GSBS graduates, this is YOUR Alumni Association.
Hello Alumni,
Please plan to join us for the annual Alumni Reunion on Friday, October 21. We will be honoring our newest GSBS Distinguished Alumnus, E. Antonio Chiocca, M.D., Ph.D. (1998/Stein). He is renowned as a neurosurgeon and researcher with a focus on glial tumor biology and translational therapeutics. Read more about Dr. Chiocca on the GSBS Alumni web pages, http://www.uthouston.edu/gsbs/alumni/distinguished-alumni/.
The Commencement on May 7 honored 56 new MS, PhD, and MD/PhD graduates. It was my pleasure to welcome them to their new elite status as GSBS alumni. Several were recipients of named scholarship and fellowship awards. Others received recruitment awards provided through our alumni annual gifts—Special thanks for your help in continuing to attract the best and brightest to the Graduate School.
Career Day brought 45 graduate students and postdocs to meet with our 12 speakers. Thank you very much to the alumni (plus a few other experts) who gave helpful, insightful information about their career paths and experiences. Thanks to Joy Marshall, Nicole Pinaire and Hannah Wingate, along with yours truly, who represented academia; Dianne Hammond and Ed Miller in government; Sol Bobst with industry; Peter Seferian and Andrew Dennis in patent agent and tech transfer respectively; Ben Thomas and Karen Adler Storthz addressed startups; Marya Chaney in pharma; and Scott Merville discussed scientific writing. Special thanks to Orlando Saldana who discussed entrepreneurial government grants. It was an energetic, interactive, informative day.
Finally, welcome to BethLynn Maxwell, Ph.D. (1980/Hsu) as a member of the Alumni Steering Committee. She is our first long-distance member and attends our meetings via conference calls. We appreciate her ideas and insight and are happy to have her with us.
I hope each of you has the opportunity for a summer holiday to renew, refresh, and restore your spirits for the year ahead. I’ll see you at the reunion in October!
Jackie Peltier Horn (1981/Arlinghaus)
Alumni Association Steering Committee President
2010-2011
