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Alumni News Highlights -- February 2007
Overpeck '79 Contributes to U.N. Climate Change Report
Jonathan Overpeck '79 is one of the international body of climate scientists who authored the landmark U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, issued on Feb. 2 in Paris. The group for the first time asserts with 90 percent confidence that human activity has caused global warming. The report comes after six years of work and is built on a previous dozen years of study by hundreds of researchers from more than 100 nations. Overpeck, a scientist at the University of Arizona, was keynote speaker at Hamilton's Antarctic Peninsula Conference held on campus in April, 2002. In that lecture, Overpeck predicted major climate changes and warned of global warming consequences.
Hutson '69 Co-Authors "Breakthrough Ideas" Book
Harry Hutson '69 is co-author of a book with Barbara Perry, Putting Hope to Work, that has been named one of 20 "Breakthrough Ideas for 2007" by Harvard Business Review. The annual list is a survey of emerging ideas that the editors "believe will shape and reshape business in the months and years to come." Hutson and Perry's goal in writing Putting Hope to Work: Five Principles to Activate Your Organization’s Most Powerful Resource (Praeger, 2006) was to raise awareness and appreciation of the largely unexamined aspect of leadership by making it visible, discussable and actionable in organizational terms.
Harley '77 Takes Home a Grammy
Bill Harley '77 won a Grammy on February 11 in the "Best Spoken Word Album For Children" category. The category is defined as being "For albums consisting of predominantly spoken word vs. music or song." Harley won for his album Blah Blah Blah: Stories About Clams, Swamp Monsters, Pirates & Dogs. He has been nominated for a Grammy twice before and is the author of a book Dear Santa. Harley returned to campus in 2002 to perform at Reunion Weekend.
Hom K’73 Discusses Her Work at Hamilton
Mei-ling Hom K'73 returned to the Hill last month to talk about her art. Floating Mountains, Singing Clouds, a January 2006 exhibition of her sculpture (pictured here), marked the first time a living Asian-American has had a solo exhibition at the Sackler Gallery at the Smithsonian Institution. Hom has been widely recognized for incorporating her heritage into her work. Mary Thomas, an art critic for the The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, praised Hom’s work for how it “creates exquisite conceptual installations that draw upon Chinese tradition and the history of past generations in the United States for the subject matter.” Hon's most recent honors have included the Fulbright Award for Visual Art Research in Korea and the Joan Mitchell Foundation Visual Arts Grant. She is an associate professor of art at the Community College of Philadelphia.
Nye '88 Named Chief Executive of LinkedIn Corp.
LinkedIn has named former Advent Software Inc. executive Dan Nye ’88 chief executive officer. A California-based company that uses business relationships to find jobs, people and service providers worldwide for more than nine million professional members, LinkedIn refers to itself as “the world’s largest and most effective business network.” Nye holds an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. He began his career at Proctor and Gamble, before going on to spend more than six years in executive positions at a software company called Intuit.
Vilsack '72 to Teach at Drake University's School of Law
Former governor of Iowa and presidential hopeful Tom Vilsack ‘72 has recently signed on to teach at Drake University’s School of Law. The university announced that in May, Vilsack will teach an interim course on legal issues relating to renewable energy and rural development. Vilsack, whose course will cover policies such as the 2007 farm bill and various state and federal rural development programs, will teach with Neil Hamilton, DU’s Dwight D. Opperman distinguished professor of law. Renewable energy and rural development are two of the foundations of Vilsack’s presidential platform. Vilsack has even called renewable energy a cause “with extraordinary opportunity to unite this country.”
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