Alum News & Stories

The memoir of author MB Caschetta ’88, A Cheerleader’s Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment, was the subject of an Advocate story.

Dr. Zoe Adams ’15 wrote the Washington Post op-ed “The Nixon-era roots of today’s opioid crisis.”

Fiona Shen-Bayh ’11 received the 2023 American Political Science Association’s Theodore J. Lowi First Book Award for Undue Process: Persecution and Punishment in Autocratic Courts, as noted by Political Science Now.

Nora Underwood ’88 and her family were the subjects of a Colorado Sun article, “How one family is carrying on generations-long ecological research near Crested Butte.”

Tenants’ rights lawyer and New York City Planning Commission member Leah Goodridge ’04 was the subject of a New York Amsterdam News story.

Andrew Fiss ’05, Associate Professor of Technical & Professional Communication at Michigan Tech, has been awarded “Best Book in Technical or Scientific Communication” for Performing Math: A History of Communication and Anxiety in the American Mathematics Classroom by the Conference on College Composition and Communication.

Andrea McCarren ’85, Vice President of PenFed Credit Union Digital, has been promoted to Senior Vice President of PenFed Digital and President of PenFed Foundation, as noted by CityBiz.

Alice Ramsey, class of 1907, the first woman to drive across the U.S. in an automobile, was the subject of a Yahoo! story.

Computer pioneer Rear Admiral Grace Hopper, class of 1928, was the subject of an Edvocate story, “Teaching Students About Grace Hopper’s Trailblazing Journey in Computing.”