Class Notes

1966 Lawrence Klein published Sensor and Data Fusion for Intelligent Transportation Systems (SPIE Press) earlier this year. After earning an MS in electrical engineering from Rochester, Lawrence continued his graduate studies at New York University, earning a PhD in electrophysics. He is an adjunct professor of engineering and technology at UCLA’s Extension and Harbin Institute of Technology.

1970 Barbara Sinclair (PhD) (see ’75).

1971 David Rohde (PhD) (see ’75).

1975 John Aldrich (PhD) and David Rohde ’71 (PhD), both Duke political science professors who have known each other since graduate school, received a national award named for the late Barbara Sinclair ’70 (PhD), who was a professor emeritus at the University of California, Los Angeles. The legislative studies section of the American Political Science Association named the two Duke professors as corecipients of its lifetime achievement honor, the Barbara Sinclair Legacy Award. John is the Pfizer, Inc./Edmund T. Pratt, Jr. University Professor of Political Science, and David is the Ernestine Friedl Professor of Political Science.

1977 Frank Sciremammano (PhD) (see ’72 College).

1979 Rick Lux (PhD) (see ’72 College).

1985 Daniel Russell (PhD) published in September The Joy of Search: A Google Insider’s Guide to Going Beyond the Basics (MIT Press). The book is intended as a practical resource for power searchers and rookie Googlers alike.

1986 Douglas Criscitello (MS) (see ’84 College).

1997 Rochelle Steiner (PhD) has been named chief curator and director of curatorial affairs and programs at California’s Palm Springs Art Museum. Previously, she was associate director and chief curator at the Vancouver Art Gallery in Canada. Before that, Rochelle was a tenured professor and the dean of the Roski School of Art & Design at the University of Southern California.

1998 Brock Clarke (PhD) had his eighth book—the novel Who Are You, Calvin Bledsoe? (Algonquin Books)—published in August. Brock is the A. LeRoy Greason Chair of English at Bowdoin College.

2000 Peter Stone (PhD) edited Bertrand Russell’s Life and Legacy (Vernon Press). Peter holds the title of Ussher Assistant Professor of Political Science at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland. Before that, he taught political science at Stanford University and held a faculty fellowship at Tulane University’s Center for Ethics and Public Affairs. He has been a member of the Bertrand Russell Society for more than 20 years, serves on its board, founded two of the society’s local chapters, and is a former editor of the Bertrand Russell Society Quarterly.

2006 Luca Guazzotto (PhD) has been named a tenured associate professor in the Department of Physics at Auburn University.

2011 Catherine Bailey Kyle (MA) has published a collection of poetry, Shelter in Place (Spuyten Duyvil). “The book takes up technology, nature, apathy, and empathy,” writes Catherine. “I am an assistant professor of English at the College of Western Idaho, where I teach creative writing and composition.” . . . Godfrey Leung (PhD) (see ’08 Eastman).

2012 Rodmon King (PhD), the chief diversity and inclusion officer at the State University of New York at Oswego, was appointed by Oswego Mayor Billy Barlow to chair the Campus-City Relations Committee. The committee assists with neighborhood quality of life issues, off-campus housing, public awareness campaigns, and city-campus events and programs to better include and connect the SUNY Oswego community to the Greater Oswego community.

2017 Jose (Federico) Moreno Rodriguez (MS) contributed chapters to the book Hace Tiempo, un viaje paleontológico ilustrado por Colombia (Long Ago: An Illustrated Paleontological Journey through Colombia) (Instituto Humboldt), which was recently awarded a Alejandro Angel Escobar Prize, one of Colombia’s highest recognitions for science. The book, designed for middle- and high-school students, was created in partnership with the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institution, which focuses on the concepts of deep geologic time, paleobiology and paleoclimate, fossilization, evolution, and the paleontological heritage of Colombia. The first edition of the book included 1,500 printed copies that were distributed free of charge to schools all over Colombia, including those in remote rural areas.