Alumni Stories

By Garrett WestApril, 2018
While she is proud of her academic successes, Alyssa Goessler ’16 says her single greatest accomplishment was learning how to cope and live with mental health challenges while being a full-time student.
Major: Humanities•  Banque AIG in Paris 
Major: Physics •  Rockwell Science Center (now Teledyne Technologies)
Major: Chemistry•  Chemistry Professor at University of Wisconsin at La Crosse
Major: Independent Study•  Professor of Sociology and Environmental Policy, State University of New York•  Environmental Policy Group, Department of Social Sciences, Wageningen University in the Netherlands
Major: History•  Indiana University of Pennsylvania history professor•  2011 Veteran U.S. National Fencing Champion
Major: History•  Former U.S. Ambassador to Gabon
Majors: Spanish and International Studies•  Former Member, CHC Advisory Council•  Program Officer, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Majors: SP Theater Arts and Electronic Media Production•  Teach For America•  DVA Productions: The Big Picture: Rethinking Dyslexia (2012) and The Eyes of Thailand (2012)
Major: Sociology•  Former Member, CHC Advisory Council•  Court Appointed Special Advocate•  Retired School Counselor
Major: Fine Arts•  Principal at Kennedy Elementary School, Medford, Oregon
Major: Russian, Eastern European, and Eurasia Studies•  National Council for Eurasian and East European Research
Major: International Studies•  HIV treatment access for refugees and displaced populations•  Brigham and Women’s Hospital Department of Emergency Medicine
Major: Asian Studies•  Co-author, Scouting the War on Poverty: Social Reform Politics in the Kennedy Administration•  Urban Ore
Major: Physics• CEO of the Planetary Science Institute
Major: Mathematics and Computer Science•  Maseeh Professor of Emerging Technologies in the Department of Computer Science at Portland State University
Major: Chemistry and Mathematics•  Former Member, CHC Advisory Council•  Retired scientist
Major: Biomathematics•  Richard G. Cornell Distinguished University Professor of Biostatistics•  University of Michigan at Ann Arbor School of Public Health•  University of Michigan Center for Statistical Genetics and Genome Science Training Program
Major: ChemistryPh.D. BiochemistrySenior Investigator in the Laboratory of Gene Regulation and Development
Major: Journalism•  The San Diego Union- Tribune, The Seattle Times, The Oregonian•  Pulitzer Prize winner
Majors and Minors: Spanish, International Studies•  Legal Fellow, Equal Justice Initiative 
Major: Political Science•  Founder, Family Fitness Management 
Major: Education•  Professor of Education and Health Sciences, University of Canterbury
Major: Biology•  Senior Scientist, Hospital for Special Surgery - New York•  Lecturer, Weill Cornell Medical College at Cornell University