Tim Durant (COM’90) of Wayland, Mass., published Know Regrets (Lulu, 2008), a novel based on his 20 years as a triathlete. He conceived of the plot while training for his first triathlons in Hawaii, where he was stationed in the U.S. Navy. Tim, who suffers from Crohn’s disease, will donate some of the proceeds from the book to the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of America. Visit www.lulu.com to order a copy.

Stacey (Steinglass) Kaye (COM’90) of Atlanta, Ga., released the first two books in her new series, ParentSmart/KidHappy: The Language of Positive Parenting, in June. Ready for the Day! and Ready for Bed! (Free Spirit Publishing, 2008) teach parents and children how to handle morning and bedtime routines by promoting positive habits and providing words of encouragement. Stacey and her husband have two girls, Audrey, seven, and Margo, four. Contact her at stacey@parentsmartkidhappy.com.

Nancy (Kohrs) LaRoche (ENG’90) of Goffstown, N.H., and her husband, David, announce the birth of twin daughters, Eleanor and Claire, in July 2007.

John J. Maalouf (MET’90, LAW’94) of New York, N.Y., was named one of the nation’s top 10 international trade and finance lawyers in the 2008 United States Lawyer Rankings. It’s the third year in a row he’s made the ranking.

Gwen Murphy (CFA’90) of Acton, Mass., exhibited her Foot Fetish series of shoe sculptures at Dunia in Maynard Center, Mass., from July through September. In conjunction with the exhibit, Gwen collected socks and flip-flops for the Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program. Check out Gwen’s work at gwenmurphy.blogspot.com, and contact her at gwink03@yahoo.com.

Lewis Summer (COM’90) of Oakland, Calif., a former music director and program director for WTBU, is back on the air Sunday mornings with his own weekly show, “Summertime,” on KALX, the University of California, Berkeley, radio station. You can lListen locally at 90.7 FM or on the Web at kalx.berkeley.edu. E-mail Lewis at summertimekalx@aol.com.

Dawn (Vangorder) Willis (SMG’90) of Morris, Conn., is a client partner at Intrasphere Technologies in New York. “With my two boys (ages six and nine) a bit older, it was time to return to consulting, which I’ve always loved,” Dawn writes. “I’m now in the life sciences field and frequently visit Cambridge, and by extension, BU.”

Nicole Charbonnet (CFA’91) of New Orleans, La., exhibited works in Women of New Orleans, a joint show at the Van Brunt Gallery in Beacon, N.Y.

Christine (Jarrett) Cocchia (CAS’91) of Norwalk, Conn., and her husband, David, announce the birth of their second daughter, Alyssa Brooke, on April 1, 2008. Christine is a senior consultant at Towers Perrin in Stamford, Conn. Friends can eE-mail her at christine.cocchia@towersperrin.com.

Jody Lisberger (GRS’91) of Exeter, R.I., is the interim director of the women’s studies program at the University of Rhode Island, where she won a teaching excellence prize. In addition, her essay “DES and Diflucan: Pharmaceutical Marketing Choices — Why Women Should Take Heed,” was published in (Re)Interpretations: The Shapes of Justice in Women’s Experience (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007). Contact Jody at jodylis@verizon.net.

David Miller (ENG’91,’94) of Framingham, Mass., welcomed another Terrier hockey fan into his family on November 18, 2007. Jordan attended her first hockey game in December, and she can’t wait to enjoy the 2008–2009 season with her older sister, Kiersten, who has been attending games since 2003.

Lisa Chippendale (CAS’92, CFA’92) and Ross Beauchamp (CFA’90,’92) of Havertown, Pa., announce the birth of their second child, Aria Chippendale Beauchamp, on January 3, 2008. Contact the couple at fiddlechip@yahoo.com.

Beth Banks Cohn (SED’92) of Manalapan, N.J., self-published ChangeSmart: Implementing Change Without Lowering Your Bottom Line (2007), a guide for business managers.

Tom Heed (ENG’92) of Ann Arbor, Mich., is president of DataGenomics, L.L.C., a technology start-up that focuses on supply-chain quality data services for electronics companies that outsource their product manufacturing. E-mail Tom at theed@datagenomics.com.

Craig Huffnagle (ENG’92) of Fredericksburg, Va., celebrated the birth of his daughter, Crissa Jewell, on October 19, 2007.

Melissa Hall Klepacki (CGS’90, SED’92) of Skillman, N.J., and Amy Turner Senftleben (COM’94) of Renton, Wash., co-own two companies: Toccare Design, a line of stationery, and Hip Kid Art, a collection of home furnishings for kids. Their products have been featured in magazines such as Elle Décor, O: The Oprah Magazine, and Family Circle. Melissa and Amy met on the varsity crew team at BU, where they were national collegiate champions. Visit www.toccaredesign.com or www.hipkidart.com.

