Joyce White Vance ’82

Paul Manafort’s day in court spells trouble for Trump — The Washington Post

In recent months, the news media have often turned to Joyce White Vance ’82 to explain legal maneuverings in the ongoing investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. elections.

Law professor and former U.S. attorney Joyce Vance ’82 speaks during a 2016 �ֲ���ý panel on criminal justice reform in Maine. (Phyllis Graber Jensen/�ֲ���ý College)

A contributor to MSNBC and quoted frequently in outlets like NBC News, The New York Times, and The Washington Post,�� Vance served as a U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama from 2009 to 2017 and is now a Distinguished Professor of the Practice of Law at Culverhouse School of Law at the University of Alabama. on March 21.

As Politico noted in a story last summer about , their job is to “try to bring sanity to the whirlwind of information” about various aspects of the Mueller probe.

Most recently, Vance has helped untangle issues raised by the news that former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort lied to prosecutors after his plea deal.

“The open question is whether Manafort was freelancing or whether others from the campaign were involved” in contacts with the Russians in 2016, Vance tells The Washington Post.

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Caroline Baumann ’87 and Erik Kondo ’87

Designing for Everyone — World Economic Forum Annual Meeting

Caroline Baumann ’87 is director of the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, in New York City, and she opened her presentation on inclusive design at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, by talking about her classmate Erik Kondo ’87.

In this excerpt from her address at the 2019 World Economic Forum talk, Caroline Baumann ’87 sends a message about inclusive design by sharing the example of her �ֲ���ý classmate Erik Kondo ’87.

Kondo has used a wheelchair since he was in a motorcycle accident as a �ֲ���ý student. A “keen” avid athlete before and after his accident, he participates in a range of sports, including snowboarding and martial arts, and he has also created an electric skateboard adapted for wheelchair users.

“He was not going to let this accident, or being in a wheelchair, restrict him,” said Baumann.

At the Lynch Family Skatepark in Boston, Erik Kondo ’87 rides an electric skateboard he designed. (Edward Boches)

Baumann used a quote from Kondo that urges designers to prioritize users’ agency as they create products for people with disabilities:

“We are the pilots, not the passengers.”

“Equal access is a human rights issue,” Baumann said. “Diversity is humanity’s greatest asset. But inclusion is our greatest challenge.”

• Watch Baumann’s talk: ,” weforum.org, Jan. 22, 2019

Alexandra Baldwin ’93

Alexandra Baldwin named Web.com Tour president — The Florida Times-Union

The Florida Times-Union reported that Alexandra Baldwin ’93 is the first woman to head a PGA Tour global circuit.

She was appointed president of the , a circuit of 27 tournaments that is the “primary path to PGA Tour membership,” wrote reporter Garry Smits. Baldwin was previously vice president of marketing partnerships at PGA Tour and has been a sports management executive for many years.

Baldwin told Smits she is excited to help up-and-coming golfers qualify for PGA Tour membership.

“I have an appreciation and understanding of the tremendous challenges they face on that journey,” she said. “I love working with people and developing relationships, and I think it’s important to listen to them about their goals and aspirations. There are some great success stories out there and we want to see more.”

• Read the story: “,” The Florida Times-Union, Jan. 30, 2019

Denali Nalamalapu ’17

What we take for granted —��Maine Sunday Telegram��

For “Meetinghouse,” the Maine Sunday Telegram’s monthly storytelling project, Denali Nalamalapu ’17 wrote about how living in Miri, Malaysia, on a Fulbright award changed her relationship with water.

Denali Nalamalapu ’17 teaches in Miri, Malaysia, as a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant. (Courtesy of Denali Nalamalapu)

A native of Falmouth, Maine, Nalamalapu grew up drinking water that “runs clear, cool and sweet from our well,” she wrote. In Miri, where the water is unsafe to drink, she first boiled tap water and then stocked up on filtered water in the city center; she never wasted a single glass.

“So often we take for granted that which is seemingly effortlessly present in our lives,” she wrote. “We forget to acknowledge the labor involved in maintaining that illusion.”

• Read the story: “” Maine Sunday Telegram, Feb. 7, 2019

Leigh Campbell ’64

Campbell elected to the Maine Basketball Hall of Fame — Maine media

The Maine media reported on the induction of Leigh Campbell ’64 into the Maine Basketball Hall of Fame coming up in August.

Entering the hall as one of this year’s seven “Legends of the Game,” Campbell was the official �ֲ���ý basketball scorer for nearly 50 years and was also the official scorer for the annual Maine high school basketball tournament for decades.

“Leigh Campbell represents the hundreds of unsung heroes that make basketball special in Maine,” the citation reads.

Revered at �ֲ���ý for supporting generations of students on financial aid, Campbell retired as director of financial aid at �ֲ���ý in 2007. He received the Helen A. Papaioanou ’49 Distinguished Alumni Service Award at Reunion in 2016.

