Engineering skills in a health-care world

Alice Ndikumana
Alumna Alice Ndikumana, a technology consultant at Deloitte focusing on health care, finds herself on the front lines of one of the most hotly contested policy debates in U.S. history: health-care reform under the Affordable Care Act.

A man for all seasonings

As the dining writer for The Times-Picayune and its website, NOLA.com, Todd Price, AB ’96, has become a well-known figure in the Big Easy’s bustling restaurant community.

Astrophysicist finds stories in the stars

The confluence of astrophysics and art meet in the studio of Annette Lee, MS ’08. An artist-scientist of Native ­American ­ancestry, Lee’s work has ­reconnected the Dakota and Ojibwe tribes with the star knowledge of her forebearers.

Lost boys

Stanley Strembicki, “Untitled,” November 2006.
For his Lost Memory collection, photographer Stanley Strembicki documented water-damaged photographs former residents of New Orleans were forced to abandon during Hurricane Katrina.

From risk to reward

Ed and Pamela deZevallos
Alumnus Ed deZevallos is a lifelong serial entrepreneur, managing risk against reward and sharing his success to ­provide opportunities for others.

Genetic privacy in a new era

Lainie Friedman Ross, MD, PhD, of the University of Chicago, addresses the panel at the Policy Forum program “First, Do No Harm: Genetic Privacy in the Age of Genome Sequencing” in Brown Hall Feb. 25. Among other topics, panel participants addressed the ethical implications of genetic privacy and incidental findings that may occur because of genome testing. 

From Shostakovich to Jay-Z: Black Violin

Schubert borrowed from Beethoven. Public Enemy sampled Isaac Hayes. Ice Cube quoted Kool and the Gang while Brahms let drop with “Variations on a Theme from Haydn.” Hip-hop and classical music: perhaps not as different as you think. Old news to Wilner “Wil-B” Baptiste and Kevin “Kev Marcus” Sylvester, a.k.a. Black Violin.