Evan McLeod ’17 led the Capstone Companies expansion into Seattle. McLeod is working alongside Chris Hardman, and together they’ve brokered nearly half a billion dollars in transaction volume, selling properties in primary markets such as Seattle, to tertiary markets on the far eastern side of the state, and everything in between.

The Los Angeles Times named Cayla Whitley ’17 as one of its 2022 Orange County Visionaries. The list includes business people who have elevated themselves to become leaders in their fields, pushing past a difficult start to the decade to look forward, develop their industries, and importantly, elevate their Orange County home.

Pitcher Mitch White ’17 will make his fifth start of the season with the Los Angeles Dodgers, replacing Andrew Heaney who is suffering from a shoulder issue. This season, the Dodgers have been faced with many starting staff receiving injuries. Under this trend, White could continue to see starts this summer as the Dodgers try […]

During the pandemic, Frank Shanahan M.B.A. ’17 took up baking. This spring, he launched Skillet Bakery, a cottage food business selling sourdough English muffins in Redwood City and at the San Carlos Farmers Market.  

The Los Angeles Dodgers optioned right-handed pitcher Mitch White ’17 after recalling infielder Gavin Lux. At 25, White made his Major League debut on August 28, 2020, against the Rangers, tossing a scoreless inning in the Dodgers’ 6-2 loss. The San Jose native has been with the Dodgers organization for four seasons, across five different […]

Kendall McIntosh ’17 was selected by the New York Red Bulls as a goalkeeper in the MLS re-entry draft on Nov. 26, 2019. He was the 13th pick overall.

Mitchell White ’17 appeared in the headlines on MLB.com. In the story, the ninth-ranked Dodgers prospect shared his insights on the start of the Arizona Fall League, how he approaches injuries, and his MLB history.

Hannah Bertrando J.D. ’17 has joined the Santa Clara County Office of the District Attorney. Previously, she served as deputy district attorney at the Fresno County District Attorney’s Office.

Javi Benitez ’17 is starring in the action film Kid Alpha One, directed by Richard Somes. He is also in the cast of the Philippine drama television series The General’s Daughter.

Srini Sekaran ’17 is the founder of Gavano, a company providing power analytics for enterprise infrastructure that has recently raised a round of seed capital.  

JJ Galvin ’17 organized a meeting between six emerging Israeli leaders participating in the U.S. Department of State’s International Visitor Leadership Program and School of Engineering faculty, students, and alumni. Attendees included Martin Prado ’16, M.S. ’22; Jun Chang ’18; Elena Fromer ’18; Taylor Mau ’18; and Samantha Morehead ’18. The group toured Refract House, SCU’s 3rd-place winning entry in the 2009 […]

Jacqueline Cummings ’17 has been admitted to Columbia Law School beginning fall 2018. She writes, “SCU truly prepared me by providing access to supportive, dynamic professors in the bioengineering department. I am grateful that my experiences as an SCU bioengineering student, a community facilitator for SCU Residence Life, and a rower for SCU Women’s Crew led […]

Matthew Findlay ’17, M.S. ’19 and Daniel Freitas ’17, M.S. ’18, along with Maryam Mobed-Miremadi and Korin Wheeler, published a paper aimed at improving targeted nano-medicines and diagnostics, which was selected for the cover of Environmental Science: Nano.

Mallory Barr J.D. ’17 and Tamarah Prevost J.D. ’16 are associates at Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy in Burlingame.  

Antonis Avgoustinos Orphanou Ph.D. ’17 earned his doctorate in electrical engineering after completing his thesis, “Carbon Nanotube Ultracapacitor Characteristics and Cell Design” under the supervision of Cary Y. Yang.  

Yong Chen Ph.D. ’17 was awarded a Ph.D. in computer engineering after completing his thesis, “Supernode Transformation on Parallel Systems with Distributed Memory—An Analytical Approach” under the supervision of Weijia Shang.

Elizabeth Batiuk ’17 has been accepted into the M.D. program at the Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine for fall 2018. She was a bioengineering major, involved with Society of Women Engineers, and was a Jean Donovan Fellow while at Santa Clara. 

Cooper McDonnell ’17 was part of the team that made the launch of Falcon Heavy, the newest and most powerful rocket from SpaceX, successful. 

Jake Ososke ’17, M.S. ’18, Grant Mishler ’18, Dante Dalla Gasperina ’18, and Collin Walther ’18 are the winners of the San Jose Earthquakes Entrepreneurial Design Challenge, earning the grand prize of $2,000. The group presented an augmented reality app that leads attendees around the Earthquakes’ stadium while trying to get a soccer ball into a goal. […]

Alex Choulos ’17 co-authored a journal paper with researchers at Yahoo Research and Drexel University titled “Product review summarization through question retrieval and diversification.” The paper, published in Information Retrieval Journal, uses a recurrent deep neural network to measure the “answerability” of questions with respect to product reviews.