Seen & Heard
A selection of must reads about Dartmouth alumni making news around the world.
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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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Alexi Pappas ’12
The Art of Transformation
In an interview for Marie Claire, Pappas discussed the best and worst parts of being an elite athlete, her shift from being a professional athlete to a professional storyteller, and her advice to others who are navigating uncommon career paths.
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Jenny Che ’14
Paris Plunge
“The general mood around swimming in the Seine, which flows through the center of Paris, has been one of skepticism. There have been legitimate concerns about pollution and high bacteria levels, of course, but there have also been petulant calls on social media to take a dump in the river. Even my colleagues have asked me to make sure my health insurance plan would cover any strange new growths I might develop,” Che wrote for Bloomberg News on July 17, after surviving a swim in the river.
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