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| Honors Alumni Class Notes | Featured Honors Alum | |
The Honors Office has a diverse and well-accomplished group of alumni. Below are notes from a few of them, and we hope you enjoy hearing what your peers (and possibly old friends) have been up to!
Emily Mitchem
Graduate Student
Department of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
University of Florida/IFAS
pandaba@ufl.edu
I started UF in 2002 as a member of the Honors Program. I lived in the "new Hume" for the inaugural year and the year after (I even won a brick from the "old Hume"). In December 2005, I graduated UF summa cum laude with a Bachelor's degree in Zoology. While at UF, I received my NAUI scuba instructor certification through the Academic Diving Program (UFADP). Since graduating, I worked at UF's Department of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences (FAS) as a science diver for about 8 months before starting my master's coursework at FAS, under the supervision of Dr. Thomas Frazer. In March of 2006, I presented a poster with the results from my University Scholar's Project at the National Shellfisheries Conference in Monterey, California. In addition to my graduate work, I teach Open Water scuba diving at UF (PEN 1136) and help out in the pool and on checkout dives with the Advanced scuba class (PEN 2138). I'm doing my master's research on a coral that lives near the St. Martin's Keys, near Homosassa, Florida. I'm going to be looking at shading effects as a result of eutrophication on these small, golf ball-shaped corals.
Rachael T. Shenkman*
Epstein Becker & Green, P.C.
1227 25th Street, N.W., 7th Floor
Washington D.C. 20037
Phone: 202-861-5339
Fax: 202-861-3029
rshenkman@ebglaw.com
*Admission to the Florida bar pending.
Rachael Shenkman (UF '03) is an attorney in the Health Care and Life Sciences Practice in the Washington, D.C. office of the law firm Epstein Becker & Green. She graduated in May 2003 in Political Science with minors in Spanish and Art History. Rachael works with a range of clients in the health care industry such as biotechnology companies and academic health centers. Rachael earned her law degree in May 2006 from the University of Michigan law school where she was active in the Domestic Violence Clinic and Pediatric Advocacy clinic. In addition to practicing law, Rachael enjoys writing and performing original music around Washington and watching the Gator games with the D.C. Gator Club.
Tim Tinnesz
Middle/Upper School Social Studies
Upper School Student Government Advisor
Gaston Day School
704-864-7744 ext. 248
Teacher/Class Website: Click Here
Tim graduated from UF with a BA in Political Science in 2002. After graduation, he married his high school and college sweetheart—also a UF Honors student—Karen Glade (BA, English and BS, Mathematics, 2002). The two moved to Washington, D.C., where Tim used his James Madison Memorial Fellowship for his graduate studies at Georgetown University. During his graduate coursework, Tim began teaching at high schools in Silver Spring and Chevy Chase, Maryland. He earned his MA in American Government from Georgetown in 2004.
After Karen earned her MA in Mathematics from the University of Maryland in 2005, the two moved to Gastonia, NC, right outside of Charlotte. They both now teach middle and upper school at Gaston Day School, an independent, college preparatory school in Gastonia. Tim teaches American History, AP American History, and AP Government, and acts as the faculty sponsor for the Student Government. Tim and Karen spent summer of 2006 on an 8000-mile cross-country road trip to San Francisco and back. "On the way," they visited Mammoth Cave (KY), Mount Rushmore (SD), Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks (WY), Yosemite and Sequoia National Parks (CA), Las Vegas, the Grand Canyon, Carlsbad Caverns…and the "UFO crash site" of Roswell, NM.
