family class notes Megan Guthrie-Wedemeyer ’16 (DRA) is on the costume team for the Starz drama Outlander. She also helped mount “The Artistry of Outlander” exhibit at The Paley Center for Media. Francis Mulford MSW ’16 (SSW), a drug court counselor and residential counselor at Family Counseling Center Behavioral Health in West Plains, Missouri, co-authored a book on parenting skills for those recovering from co-occurring disorders. Carolyn Seaton EdD ’16 (EDU) was named superintendent of Orinda Union School District in California. T R O J A N
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Walter C. Foster LLB ’50 (LAW) of Rancho Palos Verdes, California; July 15, 2016, at the age of 93. Matt Higgins Doran ’50, DMA ’54 (MUS) of Hazel Dell, Washington; Aug. 3, 2016, at the age of 94. William S. Coleman ’54 (ENG) of Sun Lakes, Arizona; June 12, 2016, at the age of 83. Judith Love Cohen ’57, MS ’62 (ENG) of Culver City, California; July 25, 2016, at the age of 82.
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Jake Saroyan ’10 (BUS) and Katherine Koehler ’13 (LAS/SCJ). Brandon Craig ’13 MPA (SPP) and Kelsey McQuaid ’14 MPA (SPP).
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Gwen (Huling) Lopez Ozieblo ’96 (BUS) and Rob Lopez Ozieblo, a daughter, Gemma Snow. Jonathan Langford ’08 (BUS) and Lara Baker Langford ’09 (BUS), a daughter, Lily Anne.
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A L U M N I Lavinia Reynolds Johnson Carroll ’39 (LAS) of San Luis Obispo, California; on Sept. 9, 2016, at the age of 100. Carlin Matson DDS ’43 (DEN) of Carlsbad, California; Aug. 1, 2016, at the age of 104. E. William Haskell DDS ’47 (DEN) of Newport Beach, California; Oct. 15, 2016, at the age of 93.
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USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences USC Leventhal School of Accounting USC School of Architecture USC Marshall School of Business USC School of Cinematic Arts USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
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USC Kaufman School of Dance Ostrow School of Dentistry of USC USC School of Dramatic Arts USC Rossier School of Education USC Viterbi School of Engineering USC Roski School of Art and Design USC Davis School of Gerontology USC Gould School of Law Keck School of Medicine of USC USC Thornton School of Music USC Chan Division of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy
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USC School of Pharmacy Division of Biokinesiology and Physical Therapy
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USC Price School of Public Policy USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work
Matt DeGrushe, Michelle Dumas, James Feigert, Harmony Frederick, Wendy Gragg, Katherine Griffiths, Deanne Grimes, Elizabeth Hedrick, Leticia Lozoya, Maya Meinert, Mike McNulty, James Morse, Jane Ong, Kristi Patton, Stacey Wang Rizzo, Nicole Stark and Deann Webb contributed to this section.
TJAN PHOTO BY PETER ZHAOYU ZHOU
A professor of psychology at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, Bosco Tjan was a world-renowned expert on vision, particularly in how the brain recognizes shapes and scenes. He moved to the United States alone from Beijing, China, at age 18 to attend college. After earning an undergraduate honors degree in computer science at the University of Kansas, he went to the University of Minnesota and worked as a research assistant in the departments of psychology and computer science before earning his PhD in computer and information science in 1997. At both institutions, he was active in the Hong Kong Student Association, helping many students adjust to American life. After obtaining his doctorate, he spent a year in Tübingen, Germany, as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics. There his research focused on behavioral and computational studies of 3-D object recognition, symmetry perception, scene recognition, haptic perception and virtual environments. He returned to the U.S. in 1998 and worked as a research associate at the NEC Research Institute in Princeton, New Jersey, until 2000. He joined USC Dornsife the following year and became co-director of the Dana and David Dornsife Cognitive Neuroimaging Center in 2011. At USC, he and a team of researchers from the National Institutes of Health had recently received a $4 million grant to study how blindness changes the brain. His ongoing research projects included image enhancement for people with impaired vision, indoor navigation aid for the blind and the visually impaired, and perception of visual speech. Tjan died on Dec. 2, 2016, at the age of 50. He is survived by his wife Carissa Pang, son Daniel Tjan, brother Kokie Tjan and mother Thee-Niang Huang.
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