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From Dean Chris Makaroff
Dear Alumni and Friends:
It's that magical, bittersweet time of year again. Here in Oxford, there's a growing sense of celebration and excitement as we finish up our academic year and prepare to send off a new and talented graduating Class of 2022 into a messy and complicated world of opportunity and promise.
Matthew Sause '99 (see below), the President and CEO of Roche Diagnostics, is our Guest Speaker, and our Student Speaker will be Augustus Lake, a triple major in International Studies, Linguistics, and Political Science who is also receiving his Master of Arts in Political Science. Gus has also recently been awarded a prestigious Fulbright grant that will take him to Germany as an assistant English teacher later this year.
As always I wish to thank all of our alumni, faculty, staff, and friends for your support, perseverance, flexibility, and well wishes. Miami University and the College of Arts and Science have emerged through an unusually challenging couple of years with a renewed sense of purpose and determination for the future of all of our students — past, present, and future. I am prouder than ever to be a Miamian, and I hope all of you are sharing that same feeling.
Best wishes to all, including our newest alums, for a wonderful and prosperous summer.
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Matt, who majored in Microbiology at Miami, is now the President and CEO of Roche Diagnostics, a Switzerland-based company which focuses on finding deeper understandings of genetic mutations and inherited diseases.
“I want to make an impact on human health and on access to innovative healthcare technologies,” he says. “That’s why I’m doing the job.”
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Dr. Bannister, a Chemistry graduate, is director of Medical Operations of the Air Force’s Office of the Surgeon General in Falls Church, Virginia. She talks about her path from Miami University to becoming a two-star general.
"I just hope I’m the kind of leader that takes care of the community that I’m serving so that maybe I’d recognize their children 20 years later," she says.
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Erin's ethnographic fieldwork, under her faculty mentor Leighton Peterson, takes place at the "haunted" Ohio State Reformatory in Mansfield, known from the film "The Shawshank Redemption."
“I want to see how people are constructing their stories at the reformatory, what the tour guides are telling them, and how other people interact with the building," Erin says.
After graduation, Erin plans on continuing her media analysis and speaking with paranormal investigators, with potential related projects yet to come.
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| CAS Student News and Spotlights
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- Physics masters student Casey Scoggins and Psychology doctoral student Tyler Jacobs are the 2022 CAS Graduate Student Award winners.
- Victoria Lopez-Rangel '22 (Spanish and Speech Pathology) won the national Critical Scholarship Language grant in Portuguese and will be studying abroad in Brazil this summer.
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| CAS Alumni News and Spotlights
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 | Shefali Razdan Duggal '93
with President Biden
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| CAS Faculty News and Spotlights
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Faculty Experts on the War in Ukraine:
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- "Let Ohio Women Vote," a video program shown on PBS stations throughout Ohio, discusses the women’s suffrage movement and voting rights. It features both Kimberly Hamlin, professor of History and Global and Intercultural Studies, and Tammy Brown, associate professor of Global and Intercultural Studies and History. (Also, see Kimberly in the "Great Minds" video.)
- Katie Day Good, associate professor of Media, Journalism, and Film, is quoted in Digital Illiteracy is a Rising Threat. A New Department of Education Program Seeks Solution.
- Associate Teaching Professor of American Studies Oana Godeanu-Kenworthy wrote an article for The Conversation: Canada has long feared the chaos of US politics.
- Ann Rypstra, University Distinguished Professor of Biology and director of the Ecology Research Center, is quoted in a CBS News report on the joro, an invasive spider species.
- Associate Professor of History Andrew Offenburger is quoted in an article about Miami students partnering with Buena Vista University students to create profiles on Storm Lake, Iowa residents.
- Robert Applebaum, professor of Sociology and Gerontology, is quoted in a story in The Canton Repository about vaccination rates among nursing home staff members.
- John Bailer, chair and professor of Statistics, participated in a panel for the American Statistical Association's Career Development Committee. View a video of the session. Bailer is also retiring from Miami at the end of June after 34 years.
- Professor of Japanese Noriko Reider, who has published her research about the mythological yokai, is quoted in a Wired article about the new videogame "Ghostwire: Tokyo."
- "Colorization," the book written by Boadway Distinguished Scholar-in- Residence in the Department of Media, Journalism and Film Wil Haygood, was listed in Esquire among "The 125 Best Books About Hollywood."
- Associate Professor of Mathematics Olga Brezhneva was selected by the members of Miami's Honors Student Advisory Board as the Honors College Outstanding Faculty Member of the Year for AY 2021-22.
- A new limited series, "The Candyman," is coming to Hulu and based on Boadway Distinguished Scholar in Residence of Media, Journalism and Film Wil Haygood’s book “In Black and White: The Life of Sammy Davis, Jr.”
- Associate Professor of Geology Mark Krekeler is featured in Scientific American, where he speaks about the use of drones to identify forensic evidence for crime scenes.
- Professor of Geology and Environmental Earth Science Jason Rech was selected as a Fulbright U.S. Scholar for 2022-2023, allowing him to teach and conduct research abroad.
- Professor of English Timothy Melley was interviewed on NPR Connecticut Public Radio about the history and science of brainwashing.
- Associate Professor of Media and Communication Matthew Crain appeared in a Tech Policy Press podcast about "The Privacy Imperative" and tech policy.
- Yoshi Tomoyasu, associate professor of Biology, is quoted in an article in The Scientist about the evolution of insect wings.
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In Memoriam
Contributions in his memory can be sent to the Gary W. Barrett Endowed Scholarship, Miami University, 926 Chestnut Lane, Oxford, Ohio 45056.
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