“Academic Accomplishment” Class Notes
Joanna Berger (Col ’11)
Joanna was awarded the degree of Master of Science in Applied Animal Behaviour and Animal Welfare from the University of Edinburgh’s Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies in Scotland. She graduated with Distinction (highest honors) after completing an independent study of African Grey Parrot social, territorial and foraging behavior at Project Perry, the Central Virginia Parrot Sanctuary. She has founded her own business, the Animal Behavior Consultancy, and provides in-home consultations to address the challenging behaviors of multiple species of pet, shelter and zoo animals throughout Virginia. She will present her parrot research at the Animal Behavior Management Alliance conference at the Cincinnati Zoo in April.
Frances Keene (Educ ’02)
Frances Babb Keene (Educ ’02) earned her doctorate in higher education from Virginia Tech in December 2016. Having begun her doctoral work while six months pregnant in 2007, and having taken her prelims in 2009 while pregnant for the second time, she credits her husband, friends and colleagues in student affairs for helping her through the toughest parts of going to school, working full time and being a parent all at once. Ms. Keene plans to continue her work in Student Affairs at Virginia Tech.
Lillian Smith (Col ’08)
Lillian Smith (Col ’08) graduated from Brooklyn Law School with a J.D. degree in May 2016. In recognition of her academic achievements, she received the Faculty Prize, the Judge Leonard P. Moore Memorial Prize and the Robert A. Morse Memorial Prize, in addition to the Brooklyn Law Review Prize. She will clerk with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. Ms. Smith is the daughter of Raynell V. Smith (Grad ’72 L/M).
Elizabeth Marlowe (Col ’00 CM)
Elizabeth Marlowe (Col ’00 CM) received a doctorate in education with a concentration in adult learning from Virginia Commonwealth University in May 2016. She is education director for the practice of clinical medicine at the VCU School of Medicine and lives in the Church Hill district of Richmond, Virginia.
Tamar Roomian (Col ’11)
Tamar Roomian (Col ’11) was awarded a master’s degree in nutritional epidemiology and a master’s in public health from Tufts University in February 2016.
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