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Charles Burnett '69, M.F.A. '77
Award-winning filmmaker Charles Burnett ’69, M.F.A. ’77, received an honorary Governors Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and…
James Franco '08
James Franco, ’08 (Life Member) directs and stars in “The Disaster Artist,” a film that re-enacts the filmmaking process behind…
Arya Ghavami '11
Arya Ghavami ’11 has created a social media app to help people efficiently make social plans with friends. The iOS…
Greg Batha '11
Design/media arts alumnus Greg Batha ’11 served as lead user interface designer and developer for the visual novel-style game “Dream…
Hui-wen Sato, M.P.H. '00, M.S. '10
Hui-wen Sato, M.P.H. ’00, M.S. ’10 was one of the speakers at TEDxPasadenaWomen’s 2017 RISE event, delivering a talk Sep.…
Corinne Lightweaver '85
The work of Corinne Lightweaver ’85 (Life Member) is featured in “Viewing Breast Cancer Through Art” at the Hoyt Gallery,…
Craig D. Swift, M.S. '04
Craig D. Swift, M.S. ’04, SE, LEED AP, has been promoted to Principal of Keast & Hood structural engineers. Swift…
Harry Pregerson '47
U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Harry Pregerson ’47, one of the most liberal federal appeals court judges in…
Justinian Jampol '00
Justinian Jampol ’00 (Life Member) is founder and executive director of the newly opened Wende Museum of the Cold War…
Juan Sánchez Muñoz, Ph.D. '01
Juan Sánchez Muñoz, Ph.D. ’01, became the president of the University of Houston-Downtown, Houston’s second largest university, in April. Before…
Thomas Umberg '77
Thomas J. Umberg ’77 has been selected by the Orange County Business Journal for the 2017 edition of “OC 500…
Julie Wei, '05
Julie Wei ’05 has passed away from cancer at age 34 after fighting the disease for nearly three years. A…
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