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2000-2009
Marie Claire magazine chose the Polaris Project, founded by Derek Ellerman ’00 and Katherine Chon ’02 as their #4 Charity in the United States (Marie Claire, April, 2006). The pair’s work had also been profiled in the Brown Alumni Magazine in January 2006.
State Department Foreign Service officer David Gehrenbeck ’00 PhD*, who coordinates U.S. policy on the former Soviet Republic of Kyrgyzstan, hopes more young people will consider a career in the foreign service. (Providence Journal, 5/1/08)
Lisa Cisneros ’01 practices law for a special kind of client in her hometown: LGBT farmworkers. (The Advocate, 4/22/08)
Alabama lawyer Joshua Segall ’01 is running for the U.S. House of Representatives. (Brown Daily Herald, 2/26/08)
Katherine Shaw ’01 was named to the Office of the White House Counsel. (NLJ.com, 1/29/09)
Marc Altman ’02, five other alumni, and a student took part in Ultimate Peace, teaching ultimate Frisbee to Israeli and Palestinian children. (Aljazeera.net, 4/17/09)
Committed to carrying the torch for spinal cord research begun by his father, Matthew Reeve ’02 is the new public face of the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation. (NJ.com, 9/7/08)
Christopher Bizzacco ’03 is, at age 24, the new chief of staff for Providence’s Mayor David Cicilline ’83. (Providence Journal, 5/30/06)
Janice Gallagher ’03 MAT spent the past year as a human-rights activist in Colombia. (Lowell Sun Online, 1/14/08)
After recovering from an often-fatal traumatic brain injury, Charlie Maddock ’04 started a nonprofit foundation that supports patients who have suffered brain trauma. (Brown Daily Herald, 9/27/07)
Ben Carmichael ’05 won a Marshall Scholarship to study environmental change and management. (BritainUSA.com, 12/3/07)
Erica Sagrans ’05 joins U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s online media team. (Providence Journal, 3/5/07)
Eli Braun ’06 is working to register 18-year-olds in juvenile correctional facilities across Ohio to vote in the November 4 election. (Ohio.com, 10/3/08)
Nicholas Hartigan ’06 is co-founder of No One Leaves, an organization that works to prevent post-foreclosure evictions. (The Harvard Crimson, 12/11/08)
Christie Hunter ’06 is Bermuda’s Rhodes Scholar and will head to Oxford University. (Brown Daily Herald, 9/24/07)
Daniel Orenstein ’06 PhD discusses what he calls a “failure” in the Israeli environmental movement in an op-ed published in Israel’s Ha’aretz newspaper. (Ha’aretz, 3/25/07)
Josh Lerner ’07 wants you to apply to be a college adviser with the National College Advising Corps. (Brown Daily Herald, 3/7/08)
Ira Magaziner ’69, his son Jon Magaziner ’07, and Nathan Wyeth ’08 are committed to bringing the Clinton Climate Initiative to colleges and universities. (Brown Daily Herald, 11/28/07)
Kimberly Misher ’07 landed a highly competitive Junior Fellowship with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. (Brown Daily Herald, 3/31/08)
Blair Hickman ’08 and her sister are raising awareness of non-medical support for families living with cancer. (Chattanooga Times Free Press, 5/6/09)
NBC’s Today Show profiled Andrés Idarraga ’08, who served prison time prior to attending Brown and entering Yale Law School this fall. (Video: 4:30 min.) (The Today Show, 9/12/08)
1990-1999
Gregory P. Baldwin ’90, a lifelong volunteer and the new president of VolunteerMatch.org, was on the original team that launched the organization. (Market Wire, 9/25/06)
Known as the “philosopher politician of Virginia,” Michael Gillette ’90 PhD is helping city governments decide where to make painful budget cuts. (TheStar.com, 2/14/09)
Brian Knep ’90, ’92 ScM is Harvard Medical School’s first artist-in-residence. (Boston Globe, 4/7/06)
Dan Maffei ’90 is headed to Washington to represent his Syracuse-based district, after successfully running for U.S. Congress. (NationalJournal.com, 11/5/08; Syracuse.com, 2/24/08)
Illinois Professor of the Year Steven A. Meyers ’90 makes his students spend hours volunteering in order to gain a personal connection to the issues they’re studying. (Chicago Tribune, 11/15/07)
As the new director of education outreach, Tehani Collazo ’91 will support Brown’s efforts to help Providence public schools. (Brown Daily Herald, 10/25/07)
Associate Professor of Geological Science Gregory Hirth ’91 PhD has traveled around the globe, but now his research has led him back to College Hill. (Brown Daily Herald, 9/27/07)
Rory Kennedy ’91 discussed the Kennedy legacy of civic duty in Glamour magazine. (Glamour, May, 2008)
Dan Newman ’91 runs an award-winning nonprofit website, Maplight.org, that traces the links between money and politics. (The Nation, 6/11/07)
The Guggenheim Foundation awarded a fellowship to Mary Louise Roberts ’91 PhD.
