Hope everyone had a great holiday season! Here are the last updates of 2011.


Two of our classmates made the Forbes’ “30 Under 30” lists. Marc Lajoie is featured in science for his research in genome engineering, and Joe Malchow is on the law and policy list as co-founder of Internet advertising firm Integer. Congratulations, guys!


Marissa Slany tells us that after living abroad for two years, she will be returning to the United States this summer. In her time abroad she joined the ranks of perpetual students, doing two master’s programs: an M.A. in the history of art at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London, followed by an M.B.A. at INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France. She’ll be returning to Chicago to work at McKinsey, and eventually combine her interests in business and art through a career in museum management. 


Whitney Norton just moved to Hermosa Beach, California, and is commuting to her new job in Studio City. She is working for NPO Solutions, a consulting firm founded by fellow alum Warren Riley ’66. She’s looking for a carpool lane buddy, so if anyone knows anyone with a similar commute let her know at whit.norton@gmail.com.


Timothy Chingos recently joined the Google Offers team with fellow Big Green alumni Nannan Hu ’06, Anthony Arch ’09 and Sydney Thomashow ’11. He reports that it’s a Dartmouth party!


James Marlow is still living in Beirut and looking for work in science or civil society.


Nick Ware is filming a fitness DVD featuring revolutionary Resistance Flexibility technology, and preparing to present his research that demonstrates Resistance Flexibility increases flexibility and athletic performance 10 times faster than any known modality at the 2012 International Fascia Congress in Vancouver. He also reports that he is looking forward to spending January on the beach and in the jungle on the Pacific coast of Costa Rica.


Jon Scherr would like ’08s to know that Blueprint Schools Network, the nonprofit he launched, is hiring. Contact him at jscherr@blueprintschools.org if you’d like to learn more.


After quitting Bain Leo Gong has founded a startup, www.heyawanna.com, which aims to be the site where people share event ideas and organize them. He is looking to launch exclusively in Dartmouth during the start of winter term and looking for developers and designers to join him.


Cyrus Tingley is working for a renewable energy development firm in Philadelphia, living just a block away from both Pete Roller and Lauren Bennett.


Ethan Handel moved to Brooklyn and got married in September to longtime girlfriend Morgan Seaman, with Adam Levine, Gregg Rubin, and Jenny Fisher in the wedding party. Plenty of other ’08s were there to party and celebrate as well!


Nick Ortiz would like to let all the ’08 men know that Emi Ito is officially off the market. Congratulations on your engagement!


Congratulations are also in order for Nicole Newman, who got engaged to her boyfriend Craig Kessler in November!


And a third ’08 woman off the market is Jamie Bergeson-Bradshaw, who got engaged to her boyfriend Jeff Lyon in December!


Finally, Anna Stork has designed an inflatable solar light and started a company called LuminAID. She raised $50,000 in an online campaign through indiegogo. Check it out at www.luminaidlab.com. 


As always, send any updates my way. Happy New Year!


—Yasmin Mandviwala, 6 Nollet Drive, Andover MA, 01810; yasminm@gmail.com