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Sunit Anandwala, AB ’08, and his wife, Katelyn, welcomed their first child, Edmund (“Eddie”) Timothy Anandwala, on Jan. 11. Edmund is named after Sir Edmund Hillary, the New Zealand mountaineer and explorer credited for being one of the first climbers to summit Mt. Everest. Anandwala and his family reside in Seattle.

Jessica “Jessie” Rosell, JD ’08, an attorney with Lathrop GPM, was promoted to partner. Rosell’s practice focuses on environmental, litigation and appellate matters, representing clients with administrative claims before federal and state environmental agencies, and advising clients initiating and maintaining environmental regulatory compliance programs. She joined the firm in 2008.

Ben Jackson, AB ’08, an attorney with Cohen Milstein, was named partner. Jackson is a member of the securities litigation and investor protection practice, which is based in New York City. He represents institutional and individual shareholders in lawsuits and securities class actions.

Emilie Boone, GR08, had her first book, A Nimble Arc: James Van Der Zee and Photography (Duke University Press, September 2023), published. The book explores Van Der Zee’s photographic work over the course of the 20th century, showing how it foregrounded aspects of Black daily life in the United States and in the larger African diaspora.

David Addison, EMBA08, recently joined Guy Carpenter & Co. as managing director, head of life and annuities, Americas. Guy Carpenter is the insurance brokerage arm of the Marsh McLennan group of companies.

Mai-Lan Ho, MD08, was promoted to professor of radiology at the University of Missouri in 2022. This year, she was named vice chair of operations and innovation, medical director of radiology, physician director of radiology informatics, and division director of neuroradiology at the university. She lectures for national/international radiology societies and has served as a […]

Simeon Papacostas, LW08, an intellectual property attorney with litigation experience in federal courts, was promoted to partner at Benesch. His practice focuses primarily on patent litigation in federal courts and post-grant proceedings before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. He has argued matters in federal district court and before the U.S. Court of Appeals for […]

Ian Weaver, GF08, had a solo exhibition, “WAKE: Ian Weaver,” at Fort Worth (Texas) Contemporary Arts, August-September 2022. His work explores memory, considering how individuals and communities, specifically the Black Bottom area of Chicago’s West Side, construct their own identities. When large parts of this multiethnic community were destroyed in the 1950s to construct an […]

Elisabeth Rennell Hosmer, EN08, was selected as a 2022 Society of Women Engineers Emerging Leader in recognition of her outstanding leadership skills and significant accomplishments in the field of engineering. One of only 10 recipients to be so honored, she was recognized at the organization’s October 2022 national conference

Jeffrey Binder, LA08, wrote Language and the Rise of the Algorithm (University of Chicago Press, November 2022), a history of the idea of algorithm from the 16th century to the rise of machine learning. The book reveals how recent developments in artificial intelligence are reopening an issue that troubled mathematicians well before the computer age: […]