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Jeff Abramson (BSE CE '89; MSE CSE '91) is a design engineer on the Pentium Pro (P6) design at Intel, and a former member of design management on the Pentium 4 design. After 11 years in design, he moved to system validation where he is currently managing the functional system validation for all desktop CPUs, with teams in Oregon, Sacramento, California and Penang, Malaysia. He also owns a business, Rainy Day Games, which has been a successful retail store for more than 6 years specializing in board games, puzzles, and other gaming products for all ages. Jeff is married to Nicole, and they have a son, Mitchell. [EECS News Fall/Winter 2005]
Abramson and his wife, Nicole, welcome Trevor Douglas Abramson to their family, born January 17, 2006. Jeff is a General Manager at Intel Corporation and also owns his own business, Rainy Day Games. Trevor (pictured lower right) has an older brother Mitchell who is 28 months old (pictured top right). The family lives in Beaverton, OR. [EECS News Spring/Summer 2006]
Jeff Abramson ('89, '91)
Patrick Alphonso ('94)
Amir A. Amini ('84, '90)
Christopher William Angove ('98)
Anurag Bajaj ('96)
Donna Christine [Wolfe] Belville ('99)
Paul R. Berger ('87, '90)
Paul L. Bergstrom ('96)
Taneal Bhandari ('99)
Sven G. Bilén ('93, '98)
John E. Carlson ('91)
Kurt A. Carlson ('91)
David S. Carter ('93)
Krishnendu Chakrabarty ('95)
Timothy Chang ('94, '96)
Eric Chown ('94)
* Kathryn Clay ('96)
John C. Cowles ('94)
Jennifer Crowley ('95)
Michelle Marchena Curtis ('94)
James A. D'Antonio ('99)
Marco D'Aristotile ('99)
A. DeLap ('94)
* Tony Fadell ('91)
Usama Fayyad ('84, '86, '91)
Matthew Gerlach ('98)
Gordon Good ('91)
Jason Heltzer ('96)
Andrew P. Hoover ('93)
* Timothy A. Howes ('87, '96)
James K. Huggins ('95)
Christy L. Johnson ('90)
Whitney Kew ('94)
Ron Y. Kim ('90)
William F. Kolakowski ('93)
Gardiner D. Leverett ('91)
* Curtis Ling ('90, '93)
Paul Lotz ('98)
Bill Mangione-Smith ('87, '92)
Steven McLaughlin ('92)
* Steve Mollenkopf ('93)
Tom Montgomery ('85, '93)
* Nader Najafi ('92)
Laura Mikkola Norris ('92)
George Nowak ('99)
Allen J. Oh ('93)
* Larry Page ('95)
Jimmy Pangestoe ('99)
John Paxton ('87, '90)
* David Pennock ('99)
Amy Raudenbush ('97)
Jennifer Rexford ('93, '96)
* Mitch Rohde ('96)
* Avi D. Rubin ('89, '91, '94)
Kevin Rutkowski ('94)
* Meera Sampath ('95)
Pete Staples ('94)
Mark Stephan ('96)
* Alan Steremberg ('94)
Andrea E. Taylor ('94)
* Peter Tchoryk ('94)
Thomas J. Treutler ('90)
David P. Trumpy ('99)
Jean [Hwang] Verheyden ('91)
Carl T. Wahl ('99)
Khurt L. Williams ('94)
* Nick N. Yang ('97)
Patrick Alphonso (BSE CE '94) is President of Swamiware LLC, in Ann Arbor, MI. Swamiware has recently completed software development on the highly anticipated Dragon Ball Z: Taiketsu for Game Boy Advance. Patrick is the author of The Game Fanatic's Guide to PC Cheats published by Avon Books New York. He served as an editor for The Internet Encyclopedia (John Wiley & Sons). (http://www.swamiware.com). [EECS News Spring/Summer 2004]
Amir A. Amini (MSE PhD EE '84 '90) is Associate Professor at Washington University, MO, and Director of the Cardiovascular Image Analysis Laboratory at the School of Medicine. Prof. Amini is the general chair of SPIE Medical Imaging Conference on Physiology, Function, and Structure from Medical Images, and is on the editorial board of IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging. He is co-author of the book, Measurement of Cardiac Deformations from MRI: Physical and Mathematical Models. [EECS News Spring/Summer 2004]
After 10 years at Washington University School of Medicine (past 5 years as Associate Professor and Director of Cardiovascular Image Analysis Lab), Amini will be moving to the University of Louisville in August 2006 where he will hold an endowed chair in bioimaging as a full professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He will also have a lead role at the Cardiovascular Innovations Institute directed by Laman Gray, M.D. (the heart surgeon who performed the first totally artificial heart implant in the world). [EECS News Spring/Summer 2006]
Christopher William Angove (BS CS '98) is a software engineer with OPNET Technologies, MD. He has gained experience in software ranging from pure coding, training customers, and working with clients to solve their current problems. [EECS News Spring/Summer 2004]
Anurag Bajaj (MSE CSE '96) is an Associate with the Information Technology Group of Booz Allen Hamilton. Upon graduation from U-M, Anurag joined Hewlett Packard's System Interconnect Solutions lab as a software design engineer. He left HP in 1999 to pursue an MBA at the Wharton School of Management, Univ. of Pennsylvania. He joined Booz Allen and Hamilton's London office in their Information Technology Group in 2001. [EECS News Spring/Summer 2004]
Donna Christine [Wolfe] Belville (MSE EE:S '99) is the very happy mother of Julianna Brooke, born January 6, 2004. She does consulting work for Veridian Systems (now General Dynamics) as a research scientist and software developer. Donna and her husband Roy live in Indianapolis, IN. [EECS News Spring/Summer 2004]
Paul R. Berger (MSE PhD EE '87 '90) is a Professor at Ohio State University with an active program in SiGe nanoelectronics. He tell us, "my latest venture is the establishment of the new Nanoscale Patterning Center which will house our new 100 keV electron beam lithography system following a multi-million dollar award by the State of Ohio. I will be the Center's Director for a consortium of Ohio based universities, government labs and industrialists. We are presently recruiting a staff position and gearing up for the construction required in our cleanroom to install his highly specialized piece of equipment. This instrument is highly complementary with the NNIN facility as part of your SSEL.
On a personal note, our 2 daughters (8 and 11 years old) continue to develop and surprise us. My daughters are already brain washed to love Michigan. My oldest wears her Michigan shirt and hat to school before the Ohio State game. We all actively root for the Wolverines, flying our Michigan flag in the heart of Buckeye country on football Saturdays. We generally attend 1-2 football games in Ann Arbor. I also met my wife at the University and got married on State Street." [EECS News Spring/Summer 2005]
More recently, Paul was promoted to Fellow status in the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), for "contributions to the understanding, development, and fabrication of silicon-based resonant interband tunneling devices and circuits." In addition, he was name IEEE Distinguished Lecturer for the Electron Devices Society.
Paul L. Bergstrom (PhD EE '96) joined the faculty at Michigan Tech's Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, where he has been building a research program in MEMS materials and process integration technologies for integrated sensors. He participates in the NSF Engineering Research Center on Wireless Integrated Microsystems with UM and MSU, and cultivates industrial interactions on integrated sensing technologies. He and his wife, Maria, enjoy the north woods with their three children, two girls (ages six and one) and a boy (four). [EECS News 2003]
Taneal Bhandari (BS CS '99) joined Compuware Corporation after graduation, where his responsibilities included QA testing, web programming/design, technical support, shell script programming, configuring servers, and training incoming team members. He started a web development company, SATaB Designs, while also working for Compuware Corporation for two and a half years before devoting himself full time to his company. After finishing up a web project for the U-M School of Nursing, and after his wife graduated from U-M Medical School, they moved to Atlanta, GA, in May 2004. Taneal has started several new companies since his move to Atlanta. One of them is Sotari LLC, which is primarily a real estate investment company. The other is a company that he started with his real-estate investor friend, called Owners Financing Real Estate LLC (OFRE). Taneal is responsible for everything IT related. OFRE.com is a listing service for customers who wish to hold the mortgage or lease with the option to buy. Their plan is to make www.ofre.com the definitive online repository for owner financed real estate. They're aiming to launch their company soon. [EECS News Fall/Winter 2006]
Sven G. Bilén (MSE PhD EE '93 '98) is professor of Engineering Design and Electrical Engineering, and Chief Technologist at the Center for Space Research Programs at The Pennsylvania State University. He was on campus recently as a panel member with the College of Engineering Career Path Series, where U-M students can learn from alumni how they chose their current careers. [EECS News Spring/Summer 2006]
John E. Carlson (BSE EE '91) and David J. Gaskey (BSE EE '89) are partners at the intellectual property law firm of Carlson, Gaskey & Olds, P.C. (CGO) in Birmingham, MI. CGO was founded in July 2000 and has grown to 10 patent attorneys. CGO recently was named by its Fortune 250 clients as their principal intellectual property counsel in "Who Protects IP America," The Year in Intellectual Property Almanac 2002. [EECS News 2003]
Kurt A. Carlson (BSE EE '91) has recently been named the new Call Center Director for a Charter Communications facility in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Charter (charter.com) is a broadband communications company based in St. Louis, MO and Kurt is looking forward to strengthening every aspect of customer service at his new company. Carlson was formerly Director of Business Customer Service at Consumer's Energy, and Director of Customer Operations for Greatland Corporation. He is also Vice President of the Board of Trustees for Wildlife Rehab Center, a nonprofit wildlife rescue center operating in western Michigan. After leaving Michigan, Carlson received his MBA from Grand Valley State University. [EECS News Spring/Summer 2007]
David S. Carter (BSE EE '93) was appointed engineering librarian at the University of Michigan Media Union Library in September 2002. He was previously the director of the Internet Public Library (IPL) and a lecturer at the University of Michigan's School of Information, where he taught classes on digital librarianship and on information resources in the sciences. He has worked with the Alliance for Community Technology (ACT) and librarians with the American Indian Higher Education Council (AIHEC) in setting up an AIHEC Virtual Library. [EECS News 2003]
Krishnendu Chakrabarty (PhD CSE '95) was promoted to associate professor with tenure at Duke University in 2002. He was awarded the National Science Foundation Career award in 1999 and the Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator award in 2001. He is married to Kamalika Mukherjee and has one son. [EECS News 2003]
Chakrabarty, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University, was recently named an IEEE Fellow. His current research is focused on design and test of system-on-chip integrated circuits, microfluidics-based biochips (digital microfluidics, microelectrofluidics), and wireless/sensor networks. His advisor at U-M was Prof. John Hayes. [EECS News Fall/Winter 2008]
Timothy Chang (BSE EE '94; MSE EE/EE:S '96) is currently a Principal at Gabriel Venture Partners, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm investing in early-stage hi-tech startups. Tim leads Gabriel's wireless investment team, and recently invested in Iridigm Display Corporation, a highly-innovative MEMS-based microdisplay company that was acquired by Qualcomm in 2004 for $200M. Prior to venture capital, Tim had worked throughout Japan, Korea, and China as a multi-lingual development engineer for General Motors, as well as a product manager for servers and enterprise computing products at Gateway. Tim recently bought a home in San Francisco, and continues to perform around the Northern California Bay Area with his band and as an actor in his spare time. [EECS News Spring/Summer 2005]
Eric Chown (PhD CSE '94), Samuel S. Butcher Associate Professor of the Natural Sciences at Bowdoin College, led his students' team, NorthernBites, to victory in the 2007 RoboCup in Atlanta, Georgia.
