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While finishing his master’s degree in 1996, Samuel Werberg ’94 says that it was then when he realized how big the world was and how little he’d seen of it. After three years volunteering for the Peace Corps, he briefly worked in the private sector before deciding he was meant to be abroad. He joined the U.S. State Department as a diplomat in 2004 and has been there ever since.

Practicing year-round has paid off for members of the Hot Saucers, the men’s ultimate Frisbee team headed for College Station, Texas, where they will compete in the national finals.

Christina Florakis ’19 has been named the recipient of this year’s Levitt Center Post-Graduate Social Innovation Fellowship. Next year, Florakis will travel to Chios, Greece, to work on improving communication between Greek citizens and refugees. She is majoring in cognitive science, an interdisciplinary concentration of her own design that mainly combines elements of sociology and psychology.

Assistant Professor of Economics Javier Pereira recently presented a paper and chaired a panel on market stability at the 15th Western Economic Association International Conference in Tokyo.

It was January of 2018 when the two women happened to sit together at the Crucial Conversations Training program. They spoke about their respective experiences teaching philosophy and working as a life coach. And a year later they began teaching a class together.

Assistant Professor of Physics Kate Brown presented “Jackson Pollock, Lightning Rods, Quantum Mechanics” at Harvard earlier this semester. Her talk was part of a seminar on “Widely Applied Mathematics.”

The lights go up. A timer goes off. Someone laughs. A dark, obscured figure walks behind the stage. A voice speaks from above, and the audience looks up, searching for a speaker in the dim lighting. There’s a collective silence as everyone holds their breath, waiting for the verdict. The lights go down. The crowd claps.

Associate Professor of East Asian Languages Zhuoyi Wang recently gave invited lectures and presented a webinar about the Chinese sci-fi film, The Wandering Earth (2019).

Susan MacTavish Best ’95 has found her niche in cultivating connections and spreading ideas. After more than two decades working in Silicon Valley public relations, this year she founded Posthoc, which she describes as a “petri dish for ideas and thought-leaders.”

Alan Cafruny, the Henry Platt Bristol Chair - International Affairs and Professor of Government; Assistant Professor of Physics Kate Brown; Assistant Professor of Sociology Jaime Kucinskas; Professor of Africana Studies Heather Merrill; Associate Professor of Literature and Creative Writing Jane Springer; and Assistant Professor of Classics Jesse Weiner were honored.