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Alumni Update

September 2019

Students in Pearson Hall - first day of class for 2019-20 school year

Students studying in front of the "Web of Life" mural in the renovated Pearson Hall. Miami's first day of the new fall 2019 semester was on August 26, with a record 4,300 new students arriving to our nationally-ranked Top 50 university.

New $1.9M NSF grant will help teachers stimulate students' imaginations to improve learning of chemistry

Miami's Ohio Writing Project celebrates 40 years

Updated Critical Race & Ethnic Studies major offers students a powerful new cognitive tool for today's global challenges

Ruth Milligan ('00, Speech Communication), founder and executive speech coach at Articulation, gave special welcome remarks to incoming CAS students as part of Miami's 2019 convocation weekend

Yvette Simpson ('00, Political Science & Mass Communications) joins ABC News as a TV correspondent

Bonnie Meibers ('18, Journalism & Marketing) wrote the lead story on Oregon District recovery in Dayton Daily News

B. Layla Mehdi (PhD '12, Analytical Chemistry) earns the prestigious Albert Crewe Award for her microscopy research

SPOTLIGHT: Chris Dennison ('11, Sociology) teaches sociology at the University of Buffalo

Steve Susi ('93, Mass Communications) publishes his book, Brand Currency: A Former Amazon Exec on Money, Information, Loyalty, and Time

SPOTLIGHT: Former midshipman Leah Vincent ('03, Microbiology) is a scientist at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Alexandra Adams (pictured), Cierra Farst, and Foster Edens receive national scholarships to support study abroad programs
from Global Initiatives

August Hagemann (Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies) is the first recipient of a fellowship by the Karen Dawisha Memorial Fund

Caroline Igo, Ashaali Divekar, and Arman Aboutorabi - some of the new CAS student communications interns

Meet Caroline Igo, Ashaali Divekar, and Arman Aboutorabi, just a few of our newest CAS communications student assistants who help produce media content for the College of Arts and Science

Stephanie Gibson '22 - Environmental Earth Science & Sustainability

Meet some of the new CAS faculty for the 2019-20 academic year

CAS faculty receiving NSF grants in July/August 2019: Scott Hartley, Carrie Tyler, Anna Ghazaryan, Alim Sukhtayev, Mike Vanni, Liz Widom

CAS faculty were awarded new grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF) in July and August. From L to R: Scott Hartley (Chemistry), Carrie Tyler (Geology), Anna Ghazaryan (Mathematics), Alim Sukhtayev (Mathematics), Mike Vanni (Biology), and Liz Widom (Geology).

Cameron Hay-Rollins' (Anthropology) research on addiction treatment and recovery is featured in the Dayton Daily News

Stacey Lowery Bretz (Chemistry) wins 2020 Award for Achievement in Research for the Teaching & Learning of Chemistry from American Chemical Society

Wil Haygood's (Media, Journalism & Film) book Tigerland is a finalist for the 2019 Dayton Literary Peace Prize in fiction and nonfiction

Patricia Newberry (Media, Journalism & Film) has been sworn in as the 103rd national president of the Society of Professional Journalists

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