Happy spring, ’14s! This past December I took my first work trip for my new job to Miami for Art Basel Miami Beach. In addition to seeing art, I also ran into a few Dartmouth people randomly at the art fair. I bumped into a ’15, ran into classmates Rachel Decker-Sadowski and Nicole Chiavacci and hung out with Chisom Obi-Okoye! It’s wonderful how there’s always someone from Dartmouth nearby!

Kelly Wood feels similarly. She has been working as an education ranger in Everglades National Park. “I love that I can find Dartmouth people all over the country. During the summer season I worked in Yellowstone and was surprised to run into another Dartmouth alum atop a remote mountain!”

Kelsey Wheeler writes in, “I’m working in a cognitive neuroscience lab at Dartmouth (still). Shockingly, I’ve discovered a social world that exists south of Wheelock Street, and anybody who comes through Hanover should let me know they are in town!”

Yoo Jung Kim emailed in about What Every Science Student Should Know. According to Yoo Jung, this is “a book that I’ve been working on for the last four years with coauthors Justin Bauer ’12, Andy Zureick ’13, Daniel Lee ’13 and editor Christie Henry ’91. It will be published by the University of Chicago Press in May! It’s been an exciting ride and thanks to many ’14s for their input!”

Jennifer (Jenni) Gargano is back in the Upper Valley area, working as an assistant director of admissions. She says, “I’m excited to be back in Hanover helping to select the Dartmouth class of 2020!”

Phoebe Palmer reports, “I’m living in New York with classmate Carly Emmer and loving how many Dartmouth friends of all years I get to see here. I was lucky enough to visit Dartmouth this fall for several recruiting events and it was great to be back on campus.”

Alison Helzer says, “I am now working full-time in the developmental social neuroscience lab at the University of Oregon. I am the project coordinator of a three-year longitudinal study of 170 adolescent girls as they transition through puberty. The study will use behavioral, biological and neuroimaging components to examine how different elements of pubertal development co-vary with adolescent-emergent mental health problems, in particular symptoms of depression, anxiety and deliberate self-harm. My lab hopes to use this information to develop a set of mediation models addressing these pathways to adolescent mental health problems.”

Renee Lai is working in New York City as an implementation manager and loves living in the city! Amy Li is also in New York, working for a boutique consulting firm.

Email me with updates! Enjoy the spring!

—Jessica Womack, 11 West 53, New York, NY 10019; jrwomack1991@gmail.com