Chicago Calling
Schriffen is the Chicago White Sox’s new television play-by-play announcer. “The timing is right for me because I have done so many things in the course of my career in broadcasting, and the next step for me is to join a team, get to know the team better, and really join a community and move to Chicago,” he says. The former history major has been a professional sports broadcaster for more than a decade.
‘Whoaaa!’
The New York Times featured commentary from Shankar, a pediatrician and health services researcher at Yale, in an article about the enduring popularity of the 1994 single “Insomniac” by the rock duo Billy Pilgrim, among a capella groups.
Peak Power
Hashimoto, an endurance athlete based in Ellensburg, Washington, dreamed up a grand adventure this past summer: climb 100 of the tallest peaks in Washington—known as “Bulger 100”—in a single season using only human power. He and 23-year-old Langdon Ernest-Beck, his next-door neighbor, accomplished this together over the course of several weekends in summer 2023.
Outside magazine wrote about the feat in January 2024:
Climate-Friendly Candidate
Citing a need for rapid action on climate change, Bernstein is running for the U.S. House of Representatives seat representing California’s District 16. The economics major is currently pursuing both his MBA and a master’s degree in climate science at Stanford.
“Climate change is an issue that I was naïve enough for a while to think that I could address on the investing and advising side,” Bernstein told reporters when he launched his campaign. “But it won't scale enough when compared to what policy can do.”