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Trustee Update
The newest members of the Harvey Mudd College Board of Trustees Michael Angiulo ’93 (engineering) is the corporate vice-president of Xbox and Large Screen Hardware at Microsoft Corporation. He has played key roles in the Product Planning discipline within Microsoft and was the first group product planner for the Information Worker Division. He has seven patents.
STEM and Stravinsky Musical performances at a college known for STEM education may seem a bit unusual, but the relationship between science and the arts runs deep at Harvey Mudd. A new concert series began Oct. 15 and runs through May 8, 2014 in the new Wayne ’73 and Julie Drinkward Recital Hall. Performances feature faculty, alumni, students— including groups from the Harvey Mudd Jazz Improvisation class—and the College’s Electronic Music Ensemble and American Gamelan, plus professional groups, such as the New York early music ensemble ARTEK and piano duo Vicki Ray and Aron Kallay. Events are free. Tuesday, March 25, 8 p.m. ARTEK Early Music Ensemble New York City’s renowned ARTEK ensemble performs 16th- and 17th-century Northern European works. Tuesday, April 15, 8 p.m. Claremont Chamber Choir Charles W. Kamm, conductor
Saturday, April 26, 8 p.m. MicroFest Southern California’s festival of music “between the keys” of the piano returns, featuring the Harvey Mudd American Gamelan.
Wednesday, May 7, 8 p.m. Jazz Improvisation Thursday, May 8, 7 p.m. Student Recital
Where there’s smoke, there’s a teachable moment Sparks from power tools ignited a fire Sept. 11 that burned a small portion of The Claremont Colleges' north property and the Bernard Field Station, directly north of the Harvey Mudd campus. Knowledge is now rising from the ashes as students study the effects of fire on carbon sequestration in soil, monitor arthropod populations, look at competition pressures between native and non-native plants and observe lizards recolonizing the burned area. BFS Director Marty Meyer says research will be even more robust during spring.
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Joseph Connolly recently retired from his private law practice after more than 35 years in business litigation. He was formerly a deputy district attorney for Los Angeles County and a federal prosecutor in Washington, D.C. Murray Goldberg is the developer of WebCT, the first commercially successful learning management system for higher education. Goldberg is a former tenured faculty member in the Department of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia. Anna Patterson is vice president of engineering, artificial intelligence for Google. Previously, she was responsible for search and recommendations for android and books in Google Play. She is the co-founder of Cuil and wrote Recall.archive.org, a history-based search engine out of the Internet Archive. Previously at Google, she was the architect of one of the world’s largest search serving systems and also led efforts in Web Search, Ads and Shopping. Jeffrey Rosenbluth is a private investor and former head of Fixed Income Arbitrage at Salomon Brothers Inc. He is also co-founder of Applause Code LLC and works part time as the chief technology officer of Elm Partners Management LLC. Scott Smallwood P17 spent 25 years in varied industries. He worked at American Airlines in the Operations Research group (now Sabre Decision Technologies); for Applied Decision Analysis, a quantitative consulting firm; in the fraud department at Capital One; and at PDT Partners. Now retired, he is an avid sports enthusiast.