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Alumni Achievement Award winners announced
Sherrie Preische ’87 and Amanda Clark Fox ’67 were honored on Saturday, June 4, during Reunion.... READ MORE >>
International honors: Alumna named a British Academy Corresponding Fellow
Alice Harris was named a British Academy Fellow, one of more than 1,400 leading academics chosen for their contributions to subjects within the humanities and social sciences. She is among 30 Corresponding Fellows, the designation for those who don’t live in the U.K.... READ MORE >>
Anne Wilkes Tucker ’67 honored by Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain
Anne Wilkes Tucker ’67 recently received the Award for Curatorship and an honorary fellowship from the Royal Photographic Society (RPS) of Great Britain. Tucker, who is a trustee emerita for Randolph, was one of several renowned visual artists from around the world recognized at the RPS’s 2019 awards ceremony. The prestigious awards, which were established... READ MORE >>
VP of sustainability for The Cheesecake Factory shares expertise with students, offers internship opportunity
On Thursday, the Randolph community got the chance to hear about how cheesecake can be sustainable. Megan Bloomer ’06, the vice president of sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) for The Cheesecake Factory, shared her career experiences and offered advice to environmental studies and sciences students. She also provided information about a new remote internship... READ MORE >>
Helping students soar: Leah Helsel Hamilton ’16 teaches children on Air Force base in Japan
Since graduating from Randolph, Leah Helsel Hamilton ’16 has gotten married, moved four times, and worked two jobs in two different fields. For now, though, she and her husband Matthew, a fighter pilot in the United States Air Force, call Okinawa, Japan, home. Hamilton is working as an educational technician for the U.S. Air Force.... READ MORE >>
Alumna hired as Illinois governor’s chief of staff
Kristina Rasmussen ’04 was recently named chief of staff for Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner. Rasmussen previously served as president of the Illinois Policy Institute. She joined the policy institute in Springfield in 2009, following three years of work for the National Taxpayers Union in Washington, D.C., where she was director of governmental affairs. After earning... READ MORE >>
Studying Mars brings life to Randolph MAT graduate's science class at Forest Middle School
By Rachael Smith Reprinted from The News & Advance with permission (Caitlin Unterman ’12, earned her Master of Arts in Teaching degree from Randolph College in 2013) The knowledge of Mars for most eighth-graders is it’s a red planet with dirt on it. This is not the case for the eighth-grade students at Forest Middle... READ MORE >>
Alumna endows music scholarship to honor piano professor
Laura Geisel Sullivan, M.D. ’74 entered medical school at a time when there were few female physicians. And while she was a serious student of biology at Randolph-Macon Woman’s College, she also was a talented and dedicated student of piano. As an undergraduate, Sullivan remembers practicing the piano “every night after dinner until 10 p.m.,... READ MORE >>