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Two alumni have taken leadership roles at the American Physical Society, based in College Park, Maryland. Before taking over as CEO in December, Jonathan Bagger 77 served as director of TRIUMF, Canada’s particle accelerator laboratory in Vancouver, and a physics and astronomy professor at the University of British Columbia. Presidentelect Frances Heilman 78, who will lead the society in 2022, is the dean of mathematical and physical sciences at the University of California, Berkeley, where she conducts research.
Attorney John Hueston ’86, a partner with Hueston Hennigan of Newport Beach, California, has been named a Lawyer of the Decade by The Daily Journal. The “go-to strategistfor high-stakes trials and complex civil litigation,” according to the California newspaper, Hueston’s clients include Amazon, Tesla Inc., and the Walt Disney Co.
Nicholas Nesbitt ’85, Th’86, Th’87, has been named No. 4 among the 2021 “Top 25 Most Influential Chairs of Board” list by Business Monthly, East Africa edition. Nesbitt, the chairman of the Kenya Private Sector Alliance as well as the East Africa Business Council, is credited with leading privatesector engagement with government.
Landscape architect Susannah Drake ’87 has earned the inaugural 2020 Cooper Hewitt National Design Award for Climate Action for her work on Gowanus Canal Sponge Park in Brooklyn. Drake, the founding principal of dlandstudio, developed the park in an EPA Superfund site to capture and clean urban stormwater runoff.
Timmeko Moore Love ’96, the first Black woman to lead a corporate venture capital (CVC) fund for ^.Fortune 500 company, has been named to Global Corporate Venturing’s Powerlist 2020. She joined New Orleansbased energy utility Entergy as managing director last February.
Author Max Gross ’OO has earned the 2020 Jewish Book Council Book Club Award for his debut novel, The LostShtetl (HarperVia). In a starred review Publisher’s Weekly also raved: “Gross’s entertaining, sometimes disquieting tale delivers laugh-out-loud moments and deep insight on human foolishness, resilience, and faith.”
Ani Liu ’08, whose research and art was profiled in the November/December 2017 DAM, has received a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship in digital-electronic arts. The Queens-based Liu studied sculpture at Dartmouth and earned an M.S. from MIT’s Media Lab.
