Class Notes Category: Career
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Arya Ghavami ’11
Arya Ghavami ’11 has created a social media app to help people efficiently make social plans with friends. The iOS app, called FOCUS, is set to launch in early December. The app allows users to see their friends’ current activities and plans for the near future. Users can post their plans, set a location and…
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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 Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator,” in which users play as a personalized dad character intent on romantically pursuing other eligible dads in his new neighborhood. “I felt like this was a project I’d been preparing…
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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. 30 at the Huntington Library titled “How Grief Can Enable Nurses to Endure.” Sato graduated from UCLA’s M.P.H. program in 2000 with a focus on Community Health. Her work at the UCLA Borun Center for…
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Corinne Lightweaver ’85
The work of Corinne Lightweaver ’85 (Life Member) is featured in “Viewing Breast Cancer Through Art” at the Hoyt Gallery, USC Keck School of Medicine, Nov. 1, 2017 – Jan. 5, 2018. There is an artist reception Sunday, Dec. 3, from 2 – 4 p.m. Since 1996, Lightweaver’s artwork has been exhibited at Cal State…
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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 has over 15 years of structural engineering experience, and has managed diverse projects including recent and current work for the University of Virginia, Virginia Military Institute, and the Fort Monroe Visitor Center. He is involved…
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Justinian Jampol ’00
Justinian Jampol ’00 (Life Member) is founder and executive director of the newly opened Wende Museum of the Cold War in Culver City. Read the full article here.
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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 earning his Ph.D. in Education, Dr. Muñoz received a B.A. from UC Santa Barbara and an M.A. from Cal State Los Angeles. He credits the education he received at UCLA and the other institutions with…
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Yvonne Lacey ’90
Yvonne Lacey ’90 (Life Member) is the author of a new book, “Taking Back Your Holidays, A Whimsical Guide to a Lighter, Brighter Christmas,” in which she explores holiday history and rituals. Lacy earned a bachelor of arts degree in linguistics and English at UCLA and a master’s degree in English education at Syracuse University.…
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Brian Boxer Wachler ’89, M.D.
Dr. Brian Boxer Wachler ’89 is the author of a new book, “Perceptual Intelligence.” Dr. Wachler earned his bachelor of science degree in psychobiology at UCLA and his medical degree at Dartmouth in 1993. Dr. Boxer Wachler founded the Boxer Wachler Vision Institute in Beverly Hills, CA, where he is a keratoconus expert.
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Karina Saranovic ’09
Karina Saranovic ’09 has joined Delman Vukmanovic, LLP, a Southern California full-service law firm, as a litigation associate in their Los Angeles office. Her practice focuses on civil and business litigation, with particular expertise in technology, privacy, personal injury, and commercial real estate law. Saranovic earned a bachelor of arts degree in political science from…