Class Notes

Graduate/Arts, Sciences & Engineering

1968

George Hole (PhD) (see ’60 College).

1970

Judith Humphrey (MA) has a new book, Taking the Stage: How Women Can Speak Up, Stand Out, and Succeed (Wiley). Judith is the founder of the Humphrey Group, a Toronto-based consultancy that helps executives and other leaders develop speaking and rhetorical skills.

1974

Thomas Perry (PhD) has published A String of Beads (Mysterious Press), his 22nd crime novel and his eighth in the Jane Whitefield series.

1978

Paul Richardson (PhD) (see ’74 College).

1988

Paul Turner (MS) (see ’86 College).

1990

Koichi Tadenuma (PhD), an economics professor, has been named president of Hitotsubashi University in Kunitachi, Japan, near Tokyo. Hitotsubashi University is among Japan’s most selective and highly ranked universities, and is noted for the social sciences.

1991

Tamraparni Dasu (PhD), a research scientist at AT&T Labs, has written a novel, Spy, Interrupted: The Waiting Wife (IndiaWrites Publishers), a cross-cultural romantic thriller. . . . Amit Goyal (PhD) has been named director of the University at Buffalo’s new institute, Research and Education in Energy, Environment, and Water, or RENEW. Amit has been at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, researching superconductivity at high temperatures. At Buffalo, he’ll lead faculty across six schools and colleges to promote research in sustainability, climate change, and natural resources. He’ll also hold an appointment in multiple departments, including chemical and biological engineering, electrical engineering, and physics.

1994

Computer scientist Corinna Cortes (PhD), head of Google Research in New York City, has been named an honorary alumna of the University of Copenhagen. Corinna is a native of Denmark.

1995

Kristen Kulinowski (PhD) was nominated by President Barack Obama to the Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board, an independent federal agency, in January. Kristen is a nanotechnology safety expert at the Science and Technology Policy Institute, a think tank, and a former professor at Rice University.

1997

Julie Taddeo (PhD) (see ’87 College).

1998

Brock Clarke (PhD), a professor of English and creative writing at Bowdoin College, has published his sixth book, The Happiest People in the World (Algonquin Books).

2003

Jian Wong (MS) (see ’03 College).

2007

Robert Levasseur (MS) (see ’06 College).