Quick links

Third floor Mrak Hall
University of California, Davis
One Shields Avenue
Davis, CA 95616

(530) 752-1930

UC Davis home > UC Davis Magazine > Class Notes Archive

Class Notes Archive 1931-2014: Spring 2010

< Previous Showing 41 to 47 of 47

2005Brent Hillberg and Melissa Noto announced their engagement on New Year’s Eve—three years after their first group date at a Giants baseball game.
2006JASON LUCASH By Elizabeth Stitt Occupation: Creator and business development director of OrigAudio. Best of the best: Jason Lucash ’06 has had a good year. In November, Time Magazine declared his creation, the OrigAudio, to be one of the top 50 inventions of 2009. Ranked at 38, the OrigAudio is an easily transportable speaker made out of cardboard, which hooks up to electronics like mp3 players. “[Time Magazine] contacted us in October and told us we were nominated,” Lucash said. “And I thought that was insane. When I found this out, I Googled the best inventions of 2008, and I found the iPhone was the winner. I thought there was no way we’d get on the list.” They had only launched www.OrigAudio.com about two months earlier. OrigAudio to rockets: Starting at 5 a.m. on the morning of November 12, Lucash’s phone was bombarded with phone calls. OrigAudio was announced as one of the best inventions of the year on The Today Show, and his website received a 10,000 percent increase in traffic that day. “The invention that came in first was a NASA rocket,” Lucash said, “and another invention on the list was an AIDS vaccination. Then I found us on the list, and I absolutely could not believe it. It’s an honor to be included with all these crazy and impressive inventions.” OrigAudio’s Rock-It: Lucash and his company have since created another product for the music-loving market called the Rock-It—a small device which can create a stereo out of anything it touches, including lamps, windows and boxes. In the first three weeks, they sold over 1,000 units. In January, he went on national TV to promote the latest creation, and in April, he will be traveling to Asia for a few months where there have been a few OrigAudio shops open since December. “The invention that came in first was a NASA rocket…. Then I found us on the list, and I absolutely could not believe it.”
2007Michael Rocco Jacobellis was recently commissioned to the rank of second lieutenant with the U.S. Marine Corps. While at UC Davis, Jacobellis played baseball all four years. • Ka-Fung Koo works for Ajaxo Inc. In August, he helped launch www.Ajaxo.com, a free search engine designed to find groceries on sale in different neighborhoods. • Terry Sharff died of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in November at Cherry Meadows Hospice in Wisconsin. She was 49. Born in Paris, Texas, she spent 20 years as a software engineer consultant. During her time at UC Davis, she worked on Diane Feinstein’s Senate campaign, and later blogged in support of President Obama’s campaign. Sharff, a vegetarian, loved animals and the environment, and supported civil liberty causes. She is survived by her domestic partner, Lisa “Le” Osburn and her two sons, Erin and Ryan Wellock.
2008Eunice Lee was awarded a fellowship in November by Math For American San Diego, a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving math education in San Diego public high schools. She will receive full tuition scholarship and a $15,000 stipend for each of the five years she’s in graduate school. She is working on her Masters in Education and single subject math teaching credential at UC San Diego.
2009Wesley Sever, Cred., was given a Terrel H. Bell Award for Outstanding School Leadership from the U.S. Department of Education. The principal of John S. Wash Elementary School in Fresno, he was recognized in November at a ceremony in Washington, D.C.

2005Brent Hillberg and Melissa Noto announced their engagement on New Year’s Eve—three years after their first group date at a Giants baseball game.

2006JASON LUCASH By Elizabeth Stitt Occupation: Creator and business development director of OrigAudio. Best of the best: Jason Lucash ’06 has had a good year. In November, Time Magazine declared his creation, the OrigAudio, to be one of the top 50 inventions of 2009. Ranked at 38, the OrigAudio is an easily transportable speaker made out of cardboard, which hooks up to electronics like mp3 players. “[Time Magazine] contacted us in October and told us we were nominated,” Lucash said. “And I thought that was insane. When I found this out, I Googled the best inventions of 2008, and I found the iPhone was the winner. I thought there was no way we’d get on the list.” They had only launched www.OrigAudio.com about two months earlier. OrigAudio to rockets: Starting at 5 a.m. on the morning of November 12, Lucash’s phone was bombarded with phone calls. OrigAudio was announced as one of the best inventions of the year on The Today Show, and his website received a 10,000 percent increase in traffic that day. “The invention that came in first was a NASA rocket,” Lucash said, “and another invention on the list was an AIDS vaccination. Then I found us on the list, and I absolutely could not believe it. It’s an honor to be included with all these crazy and impressive inventions.” OrigAudio’s Rock-It: Lucash and his company have since created another product for the music-loving market called the Rock-It—a small device which can create a stereo out of anything it touches, including lamps, windows and boxes. In the first three weeks, they sold over 1,000 units. In January, he went on national TV to promote the latest creation, and in April, he will be traveling to Asia for a few months where there have been a few OrigAudio shops open since December. “The invention that came in first was a NASA rocket…. Then I found us on the list, and I absolutely could not believe it.”

2007Michael Rocco Jacobellis was recently commissioned to the rank of second lieutenant with the U.S. Marine Corps. While at UC Davis, Jacobellis played baseball all four years. • Ka-Fung Koo works for Ajaxo Inc. In August, he helped launch www.Ajaxo.com, a free search engine designed to find groceries on sale in different neighborhoods. • Terry Sharff died of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in November at Cherry Meadows Hospice in Wisconsin. She was 49. Born in Paris, Texas, she spent 20 years as a software engineer consultant. During her time at UC Davis, she worked on Diane Feinstein’s Senate campaign, and later blogged in support of President Obama’s campaign. Sharff, a vegetarian, loved animals and the environment, and supported civil liberty causes. She is survived by her domestic partner, Lisa “Le” Osburn and her two sons, Erin and Ryan Wellock.

2008Eunice Lee was awarded a fellowship in November by Math For American San Diego, a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving math education in San Diego public high schools. She will receive full tuition scholarship and a $15,000 stipend for each of the five years she’s in graduate school. She is working on her Masters in Education and single subject math teaching credential at UC San Diego.

2009Wesley Sever, Cred., was given a Terrel H. Bell Award for Outstanding School Leadership from the U.S. Department of Education. The principal of John S. Wash Elementary School in Fresno, he was recognized in November at a ceremony in Washington, D.C.

< Previous Showing 41 to 47 of 47