Michelle Smirnova

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

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

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,

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

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

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.

Anne Wynter

Anne Wynter, LA06, created her first picture book, Everybody in the Red Brick Building, and it has received an Ezra Jack Keats Honor award for writing. The book also received honors and recognition from the Junior Library Guild, the Writers’ League of Texas, The Boston Globe, and the Texas Institute of Letters, among others.

Robyn d’Avignon

Robyn d’Avignon, LA06, assistant professor of history at New York University, wrote A Ritual Geology: Gold and Subterranean Knowledge in Savanna West Africa (Duke University Press, August 2022). The book tells the history of West Africa’s centuries-old indigenous gold mining industries and its shared practices, prohibitions and cosmological engagements.

Maggie Konich Fiock

Maggie Konich Fiock, LA06, GR08, with her husband, Frank, and their daughter, Susie, ­welcomed Rosanna (“Rosie”) Bernardine to their family and St. Louis home, Nov. 3, 2021.

Samuel Jaffee

Samuel Jaffee, GR06, marked nine years on the Spanish faculty at the University of Washington, which recently honored him with the 2022 Distinguished Teaching Award, the highest university-wide recognition for innovative instruction, curricular development and mentorship. He writes that he’d welcome news from any of his former WashU students, whom he thanks for their generosity, […]
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