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ɫ�� Stories

The best way to learn about the ɫ�� experience is to hear from the people that make up our exceptional community.

ɫ�� students, faculty and alumni are smart and engaged, and they care deeply about their work and the world around them. Get to know more about our faculty and their impactful research, find out what drives our students, and see how our graduates are making an impact in the world. Meet some of the people that help make ɫ�� what it is.

ɫ�� alumna Catherine Haight

Catherine Haight ’98

Alumni Media Arts & Culture

While enjoying a thriving Hollywood career as a TV and film editor, Catherine Haight is also committed to empowering women and children in Congo.

ɫ�� chemistry professor Emmanuelle Despagnet-Ayoub

Emmanuelle Despagnet-Ayoub

Faculty Chemistry

In conjunction with ɫ��, Emmanuelle Despagnet-Ayoub is working at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory as a technologist.

ɫ�� MAC professor Aleem Hossain

Faculty Media Arts & Culture

A filmmaker and AR/VR creator, Aleem Hossain was selected for the initial Oculus Launchpad program, a virtual reality incubator run by Facebook/Oculus.

ɫ�� economics professor Kevin Williams

Kevin M. Williams

Faculty Economics

Kevin M. Williams studies the economics of higher education and tries to understand how changing demographics impact student attainment.

ɫ�� psychology professor Patricia Cabral

Patricia Cabral

Faculty Psychology

Patricia Cabral's research interests are centered on health-risk behaviors among adolescents and young adults, and how they contribute to differences in health outcomes across racial/ethnic groups.

ɫ�� mathematics professor Jim Brown

Faculty Mathematics

In 2016, Jim L. Brown was awarded a five-year, $2.1-million Research Training Group grant from the National Science Foundation to study coding theory, cryptography and number theory.

ɫ�� student Mark Gad at the national collegiate research conference

Student Biochemistry

It’s the end of the academic year, and Associate Professor of Biology Joseph Schulz has nothing but praise for his advisee, ɫ�� biochemistry major Mark Gad.

Cleo Charpantier

Cléo Charpantier

Student Philosophy

Philosophy major Cléo Charpantier is the winner of this year’s Lauter Prize, presented annually to the author of the best senior comprehensive paper in philosophy. After ɫ��, she is planning to pursue a Ph.D. in the subject.

ɫ�� student Phillip Wong, class of 2020

Student Economics

Spending a summer in Los Angeles has resulted in numerous discoveries for Phillip Wong, from new art and dining spots in the city to a better understanding of local government.

ɫ�� student Jarron Williams

Jarron Williams

Student Urban & Environmental Policy

Jarron Williams was living on St. Claude Avenue in New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward when Hurricane Katrina hit. He was nine years old.

ɫ�� student Tatiana Ramos-Gallardo

Tatiana Ramos-Gallardo

Student Group Language

Tatiana “Tati” Ramos-Gallardo was just 5 when she and her mother moved to Ashland, Ore., from their hometown in León, Guanajuato, Mexico. The little girl didn’t speak a word of English.

ɫ�� student Rosa Pleasant

Student American Studies

Most college students are incredibly busy during finals week. For Rosa Pleasant, it’s no different—except for the fact that along with studying and writing final papers, she’s working diligently on an appeal for a high school student who was unlawfully suspended from the Los Angeles Unified School District.