Class Notes

Congratulations to Rachel (Tie) Morrison (MA, PhD, Arts & Humanities) who was promoted to assistant vice president of communication and brand strategy at Chapman University in Orange, CA. Rachel lives in Orange County, CA with her husband and three sons, ages one, four, and five.

Joe Floyd’s (MFA, Arts & Humanities) solo exhibition at Western Project was reviewed in the LA Times, as well as three art magazines. He has been curated at many art exhibitions and juried in two editions of New American Paintings. Joe was an assistant professor of art at Biola University in La Mirada, CA before moving on to found the artist-run gallery Painting & Sculptures Outpost with his wife Tina Linville. Joe currently holds the position of Art Teacher at a high school and is represented by galleries on both the east and west coasts.

Roberta Romero (MBA, 2009; MSIST, 2020), Jashaina Thomas (MSFE, 2021), and Harvey Mudd College student Amber Hughes teamed up for “Hack for Black Lives” in February. The not-so-traditional hackathon challenged students at the Claremont Colleges to practice active anti-racism by leveraging their interests and skills to develop solutions that support Black communities. Their group worked together to conceptualize a government entity that would oversee and regulate the use of AI software in large, influential organizations and proposed a solution to expose and mitigate algorithmic bias and impart a culture of responsibility for those involved in tech developments of the future.

The AXA Art Prize 2021 Finalists were just announced and three of our recent MFA recipients are among the 40 artists in this national exhibition: A’Kailah Byrd-Greene (MFA), Julie Loffer (MFA), and Luis Rodriguez (MFA, 2021). For the fourth edition of the Prize, over 600 submissions were submitted. The works of the 40 finalist student artists go on view in November at the New York Academy of Art and will also be presented as a digital exhibition in the AXA Art Prize virtual gallery.

The AXA Art Prize 2021 Finalists were just announced and three of our recent MFA recipients are among the 40 artists in this national exhibition: A’Kailah Byrd-Greene (MFA, 2021), Julie Loffer (MFA, 2021), and Luis Rodriguez (MFA, 2021). For the fourth edition of the Prize, over 600 submissions were submitted. The works of the 40 finalist student artists go on view in November at the New York Academy of Art and will also be presented as a digital exhibition in the AXA Art Prize virtual gallery.

The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) named 48 new Emerging Voices Fellows for 2021 and Danae Hart (PhD, Cultural Studies, 2020) and Francesca Gacho (MA, PhD, English, 2021) were among the winners. The program allows recent PhDs in the humanities and humanistic social sciences to take up one-year positions at select institutions in ACLS’s Research University Consortium, where they can advance their research and professional development while contributing to the teaching, programming, and administrative work of their host university. Hart will join the Arts & Humanities program at the University of California, Berkley, and Gacho will join the Communication of Science and Technology program at Vanderbilt University as Postdoctoral fellows.

The AXA Art Prize 2021 Finalists were just announced and three of our recent MFA recipients are among the 40 artists in this national exhibition: A’Kailah Byrd-Greene (MFA, 2021), Julie Loffer (MFA, 2021), and Luis Rodriguez (MFA, 2021). For the fourth edition of the Prize, over 600 submissions were submitted. The works of the 40 finalist student artists go on view in November at the New York Academy of Art and will also be presented as a digital exhibition in the AXA Art Prize virtual gallery.

The Financial Engineering program recently surveyed some of the companies where MSFE graduates are working. Some of these alumni are Jiahuan Huang (MSFE, 2019), Financial Analyst, Acumen Robot Intelligence, Inc.; Imad Fahim (MSIST/MSFE, 2019), Liquidity Reporting Associate, MUFG; Kun Liu (MSFE, 2020), Internal Control, Huatai Securities Co, Ltd.; Carlos Meléndez​ (MSFE, 2020), Senior Analyst, Banco de Guatemala; Pogu Zhou (MSFE, 2020), Data Analyst, Shenzhen Capital Group; Irene (Yue) Wu (MSFE, 2020), Actuarial Analyst, Milliman; and Joseph Puhalla (MSFE, 2020), Model Validation Quant, MSCI (Morgan Stanley Capital International).

The Financial Engineering program recently surveyed some of the companies where MSFE graduates are working. Some of these alumni are Jiahuan Huang (MSFE, 2019), Financial Analyst, Acumen Robot Intelligence, Inc.; Imad Fahim (MSIST/MSFE, 2019), Liquidity Reporting Associate, MUFG; Kun Liu (MSFE, 2020), Internal Control, Huatai Securities Co, Ltd.; Carlos Meléndez​ (MSFE, 2020), Senior Analyst, Banco de Guatemala; Pogu Zhou (MSFE, 2020), Data Analyst, Shenzhen Capital Group; Irene (Yue) Wu (MSFE, 2020), Actuarial Analyst, Milliman; and Joseph Puhalla (MSFE, 2020), Model Validation Quant, MSCI (Morgan Stanley Capital International).

The Financial Engineering program recently surveyed some of the companies where MSFE graduates are working. Some of these alumni are Jiahuan Huang (MSFE, ’19), Financial Analyst, Acumen Robot Intelligence, Inc.; Imad Fahim (MSIST/MSFE, ’19), Liquidity Reporting Associate, MUFG; Kun Liu (MSFE, ’20), Internal Control, Huatai Securities Co, Ltd.; Carlos Meléndez​ (MSFE, ’20), Senior Analyst, Banco de Guatemala; Pogu Zhou (MSFE, ’20), Data Analyst, Shenzhen Capital Group; Irene (Yue) Wu (MSFE, ’20), Actuarial Analyst, Milliman; and Joseph Puhalla (MSFE, ’20), Model Validation Quant, MSCI (Morgan Stanley Capital International).

The Financial Engineering program recently surveyed some of the companies where MSFE graduates are working. Some of these alumni are Jiahuan Huang (MSFE, 2019), Financial Analyst, Acumen Robot Intelligence, Inc.; Imad Fahim (MSIST/MSFE, 2019), Liquidity Reporting Associate, MUFG; Kun Liu (MSFE, 2020), Internal Control, Huatai Securities Co, Ltd.; Carlos Meléndez​ (MSFE, 2020), Senior Analyst, Banco de Guatemala; Pogu Zhou (MSFE, 2020), Data Analyst, Shenzhen Capital Group; Irene (Yue) Wu (MSFE, 2020), Actuarial Analyst, Milliman; and Joseph Puhalla (MSFE, 2020), Model Validation Quant, MSCI (Morgan Stanley Capital International).

The Financial Engineering program recently surveyed some of the companies where MSFE graduates are working. Some of these alumni are Jiahuan Huang (MSFE, 2019), Financial Analyst, Acumen Robot Intelligence, Inc.; Imad Fahim (MSIST/MSFE, 2019), Liquidity Reporting Associate, MUFG; Kun Liu (MSFE, 2020), Internal Control, Huatai Securities Co, Ltd.; Carlos Meléndez​ (MSFE, 2020), Senior Analyst, Banco de Guatemala; Pogu Zhou (MSFE, 2020), Data Analyst, Shenzhen Capital Group; Irene (Yue) Wu (MSFE, 2020), Actuarial Analyst, Milliman; and Joseph Puhalla (MSFE, 2020), Model Validation Quant, MSCI (Morgan Stanley Capital International).