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Hao Ye at Scripps and coaching ARML

posted Dec 21, 2009 8:02 PM by Magnet Foundation Webmaster

Hao Ye works at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography doing research on marine ecosystems and fisheries management.  He also helps to coach the San Diego ARML teams.

William Fassett is a Fulbright Scholar in Mexico

posted Sep 28, 2009 7:43 AM by Magnet Foundation Webmaster

William Fassett is spending this year teaching English in Mexico as a Fulbright Scholar.  He is an English Teaching Assistant at la Universidad Tecnologica de Aguascalientes in Mexico. http://www.gazette.net/stories/05272009/gaitnew214123_32526.shtml

Jennifer Helgeson receives NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

posted Apr 15, 2009 5:24 PM by Magnet Foundation News

Jennifer Helgeson '02, an environmental economist at NIST, has received a Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation.  Following the completion of her BA Economics at Brandeis University in 2005, Ms. Helgeson spent a year researching Environmental Economics issues on a Fulbright Grant to Norway. She earned her MS Environmental Change and Management with a focus on Environmental Economics at the University of Oxford, UK in 2007.  Starting this fall, she will be at the Grantham Institute at the London School of Economics investigating the behavioral economics of climate change.

Christie Chew teaching in San Francisco

posted Mar 28, 2009 10:50 AM by Magnet Foundation Webmaster   [ updated Mar 28, 2009 10:51 AM ]

Christie Chew '02 is teaching physics at a public high school in San Francisco.

Chris Chen's DessertTruck on Food Network

posted Feb 7, 2009 5:00 PM by Magnet Foundation News

Samantha Henig writing for Slate

posted Feb 7, 2009 5:00 PM by Magnet Foundation News

After graduating from Cornell with a degree in Sociology, Samantha Henig '02 wrote for the Chronicle of Higher Education, the Boston Globe, the Boston Phoenix, Harvard Magazine, and Newsweek.  She is now an editor for Double X, an online magazine aimed at women that Slate is launching in the spring. She lives in Brooklyn with fellow Blair (but CAP!) and Cornell alum Katie Jentleson.

Louise Giam graduate student at Northwestern

posted Feb 7, 2009 4:59 PM by Magnet Foundation News

While earning a degree in Materials Science and Engineering from MIT, Louise Giam '02 was able to travel around a bit while working on summer internships in Paris and Singapore. She is now in graduate school at Northwestern, also studying Materials Science and living in Chicago.

John (Ben) Woo consulting in Chicago

posted Feb 7, 2009 4:58 PM by Magnet Foundation News

While studying Economics and Mathematical Methods in Social Sciences at Northwestern, John (Ben) Woo '02 worked with Dance Marathon, a non-profit that raises money for a different cause every year by having 750 people dance for 30 hours straight (http://www.nudm.org/), leading an effort that raised nearly $700,000 for Pediatric AIDS Chicago Prevention Initiative. He is now working at the Monitor Group (http://www.monitor.com/), a management / strategy consulting firm in marketing strategy and organizational strategy, in many industries, from pharmaceuticals to energy bars to microfinance.

Peter Cirincione middle school math and science teacher

posted Feb 7, 2009 4:56 PM by Magnet Foundation News

Peter Cirincione '02 graduated from Brown Univesrity with a BS in History & Education Studies.  He is teaching 8th Grade Math and Science at the Lilla G. Frederick Pilot Middle School in Dorchester, MA.

William Hwang MD-PhD student at Harvard-MIT

posted Feb 7, 2009 3:53 PM by Magnet Foundation News   [ updated Feb 7, 2009 4:58 PM ]

After receiving his MSc in Chemical Biology from Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, William Hwang '02 was awarded a Soros Fellowship and an NIH MSTP position to enter the joint Health Science and Technology MD-PhD program at Harvard and MIT.  While an undergraduate at Duke, he founded United InnoWorks Academy, a 501(c)(3) non-profit educational organization in 2003 with a group of friends, and has served as Executive Director for five years.  William was recognized for his community service with the BR!CK Award, dubbed the "Oscars of youth service awards" by CNN, the Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award for excellence of character and outstanding commitment to humanitarian service, the William J. Griffith University Service Award, and the Student Affairs Distinguished Leadership Award.

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