Northern Bites has been active for only two years and was victorious over teams from Germany, Australia, and the United States. In the RoboCup competition, teams of four identical Sony AIBO dogs compete on a 3- by 5 meter field. Through the aid of a muzzle-mounted camera, the dogs are programmed to recognize the ball and move, shoot and pass in a coordinated effort. The dogs receive no active commands during the course of the game, it's all up to their team-programmed code. In a CNN-online interview, Professor Chown outlined the challenge: "The problems in RoboCup are the same as what roboticists face in any domain. The robot needs to sense the world, figure out a problem, and make a decision. That fits soccer the same way it does the Mars Rovers, or a robot in an advanced car plant." His overriding goal is "to make science fun and exciting and attract young people."
Chown is married to colleague Rachel Beane, a Geology professor at Bowdoin. He teaches courses in artificial intelligence, cognitive architecture and computer programming. They have a four-year-old son, Zander, and at the time of writing, were expecting another baby in January. [EECS News Fall/Winter 2008]
Kathryn Clay (MS EE '96, PhD Applied Physics '04) is the Vice President of Policy Strategy at the American Gas Association (AGA). Her political career began with with Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-NY), who was on the Environment and Public Works Committee, and worked on aggressive legislation to reduce emissions from power plants. Kathryn helped usher three bills into law while a member of the professional staff of the House Committee on Science, and later with the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
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Kathryn Clay: A Policy Leader in the Natural Gas Revolution – EECS Website, June 3, 2014
John C. Cowles (PhD EE '94) is a design engineer with Analog Devices, Inc., responsible for RF/IF product design. From 1994-98, he was Senior Member of Technical Staff at TRW in Redondo Beach, CA and was responsible for advanced GaAs & InP HBT development for high speed ICs. He is married to Mary Ulmer, and they have a daughter, Sophia. John' brother, Bob Cowles, is a surgery resident at the UM Hospital. John enjoys world traveling, history, and anthropology. He speaks Portuguese, Spanish, French, German, and Russian. He stays active with soccer and tennis, and says that time constraints forced him to get into jogging, cycling, weights, and swimming.
Jennifer Crowley (BSE EE '95) is president and owner of Cross Consulting and Sales, L.L.C. She received an MBA from Northwestern University. After working several years at Texas Instruments in semiconductor marketing, technical sales, and business development roles, she started a business consulting and sales representative firm specializing in strategic marketing and sales for technology-based companies. She has traveled extensively for both work and pleasure. A highlight of last year was a backcountry trek in Alaska. She lives in Michigan and makes it back to UM for almost every home football game. [EECS News 2003]
Michelle Marchena Curtis (BSE EE '94) is new mother to Charlie Marchena Curtis, born June 20th, 2007. Curtis, who works for Cisco, reports that her son "bleeds blue and cannot wait to attend Michigan!" [EECS News Fall/Winter 2008]
James A. D'Antonio (BSE CE '99) started working for Anderson Consulting, now Accenture, upon graduation. He is currently an M2 (2nd year manager). His specialization is the IT Asset Management group within the Data Center Operations organization. He is serving in his 5th year as head coach for the University of Michigan Roller Hockey team. [EECS News Spring/Summer 2006]
Marco D'Aristotile (BSE CE '99) is employed at the EDS Virtual Reality (VR) Center in Troy, MI. He is engaged in many projects involving high-end VR hardware, VR facility design, and 3-D content creation. Clients have included major auto manufacturers, the military, architecture firms, city governments, and many others. [EECS News 2003]
Ronald A. DeLap (PhD EE:Systems '94) was named Dean of Engineering, Technology and Economic Development at Lake Superior State University. [EECS News 2011]
Tony Fadell (BSE CE '91) - The Internet also showed its potential as a source of entertainment. However, Internet users created a crisis for the music industry and the legal system by downloading five billion songs from various sources —without paying for them. The problem perplexed music executives, the brightest legal minds and most computer scientists. However, Tony Fadell developed a solution. He created the iPod, an inexpensive device that can play music in a digital format, and he led the development of an online site from which music buffs can download any of 200,000 singles for 99 cents each. It was a technological and marketing triumph. Fadell became Senior Vice President of Apple's iPod Division through 2008, where he created three generations of the iPod and the iSight Camera, a video camera for conferencing over broadband. He remained with the company as an adviser to CEO, Steve Jobs. Fadell received the College of Engineering Alumni Society Recent Engineering Graduate Award in 2004. After leaving Apple to spend more time with family, he he founded Nest and created the self-programming Nest Learning Thermostat.
From Apple to Nest Labs, Always a Designer – New York Times, July 20, 2013]
Tony Fadell, Mastermind Behind the Apple iPod, Offers Advice for Students – EECS Website, 2005
Michigan Engineer Profile - Tony Fadell
Usama Fayyad (BSE CE/EE '84; MSE PhD CSE '86 '91) recently joined Yahoo! Inc. as the company's first chief data officer and senior vice president of the Strategic Data Solutions group. He came from DMX Group, a company that specialized in data mining and data strategy, that he co-founded. Usama's professional experience includes co-founding a company in 2000, digiMine Inc. (now Revenue Science, Inc.), five years at Microsoft Research leading the data mining and exploration group, and 7 years at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). His work at JPL earned him several awards from Caltech, NASA, and a U.S. Government medal. Usama and his family moved to Portola Valley, CA (near Stanford) this past fall. Fayyad received the CSE Alumni Merit Award in 2009. [EECS News Spring/Summer 2005]
Matthew Gerlach (MSE EE '98) worked at SandCraft Inc. (Santa Clara, CA) for close to 6 years before leaving for Nvidia Corp. (also of Santa Clara, CA). His job focuses on circuit and cad design for Nvidia's next generation graphics processors. He recently moved from the bay area back to Michigan to be closer to family and friends, and telecommutes for Nvidia out of his home. Go Blue! [EECS News Spring/Summer 2006]
Gordon Good (BS CE '91) is co-author of the book,Understanding and Deploying LDAP Directory Services (2nd Edition), published this year by Addison-Wesley Professional. Co-authors are EECS alumni Timothy A. Howes (BSE AERO '85; MSE PhD CSE '87 '96) and Mark C. Smith (BSE CE '88). Good is a senior software engineer at Opsware, Inc., in Sunnyvale, California. [EECS News 2003]
Jason Heltzer (BS CS '96) is a Principal with the venture capital firm OCA Ventures in Chicago. Jason aspires to invest in a startup founded by fellow EECS graduates, so send him your business plans! Jason and his wife Wendy are proud parents of their son Gideon, who was born in December 2005. [EECS News Fall/Winter 2006]
Andrew P. Hoover (MSE EE '93) is an IC design engineer at Motorola, in the Semiconductor Products Sector. He is married and has three children, ages two, five, and seven. Andrew is actively involved in world hunger relief efforts via CROPWALK and is involved with the Texas Legislature to promote family-friendly legislation. [EECS News 2003]
Timothy A. Howes (BSE AERO '85; MSE PhD CSE '87 '96) is co-inventor of Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), the Internet standard for directories and co-founder of Loudcloud, Inc., a managed-service company responsible for running mission-critical Internet sites for large enterprises. The inspiration for Loudcloud came from the desire to help large company websites run better and more cost effectively. This led to the creation of a software package known as "Opsware." Soon the Loudcloud list of clients included the likes of Ford, Nike, Fannie Mae and other worldwide organizations. In 2002, Howes sold off the hosting business to EDS and transformed LoudCloud into a pure software company called Opsware Inc., which has become the leading provider of data-center automation software. Howes currently serves as CTO and EVP of Development. In 2000, he was recognized by InfoWorld as one of the top 10 e-business innovators. He has co-authored several books on directories. In 2001, CTO magazine named him one of the top 25 most influential CTOs. He is also a member of the College's National Advisory Committee and received the CSE Alumni Merit Award in 2010.