• Read the story: “,” Sun Journal, Feb. 6, 2019

Ron Ward ’71

Ron Ward, Falmouth: Make a new plan, Stan — Maine Sunday Telegram

Ron Ward ’71 also contributed a personal essay to Meetinghouse, about how, when he was a �ֲ���ý sophomore, his father left the family, forcing Ward, his mother, and his three siblings to fend for themselves.

Ward wrote that family friends immediately stepped up, helping his 8-year-old sister and infant brother feel a sense of stability during a time of great and unexpected change.

“The enormous help and generosity from our friends, our town, my mother’s employer, my college, much of it spontaneous, were our keys,” Ward wrote.

“Mainers with no direct stake in this outcome allowed this result.”

• Read the story: “” Maine Sunday Telegram, Jan. 17, 2019

Don Dearborn

This bird attracts his Valentine with his heart-shaped red throat sac — Geek.com

It takes the great frigatebird about 15 to 30 minutes to inflate its throat sac. (Charles J. Sharp, Wikimedia Commons)

Geek.com writer Simone Scully turned to Professor of Biology Don Dearborn to explain how the great frigatebird uses a giant inflatable red throat sac to attract a mate.

“Lots of birds have colorful ornaments, which can be colored feathers or unfeathered, exposed patches of colored skin, but the inflatable aspect of the frigate throat is unusual,” Dearborn told Scully.

When the breeding season rolls around, the frigatebird “inflates this red throat pouch, often in groups with other males, while also quivering his wings, tilting his head back, and clattering his bill as he calls out to the females that circle above him,” Scully wrote.

• Read the story: “,” Geek.com, Feb. 13, 2019

Joshua Macht ’91

How the podcast juggernaut took off — The Boston Globe

For readers of The Boston Globe, Joshua Macht ’91 laid out the current landscape of podcasts, a storytelling medium that has seen explosive growth in the past five years.

“So often, technology and capitalism push us toward ever fancier stuff,” Macht wrote.

“Yet as we ponder how technology changes society, it’s easy to overlook how human beings affect technology. A new entertainment format takes off only when it fits easily into our lives.

“For the moment, audio — with its modest production values and small files that transfer efficiently even over 2013-era phone networks — is doing just that.”

• Read the story: ”,”��The Boston Globe,��Jan. 16, 2019

Liberal arts watch: Colleges appeal to students with ‘purposeful work’ — The Christian Science Monitor

�ֲ���ý’ signature Purposeful Work program was central to a in which reporter Noble Ingram explored how liberal arts colleges are changing the way they prepare students for lives of meaningful work.

These colleges disrupt “the older view of career planning and academic development as separate priorities,” Ingram wrote. “And unlike in the past, when the process was often relegated to upperclassmen, now students are exploring future aspirations from their very first moments on campus.”

Kasey Anderson ’20, who interned at McLean Hospital this summer, poses with supervisor Elena Chartoff and William Carlezon ’86. (Theophil Syslo/�ֲ���ý College)

�ֲ���ý is leading the way, with Practitioner-Taught Courses offered during Short Term, funding for summer internships, and a host of other programs that connect coursework and career preparation.

“It’s about bringing to consciousness in our students and in the broader public … the power of liberal arts in preparing students for life and work,” President Clayton Spencer told Ingram.

‘AeroStars’ shows students that the sky’s the limit — NBC Nightly News

As part of its “Inspiring America” series, NBC Nightly News�� with the AeroStars Aviation Institute to O’Hare International Airport in Chicago.

Michael Hogue ’20 takes off during a field trip to Chicago O’Hare International Airport. Hogue, a licensed pilot, is a graduate of and an instructor in AeroStar, a program that encourages young people to pursue careers in aviation. (NBC Nightly News)

On hand for the field trip was Michael Hogue ’20, an alum of the program that encourages African American youth to pursue careers in aviation. Hogue, who earned his pilot’s license in high school, is now an instructor in the program

Tammera Holmes, founder of AeroStar, said she was inspired to go into aviation when she rode in a plane with a chapter of the Tuskegee Airmen, an organization that honors the black military pilots who fought in World War II. Hogue is helping her “pass the torch” to the next generation of black pilots, she told NBC.

“Him being able to give back in the way that I gave back, in the way that the Tuskegee Airmen gave back to me, speaks directly to continuing the legacy,” Holmes told the network.

Ivy League schools tackling concerns over concussions with rules changes — WHDH-TV

Jonathan Hall ’83, a longtime reporter at Boston-based television station WHDH, , coauthored by classmate Carolyn Campbell-McGovern, that found that new Ivy League football rules have significantly reduced concussions.

In 2016, Ivy League schools began to move the kickoff line five yards up and eliminate tackling during practices. The changes were informed by years of research conducted by a research collaboration among Big Ten and Ivy League schools. (The NESCAC has also implemented rules changes, including moving up the kickoff line and treating fair catches made within the 25-yard line as touchbacks.)

