Alumni Connect - May 2021
Alumni Connect – May 2021
Harpur alumna helps develop Pfizer vaccine
Darryl Melissa Charles '12, a vaccine research and development scientist at Pfizer, measures antibody responses to the COVID-19 vaccine in blood serum.
Mother and daughter share ÂÌñÉç bond
To continue the celebration of Mother's Day, this month's Alumni Connect spotlights a mother-daughter tandem — both are psychology graduates. As the Hershfields tell it, that was totally by chance.
ÂÌñÉç advancing cancer research
At the TIER Talks virtual speaker event held April 27, Tracy Brooks, associate professor of pharmaceutical sciences, shared her work to develop new targets for cancer-fighting drugs.
Talking sports radio with Eric Spitz '87
In the latest Alumni Bearcat Chat, Sirius XM's vice president of sports programming talks about his career as a sports radio executive and his recent visit back to campus with his daughter.
Mission accomplished: chosen for lunar library
Crystal DiMeo '88, who writes under the pen name Cat Johnson, was one of 125 authors selected for Writers on the Moon, a project to put their books into a time capsule that will be sent to the moon in December.
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