Howes is co-author of the book, Understanding and Deploying LDAP Directory Services (2nd Edition), published this year by Addison-Wesley Professional. Co-authors are EECS alumni Mark C. Smith (BSE CE '88) and Gordon Good (BS CE '91).
Michigan Engineer Profile - Steve Howe – Michigan Engineer, Fall/Winter 2003
James K. Huggins (PhD CSE '95) was promoted in July 2002 to associate professor with tenure of Computer Science at Kettering University, where he received a Kettering University Alumni Association Outstanding Teaching Award in June. He is married to Jane E. Huggins and has a daughter, Clara, born in 2001. [EECS News 2003]
Huggins is an associate professor of computer science at Kettering University. He was recently elected as Moderator (President) of the Faculty Senate for the calendar year 2006. During 2005, he will be serving as Moderator-Elect (Vice-President). Clara is pictured left with her baby brother, Isaac, who is 6 months old (on right). [EECS News Spring/Summer 2005]
Christy L. Johnson (PhD EE '90) is an advisory engineer/scientist in the Surface and Materials Science Laboratory at IBM Corporation in Vermont. She is involved in transmission electron microscopy. [EECS News 2003]
Whitney Kew (MSE EE '94) bought a townhouse and moved back to his hometown of San Diego, CA, where he works as a Senior Software Engineer for Rain Bird Corporation writing central control software. He plays tennis, and is an electronic musician. Kew has composed 6 songs for what will be his first CD, as well as two Depeche Mode covers that you can listen to at http://www.myspace.com/kewmusic. [EECS News Fall/Winter 2006]
In February 2015 Ron Kim (BS CS '90, MBA '05) was hired by TPG Capital to be the IT Expert/Senior Advisor for their entire set of portfolio companies. TPG is a leading global private investment firm with $67B of capital under management (www.tpg.com). In this role, Ron will implement best-in-class IT strategies, systems and processes across the TPG Capital portfolio.
Before joining TPG, Ron was CIO of Exelon Utilities, a $15B business and the largest set of energy utilities in the nation, powering the cities of Chicago, Philadelphia and Baltimore. Prior to that Ron was a Partner at Accenture, a global $30B consulting firm, where he worked for 18 years immediately after finishing his Computer Science degree.
Ron and his wife Dr. Pamela Kim (PhD, English & Education, '01) live in Philadelphia with their three children.
William F. Kolakowski (BSE CE '93) was elevated to membership in the law firm Dykema Gossett PLLC where he specializes in intellectual property law, including patents, trademarks, copyrights, and related litigation. He is a registered patent attorney with a concentration in computer, electrical and electro-mechanical technologies. [EECS News 2003]
Gardiner D. Leverett (BSE CE '91) has taken a job at Mobius Microsystems in Detroit as the IT/System Administrator. He previously worked for Merit Network, and briefly with MEPO in the UM College of Engineering. [EECS News Spring/Summer 2005]
Curtis Ling (MSE PhD EE '90, '93) co-founded MaxLinear in 2003 with seven colleagues. He has served as Chief Technical Officer since April 2006. Today, MaxLinear employs more than 200 people, and has offices across Asia and Europe. The company builds highly integrated RF mixed-signal broadband communications systems on a single chip. Their products are found in cable and set top boxes, digital televisions, cell phones, cable modems, computers, and cars. Before founding MaxLinear, Dr. Ling served as a principal engineer at Silicon Wave, Inc. from 1999 to 2003, and from 1993 to 1999, he served as a professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Dr. Ling received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Curtis Ling - Making Things Happen – EECS News, 2011
Paul Lotz (MSE EE '98) After spending six years in CT designing cutting-edge photolithography machines, Paul moved to Flagstaff, AZ where he is leading the development of the software for the Discovery Channel Telescope for Lowell Observatory. [EECS News Fall/Winter 2008]
Bill Mangione-Smith (BSE EE '87; MSE PhD CSE '92) works for Intellectual Ventures doing Intellectual Property development and evaluation, particularly in the area of computer and communications technology. [EECS News Fall/Winter 2006]
Steven McLaughlin (PhD EE '92) was named chair of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech. Most recently he served as vice provost for International Initiatives and as Steven A. Denning Chair in Global Engagement at Georgia Tech. He is a co-founder of Whisper Communications.
New School Chair Named for Electrical and Computer Engineering – Georgia Tech News Center, April 20, 2012
Steve Mollenkopf (MSE EE '93) was unanimously elected as the third CEO of Qualcomm, Inc. in March of 2014, taking the lead at the largest fabless semiconductor producer in the world. Over the course of his 20 years at Qualcomm, Steve held a variety of leadership positions including COO and directing the chipset business. He helped Qualcomm became the world's largest mobile chipset supplier and the global leader in LTE technology; Qualcomm now powers the majority of 3G and 4G devices commercially available today. In 2011, as COO of Qualcomm, he engineered the $3.1B acquisition of Atheros Communications Inc. This deal is Qualcomm's largest acquisition to date for the company.
Two Alums Make Top Semiconductor CEOs List – EECS Website, March 2, 2015
Steve Mollenkopf: Leader of Qualcomm and Mobile Technologies – EECS Website, April 16, 2014
Steve Mollenkopf: What it takes to lead in technology [Video] – EECS Website, November 1, 2013
Tom Montgomery (MSE CICE '85; PhD CSE '93) enjoyed Ann Arbor so much, he kept returning for additional degrees after his B.S. in Physics. His PhD research was in distributed artificial intelligence. He settled in Plymouth with his wife and 2 kids, conveniently located between Ann Arbor and Dearborn, and is a Technical Expert at Ford Research. Tom's research at Ford has included model-based diagnostics, agent-based personalization, and data mining from text. Given the size of Ford and the amount of information available to mine, there is never a shortage of interesting problems. The biggest highlights of the year, however, were his weekend camping trips with his son Matthew (Boy Scouts), and his daughter Jessica (YMCA Adventure Guides). [EECS News Fall/Winter 2004]
Nader Najafi (MSE PhD EE '88 '92) is the founder, CEO, and President of Integrated Sensing Systems, Inc. (ISS), and is now leading the development of some of the most advanced micro-scale medical technology in the world. The company's flagship device, the Titan™ Wireless Implantable Hemodynamic Monitor (WIHM), monitors cardiovascular health in patients of all ages, and may help curb the growing epidemic of congestive heart failure (CHF).
ISS was formed as a microsystems manufacturing company with Nader's brother, ECE Chair Khalil Najafi, and his PhD advisor, Prof. Kensall Wise. The company built three business divisions: a medical division to develop wireless, battery-less, intelligent, miniature, sensing implants; an industrial arm that produces sensors; and a manufacturing arm that allows companies to use their facilities.
Nader Najafi: A Dream that Saves Lives – EECS Website, August, 2015
Laura Mikkola Norris (BSE EE '92) received her law degree in 1997 from Santa Clara University, in the night program while working for Intel during the day. She worked as a patent agent, a patent lawyer, and patent litigator from 1994-1999. Since 1999, she has run the legal department at Cypress Semiconductor Corporation. Laura says, "I have found that the combination of my EE degree from UM and my law degree have been extremely useful, and there has never been a time I can remember when I wasn't being recruited." [EECS News Spring/Summer 2005]
"There are great opportunities to help solve interesting problems—not only conceptually, but also by building the hardware and fielding systems that contribute to our nation's security."
George Nowak (PHD EE '99). Since joining the Advanced Lasercom Systems and Operations Group at Lincoln Laboratory, Dr. Nowak has helped manage the group's work on designing and testing laser terminals to support high-bandwidth networking among aircraft and satellites. Specific initiatives in the group involve the design and construction of multi-Gb/s optical transceivers; a subsystem for conducting pointing, acquisition, and tracking among terminals; and optical assemblies to emulate free-space laser propagation over geosynchronous orbit distances. The group also develops high-speed electronic interfaces to provide forward-error correction and bit interleaving to mitigate the impairments of laser communication through the lower atmosphere. The group's efforts have contributed to accelerating the progress of national laser communication programs.
