Brandeis Magazine

Priyasha Chadha graduated in May from the Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine at Seton Hill. She will complete the preliminary medicine year of her anesthesiology residency at SUNY Downstate, in Brooklyn, and the rest of her training at St. Joseph’s University Medical Center, in New Jersey. Alyssa Bickoff Elfman and other members of her family were honored with the L’Dor VaDor (From Generation to Generation) Award for their multigenerational commitment to supporting the work of 2Life Communities, which creates community-living environments for senior adults. Alyssa; husband Daniel; and Alyssa’s parents, Debra and Gerry Bickoff, own Commercial Cleaning Service, which helped keep 2Life Communities residents safe throughout the pandemic. Rebecca Ottinger spent the beginning of 2022 in Uganda with the Abayudaya Jewish community, serving as a “big sister” in two community members’ weddings. Sneha Walia and Brad Burns, both GSAS MAT’16, were married in August.