Bobby Jindal ’92, Louisiana’s 55th governor, talked about rumors of becoming a possible Republican VP running mate on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno and CBS’s Face the Nation. The first non-white governor in the state since the Reconstruction, Jindal was elected with 54 percent of the vote in an open primary. A former Rhodes Scholar, consultant, and congressman, Jindal is the first American of Indian descent elected to a gubernatorial position. His efforts to preserve tax cuts and increase the availability and affordability of health care have been gaining strength in post-Katrina Louisiana. (cbsnews.com, 5/15/08; Shreveport Times, 4/29/08; Times of India, 1/15/08; Bloomberg, 10/22/07; Times Picayune, 11/8/06; Brown Daily Herald, 10/19/06)
Leon Richter ’92 has been leading a campaign in Puerto Rico to save the elkhorn coral beds off a quaint fishing village. (OnEarth, Summer 2006)
Serena Simmons Connelly ’92 co-founded the Human Rights Initiative of North Texas to help immigrants and refugees. (Dallas Morning News, 5/14/06)
Suzanne McKechnie Klahr ’94 was honored with a CBS Jefferson Award for her work with public high school students in low-income communities. (San Francisco Chronicle, 3/4/07)
Scott A. Robinson ’94 has been named director of the American Institute in Taiwan’s American Cultural Center. (The China Post, 8/7/08)
The Guggenheim Foundation has awarded a fellowship to Sarah Oppenheimer ’95.
Adam Werbach ’95 is trying to turn Wal-Mart green, one associate at a time. Werbach was also profiled in the San Francisco Chronicle for his efforts. (Fast Company.com, 9/01/07; San Francisco Chronicle, 1/6/08)
Political fundraiser Rufus Gifford ’96 was named in Out magazine’s annual list of the most influential gays and lesbians in America. LA Weekly also profiled Gifford and his partner - influential political power brokers who are helping to promote gay and lesbian issues. (Out Magazine, April 2008; LA Weekly, 1/30/08)
Dufirstson Neree ’96 may be first Haitian American running for Congress. (Miami New Times, 12/15/05)
MIT’s Technology Review named Tapan Parikh ’96 Young Innovator Under 35 “Humanitarian of the Year” for his work adapting technologies to address developing world problems. (Technology Review, Dec 2007)
Karen Dunn ’97 was named to the Office of the White House Counsel. (NLJ.com, 1/29/09)
Political scientist Tarek Masoud ’97 and historian John Ghazvinian ’96 have been named 2009 Carnegie Scholars. (Carnegie.org, 4/17/09)
Karen Pittelman ’97 is taking a new approach to philanthropy. (U.S. News and World Report, 2/18/07)
NPR correspondent Ivan Watson ’97 and his Iraqi staff narrowly escaped a car bombing in Baghdad. (Star Tibune, 11/30/08)
Tyler Denmead ’98*, founder and director of New Urban Arts, an after-school arts studio for high school students, is leaving to study at the University of Cambridge. (Providence Journal, 3/7/07)
The Associated Press produced a tribute to Michael Bhatia ’99 (Part I, II). A former Watson Institute visiting fellow, Bhatia* was killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan. (msnbc.com, 3/8/09; Providence Journal, 5/10/08)
1980-1989
Sculptor and former RISD provost Jay Coogan ’80 has been named president of the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. (Star Tribune, 3/31/09)
Senators Reed and Whitehouse have recommended Jack McConnell Jr. ’80 to the U.S. District Court in Rhode Island. (The Providence Journal, 4/14/09)
Martin McKeon ’80 MAT was chosen as Maine’s Teacher of the Year. (MaineToday.com, 9/17/07)
