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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 […]
Cassandra Myers
Cassandra Myers ’12 (Comparative Literature), is publishing her debut novel, a mystery/crime fiction hybrid called They Shut Me Up with Winding Road Stories in April 2024. She describes it as “The Godfather meets Agatha Christie with a dash of Seinfeld.” She’s currently the university science writer for San Jose State University.
Karen McIntyre
Karen McIntyre ’11 recently published a book titled Press Freedom and the (Crooked) Path Toward Democracy: Lessons from Journalists in East Africa.
Ravi Arulanantham
Ravi Arulanantham, M.S. ’85, Ph.D. ’88, senior principal consultant at Geosyntec Consultants, has been nominated and chosen to receive the AEHS Foundation Achievement Award, bestowed annually by the International Conference on Soil, Water, Energy, and Air. This award is given to professionals recognized to have made significant contributions to the environmental field while exhibiting outstanding […]
In the Trenches for Democracy
By Tom KertscherOne attorney’s path to the front lines
California’s Salton Sea Could be the Mother Lode of Lithium
By Glen MartinIt’s good news for EVs, but what will it mean for the local community?
Marisa Guterman
As an Interdisciplinary Studies Field major, wearing many different hats on her debut feature film LOST & FOUND IN CLEVELAND felt organic for writer-producer-director Marisa Guterman ’10. Using the foundation of her created focus at Berkeley – Art’s Potential for Social & Political Change – she put her studies into action. LOST & FOUND IN CLEVELAND is a look at the […]
Roberta Satow
Roberta Satow ’66, Ph.D., is a practicing psychoanalyst in Washington, CT. She is a senior member of the faculty and control analyst at the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis. Roberta is Professor Emerita of Sociology at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. In addition to her non-fiction book […]
Mary-Margaret Anderson
Mary-Margaret Anderson ’73, a retired administrative law judge with the California Office of Administrative Hearings from 1997 until 2017, has been elected chair-elect, or 2025 chair-in-waiting, of the Board of Trustees of The National Judicial College, the nation’s oldest, largest, and most widely attended school for judges. In 2009, she was appointed to the Medical […]
Judy Kutulas
Judy Kutulas ’75 writes: “Enjoying retirement, but I’ve just published one last scholarly work, Sitcom Mom: The Evolution of a Classic Television Character, on Lexington Press.”
Jill Cheng
Jill Cheng (BA Architecture, 1996), AIA, LEED AP BD+C, was recently promoted to Associate Principal at Los Angeles firm CO Architects. She has more than 20 years of experience in planning, design, and project management in institutional projects, include healthcare, higher education, justice, and K-12 facilities. A member of the firm from 2001-2017, Jill rejoined […]
Keith Hatschek
Author and educator Keith Hatschek’s (’73) most recent book, The Real Ambassadors: Dave and Iola Brubeck and Louis Armstrong Challenge Segregation, was selected for the prestigious ASCAP Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Award for Outstanding Book on Popular Music for 2023. Hatschek majored in History and says that the research methods he learned during his undergraduate years […]
Jason Anderson
Jason Anderson (2004 MBA, Haas School of Business) says: “While my Haas classmates would never have predicted this from my horrible showing in speech class, in early January I became a candidate for the Kansas Senate legislature. Recent years found me working on public education advocacy work back home in the Kansas City suburbs, and […]
Elaina Dente
Elaina Dente ’13 was promoted to Associate by Delawie (San Diego, Calif.) in 2023. Dente joined Delawie in 2021 and boasts over a decade of architectural experience. She supports Delawie’s Science + Technology endeavors and is the Project Manager of several ongoing projects in the Sorrento Valley and Torrey Pines neighborhoods of San Diego.
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