Alumni Blog

Tag: Education

  • Samantha Maranell ’10

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    Erin Wilken

    Samantha Maranell ’10 just completed two years of service with the Peace Corps in Samoa where she taught English and Reading in a rural primary school in the village of Falefa. After returning home, she had a piece entitled “Raised by Wolves” published in the online travel magazine Hackwriters. She is now applying for graduate…

  • Kirsten Bouma and Amanda Schreiner ’10, ’10

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    Erin Wilken

    Kirsten Bouma ’10 and Amanda Schreiner ’10 were married on October 20, 2012. The ceremony was performed at the United Congregational Church of Christ of Iowa City. Both attend the University of Iowa for Music Therapy and Library and Information Science, respectively. They currently reside in Coralville, IA.

  • Kelly Myers Moyer ’11

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    Erin Wilken

    Kelly Myers Moyer ’11 married her sweetheart of six years, Drew Moyer (St. Thomas ’11), on October 27th, 2012 in their hometown of Lakeville, MN. Kelly and Drew now live in Arden Hills as she attends Bethel Seminary for her MDiv and Drew works in Minneapolis as a tax accountant for Deloitte.

  • Jared Lee ’05

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    Erin Wilken

    Jared Lee ’05 graduated with his Ph.D. in Meteorology from Penn State University in August 2012. In October 2012 Jared moved to Monterey, California, to start a National Research Council postdoctoral fellowship at the Naval Postgraduate School.

  • Eric Miller ’08

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    Erin Wilken

    Eric Miller ’08 is currently pursuing his Ph.D. in Neuroscience at the University of Minnesota. This past August Eric published a scientific article on my thesis research. Below is the citation and abstract: Mol Pharmacol. 2012 Aug;82(2):333-43. Epub 2012 May 17. Differential modulation of drug-induced structural and functional plasticity of dendritic spines. Miller EC, Zhang L,…

  • Diana Jensen Cramer ’90

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    Erin Wilken

    Diana Jensen Cramer ’90 graduated in May 2012 with a JD from Gonzaga University School of Law.

  • Jennifer Meese Green ’94

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    Erin Wilken

    Jennifer Meese Green ’94 received her Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Connecticut. She is now an assistant professor of second language acquisition in the department of Elementary Education at Western Washington University in Bellingham, Washington.

  • Hannah Wunsch ’09

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    Erin Wilken

    Hannah Wunsch ’09 was accepted into and began a Doctorate of Musical Arts degree in Choral Conducting and Literature at the University of Colorado in Boulder.

  • Alli Stocco ’06

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    Erin Wilken

    Alli Stocco ’06 has just begun her MFA program in textile design at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in Providence, RI.

  • Nissa Hannemann Peterson ’08

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    Erin Wilken

    Nissa Hannemann Peterson ’08 is a Master of Divinity Student at Luther Seminary at St Paul.