MIT Lincoln Laboratory: Staff Profiles
Allen J. Oh (BSE EE '93) and his wife Tiffany are proud to announce that they have adopted their first child, Madison Rose Kathleen Oh. Madison recently celebrated her third birthday. The family lives in the Twin Cities area, where Allen works as a patent attorney at Moore, Hansen & Sumner in Minneapolis. His practice emphasizes client counseling and patent procurement for electronic and software inventions. Allen's technical interests include automotive technologies, wireless communications, medical devices, and computer hardware and software. He is actively involved with the American Intellectual Property Law Association. [EECS News Fall/Winter 2005]
Oh and his wife Tiffany are thrilled to announce the birth of their daughter, Mikyla "Kylie" Renée Oh, on February 12, 2006, born in Robbinsdale, Minnesota. She weighed 5 lbs, 13 oz, and was 20 inches long. Kylie (pictured left) joins her big sister, Madison (pictured right), who recently celebrated her fourth birthday. [EECS News Fall/Winter 2006]
Larry Page (BSE CE '95) is co-founder of Google, Inc. The Internet became a rich source of information for research, manufacturing, education and many other areas of daily life. However, finding relevant information in this sea of available data was a significant problem. Larry Page and partner Sergey Brin solved that problem in 1998 with the creation of Google, which has become the world's most popular Internet search engine. Just 26 when he co-founded Google, Page went on to receive widespread recognition. In 2002, MIT's Technology Review magazine called him a "Young innovator who will create the future." That same year, Research and Development magazine named him its Innovator of the Year. He was the first recipient of the College of Engineering Alumni Society Recent Engineering Graduate Award in 2002. The National Academy of Engineering elected him to its membership in 2004. Page served as co-president of Google from 1998-2001. In April 2011, he became Google's CEO in charge of day-to-day operations.
Michigan Engineer Profile – Michigan Engineer, Spring/Summer 2001
Spring 2009 Commencement Address Video
Jimmy Pangestoe (BS CS '99) works for Pfizer Inc. within its Data Warehouse/Business Intelligence group in San Diego. He is the "Testing Team Lead," and makes sure that all testing processes and works are successfully carried out for new systems or requests before they get implemented in production. [EECS News Fall/Winter 2006]
John Paxton (MSE PhD CSE '87 '90) is a faculty member of The Computer Science Department at Montana State University in Bozeman, Montana. Currently, he has a Fulbright Award to spend the academic year at The University of Leipzig in Leipzig, Germany. While there, he is developing and teaching two courses, including a sophomore-level course on data structures and algorithms. He hopes to put the excitement and challenge back into these subjects by incorporating problems from programming competitions. Prof. Paxton also looks forward to combining his teaching with his college minor in German. [EECS News Spring/Summer 2007]
David Pennock (PhD CSE '99), Principal Research Scientist at Yahoo! Research, was recently named to MIT Technology Review's list of 35 "top technology innovators under age 35 for 2005. Prior to his current position at Yahoo!, Pennock worked as a research scientist at NEC Research, and in 2001 served as an adjunct professor at Pennsylvania State University. His most recent invention is the dynamic parimutuel market, a new financial auction mechanism good for low-liquidity environments found in derivatives trading and information markets. The dynamic parimutuel is featured in Yahoo!'s Tech Buzz Game, a high-tech fantasy market used to gauge traders' collective wisdom about technology trends http://buzz.research.yahoo.com.
Pennock has three patents in progress, including a new financial framework for web search advertising, where impressions and clicks aren't simply sold by search engines to advertisers, but are actively traded back and forth in analogy to today's commodity futures exchanges. Pennock has over 50 academic publications in conferences and journals. His work has been featured by Discover Magazine, New Scientist, CNN, The New York Times, The Economist and several other publications. Pennock is also program co-chair of the 2006 ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce. [EECS News Spring/Summer 2006]
Alumni Who've Made a Difference - David Pennock – EECS News, Spring/Summer 2006
Amy Raudenbush (MSE EE '97) lives in New Bedford, MA with her husband. After 7 months teaching high school and middle school math, she returned to engineering, and currently works at MIT Lincoln Labs in the Optical Systems Engineering group. She designs and builds optical systems. [EECS News Fall/Winter 2004]
Jennifer Rexford (MSE PhD CSE '93 '96) received the 2005 Alumni Society Recent Engineering Graduate Award for her remarkable record of groundbreaking research and intellectual achievement in the relatively short period of time in which she has been working in the field of data networks. She joined the Computer Science Department at Princeton University as a professor in 2005, following more than 8 years at AT&T Labs-Research as Technology Leader in the IP Network Management and Performance department. Rexford is a leading thinker in the field of data networks. Her research focuses on Internet routing, network measurement and network management. She aims to make data networks easier to design, understand and manage. She is recognized for her pioneering work on Internet traffic engineering and Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) analysis and configuration. Rexford co-authored the book Web Protocols and Practice, an all-in-one reference text about the core technologies underlying the web, including a detailed evolution and explanation of its building blocks. She holds six patents. In 2004, Technology Review magazine named Prof. Rexford to its annual TR-100 list of top innovators under the age of 35. That same year, the Association for Computing Machinery recognized her with the Grace Murray Hopper Award as the outstanding young computer professional of the year for her work on assuring stable and efficient Internet routing. Rexford is chair of the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Data Communications. She is also a member of the ACM Council and the Computing Research Association Board of Directors. [EECS News Spring/Summer 2006]
Mitch Rohde (BSE EE '94; MS EE:S '96; MS PhD BME '97 '00) co-founded Quantum Signal in 2000 with Prof. Emeritus Bill Williams. As a custom product development company, QS takes its direction both from commissioned projects and the ambitious designs of its many on-staff engineers. Mitch started the company to bring advanced signal processing technologies from the academic research lab into real-world applications.
Quantum Signal's successes have translated to noticeable growth. The company's first proper headquarters was in Ann Arbor's Northern Brewery in 2000, and within two years they tripled their staff. While their consulting services continued to pick up, they kept an additional focus on in-house technology research. This landed the young crew a $1.83M grant from the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
After the 2010 move to their current location in Saline's Union School building, QS was named to Crains Detroit's 25 Companies to Watch.
The Mad Scientist's Lab: A Look Inside Mitch Rohde and Quantum Signal's School-Sized Playhouse – EECS Website, April 2015
Aviel "Avi" D. Rubin (BS MSE PhD CS '89 '91 '94) recently moved to Johns Hopkins (from AT&T Labs), where he is an associate professor and the technical director of the new Information Security Institute. [EECS News 2003]
Rubin is an expert in systems and networking security, credited for bringing to light vulnerabilities in electronic voting machines. He is a professor of computer science at Johns Hopkins University on Sabbatical as a Fulbright Scholar at Tel Aviv University. He is also President and co-founder of Independent Security Evaluators, a computer security consulting company.
Alumni Who've Made a Difference - Avi Rubin – EECS News, 2003
Kevin Rutkowski (BSE EE '94) is a managing consultant in the department of Project Services for BORN, a national IT services firm. He consults in the area of software quality assurance, and also teaches software development at Capella University. [EECS News Fall/Winter 2005]
Meera Sampath (PhD EE:S '95) is Director of Xerox India Innovation Hub, Xerox's newest research lab located in Chennai, India. In this role, she is responsible for overseeing and scaling up the Hub, developing and executing its research agenda, and nurturing Open Innovation partnerships in India.
Meera joined Xerox in 1996 at the Xerox Research Center Webster, NY. As a Principal Scientist, she led several research projects developing innovative diagnostics and service technologies for printing systems. She holds 8 patents in this area, with several more in the pipeline, and has published a number of articles in leading scientific journals. She has also held several strategic leadership positions at Xerox including Manager, Strategic Operations Group, for the Xerox Research Center Webster, and leader of the team responsible for defining the Xerox Innovation Group's expansion strategy in emerging markets.
eera is a senior member of the IEEE and an Associate Editor for the Springer Journal of Discrete Event Dynamic Systems. She has served on NSF panels for the Control, Networks, and Computational intelligence (CNCI) program, and the University Industry Co-operative Research (UICR) program, and also as as liaison manager for several Xerox Foundation University Affairs Committee (UAC) funded research projects.
Meera Sampath: Creative Problem Solving in Research and Global Enterprise– EECS News, 2011
Pete Staples (BSE EE '94) is president and founder of Blue Clover Design, LLC, which specializes in product development. He worked as a systems engineer for Boeing Satellite Systems in El Segundo, CA for five years, where he designed advanced communication payloads and evaluated new business opportunities. His final assignment there was in a leadership role on the multi-billion dollar Spaceway™ project. In addition to his work for Boeing, he has done projects for Hewlett-Packard (China), Techno-Sciences (USA), Clemson University, Telia (Sweden), the University of Michigan Medical Center, and Dow Chemical.
