Class Note 2002
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July-August 2026
Class Note 2002. Hello, ’02s!
Summer is here and we are currently less than one year away from our 25th reunion (June 18-20, 2027)! Please mark your calendars and put in your PTO requests as we expect to see you there! Please contact us at dartmouth.class.of.2002@gmail.com to help with reunion planning—we need more volunteers to ensure our committee represents the broad spectrum of our class.
Roxanne Khamsi sent an update about her career and her new book that was recently published. (See in Editor’s Picks,’ page 52.) Roxanne is a contributing writer at The Atlantic and has written for The New York Times, Wired magazine, Scientific American, and The Economist. During the pandemic, she was the journalist who broke the news to the world that Covid-19 was airborne. At Dartmouth she was part of the first cohort of editors of The Dartmouth Undergraduate Journal of Science and then spent many years as a reporter-editor at the international research publication Nature magazine and its sister journal.
Roxanne added, “I studied biology at Dartmouth (with a concentration in genetics) and while I was there, scientists announced they’d completed the first draft of the human genome. I still remember my genetics professor Victor Ambros excitedly telling us about the news during a class my Sophomore Summer. My new book, called Beyond Inheritance: Our Ever-Mutating Cells and a New Understanding of Health, is very much an update to that moment. It describes a seismic shift in genetics that is reshaping medicine. Scientists now recognize that new DNA errors acquired in early development all the way until our last breath can drive heart attacks, autoimmunity, autism, Alzheimer’s disease, cancer, and virtually every other ailment. It could even be the missing piece in explaining why we age.”
Jerome Groopman, M.D., featured her book in The New Yorker in April (“We Are All Constantly Mutating—and That’s a Good Thing”) and it also received advance praise from Bill Nye. Roxanne lives in Montreal with her son.
Molly Johnson, Kristin (Shigley) Livingston, Stephanie (Kahn) Scheinkman, and I had a great time celebrating at Mara Buchbinder’s son’s bar mitzvah in March. The event took place in Durham, North Carolina, on the night of the Duke-UNC basketball game and college attire—including some Dartmouth T-shirts—was encouraged. Mara and her family live in Durham, where she is the chair of the department of social medicine at the UNC School of Medicine, Chapel Hill.
I hope you all are having a nice summer. Keep sending your updates!
—Anne Cloudman, 215 W 98th St., Apt. 12C, New York, NY 10025; acloudman@gmail.com
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Summer is here and we are currently less than one year away from our 25th reunion (June 18-20, 2027)! Please mark your calendars and put in your PTO requests as we expect to see you there! Please contact us at dartmouth.class.of.2002@gmail.com to help with reunion planning—we need more volunteers to ensure our committee represents the broad spectrum of our class.
Roxanne Khamsi sent an update about her career and her new book that was recently published. (See in Editor’s Picks,’ page 52.) Roxanne is a contributing writer at The Atlantic and has written for The New York Times, Wired magazine, Scientific American, and The Economist. During the pandemic, she was the journalist who broke the news to the world that Covid-19 was airborne. At Dartmouth she was part of the first cohort of editors of The Dartmouth Undergraduate Journal of Science and then spent many years as a reporter-editor at the international research publication Nature magazine and its sister journal.
Roxanne added, “I studied biology at Dartmouth (with a concentration in genetics) and while I was there, scientists announced they’d completed the first draft of the human genome. I still remember my genetics professor Victor Ambros excitedly telling us about the news during a class my Sophomore Summer. My new book, called Beyond Inheritance: Our Ever-Mutating Cells and a New Understanding of Health, is very much an update to that moment. It describes a seismic shift in genetics that is reshaping medicine. Scientists now recognize that new DNA errors acquired in early development all the way until our last breath can drive heart attacks, autoimmunity, autism, Alzheimer’s disease, cancer, and virtually every other ailment. It could even be the missing piece in explaining why we age.”
Jerome Groopman, M.D., featured her book in The New Yorker in April (“We Are All Constantly Mutating—and That’s a Good Thing”) and it also received advance praise from Bill Nye. Roxanne lives in Montreal with her son.
Molly Johnson, Kristin (Shigley) Livingston, Stephanie (Kahn) Scheinkman, and I had a great time celebrating at Mara Buchbinder’s son’s bar mitzvah in March. The event took place in Durham, North Carolina, on the night of the Duke-UNC basketball game and college attire—including some Dartmouth T-shirts—was encouraged. Mara and her family live in Durham, where she is the chair of the department of social medicine at the UNC School of Medicine, Chapel Hill.
I hope you all are having a nice summer. Keep sending your updates!
—Anne Cloudman, 215 W 98th St., Apt. 12C, New York, NY 10025; acloudman@gmail.com