2000s

Arts & Sciences Alumni / 2000s

Katherine Klem (College ’08) Unacceptable

Rodney Mills (African American Studies ’08) Academic dream deferred

Scott Anderson (Politics ’06) and Shujun Tian (History, Foreign Affairs ’06) Model students

Victoria Chiou (Human Biology ’06), Mark Ranck (Biology ’03) and Andrew Breithaupt (College ’06) Helping humans hear

D’Brickashaw Ferguson (Religious Studies ’06) Scholar-athlete

Bill Gilhooly (Environmental Sciences ’93, MS ’96, PhD ’06) Letter from a summer research trip to the Gulf of Mexico

Leah Kuchinsky (Foreign Affairs ’06) White House semester

Aaron Smith (Astronomy ’06) Astronomy is Smith’s universe

Matt Sonneborn (American Politics, English ’06) Supporting Democrats

Sara Algoe (PhD, Psychology ’05) Don’t worry; be ... grateful?

Brian Barthelmes (Sociology ’05) Hairy contributor

Melissa Crespo (Drama ’05) Her world’s the stage

Eliza Edel (English, Studies in Women and Gender ’05) and Carroll Chancellor (Government, Biology ’05) Letter from Europe

Hunter Jamerson (Foreign Affairs ’05) Intense internship

Sara Page (Government and Foreign Affairs, Asian Studies '05) China calling

Carolyn Schlicht (Sociology '05) Into Africa

Adam Segaller (Interdisciplinary-Echols ’05) Letter from the Outer Banks

Isabelle Stanton (MA, Mathematics ’05) Number natural

Meghan Sullivan (Politics, Philosophy ’05) Community justice

Jeb White (Archaeology, History ’05) The ends of the earth

Platte Amstutz (Environmental Sciences ’04) The science of the vine

Jehan Carter (Government, Spanish ’04) Capital achievement

Rebecca Cummings (History ’04) Letter from Guam

Edmund Etheridge (Religious Studies, English '04) Etheridge studies AIDS care in South African hospices

Jacques Fournier (College '04) Fournier brings croquet to Jefferson's Lawn

Julie Guyenet (Environmental Sciences ’04) Clean water

Ben Keim (Classics '04) In Greece, Keim sees the light

Anna Palumbo (Biology, Music ’04) Palumbo researches prostate cancer treatment

Priya Parker (College '04) and Natalie Shonka (American Studies '03) Eyeing U.Va. history

Andrea Pfeiffer (Anthropology ’04) Tsunami survivors

Cason Moore (Foreign Affairs, Philosophy ’03) and Meghan Serkes (Drama ’04) ‘And that’s my final answer’

Dustin Batson (Religious Studies, Foreign Affairs ’03) Voodoo bewitches Batson

Kirsten Beattie (English, Studies in Women and Gender ’03) A second year in Scotland — June 2005

Kirsten Beattie (English, Studies in Women and Gender ’03) A second year in Scotland — May 2005

Annahita Farudi (Linguistics, Comparative Literature ’03) and Maziar Toosarvandani (Linguistics, Biology ’03) Documenting Dari

Vivek Jain (Chemistry-Biochemistry '03) Hoos for Learning

Sarah Jennings (Drama ’03), Nick Holden (Drama ’03) Who’s watching WHOO?

Jason McDougall (Commerce, Economics '03) Frustrations lead to actions

Justin Simoncini (Anthropology, Spanish ’03) Wise Guy tells all

Meghan Butasek (Foreign Affairs ’02) Generous spirit

Kyle Dexter (Biology, Environmental Sciences '02) Dexter examines wilder side of research

Sarah Drew (Drama ’02) Modest ’Hoo

BA English, MT English Education ’02 Letter from Japan

Ross Kane (Forgein Affairs ’02) Searching for peace in Sudan

Rachel LeRoy (Environmental Sciences ’02) LeRoy researches soil to improve agriculture

Erin Lyddane (Media Studies ’02) Seeing through an artist’s eyes

Steve Marrin (MA, Politics ’02) Expert analysis

Betsy Mesard (Foreign Affairs ’02) Digging deep

Hans Woodriff (Anthropology ’02) Woodriff goes international for Web design

Adam Zissman (History, Media Studies '02) His collection's novel

Katie Dirks (Government and Foreign Affairs ’01) Dirks wins British Marshall Scholarship

Kelly Flatley (Sociology ’01) Bear Naked

Rachel Elizabeth Greene (Interdisciplinary ’01) Greene’s series lifts great ideas off the page

John Kiess ('01)

Nikki Kissane (Psychology ’01) Kissane’s signs simplify lives

Elienne Lawson (Art History ’01) Lawson lives life richly

Benjamin McKenzie (Foreign Affairs, Economics ’01) Fleeing ‘The O.C.’

Kevin Van Finley Neher (Government, Economics '01) The play’s his thing

La TaSha Levy (History, African-American Studies ’00) Levy leads Cultural Center

Amy Lynn Rector (Archaeology ’00) Rector unearths love for human evolution