The Honors College is excited to spread the message of a few alumni and the exciting work they are currently doing from the April edition of In Focus.

The person analyzing all of the data that Nielsen collects about your TV viewing habits is Molly (Simmerman) Poppie (’04, BA; ’07, MA Sociology), who was featured on Nielsen’s website in April. More information can be found here. (Molly is married to another Honors alum, Kyle Poppie, Director, Data Science at Claritas in Chicago.

Melissa Zimdars (’08, BA Political Science and Journalism and Mass Communication; ’10, MA Media Studies) was an invited panelist for an April 5 discussion on “News: The Changing Landscape of Journalism in the 21st Century” at a conference hosted by the Concord-Carlisle Adult and Community Education Advisory Committee in Concord, Mass. More information can be found here