Shiran Shen ’12 won the 2012–13 Carnegie Council Trans-Pacific Student Contest for an essay she co-authored: “The U.S., China, and Cybersecurity: The Ethical Underpinnings of a Controversial Geopolitical Issue.” Shen is a political science doctoral student at Stanford University, after majoring in that discipline at Swarthmore. She is also an Asia-Pacific scholar at Stanford’s Freeman [...]
Sarah Boyer ’96 received tenure in the biology department at Macalester College. She teaches Biodiversity and Evolution, a course in her department’s core sequence, as well as upper-level courses in biogeography, evolution, and biodiversity. Boyer takes a phylogenetic approach to questions in evolutionary biology, using molecular and morphological data. With support from the National Science [...]
Garikai Campbell ’90 was recently named provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at Morehouse College, a private, all-male, liberal arts college in Atlanta. A mathematics major here, he earned a Ph.D. in that field from Rutgers University. He joined the Swarthmore mathematics faculty in 1997. Besides teaching, he was associate dean of academic affairs, [...]
Jon Lorsch ’90 was appointed the new director of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS). Lorsch will manage the institute’s $2.4-billion-dollar budget, which funds basic research in areas such as cell biology and genetics as well as programs designed to diversify the biomedical and behavioral research workforce. He received a doctorate in biochemistry [...]
Karín Aguilar-San Juan ’84 was named to the board of Volunteers of America–Minnesota (VOA–MN), anonprofit health and human services organization. Formerly a board member of Amicus (which has since merged with VOA–MN), Aguilar-San Juan has extensive experience supporting those in prison, leaving prison, and youth in the justice system. Aguilar-San Juan is an associate professor [...]
Kathy Pearson Glennan ’82 is a recipient of the A. Ralph Papakhian Special Achievement award, given by the Music Library Association (MLA). The award recognizes those who demonstrate “extraordinary service to the profession of music librarianship.” Glennan is a music cataloger and head of Metadata Creation and Enhancement at the University of Maryland. She earned [...]
David Vanderbilt ’76 was elected into the National Academy of Sciences for his distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. Vanderbilt is a Board of Governors Professor of Physics in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Rutgers University. His advances in modeling atomic structures are embedded in most computer programs used by scientists and [...]
