Month: November 2010
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Alum Holiday Gathering
HEADS UP, Alums! This Thursday evening from 6-9 pm (or however long you want to hang out and reminisce about the good old MAPH days), we’ll be holding a get together at Clark Street Ale House (742 N. Clark Street, 60610). You’ll recognize it by the neon “Stop and Drink” sign out front. The first…
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Meet an Alum: Kristen Wahl Hagan
Kristen Wahl Hagan entered MAPH in the Fall of 2005 after having received Bachelor’s degrees in Clothing and Textile design (Virginia Tech University) and Art History (Indiana University). She came to MAPH intending to apply for PhD programs in Art History, but her experiences working in the art world also gave her a sense of…
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Meet an Alum: Beth Gallagher
Beth Gallagher is the Director of Community Involvement for AON Corporation, headquartered in Chicago. According to her bio, she is responsible for “managing the day-to-day operations of the AON Foundation giving programs, which include grants, sponsorships, business unit charitable contributions, disaster relief and employee matching gifts. In addition, Beth oversees employee volunteer programming at the…
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Meet an Alum: Anna Piepmeyer
Anna Piepmeyer graduated from MAPH in 2007. She thought she had a pretty clear idea of what came after the Program. “Like most people, I had assumed it was a PhD and that I’d be an English professor,” she told me during a phone conversation. Anna spent the first half of the year thinking “I…
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Meet an Alum: Introduction
As many of you know, MAPH will graduate its FIFTEENTH class in June 2011! We have more than 1,500 alumni, a huge number of which live, work, and in various ways pursue the species-being life right here in the Chicagoland area. But regardless of geographic location, we want to hear what you’re up to–especially if…