Ellen (Braunstein) Laichtman (COM’92) of Stamford, Conn., and her husband, Arthur, celebrated the birth of a daughter, Camryn Sage, on October 3, 2007. Big sister Samantha is three.

Mark Lundin (SMG’92) of Clayton, Calif., is a partner in the San Francisco office of the audit, tax, and advisory firm KPMG.

Ifeanyi Mokwunye (CAS’92) of Medford, Mass., married Deidre Wrighting on August 9, 2008, in San Francisco, Calif. “We’re very excited and look forward to a long life of joyful service and accomplishment,” Ifeanyi writes.

Herbert G. Otter (GRS’92,’01) of West Palm Beach, Fla., invites all graduates of study abroad or degree programs at the University of Heidelberg to visit www.uni-heidelberg.de/alumni/index_e.html. The university is seeking to contact all former students for this fall’s celebration of the founding of the Heidelberg Alumni USA network.

Scott Riewald (ENG’92) of Colorado Springs, Colo., coauthored Complete Conditioning for Swimming (Human Kinetics, 2008) with famed Olympic swimming coach Dave Salo. Scott, a member of the BU swim team from 1988 to 1992, now works with the U.S. Olympics Committee in its performance services division, where he provides performance technology and biomechanics support for Olympic-level endurance athletes. Contact Scott at scott.riewald@usoc.org.

Holly Vietzke (COM’92) of Dracut, Mass., published her first book, Please, Can We Keep the Donkey? (Lantern Books, 2008), a collection of animal adoption and rescue stories by the student and faculty community at the Massachusetts School of Law, where she is a professor. When she wrote in April, she and her husband, Robert Lynch, Jr., were expecting their second child. Contact Holly at holly@mslaw.edu.

Steven D. Brand (SSW’93, SPH’94) of Roswell, Ga., runs Life Strategy Coaching, where he regularly leadings two-week adventure expeditions for business leaders and executives. His next trip, which includes a Tanzanian safari and a climb up Mount Kilimanjaro, will run in January 2009. Visit www.lifestrategyexpeditions.com to learn more.

Wendy Reitan Byrne (CAS’93, GSM’98) of East Windsor, N.J., and her husband, John Byrne, announce the birth of their first child, Casey Patrick, on March 26, 2008. E-mail her at wrbyr@hotmail.com.

James Chalk (SAR’93) of Knoxville, Tenn., finished his fifth and final year as chief resident in the department of surgery at Michigan State University and has begun a two-year vascular surgery fellowship at the University of Tennessee. James was also invited to present “The Delineation of a Global Vascular Profile” at the Society for Vascular Medicine’s annual meeting in Minneapolis, Minn., last May.

David Coleman (CFA’93) of Wellesley, Mass., received the Thomas A. Dorsey Award in gospel music from the New England Conservatory. He is the director of the Tufts University Gospel Choir, which is 200 voices strong, and the director of choral music at the Dana Hall School, a secondary school for girls in Wellesley. His Dana Hall chamber chorus recently returned from a tour in Greece and has twice sung the national anthem at Fenway Park. David and his wife, Fadie (CAS’95), have a four-year-old daughter, Aimee. E-mail David at davidfadie@aol.com.

Patricia L. Fietz (GRS’93) of Princeton, N.J., consul general at the U.S. Embassy in Damascus, Syria, is spending the 2008–09 academic year at Princeton University, where she was awarded a John L. Weinberg Fellowship to pursue a master’s in public policy. E-mail her at trishfietz@hotmail.com.

Barbara Schack Flumen (CFA’93) of West Orange, N.J., her husband, Brian, and their daughter, Eila, welcomed a baby boy, Jesse Ty, on February 21, 2008. E-mail Barbara at barbara.flumen@schackpr.com.

Melissa Juarez (CAS’93, LAW’97) of Quincy, Mass., published a profile of U.S. District Court Judge Nancy Gertner in the May 2008 edition of Federal Lawyer magazine, the official publication of the Federal Bar Association. Melissa is a member of the FBA Massachusetts Chapter. Contact her at melissa.juarez@cityofboston.gov.

Eric Stutman (ENG’93) of Needham, Mass., left the high-tech industry last year to open One2One BodyScapes, a personal training center, in Wayland, Mass. “I enjoy being a business owner and helping others get healthy!” he writes.

