Class of 2014
Stefan Lemke (Neuroscience: Circuits and Behavior) is in the Neuroscience Graduate Program at the University of California-San Francisco.
Juliet Rojas began the Master of Healthcare Administration program at the University of Minnesota in the fall of 2014.
Laura Beck will started work in June 2014 as an Entertainment Technician at Disney’s Animal Kingdom theme park in Lake Buena Vista FL.
Marcia Klopf is pursuing a Master’s degree in Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, with the possibility of continuing on for a degree in architecture in the School of Architecture at UIUC.
Sudip Bhandari was awarded a Humanity in Action Fellowship for his work with the Anne Frank Project Nepal (Read more in St. Olaf News.) Sudip also received the 2014 Distinguished Senior Leadership Award from the St. Olaf Student Government Association. The HIA fellowship will take him to Warsaw, Poland, for the summer. Then, he will have a year-long Global Health Corp fellowship with the Global Health Delivery Project at Harvard University, and start in the Master’s program at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University the following fall.
Love Odetola will use the summer after graduation to launch the Women for Women Empowerment social venture in Sengal with Soukeyna Bocoum. They will work with female farmers and young female drop-outs to offer resources for poverty alleviation and social emancipation. They received seed funding for the project from The Resolution Project at the Clinton Global Initiative Conference. In the fall, Love will enter the Master’s in Public Health program at the University of Minnesota, with a focus on maternal and child health.
Jake Roberts spent the summer assisting Ben Golden ’12 in lighting design and master electrician work at the Heartland Festival, UW-Platteville. Then he moved to Baltimore MD, as the lighting intern at Center Stage Theater.
Tara Reyelts is in the Ph.D. program in African Studies at Michigan State University.
Love Odetola set out to advocate for vulnerable populations in sub-Saharan Africa after completing her individual major for Health and Wellness in the Developing World through St. Olaf’s Center for Integrative Studies (CIS). She was awarded the Resolution Fellowship which will allow her to continue projects she began in the community of Lambaneme.
Class of 2006
Leif Eikevik is the lead architect on a design team creating one of the world’s first 3D-printed houses for an Additive Manufacturing Inte-grated Energy project in partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy.
Class of 2002
Peter Erdman (Film Analysis) is a Network Access Planner at Level 3 Communications in the Greater Denver Area. He earned an International MBA with a concentration in Asian Business & Marketing, from the University of Denver Daniels College of Business in 2010, adding a graduate certificate in digital marketing in 2012.
Erika (Hoyt) King (Linguistic Studies: Language and Meaning) is a Speech-Language Pathologist and Aural Rehabilitation Specialist at Fairview Health Services in the Twin Cities, since July 2010. In January 2012 she also began private practice as a Speech-Language Pathologist and Listening and Spoken Language Specialist, providing speech-language therapy in the area of listening and spoken language for children with hearing loss. She earned an M.A. in Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities in 2007.
Matt Miller (The Emerging Creative Self: Personal Growth in a Relative World) is Associate Editor (Previews) at Game Informer Magazine (www.gameinformer.com), where he has been a writer and editor since 2004.
Class of 2001
Ben Deering (International Relations) is a Foreign Affairs Specialist in the National Nuclear Security Administration. He earned an M.A. in International Energy Policy from Johns Hopkins University School for Advanced International Studies (SAIS) IN 2006. From Sept 2010-Sept 2013 he was Executive Briefer to the Secretary and Deputy Secretary of Energy (U.S. Dept of Energy), and received the Secretary of Energy’s Achievement Award from Secretary Steven Chu in 2012.
Alia Tarraf (Film Studies) is a VFX (Visual Effects) Coordinator and Writer for The Walt Disney Studios in Los Angeles, since July 2011.