Alumni in the News

November 2009

Col. Geoffrey Ling (M'89), program manager at the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, intensive-care unit doctor, active-duty army colonel and founder of Revolutionizing Prosthetics, explains his passion for helping wounded soldiers in an excerpt from the new book The Department of Mad Scientists.
NPR.org; November 15, 2009

Profile of Javier Soto (L'95), president of the Dade Community Foundation in Miami, Florida.
Miami Herald; November 13, 2009

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia (C'57) is the subject of a new book, American Original: The Life and Constitution of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.
NPR.org; November 12, 2009

Erin Conaton (F’92), staff director of the House Armed Services Committee, is nominated to be undersecretary of the Air Force.
The Hill; November 11, 2009

Dominick Moreno (C'08), age 24, is slated to become the youngest city councilor in the history of Commerce City, Colorado.
KUSA-TV; November 6, 2009

Scott Ginsburg (L’78), chief executive and chairman of the board at DG FastChannel Inc., talks about the high-end auto business and his second role as owner chief executive of Boardwalk Auto Group.
Dallas Morning News; November 2, 2009

Profile of Anthony Riker (C’00), a wine specialist at Whole Foods Market in the Tenleytown neighborhood of Washington, D.C., who discovered his talent for identifying and tasting wines during his junior semester abroad.
Washington Post; November 1, 2009

October 2009

Profile of Syphorn Phan (C’90), a senior clinical pharmacist at Lowell General Hospital who survived the Cambodian jungle and a re-education camp under the captivity of the Khmer Rouge in the late 1970s.
Lowell Sun; October 26, 2009

Former Sen. George J. Mitchell (L’61) describes his position as special envoy for Arab-Israeli affairs.
Morning Sentinel; October 23, 2009

Reggie Gore (MBA’09), a first-time entrepreneur, started a company to market and design a computer game that teaches kids personal finance through real-life scenarios played out in a virtual world.
U.S. News & World Report; October 16, 2009

Douglas Shulman (L’99), commissioner of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service, takes an aggressive approach to tax enforcement.
CNBC; October 15, 2009

Prince Turki al-Faisal (B’68), head of the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies and Saudi Arabia’s former ambassador to the U.S., believes Middle East peace requires a more active U.S. peacemaking role.
Bloomberg; October 10, 2009

David Jacobson (L’76) shares how his skills as a litigator have prepared him for his position as U.S. ambassador to Canada.
Globe and Mail; October 2, 2009