Cynthia Gallant (CGS’92, CAS’94) of Arlington, Mass., released an album Spirit Call (Tribal Winds, Inc., 2008), an album of Native-American, and Latin American, Asian, and Caribbean tribal music, with her group, Tribal Winds;Spirit Call (Tribal Winds, Inc., 2008) is available online at www.byregion.net. 10 percent of all proceeds will go toward the purchase of school resources for the education of indigenous children.

Beth Kanner (COM’94) of New York, N.Y., is planning an August 2009 wedding to Jeffrey Pereira. Rachel Grumman (COM’94), Mike Puma (SMG’96), Lysa Selfon Puma (COM’94), Mara Rubin (COM’94), Jennifer Jasonis Krystowski (CAS’94), and Edward Krystowski (ENG’95) plan to attend. Beth, a kindergarten teacher in Manhattan, writes that she can’t wait to dance to ’90s tunes with her BU classmates at the wedding. Contact her at bethkanner@gmail.com.

Marni (Alper) Karel (CGS’92, COM’94) of San Francisco, Calif., and her husband, Rob, welcomed their first child, Jack Tyler, on November 24, 2007. E-mail Marni at marni26@gmail.com.

Mark Suarez (CAS’94) of Alexandria, Va., married Lana Coppolino on May 23, 2008, at Cinnamon Bay Beach in the Virgin Islands. Mark and Lana both work for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,: he as an entomologist for the Office of Pesticide Programs, and she as special assistant to the director of the Office of Solid Waste. E-mail Mark at mesuarez@earthlink.net.

Eric Bené (ENG’95) of Lynn, Mass., earned an M.B.A. from Bentley College in 2007. Eric, the principal biomedical engineer at BD Diabetes Care, lives in Lynn with his wife and two children. Contact Eric him at eric_bene@bd.com.

Christopher Caldwell (ENG’95) of Fanwood, N.J., and his wife, Wendy, announce the birth of their son, Reilly Hay, on June 14, 2008. Chris is a third-year optometry student at SUNY State College of Optometry in New York, N.Y., and Wendy is a middle-school counselor in Clark, N.J. Contact Chris at cnw247@hotmail.com.

Michael Ferretti (SMG’95) of Santa Monica, Calif., was training for October’s Amsterdam Marathon when he wrote in June. The contributions he raised will go to AIDS Project Los Angeles. “I’ve never really trained for a marathon before and don’t consider myself a ‘runner,’” Michael writes. “Nonetheless, I am determined to achieve this goal while raising money for a very worthy and urgent cause.”

Clinton Fletcher (CAS’95) of Atlanta, Ga., and his wife, Courtney, announce the birth of twins on July 3, 2007: a boy, Brody Giffin, and a girl, Campbell Allbright. “Big brother Carter loves his new play pals,” Clinton writes. Contact him at clinton.fletcher@nelsonmullins.com.

Lisa Greenspan (CAS’95) of Chicago, Ill., recently accepted a position is manager of information technology procurement at the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association as manager of information technology procurement.

Susan Hennessey (MET’95) of Montpelier, Vt., a librarian and media specialist at Harwood Union High School in South Duxbury, Vt., was one of 75 educators from around the country to receive a 2008 Milken Educator Award. Susan received a $25,000 check at the awards gala, which Teacher magazine called “the Oscars of teaching.”

Kathy Cloherty Henry (COM’95) of Roslindale, Mass., recently became the first full-time hiring and pro bono partner at the law firm Choate, Hall & Stewart. Kathy, a partner in the firm’s insurance and reinsurance group, is the cochair of the hiring committee and the leader of Choate’s extensive pro bono program.

Justin Latona (ENG’95) of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., moved back to Florida in September 2007 after 16 years away. “I’ve taken a position as is a systems sales engineer for TriFactor, a material handling systems integrator,” he writes. He moved back to Florida in September 2007 after 16 years away. “It’s great to be home, and I have enjoyed networking with fellow BU alumni in the Miami area,” he writes. E-mail Justin at jlatona@yahoo.com.

Ian C. Pilarczyk (LAW’95) of Cambridge, Mass., is associate director of the new master of laws program at Tufts University’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. “I have contributed an essay on early-19th-century child abuse prosecution in Montreal, which will appear in Essays in Canadian Legal History, forthcoming from the University of Toronto Press,” he writes.

C. Leigh Purtill (COM’95) of Los Angeles, Calif., published her second young adult novel, All About Vee (Penguin/Razorbill, 2008), less than a year after the release of her debut novel, Love, Meg (Penguin/Razorbill, 2007). Contact Leigh at clpurtill@gmail.com.