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Alumna Profile: Lucie McGrane, DPT '17
In the year since Lucie McGrane graduated from Chatham University’s Doctor of Physical Therapy program, she has built an impressive career as a physical therapist for Broadway performers.
Alumna Profile: Sowmya Narayanan '10
Dr. Sowmya Narayanan just finished an MD/PhD program and is about to start her general surgical residency at UPMC. Still, she made time in her schedule to be the keynote speaker at Chatham’s first annual Department of Science Student Research Day.
Nola the Nurse and Scharmaine Baker-Lawson, DNP '08
It’s a drizzly morning in Shreveport, LA, but big band jazz pours from the loudspeakers inside the Greenwood Acres Full Gospel Baptist Church, and look—a giant mascot dressed as a nurse in a white uniform with a huge afro and long felt lashes is dancing up the aisle.
Alumnus Profile: Hal B. Klein, MAFS '12
Like many, Hal B. Klein set out to become an actor. Like fewer, he did. After earning a BA in theatre in California, he headed to New York (to work) and to London (to pursue a post-graduate certificate in classical acting). Roles followed in a few independent films, in commercials, and at Shakespeare festivals around the country.
Alumna Profile: Celeste Smith '13
You might say that Celeste Smith’s take on the arts is supported by two pillars. One is discoverable the minute you ask her about “the arts”—dollars to donuts, her answer begins by requesting that the conversation be about “arts and culture” (she counts watching her mom bake and choose home décor among her earliest experiences of “the arts”).
Alumna Carol Mason '67 Elected to National Academy of Sciences
Alumna Carol Mason, PhD, ’67 was elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) on May 1, in recognition of her distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. She was one of 84 new members and 21 foreign associates to receive the honor.
Alumna Profile: Abigail Gambino-Walker '16
I am currently employed as a high-end residential interior designer here in Pittsburgh, and I graduated from Chatham’s Bachelor of Interior Architecture program. Over the course of a few years, I have worked on numerous scale renovations, new build constructions, and showhouses for Traditional Home Magazine across the United States.
From Cohort to Cohabitation: Mike Bacasa, MPT ’96 and Holly Putnam Bacasa, MPT ’96
Holly Putnam was working at Cappy’s Café on Walnut Street when a friend walked in one morning, accompanied by a man she didn’t know. “This is Mike Bacasa,” said the friend of the man she would one day end up marrying and having four children with. “You’re both starting the physical therapy program at Chatham.”