Seen & Heard
A selection of must reads about Dartmouth alumni making news around the world.
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Maurissa Horwitz ’98
The Art of Editing
Horwitz majored in film studies at Dartmouth and has been editing animated films for more than 20 years. In a new interview for the Art of the Frame podcast, she talked about the creative decisionmaking behind her role as the lead editor on Inside Out 2, the latest feature film from Pixar Animation Studios.
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Ben Rice ’22
Major Debut
The New York Yankees called up Rice to play first base on Tuesday, June 18. In his first Major League Baseball game ever, Rice contributed to the Yankees’ 4-2 win by hitting a single.
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Abby Burrows ’23
“Messy Stellar Jitters”
Burrows, a physics & astronomy major who now works as a business analyst at McKinsey, was the lead author on a study that’s getting attention for its connection to Star Trek. “The Death of Vulcan: NEID Reveals That the Planet Candidate Orbiting HD 26965 Is Stellar Activity*” was just published in The Astronomical Journal this year but is based on research that Burrows did as an intern at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory from 2021-2022, where she worked with the lab’s solar physics team on detecting earth-like exoplanets around sun-like stars.
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Eric Paley ’98
Power Player
Paley is number 18 on The Boston Globe’s annual Tech Power Players 50 List, naming the most influential people in the New England tech sector. The co-founder of venture capital fund Founder Collective has backed companies including Uber and Whoop.
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Isaiah Johnson ’22
Miami Bound
The defensive back will continue his football career with the Miami Dolphins after signing with the NFL team as an undrafted free agent.
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