Brooke Foucault Welles has been named Interim Dean of the College of Arts, Media and Design at Northeastern University. Her permanent role is Senior Associate Dean for Research and Partnerships and Professor in the Department of Communication Studies.
Benjamin Dollar has been elected to the board of the nonprofit Northeast Arc, which “helps children and adults with disabilities and autism become full participants in the community.” On joining the board, he said, “I have one child on the autism spectrum and one that is profoundly disabled. We have used Northeast Arc services, and I firmly believe in its mission. I’m honored to represent the company on the board of directors.” Mr. Dollar is a Principal at Deloitte Consulting, focusing on digital transformation in supply chain and manufacturing, and is also Chief Strategy Officer for the firm’s Energy, Resources, and Industrials practice.
Laura McJilton, Ph.D. has recently joined the law firm Greenberg Traurig as an associate to provide business-oriented IP legal advice for artificial intelligence, software, chemistry, life science, physics, and electronics-based technologies. Previously she was in-house counsel at a large biotechnology company, supporting the digital pathology division and all AI/ML initiatives. Previously she was a senior engineer at Intel.
Jonah Wade Henderson has graduated magna cum laude from Dickinson College with a Bachelor of Science in psychology and neuroscience and was named to the Dean’s List for the spring semester.
Angus Chen, Alessia Falchuk, and Lucy Vasil graduated from Fairfield University in May.
The nonprofit Weston Drama Workshop has announced that the following Newton residents are in this summer’s productions:
Older ensemble (ages 14-23):
- Adrian Kalish-Demaris as Fred and Sawyer Reitz as Roland Maule in Present Laughter (July 17, 19, 20, 25, 26)
- Kaiden Reitz and Matthew Salgado in the Ensemble in Sweeney Todd (July 17, 19, 20, 25, 26)
Younger ensemble (entering Grades 5-9):
- Mia Auslander as Sebastian; Giselle Bridges, Sofia De Leon, and Maeve McCalley as Featured Dancers; and Jill Galli and Zoey Schechter in the Ensemble in The Little Mermaid (July 19, 21, 22, 24, 26)
- Jill Galli as Christina/Student/Gang Kid and Asa Lee as Manny/Charlie/Cartoon Kid in Diary of a Wimpy Kid (July 18, 22, 23, 25)
The following Newton residents were named to the Dean’s List for the Spring semester at the University of Massachusetts Amherst:
Malik Adams-Rosa, Grace Alandydy, Michelle Azad, Nathaniel Baker, Talia Barts, Inez Baxter, Henry Bees, Mica Berman, Alicia Black, Nathaniel Bloom, James Bombara, Sydney Boucher, Samuel Brambilla, Graham Buckton, Hidaya Bukenya, Olivia Busa, Grace Campbell Maillet, Jocelyn Canton, Isidora Carcamo, Massimo Carrieri, Hope Carter, Grace Chan, Vincent Chang, Christian Chau, Michael Choi, Adam Christianson, Ezekiel Cochin, Reese Cote, Isabella Cummings, Ross Curran, James Dandrea, Melvin de Medeiros, Kriti Dhiman, Alexander Elvin, Elizabeth Elvin, Michael Fitzgerald, Isabel Frassica, Shain Friedman, Baiwen Fu, Amanda Furbacher, Steven Gao, Javier Garcia, Daniel Gelbert, Matthew Gillen, Nadav Granot, Dylan Gray, Douglas Greenbaum, Gabriel Grossman, Nicolas Hart, Griffin Hoeschele, Sawyer Hoeschele, Samuel Huang, Shirley Huang, Madison Hume, Isabella Ishanyan, Rohan Iyengar, Eric Jamsri, Kavin Kannan, Niko Keller-Go, Noah Kirby, Amit Kopolovic, Joshua Kurland, Veniamin Kushkov, Zeve Lakein, Paloma Lasavilla, Avery Lau, Alexandra Layer, Hwayoung Lee, Jessica Levinson, Katie Lin, Daniel Lis, Zhitong Liu, Nadav Loewy, Christina Lok, Anna Loomis Moore, Charlotte Lu, Wan Yin Luk, Julia Ma, Arya Manda, Kaia Martin, Jina Maynard, Shreyansh Misra, Nicholas Mount, Joseph Murphy, Bianca Nascimento, Elias Nassar, Matilda Neuffer, Samuel Newman, Emily Ng, Cory Nguyen, Julian Nielsen, Benjamin O’Guin, Brendan O’Guin, Nikolas Orlov, Samuel Ozer-Gortikov, Sedam Park, Siya Patel, Anthony Qiu, Caelan Quadra, Eli Rabson, Arjun Rajapur, Mohan Ram, Luke Rattanavijai, Eva Riesenburger, Lucas Rishikof, Avigail Rosen, Mikael Rotberg, David Samaan, Woojin Seo, Babar Shah, Emily Shaw, Isaac Shaw, Eric Shen, Dor Shitrit, Aman Singh, Maxwell Slater, Taesung Smith, Darren Soebagjo, Jillian Solari, Ido Spigelman, Nir Stein, Noya Stessel, Robin Stevens, William Stevens, Daniel Stolow, Fulin Tacettin, Benjamin Tang, Andrea Tchesnovsky, Preslava Tchesnovsky, Joshua Thompson, Robert Thurston, Grey Tiemann, William Truncer, Isabella Tsareva, Emma Vaughn, Paxton Volpe, Zach Vosker, Benjamin White, Aryeh Whittum, Leo Windels, Oliver Windels, Adam Wolf, Benjamin Wong, Zev Woodrow, Allison Wu, Ashlyn Yanhs, Angela Yee, Brandon Yee, Christopher Yee, Dylan Yee, Daniel Youman, Shihui Zou, and Irene Zuniga
