Question: Do Janet Shamlian and Edward Avedisian have the same occupation?

Janet Shamlian (born May 14, 1962) is a correspondent for "NBC News" and reports for "The Today Show", "NBC Nightly News" and MSNBC. <SEP> Janet Louise Siefert received her PhD from the University of Houston (1997) and is an Associate Research Professor in the Department of Statistics at Rice University since January, 1998.  She is an origin of life researcher who received her training from Dr. George E. Fox, co-discoverer of the third domain of life.  Siefert's work deals with understanding life's origins through microbial ecology and genomic and metabolic evolution.  She has worked for 20 years in Cuatro Ciénegas, Mexico, a desert oasis protected by the Mexican government and known to exhibit endemism equal to the Galapagos.  She is the first woman to serve as chairman of the Gordon Research Conference on the Origin of Life and the first female president (2008-2011) of .  She is a member of University of Washington's Virtual Planet Laboratory and was recognized as an Astrobiology Pioneer.  Her work has been featured on Discovery, National Geographic, and the History Channel.  Additionally, she heads up an international team of investigators funded by the National Science Foundation looking at the legacy of human occupation in archaeological sites as reflected in the microbial community. <SEP> Edward Avedisian (June 15, 1936, Lowell, Massachusetts – August 17, 2007, Philmont, New York) was an American abstract painter who came into prominence during the 1960s.  His work was initially associated with Color field painting and in the late 1960s with Lyrical Abstraction. <SEP> Vanya Milanova was born on January the 12th 1954.  She is an internationally renowned solo violinist and recording artist.  She is noted for being a female breakthrough artist in a male dominated field.  Her beauty of tone, technical ability and having an unusually large repertoire have been much commentated on in press reviews.  She has made a lasting impact on violin performing through being the very first woman to record the entire 24 Paganini caprices in a primarily male field for the Simax Label, Oslo, 1985.  She performed works which were often only attributed to male soloists.  Bulgarian born, Vanya Milanova was a child prodigy, having performed her first paid concert at the age of three.  She studied at the Music School in Sofia and the State Music Academy in Sofia in the class of Peter Arnaudov and later at the Guildhall School of Music in London where she studied with pedagogue Yfrah Neaman OBE.  Before turning 20 years of age she had already won prizes at many of the major competitions: Tchaikovsky, Queen Elizabeth and Paganini.  She has played with some of the best orchestras in England, France, Italy, Turkey, Israel, Portugal, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, South America and South Africa.  She has made frequent recordings with the BBC – London and Manchester, Norwegian Label Simax and the Italian Label Real Sound.  and has played at the Royal Festival Hall, Wigmore Hall, the Royal Albert Hall and the Royal Opera House for the Edward Boyle Memorial Concert 1983 attended by Her Royal Majesty the Queen in aid of the Edward Boyle Memorial Trust, featuring Vanya Milanova, the Amadeus String Quartet, Murray Perahia, Kathryn Scott and Dame Janet Baker).  Vanya Milanova has been awarded 'Freedom of the City Award' in her native Bulgaria for her outstanding contribution to music and popularising classical music to a younger generation.  Alongside being a performing and recording artist, She was violin professor at Bilkent University, Turkey and at various other institutions where she disseminated her style to a new generation of young violinists.