Here’s our round-up of alumni news from the week of December 7, 2019: Durham, NC Mayor Pro Tem Jillian Johnson (’99) is building affordable housing on her property. “I’m just happy to be in a position to do it,” she said. UVA Law profiled Christopher Benos (’14), who released his third album of piano music in November. […]
Here’s our round-up of alumni news from the week of November 16, 2019: Sara Schaefer (’96)‘s half-hour special for Comedy Central premiered on Friday, November 22nd. NBC12 talked to Emlyn Crenshaw (’11) about working as a showrunner’s assistant on the Netflix series “Raising Dion,” which debuted in October. “It was a really special show on screen but also behind […]
Here’s our round-up of alumni news from the week of November 9, 2019: Olympic Trials-qualified marathoner Esther Erb Atkins (’04) won the Indianapolis Monumental 5k this past weekend with a time of 16:30. St. Louis Public Radio ran a story about Wingspan, the hit game published by Jamey Stegmaier (’99)‘s Stonemaier Games. “I went into it with very low […]
Here’s our round-up of alumni news from the week of November 2, 2019: The RTD spoke to Crystal Barlow Robens (’96), who is running for the Hanover County Board of Supervisors in the Beaverdam district. “I am running for office because I am highly qualified, have the time and ability to serve, I am not beholden to […]
Here’s our round-up of alumni news from the week of October 26, 2019: The RTD wrote about Michael Beiro (’13), who is developing a drone system to help monitor power transmission lines. Bailey Thomson Blake (’06), chief of schools at Spark Schools, spoke to Moneyweb about the state of education in South Africa. Join Maggie Walker Drama on November […]
Here’s our round-up of alumni news from the week of October 19, 2019: Thanks to Dr. Sam Zhao (’04) for doing our first alumni Instagram takeover! Sam is an assistant professor of pediatrics and emergency medicine and walked us through a day in his life on Monday, October 21. The RTD wrote about SLAVE CRY, […]
Here’s our round-up of alumni news from the week of October 5, 2019: Another great Reunions Weekend in the books! Thanks to everyone who attended from the Classes of 1999, 2004, 2009, and 2014, and an extra-special thanks to Kameron Adams (’09), Bailey Rose (’09), Bryce Lyle (’99), Leo Rohr (’99), and Karen Setzer (’99) for […]
Here’s our round-up of alumni news from the week of September 28, 2019: Courtney Jamison (’11) will be featured in a one-night-only reading of Lorraine Hansberry’s To Be Young, Gifted and Black at Broadway’s Circle in the Square Theatre on September 30th. Andra Gillespie (’95), Director of the James Weldon Johnson Institute and Associate Professor […]
Here’s our round-up of alumni news from the week of September 21, 2019: Forbes reports that Alloy, founded by Tommy Nicholas (’07), Charles Hearn (’09), and Scott Clark (’09) raised $12 million in a round of venture funding led by Bessemer Venture Partners. Emmanuel Pratt (’95) is the director of Chicago’s Sweet Water Foundation, which recently opened an installation at the […]
Here’s our round-up of alumni news from the week of September 7, 2019: Forbes named Alloy, founded by Tommy Nicholas (’07), Charles Hearn(’09), and Scott Clark (’09), one of 20 Rising Stars on their 2019 Cloud 100 list. The 20 Rising Stars represent young, high-growth and category-leading cloud companies who have raised up to $25 million to date and are […]
Here’s our round up of alumni news from summer 2019: The RTD named Will Roberts (’08) the greatest athlete from MLWGS. Will pitched the first perfect game in school history in 2011 while at UVA. It was just the eighth nine-inning perfect game in NCAA Division I play since 1957. Cheta Emba (’11) is a member […]
Here’s our round-up of alumni news from the week of June 1 ,2019: Thanks to everyone who came to the alumni meetup at the Kickers game on June 1! Stay tuned for future alumni activities. Virginia Chambers (’16) is one of six University of Virginia students selected for this year’s Governor’s Fellows program. Matthew King (’14) […]
Here’s our round-up of alumni news from the week of April 6, 2019: Nathan Melenbrink (’05) is part of the team of roboticists at Harvard’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering that developed a robot that can help contain flooding and combat soil erosion. Faith Alejandro (’01) and Eric Howlett (’04) have been named Rising Stars among 2019 Super […]
Here’s our round-up of alumni news from the week of March 23, 2019: Ubongo, founded by Nisha Ligon (’04), won the 2019 Next Billion Edtech Prize. Ubongo creates fun, localized and multi-platform educational media that reaches millions of African families through television and the internet. Caitlin Lane (’12) is appearing on this season of American Idol. UVAToday […]
Here’s our round-up of alumni news from the week of March 9, 2019: The New York Times wrote about WINGSPAN, the hit board game recently published by Jamey Stegmaier (’99)’s Stonemaier Games. “Over time you realize there’s very few problems that are really serious problems. There’s setbacks but you can always recover from them.” – […]
