Scott Gridley ADV'03, a graduate of Dartmouth Medical School, has been named the senior research scientist of Blue Sky Biotech, Inc. Gridley worked at Dartmouth in the department of microbiology and immunology and researched under Dr. Gustav Lienhard's biochemistry lab as a postdoctorate fellow. Blue Sky hopes to use Gridley to develop products that will help expand its market share. Gridley plans to start working for Blue Sky this June.
Saturday marked the start of the fourth annual Chalk Talk lecture series with economics professor Andrew Samwick's "Reforming Social Security and Medicare" lecture at the Hanover Inn. All the lectures in the series, which are sponsored by the Dartmouth College Office of Alumni Relations, are timed to take place before that week's football game. Upcoming lectures include "Survival of the Unexpected: Darwin Revisited" on Oct. 7, "What's Right and Wrong with The Da Vinci Code?" on Oct. 14, "21st-Century Latin America: The Impact of a Leftward Swing" on Oct. 28 and "Running Red Lights and Ruling the World" on Nov. 11.
Former Dartmouth Medical School professor William Berndt died on Aug. 31 at the age of 73 due to ongoing lung complications. He was best known for his role as chancellor of the University of Nebraska Medical Center, during which he contributed to the merging of University Hospital and Clarkson Hospital in 1997. After working for the Dartmouth Medical School for 13 years, Berndt served the University of Mississippi Medical Center for eight years. He began working at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in 1982 as a pharmacology professor and retired in 2002 after serving as vice chancellor. Berndt is survived by his wife Bonnie, five children, 13 grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
