Past Class Notes
Submission Date:
First Name: Robert
Last Name: Bruschini
Class Year: 1985
Photo:
Perhaps the first image of me loving what I do!
Note: Robert Bruschini '85 (GAP) re-joined the Corporate Brand Creative team at Bristol Myers Squibb as Director, Corporate Brand Photography and Video. He is responsible for leading the visual identity of the new global corporate brand through photography and video across all platforms and communication channels. His experience in photography has been a part of the corporate creative team since 1992 through 2012, where he helped bring to life their first corporate campaign and photographed their leadership teams, patients, and products for the Annual Report and captured many corporate events. Before re-joining BMS, Robert owned his own photography business, Robert Bruschini Images, LLC. While running this photography business, he brought passion not only for photography but for many companies and continued to a part of BMS as a freelance photographer. He has been a consistent source of photograph inspiration for the corporate creative team, creating a clear artistic vision for the company. Given his experience and vision for the corporate brand, Robert works across the company to convey and enhance consistent execution in order to set the standard for the new company. He will be responsible for both photography and video in the new brand style that will appear in internal and external communications, including corporate events and meetings, websites, brochures and reports, and on social media helping to tell the company story through compelling visual detail. Robert's role will require working across the entire organization along with agency partners to develop highly engaging, impactful content that supports employee communications, as well as building and managing an image and video library.
Submission Date:
First Name: Jerlyn
Last Name: Thomas
Class Year: 2007
Photo:
Michael and Jerlyn exchanging vows at their favorite running path
Note: Jerlyn Thomas '07 (CIAS) and Michael O'Donnell were married on May 26, 2019. Both are marathoners and triathlon (half ironman) athletes who met each other on OkCupid. They got married on their favorite running path in New Paltz, officiated by Michael's sister, and went for a run proceeding the ceremony. They currently live in NYC.
Submission Date:
First Name: Jerlyn
Last Name: Thomas
Class Year: 2007
Photo:
Michael, Jerlyn and Mattis
Note: Jerlyn (Thomas) Donnell '07 (CIAS) and her husband, Michael, are happy to announce the birth of their daughter, Mattis Joan, on February 20, 2020.
Submission Date:
First Name: Samuel
Last Name: Giannavola
Class Year: 1979
Photo:
Sam Giannavola '79
Note: Sam Giannavola '79 (CIAS) has retired from a 34 year career at the University of Arkansas for Medical Science in Little Rock, Arkansas. He held a number of staff and administrative positions over the years including Director of the 40 person department that included photographers, graphic designers, videographers and a print shop. He was very active in the Biological Photographic Association for many years and held many elected positions including Executive Secretary of the Board of Registry and as a member of the House of Delegates. His photography earned many awards and he was an active presenter giving over forty podium presentations at local, national and international meetings. He became a Registered Biological Photographer (RBP) in 1980, was awarded Fellowship (FBPA) for meritorious contributions to the biological sciences in 1998 and a lifetime services award, the Louis Schmidt Laurite award in 2005 by the Biological Photographic Association. Throughout his career he enjoyed teaching photography and presentation graphics to healthcare professionals. He is the proud father of Alexander Russell Giannavola and Madeline Rose Giannavola. Alex is his hero and he is in awe of Rosie.
Submission Date:
First Name: Ryan
Last Name: Vogt
Class Year: 2015
Photo:
Ryan Vogt
Note: Ryan Vogt '15 (GCCIS) successfully defended his Ph.D thesis "Interface Problems and Binary Electromagnetic Cloaking Designs in Computational Electromagnetics";. Ryan is currently a mathematician at Argonne National Laboratory working on partial-differential equation optimization theory and optimal control of partial-differential equations. He is starting a new role at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the Quantum Computing group, focusing on the optimal control of quantum systems to construct the next generation quantum computers.