Congratulations to the STIA Class of 2024

The reception included  STIA majors, minors, and graduate concentrators along with their friends and families, and the faculty and staff from the STIA Program.

STIA has 68 majors graduating this year, with concentrations in biotechnology & global health; business, growth & development; energy and environment; and science, technology and security. Many of them also completed minors (some more than 1!) in biology, chemistry, Chinese, statistics, computer science, environmental studies, sociology, and theology and religious studies, and certificates in international business diplomacy and diplomatic studies.

STIA also has 10 minors graduating – including students from the college who majored in neurobiology, peace and justice studies, economics, computer science, environmental biology, 2 students from the business school majoring in finance and operations and analytics, and 1 student from the school of health majoring in healthcare management and policy.

This year we have 32 students graduating in our third ever cohort of MSFS-STIA concentrators – almost twice as many as last year.

There are 4 students who earned honors in the STIA major: Kavya Shah, Kathryn Lytkowski, Daniel Wolfe, and Zoe Moore. Each completed an impressive honors thesis that in most cases required over a year of research.

This year’s recipient of the Charles Weiss Medal, awarded for the highest excellence and achievement in the field of science, technology and international affairs, is Camber Vincent. Camber not only had the highest GPA in the STIA program, he graduated with 181 credit hours (which might be a record?!) By my count he took 18 elective courses for his STIA major (only 4 are required). He was also a TA for the undergraduate environment and sustainability science lab and for a graduate course on climate change impacts and management, and worked in Prof. Megan Lickley’s lab. On top of this he was student body president and a tour guide, among many other campus wide roles. He is headed to Duke next year to pursue his master’s in environmental management.

Below we include some examples of where STIA students are headed after graduation based on student submissions.

• Rita Alan will be working for National Grid Ventures on offshore wind power.
• Robin Brinkmann will be working for a healthcare data firm.
• Anya Caraiani is going to law school at Penn.
• Sophie Coste will be working at Greenmantle, a geopolitical risk consulting firm in New York.
• Jialan Deal was awarded the Princeton in Asia fellowship to work for the International Water Management Institute in Sri Lanka.
• Eri Hayakawa is taking a year off before working at an IT firm in Japan.
• Brooke Hodge will be working at Rystad Energy in New York.
• Erin Hood will be working as an energy and sustainability analyst at Deloitte in DC.
• Olivia Johnson will be pursuing a masters in climate and society at Columbia.
• Sam Lebo was awarded a congressional policy fellowship with the clearpath climate leadership program.
• Nelson Liu is joining the US military to train as a naval aviator.
• Deniz Mete will be an analyst at Aceso Global – a DC think tank focused on health economics.
• Andrew Park will be working at goldman sachs in their global markets division.
• Divya Sammeta will be working at LEK consulting in New York.
• Sofia Wills is planning on pusing a masters of public health at trinity college Dublin before going to medical school.

Congratulations to all of our graduates!