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Florencia (Smith) Robertson, MSOT ’04, penned Unexpected: A Novel of Change and Friendship (Writeway Publishing, September 2024). The fictional novel finds a 40-plus-year-old woman at the door of a career-changing promotion, but an unexpected pregnancy shatters her confidence. A poor start to nursing her baby lands her in a lactation support group where she acquires […]

Sam Hirst, AB ’04, wrote Against the Liberal Order: The Soviet Union, Turkey, and Statist Internationalism, 1919-1939 (Oxford University Press, June 2024). The book grew directly out of his studies in history and Russian at WashU. Hirst is an assistant professor of international relations at Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey.

Ryan Nieuwendaal, AM ’04, PhD ’08, recently celebrated his 15th year of service at the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) Materials Science and Engineering Division. Nieuwendaal started as an NRC-NIST postdoc after graduating from WashU and has been employed at NIST ever since. In May 2025, he will serve as chair of the Practical […]

Diane M. Steinkamp, MBA ’04, married Darin L. Schreier on Sept. 9, 2023, in Steinkamp’s hometown of Centralia, Illinois. The couple, who live in St. Louis, honeymooned on the island of St. Lucia. Diane is a vice president and privately held investment manager at Commerce Trust, a division of Commerce Bank, and Darin is the mechanical […]

Ryan Lawson, BFA ’04, was named to Architectural Digest’s AD100 2024 list, which recognizes the top talents in interior decoration, architecture and landscape design. Lawson and the interior design firm he founded in 2005 have become known for sophisticated, layered interiors that convey a sense of having been collected and refined over many years but […]

Victoria Houseman, PhD ’04, an associate professor of history at the University of Wisconsin–River Falls, penned a biography on the classicist Edith Hamilton titled American Classicist: The Life and Loves of Edith Hamilton (Princeton University Press, October 2023). Hamilton was the author of The Greek Way and Mythology among other works.

Alison Small, LA04, is head of film at Brownstone Productions and helped the studio produce Cocaine Bear and Bottoms. The successful movies helped Brownstone play a significant role in bringing back the R-rated comedy, which has struggled to gain traction in the past years. Small told Variety magazine that the challenge of an R-rated movie […]

Maggie Sullivan, GR04, was named the first president of the newly formed Rosati-Kain Academy, the successor to the 112-year-old, Archdiocesan-sponsored Rosati-Kain High School. She took over her post at the only remaining all-girls Catholic high school within the St. Louis city limits on May 1. Sullivan previously was assistant principal of mission at St. Joseph’s Academy.

Nick Borgmeyer, AR04, has achieved a career milestone by becoming a co-owner of SOA Architecture. He has been with the firm for 20 years, guiding clients including Capital Region Medical Center and Special Olympics Missouri on their projects. Borgmeyer is a LEED-accredited professional through the U.S. Green Building Council.

Ameen Ayoub, GA04, is principal architect with Ameen Ayoub Design Studio, a leading contemporary design firm in Los Angeles. Rooted in modern architecture and contemporary detailing and design, the firm’s projects connect to the surrounding environment with responsible design emphasizing simplicity and oneness with respect to materiality, structure and space. Ayoub trained in St. Louis, […]