It’s decided: Brian Rogers named to permanent position as UAF chancellor
UAF President Mark Hamilton made the decision earlier today to officially appoint Brian Rogers to a permanent position as chancellor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Brian co-founded, and was a Principal Consultant at Information Insights until his appointment as interim UAF chancellor in 2008.
Maia Peirce to start at Stanford University this fall
Information Insights intern Maia Peirce has been accepted as a freshman at Stanford University. Maia will start at Stanford this fall. While she is looking forward to exploring a variety of fields, at this point she thinks she will major in one of the biological sciences and minor in creative writing. Maia has worked as an intern at Information Insights since age 14, doing website development and maintenance for a variety of non-profit organizations and small businesses, and assisting Information Insights’ senior consultants with research, writing and editing. Maia was valedictorian of her senior class at Lathrop High School in Fairbanks. Good luck, Maia!
Shannon McCarthy
Until September 2007 Shannon was the spokesperson for the Northern Region of DOT&PF. She served as the main point of contact for print, radio, and television journalists for design, maintenance, construction, and planning divisions. She served as media contact in emergencies, and coordinated enterprise stories, including developing communication plans, writing PSAs, press releases, articles, editorials and speeches. Shannon developed and implemented external communication plans to inform the public and stakeholder groups on transportation issues, projects, and emergencies. She previously served as a special assistant and media liaison for the Commissioner of the Department of Community and Economic Development (its name at that time).
Graduates of the Class of 2009
Information Insights is proud to announce the graduation of Maia Peirce and Deborah Hewitt from Lathrop High school and Matt Klaich from West Valley High school. Maia and Deborah have both worked at Information Insights as high school interns. Maia is the daughter of Information Insights senior consultant Jana Perice. Matt is the son of project coordinator Nancy Lowe.
Maia is valedictorian of her class at Lathrop, and will attend Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif. Deborah and Matt plan to attend the University of Alaska Fairbanks this fall. The staff at Information Insights congratulate all our high school graduates this year and wish them the best of luck in their new adventures.
Deborah Hewitt
Deborah started working for Information Insights as a survey caller in March of 2007. She started working part time as a Administrative Assistant in October of 2007.
She now maintains the Alaska Tobacco Control Alliances membership database, and processes all membership applications for ATCA. Deborah helps with the Morningside Hospital project, and helped plan, prepare for, and coordinate both the Forum of Young Alaskans, and the Conference of Young Alaskans 2009 in Girdwood, AK.
Deborah plans to attend UAF, and continue to work at Information Insights part time. Outside of school and work, she enjoys cycling, trap shooting, ultimate frisbee, and being outdoors.
Tom Hewitt
Tom started working at Information Insights in December of 2008. He is a network administrator, and provides communications and marketing support.
Prior to joining the Information Insights team, Tom was an IT Coordinator and First Mate at the Riverboat Discovery in Fairbanks.
Tom is a student at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, where he is majoring in journalism and computer science. He is the editor of UAF’s weekly newspaper, The Sun Star, and currently serves on the Alaska Press Club’s board of directors.