Southwestern Magazine | Fall 2020

Zoe Cordes Selbin , see Stanley Hauerwas ’62 . Shannon Sweeney, Iowa City, IA, was accepted into the University of Iowa’s media history and culture doctoral program. She earned her master of fine arts in film and television studies from Boston University. MARRIAGE: Jeanne Wehde to Jay Dial, Austin, TX, on August 31, 2019. Christina Manzanares , Washington, DC, graduated with a master of arts in Latin American and hemispheric studies from the George Washington University Elliott School of International Affairs in the spring of 2020. Katie McCance , Raleigh, NC, and Professor of Chemistry Emily Niemeyer published an article titled “Classroom Observations to Characterize Active Learning within Introductory Undergraduate Science Courses” in the March/ April issue of the Journal of College Science Teaching . The authors discuss an analysis of observational data to characterize different instructional practices in science classrooms. McCance, a doctoral student in the STEM Education Department at North Carolina State University, and Niemeyer collaborated on the study with Timothy Weston, a research faculty member at the University of Colorado Boulder. The research was completed with support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Andie Alford , Mansfield, TX, along with Jiyoun Ahn ’17 and Professor of Chemistry Emily Niemeyer, published an article titled “Variation in Phenolic Profiles and Antioxidant Properties among Medicinal and Culinary Herbs of the Lamiaceae Family” in the Journal of Food Measurement and Characterization . Alford and Ahn grew 23 common and less-well- known Lamiaceae plants during the SCOPE summer research program and then analyzed them for their chemistry capstone research. Niemeyer completed the project by conducting mass spectral analysis of the herbs during her spring 2019 sabbatical in collaboration with colleagues at the University of Texas at Austin. The research was supported by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Robert A. Welch Foundation, and the Herbert and Kate Dishman endowment. Marissa Byrd , Austin, TX, joined rapidly growing Qualia as a customer success representative. Eric Oden , Washington, DC, received the Trevor Evans Award from the Mathematical Association of America for coauthoring the article “Experimental Graph Theory,” which appeared in Math Horizons in 2019. Oden majored in mathematics and physics at Southwestern and is currently in the applied mathematics doctoral program at the University of Maryland, College Park. Jiyoun Ahn , see Andie Alford ’16 . Meili Criezis , Houston, TX, published the peer-reviewed article “Online Deceptions: Renegotiating Gender Boundaries on ISIS Telegram” in the University of Leiden’s online journal Perspectives on Terrorism in February 2020. She also published the peer-reviewed article “Pandemic Narratives: Pro-Islamic State Media and the Coronavirus” in the CTC Sentinel special June 2020 issue on coro- navirus and counterterrorism. Her article “Islamic State Telegram Stickers: Purposes, Themes, and Narratives” was published on the Global Network on Extremism and Technology website in June 2020. Criezis recently took a new position as a program associate with the Polarization and Extremism Research Innovation Lab at American University. MARRIAGE: Elyse Donoghue to Raymond (Tray) Holmes Bishop III, Bayside, TX, on July 17, 2020. MARRIAGE: Shelby Hall to Cedar Hawks, Monroe, GA, on August 10, 2019. 2015 2015 2016 2017 SOUTHWE S T E RN | 2 9