Seen & Heard
A selection of must reads about Dartmouth alumni making news around the world.
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Helen Schlachtenhaufen ’17
Tandem Training
Runner’s World highlighted the romance and training relationship between Schlachtenhaufen and her fiancé, Brian Shrader, in a feature story published on October 11. Schlachtenhaufen is an elite middle-distance runner who made it to the 1500-meter final at the 2024 Olympic Track & Field Trials, while Schrader is one of the top marathon runners in the U.S.
Jacob Chalif ’21
Traveling Particles
Chalif, a graduate student and technician in professor Eric Osterberg’s Ice, Climate, and Environment Lab, has been featured in Newsweek and Earth.com articles this week about his research into the impact of pollution on the Arctic’s atmosphere. Chalif and Osterberg—along with Dominic Winski ’09, Ursula Jongebloed ’18, and several other scientists—co-authored a new study in the journal Nature Geoscience that links atmospheric change in remote arctic regions to fossil fuel pollution in populated parts of the world.
Shonda Rhimes ’91
Brunch & Rally
Rhimes attended a “Books, Ballots, and Brunch” event in Philadelphia aimed at black women voters. The television producer and writer told the audience about her years-long friendship with Harris and how the upcoming presidential election will affect black women in the U.S.
Later the same day, Rhimes stopped at the 52nd Ward Canvass and Appreciation Picnic, where she talked about the importance of voter turnout.
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Connie Britton ’89
TV Mom
Britton, beloved for her portrayal of Tammi Taylor on Friday Night Lights, plays mom again in two new feature films out this month: Here After and Winner.
Mike Pyle ’00
Revolving Door
Pyle served as vice president Kamala Harris’ chief economic advisor before becoming deputy national security advisor for internal economics in the Biden administration, a role that concluded this February. Now he's headed back to BlackRock, the largest asset management firm in the world, as deputy head of its Portfolio Management Group. Before working at the White House, Pyle was BlackRock’s chief investment strategist.
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David Stromeyer ’68
Man of Steel
“David Stromeyer’s canvas is an old dairy farm in northern Vermont. But he doesn’t paint. He builds. His artistic tools are cranes, a welding torch and other heavy equipment. He bends steel to his will, or at least as far as is humanly possible,” according to a new feature in The Boston Globe about Cold Hollow Sculpture Park, where Stromeyer has erected rougly 70 pieces across 45 acres of meadows.
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