Pete holds an MBA from the Anderson School of Management at UCLA where he specialized in entrepreneurship. Twice he led teams to the semifinals in the Knapp New Venture Competition. He also received the Mitsui Fellowship for International Business and the Kauffman Fellowship for entrepreneurial research in China. Pete earned an MS in electrical engineering at Clemson University, where his research was focused on wireless networks. While at Clemson, he received the Harris Teaching Assistant of the Year Award. [EECS News Fall/Winter 2005]
Mark Stephan (BSE CE '96) is currently working towards a Masters in Liberal Arts in Environmental Management from Harvard, focusing on renewable energy and wind power. Mark and Yvonne ('96 CS) are expecting their first child at the end of March! [EECS News Spring/Summer 2007]
Alan Steremberg (BSE CE '94) was honored for his visionary work in developing Weather Underground, Inc., of which he is co-founder and President. Following graduation from U-M, he worked at Apple and then at a small internet start-up in Seattle. In the process of completing his master's degree in Human-Computer Interaction at Stanford, he returned to the idea of a real-time internet weather service, and Weather Underground was born (the idea had its beginnings as a U-M research project under the direction of Prof. Perry Samson -- designed to bring internet weather to K-12 classes). Today, the company is a highly successful venture supplying many newspapers and television stations with their weather forecasting data. Weather Underground uses a specialized web interface and a grassroots network of subscribers outfitted with personal weather stations to provide weather forecasts around the globe and in 50 languages. Users turn to Weather Underground for a comprehensive array of data on temperature, heat index, wind chill, humidity, radar precipitation, dew point, wind velocity, visibility, satellite imagery, fronts, snow depth, jet stream, UV index, air quality and even influenza incidence. Steremberg received the College of Engineering Alumni Society Recent Engineering Graduate Award in 2007. [EECS News 2008]
Michigan Engineer Profile - Alan Steremberg
Andrea E. Taylor (BS CS '94) is an IT Software Quality Assurance Specialist - working in the Information Technology organization for CNA Insurance, a major insurance company in downtown Chicago. She bought a townhouse almost 2 years ago and currently lives in Hoffman Estates, Illinois (part of Northwest suburbs of Chicago). [EECS News Fall/Winter 2006]
Peter Tchoryk (MSE EE '94) is CEO of the Michigan Aerospace Corporation (MAC). At MAC, Peter's been able to combine his passions for scientific research and entrepreneurial creation, helping to launch three MAC spin-off companies to date. The primary goal of the company, founded by U-M faculty members Len Fisk and Paul Hays, was to improve weather forecasting by developing technology that could measure the winds of the upper atmosphere. Today, MAC applies their technologies to a wide array of applications, including remote sensing of wind, temperature, and density from ground, air, and space; environmental sensing; big data; and energy. The company is also committed to commercializing technology.
Peter has been responsible for launching three MAC spin-offs, including OptoAtmospherics and Springmatter, both based in Ann Arbor. Founded in 2014, Springmatter is the realization of Peter's dream to invest in entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial activities dedicated to improving the world. It offers an alternative to the traditional VC investment model by concentrating on in-kind assistance. Their current portfolio includes companies dedicated to autism and neurodevelopment disorders, ocular diagnostics, cancer detection, machine learning software, and intelligent water management networks.
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Peter Tchoryk: An Entrepreneurial CEO – EECS Website, 2014
Thomas J. Treutler (BSE CE '90) was named a Leading Lawyer in Intellectual Property Law in Vietnam by the legal industry publication Chambers Asia for the second consecutive year. Treutler is a Senior Associate in the Hanoi Office of the law firm Tilleke & Gibbins. In 2009, Treutler and his wife Ngoc Thuy founded the Hanoi Little League, and led the first ever Vietnamese Little League team to the Asia-Pacific Little League Championship Tournament in Jakarta, Indonesia. It was the first time a Vietnamese baseball team had participated in an international level tournament at any level (see pictures at http://www.hanoibaseball.com). Treutler has been appointed District Administrator for Vietnam by Little League International. [EECS News 2009]
David P. Trumpy (BSE EE '99) works on a digital signal processing system for machinery vibration monitoring for the XM product line for Rockwell Automation. The system won some prestigious awards, including the Industry Week Technology of the Year and Control Engineering 2002 Editors' Choice Award. Click on www.rockwellautomation.com. [EECS News 2003]
Jean [Hwang] Verheyden (BSE EE '91) works in Bend, Oregon, as an otolaryngologist. She is married to James Verheyden and is mother to James (7), Elizabeth (5) and Eric (2). [EECS News Fall/Winter 2008]
Carl T. Wahl (BSE CE '99) is in his third year of service with the United States Peace Corps in the Republic of Zambia. He served from April 2004 to December 2005 in Kelongwa Village, Kasempa District, Northwestern Province as a Community Health Extension volunteer. From January to April 2005, he was the technical coordinator for the training of the 2006 class of Health volunteers. Since April, he has served as Volunteer Leader for Central and Copperbelt provinces, with a base of operations in Serenje. Carl welcomes any questions about the Peace Corps, or Zambia, and says:
Tuyenga BLUE! (Kikaonde)
Tuleya BLUE! (iChiBemba)
GO BLUE! (ichiZungu/English)
[EECS News Fall/Winter 2006]
Khurt L. Williams (MSE EE:S '94) started his own IT consulting company in Princeton, NJ, in January 2000. He is married (1996) with a son (Shaan, almost four), and daughter (Kiran, two). [EECS News 2003]
Nick N. Yang (BSE EE '97) works as an investor, and has a long history as a successful entrepreneur. He was the founder and first president of the China Leading Young Angel Investor Association. Yang co-founded the KongZhong Corporation, and served as Vice Chairman of its Board of Directors. He also co-founded the successful company ChinaRen Inc. He received the College of Engineering Alumni Society Recent Engineering Graduate Award in 2010.
Nick Yang: "Pirate-Entrepreneur" – Michigan Engineer, Spring 2010
Nick Yang: Investing in the Age of Robotics – EECS Website, December 2014


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Joseph-Beth Booksellers is the latest bookstore to experiment with a pop-up location, in this case a month-long Joseph-Beth Express at the largest independent grocer in Cincinnati, Jungle Jim's International Market Eastgate. "We'll always test things and see where there's stickiness," said Joseph-Beth CEO and president Mark Wilson. It took the retailer two days to set up the fixturing and inventory for its first 1,000 sq. ft. Joseph-Beth Express store, which holds roughly 3,500 units. All sales are rung through Joseph-Beth's own cloud-based POS system inside the store.
"For us, it's all about engaging with the community," says Wilson, who is also looking to bring in more kids to the main Cincinnati store. The city serves as the mini-chain's headquarters. More than half of the pop-up's inventory is dedicated to children's books, particularly those priced at $12 or less, with another 25% adult titles and 20% sidelines.
To draw families to the pop-up, Joseph-Beth signed up 22 schools in the Cincinnati market and gave out vouchers for the kids to redeem. Those shopping with the vouchers have 20% of the revenue go back to their schools.
It's too soon to tell how the pop-up is doing; it opened on May 3 and will remain open until June 2. If it's successful, Wilson hopes to expand the concept.

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The Wall Street Journal devotes considerable inches today to covering Google's expansion in New York City. In 2011, the tech giant added about 750 employees to its Chelsea outpost, bringing the total number of employees here up to 2,750.
About half of those new staffers are from acquisitions. Google acquired four companies, also in New York City, last year.
While the company overall grew 33 percent from 2010 to 2011, Googleplex East expanded by 38 percent. The Journal called it, "the most prominent example of a technology company shifting its focus toward New York. "
It reminds us of what one former city official said after Facebook's big presser about vague plans to start an engineering hub in New York. "Thank you? I guess," said the source, contrasting it with Google who just "all of a sudden had 1,400 engineers."
Twenty percent of the new hires were in sales, 20 percent are engineering hires, and 10 percent are in administrative and HR roles. Although proximity to Madison Avenue obviously drives the advertising focus, a number of tech initiatives are also run in New York, like building new features for Google Docs:
New York is one of the two important sites in speech recognition, such as voice search on Android phones, and natural language processing. Engineers are also plugging away at local search, such as using a map on a mobile device to find something where the location is relevant, like a restaurant, Mr. Spector says. To boost those focuses, Google also acquired restaurant reviewer Zagat and licensing and royalty service provider Rights Flow in 2011.
Google's New York office also plays a role is creating a platform for online ads, especially display ads. Various reports cite the industry running between $10 billion and $30 billion but Mr. Bender said it can be "much, much bigger than that," estimating $200 billion.
The company has also started making nice with the locals by donating "large sums" to New York City colleges and donating space to community organizations. Betabeat also heard Google is in negotiations to figure out how to contribute to the new software engineering high school in Union Square.


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Study rebuts negative reputation of 'No Child Left Behind'
The public perception that No Child Left Behind has increased burnout and lowered job satisfaction among teachers is unfounded, according to a recent study co-authored by UT Dallas researcher Dr. James R. Harrington.
The study, which was published online in Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Educational Research Association, found that, overall, the accountability pressures of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) did not have much of an impact on teachers' job satisfaction or commitment to the profession.
NCLB is the latest version of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, a federal law authorizing spending on programs to support K-12 education. It includes requirements for testing, accountability and school improvements.
Harrington, an assistant professor of public affairs, said NCLB has been in effect for more than 10 years, and prior research on the program mostly has focused on student achievement.
"There is this anecdotal evidence and conventional wisdom about NCLB—people believe accountability makes teachers more miserable," he said. "We hear that it creates a negative environment for teachers—it forces them to stay on very strict curricula and reduces a lot of autonomy, as teachers worry less about their profession as a whole and worry more about meeting benchmarks on the exam."
