Dan Zhu, MM Performance ’05 recently performed with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Maestro Christoph Eschenbach on the occasion of the 75^th anniversary of the Tanglewood Festival.  At the concert, a tribute to Leonard Bernstein, Dan performed Bernstein’s violin concerto “Serenade.”  Dan also recently was invited by Maestro Zubin Mehta to perform with the Maggio Musicale Orchestra di Fiorentina in Florence, Italy in September 2013.

Ralph Thomas Patterson, MA Media Studies ’08 was recently awarded an Emmy by the New York chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. The award was granted to him as a cameraman and technical supervisor for the WNBC news special “9/11 We Remember”.  Ralph has worked at WNBC since September 11, 1982.

Mathew Thornburn, MFA Creative Writing ’01 published his third book of poems in March 2013. This Time Tomorrow, a collection of poems about traveling and experiences in China, Iceland and Japan, is available in the U.S. and U.K. from the Waywiser Press.

Kerry Brown, MA Philosophy ’06 presented a paper entitled “The Death of the Beloved Community: More Drugs Less Morals” at the Philosophy Born of Struggle conference at Texas A&M University in October 2012.

Samantha Paige VanHorn, MA Psychology ’10 has received a full scholarship and five-year stipend towards her PhD study in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Emory University.

Nadine B. Hack, MA Liberal Studies ’85 is the CEO of beCause Global Consulting.  Recently, she gave a TEDx talk in Geneva called “Adversaries to Allies”, and hosted “Trust on Internet” a radio show on VoiceAmerica about how to create, measure and protect trust on the Internet.  In March 2013, she was part of an event in which 80 women in international business positions opened the SIX Swiss stock exchange in Zurich.

Fotini Vurgaropulos, MFA Sculpture ’90 recently installed a nine-foot mixed media piece in a public New York City garden space in Red Hook, Brooklyn.

Melissa Atteberry, Directing ’05 directed several solo-performances for Emerging Artists Theatre in March:  One Brief Shining Moment, written & performed by Marc Castle; Cleaning Up, written & performed by Paul Adams; and Naked, written and performed by Vanessa Shealy.

Brian W. Seibert, Acting ’05 will release his film Turtle Hill, Brooklyn on May 3 at Quad Cinemas in New York City.

Jenny Doussan, History of Decorative Arts and Design ’02 has published her first book.  Titled ‘Time, Language, and Visuality in Agamben’s Philosophy’, the book is a monograph on philosopher Giorgio Agamben.  It will be released in May 2013 by Palgrave Macmillan.

Michelle A. Boleski, Illustration ’80 recently had floral work featured in the Martha Steward Weddings Winter 2012/2013 issue.

Alejandro Basanez, Politics ’07 has been appointed as First Secretary and Head of Cultural Affairs at the Embassy of Mexico in Japan.  Basanez previously served as Spokesman at Mexico’s diplomatic delegation to the United Nations.  While he was at The New School, Basanez also participated in the New School’s Transregional Center for Democratic Studies Summer Program in Krakow, Poland; and said that this experience was instrumental in shaping his vision of a new cultural diplomacy that promotes performance and art as fundamental ways to encourage political expression and social change.