Cecile Richards ’80 took the stage at the Democratic convention, twenty years after her late mother did the same. Richards is the new president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. Richards was also profiled at length in the July 2006 issue of Vogue magazine. (Austin American-Statesman, 8/27/08; Washington Post, 3/25/06)
Bruce Katz ’81 receives the Heinz Award in Public Policy for his work toward reshaping and revitalizing cities and suburbs. (HeinzAwards.com)
Kerry Kennedy Cuomo ’81 discussed the Kennedy legacy of civic duty in Glamour magazine. (Glamour, May, 2008)
Richard Hardy ’81 AM has been named the new head of school at Concord Academy. (Wicked Local, 10/27/08)
Sr. Joan Lescinski ’81 is named next president of St. Ambrose University. (Quad City Times, 12/21/06)
One of 242 candidates, Patricia M. Logue ’81 was named a new associate judge of the Cook County (Illinois) Circuit Court. (Chicago Free Press, 3/14/07)
Urban sociologist Pedro Noguera ’81, ’84 AM delivered the Allison Davis lecture at Williams College. His topic was “Changing Racial Inequality in Our Schools.” (iBerkshires.com, 2/7/07)
Nancy Northup ’81, president of the Center for Reproductive Rights, was interviewed on NPR about the recent Supreme Court decision on abortion. (Morning Edition, 4/25/07)
Thirty years after they shared a dorm, Martha Hansen ’82 gave a kidney to save the life of Keeney hallmate and longtime friend Robin Graves ’82. (Brown Daily Herlad, 10/21/08)
Newly elected Dartmouth president Jim Yong Kim ’82 discussed global health and his Brown education in a campus lecture. Watch the video (24 min.) Kim will become the 17th president of Dartmouth College. Kim is one of TIME Magazine’s 100 “people who shape our world.” (Biomed in the News, 5/6/09; Brown Daily Herald, 4/15/09; TheDartmouth.com, 3/2/09; TIME Magazine, 5/8/06; Brown Alumni Magazine, Nov/Dec 2006)
BASC interviewer David Marcus ’ 82 writes about why rejection from a first-choice university can help prepare a student for the realities of life. (Forbes, 3/26/09)
In a stunning upset, Jack Markell ’82* has won the Democratic gubernatorial primary in Delaware. On November 5, he won the election for Delaware governor by a more than 2-to-1 margin. (delawareonline.com, 11/5/08; CBS3.com, 9/10/08)
Michal Mivasair ’82 has been appointed to the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada. (Citizenship and Immigration Canada, 12/8/06)
Jeffrey B. Swartz ’82, CEO of the Timberland Company, was honored with the Citizen Service Award by Voices for National Service. (Voices for Service, 2/13/07)
Thomas Perez ’83 has been nominated to lead the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Justice Department. Head of the Maryland Department of Labor, Licensing, and Regulation Perez also served on President Obama’s transition team. A first-generation Dominican-American, he was also named Maryland state Secretary of Labor, Licensing and Regulation. Perez also announced his candidacy for attorney general in 2006. (UPI.com, 4/5/09; The Baltimore Sun, 12/8/08; The Baltimore Sun, 1/23/07; The Baltimore Sun, 5/24/06)
Political fundraiser Rufus Gifford ’96 and filmmaker Christine Vachon ’83 were named in Out magazine’s annual list of the most influential gays and lesbians in America. (Out Magazine)
U.S. News and World Report named Maria Zuber ’83, ’86 PhD, who has led major NASA space missions, one of “America’s Best Leaders.” (U.S. News and World Report, 11/19/08)
Meet Professor Mark Bear ’84 PhD*, director of the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT. (Boston Globe, 2/12/07)
