I received a stellar number of responses to my call for updates, so thank you all! Let’s get to it:


On June 24 Peter Hill proposed to Evan Gray at the Myriad Botanical Gardens in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. At the end of the tour he surprised her with a letter and dropped to his knee. They plan to marry in June 2015.


Sarah Aronson started the medical scientist training program (M.D./Ph.D. program) at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, and she is focusing on schizophrenia research at the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center.


Melanie Guyer (Parnon) and husband Martin Guyer recently moved to Bloomington, Illinois, where Martin is working as a statistician at the State Farm headquarters.


After a year in San Diego working for the biotech company Illumina, Luisa Sperry returned to the East Coast to start medical school at Stony Brook University.


Christopher Rhoades moved to the San Francisco Bay Area and started working as a body systems engineer for Tesla Motors in June. Ali Oberg also moved to San Francisco to help open the first West Coast office of the Future Project. 


After finishing the first year of her presidential fellowship in finance and administration at the College, Jen Jaco decided to stay in Hanover as a second-year fellow.


Sophia Schwartz trained for freestyle skiing on the water ramps in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, this summer and headed to Chile in August to train on the snow.


Sam McPherson recently began work as a product development coordinator at a stationary company called Punch Studios in Culver City, California. Emily Blackmer moved to Truckee, California, for the next year or so, so get in touch if you’re in the area!


After completing his B.E. at the Thayer School of Engineering, Rajiv Raghavan started medical school at the Geisel School of Medicine.


Ashlee Roberson and Jennifer McGrew recently moved to Boston, where Ashlee is working in clinical research at Massachusetts General Hospital and Jennifer is pursuing her master’s in education at the Boston College Lynch School of Education.


This summer Max Hunter acted at the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival in Boscobel, New York, with roles in The Liar and Othello.


Kyle Lawson is living in New York City working as a web developer and consultant at Silverline, a Salesforce implementation consulting firm located in Union Square.


Clau Becerra started her Ph.D. in biomedical sciences at Columbia University last fall and was published for the first time in May in the journal Cancer Cell.


Alfredo Velasco is going to Duke University in the fall for a computer engineering PhD, and Robin Costello is going to University of Virginia for a Ph.D. in biology.


Both Maddie Lesser and Kristen Colwell are going to the University of California, Berkeley, for Ph.D.s in the fall—Maddie for English and Kristen for chemical engineering.


Joy Piotrowski moved from Taiwan, where she was teaching English, to Hawaii to start medical school at the University of Hawaii.


Jack Boger reported for active duty in the Marines at the Basic School in Quantico, Virgina, and Kate Sullivan just graduated from Basic School as a logistics officer. Kate will be stationed with the 1st Transport Support Battalion, Combat Logistics Regiment 1 at Camp Pendleton, California, after attending logistics school at Camp Johnson, North Carolina. Kate also ran in the Marine Corps Historic Half Marathon as the first active duty female and took fourth overall.


Blaine Johnson moved to Arlington, Virginia, for a summer internship at the Foreign Service Institute and then headed back to Shanghai to finish up her master’s in public management at Fudan University.


—Emily Fletcher, 545 North 70th St., Seattle, WA 98103; emilyefletcher@gmail.com