The research team, which also included Dr. Jason A. Grissom of Vanderbilt University and Dr. Sean Nicholson-Crotty of Indiana University, used a nationally representative sample of 140,000 teachers from multiple waves of the National Center for Education Statistics' Schools and Staffing Survey from 1994 to 2008. Documenting overall trends in teacher attitudes, they considered the impact of NCLB on teachers' job demands, perceived autonomy and administrator support.
Harrington said the study helps shed light on NCLB and its impacts—both positive and negative.
"We do find that teachers after NCLB felt like they had more autonomy at work and more control, which is kind of backward to what we hear when we think about 'teach to the test,' " he said. "We also see that teachers feel more supported by administrators.
"On the other hand, we see that there are more demands. Teachers are working longer hours after NCLB. There is also some evidence that the accountability pressures reduced feelings of cooperation among teachers."
Harrington said the researchers were surprised to find that NCLB did not have a negative effect on satisfaction or commitment.
In fact, the percentage of teachers who said they intended to remain in the profession until retirement increased to 77 percent in 2008 from 65 percent in 1994.
"As we're going through the reauthorization of NCLB and having policy debates on how accountability should work, policymakers should take into account the full information on how accountability programs have affected job attitudes and work environments, and retool NCLB to be even more effective than it has been," he said.
Harrington also said that future research is needed to answer questions regarding accountability in other environments, such as in higher education and local and state government.
Harrington, who specializes in the intersection between education policy and management, is already investigating further. Two of his current projects explore how NCLB affects decision-making and data usage and how the program has influenced the distribution of teachers across their school districts.
"Everybody supports accountability at some level because we want to hold people accountable for their performances," Harrington said. "However, we don't know much about accountability systems' effects on attitudes, work environments or outcomes. I think there's a lot more we need to learn to effectively implement accountability in the government."


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by Zoe Blutstein, sports information student assistant
>>>Full Team
AUGUSTA, Ga. – Sophomores Ryan Blumenthal (Kennesaw, Ga.), Robert Armstrong (Norcross, Ga.) and Alex Reid (Savannah, Ga.) of the Georgia College men's basketball team (9-14, 5-11 PBC) were named to the 2013-14 Peach Belt Conference All-Academic Team.
Blumenthal holds a 3.42 GPA as a marketing major, starting 20 games this season and averaging 12.2 points per game. Armstrong, a management major, holds a 3.44 GPA starting nine of the 20 games he played, and averaging 5.2 points per game. Alex Reid, a Math major, holds a 3.31 GPA playing in 19 games this season.
The trio gives GC men's basketball nine honorees to the team in the six seasons it has been awarded. The most recent honoree was in the 2010-11 season, as Josh Hurst (2007-11) took a spot on the team for the third time in his career.
The team participates in the season-long program that recognizes student athletes for their excellence on the court as well as in the classroom. To be eligible for the All-Academic team, the athlete must 1) participate in at least half of his/her team's events and be either a starter or significant contributor; 2) achieved a 3.30 cumulative grade point average (on a 4.0 scale) and 3) completed at least one full academic year at his or her current institution.
The Bobcats are back in action Saturday, Feb. 22 at 4:30 p.m. traveling to No. 16 University of Montevallo.
The Georgia College Department of Athletics, two-time winners of the PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 11 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Bobcat Athletics prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the teams' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at @GCBobcats on Twitter and Facebook for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit GCBobcats.PhotoReflect.com to purchase photo prints from home athletic contests.


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SADD National Leadership Opportunities
Student Leadership Council (SLC) and College Advisory Council (CAC)
These two leadership councils play a major role in the nationwide success of SADD. Student members work directly with the national staff on new and continuing projects, while maintaining active leadership roles within their own local chapters. Members of both councils are often called upon to travel to conferences, media events and task force meetings to represent the national organization. Without exception, the members of the SLC and CAC are accomplished individuals who have demonstrated their commitment by reaching out to peers, friends, and younger students through SADD and other peer-support programs. Members are individuals who exemplify the SADD model of empowerment and caregiving through involvement in community service, especially in projects relating to substance abuse prevention, traffic safety, and personal health and safety.
In addition to establishing national representation for SADD, their goals include creating a system of grassroots communication to supply information to new and existing chapters and making recommendations to the SADD National Board of Directors for priorities and issues. Members are actively involved in planning, implementing, and evaluating the annual SADD National Conference and have the opportunity to present workshops at the conference.
SLC and CAC members serve one-year terms and are chosen through a competitive application process. Applications for the 2019-20 school year will be available in December 2019. If you would like to learn more about these leadership opportunities, contact us today.


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Community Profile
Marshfield is located in both Wood County & Marathon County, Wisconsin.
Population: 19,451 - as of January 1, 2010.
The Cities of Marshfield & Wisconsin Rapids of Wood County were ranked 14th in America, 3rd in the Midwest and 1st in Wisconsin as best cities to live in. Marshfield is also ranked as the 8th best "Dream City" in America.
We offer you, our citizen or visitor, a safe, clean community with abundant parks, numerous attractions and a world-class health care facility. We're proud of Marshfield, and pleased to have you as our guest.
Marshfield is proud to be considered "Best Place to Live in Wisconsin and Eighth Best Place to Live in America" according to Bizjournals.com. Demographics Daily selected Marshfield based upon such criteria as its excellent health care, schools, supply of good jobs, and small-town character. Other qualities considered were Vitality, Connection to Cultural Mainstream, and Low Cost of Living. Thanks to the world-class care provided by Marshfield Clinic and Marshfield Medical Center, our community actually ranked in the top 10 for health care. Marshfield was also in the top 50 for the education and freedom from stress categories.
Out of all cities considered, only 141 of them attained "Dream Town" status. Of the 12 Wisconsin cities which were dubbed "Dream Towns", only Marshfield was in the top 10. "Millions who live in big cities or suburbs dream of getting out," said G. Scott Thomas, editor of Demographics Daily, "Our goal is to provide them a list of small cities that offer relief from metropolitan hassles and Marshfield is definitely on that list." "Their quality of life is excellent and they are safe, low-stress alternatives to congested big cities and sprawling suburbs."
These are only a few of the qualities which make our community a great place to call home. Please browse our site and explore our other links such as the Marshfield Area Chamber of Commerce and Industry to learn why you will want to be a part of our community.


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By Richard Denning
I am delighted to be a guest on Lovely Old Tree. I am a Young adult sci-fi, historical fiction and historical fantasy writer. This post is part of a blog tour celebrating the release of my historical fantasy novel, The Last Seal. The Last Seal is set during the Great Fire of London in 1666. So it was suggested that I write a post about what a visitor to the capital would see if they went on a tour in that summer of 1666.
London was originally a Roman settlement at a convenient crossing point over the Thames. Indeed London Bridge in its various incarnations has been built on the same spot by Romans, Saxons, Vikings and as far forward as the modern age. The Roman walls were later the sites of medieval city walls that defined the city's boundaries for centuries. Places like Westminster and Holborn were separate towns and villages. Gradually, however, the population grew and spilled out of the city, merging with these satellite villages until by 1666 it had reached Westminster around the bend of the Thames.
If you had been used to country villages and small market towns then visiting London would have opened your eyes. In today's terms the city was not large. It population was in the order of 350,000 to 400,000 or so which is only the same as say modern day Coventry but that still made it the largest by a long way in England at that time and the third largest in the world after Paris and Constantinople. Most of these people lived outside the old city of London in the suburbs but around 80,000 resided within the old Roman and mediaeval city walls.
Within those walls there existed something of the order of 14,000 houses, 100 parish churches, 50 Company or Guild Halls, the Royal Exchange, the Custom House, St. Paul's Cathedral, the Bridewell Palace, Newgate and other City prisons, the General Letter Office, and seven city gates and the great bridge itself of course.
Entering the city via that bridge would have left an impression both wonderful and gruesome such as recorded in 1598 by a German visitor to London:
On the south is a bridge of stone eight hundred feet in length, of wonderful work; it is supported upon twenty piers of square stone, sixty feet high and thirty broad, joined by arches of about twenty feet diameter. The whole is covered on each side with houses so disposed as to have the appearance of a continued street, not at all of a bridge.
Upon this is built a tower, on whose top the heads of such as have been executed for high treason are placed on iron spikes: we counted above thirty…
Fortunately during the reign of Charles II this practice died out. Nevertheless the sight of 200 and more shops perched on the bridge would have been something to see. It is estimated that as many as 4000 would have lived on the bridge alone.
Once in the streets of London however some visitors were less than impressed, with John Evelyn – a contemporary of the famous diarist Samuel Pepys complaining that London was a "wooden, Northern, inartificial congestion of houses'
This description is not that far wrong. For the City was an overcrowded warren of narrow, winding, cobbled alleys lined with towering tenements maybe 7 stories tall, huge warehouses and hundreds of places of work – foundries, butchers shops and chandlers. In some cases the buildings leant so far forward as to meet the houses opposite them. Most houses were wood and thatch and very few were made from stone. Moving around the city would have been difficult enough with the dense population doing battle with the crush of carts and hackney carriages in an age with no traffic control.
London was the largest consumer of goods in the nation as well as the largest producer and was above all a thriving trade hub. There were several markets around the city and dozens of areas of commerce but the focal point for merchants was the great Royal Exchange at Cornhill where traders from around the world would trade goods from as far away as the far east – James I having established trading links with Japan. The population in general would be more interested in the heaving markets along Cheapside with its meat and other goods or the fish markets at Billingsgate or maybe trinkets and sweets from Westminster Hall. The noise from the population and all the traders calling out their wares must have been a din.
