Author: ajaronstein

  • Get your MAPH Reunion Program Here!

    Click on the cover image below to open a slideshow presentation of the Official MAPH Reunion Program.  We’re excited to see so many of you this Friday (June 3), and hope that those of you coming from afar have safe travels. Included in the program is a welcome message from MAPHCentral, a schedule of events,…

  • Who’s Coming to Reunion?

    More of the folks who will be presenting at Reunion! David Alm David Alm is a New York City-based journalist and adjunct professor at Hunter College and NYU’s School for Continuing and Professional Studies. He has written for more than a dozen magazines, covering new media business, culture, and art; independent film; and his avocation,…

  • Who’s Coming to Reunion?

    We’re just about five weeks away from the MAPH Reunion.  To help you all get a sense of the great panels that we’re having during the afternoon, we’ll be posting bios of the MAPH alums who will be speaking in the afternoon.  Today, it’s two alums on our Writers Panel.  Remember that festivities kick off…

  • Why MAPH?

    Prospective students have to decide by tomorrow whether to come to MAPH.  I’ve always thought it is a useful exercise (whether you’re a current student just finishing up the first draft of your thesis, or an alum from the class of 1997) to think about the reasons why you came to MAPH in the first…

  • Meet an Alum: Steve Capone

    I caught up with Steve Capone right before he embarked on a marathon grading session.  Steve is in the midst of finishing his coursework in the Philosophy Ph.D. program at the University of Utah (Salt Lake City) and we spent a few minutes commiserating about grading.  But  it turns out that the life of the…

  • Can you Keep up with Adam Richardson (MAPH 97)?

    MAPH Alums from the inaugural Class of 1997 have been checking in over the past week.  I’ll be talking with Adam Richardson, based in San Francisco–where he is Strategy Director for Marketing at Frog Design–tomorrow.   In what must be a copious amount of spare time, Adam blogs about design at Amphibious Blog.  This very…

  • An Elegy for Amelia Johnson

    A quick Google search for Andrew Rostan will produce a video of the 2010 MAPH alum dominating on Jeopardy! in 2007.  But his run as one of the top 10 all-time winningest contestants is almost old news as of March 8, 2011.  Today’s the day that Rostan’s anticipated (and already well reviewed) graphic novel An…

  • Meet an Alum: Michelle Ruvolo

    Michelle Ruvolo applied directly to MAPH during her senior year of college and arrived in Hyde Park the following fall.  “I didn’t have any plans,” she recalled when we spoke on the phone last week.  Like many incoming MAPHers, Ruvolo did have a sense that the academic life was where she wanted to be after…

  • Registration for the 2011 MAPH Reunion Bonanza is now Open!

    Are you planning on coming to Reunion?  Comment below!  Better yet, register TODAY!  We’ll keep track of how many people are signed up and will let you know. If you haven’t RSVP’s on the Official MAPH Facebook Page yet, get on board!  For more ways to get connected to the Program and Hyde Park, check…

  • The MAPHia: Resources for Alumni

    MAPH will have almost 1500 alumni by the end of this year.  Many of you are in Chicago, but we have alums in London, Singapore, China, India, Australia, and other faraway sounding places.  You are professors, non-profit fundraisers, curators, art gallery directors, program coordinators for corporate giving, heads of communications, attorneys, investment bankers, teachers, and…