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Alumni Update
December 2021
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 The College Tour, a new streaming show available on Amazon Prime, features an episode on Miami University. Environmental Science co-major Denali Selent appeared for a segment with associate professor Jonathan Levy. Eight other CAS students and recent graduates are highlighted in the episode.
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From Dean Chris Makaroff
Dear Alumni and Friends:
As we reflect on this past year and look forward to the future, I want to thank all of you for the countless ways so many of you have engaged with CAS to support our students. We have been fortunate to count on our alums to provide student mentorship and experiential learning opportunities, participate in classroom visits and career panels, and provide financial assistance to our students in need.
My last update elicited strong feedback from the CAS alumni community, with offers to volunteer and engage with our students. We appreciate all of your suggestions and have asked our Alumni Relations team to work with as many of you as possible. Again, thank you, and please be sure to keep your ideas coming.
In addition, please consider making a year-end donation to support CAS student scholarships, fellowships, technology upgrades, and other resources that enrich the student experience at Miami. Everything you do truly makes a difference.
We continue to make great strides in our efforts to control and contain the spread of COVID-19 on our campuses. Recently we achieved an important milestone: more than 90% of Miami students and over 80% of faculty and staff have been fully vaccinated. Many thanks go to Miami's COVID response team for this important accomplishment.
Enrollment for next fall is also going strong. As of Nov 23, CAS applications are up 14% over this point last year, and nearly 23% over five years ago, all largely in line with numbers across Miami. This suggests that despite the setbacks our country has suffered since the start of the pandemic, prospective students and their families are feeling renewed motivation and drive for the future. Here's hoping that the positive trend continues.
Finally, I would like to thank those of you who reached out to congratulate me on my Honorary Alumni Award from the Miami University Alumni Association, of which so many of you are a vital part. I am extremely humbled to have been given this recognition — having been at Miami for over 30 years and being the father of two Miami graduates, this award truly means a lot to me.
I wish all of you the best this holiday season. I hope that the new year brings everyone great joy and happiness, and I am looking forward to seeing many of you and having a chance to catch up in the coming year. Here's to a great 2022!
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Cryptocurrency experts debate its viability and call for students to get involved in its future development
“We cannot stop the innovation of crypto, but we can certainly guide the process forward,” said Rios. “Crypto is not going anywhere.”
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Former Procter & Gamble CEO John Pepper vouches for the humanities
“There are so many professions where the liberal arts provide the foundation for who a person is,” he said. “At the end of the day, companies are interested in how well you think, how well you express yourself, and how well you write.”
Pepper is also former chairman for The Walt Disney Company and co-chairman of the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center.
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Wil Haygood's new book wins national accolades
Wil Haygood '76, Miami's Boadway Distinguished Scholar in Residence in the Dept of Media, Journalism & Film, has published "Colorization: One Hundred Years of Black Films in a White World."
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| CAS Student News and Spotlights
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Summer 2021 Inside Washington students and friends ran into some familiar faces by chance on the U.S. Capitol steps. Twelve students are enrolled in the spring 2022 program, to be taught by Rosemary Pennington. Applications for summer 2022, with Annie-Laurie Blair, are currently under review.
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In this newsletter, we are featuring three more CAS student athletes who balance the rigors of their academics with personal development on and off the court, ice rink, or track!
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| CAS Alumni News and Spotlights
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Up for a fun and interesting challenge? The Miami Lingua Mater competition invites students and alumni to translate Miami's Alma Mater and/or Miami's Fight Song into a different language and submit a video of the performed translation. Submissions are due Feb 25!
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 | Stanfield '65 and Mustard '95
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- Vanessa Kentris Smith '98 was named one of 10 Women of Influence in Chicago by the Chicago Business Journal.
- Gary Sirak '73, president of Sirak Financial Services, has published his latest book, "How to Retire and Not Die: The 3 Ps That Will Keep You Young."
- Cathy J. Cohen '83, the David and Mary Winton Green Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, received the 2021 Hanes Walton, Jr. Career Award from the American Political Science Association (APSA).
- New York Times bestselling novelist Mary Kubica ’00 discusses her latest novel, a thriller named "Local Woman Missing," and what kind of things inspire her writing.
- Retired U.S. Ambassador to Brunei Darussalam Sylvia Gaye Stanfield '65 and co-founder & chief revenue officer of Credit Karma Nichole Mustard '95 will both be awarded with Honorary Doctors of Humane Letters at Miami's Fall Commencement ceremony this month.
- Isabelle Hanson '18, a reporter for KFVS in the greater Chicago area, has been crowned Miss Illinois.
- Carina Cutter '02, senior counsel at Quorum Business Solutions and a pro bono attorney for Florida's Bay Area Legal Services, was a volunteer participant in the Virtual Family Forms Clinic to help pro se litigants receive assistance in completing family law pleadings remotely.
- Ashley Lockemer '07, psychologist at the Montgomery County Educational Service Center, has been named the Ohio School Psychologist of the Year for 2021.
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| CAS Faculty News and Spotlights
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On Dec 2, Carolyn S. Craig, Cameron Hay-Rollins, and Kendall Leser were honored with Miami University's Prodesse Quam Conspici Award, given to those who "embody servant leadership with great humility."
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- Last month, Miami's Naval ROTC program celebrated its legacy of "75 plus one" years since its inception just two months after the end of World War 2. Captain Jeffrey Lamphear welcomed Vice Admiral Walter E. “Ted” Carter, Jr, USN to give the keynote address at the culmination of the three-day event.
- Tests, background checks can thwart police diversity effort: Professor of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Rodney Coates is quoted in an article by ABC News. Dr. Coates, one of our 2021 CAS Distinguished Educators, gives his lecture, "Critical Race Theory and the Search for Truth" on Feb 10, 2022.
- Miami's plant experts, including recent graduate Timothy Pegg Ph.D., '21 and the Department of Biology's Rob Baker, use the glowing properties of plant cells to turn a problem into a benefit for plant microscopy.
- Nik Money, professor of biology and director of The Western Program, makes the case for evidence of mushroom intelligence in his research on hyphal and mycelial consciousness in the digital magazine Psyche.
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