alumni notes

May 31, 2018  Combining passions for climbing and research: Luke Timmerman at the top of the world. At 6:25 a.m. on May 22, an exultant Luke Timmerman (2005-06) reached the summit of Mount Everest.  After writing about advances in cancer research for 15 years, and climbing mountains almost that long, he decided to combine the […]

April 23, 2018  Ibiba DonPedro (2001-02), an award-winning journalist and activist in Nigeria, has just published four books on the country’s Niger Delta region. The books, she writes, “capture the different facets of the region’s tragic narrative, especially the discord and disruptive impact of the production of crude oil on the lives of the people […]

Rosalia Omungo (2016-17) has been promoted to managing editor/TV at KBC, Kenya’s national broadcasting system, putting her in charge of special projects, including health, environment, science, and features. “It is exciting as well as challenging,” she writes from Nairobi, “because of the perception that KBC has been biased towards government. But we are progressing. We […]

Yves Sciama on a reporting trip to Senegal. “A bunch of new things are happening to me,” writes Yves Sciama (2013-14) from just outside Grenoble, France, adding (with a wink emoji), “Some of them may actually have some influence on our beloved profession — which tends to be very nationally insular.” On Jan. 29, Yves […]

Jeanne Lenzer (2006-07) has been getting all sorts of attention for her new book “The Danger Within Us: America’s Untested, Unregulated Medical Device Industry and One Man’s Battle to Survive It.” You can hear her on NPR’s “Fresh Air“; read her scary essay “Can Your Hip Replacement Kill You?” in The New York Times; and […]