Ann Widger ’99
When it comes to career highlights, Ann Widger’s is hard to top.
After all, how many people do you know celebrated the passage of landmark health care legislation on the White House’s iconic Truman balcony with the president of the United States? As associate director of public engagement in the Obama administration, Widger specialized in aging issues and health care reform, and was among those who worked on the Affordable Care Act. “To be invited by the president to join him in celebrating the passage of the most meaningful legislation of my generation so far was amazing,” Widger says.
2011 Trimpi Talent Grant recipients Rebecca Bean (class of 2013), Robert “Rory” Diamond (class of 2012), Alex Heinrich (class of 2014), and Alyssa Costa (class of 2012) with Mike Trimpi ’92. Jon Gilbert Fox photo.
In 1962, Michael Trimpi ’92 lived and worked in one of the most remote places on the planet—Eights Station in Antarctica. As a radioscience researcher for Stanford University, his groundbreaking research in upper-atmospheric noise set the course for the rest of his career. For more than two decades, he has designed and built measurement instruments that can withstand the sub-zero temperatures in Antarctica for Dartmouth College’s Department of Physics and Astronomy.
