Anna Ouroumian ’94

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By anyone’s standards, Anna Ouroumian is an outstanding senior. She transferred to UCLA from the University of La Verne in 1991. She is tetralingual, in college and departmental honors with excellent records in her academic work, as well as in her service to UCLA and the community. She will graduate magna cum laude.

Ouroumian’s research work has included a study of the economic impact of the new health care plan on AIDS patients. She has also completed a project on the value of patent statistics in demonstrating the correlation between intensive inventive activity and sustained economic growth. Her senior honor thesis is a study of how to break the cycle of poverty in South Central Los Angeles through an economic model of education.

Ouroumian began her service to the community at the University of La Verne, a fact which is attested to by her receipt of the school’s leadership award, as well as its outstanding service and academic award. At UCLA, Ouroumian has been co-director of the Tree Project of the Community Service Commission, a member of the undergraduate president staff and editor of UCLA Who’s Who Leaders newsletter. She is also a member of Bruin Belles and the Honors Student Council. Beginning in January 1994, in the aftermath of the Northridge earthquake, she planned, organized and coordinated activities involving several hundred volunteers in the USAC Earthquake Relief Effort.

While at UCLA, she has interned for President Reagan at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and at the Senate office for Senator John Seymour. She also participated in President Clinton’s Summer of Service/Building Up Los Angeles pilot program for the National Service.

As a result of her academic achievements, Ouroumian has qualified for membership in Pi Gamma Mu, the international honors society for the social sciences, and Omicron Delta Epsilon, the economics national honors society. She serves as honorary members chair of the Golden Key National Honors Society.