Southwestern Magazine | Spring 2021

016.2 AN A FOR AG I L I T Y THEN AND NOW VOLUME SIXTEEEN DOT TWO SPRING 2021 Chief Marketing and Communications Officer and Vice President for Integrated Communications SCARLETT MOSS ’86 Senior Art Director JEFF TEICHER Content Writer MEILEE BRIDGES Marketing Operations Manager KRISTEN PAXSON Strategic Marketing Manager DINAH RITCHIE Marketing Project Coordinator JULIE KLAUS Senior Graphic Designer MATT MADSEN Cinematographer ERNESTO HERNANDEZ Webmaster ED HILLIS Athletic Communications Director JESSE BLANCHARD Athletic Communications and Digital Media Coordinator ANNABEL FIDLER O F F I C E O F M A R K E T I N G & C O MM U N I C AT I O N S Image created by Sean Calvert ’22 and Amey Duarte ’22 as part of a collaborative class project created by Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Garey Endowed Chair in Chemistry Maha Zewail-Foote and Associate Professor of Biol- ogy Martín Gonzalez. The following students contributed to this project: Advanced Biochemistry Lab students Sean Calvert ’22 Amey Duarte ’22 Natalie Gierat ’22 Marcello Gonzalez ’22 Rhoda Hijazi ’21 Ashley Jennings ’21 Lauren Lee ’22 Jared McCormack ’22 Neha Momin ’22 Abigael Musyoka ’21 Kathreine Nguyen ’22 Luis Ramirez ’21 Immunology students Elijah Ballesteros ’21 Tim Bierwirth ’22 Rachel Brasher ’21 Ellie Felts ’21 Ethan Iverson ’21 Lacee Mims ’21 Lauren Muskara ’21 Luis Ramirez ’21 Shelby Smith ’22 O N T H E C O V E R Associate Director of University Events XAN KOONCE ’05 Coordinator of Alumni & Parent Relations SERENA BETTIS P’23 Assistant Director of Alumni & Parent Relations BECKY RODRIGUEZ P’15 Senior Administrative Assistant for Alumni & Parent Relations MARCIE MERRITT Vice President for University Relations PAUL SECORD Associate Vice President for Alumni & Parent Relations MEGAN RADISON FRISQUE Director of Stewardship MARIA KRUGER ’91 Director of University Events DEBBIE PAULEY Senior Associate Director of Alumni & Parent Relations GRACE JOSEY PYKA ’05 O F F I C E O F A L U M N I A N D PA R E N T R E L AT I O N S To correspond or to change your address, email magazine@southwestern.edu. Main: 512.863.6511 www.southwestern.edu Facebook: /SouthwesternUniversity Twitter: @SouthwesternU Instagram: @SouthwesternU Alumni and Parents: 512.863.1410 alumni@southwestern.edu parents@southwestern.edu Office of Admission: 800.252.3166 C O N TA C T SOUTHWESTERN SOUTHWE S T E RN | 3 018 055