In Action
Using leadership to instill leadership: Stephanie Cabrera, MS ‘97 has joined the Girl Scouts of the USA to take on a national position of "Girl Leadership Strategy Manager."
Consider them working summer vacations: Quingan Zhou, MS ‘06 will be in Buenos Aires for an internship and Kevin Martinez, MS ‘07 will travel to Japan as part of the Japanese Exchange and Teaching program.
Did someone call for a doctor? John Shen, MS ‘03, earned his Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) from the University of California Irvine School of Medicine. He will be starting his residency in Internal Medicine at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Congratulations!
Executive decisions: Jennifer Quintana, MS ‘09, has been appointed president of the M.I.T. chapter of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). She was also elected Internal Vice President of the M.I.T. chapter of Mexican American Engineers and Scientists (MAES). Both organizations are in good hands.
Going places, just not far: Daniel Payan, MS ‘04 will graduate from Harvard University this summer but he won’t be missing it for long. He will be attending the Harvard Kennedy School of Government for his graduate studies in the fall.
A man of “principals”: Ruiquan Jin, MS ‘05 will enter a graduate program in school administration at Harvard University in the fall.
Award Winning. Morris Vanegas, MS ’08, was honored with the L.A.’s BEST After School Enrichment Program Distinguished Alumnus award at their annual Family Brunch on June 5th , for his work tutoring elementary school students.
Star gazer Erik Shirokoff, MS ’98 is departing UC Berkeley with his Ph.D. in physics this summer on a journey to the Pasadena cosmos for the 2011 W.M. Keck Institute for Space Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship at Caltech.
Working for women, around the globe. This summer, Kathleen Gutierrez, MS ‘06, will travel to the Philippines for an internship with the Gabriela Political Party, a coalition of organizations whose focus is on issues of women’s and children’s rights and enacting anti-trafficking and anti-violence protections through the Philippine National Legislature.
Researching her next step. Soon-to-be Columbia graduate, Julie Lee, MS '07, has accepted an appointment at Yale's M.P.H. program in Chronic Disease Epidemiology.