Many of the goods on sale were made in hundreds of locations around the city. Right there in the same streets that people lived and walked, animals would be slaughtered and their blood drain down to the river. Their hides would be cured in cauldrons of urine collected from all over the city with the fumes belching out to mix with the smoke from foundries and the stench from vats where carcasses were being rendered into glue and candle wax. The stench must have been incredible.
The people of London would have several concerns other than day to day existence. The nation was at war with the French and Dutch and there was a lot of anxiety about foreign spies. At the same time there was worry about plots by both Catholics wishing to make England "papist" and republicans looking to overthrow the King. Superstition was rife. It had not escaped notice that the year -1666 – contained the number 666 which had biblical significance. Indeed that and such omens as eclipses and comets had more than a few people convinced that they were living in the last years and God's judgement was at hand.
A visitor to the city would have been aware that it was still suffering from the effects of the great plague of 1665 to 66 which had killed 1 in 4 Londoners. At its height in the summer of 1665 1000 people a day were dying and even in September 1666 the plague had not died out. Indeed it is believed that it took a disaster of epic proportions to finally destroy the thousands of rats that carried the fleas which were the host of the contagion. It took the Great Fire of London.
London was a city which was extremely vulnerable to fire. This was due to the cramped buildings made of wood, warehouses full of combustibles which increased the fire risk and huge stocks of gunpowder, much of which was left over from the English Civil War. It really was only a matter of time before a fire started – and then a disaster would occur.
So there we have it – London in 1666: a heaving congested warren of wooden houses. A thriving metropolis. Loud, smelly and busy and just a little bit paranoid and waiting for the great fire that would rip out its heart. It is this city in which my novel is set – a novel of gunpowder and sorcery in 1666!
To read the first part of The Last Seal visit my website.
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The Last Seal is a young adult historical fantasy novel set during the Great Fire of London and is part of the Praesidium series by Richard Denning. When it comes to reviewing new books, I certainly can't claim to be a connoisseur of fantasy fiction, but what really interested me about this book, and the reason I was asked to review it, was the historical element. So my aim is to look at it from a historical perspective and judge how well it makes history exciting and accessible – the main aim of Lovely Old Tree! And in short: The Last Seal does this very well.
The plot follows the fortunes of Ben, a schoolboy at Westminster, who having lost his parents in a fire, feels depressed, lost and intent on escaping the tedium of school life. He does this by playing truant and wandering off into the hustle and bustle of 17th century London and this action, which appears unimportant, catapults him into a terrifying and exciting adventure.
He meets Gabriel, a bookseller with a more thrilling job as member of the Praesidium; Tobias, a doctor with a score to settle; and Freya, an orphan thief with more intelligence than the other three put together. This group of very different people soon find that they are immersed in a battle between the Praesidium and the Liberati and have to risk their lives to save London, and the world, from the release of the evil demon Dantalion. And Ben finds that his role in history is far larger than he ever thought possible.
Now, I have a notoriously short attention span when it comes to novels and it takes a lot to really keep me engaged, but I honestly found it hard to put this book down. The pace of the story is perfect. The characters are introduced at the right rate so that you really get to know them and care about them. The excitement and tension of the plot rises incrementally throughout so that you really cannot wait to turn the page and find out what happens next.
The characters are also very well presented and described – and they are likeable, which I consider to be a very important factor. They are also very different people, thrown together by circumstances and therefore they give us a very interesting rounded picture of the people of 17th century London. They are varied by gender, class, age and background, therefore the interactions and tensions between them (for example between Tobias and Freya) keep the story stimulating.
Additionally the characters have their flaws and secrets that keep them from becoming stereotypes. Ben does not fall into the trap of being the standard poor orphaned hero; neither does Gabriel become the wise benevolent wizard. Through a combination of guilty secrets, childish anger, self-interest, greed and stupid mistakes, all of the characters are convincing and engaging and develop naturally throughout the story.
Now it might sound from the plot that the book is mostly fantasy with little history involved, and I must say that I did worry about this. The first chapter is set in 1380 with the first attempt to release the demon and although it is exciting, it focuses on the battle and the magic spells. However my fears were soon laid to rest when I got into the main plot as the historical detail is really fascinating. Denning weaves the true story of the Great Fire of London into the plot so that, despite the magic, the story is believable, which is a very difficult thing to achieve. The path of the fire, the number of days it lasted, the buildings it destroyed and the things people really said and did all fit into the story of The Last Seal. The fact that the Praesidium and the Liberati are secret societies (so the public would never have known what happened during the fire) means that, as far as I'm concerned, the story of Dantalion, Ben, Freya, Tobias and Gabriel could be true!
One of my favourite things about the book is the description of 17th century London. The Royal Exchange, St Paul's Cathedral and London Bridge are described in such detail that it really transports you to what it would have been like at the time. I love the way London locations keep being mentioned, helping me to reimagine places I know back in time. Old London Bridge:
Made of stone, with a dozen and more arches, it was impressive enough, but upon it an entire town had been built. Dozens of houses, shops and taverns of timber and stone crammed upon either side and soared three or more stories high. At either end was a fortress-like gatehouse that was locked at dusk and opened each dawn. The southern gate bore a grizzly display of the severed heads of more than a dozen criminals and traitors which, after their execution, were impaled on spikes as a warning to all who saw them.
The most successful thing about the inclusion of this historical description is that is does not read like 17th century London is a foreign country. The description does not treat the vast differences between historical London and present-day London with awe or surprise. The city is described as though by Ben or another contemporary and this really makes the history come alive as the reader feels a connection with London whichever era it is in.
The book is aimed at young adults, so is an easy read, but personally I quite like that factor. Ben and Freya are both young people and I often find superfluous language irritating in stories that are meant to be exciting adventures. With that audience target, you may occasionally find that the passages where characters have to explain their backstory or the backstory of the secret societies can be a little jarring and deliberate. However I would say that this is a common problem in plots where centuries of backstory play a key role.
I did thoroughly enjoy this book but I would say it is not for everyone. The historical elements are certainly strong enough to interest a history fan like me, but you really do have to be prepared to suspend disbelief and accept the magic and fantasy in order to fully immerse yourself in the book. I'm only able to do this because I allow myself to accept the premise that this story could be the truth behind the Great Fire of London.
In this way then, The Last Seal is not like other historical fiction as the fantasy element is very strong, but if you enjoy both then it is a brilliant read. I would definitely recommend this book, particularly for those interested in getting a good overview of 17th century London, in an entertaining way.
The new 2nd edition paperback is now available with a new cover design. You can also read the first three chapters free here.
About the author:
Richard Denning was born in Ilkeston in Derbyshire and lives in Sutton Coldfield in the West Midlands, UK, where he works as a General Practitioner (family doctor). He is married and has two children. He has always been fascinated by historical settings as well as horror and fantasy. Other than writing, his main interests are games of all types. He is the designer of a board game based on the Great Fire of London.


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SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. - The second-ranked Santa Clara University women's soccer team opened the 2004 season with a 2-2 tie with No. 22 Cal Poly tonight at Mustang Stadium. It marked the second straight double-overtime season opener for the Broncos, who battled UCLA to a 1-1 tie in 2003. Tonight's contest was also the season opener for Cal Poly, who drew a record crowd of 2,299 fans.
Sharon Day gave Cal Poly a 1-0 lead with an unassisted goal in the 25th minute. Santa Clara answered just two minutes later on a goal by senior forward Megan Kakadelas.
Cal Poly regained the lead early in the second half, as Katie Collins scored a goal off an assist from Heather Bryan. Again Santa Clara answered quickly, as senior midfielder Leslie Osborne scored in the 52nd minute off an assist from sophomore Tina Estrada.
Neither team could score in the final 38 minutes of regulation as well as two 10-minute overtime periods.
The tie was the third in the 14-game series between the two schools. Santa Clara has won all of the other 11 matches.
Day's goal was Cal Poly's first against the Broncos since the 2000 season. Santa Clara posted shutout victories each of the last three seasons and beat the Mustangs 3-1 in the opening round of the 2000 NCAA playoffs.
Santa Clara out-shot Cal Poly 27-17 and the Mustangs committed 25 fouls, 14 more than the visiting Broncos.
Mustang goalkeeper Liz Hill recorded 11 saves while senior Alyssa Sobolik had nine for the Broncos.
The attendance exceeded the single-game Cal Poly record of 2,116 set in the Mustang vs. UC Santa Barbara match on Nov. 3, 2000.
Santa Clara returns to action next weekend in South Bend, Ind., participating in Notre Dame's annual tournament. The Broncos will take on SMU on Friday, Sept. 3, at 3 p.m., and then play the host Fighting Irish Sunday morning at 11:30 a.m.


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Attempt to Send North Korea Deeper Into Isolation
A month after North Korea fired off a nuclear weapons test, China and the U.S. reached a deal on a set of sanctions to be announced at a U.N. Security Council meeting. The WSJ's Alastair Gale explains what this means for North Korea's relations with China.
