Class Notes Category: Accolades
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David Montalba, M.Arch ’00
David Montalba, M.Arch ’00 has been recognized for contextual and innovative design on two projects. The Row’s first flagship store, done in close collaboration with designer’s Ashely Olsen and Mary-Kate Olsen and interior designer Courtney Applebaum, has received an American Institute of Architects (AIA) California Council Design Award and a Los Angeles Business Council Architecture…
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Dr. Alvaro Huerta ’03, M.A. ’06
Dr. Alvaro Huerta ’03, M.A. ’06 presented at TEDxClaremontColleges on March 17, 2015. In his talk, titled “Reframing Migration as a Universal Human Right,” Huerta examined political rhetoric and the possibility of open borders. Watch the full video here.
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Juan Felipe Herrera ’72
Juan Felipe Herrera ’72 was named U.S. poet laureate by the Library of Congress. The son of migrant farm workers, Herrera landed at UCLA with the help of the Educational Opportunity Program for disadvantaged students. He has gone on to change lives through poetry and performance as a professor and later as the California poet…
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Gretchen Schneider ’65, M.A. ’68
Gretchen Schneider ’65, M.A. ’68 has been juried into a number of Bay Area art fairs with her photography.
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Cheng Wang, Ph.D. ’13
Engineering alumni Cheng Wang, Ph.D. ’13 and Fang-Li Yuan, Ph.D. ’14 won the top award at the world’s most prestigious conference on integrated circuits for redesigning devices that power computers and cell phones. Read more here
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Fang-Li Yuan, Ph.D. ’14
Engineering alumni Cheng Wang, Ph.D. ’13 and Fang-Li Yuan, Ph.D. ’14 won the top award at the world’s most prestigious conference on integrated circuits for redesigning devices that power computers and cell phones. Read more here
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Jon Lewis, Ph.D. ’83
Congratulations to Oregon State University film studies professor Jon Lewis, Ph.D. ’83, who has been selected co-recipient of the 2015 University Honors College Eminent Professor Award. Read more here.
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Robert Farrell ’61
Former councilman, Freedom Rider and journalist, Robert Farrell ’61, will receive the Freedom Rider Award on Feb. 28, 2015 at the Black Business Association’s Awards Dinner in recognition of African American Heritage Month.
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Gary Citron ’74
Gary Citron ’74, co-founder of Austin based public charity “Shelter with spirit” celebrates their 10th anniversary of providing green building grants to non-profit community development corporations that provide affordable housing to economically disadvantaged families in the Austin, Texas. For more information on Shelter with spirit, visit www.shelterwithspirit.org, or contact gcitron@shelterwithspirit.org.
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Betye Saar ’49
Betye Saar ’49, has been awarded the Lifetime Achievement Medal from the MacDowell Colony, America’s oldest artists’ colony. Read official announcement here.