Alumni Connect - May 2021

Alumni Connect – May 2021

Darryl Melissa Charles '12

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.

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Brooke '17 and Adrienne '90 Hershfield

Mother and daughter share Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê×ÊÁÏ 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.

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Tracy Brooks

Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê×ÊÁÏ 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.

Eric Spitz '87

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.

Crystal DiMeo '88/Cat Johnson

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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