News and Updates

So, you put the E. coli in here… but, uh, don’t eat it!

October 26, 2007

We’re brave, but not Jeremy Babendure (’97) brave. Now that he’s finished his Ph.D. in biomedical sciences at UC San Deigo, Jeremy is directing the university’s BioBridge program, which brings cutting-edge science to high-school classrooms around San Diego. Which is,…


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I left my heart at Haas

October 26, 2007

We just discovered that the UC Berkeley Business School has its own cafe operated by Jimmy Beans, one of our all-time-favorite spots for breakfast. We’re getting hungry just thinking about it. And that coffee… So, we get it when Ian…


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We want to join the army and catch a case of the bird flu

October 25, 2007

Not that anybody in the hospital is ever lucky, exactly… it nevertheless sounds like Christy (Buck) Oberg‘s (’93) patients at the VA in Tucson are in really good hands: I did my residency in internal medicine and then did a…


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But it’s a dry heat…

October 19, 2007

Robin Mead (’97) has been teaching economics at the Dubai American Academy. We asked her if Dubai’s as crazy as the photo essay in this month’s Harper’s makes it look, and she said, Um, yeah. It’s as hot as Phoenix…


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Polly wants a cracker. And a Tickle-Me-Elmo doll.

October 19, 2007

Not to be too uncaring in a period of mourning, but Dr. Pepperberg, watch your back! The new parrot authority in the neighborhood is none other than Becky Fox (’96). She wrapped up a Ph.D. at UC Davis, where she…


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Econ Man

October 16, 2007

Sort of has a catchy ring, doesn’t it? Like Iron Man in those old Marvel comic books, but holding a copy of the Journal under his arm instead of wearing a funny-looking suit of armor. But we digress. The point…


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Karl Rove x James Carville =

October 15, 2007

Who knows the solution to that little bit of arithmetic… What we do know is that Kelley Van Auken (’95) is holding her own in the political arena. After working in the White House in the late 90s, Kelley lit…


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