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  • January Class Notes

    Christopher Alwine MS ’94, a principal of Vanguard in Malvern, Pa., was listed as the fund manager for Vanguard’s high-yield tax-exempt fund (VWAHX). Alwine has been with Vanguard since 1990 and has managed investment portfolios since 1996. Chang An-Li ’95, MBA ’97 was appointed a non-executive director at New Focus Auto … Read more »

  • December Class Notes

    Daniel J. Astolfi MBA ’91 was elected to the Board of Business Leaders Organized for Catholic Schools, a Philadelphia nonprofit fund-raising group. Astolfi is senior vice president at Citizens Bank.  David Cates ’84 and his restaurant, Piccini Wood Fired Brick Oven Pizza, were profiled in an article appearing in the Shore News … Read more »

  • November Class Notes

    Justin Matte Bieber, Esq. ’01, a civil litigation attorney based in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, was featured in a Philadelphia Business Journal article which discussed the pros and cons of sharing his name with the famous pop star. David Bennett MBA ’91 was named CEO at Proterra, a manufacturer of electric, … Read more »

LeBow Technology Blog

  • Git Tricks from Nerdery Nerds Nerd

    "I don’t have to start this article with some cheap filler about how great Git is, right? or how everyone should use it every day?" http://thenerdary.net/articles/entry/git_tips_tricks An alias for committing is cool, but you'll likely make commenter, Dan Horrigan angry. I've seen loads of articles and lists (maybe a superstation song as … Read more »

  • Compress that huge PDF

    So I had a PPT slide deck of a presentation I gave at Educause.  I wanted to save it as a PDF for sharing with the attendees (without them having the actual PPT file).  Nothing new there so far...I wasn't even surprised that the PDF copy of my 2 MB … Read more »

Undergraduate International Residency

  • Day 7, Last Day Pt 2

    Once we left the mine we returned all the gear and boarded our bus to go to a local country club where we would wrap up our trip with the last lunch as a group before heading to the airport. Like all the excellent meals we had through out the … Read more »

  • Day 7, Last Day Pt 1

    Our last day in Santiago started very early. By six we were all on our bus, checked out of our hotel with our baggage packed up and ready to go.  We were headed to Sewell a mining town about 75 miles south of Santiago where we would have a chance … Read more »

  • Day 6, Pt 2

    After Leaving the Universidad del Desarollo we headed to the Maipo Valley to visit Viña Concha y Toro Winery, Chile's largest wine producer. When Chilean wine is mentioned the first words that come to mind to a lot of people is Concha y Toro, this is because the winery has … Read more »

Alma Observatory Co-op

  • Isaac's Day 1 + Day 2

    I am typing this from the temporary residences at the ALMA site in the Atacama Desert. I’ve been lacking in the blog post department, but I am picking up the slack starting…NOW.  We arrived in Santiago Sunday morning, and although I slept for the majority of the red-eye flight, I … Read more »

  • Day 2

    We have landed in Calama and we are on a bus to OSF. The flight was very short compared to 9 hr flight from Miami to Santiago. I recorded some videos of the plane departing from Santiago, including the surrounding mountain ranges and aerial shots of the city. … Read more »