Class Notes
Jennifer McDowell (Col ’87)
Jennifer (Bogart) McDowell (Col ’87) has been promoted to interim academic dean of career and technical education at Hennepin Technical College, a member of the Minnesota State system of colleges and universities.
Nicole Gates (Col ’09)
Nicole Gates (Col ’09) has been promoted to Vice President, Legal, for Dr. Seuss Enterprises. Gates, who previously held the role of Senior Corporate Counsel, will manage the growing Dr. Seuss Enterprises legal team and, as a member of the executive leadership team, will provide strategic guidance on major corporate initiatives and a wide variety of operational matters.
Elizabeth Larus (Grad ’89)
Elizabeth Larus (Grad ’89, ’94), Professor Emerita of Political Science and International Affairs at the University of Mary Washington, has been named Non-resident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council Global China Hub.
Steve Silbiger (Darden ’90)
Steve Silbiger (Darden ’90) has written the 5th edition of his book, The Ten-Day MBA, which will be available for purchase July 2024. The book distills lessons from the country’s top business schools, including Harvard, Stanford and UVA’s own Darden School of Business. Previous editions of the book have sold over 165,000 copies and been translated into 12 languages.
Andrew Lee (Med ’89 CM)
Andrew Go Lee, MD (Col ’85, Med ’89 CM) has received the Houston Methodist Hospital Academic Institute Presidential Excellence in Education Award for 2024.
Robyn McCutcheon (Col ’76 CM)
Robyn McCutcheon (Col ’76 CM) has published Queer Diplomacy: A Transgender Journey in the Foreign Service, covering her career with the Department of State largely in the Soviet Union, Russia, and other post-Soviet countries. The book also covers her transgender journey — including at the University in the 1970s — through gender transition while serving as a diplomat in Romania. It is available on Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/dp/1637236395.
Robert Colby (Col ’09 CM)
Robert Colby (Col ’09 CM) has published his first book, An Unholy Traffic: Slave Trading in the Civil War South, with Oxford University Press. The book explores the survival of the slave trade during the Civil War, its effects on the inhabitants of the wartime South, and its influence on the course of the conflict. Colby is an assistant professor of history at the University of Mississippi.
Tony Gentry (Educ ’06)
Tony Gentry (Educ ’06) has published The Night Doctor of Richmond, a biographical novel about the Medical College of Virginia’s notorious 19th Century anatomist and grave robber Chris Baker, to be released June 1. A book launch party will be held at Book People in Richmond, Virginia on June 8th at 7 p.m.
Elizabeth Chiusano (Educ ’77, Educ ’79 CM)
Elizabeth “Beth” Moore Chiusano (Educ ’77, ’79 CM) has retired after 44 years as an audiologist. Her career included service in the Army as one of the first female audiologists. Chiusano also worked for 10 years in an ENT practice in Lawton, Oklahoma. Upon moving to Sussex County New Jersey in 2002, she purchased a private practice which she ran successfully for 21 years. She sold Sussex Audiology Services & Hearing Aid Center, LLC in 2023. She and her husband Wayne live in Andover Township, New Jersey.
Michael Iademarco (Med ’86)
Michael Iademarco (Med ’86) has retired after 25 years of active duty as assistant surgeon general with the rank of Rear Admiral in the Commissioned Corps of the U.S. Public Health Service. In his last role, as the deputy assistant secretary for science and medicine in the Department of Health and Human Services, he effected coordination for long COVID across the U.S. government. Iademarco also served at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, as the health attaché to the U.S. Mission to Vietnam in Hanoi, and on various medical and public health school faculties. He has published over 100 scientific articles and has received a Distinguished Service Medal, two Meritorious Service Medals, the Assistant Secretary for Health’s Exceptional Service Medal, four Foreign Duty Service Awards, and the Thomas A. Bartenfeld III Excellence in Public Health Practice award. He and his family live in Washington, D.C.
Michael Palladino (Grad ’94)
Michael Palladino (Grad ’94) has been appointed provost and vice president for academic affairs at Stockton University in Galloway, New Jersey. Palladino currently serves as vice chancellor for academic affairs at Bloomfield College of Montclair State University. His appointment is effective May 6.
