News & Stories: Alumni

Associate Professor Wanless will direct the University Center for Social and Urban Research, which conducts research to improve communities.

Prestridge will focus on complex commercial litigation and construction disputes.

Rittmaster is a curator at the NC Maritime Museum and directs Bonehenge, an educational center specializing in whales.

Siwik, who has worked with Congress and Deloitte, plans to "return to the Alpine Investors family and help grow great companies."

Welch says, "critical thinking is an invaluable skill in marketing ¡­ and having endless curiosity, paired with determination and decisiveness."

The co-founder of I Know I Can, which has helped thousands of kids go to college, says higher education is a right everyone should have.

The festival features films made in Ohio and across the globe, including ±Ø²©ÓéÀÖ,±È²©ÓéÀÖÍøÖ· ######### cinema student Tyler Nguyen¡¯s short film, "Stuck in Frame."

Passaniti has produced 13 Super Bowl commercials in her career and two Emmy-nominated commercials while at Highdive, ranked #4 by AdAge in 2025.

In her appointment to a Seismic Therapeutics Advisory Board, Kahlenberg will advise on impactful new therapies for autoimmune diseases.

With 25 years in higher education advancement, Neal serves as VP for university advancement and executive director of the FAMU Foundation.

Pisola, who was director of investments at the Ohio Treasurer of State, had been a VP with the credit union service organization since 2019.

Poe, who studied the business side of filmmaking at ±Ø²©ÓéÀÖ,±È²©ÓéÀÖÍøÖ· #########, made the feature-length horror film, a nod to cult classic <em>Clue</em>, for about $10,000.

Jacobs, who founded and steered Coppermine Ventures into a profitable business with more than 20 facilities, will focus on developing a new business line.

Thompson, his twin brother Joshua, and vocalist Psywrn Simone share their journey into sound and pay tribute to Black music on their national tour.

Stoler was nominated as a 2022 ¡°Outstanding Emerging Visual Artist" and is represented by Anderson O'Brien Fine Arts in Omaha.

Ewing had screened more than 9000 films on the Cleveland Institute of Art campus since the repertory theater launched in 1986.

Morabito will work across capital markets, investment banking, institutional research, and sales and trading at the full-service investment firm.

At the Treasury, tax specialist Plowgian, then deputy assistant secretary for international tax affairs, served as a top US negotiator at the OECD.

Sethness ¡¯77, a leading labor and employment attorney, joins Seyfarth and Shaw LLP as a partner in the firm's Los Angeles office.

Moser will coordinate K-12 agencies across the state on social and emotional investments for students.

"Everwhen" earned a bronze medal by the Florida Book Awards. Anne Barngrover '08 is the director of Saint Leo's Master of Creative Writing Program.

Amanda Kasper, co-founder of Alpha Kilo, a cultural communications agency with Airbnb as a client, shares five ways to redefine success.

Congratulations to Dr. George Russell ¡¯88, the new chief of orthopaedic trauma at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.