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Joy Lin, BSBA ’06, wrote and illustrated Big Enough (Little, Brown and Company, April 2025) under the pen name Regina Linke. Blending traditional Chinese art with digital illustration, the picture book tells the story of a little boy who learns he is big enough to do big things. Lin also wrote and illustrated The Oxherd Boy: Parables of Love, […]

Tyler Survant, AB ’06, received a 2024–25 Fulbright U.S. Scholar award to conduct applied architectural research in Nepal. Rapid development in the Himalayas risks being environmentally unsustainable and culturally erosive. Survant’s research, “Conscientious Construction in Urbanizing Nepal,” aims to compare the methods of the country’s contemporary construction sector with its rich architectural traditions and proposes […]

Julia Fernandez-Pol, BFA ’06, had multiple works on display in the exhibition Roots, which ran from March 15–April 27 at the Atrium Gallery in St. Louis. The exhibition showcased artists originally from St. Louis who have gone on to have success around the country.

Faye Raquel Gleisser, LA06, was promoted to associate professor of contemporary art and critical theory at Indiana University, Bloomington. Additionally, she wrote Risk Work: Making Art and Guerrilla Tactics in Punitive America, 1967-1987 (University of Chicago Press, October 2023).

Michelle Smirnova, LA06, penned The Prescription-to-Prison Pipeline: The Medicalization and Criminalization of Pain (Duke University Press, March 2023). The book presents compelling data to examine how the relationships among trauma, physical pain, medical care, crime, drug use and incarceration are interwoven andco-created. It tells stories that humanize those who are often demonized in popular imagination. Smirnova is […]

Lauren (Miller) Hoye, SW06, a partner with Willig, Williams & Davidson, was named a 2023 Pennsylvania Super Lawyer. Hoye advocates for labor unions and individual employees before state and federal courts around the country. She is an arbitrator in the compulsory arbitration program of the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas and is a volunteer […]

Anne Wynter, LA06, wrote her fourth children’s book, Nell Plants a Tree (Balzer + Bray, January 2023), illustrated by Daniel Miyares. The book received four starred book-trade reviews, including one from Kirkus, which wrote: “Gorgeous images and text chronicle joyful childhood experiences — a future classic.”

Donald Wunsch II, EMBA06, completed two years as a National Science Foundation program director in December 2022. Returning to Missouri University of Science and Technology, the AI expert was appointed founding director of the Kummer Institute’s Center for Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Systems. Wunsch was recently tapped by the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society for its […]

Kalyan Gorantla, LA06, has joined Franciscan Physician Network Surgical Specialists in Crawfordsville, Ind. He was most recently on staff with North Indy Surgical and Ascension St. Vincent Hospital in Indianapolis.

Catherine Kelly, LA06, was appointed associate dean of academic affairs and professor of justice and rule of law at the Africa Center for Strategic Studies, an academic institution within the U.S. Department of Defense. She frequently travels to Africa for executive-level programming with senior African military and civilian officials.