>>> Karen Blodgett ’86, Tu’91, has been named one of the Top 100 Women Financial Advisors by Financial Times newspaper. The San Francisco- based Blodgett is the director of wealth management for Aspiri- ant, an investment advisor with more than $8 billion of assets under management.
>>> Bill Daly ’86 has been inducted into the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame and received the 2014 Lester Patrick Trophy for outstanding service to U.S. hockey. Named the first-ever deputy commissioner of the NHL in 2005, Daly serves as the chief consultant to the NHL commissioner on all issues that impact the league’s operation and overall business.
>>> Caroline Diamond Harrison ’86, publisher of the Staten Island Advance, has been elected the Staten Island representative to the board of trustees of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
>>> Abigail Hopper ’93 has been named director of the U.S. Bu- reau of Ocean Energy Management. Hopper, who was director of the Maryland Energy Ad- ministration, will lead an agency established in 2011 to help manage the development of oil, gas and renewable energy resources on the outer Continental Shelf.
>>> Sean Kisker ’99 has been promoted to the newly created post of chief strategy officer and general manager of the Lionsgate mo- tion picture group. Kisker, who was named to Variety’s list of Hollywood’s New Lead- ers 2011, will help manage the mini-studio’s movie franchises.
>>> Nicholas Rule ’04, an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Toronto, has earned a SAGE Young Scholars Award from the Foundation for Personality and Social Psychology and SAGE Publications. Rule, who received the Ministry of Research and Innovation of Ontario’s Early Researcher Award in 2012, researches the processes by which people evaluate others’ faces.
>>> Matthew Heineman ’05 had his new doc- umentary, Cartel Land, shown during the Sundance Film Festival in January. In the film vigilantes on both sides of the border fight vicious Mexican drug cartels, provoking questions about lawlessness and whether citizens should fight violence with violence.
>>> Chelsea Wood ’06, a University of Michi- gan disease ecologist, has been awarded a 2014 Science & SciLifeLab Prize for Young Scientists for her essay, “Environmental Change and the Ecology of Infectious Dis- ease,” a study of how biodiversity loss can change the composition of parasite assem- blages and patterns of disease transmission.