| 1999Andrea Fascetti, Ph.D., associate professor of veterinary medicine and Sean Delaney, M.S., D.V.M. ’00, founder of DVM Consulting, edited a textbook, Applied Veterinary Clinical Nutrition, published by Wiley-Blackwell in February. Fascetti was also keynote speaker for a symposium, held recently in Brazil, on clinical nutrition in dogs and cats. • After serving as traffic engineer for the city of Fresno for more than five years, Bryan Jones became deputy director of the Carlsbad Transportation Department last June. In December, the California Department of Transportation appointed him to a two-year term on the California Traffic Control Devices Committee. The newly created post represents the interests of pedestrians, bicyclists, disabled and other nonmotorized highway users. Jones is also completing a master’s degree in public administration at Norwich University. • Felice Sandoval and Mike Rose ’00, married in April 2010 near Santa Cruz and live in Pasadena. Rose received his doctorate in chemistry from UC Santa Cruz in 2009, and he is a postdoctoral fellow at Caltech, researching solar fuels. Sandoval works in corporate citizenship for the Walt Disney Co. in Burbank. |
| 2002Melissa Johnson Hallas and her husband, Ryan Hallas ’11, welcomed their first child, Seth, last December. |
| 2003Erika Sox, D.V.M. ’05, is co-owner of Veterinary Emergency + Referral Center of Hawaii, which opened in Honolulu in January. Sox is Hawaii’s only board-certified internal veterinary medicine specialist. After earning her UC Davis degrees, she completed an internship at the Veterinary Specialty Hospital of San Diego and a residency in small animal internal medicine at Cornell University’s College of Veterinary Medicine. Before moving to Hawaii, she practiced in California. |
| 2005Anthony Barcellos, Ph.D., has written his first novel, Land of Milk and Money (Tagus Press), due out in July. The story, about Portuguese immigrants who settle in California’s Central Valley, draws from his experiences growing up on his grandfather’s dairy farm. For more information, visit www.landofmilkandmoney.com. In his day job, Barcellos is chair of the mathematics department at American River College in Sacramento. • Kyle Bryant is preparing to bike 30 miles on May 5 in Davis in a Ride Ataxia event that he founded to raise money for research on Friedreich’s ataxia disease. Ride Ataxia rideataxia.org also holds weekend rides in other cities across the country. Bryant, who has Friedreich’s ataxia, has helped raise $1.2 million for research on the rare neuromuscular disorder. A recent $125,000 grant went to School of Veterinary Medicine molecular biosciences professor Gino Cortopassi. • Darcy Gordon, Ph.D., manages Localita’ il Piano www.localitailpiano.it, a small organic farm and agriturismo B&B near Spoleto, Italy, where she lives with her husband, Adolfo Rosati, and two young sons. She enjoys cultivating heritage and unusual fruit and vegetable varieties, including some 450 different kinds of apples, and sustainably producing milk, eggs and meat. • Yasmine Khan wrote a chapter in the anthology Love, InshAllah: The Secret Love Lives of American Muslim Women (Soft Skull Press, 2012), published in February. Khan is one of 25 Muslim women writers, ranging from orthodox to secular, who wrote about their own personal experiences with dating and love. |
| 2006Gabe Cooley and Ricky Chu ’08, who started Rayco Painting company as students, now also run Rayco Energy, www.raycoenergy.com, a green home-renovation company based in Hayward. The firm’s energy retrofit for Greenwood Condominium Community in Walnut Creek was featured in Echo Journal, a magazine for homeowner association directors, in January. • Nicole Green, Ph.D., assistant laboratory director, Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, was recently certified as a diplomate of the American Board of Medical Microbiology. • Kristofor Husted beat out hundreds of applicants for an internship with National Public Radio last fall. As a science desk intern, he wrote for the health and food blogs on NPR.org and helped research stories and record audio with NPR’s science correspondents. • Sean Stiny was recently named content editor for Web services at the Santa Rosa Press Democrat. He enjoys coming over for the UC Davis football games and drinks many good Sonoma County wines made by UC Davis grads.
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| 2008Kregg Hetherington, Ph.D., wrote Guerrilla Auditors: The Politics of Transparency in Neoliberal Paraguay (Duke University Press), published in December. He is an assistant professor of sociology and social anthropology at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, Canada. |
| 2009Academic publishing group Continuum recently released The Textual Life of Airports: Reading the Culture of Flight, by Christopher Schaberg, Ph.D. The book, exploring how airports appear in 20th century literature, grew out of his doctoral dissertation. He is an assistant professor of English at Loyola University New Orleans, and writes a blog at whatisliterature.blogspot.com. |
| 2011Elizabeth Stitt, former intern with UC Davis Magazine, works as a press aide in the state Capitol office of Assembly Speaker John Pérez, D-Los Angeles.
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