Brad Burns ’03 has his eye on the Olympics. More accurately: As the technical lead overseeing the four high-resolution imaging systems – each with 13 cameras – that are monitoring the Rio games from the sky, Burns has 52 “eyes” on the Olympics. From balloons anchored 200 meters above the ground, the Simera camera systems are providing an unprecedented level […]
Sara DeWolf ’02 and Nicholas Boatwright ’11, Honors College alumni and advocates for equity in public education, will both attend master’s programs at Harvard Graduate School of Education this fall. While both have experience teaching in schools, they aspire to work behind the scenes to improve public education for all students. DeWolf, a current member of […]
She’s fond of bad jokes, doesn’t mind getting dirty on a daily basis and goes by the name Gumbo. Yes, Montgomery “Gumbo” Taylor ’14 is one of a kind, especially when you consider she’s among the few geologists to attempt to break into the world of fashion. Two years ago Taylor started the accessory line GARB (Geologic Attention to Rock […]
He doesn’t wear a cape. He doesn’t have a superpower. He doesn’t have some kind of time machine or crystal ball. What James Hodge ’89 does have, however, is the capacity to help save and improve millions of lives around the globe. As a public health lawyer and a national expert on emergency legal preparedness […]
Melissa Siegel ’03 doesn’t mess around. She jumps at opportunity, scoffs at distraction and charges at conflict. She’s got plans. She’s got goals. She doesn’t waste any time. Frankly, she doesn’t have any to waste. Here’s why: She teaches graduate courses in migration studies and leads the migration and development research group in the Maastricht […]
Honors College alum Lauren Swing ’11 wasted no time after graduation – the political science major jumped head first into her field, taking on campaign finance for then-congressional-candidate Rick Allen and working her way up by managing varied aspects of congressional campaigns from Florida and Georgia to Capitol Hill. Now, as deputy chief of staff for […]
It was the late 1980s, and Tony Harold was in the thick of research for his dissertation on phylogeny and taxonomy of deep-sea hatchetfishes at Memorial University of Newfoundland. He had been working with a sample of hatchetfish when he noticed some specimens had a unique pattern of dark skin down the sides of their bodies, resembling […]
It all started with a game of basketball. During her senior year at the College, Samantha Sammis ‘11 felt called to get involved with the youth of Charleston’s East Side, a historically black neighborhood tucked between East Bay Street and Meeting Street. Sammis, a graduate of the Honors College, and a group of friends began […]
Rivers Pearce ’01 didn’t just dream of playing in a rock ‘n roll band in front of thousands of screaming fans. He actually did it for several years. But when it finally came time to trade in his guitar for a day job, in the true spirit of a liberal arts education he pivoted in […]
Last year at this time, Chris Bailey ’12 and ’15 was making his final preparations to run in the 2015 Boston Marathon. Despite a less-than-ideal weather forecast, his lofty goal of completing the 26.2-mile distance in under 2 hours and 30 minutes seemed quite doable. After all, Bailey, a former student-athlete in the Honors College and […]