Thank you for joining us this past February at the College of Arts and Sciences' 2018 Awards Dinner. In coordination with Indiana University's Through the Gates podcast and The College Magazine, we're pleased to present interviews with four of this year's award recipients: Outstanding Young Alumni Award recipient Jennifer Burnett-Zieman, and Distinguished Alumni Award recipients Mary Czerwinski, Anthony DeCurtis, and Emily Sano.
Thank you again for joining us this past February!
Jennifer Burnett-Zieman is chief of party for the VectorLink Project, a program funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) that focuses on malaria prevention. She previously served as the head of monitoring and evaluation for Abt Associates’ SHOPS Plus Project, the USAID's flagship private-sector health initiative.
Mary Czerwinski is a principal researcher and research manager of Microsoft's Visualization and Interaction (VIBE) Research Group. Her latest research focuses primarily on emotion tracking and intervention design and delivery, information worker task management, and health and wellness for individuals and groups. Czerwinski's research background is in visual attention and multitasking.
Anthony DeCurtis is a contributing editor for Rolling Stone, where his work has appeared for 35 years, and serves as a distinguished lecturer in the creative writing program at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Rocking My Life Away: Writing About Music and Other Matters and In Other Words: Artists Talk About Life and Work. This past October, he released his biography of Velvet Underground co-founder Lou Reed, Lou Reed: A Life, through Little, Brown, and Co.
Emily Sano is the senior advisor for Asian art at the San Antonio Museum of Art. A second generation Japanese American, she's previously served in a variety of curatorial positions at museums throughout the United States, including the Kimbell Art Museum in Forth Worth, Texas, the Dallas Museum of Art, and the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. She served as the Asian Art Museum's director from 1996 to 2008.
