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 °®¶¹´«Ã½ 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.
°®¶¹´«Ã½ 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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