KATHRYN AUGHENBAUGH (Russian). In the last three years, Kathryn worked as a Program Associate for the Open World Program (a professional development program) at American Councils for International Education in Moscow. Her title was 'Embassy Liaison'. Kate got married! She got married on December 24, 2003. She kept her maiden name for the time being but plans to change it to Kuvshinova when she returns to the U.S. She's informally going by Kuvshinova already, and her husband's name is Valeriy. She and Valeriy just recently traveled through the Ukraine and U.S. and somehow ended up in San Francisco where they're both working, he's a carpenter and she's temping as a legal recruiter. She can be contacted at aughenba@hotmail.com.

RICHELE BABURINA (Russian). ...

ALEXIS HERNANDEZ (Russian and Psychology). ...

MARIAN BUTZEN KENSLER (Russian). ...

GARY OPPENHEIM (REES and Anthropology). Gary spent a summer doing archaeological fieldwork in Iowa along the Mississippi, and then managed a psycholinguistics research lab at UW-Madison for three years. He left that lab in Wisconsin to travel for the summer in the Baltics and Scandinavia, spending a month learning Lithuanian in the port city of Klaipeda (it was part of a grand scheme he has to study representatives from all the indoeuropean language groups). This fall he started a PhD program in psycholinguistics at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where he'll be studying language production and computational psycholinguistics. He's pretty psyched right now because he just found out that his 2001 senior thesis on socialist utopian city planning was listed as required reading for a 300-level course at UC-Long Beach.
Gary's website: http://www.uiuc.edu/~goppenh2/

MARISSA PAYNE (Russian and REES). Marissa works at LifeStyle magazine and lives in Moscow. She's been traveling to Poland and also to Thailand and Vietnam. She is a friend of our current language assistant, Rak. She's the one who got him to apply! Marissa can be contacted at marissa_c_payne@hotmail.com. ..