Glenn Cummings ’84 MAT is the deputy assistant secretary of the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Vocational and Adult Education. (MBPN.net, 4/7/09)
Randall Kroszner ’84 is one of the Federal Reserve policymakers who votes on the direction of interest rates in the United States. (USA Today, 3/5/07)
Jayne Park ’84, founder and executive director of the Asian Pacific American Legal Resource Center, was awarded the Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer Foundation Exponent Award. (Philanthropy News Digest , 10/10/06)
David Saltzman ’84 is executive director of Robin Hood, one of the most pioneering and influential philanthropic organizations in the country. (Fortune, 9/18/06)
Norman Eisen ’85 was named to the Office of the White House Counsel. (NLJ.com, 1/29/09)
Nathan Hochman ’85, one of the country’s leading tax litigators, is the new assistant attorney general for the tax division of the U.S. Department of Justice. (Reuters, 1/7/08)
Steven Lawrence ’85 is the new superintendent of the Washington Unified School District in West Sacramento, CA. (Sacramento Bee, 5/26/06)
Lynn Pasquerella ’85 PhD will be the next provost of the University of Hartford. (Harford Informer, 3/13/08)
Steve Ritter ’85 is using computers and cognitive science to help middle school students learn math. (Brown Daily Herald, 9/24/07)
Victor Bernson ’86 will be the second Hispanic member, and the only member with children in private rather than public school, on the Anne Arundel County (MD) Board of Education. (Baltimore Sun, 8/11/06)
Wendell Pritchett ’86 has been named chancellor of Rutgers University-Camden. (Courier-Post, 4/3/09)
Anne Fisher Vollen ’86 has published a guide for “green” living in San Francisco. (Bay Area Business Woman, 12/1/06)
Lisa Flaxman ’87, who passed away on January 14, was a determined advocate for women, children, music, and cancer patients. (Washington Post, 1/22/09)
Corali Lopez-Castro ’87, only the second woman president of the Cuban American Bar Association, has received the Florida Bar President’s Award of Merit. (PR-GB.com, 8/4/07)
Jeffrey Conlon ’87 has been named president of Kaplan Higher Education. (Business WIre, 2/4/09)
The Guggenheim Foundation has awarded a fellowship to Associate Professor of Anthropology Philip Scher ’87.
Baishali Rinku Sen ’87 will head the Applied Research Centre, a public policy institute advancing racial justice in the U.S. (Hindustan Times, 8/17/06)
Jill Zuckman ’87, a Chicago Tribune correspondent and frequent guest on political talk shows, will join President Obama’s Department of Transportation. (Chicago Tribune, 2/16/09)
Amy F. Dunathan ’88 has been named by President George W. Bush to be associate counsel to the president.
Valerie Gates ’88 is trading marketing design for local food and Community Supported Agriculture shares. (The Boston Globe, 3/5/09)
“Talk to your Parents,” an advertisement for MoveOn.org by Doug Liman ’88, called on young viewers to convince their parents not to vote for the McCain-Palin ticket. (NationalJournal.com, 10/14/08)
Williams College will confer honorary degrees on health advocate Nawal Nour ’88 and Rector of Oxford’s Exeter College Frances Cairncross ’67 AM. (iBerkshires.com, 3/13/08)
Tom Perrelli ’88 has been nominated to lead the Civil Division of the Justice Department. (CBS News, 1/5/09)
Today Show contributor Sloan Barnett ’89 wants to help you and your kids create a Healthier Life and a Cleaner Planet. (Huffington Post, 10/29/08)
Joseph Corriveau ’89 PhD was appointed director of research and technology for the U.S. Army Edgewood Chemical Biological Center.
