Alumni News

Welcome to the alumni news section of the Philosophy Department website. On this page, we include brief biographical updates from members of our featured class or classes, as well as recent updates from alumni in other classes. Click on the details link for more information on each alumnus.

FEATURED: THE REUNION CLASSES (2008, 2003, 1998, 1993, 1988, and beyond)

Jim Lasko, 1988 - Jim Lasko is an artist creating theatrical events that reveal and celebrate overlooked and hidden cultural assets. As a principle to Redmoon Theater in Chicago, Jim’s work has activated a wide range of public spaces, from the Museum of Contemporary Art to the Jackson Park Lagoons, from groundbreakings for the Art Institute of Chicago and the Spertus Center, to urban interventions that pop up in some of the Chicago’s most underserved communities. Mr. Lasko’s theater work has received numerous awards and critical notices and played across the country. He was Chicago’s first ever Artist in Residence, a recognition of his commitment to deploying art to activate communities. In 2011 he was honored to design the staging a pubic talk by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Mr. Lasko is a Harvard University Loeb Fellow. He is pleased to serve on a number of advisory boards, including the Chicago Children’s Museum and The Nantucket Project.

RECENT NEWS FROM OTHER CLASSES

Nathan Brand, 2011 - Since graduating Nathan spent a year in East Africa first working in a rural clinic in Malawi before moving to Kampala Uganda to help conduct research on severe pediatric malaria. Nathan returned to the U.S. in the summer of 2012 to continue his career in biomedical research at the National Institutes of Health and apply to medical school. In 2013, Nathan will start medical school at Columbia's college of Physicians and Surgeons.

Michael Anthony Fowler, 2006 - Michael is currently in the dissertation stage of the Ph.D. program in Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University and helping his partner of six years, Sylvain Bruni, plan their 2014 wedding in Sylvain's native France. Details.

ABOUT THESE PAGES

We will feature different classes during different terms: summer - the recent graduating class; fall - 5, 10, and 15 year reunion classes at Homecoming; and spring - alumni from classes earlier than 15 years ago. In addition, we include the latest news from alumni in other classes.

To view information on alumni in the news and lists of all alumni by year, with the latest information they have submitted, click on the links at the left . Finally, to submit updates about yourself, click on the Alumni Update Form link. Keep in touch!

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