Alumni Accolades October 2014

5 Coca-Cola Scholars are included in Forbes 30 Under 30 List!

• Roger Lee (2004), Co-Founder, PaperG
• Kavita Shukla (2002), Founder, Fenugreen
• Joshua Sommer (2005), Executive Director, The Chordoma Foundation
• Vivek Ramaswamy (2003), Investment Analyst, QVT Financial
• David Demirbilek (2005), Minority Counsel, Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee

Jenni Newbury (2006), Executive Director and founder of PALS programs was featured on the Meredith Vieira Show this month!  PALS Programs creates immersive experiences where young adults with Down syndrome and their peers have fun, grow as individuals, and develop transformative friendships.  Their programs take place in the form of weeklong sleep-away camps, weekend Adventures and an initiative called The Congratulations Project.  This project provides our campers the opportunity to write letters to new parents of babies with Down syndrome. During the show segment, Jenni reunited a camper and the baby to whom the letter was written.

Tyrha Lindsey (1990) has been named President of the PhD Project’s Marketing Doctoral Students Association. The PhD Project was established by The KPMG Foundation in 1994 to increase workplace diversity by increasing the diversity of business school faculty who encourage, mentor, support and enhance the preparation of tomorrow’s leaders.

A junior at Pacific University, Jordan ‘Bruno’ Gegenhuber (2012) was recently awarded an $8,000 scholarship from the NASA Oregon Space Grant Consortium! He also recently completed a Summer-long Residential Science Research Internship with the NASA Space Life Sciences Program at NASA Ames Research Center in Sunnyvale, California.