California Magazine Archive
Ending with Thanks
By Chancellor Carol T. ChristBecause this is the last column I will write for California magazine, I begin with thanks …
Ke Hu
Hu Ke ’13, LL.M, was included in Global Arbitration Review’s third issue of the “45 under 45” Guide, a list of the leading practitioners of international arbitration under the age of 45. Hu Ke is a partner in Chinese firm Jingtian & Gongcheng in Beijing. His practice focuses on cross-border litigation and international arbitration, in […]
Jeffrey Church
JEFFREY CHURCH NAMED PRESIDENT & CEO OF VISIT BERKELEY BERKELEY, CA, May 14, 2024 – Jeffrey Church ’12 will become President & CEO of Visit Berkeley on June 1, 2024. Selected following a national search, he will work alongside current Visit Berkeley President & CEO Barbara Hillman through her retirement effective July 1. “Taking the […]
Stephen Shames
Stephen Shames ’69 writes: “I have a photography exhibit at Centre de la photographie de Mougins 43 Rue de l’Église, 06250 Mougins, France. The opening is June 28, 2024, at 7 p.m. Any Cal Alumni in southern France are welcome. Exhibit runs until October. Title: Comrade Sisters: Women of the Black Panther Party”
Barbara Chinn
Barbara Chinn writes: “As Class Secretary, I am proud to report our Class of 1956 Endowment for the Preservation Department for the Library is still helping this vital and important department by our donations. It allows the department to take part in Preservation Week, beginning on April 30 thru May 2, with a table on […]
Jonathan Schroeder
Jonathan Schroeder, M.A. ’87, Ph.D. ’90, has published the third book in a trilogy on vinyl records and the stories they tell about cultural history. Designed for Success: Better Living with Midcentury Instructional Records, published by MIT Press with co-author Janet Borgerson, shows how instructional records tap into a distinctly U.S. belief in self-transformation, touted […]
Epic Toss: Discus World Record-Setter Adds to Cal’s Olympic Momentum
By Margie CullenHe’s not the only Cal athlete heading to the Paris Games.
William McIntyre
Having observed that much of the news about climate change is couched in technical and scientific terminology that might not spark an interest in the casual reader, this year William McIntyre ’73 wrote and published a full-length “cli-fi” novel, The Girl who Rode the Unihorn, meant to present the “future of the history foretold” in […]
Aleksandra Vasilyuk
Aleksandra Vasilyuk (Comp Lit, ’05) published her debut novel, Your Presence is Mandatory, with Bloomsbury under her author name, Sasha Vasilyuk. The novel spans from WWII until the Russia-Ukraine conflict and is based on real events. Sasha has written about Russia and Ukraine for the New York Times, CNN, the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, […]
Nick Roth
Nick Roth ’07 writes: “I have a movie coming out! Hanky Panky (written, co-directed, and co-starring, me from the class of double-0 seven) tells the story of a man and his talking napkin best friend who must save the world from a killer evil top-hat, and also learn to love. Somehow this is actually a […]
Ivett López Malagamba
Kalamazoo College Assistant Professor of Spanish Ivett Lopez Malagamba ’04, Ph.D. ’15, has been awarded tenure along with promotion to associate professor. López Malagamba currently serves as a co-chair in the Department of Spanish Language and Literatures. In her time at K, she has taught beginning through intermediate language courses, and advanced courses on Latin […]
Lisa Quiroga
Lisa Quiroga graduated from UC Berkeley with a degree in English in 2003. Fifteen years later, her life turned upside down when her father died in a car accident in summer 2018. While sorting his belongings, she found two old shoeboxes full of handwritten letters. Not knowing what they were, she took them all home […]
