Class Notes: 2002

Class of 2002 Rachelle Gold

Rachelle Gold ’02 writes: “In May 2026, I was selected among a competitive group of applicants at North Carolina Central University, where I have been teaching since 2008, for the highest teaching award in public higher education in the state of North Carolina, the University of North Carolina's Board of Governors' Award for Teaching Excellence. The award comes with a bronze medallion and a...

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Class of 2002 Shelley Wong

Shelley Wong's debut poetry collection As She Appears (YesYes Books) was longlisted for the 2022 National Book Award and is a finalist for the 2023 Lambda Literary Award.

Class of 2002 2002

Linsey Marr, Ph.D. ’02, the Charles P. Lunsford Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Virginia Tech, has been selected to receive a 2022 Outstanding Faculty Award from the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia. Linsey is one of fewer than 12 worldwide experts on aerosol transmission of viruses. She has been working with airborne viruses for the past 13 years, but her...

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