Congratulations to Alum Tisha Marie Reichle-Aguilera, ‘09 (Los Angeles, MFA) whose play Blind Thrust Fault will be presented at the Kirk Douglas Theater as part of the L.A. Writers’ Workshop Festival. Working under the guidance of Luis Alfaro, Tisha took inspiration from earthquake-prone Los Angeles, her 17 years of teaching high school, and the challenges of teaching in a pandemic. A graduate of the Citron cohort, Tisha is currently a PhD candidate in Creative Writing and Literature at USC where she is a Wallis Annenberg Fellow.
Jesse Caney
Jesse Caney, a student in the MS in Environmental Studies, Conservation Biology concentration, and MassWildlife, the Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife, were featured in Wareham Week for tagging two nestling baby bald eagles by placing colored bands on their ankles to track, study and test them from infancy to adulthood for ecotoxins and contaminants in their blood and feathers. During the banding process, Caney drew the eagles’ blood for testing. Caney’s graduate thesis is a first on the East Coast focusing on the presence of harmful manmade chemicals in eagle blood. You can read the complete article here.