Class Notes Archive 1931-2014
Class Notes are searchable back to our spring 2000 issue. You can browse the notes by decade (click on a decade to view its class notes):
Class notes from the 1990s
| 1999Grace Ma entered the Pennsylvania College of Optometry in August to begin study for a four-year Doctor of Optometry degree. (appeared in the Spring 2000 issue) • Tranh Pham was one of 25 designers whose plans for a custom-built doghouse were selected for Dog Haus: Architecture Unleashed, a juried exhibition held in October at the Oakland Museum and co-sponsored by the Council on Architecture and the Oakland SPCA. (appeared in the Spring 2000 issue) • Vu Minh Tran entered the Pennsylvania College of Optometry in August to begin study for a four-year Doctor of Optometry degree. (appeared in the Spring 2000 issue) • Brett Nuckols' graduation last year made him a third-generation Aggie, following in the footsteps of his father, Thomas Nuckols '66, and grandfather, George Nuckols '41. (appeared in the Summer 2000 issue) • Michael Stuhr, M.B.A., recently joined Jones & Stokes, an environmental consulting firm in Sacramento, to lead its Federal Programs Business Group, which provides compliance services for federal water, energy and military projects. For 22 years a military officer with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Stuhr has managed a wide variety of engineering projects in the United States, Germany and Saudi Arabia. (appeared in the Summer 2000 issue) • Sumita Mukherji was hired by The Davis Enterprise as a reporter covering Yolo County government. She had worked at Pulse! Magazine, a publication of Tower Records, as an assistant and copy editor. (appeared in the Fall 2000 issue) • Roy Kaufmann started Varsity Ventures, an incubator for student high-tech startups. Kaufmann is also completing an M.A. in international relations. (appeared in the Winter 2001 issue) • Stephen McCord works as project manager with Larry Walker Associates in Davis. McCord previously did environmental consulting work in southern Africa. (appeared in the Winter 2001 issue) • Melissa Kuss is a new senior illustrator in the UC Davis Public Communications department. Since graduation, she has worked as design director for SoliSys Solution Systems LLC, an Internet provider and Web design firm in Davis, and as a graphic designer for the Sacramento Theater Company. (appeared in the Spring 2001 issue) • Narges Kamali received a master's degree in apparel design with a minor in computer-mediated communications from Cornell University, New York, in May and accepted a position as assistant product developer with the New York headquarters of Federated Merchandising Group, which owns Macy's and Bloomingdale's stores. She will do design work for their private label brands. (appeared in the Fall 2001 issue) • Adele Zhang, M.F.A, teaches at Delta College in Stockton and this fall begins teaching design and merchandising in the Family and Consumer Sciences Program at California State University, Sacramento. (appeared in the Fall 2001 issue) • Jeffrey Bloom, Ph.D., a researcher in digital watermarking at the Sarnoff Corp. in Princeton, N.J., is co-author of a textbook on the subject, Digital Watermarking (Morgan Kaufmann Publishers). Digital watermarking is a means to help prevent illegal copying of digital material and has other uses, from authenticating surveillance video to recording electronic transactions. (appeared in the Winter 2002 issue) • Fred Houts is working on a master's degree in biochemisty at the Medical College of Ohio in Toledo. (appeared in the Winter 2002 issue) • Anthony Swofford has written a Gulf War memoir titled I Don't Know but I've Been Told: Memories of War and Other Battles, which is being published by Scribner this fall. Swofford completed an M.F.A. in fiction at the Iowa Writers' Workshop in May, where he received a teaching-writing fellowship. While at Iowa he also served as an assistant editor in fiction at The Iowa Review. He now lives in Portland, Ore. (appeared in the Spring 2002 issue) • Alex Traverso was promoted from press assistant to assistant press secretary for Gov. Gray Davis, making him one of the few people who are cleared to speak on the record for the governor. (appeared in the Spring 2002 issue) • Dave Cubberly and Chris Weiss '00 work with landscape architecture firm M.D. Fotheringham in San Francisco, whose design to renovate the city's Union Square was selected from among 300 entries. (appeared in the Summer 2002 issue) • Bernt Wahl, M.B.A., has received a Fulbright Fellowship to spend the 2002-03 academic year as a professor of business and technology in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. There he will continue his work on Internet search technology and integrated mass transportation systems. (appeared in the Summer 2002 issue) • Katherine Watt Chan, Ph.D., is a staff scientist at Genzyme Corp., a biotechnology company in Massachusetts. She lives in Boston with her husband, Chris '89, and their yellow Labrador retriever, Casey. She enjoys playing the piano and doing Chinese painting, and recently began taking English horse-riding lessons. Chris is a senior consultant at LECG, a law and economics consulting firm in Cambridge. (appeared in the Winter 2003 issue) • Michael Gebman began the Ph.D. program in structural engineering at UC San Diego this past summer, after receiving an M.S. in civil engineering from San Diego State University in 2001. (appeared in the Winter 2003 issue) • Ann Marie Kennedy, M.S., a science teacher at Grant Union High School in Sacramento, received an Award of Distinction from the UC Davis College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences for a program she has launched, the Garden of Ethnic American Treasures, which allows her students to earn school credits and cash, learn about the science of plants and soils, and gain work experience by running a small florist business. The proceeds go to a college scholarship fund for the students. (appeared in the Winter 2003 issue) |