Mustafa Alimumal '15 graduated from Northwestern University at the end of the Fall 2018 term. He is working as a Strategy Analyst with Accenture in the Chicago office. Mustafa reports that he is excited about entering consulting, and he hopes to work on projects related to renewable energy, blockchain, and financial services.

Cassie is currently a senior at Smith College where she is majoring in biology. She is part of a group study at Smith that is researching forebrain development in zebrafish, specifically investigating the role of slit proteins and their robo receptors in the formation of the post optic commissure. (Zebrafish are a popular model for studying genetics and developmental biology.) Cassie tries to simplify this for us by explaining that basically, she is “looking at attractant and repellant proteins that direct axon growth to cross the brain at a specific location during neural development.” Her senior honors thesis will examine Slit proteins and their role in axon guidance during forebrain development using the zebrafish model system.

I recently graduated with a BS in Computer Science (emphasis in Data Science) from Colorado School of Mines and just moved back to Chicago to start working with ION Group as a developer on their trade processing platform!

Aaron Thomas '11 has a front row seat for the government shutdown. He's a Congressional aid to newly elected Congresswoman Chrissy Houlahan from the newly created 6th Congressional District in Pennsylvania! Looking good, Aaron!

Elizabeth Bowman '82 recently shared that after graduation from Loyola University, Chicago, she entered corporate America. She has worked for 20 years as an international project director for IBM in the business process improvement field.  Thanks for keeping in touch, Elizabeth!

Indira Henard '99 is the executive director of the DC Rape Crisis Center. She has been advocating for survivors of sexual violence for two decades, but this year she did so under the spotlight of the #MeToo movement. The Washington City Paper, a U.S. alternative weekly newspaper serving the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, recently recognized Indira's advocacy in its annual People Issue. Congratulations, Indira, on this worthy recognition.

Congratulations to Alex and Ashley Barnes ‘12 Walter on the birth of William Bryant Walter on September 14th. Will weighed 8 lbs. 5 oz and was 20.5 inches long. Grandmother is Caryl Stumpp ‘84 Barnes and aunt is Leslie Stumpp ‘89.

Congratulations to Daniel Basa ‘17 who will be studying abroad at Guanahacabibes National Park in Cuba this January! He will be studying Marine Biology research and learning about current research in Cuba while freediving and SCUBA diving. Daniel is a sophomore at Eckerd College in Florida.

Lauren Steimle ‘10 has been selected to receive the 2018 Judith Liebman Award at The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) Annual Meeting in Phoenix, AZ. The award is given for outstanding volunteerism. Congratulations, Lauren!

This weekend EA celebrated Homecoming with a parade, games, food, and fabulous festivities. We also celebrated our Alumni at Reunion. Thank you to all our alums that attended Homecoming and Reunion, it was wonderful to catch up with you and it was great to see you all reconnect.