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Maybe she had a stomach bug? Maybe she was tired of all the 40-all scores? Whatever the reason, Woz laid a stinker on the court at the French Open today and was ousted by Estonian Kaia Kanepi, 6-1, 6-7 (3-7) 6-3.
The former Number 1 was not her usual mellow self, instead she blamed the officiating for her journey down.
The former top-ranked Dane argued several line calls in the match, including a ball that was judged to have hit the baseline early in the second set.
"It's a disgrace that mistakes like this are made," Wozniacki said. "It wasn't even like, 'Could have been in, could have been out.' It was clearly out."
It's understandable that she's frustrated, athletes routinely put their bodies through tremendous strain for glory—it's frustrating when it doesn't work out.
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Ousted Wozniacki calls French Open officiating a disgrace [USA Today]


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Nearly nine years after Dwayne Johnson left WWE and retired "the Rock" name to make movies, the former wrestler is bucking the conventional trajectory for thesps by returning to the ring just as his film career is hitting new heights.
Johnson's co-starring role in last year's "Fast Five" helped make the actioner the top-grossing entry in Universal's "Fast and the Furious" franchise. He headlines New Line's "Journey 2: The Mysterious Island," which has outgrossed "Journey to the Center of the Earth" since its release last month, opening doors for a third. This summer, Johnson takes over Paramount's "G.I. Joe." And he just signed to star in Brett Ratner's "Hercules: The Thracian Wars," which Johnson shoots after wrapping Michael Bay's comedy "Pain and Gain," Dito Montiel's heist pic "Empire State" and "Fast Six."
All of this comes as WWE is celebrating the return of the Rock, Johnson's grappler alter ego. Johnson headlines the main match at "WrestleMania 28," in Miami, on Sunday — a homecoming that both the company and Johnson have loudly promoted on everything from TV to Twitter since his involvement was first announced a year ago after he hosted "WrestleMania 27" in Atlanta.
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At a time when new actors are thrust into the spotlight and turned into stars overnight or sent packing after a handful of films fail to perform, Johnson is trying to manage his longevity by changing how he oversees his career with his ex-wife Dany Garcia and a newly formed team of reps that include WME, business manager Howard Altman and PR firm Rogers and Cowan.
For WWE, having the Rock back in the ring for its most high-profile pay-per-view event is an incentive for fans to shell out as much as $60 for the three-hour show. WWE hopes the event will top the 1 million sales mark, a benchmark it has reached just seven times, including last year.
In addition to personal appearances on WWE's "Monday Night Raw" for five weeks in various cities around the country, Johnson's been hyping his return to "WrestleMania" on the talkshow circuit while promoting his pics. He's also the focus of WWE's one-hour special "Once in a Lifetime — Rock vs. Cena," which NBCUniversal will air tonight on USA Network and on 11 of the conglom's other channels leading up to Sunday's PPV event.
When Johnson left WWE in 2003 (after a small role in "The Mummy Returns" led to "The Scorpion King"), he was flooded with advice, which included slimming down to look more like a traditional Hollywood leading man, and dropping the Rock nickname because it was considered a stigma from the WWE days.
Johnson struggled with "the adjustment of leaving something where you are so successful to start in an industry where there are raised eyebrows to who you are," Garcia said. She operated her own wealth management business in Miami before handling Johnson's career full time after their divorce as "the manager and CEO of Team Rock," while Johnson serves as "chairman of the board," she said.
After taking on starring roles in mid-budgeted actioners like "The Rundown" and family fare like Disney's "Race to Witch Mountain," as well as supporting roles in comedies like "The Other Guys" and "Get Smart," to hone his acting skills, Johnson "wanted more," he told Variety.
"I didn't have a lot of choices when I first started acting," he said. "I was grateful for the projects that were coming in, but they were all action ('The Mummy Returns,' 'The Rundown,' 'Doom')." It took five films before he got his chance at comedy with MGM's "Be Cool," which helped transition him into the family genre, including Fox's "Tooth Fairy." "I was hoping I could do these action movies and do well enough where I could get more opportunities (in other genres). I knew doing action would get old for me."
Yet it was action that led to his most recent success.
Starting with CBS Films' gritty R-rated actioner "Faster" in 2010, the bulk was back. In February 2011, the Rock officially returned to WWE. "It's a nickname he can't get away from," Garcia said. "It's a great nickname he wanted to embrace."
The new career strategy was "less about how do we fit in and change in order to fit in with Hollywood and more about this is who we are and let's go after what we want," Garcia said. "He said, 'I'm going to let Hollywood make space for me.' It drives all of our decisionmaking."
Johnson and Garcia consider "Faster" important because it was a departure for the actor. Though the film earned just $23 million Stateside, "It was indicative of a switch," Garcia said. "He was a much bigger man; his head was shaved. It was a visual image of an internal decision to go in a different direction."
What Garcia calls "a gamble" has since paid off with a string of offers to star in a number of big-budget studio tentpoles.
Johnson credits much of the success to lessons he learned while at WWE: listening to his audience in and out of the ring. "When you strip away all parts of the business, it all comes down to entertaining the audience," he said. "It became part of my DNA. Every night I would go out and talk to the audience and listen to them. When you listen, the audience will tell you where they want to go."
Johnson knew that with little acting experience, it would take time to land more expensive studio projects.
"I knew it would take some convincing to get studios to invest in me," he said. "Through small steps we were able to accomplish big things throughout the years. But a point came a few years ago that I felt there were bigger movies to be made that entertained a much bigger audience than I was entertaining."
Johnson's next move with Garcia will be to develop film and TV projects they want to produce through their 7 Bucks Entertainment shingle.
"It's a nice next step for us," Garcia said. "We've gotten more serious about it in the last year." "Producing is something I've wanted to do for a long time," Johnson added. "I felt like now the time was right."
But first, there's the return of the Rock.
The reunion with the WWE falls in line with Johnson's desire to help make something "bigger and better and make a large impact for an industry that helped raise him," Garcia said.
"I'm back for no other reason than to entertain the fans that had been so good to me over the years," Johnson added. "It's not about the dollar. I've been very fortunate. When you go out there and you perform, it becomes really magical. So to be able to go back and create the biggest match of all time for them means the world to me. I took the biggest risk of my life by leaving WWE when I was on top. To be able to go back means the world to me."
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The 15 films Dwayne Johnson has starred or appeared in have earned $2.2 billion worldwide to date since 2001.
Following are the top five moneymakers globally:
1. Fast Five (U) $626 million
2. The Mummy Returns (U) $433 million
3. Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (WB) $304 million
4. Get Smart (WB) $231 million
5. The Other Guys (Sony) $170 million


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A new face is about to kick start your weekday mornings.
We're just one month away from Megyn Kelly's official debut as an NBC News anchor. And while the former Fox News host gears up for the new gig, her colleagues are embracing the familiar face with open arms.
On Monday, Hoda Kotb took to Twitter, where she snapped one of her many signature selfies with the new co-worker.
"Lookie who I ran into at @RockefellerFdn--our girl @megynkelly!" Kotb shared with her followers. "So happy to have you with us at NBC!! Let's have some fun xo."
One week ago Kelly announced on social media that she was starting a new chapter of her career as an anchor for NBC News.
"First day on the job @NBCNews!" she wrote while standing outside her new office in New York City. "On the air in June, but had so much fun meeting new colleagues today. Grateful. Happy."
Long before Kelly obtained her new employee badge, many of her morning show colleagues expressed excitement at the best-selling author's arrival.
"Big welcome to @megynkelly--awesome get for @NBCNews!!" Savannah Guthrie shared on Twitter back in January when the news was confirmed. "May I not be nine months pregnant in the next picture we take side-by-side!"
During a red carpet appearance, Matt Lauer also sang his praises for the veteran journalist.
"She's multitalented and would fit right in," he told Entertainment Tonight. "She's a remarkable broadcaster and journalist, a real force."
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The day's top national and international news.
According to an NBC News spokesperson, Kelly will have a Sunday night news show that will begin airing in June. She will also appear during the 9 a.m. hour of the "Today" show beginning in September.
And while the format and types of stories she will focus on remain tight-lip, her colleagues are looking forward to working with her.
"We are thrilled to have her. She is the full package," Guthrie recently shared with E! News. "She's super smart, she's incredibly accomplished. She is hilarious and she's just going to be a great colleague and we're really excited to have her. I think she is going to do great things for us."
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It could be the beginning of a new global pandemic. Leptospirosis is a bacterial disease spread from animals to humans through water contaminated by infected urine. In severe cases, it can lead to liver failure, kidney failure, meningitis and eventually death. While it's been contained historically through screening and antibiotics, medical researchers in Peru recently stumbled across a new species of Lepto so genetically mutated that current tests for the disease don't detect it.
Millions of humans are infected with Leptospirosis every year, and the new strain could be spreading without detection. If new strains are transmitted beyond the relatively isolated jungle area where they were found, a catastrophic global pandemic could result.
There is no vaccine for humans, and treatment usually requires multiple antibiotics. Joseph Vinetz, M.D. was studying Leptospirosis in the Amazon region of Peru on behalf of the UC San Diego Division of Infectious Diseases when he discovered several humans and rats carrying the new strain. Dr. Vinetz fears that Leptospira licerasiae may have infected hundreds of humans in the remote region. Photo by: CDC.
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