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Alumni Update February 2019
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 | During J-Term 2019, 1975 Miami alum and successful businessman Mohammed Al-Barwani (center, behind flag) hosted 16 Miami students visiting Oman with assistant professor of comparative religion Nathan French during their study abroad trip, Arabian Gulf Economies in Social Transition. | |
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Dear Alumni and Friends: It's my pleasure to announce that Rebecca Messina ('94, Spanish; Diplomacy & Foreign Affairs) has been chosen as our 2019 CAS Recognition Ceremony guest speaker. Hired last fall as the first-ever CMO of Uber, Rebecca is a fantastic representative for the broad, multidisciplinary skills that are the hallmarks of CAS and the liberal arts. These abilities -- including the application of complex knowledge into real-world settings, an adaptable and transferable skillset, a strong sense of social responsibility, and much more -- are those that continue to be taught today throughout CAS. Our students regularly push beyond the classroom to engage in alumni-sponsored internships, fellowships, independent studies, and research projects that demonstrate how to find success in any career they can imagine. - healthcare and medicine,
- entrepreneurship and innovation, and
- data and analytics.
We are excited about these opportunities and look forward to sharing our accomplishments in the coming months. I welcome your ideas, comments, and participation as we push forward. With great thanks,
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 |  | Mike Brudzinski (Geology) and Stephen Norris (History) have been named 2019 Miami University Distinguished Scholars. Daisy Hernandez (English) and Joshua Magee (Psychology) are 2019 Miami University Junior Faculty Scholars. | |
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- Lulu Abdun ('18, psychology and black world studies)
- Sarah Berg ('19, English literature)
- Madison Cook ('19, diplomacy & global politics and psychology)
- Emily Erdmann ('19, French and Russian, East European & Eurasian studies)
- Alexandra Fair (graduate student in history)
- Cyrus Green ('18, international studies)
- Samuel Hunter (graduate student in English)
- Katelyn Scheive ('19, integrated social studies education and psychology)
- Alaina Swope ('19, psychology and English literature)
- Emily Tatum ('19, political science, international studies, and Latin American, Latino/a & Caribbean studies)
- Lauren Voegtle ('19, international studies and Latin American, Latino/a & Caribbean studies)
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Four teams of CAS undergraduates, under the direction of faculty from the Departments of Biology, Chemistry & Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Physics, will each receive $5000 Cancer Research Awards, to be carried out during the 2019-2020 academic year. These awards, which were made possible by the generosity of Cynthia Henderson '90 and Tom Hayden '82, were announced by Miami's Office of Research for Undergraduates (ORU).
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Recent Funded Research: - Timothy Wilson (Microbiology) - National Institute Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
- Neil Danielson (Chemistry) - US Environmental Protection Agency
- Elizabeth Kiel Luebbe, Robin Thomas, and Aaron Luebbe (Psychology) - National Institutes of Health (NIH)
- Michael Brudzinski (Geology) - Ohio Dept of Natural Resources (ODNR)
- Bartosz Grudzinski (Geography) - Miami Conservancy District
- April Smith (Psychology) - two projects funded by the U.S. Department of Defense's Military Suicide Research Consortium
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