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Alumna Olya Voronetskaya ’15, a contributing author to the online publication Russian Art and Culture, wrote an article regarding researching artworks digitally. While museums remain closed to visitors, their collections are available for all to view in the virtual realm. Voronetskaya wrote about a portrait completed by renowned …
Reed Rayman ’04,a Partner at Apollo Global Management, was profiled in Institutional Investor for leading both Apollo’s $1.2 billion investment in online travel company Expedia and its $300 million investment in Cimpress (the owner of Vistaprint) during the depths of the first wave of the COVID-19 crisis in April, …
Recent grad Anna Beloborodova ’17 founded a nonprofit that provides virtual childcare services to families affected by the coronavirus outbreak. Hearts Over Hands engages currently-enrolled college students who volunteer their time to give children ages 6-16 video learning sessions, providing homework help, tutoring, and mentorship. The program takes a cue …
Simone Policano ’12 is one of the co-founders of Invisible Hands Deliver, a network of volunteers in their twenties who have been delivering groceries and supplies to those most at risk from COVID-19, including the elderly, the disabled, and the immunocompromised. They aim to employ social distancing measures in their …
Sewell Chan ’94, who left The New York Times to serve as the Los Angeles Times’ Deputy Managing Editor, has transitioned into a new role at the organization. In April, 2020, Chan assumed the position of editor of the publication’s Editorial, Op-Ed, and Sunday Opinion pages.…
Frances SCHIFF Wills ’59 was appointed to the New York State Board of Regents in March 2020. Wills, a retired schools superintendent, has served in education for over fifty years; twenty-five of which were spent in Maine. In New York, she had most recently served as schools superintendent for the …
Robert Lopez has received another award for his songwriting, this time for the compositions that he and his wife, Kristen Anderson-Lopez, created for Frozen 2. Now in its sixth year, the Variety Artisans award recognizes distinctive contributions to the filmmaking process by artists who have “exhibited the most exciting and …
Supreme Court Associate Justice Elena Kagan ’77 was named the 2020 recipient of the New York State Bar Association’s (NYSBA) Gold Medal for Distinguished Service in the Law. Presented annually, the award is given to a lawyer who has achieved “outstanding legal accomplishments and holds an active interest in and …
Recording Engineer Barry Werger ’87 is among the 2020 Grammy award winners for Best Classical Compendium, The Poetry of Places. The album features works for solo piano, two, pianos, percussion, electronics, voice, and toy piano that have been inspired by exquisite architecture and places. The eight compositions each reference
Pianist and composer Roberta Piket ’83 and her sextet performed a tribute concert honoring celebrated jazz pianist and NPR radio host Marian McPartland in December 2019. The show, held at Flushing Town Hall, was a return to the borough for the musician who was born in Queens to a musical …