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 Kayvia
Pemberton ‘12 was named the winner of the
ninth annual Elevator Pitch Contest, sponsored by the Center
for Women and Financial Independence.
The contest invites students to present their business
start-up ideas in 90 seconds—the duration
of a typical elevator ride—to
a panel of judges and an audience. Pemberton won the contest
with her business idea called Smart Laundry, and was awarded
$100. Pemberton's win earned her an invitation to compete
in a regional competition sponsored by
the Harold Grinspoon Charitable Foundation on April 25
at the Log Cabin in Holyoke, Mass., where she will present
her elevator pitch to potential investors.
Kristine
Molina ‘05 won the first-place “Kurt
M. Landgraf Outstanding Dissertation Award” at the annual
conference of the American Association of Hispanics in Higher
Education, held in Costa Mesa, Calif., March 8-12. The
conference, with the theme title “Celebrating Our Similarities,
Embracing Our Differences,” drew hundreds of the nation’s
top Hispanic researchers, educators, policymakers and leaders.
Awards were provided by Educational Testing Service (ETS)
in recognition of outstanding student research. According
to the awards web site, Molina’s research “is aimed at understanding
the unique role that discrimination and socioeconomic status
play in contributing to adverse health outcomes.”
 A
film, Swim Suit,
by Lucretia Knapp, a lecturer in the art
department, was shown in March as part of the
Sport, Gender and Media conference at the University of York
in England. Knapp’s
film was screened part of the conference segment themed “Gendered
Displays in Swimming.” (scene pictured) is an experimental
documentary short that is part of a larger work on transgender
identities.
Alex Webster ’08 was
this week awarded a National Science Foundation Fellowship,
which includes full tuition as she pursues her doctorate
in ecology at the University of California, Davis. The fellowship
also includes a stipend of $30,000 for the next three years.
Carolyn Dehner,
a McPherson Postdoctoral Fellow and lecturer in biochemistry,
recently served as a judge of student presentations at the
annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students
(ABRCMS), the largest event of its kind in the nation. The
event is designed to encourage underrepresented minority
students to pursue advanced training in biomedical and behavioral
sciences. This year’s conference registered its highest
participation with more than 3,300 people in attendance.
 Clockwork Design Group, Inc.,
a full-service graphic and web design agency based in Waltham,
Mass., led by Vanessa Schaefer ’85, president
and creative director, was the winner of four awards at the
recent New England Legal Marketing Association’s
annual “Your Honor” awards, which celebrates the “best of
the best” in New England
legal marketing. Clockwork Design won first-place awards
for a web site for Campbell Trial Lawyers and an e-card announcement
for the same company; as well as two third-place awards,
for a web site for Bernkopf Goodman LLP, and a single ad
for Sherin and Lodgen LLP. Clockwork Design has received
numerous awards for its designs, including recognition from
the Boston Business Journal as a top web and graphic design
firm.
 Sierra
Bainbridge '99, a program director in Rwanda with
MASS, an architectural design firm that builds and advocates
for structures that improve health and strengthen communities
around the world, was recently cited by Contract magazine,
which named MASS its 2012  Designer
of the Year for its positive impact on health care and
design. Bainbridge heads a professional school of architecture
in Rwanda, now in its third year, the first school of its
kind in the African country, which is training 25 students
annually and will graduate its first class in two years.
The school is a partnership between MASS and the Kigali
Institute of Science and Technology, at which Bainbridge
served as Head of the Architecture Department in 2010-11.
MASS also built the Girubuntu School (pictured) in Kigali,
Rwanda, which educates 300 children. Bainbridge, who joined
MASS in 2009, oversaw the completion of the school.
Bill
Oram, Helen Means Professor of English Language
and Literature, was recently awarded the Colin Clout Lifetime
Achievement Award by the International Spenser Society,
an organization devoted to the study and promotion of the
works of English poet Edmund Spenser. The award is occasionally
given to a senior scholar “whose body of work represents
a wide-ranging, long-standing and distinguished contribution
to the study of Edmund Spenser" and, in general, English
Renaissance poetry, according to officials at the International
Spenser Society. The award citation notes Oram’s essays
on Spenser, as well as poets Raleigh, Milton and Herrick;
his biography of Spenser; and his service as editor of
the annual journal Spenser Studies. Oram was presented
with a medal representing the award in January during the
annual meeting of the International Spenser Society.
 A short film, titled Breakdown,
by dance major In Kyung Lee ’12, was screened
last week as part of the Frameworks Dance Film Series,
a showcase of artworks choreographed for the camera. The
festival takes place annually at Dance New Amsterdam in
New York City. Lee’s film is a nearly 4-minute
experimental work featuring Angelica Falcinelli ’12 and Lee,
who also directed. On-camera action is interspersed with
computer-animated dance sequences in the piece. View
the film.
 Lily Hallock, a teaching
fellow in exercise and sport studies, has been named the
10th head volleyball coach at the University of Wisconsin-La
Crosse. Hallock will also serve as an instructor in the
university’s Exercise Sport
Science Department. Hallock, who is pursuing her master’s
degree in exercise and sport studies at Smith, served as
a graduate assistant volleyball coach at Smith for the past
two seasons, and as interim head volleyball coach from January
to June 2011.
Trish Jackson,
vice president for development, is one of 10 chief advancement
officers featured in a new book, Making
the Case for Leadership: Profiles of Chief Advancement Officers
in Higher Education, co-authored by Jon Derek Croteau
and Zachary Smith. The book takes a detailed look at the
role of the chief advancement officer , a relatively new
position at most schools, and its importance in higher education.
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