Graduates 2016
Summer Ghasan Awad’s senior project, Walls: A Play for Palestine, has been accepted by the New York International Fringe Festival which will be held in August 12-28, 2016. Summer received the Artist of Change Award from Community Shares in April and was a finalist in the Henley Rose Playwriting Competition for Women.
Ethan Roeder has been accepted as an Acting Apprentice at the Great River Shakespeare Festival. He will spend thirteen weeks in Winona, Minnesota performing Coriolanus, as well as understudying in one of the other productions that summer and taking classes.
Sahba Seddighi has accepted an Intramural Research Training Award (IRTA) Fellowship from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). She will be working with Madhav Thambisetty, a neurologist who holds a Doctor of Medicine degree and a Doctor of Philosophy degree at Johns Hopkins University. Thambisetty is Chief of the Clinical and Translational Neuroscience unit at the NIH/National Institute on Aging. His research focuses on Alzheimer’s disease and incorporates both benchside and clinical research.
Alana Stein will be entering the graduate program in sociology at the University of California, Davis, in September 2016.