Alumni Achievers Content / Alumni Achievers Content for 不良研究所 en UC Regents Bring More Aggies on Board /magazine/uc-regents-bring-more-aggies-board <p><span>The 不良研究所 contingent on the UC Board of Regents grew larger this summer with the swearing in of two additional Aggies.</span></p><p><span>Four Aggies 鈥 an alum, a grad student, a faculty member and a staffer&nbsp;鈥 hold official roles with the UC Board of Regents, which oversees all 10 UC campuses; other Aggies address the regents at each meeting but don鈥檛 hold formal roles on the board.</span></p> September 30, 2025 - 3:05pm Jocelyn C Anderson /magazine/uc-regents-bring-more-aggies-board Aggies at the Helm /magazine/aggies-helm <p>What begins at 不良研究所 doesn鈥檛 stop at graduation. For these three alumni, it led all the way to the president鈥檚 office 鈥 shaping the future of higher education at universities across the country.</p><p>Meet Ellen Granberg 鈥84, president of George Washington University (GW); Doug Girod 鈥81, chancellor of the University of Kansas (KU); and Carol Folt Ph.D. 鈥82, president of the University of Southern California (USC).</p> June 25, 2025 - 3:58pm Russell L Thebaud /magazine/aggies-helm A Supportive Network /magazine/supportive-network <p>Shane Snyder 鈥89 can relate to the challenges his clients face at the Society for the Blind in Sacramento.</p><p>As the director of programs, Snyder helps connect people to resources they need to build independent living skills when they lose their sight. But personally, he also has confronted vision loss due to Usher syndrome, a congenital degenerative condition that affects both eyes and ears.</p><p>鈥淚 had to learn some new ways to do the things I already knew how to do,鈥 said Snyder, who wears aids to help with hearing.</p> May 19, 2025 - 9:00am Jocelyn C Anderson /magazine/supportive-network Alum Receives Early Career Fellowship /magazine/alum-receives-early-career-fellowship <p><span>Victoria Watson-Zink, Ph.D. 鈥22, a postdoctoral evolutionary marine biologist, received the Howard Hughes Medical Institute鈥檚 Hanna H. Gray Fellowship last month. This year鈥檚 fellowship supports the transition of 25 early-career scientists to leading labs and becoming tenured faculty.</span></p> February 25, 2025 - 4:14pm Jocelyn C Anderson /magazine/alum-receives-early-career-fellowship All About Flavor /magazine/all-about-flavor <p>Arielle Johnson, Ph.D. 鈥14, knew she wanted to study food science after a research project on Turkish ice cream, a dessert made stretchy with orchid root. Now, Johnson is an established food scientist, advising restaurants and food manufacturers internationally.&nbsp;</p><p>She graduated New York University in 2009 and applied to a variety of programs for food science, aiming to apply chemistry to gastronomy and cuisine. 鈥淢ost of them said, 鈥榳e don't really do that,鈥欌 she said. 鈥淭here wasn鈥檛 really anyone doing exactly what I do 15 years ago.鈥</p> February 18, 2025 - 12:55pm Jocelyn C Anderson /magazine/all-about-flavor Early Days /magazine/early-days <p>Dawnt茅 Early 鈥05, M.S. 鈥08, Ph.D. 鈥11, spent midmorning on a recent summer day painting rocks with several 4- and 5-year-old boys. At times it got pretty messy, with yellow, red and blue combining to make a dingy brown, but that was all part of the learning process.</p><p>This KinderCamp program introduces children who didn鈥檛 have access to preschool to the classroom for four weeks in the summer. United Way runs the program in partnership with several local groups.</p> August 19, 2024 - 9:55pm Jocelyn C Anderson /magazine/early-days The Grocery Game /magazine/the-grocery-game Larry Liu, M.B.A. 鈥08, has made ethnic cuisine more accessible for food lovers nationwide. May 21, 2024 - 2:44am Jocelyn C Anderson /magazine/the-grocery-game Winning Formula: Aggies Blend Baseball and Data Science /magazine/winning-formula-aggies-blend-baseball-and-data-science This season, Major League Baseball fans can find three 不良研究所 alumni in key leadership positions. May 21, 2024 - 2:41am Russell L Thebaud /magazine/winning-formula-aggies-blend-baseball-and-data-science Game On /magazine/game-on Henry Low 鈥22 wants to make learning easier through gameplay. February 20, 2024 - 2:23am Jocelyn C Anderson /magazine/game-on Maurice Gallagher鈥檚 Front Row Seat for the Super Bowl /magazine/maurice-gallaghers-front-row-seat-for-the-super-bowl Maurice Gallagher 鈥71 founded Allegiant Travel Company, namesake of Allegiant Stadium. February 05, 2024 - 7:10am Jocelyn C Anderson /magazine/maurice-gallaghers-front-row-seat-for-the-super-bowl