Jennifer Niles ’89, founder of the E.L. Haynes Public Charter School, is profiled in the Washingtonian. (Washingtonian, October 2006)
1970-1979
Lynn ’70 and W. Thomas ’69 Moulton struggle over how to support their son, Seth, who is serving in Iraq, while standing against the conflict. (Boston Magazine, 12/07)
Francisco Besosa ’71 has been nominated to be a U.S. District Judge for the District of Puerto Rico. (U.S. House of Representatives Press Release, 5/16/06)
Executive Director of the National Center for Children and Families Sheryl Brissett-Chapman ’71 discussed issues faced by the DC Child and Family Service Agency on Raw Fisher Radio. ( Washington Post, audio, 24 min.)
Attorney Robert G. Flanders Jr. ’71 was nominated by Senator Lincoln Chafee to serve on the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. (Providence Journal, 3/17/06)
Rabbi Laura Geller ’71 made the Jewish Daily Herald’s “Forward 50” list of people who are making a difference in the way American Jews view the world and themselves. (The Jewish Daily Forward, February 2008)
Peter Whitehouse ‘71 has created a school in which Alzheimer’s patients can stay active by working with young students. (NPR, 6/12/08)
Internet pioneer David Lipman ’75 of the National Institutes of Health is improving the accessibility of online medical and scientific information for researchers and the general public. (Washington Post, 2/9/09)
Leonard A. Schlesinger ’73* was named the 12th president of Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts. (Boston Globe, 11/17/07)
Senators Reed and Whitehouse have recommended O. Rogeriee Thompson ’73 to the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. (The Providence Journal, 4/14/09)
Tom Tamm ’74 was on the cover of Newsweek for exposing illegal wiretapping of U.S. citizens. (Newsweek, 12/13/08)
The Guggenheim Foundation has awarded a fellowship to Professor of Sociology Roger Waldinger ’74.
The Guggenheim Foundation has awarded a fellowship to Professor of Mathematics Douglas Arnold ’75.
Arthur Warga ’75 has led the University of Houston’s Bauer College of Business from ordinary to extraordinary while battling brain cancer. (Houston Chronicle, 3/20/08)
Marilyn Deldonno ’76 was honored by Amgen, a biotechnology company, for excellence in science teaching. (Cambridge School of Weston)
Former LucasArts CEO Randy Komisar ’76 presented an essay for NPR’s “This I Believe.” (Audio: 4:40 min.) (NPR.com, 10/26/08)
Physician and Gulf War veteran Steve Meister ‘76 is in the race for the House of Representatives in Maine’s First Congressional District. (Kennebec Journal, 5/15/08)
Eduardo Montealegre ’76 was a candidate in the controversial race for mayor in Managua, Nicaragua. He also ran a tight race against former Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega for the presidency of Nicaragua. (The New York Times, 11/19/08; Brown Daily Herald, 10/11/06)
Ecology professor Nalini Nadkarni ’76 talked to NPR's Morning Edition about the use of NASA satellites to study forest ecology. (NPR, 11/12/08)
Howard Frumkin ’77, director of the National Center for Environmental Health’s Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry at the Centers for Disease Control, is planning an overhaul of government action on climate crises.
