Alumni

But anyway, great homecoming concert.

Great step show, great alumni parties.

Alumni party Friday night.

There'll be an alumni day party on Friday.

Keisha Lance Bottoms and David Jolly.

In this episode, we're looking back at 20 years of young faculty awards and looking forward to how the program continues to evolve to grow the pipeline of researchers solving our nation's most pressing national security issues.

In addition to talking with Bart, we'll hear from three YFA alumni who went on to leadership roles across government, academia, and industry.

The YFA program is primarily focused on boosting the careers of early career scientists who are thinking in exceptionally fresh ways that align with our PM needs and giving them a fast track into the DARPA ecosystem.

These aren't grants.

into existence because he never knew how sinister it would become and that the cia would essentially be running its own foreign policy uh above the will the voice and the vote not just of the voters but of the president and government itself and here we are still dealing with that so uh usaid includes a lot of people some of the names you've heard here before um but what we got is um We got essentially Alexa Henning has written a great summary here.

She's calling it the USAID Alumni Network.

And she essentially says the USAID commonality appears to be the central component that triggered the leftist opposition towards a move forward towards stance on action against the Donald Trump administration and by consequence towards the 2026 midterms.

As I have shown you, this group has been running full steam since the first meeting.

So, on behalf of the Technion Alumni Association, my name is Jonathan Gall.

Here we go.

Technion alumni, go global.

Dr. Yarden Woolf, welcome to the podcast.

Shalom.

And like I said, it's one of our favorite events.

It's really what we strive to do in the foundation is to make those connections between alumni and our partners that give to us and our students.

And so this is just kind of a perfect example of that.

Um, we bring them, we used to have this one huge dinner and you probably remember this Chuck, when we would have about 250, 300 people, um, in the cafeteria, um, for one night.

So Dr. Stan Hill, former in our dentist and our dental hygiene program there at the Forest County campus, he and his lovely wife, they'll be visiting us today and getting to meet their student that receives the dental hygiene scholarship.

We have wonderful families that'll be coming in to represent nursing donations and scholarships.

And so Like I said, just kind of a full circle moment where, like I said, our students kind of get to interact with alumni.

They get to see the individuals that loved this institution so much that they wanted to give back in the form of a scholarship.

I, I was thinking alumna actually, but alumna, whatever.

Alumnae, like s-

Alumnae.

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Graduates of schools.

And by the way, you'll be able to get updated high school football or Metro News high school football power rankings right now at wvmetronews.com.

When we come back, we've got the vice president of alumni relations at WVU, Mr. Kevin Berry.

We're going to be talking about homecoming.

That's next on Talk of the Town, AM 1440, FM 104.5, WAJR.

It is a 917.

And also, by the way, just happens to be homecoming week here in Morgantown for West Virginia University.

And on the phone, got the vice president of alumni relations and also the CEO of the WVU Alumni Association, Kevin Berry.

Always a pleasure to have you on the phone.

I just wanted to be able to do some other things.

So is it Alumnae or is it Metro? It's Alumnae.

Alumnae.

Notice how you have to say it Alumnae.

Alumnae.

Like she said.

Marcus.

Thank you all.

And now it's my pleasure to announce the $25,000 award winner in the Alumni and Affiliates Healthcare and Life Sciences track.

That goes to Noam Peled, Findneuro.

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[laughs] Got some little fans in the audience.

I love it.

[audience laughs] Uh, and now for our $75,000 award winner in the Alumni and Affiliates Healthcare and Life Sciences track.

It goes to Katerina Chatsi, Promachos Therapeutics.