraduate).

1998

Zachary Orlov S (MBA) has joined the Winchester, Mass., office of Hammond Residential, a Boston-based residential real estate company.

2000

Harmit Malik (PhD), an evolutionary biologist and expert on genetic conflict at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle and an assistant professor of genome sciences at the University of Washington’s school of medicine, has received the 2010 Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Biomedical Science. The award by the Vilcek Foundation of New York City recognizes distinguished young immigrant scientists in the United States. Harmit is a native of India.

2001

Zhi Ming Liao (PhD) (see ’95 undergraduate).

2002

Anando Chowdhury (MS) (see ’95 undergraduate).

2003

Miriam Barlow (PhD), an assistant professor in the University of California at Merced’s school of natural sciences, has been awarded the 2010 Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Young Investigator Award by the American Academy of Microbiology. The award recognizes Miriam for her research on antimicrobial resistance. . . . Alexsandra Sukhoy S (MBA) has published a novel, Chatroom to Bedroom: Chicago (Creative Cadence, 2009), a first-person narrative in which a woman enters a chatroom in mid-1990s Chicago and undergoes unexpected virtual—and real—experiences.

2004

Jared Weiner S (MBA) (see ’03 undergraduate).

2008

Rajdeep Saha (PhD) has joined G2 Systems, a software and consulting firm geared toward the financial services industry, as a software engineer.

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River Campus Graduate