William Owen ’77 has been named president of the University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey. (University Business, 3/30/07)
David Schmittlein ’77* will be the new dean of MIT’s Sloan School of Management, the first since 1966 to be recruited from outside MIT. (The Boston Globe, 8/28/07)
Seth Berkley ’78, ’81 MD, president and CEO of the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, announced the organization’s expanded research and advocacy efforts in South Africa. (Medical News Today, 11/22/06)
Thomas Hassan ’78 will be the 14th principal of the 228-year-old Phillips Exeter Academy. (seacoastonline.com , 10/25/08)
As part of Women’s History Month, RI Lt. Gov. Elizabeth Roberts ’78 spoke to students about getting involved in politics and her potential run for governor. Roberts* becomes RI’s first female lieutenant governor. (Brown Daily Herald, 3/4/09; Providence Journal, 5/23/06; See also profile in Brown Daily Herald from 2/7/06)
William Wood ’78 has been named outstanding community leader by the Entrepreneurs Foundation of Central Texas. (Austin Business Journal, 2/22/07)
1900-1969
Martha Sharp ’26* was posthumously inducted into the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial’s “Righteous Among the Nations” for helping to save the lives of Jews during World War II. (Boston Globe, 6/13/06)
Dr. Matthew Scharff ’54 received the inaugural Albert Einstein College of Medicine Marshall S. Horwitz, M.D. Faculty Prize for Research Excellence. (AECOM Press Release, 11/29/06)
As president of San Francisco State University, Robert Corrigan ’57 has promoted citizenship among students, built an $18 million endowment and partnered with community businesses. (sfxexaminer.com, 10/18/08)
William Rhodes ’57 received the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland. (President of the Republic of Poland, 12/10/08)
Since 1992, Professor Martha Sharp Joukowsky ’58 has directed excavations at the Great Temple in Petra, Jordan. (Wall Street Journal, 4/11/09)
Ted Turner ’60, whose buffalo-ranch holdings are considered to be the world’s largest, was inducted into the National Buffalo Hall of Fame. (KX-net.com, 7/25/07)
Paul Choquette ’60* received a prestigious humanitarian award in honor of his support of the nation’s top lung, allergy, and immune diseases hospital. (Providence Journal, 5/14/06)
President Obama named former UN ambassador Richard Holbrooke ’62M special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan. In a Washington Post op-ed, Holbrooke also examined Russia’s reaction to likely phased independence for Kosovo. (New York Times, 2/7/09; Washington Post, 3/13/07)
Lewis Feldstein ’63 was named to the 2008 NonProfit Times “Power and Influence Top 50” as one of the most influential executives in the nonprofit sector. (Philanthropy News Digest, 8/6/08)
John Brandenberger ’64 ScM, ’69 PhD, Professor of Physics at Lawrence University, was honored with its inaugural "Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activity Award” citing him for “imagination and energy” in his classroom and lab. (Post-Crescent, 6/12/06)
The Guggenheim Foundation has awarded a fellowship to Daniel Rodgers ’64.
Rhode Island Senator Mike Lenihan ’65, ’68 MAT and Governor Don Carcieri ’65*, once teammates on Brown’s football squad, are now at opposite ends of a high-profile tug of war between the Democratic RI Senate and the Republican governor. (Providence Journal, 5/13/07)
Robert A. Seiple ’65 will be president of the Council for America’s First Freedom. (PRNewswire, 1/19/06)
W. Terence Walsh ’65 received the American Bar Association’s John Minor Wisdom award for his commitment to public service through pro bono litigation. (dBusinessNews, 4/6/07)
Howard University professor Winston Anderson ’66 PhD will use his $1 million HHMI research grant to improve undergraduate education and mentoring programs at the university. (Jamaica Gleaner, 6/17/07)
Dr. Carl C. Wamser ’66 was named “Best Carbon Crusader” in Willamette Week’s “Best of Portland 2008” issue. (Willamette Week Online, 7/23/08)
Kent Logan ’66 is taking a new approach to philanthropy. (New York Times, 2/18/07)
Williams College will confer honorary degrees on health advocate Nawal Nour ’88 and Rector of Oxford’s Exeter College Frances Cairncross ’67 AM. (iBerkshires.com, 3/13/08)
Ron Gidwitz ’67 seeks the Republican Party nomination for the Illinois gubernatorial race. (Chicago Tribune, 3/5/06)
John M. Robinson ’67 was sworn in as director of the State Department’s Office of Civil Rights and as its chief diversity officer. (TMC.net, 3/4/08)
Robert F. McMahon ’68* was appointed superintendent of the Providence Parks Department by Mayor David Cicilline ’83. (Providence Journal, 5/14/08)
Peter Allgeier ’69, visiting deputy US trade representative, met with Chinese officials to help move the stalled Doha global trade negotiations forward.
(Xinhua News Agency, 3/15/07)
Ira Magaziner ’69, his son Jon Magaziner ’07, and Nathan Wyeth ’08 are committed to bringing the Clinton Climate Initiative to colleges and universities. (Brown Daily Herald, 11/28/07)
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