Gregory Zed (BSc’74, Bed’75, MSW’77) has spent 45 years working in addictions, mental health, and suicide prevention. He has devoted his career to shifting preconceptions about mental illness and individuals living with mental illness, and is a very active volunteer in his community of Saint John, New Brunswick.

Ameeta Vohra (BA’04) had a busy holiday season. The International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) brought her on board to cover the 2023 World Junior Hockey Championships in Halifax by way of managing social media content and writing stories.

Jesse Albiston (BComm’14) is the co-founder of Bitstrapped, an MLOps provider. Jesse is also working on vision intelligence, data pipelines and Google Cloud infrastructure for Spot, the robot dog from Boston Dynamics.

Charlene Ripley (JD’88), formerly EVP at SNC-Lavalin Inc., is now with Teck Resources Ltd. as SVP and General Counsel.

Roger Thompson (BA’89, BAHC’91, MA’94) has had a successful career as both an author and a journalist. He recently published an article for the journal Responsible Statecraft titled “Facing the Hard Facts about the ‘World Class’ US Navy” which was read by more than 137,000 online readers, an all-time record for that publication.

James Boxall (MA’00, MLIS’06), the Dalhousie University Libraries Geographer and Map Curator, was recently honoured with the Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Medal for service to education.

Dr. Colin Levings (PhD’72) has been researching the work and travels of famed American marine biologist Edward Flanders Ricketts (1897-1948). Ricketts was co-author of the iconic book Between Pacific Tides and also a friend of writer John Steinbeck.

Roberta Barker (BA’96, MA’97) has published a new book, Symptoms of the Self: Tuberculosis and the Making of the Modern Stage, through the University of Iowa Press’s multi-award-winning series, “Studies in Theatre History and Culture.”

Seema Dosaj (BSc’85, MD’90) completed her family medicine residency at McGill after which she joined the Montréal General Hospital’s emergency room and Department of Psychiatry as staff for several years. For over a decade, Seema served as an examiner for the CCFP and as a SOO examiner for the LMCC/MCC licensing examinations.

Josh Ryan (BEng’19) is now a practicing Professional Engineer after three years of working at Vale’s T1 and T3 Nickel Operations in Thompson, Manitoba. Josh thanks the mineral resource engineering class of 2019, Dalhousie University, his previous and current employers and his friends and family for supporting his journey to this key professional milestone,