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From Dean Chris Makaroff
Dear Alumni and Friends:
Yet another academic year is behind us, and we are in the midst of preparation for our annual recognition ceremony on May 13, where we will send off the CAS Class of 2023. Jay Livingston '94, CMO of Shake Shack and our alumni guest speaker, was recently kind enough to talk to us a bit about his experiences as a Communications major at Miami and how his liberal arts courses helped him launch into a successful career. He also offers some excellent career advice for our graduating students. I'm also happy to report that the board of trustees approved Miami's proposed renovation of Bachelor Hall, which will house the Departments of English; History; Media, Journalism, and Film; Comparative Religion; Philosophy; the American Culture and English program; the Ohio Writing Project; and the Humanities Center. Work is set to begin in summer 2024. Thank you all for your support, congratulations to the Class of 2023, and best wishes for a wonderful summer.
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| CAS Student News and Spotlights
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Stories on Undergraduate Student Research
These students presented their work along with dozens of other CAS and Miami research scholars at Miami's annual Undergraduate Research Forum on April 19 — the first in-person Forum in three years!
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 | CAS Fulbright Grant winners
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| CAS Alumni News and Spotlights
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- Jason C. Brown '99 received his second career nomination for a Directors Guild of America award in the "Movies for Television and Limited Series" category for "Weird: The Al Yankovic Story," in which he was Unit Production Manager. Brown was featured in a CAS alumni spotlight.
- Zack Cox '15 (Social Justice), founder of Arizona-based tech startup Pidgi, raised a $250k pre-seed fundraising round. Pidgi is a Customer Relationship Intelligence tool that helps revenue teams identify hidden sales opportunities to drive growth.
- Janine Danko '96 (Microbiology), Associate Professor of Medicine at Uniformed Service University of the Health Sciences, came to Oxford to give her talk, "From the Bench to the Bedside: A Clinician’s Experience Doing Translational Infectious Disease Research" on April 24.
- Mona-Mae Juwillie '19 (International Studies) was named a 2023 recipient of the Payne International Development Fellowship, which supports outstanding individuals who are interested in pursuing careers in the Foreign Service of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).
- Candace Kuo '04 (Mass Communication) joined Jon Gambrell ‘04 (Journalism), Barry Kirschner ‘92 (Media Management), Megan Moloney ‘91 (Mass Communication), and Jamie Ramsey ‘99 (Mass Communication) to give career advice to students at the annual Distinguished Alumni Careers Panel, sponsored by the Department of Media, Journalism, and Film.
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| CAS Faculty and Staff News and Spotlights
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In Memoriam
David B. Phillips, emeritus professor, retired from the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry in the late 1990s. He taught a variety of classes in the area of Physical Chemistry and General Chemistry and was a strong advocate for the undergraduate curriculum and student advising.
Joseph Urell, emeritus associate vice president for academic affairs, was a member of the Geography faculty and associate dean of the College of Arts and Science.
David Wells, emeritus professor in the Department of Media, Journalism, and Film, joined the Miami faculty in 2011 and was the founding editor of the Oxford Observer. Before teaching at Miami, Professor Wells was the editor of the Cincinnati Enquirer's editorial page.
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