Alumni Magazine - Summer 2008 - (Page 19) ER30 Jeremy Farris and Lisa Hofler Like-minded Husband and Wife eremy Farris and Lisa Hofler are a brain power couple. Hofler, ChE 04, has completed her third year of medical school at Emory University. In the fall, she’ll begin a master’s program in public health in global epidemiology focusing on women’s health. As part of the dual-degree program, Hofler will complete her final year of medical school after she finishes the one-year master’s course work. She intends to work in surgical oncology. Hofler, 26, who was the 1,000th President’s Scholar to graduate from Tech, also is the national coordinator of Medical Students for Choice for the Southeast. Hofler, who earned a perfect score on the ACT before enrolling at Tech, was profiled in 2004 in Tech Topics, which reported that as an Institute student, she was on the women’s crew team, helped found a local sorority, held an undergraduate research assistantship and was an assistant on the Grady Hospital staff. She also was a member of College Democrats, the Society of Women Engineers and SWARM — and maintained a 3.9 grade point average. Her husband also has received his share of press. After being named a Rhodes Scholar for 2005, Farris, IntA 04, was quoted as say- J ing, “The purpose of an education isn’t to get you a job. The purpose of an education is to change you, to make you sufficiently human.” Before he even arrived at Tech as a President’s Scholar in 2000, Farris, 26, won a best of category award at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair for his discovery of a pathogen that could control kudzu. As a result of the award, he was selected as an American delegate to the 2000 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Science Forum in Singapore. Farris and Hofler married in the summer of 2005. “We met in 2000 at the hiking trip the President’s Scholar program offers for entering freshmen,” Farris says. “We did not date during our time at Tech but were very good friends.” Farris, only the third Instituteproduced Rhodes Scholar, modestly reports what he has been doing since graduating from Tech. “I’m just a graduate student reading for a doctorate in political philosophy at Oxford on a Rhodes scholarship,” Farris says. “I am also a visiting scholar in Georgia State University’s department of philosophy.” Farris will return to Tech in August as a lecturer in philosophy, science and technology in the School of Public Policy. — KLW >>> Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine • Summer 2008 19
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