ClassNotes Neuro-Innovation and Translational Neuroscience as a postdoctoral fellow. She was also recently awarded the 2012 North American NeuroOphthalmology Society pilot grant.
2003
Class Agents: Julia N. Gitis (juliag@gmail.com); Maheen Kaleem (maheenkaleem@gmail.com)
2004
Class Agents: Jacinda A. Mein (mjacinda@gmail.com); Jessica C. Liu (jess.c.liu@gmail.com)
2005
Class Agent: Erika N. Gudmundson (erika.Gudmundson@gmail.com)
2006
2007
Class Agents: Cassie Kerkhoff (ckerkhof@ucsd.edu); Audrey Kwong (audmusic@gmail.com)
2008
Provided by Stephanie Guo ‘09
Class Agents: Meghana Dhar (meghanadhar@gmail.com); Jeffrey Le (Jeff87@gmail.com); Casey Near (caseylane@gmail.com)
Class Agents: Stephanie Syu (ssyu363@yahoo.com); Senan Ebrahim (sebrahim@fas.harvard.edu)
2009
Class Agents: David Kastelman (davidksworld@gmail.com); Stephanie Guo (stephanie.j.guo@gmail.com) 60
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Stephanie Guo is racking up frequent flier miles this summer. She is traveling to Australia to visit family, spending a week at Catalina with USC intervarsity and going to Shanghai for a month for a study abroad program. Angeli Agrawal is making moves … including in the making movies industry. This semester she interned at Participant Media, which has produced movies including “Waiting for Superman” and “An Inconvenient Truth.” She worked in the department that creates social action campaigns around films. At USC, she enjoyed serving on the executive board of the Panhellenic Council and taking a class on political risk analysis. She is continuing to work with the professor who taught the course, traveling to Cuba in late May for a research trip with the professor and some other undergraduate and graduate students. Afterwards, she will be back in the Bay Area to intern for Morgan Stanley Smith Barney in their Palo Alto office. The Class of 2009 is well represented in Europe. Daniel Hsu has been studying abroad at Oxford for the past year, and Noel Duan studied at Sciences Po in Paris this past semester. The two were visited recently by fellow ’09ers Stephanie Chong and Kelly Chen, and the crew S U M M E R 2 012
of four traveled around Europe drawing comparisons to the Avengers for being both awesome and American. The four managed a visit to Oxford, where they had a chance to hang out with ’09er Jonathan Liu, who is a full-time undergrad there. Baladitya “Aditya” Yellapragada is making the most of his technical training. This summer he’s going back to intern at Intel where he will be working on “Xeon server processor validation,” which has been confirmed as a program that is very hard to say 10 times fast. He is also the newly elected director of Pioneers in Engineering (PiE) at U.C. Berkeley. The group trains Berkeley students to serve as mentors paired with high schools and hosts an annual robotics competition. This past April, 20 schools competed in their program. Aditya is actively trying new things as well; he went skiing for the first time in Tahoe this past January. He loved it and certainly wants to go back, but wants to try snowboarding next time. The Class of 2009 also has some early graduators. One is JiaJun Chia, who majored in chemical and biomolecular engineering and graduated from Johns Hopkins this May. She’s starting a Ph.D. program in bioengineering at the University of Washington this fall. Congratulations, JiaJun!
2010
Class Agents: Kevin Fu (kf800@yahoo.com); Adrienne Wong (adriee@gmail.com) Christina Ma is excited to report that she is living in New Zealand, working for a term at the Waitemata district health board. Christina’s job is in the Asian patient support
services, which basically assists Mandarin-speaking patients with clinical liaisons, info about the health care system, getting social benefits, and cultural and emotional support. Christina reports that it’s a really unique program (possibly the only one of its kind in the world!) and that it’s been pretty crucial in assuring better patient outcomes, especially considering Auckland’s increasingly diverse population. “It was really cool for me to learn about a completely different health care system as well, one that’s publicly funded ... and be immersed in a clinical setting,” she said, adding that she’s also having fun training with a triathlon club, doing ocean swims and taking surf lessons. Roslyn Li is gearing up to go to Japan in the fall. She got into KCJS (Kyoto Consortium for Japanese Studies, hosted by Columbia). She will be at Doshisha University in Kyoto and can’t wait to meet her homestay family. She’s also looking forward to roaming the streets of Kyoto in the beautiful autumn foliage and is hoping to take classes in ikebana or maybe even learn how to play a traditional Japanese instrument “just for fun.” Another “to do” on her list is to get into a class on language and food in Kyoto, for which she’ll be frequenting restaurants, eating delicious food and gaining a better understanding of Japanese linguistics.
2011
Class Agents: Rani Mukherjee (rani.mukherjee18@gmail.com); Hassaan Ebrahim (hassaan.e@gmail.com) It has been an amazing semester for our Class of 2011 Eagles! We cannot believe it