32 | LEHIGH ALUMNI BULLETIN | FROM THE NEST SCAN TO MEET THE 2023 10 UNDER 10 OR TO MAKE NOMINATIONS. The Lehigh Young Alumni Council nominated and selected 10 alumni who graduated in the past 10 years and have excelled in their fields or are making an impact. Meet some of the featured alumni. IMPACT | ALUMNI ʼ14 ʼ17 ʼ18 ʼ20 10 Under 10 The Philadelphia Inquirer Your Social Media Algorithm Is Hurting Your Wallet. Here’s How to Break Free. BeiBei Dong, associate professor of marketing, shares why you should take a break from your “For You” feed. “Not only are users being lulled into remaining in the feed, but they are also producing significantly more revenue for platforms by clicking on ads.” Interesting Engineering AI-Powered Traffic Signs Can Reduce Emissions from Vehicles Yu Yang, assistant professor of computer science and engineering, explains his research team’s work on a strategy that would enable more regular traffic flow with fewer or shorter stops. “We’re taking both a technical and a social perspective to solve a real-world problem.” CBS News Underdiagnosed and Undertreated, Young Black Males with ADHD Get Left Behind George DuPaul, professor of school psychology, studies ADHD and cites why young Black males fall under the radar. “We’ve known for a long time that ADHD diagnoses are not made in a vacuum. They’re made in a geographic context, cultural context, racial context.” Lehigh Faculty in the Media CLAIRE ZHU ’17 World traveler and social media entrepreneur After joining the Great Resignation in 2022, Zhu and her partner decided to take a gap year to explore the world with money they had saved. While she says they’ve experienced amazing things, they are constantly solving problems and making decisions, posting it all on social media. COREY CAPLAN ’18 Co-founder, Dolomite Caplan is CEO of Dolomite, a decentralized cryptocurrency trading platform he co-founded with fellow alum Adam Knuckey ’18. Dolomite recently wrapped a successful $2.5 million fundraising round. Over the past five years, he and Knuckey have hired four Lehigh graduates while maintaining contact with professors. ELLE SANDER ’14 Co-founder and CEO, Lifelet Medical Raised by a grandfather who was a physician and who instilled in her the desire to ease human suffering, Sander had planned to apply to medical school after Lehigh. Fate intervened. While completing a regenerative medicine master’s program in Galway, she met the eventual co-founder of Lifelet Medical, a medical device company innovating in heart valve replacement. DYLAN DREYFUSS ’20 Podcast producer With time on his hands during the pandemic, Dreyfuss, far left, began an Instagram account called Forgotten Seasons that shined a spotlight on basketball players he grew up watching. His posts blew up. A podcast followed. The stakes rose when a retired NBA player asked him to join Showtime Sports, where he now produces podcasts about basketball. GETTY IMAGES
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