Alumni Updates
Dick Bell, MD ('68, B.A. Bio.) “The biological sciences department has grown since I was an undergrad. There were eight Ph.D in the department who were excellent educators. Bradford Owens, Hayden Pritchard and the one and only Frances Trembly who taught us about life and biology. They were inspirational. It is good to see a department become more notable. It makes my degree more valuable.”
Robert Hampson (’82, M.S. Bio.) has a website, “Science and Science Fiction – Science Fiction /Science Fact.” Check it out here: http://teddroberts.com/science.html
Kenneth Spina (’84, B.A. Bio.) earned his D.V.M. from University of Tennessee College of Veterinary Medicine 1989. He has been a small animal clinician in private practice since.
Alan Harrison (’89, M.S. Bio.) is CEO of ToolBank USA in Atlanta, GA.
Daniel Shelly (’91, B.S. Bio.) is the Director of Business Development, R&D Externalization, and Clinical Development at Albumedix a developer of novel recombinant albumin enabled therapeutics and immunotherapies. Daniel also earned his master’s in Biology from the College of William and Mary, and a PhD (Molecular Physiology) at the Florida State University.
Karen Flam (’92, B.S. PreDental Sciences) is an IT Manager and Technical Communicator in the Biotech/Pharma industry.
Bart Liguori (’97, B.S. Mol. Bio.; ’02 M.A. Sociology) taught physics and chemistry in the New York City school system for 4 years. He returned to Lehigh in 2000 to earn his master's degree in sociology. He then went on to earn his Ph.D. in sociology in 2011 from Cornell University. He is now Research Division manager for the Office of Education Accountability at Kentucky’s Legislative Research Commission.
Aubrey Fitch (’98, B.S. BNS) graduated from University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine in 2003. “I am currently working as an associate veterinarian at Bethel Veterinary Hospital in CT practicing small animal medicine with special interests in exotic animal medicine and animal behavior medicine.”
Kerri-Lynn Sheahan (’98, B.S. Biochem.) earned her PhD in 2006 from Northwestern’s Integrated Graduate Program with her focus on Immunology and Microbial Pathogenesis.
John Grason (’99, B.S., Biochem.) obtained his PhD in Biochemistry from the University of Maryland, College Park in 2003. For the past 13 years, he has worked at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. “I'm currently the Chief of Science Policy and Legislation at the National Institute of Nursing Research, one of the NIH's 27 Institutes and Centers.”
Allison Porman (’09, B.S. Mol. Bio.) is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Colorado Denver Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora, CO. where she is working in the laboratory of Dr. Aaron Johnson on a project studying the lncRNA HOTAIR and its ability to regulate chromatin and gene expression in breast cancer. “I started in February and am excited to be back in the lab after over two years of organic farming and permaculture. I still have a garden in my backyard, though!”
Sean Keck (’03, B.S. Mol. Bio.) has been employed by Novartis Pharmaceuticals since 2003. He has followed a strong career path in drug development. Sean went to school part time and received his master’s degree in Biomedical Science from UMDNJ, with a concentration in Pharmacological Sciences. “Thank you to Lehigh for all of the support and for the solid foundation that I have fallen back on many times throughout my career!”
Jonathan Havel (’05, B.S. Biochem.) received his Ph.D. in 2013 from Emory University.
Heather Lindberg (Wilson) (’08, B.S. Bio.) graduated from SUNY Albany in 2013 with a PhD in Biology. Heather just began an assistant professor position in the biology department at Virginia Western Community College that will began in Fall 2017.
Jennifer Therkorn (’09, B.S. Bio.) recently received her PhD in Environmental Science at Rutgers University. “For my research, I designed a new type of sampler for airborne bacteria, mold and pollen that doesn't need an air pump or any external power. I'm now a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab in Laurel, MD.”
Christa Frodella (‘10, B.S., Biochem.) is a graduate student at Mississippi State in the Ph.D. program in veterinary medical science. “I’m still doing asthma research, but now with horses!”
Valerie Estela (’11, B.S. Bio.) is a 3rd year PhD candidate in Neuroscience at Brown University working in Rebecca Burwell's lab studying attention and memory. “I received the NSF GRFP fellowship in 2014.”
Jafar Hussain (’11, B.A. Bio.) recently completed a internal medicine internship at Hahnemann University Hospital in Philadelphia and has since started his four year Diagnostic Radiology Residency at Temple University Hospital with plans to specialize in Interventional Radiology.
Cassandra Tuttman (’12, B.S. Biochm.; ’13 M.S. Mol. Bio.) graduated from the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine in May, 2017. She is currently a veterinarian at the Nutley Animal Hospital in Nutley, NJ.
Brandon Bensel (’13, B.S., Mol. Bio.) is in his 5th year of PhD studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He has been focused on a novel interaction between the kinesins which serve as major intracellular transporters in the brain and general anesthetics. “My aim is to graduate in May of 2018.”
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