Graduates
Rachel Thiebaud graduated magna cum laude from Duquesne University recently, receiving a master's degree in physician's assistant.While at the university, she was named to the dean's list each semester and was a member of the Pennsylvania Society of Physician's Assistants and the American Academy of Physician's Assistants.She also completed a research project on the safety and efficiency of pharmacologic therapy in Autistic Children.The daughter of John and Sandy Thiebaud of Renfrew and Susan Thiebaud of Butler, she is a 2005 graduate of Duquesne, where she received a bachelor's degree in health sciences.Thiebaud recently returned from a medical mission trip to Haiti, and has accepted a position in the Department of Neurology at Children's Hospital in Pittsburgh.———
<B>Shanna Edwards</B> graduated magna cum laude from American University's School of International Service recently, receiving a master's degree in Middle East studies and a certification of competency in Arabic.The daughter of Dale and Terri Edwards of Fenelton, she is a 2001 graduate of Butler High School, and a 2005 degree of American University, earning a bachelor's degree in Middle East studies.She works as an instructor at American University, teaching a class in quantitative analysis of international affairs, and for the Tahirih Justice Center, a nonprofit law firm for immigrant women fleeing violence.———
<B>Aaron Dollar</B> graduated from Harvard University recently, receiving a doctoral degree in biomedical engineering.While at the university, he completed a dissertation focused on the design of robotic hands. In the course of his studies, Dollar published 13 scholarly papers, was the primary inventor on a pending U.S. patent, and won the 2006 American Society of Mechanical Engineering Student Mechanism Design Competition in the graduate division.He is the son of Gary and Susan Dollar of Billerica, Mass., formerly of Butler, and the grandson of Leonard Dollar and Jack Gibbs, both of Butler.Dollar holds a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and earned a master of science degree in engineering sciences from Harvard in 2002.He is currently a postdoctoral associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology doing research on lower-limb prosthetics and orthotics.
