FIVE ALL-STARS Evan Kohlmann L'04 Eric Rothschild L'93 Miguel Rodriguez C'94 L'99 Derek Pew L'93 Aretha Delight Davis L'97

“Doing a sort of scientific research like I had and then seeing it on TV, well, it was completely different,” he said. “I turned to a classmate and said, ‘This is Osama Bin Laden, and I have to go do something about it’.”

He didn’t fly off to Tora Bora with a Bowie knife in his teeth, but Kohlmann did set out to educate the world on terrorists. While at Penn, he researched and wrote “Al- Qaida’s Jihad in Europe” (Oxford International Press, 2002), going to Europe to interview suspected terrorists during summers and vacations.

“Perhaps I should have been more intense about school when I wrote it, but I discovered there are alternative paths,” he said. “You have to use the analytical skills you get in law school as creatively as you can. This is where it has taken me.”