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nancy colier (Col ’87)
Nancy Colier (Col ’87) has published her fifth book, The Emotionally Exhausted Woman: Why You’re Feeling Depleted and How to Get What You Need, a radically different self-care guide to help women find the courage to express their deepest needs, nurture self-awareness, and be themselves in a world that expects them to be everything to everyone.
Colier is a psychotherapist, interfaith minister and public speaker.
Cecily Zander (Col ’15)
Cecily Zander (Col ’15) has published The Army under Fire: Antimilitarism in the Civil War (LSU Press), a path-breaking study focusing on the fierce political debates over the size and use of military forces in the United States during the Civil War era. It examines how prominent political figures interacted with the professional army and how those same leaders misunderstood the value of regular soldiers fighting to reunify the fractured nation.
Rickey White (Educ ’83)
Rickey White (Educ ’83) has published a Christian romance novel, Beneath the Skin; a poetry book, Poetic Expressions from Beneath My Skin, and a children’s book, Cori Candle and the Vowel Family Quest.
Evan Rothschild (Com ’97 CM)
Evan Rothschild (Com ’97 CM) has become the newest Principal at Adero Partners, a wealth management firm with offices in the San Francisco area and in Portland, Oregon that caters to high-net-worth clients. As a Chartered Financial Analyst for over 24 years and a Certified Financial Planner, Rothschild excels in guiding thoughtful individuals and families through the intricacies of stock plan compensation, investments, estate planning, and personal risk management.
Rothschild previously worked as a financial adviser at Morgan Stanley, founder and portfolio manager at Morris Rothschild Capital, and senior equity analyst at The Boston Company and Delaware Investments. He lives in Redwood City, California with his wife Allyson.
Jim Ambuske (Grad ’16)
Jim Ambuske (Grad ’16) is the creator, writer and narrator of “Worlds Turned Upside Down,” a podcast about the American Revolution. Produced by R2 Studios, the series tells the story of the revolutionary era as a transatlantic crisis and imperial civil war through the lives of the people who experienced it. The show features many current and former UVA history faculty and graduates, including Max Edelson, Patrick Griffin, Shira Lurie (Grad ’19), Scott Miller (Grad ’15, ’18), Andrew O’Shaughnessy, Hannah Tucker (Grad ’17, ’21) and more. The podcast is available on all major podcast apps and R2 Studios’ website.
Reginald Sanders (Col ’81)
Dr. Reginald J. Sanders (Col ’81 CM), was recently named President of the American Society of Retina Specialists. The ASRS is the world’s largest organization for retina specialists, and Dr. Sanders is the first African American to serve as President. His other achievements include being elected into the Retina Hall of Fame as a charter inductee in 2016.
Justin Humphreys (Col ’01)
Justin Humphreys (Col ’01) has been nominated for a Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Award for Book of the Year for his recent biography George Pal: Man of Tomorrow.
Sarah Schweig (Col ’07)
Sarah V. Schweig (Col ’07) has won the 2023-24 Jake Adam York Prize for her second collection of poems, The Ocean in the Next Room. The collection will be published by Milkweed Editions in January 2025. Schweig’s first poetry collection, Take Nothing with You, was published by the University of Iowa Press in 2016.
Charles Avery (Col ’72)
Charles Avery (Col ’72) has been leading The Nehemiah Project DC, a federally funded housing program which helps men transition to society following incarceration, while also consulting on other mental health matters. He also serves as the president of the Loudoun Douglass School Alumni Association and co-chaired the effort to preserve and restore the school, which has been designated as a historic landmark. Avery, who was valedictorian of the last class of the segregated school, received a 2023 Charles Hamilton Houston Equity and Justice award from Loudoun County NAACP in recognition of his work.
Avery took on these projects after completing 11 years as the executive director of Veterans On the Rise, a non-profit dedicated to providing a holistic system of care to fight veteran homelessness in the Washington D.C. area.
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