2020s
Tyler Ketchum ’24 is making the most of his gap year before university by launching his own startup. “Project Carb, LLC, aims to enhance the accuracy and reliability of 3D printers by preemptively compensating for deviation patterns inherent to certain 3D printing processes,” Tyler reports. (Translation for the non–software developers among us: Project Carb helps predict and correct 3D printing errors before they happen!) One of Tyler’s highlights of the year so far has been filing a provisional patent application for his newly developed software.
February 2025
Lucy Watson ’20, Grace Gallagher ’20 and Hannah Semaya ’20 reunited in New York City earlier this month—we love to see it!
February 2025
Laura Boyle ’20 is living in Washington, DC, for her two gap years before starting at Harvard Law School. She is working as a research assistant at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors—and loving it. “It’s really cool to get to make the charts that Jerome Powell and the Federal Open Market Committee use when they set interest rates. Everyone is really nice, and I have a good Duke friend group in DC!,” Laura reports.
January 2025
Alex Whitman ’22, who is a walk-on sophomore boundary receiver at Notre Dame, was part of Fighting Irish history as his team competed in the national championship game in Atlanta against Ohio State on Monday, 20 January. While the Irish fell to the Buckeyes 34-23, they reached the final of the first-ever 12-team playoff—and defeated Indiana, Georgia, and Penn State along the way!
January 2025
Olivia Stenmo ’21 lives in Laikipia, Kenya, where she is working at the intersection of sustainability, wildlife conservation, and education initiatives with the Zeitz Foundation. Among other philanthropic works, the foundation helps maintain school programs serving more than 2,000 local students each year, and Olivia and her sister Isabella are currently working to help support students of all ages.
October 2024