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Salt Houses, a novel by Hala Alyan (M.A. '09), won the 2018 Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Fiction, a U.S. literary award recognizing the power of written word to promote peace. Read more>>

Ipek Bakir (M.A. '15) of the Overdeck Family Foundation was recently named one of Forbes 30 Under 30 in education. Read more>>

Travis Bristol (Ph.D. '14) recently joined the Berkeley Graduate School of Education as an assistant professor. Read more>>

Sybil Jordan Hampton (Ed.D. ‘91) received a Diversity Leadership Award from the University of Chicago. Read more>>

We are thrilled to announce the 2019 recipients of the prestigious TC Alumni Awards! Please join us in congratulating Distinguished Alumni Awardees Bruce Ballard (Ed.D. ’94), Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni (M.A. ’97) and Denny Taylor (Ed.D. ’81); Early Career Awardees Tony Alleyne (M.A. ’10), Kim Baranowski (Ph.D. ’14) and Hakim Mohandas Amani Williams (Ed.D. ’12); and the recipient of the inaugural Alumni Award for Outstanding Service Joohee Son (Ed.D. ’13). We look forward to celebrating the accomplishments of these alumni at Academic Festival on Saturday, April 13. 

Musical America recognized Barbara Lister-Sink (Ed.D. '15), Director of the School of Music at Graduate Music Program at Salem College, as one of their Top 30 Professional of 2018. Read more>>

Community College Research Center graduate Veronica Minaya (Ph.D. '16) consulted for the World Bank in several countries, including Afghanistan, where she helped establish the country's post-war education system. Read her profile here>>

Hulu is releasing a documentary about Dr. Ruth Westheimer (Ed.D. '70), a Holocaust survivor who became America's most famous sex therapist. Watch a trailer>> 

Look for your next great read? Check out this month's featured alumni publications:

High Quality Early Learning for a Changing World by Beverly Falk (Ed.D. ’93)

Becoming Transnational Youth Workers by Isabel Martinez (Ph.D. ’11)

The Black Alabaster Box by TC Professor Emerita Frances Schoonmaker (Ed.D. ’83) 

If you have a books, apps, art or other projects you'd like to share with the TC community, send them to tcalumni@tc.edu with the subject line "#TCMade."