Seen & Heard
A selection of must reads about Dartmouth alumni making news around the world.
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Odette Harris ’91
Momentous
Traumatic brain injury specialist Harris recently became the country’s first black female tenured neurosurgery professor.
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Steve Lough ’87
Send in the Clown
First-time candidate Lough believes his experience as a Ringling Bros. clown has prepared him for the most notorious circus of them all: the U.S. Congress.
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Amanda Brown Lierman ’07
“The Midterm of Our Lives”
Lierman, the Democratic National Committee’s political and organizing director, aims to bring millennials and people of color out for the 2018 midterm elections.
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Erik Hagerman ’86
Ignorance is Bliss
Following the last presidential election, Hagerman decided to block out all news of American politics. He hasn’t tuned back in since.
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Devin Chu ’14
Rising Star
Chu will soon have the chance to test Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity when star S0-2 approaches the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way.
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Carolyn Kylstra ’08
Self Awareness
The award-winning editor-in-chief of Self magazine breaks down what it means to be a “digital-led” publication.
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Lorin Paley ’15, Th’15
Stow It!
Paley combines her background in engineering and woodworking with her passion for outdoor sports in a new enterprise.
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Jessica Saturley-Hall ’07
Pay Dirt
The founder of the Upper Valley Compost Company turns a dirty profit while helping the environment.
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Clark Moore ’13
Role Model
Moore, who plays an out, gay, black teen in the upcoming film Love, Simon, hopes his role can serve as a turning point.
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Blake Kerr ’80
“Accidental Filmmaker”
A mountaineering trip to Everest led to decades of documenting the Chinese occupation of Tibet for Dr. Kerr, whose latest activist effort is the award-winning film Eye of the Lammergeier.
