In the News

“You walk on to that stage, it’s indescribable—the vibes you get. Anybody who’s anybody has played there. They won’t ever forget it.”

—Philip Posey ’63E (Mas), talking to the Kansas City Star about the opportunity to play at Carnegie Hall this spring with the Kansas City Wind Symphony. Posey, who played at Carnegie Hall as a student with the Eastman Wind Ensemble, is scheduled to conduct the Kansas City ensemble in its April concert at the storied venue.

Izzo-Brown ’93 Named Mid-Atlantic Coach of the Year

Nikki Izzo-Brown ’93, who led the West Virginia University women’s soccer team to an appearance in the Elite Eight of the 2007 NCAA tournament, has been named Coach of the Year for the Mid-Atlantic Region by the National Soccer Coaches Association of America. It’s the third time that the association has recognized Izzo-Brown, who has been at West Virginia since 1996 and is the only coach the women’s program has had. As a Yellowjacket, Izzo-Brown earned All-America status as a four-year starter. She helped the Yellowjackets to a 58–10–9 record and four straight NCAA tournament appearances.

Wadsworth ’05E Wins Art Song Competition

Zachary Wadsworth ’05E has received a commission to write a song cycle for voice and piano that will be performed in three major U.S. cities and will be published by E. C. Schirmer. That’s after he was named the 2007 winner of the ASCAP and Lotte Lehmann Foundation Art Song Competition, a national program established to encourage and recognize young composers who write for voice. Wadsworth, whose music was cited as an “evocative mixture of old and new,” is pursing a DMA at Cornell University.

Jackson ’99 (PhD) Cited as Young Historian

Jeffrey Jackson ’99 (PhD), an associate professor at Rhodes College, has been named a “Top Young Historian” by George Mason University’s History News Network, a national online resource for historians and other scholars. Jackson was one of 20 historians who were selected, based on a nomination and review process that evaluated their “outstanding contributions to the discipline in the area of research through their commitment and achievement in scholarship and teaching.”

Shlesinger ’76 (PhD) Honored by Naval Research

Michael Shlesinger ’76 (PhD) received the Dr. Fred E. Saalfeld Award for Outstanding Lifetime Achievements in Science from the U.S. Navy’s Office of Naval Research this fall. Shlesinger, who joined the Office of Naval Research in 1983, was recognized for his work as a researcher and as director of the office’s programs in nonlinear dynamics, a field that has applications for shipborne crane control, preventing engine flameouts, communications, computing, and other areas.