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College of Arts and Science, Miami University

Alumni Update

April 2019

Scott Hess '89, Chief Marketing Officer at Spark Foundry in Chicago, IL, celebrated “College Signing Day” across the U.S. on May 1, encouraging his Miami alumni employees to wear college gear to work.

Scott Hess '89 (right), Chief Marketing Officer at Chicago's Spark Foundry, celebrated “Happy National Decision Day” on May 1, encouraging his employees (including a number of Miami alums!) to wear their college gear to work.

Inside Washington to celebrate 20th anniversary in DC on June 23

June 23: Miami's Inside Washington program to celebrate its 20th anniversary while surpassing 500 graduates

Psychology symposium, run by alumni, offers students "Your Road Map Toward Career Success"

Alumni-run psychology symposium offers students "Your Road Map Toward Career Success"

Jacob Bruggeman '19 is the 2019 CAS student speaker

History and political science major Jacob Bruggeman '19 named the 2019 CAS Student Speaker. Read his 2016 Student Spotlight.

2019 M.I.A.M.I. WOMEN Leadership Symposium speakers

Daniela Pierre Bravo '12, Sarah O’Neil Hannibal ’93, Anne Megerle ’04, Rachel Rudwall ’08, and Karin Maloney Stifler ’81 were among the prominent professional women who spoke on the topic "Know Your Value" at the annual M.I.A.M.I. WOMEN Leadership Symposium on April 11.

Jay Livingston ('94, speech communication) is named CMO of Shake Shack

Dustin Wygant ('01, psychology) has received the Faculty Leadership Award at Eastern Kentucky University

Brooks Newman ('98, English literature) is senior vice president, deputy general counsel and corporate secretary at Humana

Julie Goodman ('01, public relations, marketing, and journalism) is president & CEO at Arts Council of Indianapolis

Allison Becwar ('96, social work) is president & CEO at Lincoln Families

CAS celebrates two 2019 Goldwater Scholars and two Boren Scholars (including alternate)

For the eighth year in a row, a Miami student has been named a Goldwater Scholar, a program supported by the U.S. Congress and in collaboration with the Department of Defense's National Defense Education Program. This year, of the 1223 students from 443 institutions nominated, 496 (40.6%) were named Goldwater Scholars -- including two from Miami: Caleb Kozuszek (bio-chemistry) and Rosamiel (Rosie) Ries (geology and physics).

In addition, Miami has a David L. Boren Scholarship recipient (plus alternate) for the first time since 2014. Funded by the National Security Education Program (NSEP), the Boren Scholarship supports study abroad programs. Max Micheli (international studies and East Asian languages & cultures) and Emily Froude (international studies and political science) were among 851 undergraduates across the U.S. who applied for the program this year.

Goldwater Scholar Caleb Kozuszek
Mentor: Dominik Konkolewicz (Chemistry & Biochemistry)

Goldwater Scholar
Rosamiel (Rosie) Ries
Mentor: Mike Brudzinski
(Geology & Environmental Earth Science)

Boren Scholar Max Micheli will spend spring semester 2020 in Chengdu, China

Alternate Boren Scholar Emily Froude will study in Jordan in spring and summer 2020

Hua Zhu (English MA student) received the CAS Graduate Student Teaching Award

Critical Language Scholars 2019: Sydney Chuen, Inaara Ladha, and Sophia Pauken

2019 Critical Language Scholars: Sydney Chuen (ITS, French) for Arabic; Inaara Ladha (international studies & comparative religion) for Hindi; Sophia Pauken (international studies, German) alternate for Arabic

2019 President's Distinguished Service Award recipients = exceptional seniors

13 CAS students are among the 2019 President's Distinguished Service Award recipients

6 CAS students and recent grads offered Fulbright awards to conduct research or teach overseas

Microbiology faculty collaborate on research

Microbiology faculty Rachael Morgan-Kiss, Xin Wang, D.J. Ferguson, and Annette Bollmann collaborate on $5.2 million funds for research from Acton Lake to Antarctica.

Jennifer Kinney (Sociology & Gerontology) has been selected as the 2019 Educator of the Year by the Ohio Association of Gerontology and Education (OAGE).
Ann Hagerman (Chemistry & Biochemistry) was awarded a grant from Colorado State University to research tannins.
Yu-Fang Cho (English) was awarded a research grant ("The Afterlives of the Nuclear Pacific") from Cornell University.
Liz Widom & Patricia Marquez (Geology & Environmental Earth Science) were awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation: "From Cones to Clusters: Evolution of a Monogenetic Volcanic Field."
April Smith (Psychology) recently received over $1.5 million in two grants from the Department of Defense to oversee the testing of a suicide intervention program designed for service members and understand the symptoms of suicidal ideation.

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