The most recent study, published by the Journal of the American Medical Association,��

“It was striking that the 22 percent or so of concussions were coming from kickoff plays, but they represented only 6 percent of plays in a game,” Campbell-McGovern told Hall.

Hall knew that Campbell-McGovern, who is the Ivy League’s deputy executive director, was a solid source: He heard her present the concussion data at their 35th Reunion in June.

“Who knew my �ֲ���ý Reunion would land me a key source on an important story regarding the health of student athletes?” Hall said.

10 questions with Michelle Pham, growth strategist at Google — Women of Silicon Valley

Women of Silicon Valley, a publication on the Medium platform highlighting women and genderqueer people in tech, , an account manager for ecommerce and retail at Google.

Courtesy of Michelle Pham

Asked what makes her proudest, Pham said it was her education. A first-generation-to-college student, she had little idea how to apply for college. She decided to attend �ֲ���ý for the “path of adventure and growth.”

Education, Pham said, was her “passport to the world,” allowing her to give back.

“I’m able to give money to classrooms and causes in need,” she said. “I’m able to care not only for myself, but for others. I do my best to leave a positive impact on people and the world.”

How to own your success instead of cringing at it — Moneyish

Especially for women, it can be hard to take public pride in one’s accomplishments or accept praise. Moneyish , Rebecca Fraser-Thill, visiting lecturer in psychology and director of faculty engagement and outreach at �ֲ���ý’ Center for Purposeful Work, for advice on doing so.

Rebecca Fraser-Thill. (Phyllis Graber Jensen/�ֲ���ý College)

“There’s a big social stigma against a female in particular taking public pride in what she has created, in whatever form that is,” Fraser-Thill told reporter Meera Jagannathan. “…I think this is a lifelong struggle for most people, but especially for women.”

Among Fraser-Thill’s recommendations: learn to accept compliments, build your skills through courses or mentoring, watch tape of yourself speaking publicly in order to improve, celebrate with loved ones, and solicit feedback.

How Pete and Gerry’s Organic Eggs Scaled Without Sacrificing Values — Bloomberg TV

Bloomberg’s “Small to Big” feature , owner and CEO of Pete and Gerry’s Organic Eggs.

A third-generation egg farmer, LaFlamme brought his �ֲ���ý education back to the family farm after graduation and helped his parents transition to a relatively novel business model: contracting with farms around the country to supply organic and free-range eggs under the Pete and Gerry’s brand. The company’s flagship brand of eggs is now in 53 percent of the country’s grocery stores.

“We found farmers who were just interested in being farms and not marketers or processors or distributors of eggs,” LaFlamme said.

“It ended up being an incredibly mutually beneficial relationships with family farms.”

All in for Tim: Pioneering parents brought autism awareness, education to NH — The Telegraph

The Telegraph in Nashua, N.H. , who “paved the way for autism awareness and education in New Hampshire,” wrote reporter Adam Urquhart.

There were few services available when the Hacketts’ son Tim, who has autism, was born in 1967. Tim’s parents quickly got to work on making sure some were created — they went to conferences, advocated for services in public schools, and formed a New England chapter of the National Autism Society.

“When we started our organization, we had to beat the bushes to find six people in the state,” Louise Hackett said. “Now, we have like six people on our street. It’s grown since the start.”

The Hacketts recently received the Sandy Garrity Award from Gateway Community Services, a Nashua-based organization serving people with developmental disabilities. The couple has long been involved with the organization; the award is given to people who promote inclusion for people with disabilities.

Caroline Baumann ’87 is the director of Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. Photograph © by Erin Baiano.

The June appointment of Caroline Baumann ’87 as director of the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York, was noted by scores of media outlets, including The New York Times.

quotes Smithsonian secretary Wayne Clough, who praised Baumann for being “especially adept at forming substantive partnerships in New York, in Washington, across the nation and, indeed, around the world.”

Since joining Cooper-Hewitt in 2001, Baumann has held many leadership positions at the museum, most recently as acting director.

The Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum’s Object of the Day blog, brainchild of Caroline Baumann ’87, is the “best new blog in the design world,” writes New York Times style writer David Colman.

Baumann is the Cooper-Hewitt’s acting director.

The blog, writes Colman, is “curation in all its glory,” noting that recent entries have ranged from a Saul Bass movie poster, a 14th-century polka-dot silk-velvet fabric and modern Braille wallpaper.

He says that Baumann’s “enthusiasm for so many forms of design ingenuity, as well as the icebergian riches of the museum’s vast holdings” inspired the blog, which is researched, written and produced by museum curators.

“It was something I had been wanting to do for years and years, so I am thrilled,” Baumann tells Colman. “We have 25 centuries in our collection here.”