Class Notes Category: Career
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Ashish Pradhan, MBA ’06
Cornerstone Research, a leading provider of economic and financial consulting and expert testimony, haspromoted Los Angeles-based Ashish Pradhan, MBA ’06, to vice president. Pradhan has more than a decade of experience addressing complex consumer fraud and product liability, consumer finance and intellectual property matters. He has worked on multiple class actions, at both the class…
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Jeremy M. Evans ’05
Jeremy M. Evans ’05 has been named a member of the board of advisors of the Rose Bowl Legacy Foundation and his podcast, “Bleav in Sports Law,” has also been named best sports law podcast by Feedspot. Evans will also be appearing at a California Lawyers Foundation Signature Speaker Series roundtable, “Leadership in Sports,” on…
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Kerop Janoyan ’93, M.S. ’95, Ph.D. ’01
The University of La Verne has selected Kerop Janoyan ’93, M.S. ’95, Ph.D. ’01, as its next provost and vice president for academic affairs. He will join the leadership team headed by President Devorah Lieberman this spring. Currently, Janoyan is dean of the graduate school at Clarkson University in New York. He is also a…
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Joelle Gamble ’12
Joelle Gamble ’12 has joined the Biden administration as a special assistant to the president for economic policy, a position on the National Economic Council. Gamble, who majored in international development studies, was born in Anaheim, Calif., and raised in Riverside, about 55 miles east of Los Angeles. She was a first-generation college student and…
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Steve Chapman ’02
Steve Chapman ’02 became CEO of genetic testing company Natera in January 2019 and has guided the company to a stock valuation of $10.3 billion, nearly quadruple its value when he took the helm. Year-over-year revenue growth has exceeded 40% and consistently outperformed earnings expectations. In addition to being the global leader in prenatal testing,…
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Tom Umberg ’77
Sen. Tom Umberg ’77 has been appointed Chair of the California Senate Judiciary Committee. Umberg represents Orange County and Long Beach in the California State Senate. Read the press release here. Read Sen. Umberg’s previous UCLA Alumni class notes: 20172020
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Wendy Red Star, M.F.A. ’06
Wendy Red Star, M.F.A. ’06, is giving an online lecture at The Hammer Museum on Thursday, Feb. 4, at 6:30 p.m. Raised on the Apsáalooke (Crow) reservation in Montana, Red Star creates work that is informed by both her cultural heritage and her engagement with many forms of creative expression, including photography, sculpture, video, fiber…
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Paul Goldbart, M.S. ’82, Ph.D.
Paul Goldbart, M.S. ’82, Ph.D., has been named Executive Vice President and Provost at Stony Brook University, effective March 22. Goldbart is currently Dean of the College of Natural Sciences, Robert E. Boyer Chair and Mary Ann Rankin Leadership Chair at The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin). From the university’s press release: As…
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Marcus Ruscetti, Ph.D. ’15
In September 2020, Marcus Ruscetti, Ph.D. ’15, started a position as assistant professor in the department of molecular cell and cancer biology at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. His laboratory will investigate the dynamic interactions between tumors and the body’s immune system in cancer.
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Michael Warren ’71
Michael Warren ’71, an Emmy-nominated actor and captain of two NCAA Championship teams under John Wooden, is one of three artists featured in an photographic exhibition at the Americana in Glendale. The showcase started in September 2020. An All-American on the 1968 team that included Lew Alcindor (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar), Lucius Allen and Lynn Shackelford, Warren…