2007 Adam Myers
(BS, Civil Engineering) is a co-founder of Martin House Brewing Co., which opened in May in Fort Worth. Noted: November 12, 2013
2007 Shea Maloney
(BA, Anthropology) is a cartographic specialist and technician for the Natural Resources Conservation Service, an agency within the Department of Agriculture. Noted: November 12, 2013
2007 Heather Champeau
(’07 BA, Anthropology; ’10 MA, Sociology) was admitted to the Ph.D. program in sociology at the University of Colorado Boulder. She will specialize in qualitative and interpretive design. Noted: November 12, 2013
2007 Brandy Austin
(BA, Criminal Justice and Criminology) is director of marketing and business development for Cantey Hanger LLP, a Fort Worth-based law firm. Noted: November 12, 2013
2006 Becky Wilder
(MEd, Educational Leadership and Policy Studies) is principal at Ridgeview Elementary School in the Keller Independent School District. For the past five years, she served as an assistant principal at Chisholm Trail Intermediate and Bette Perot Elementary schools in Keller. Noted: November 12, 2013
2006 Ashley Purgason
(’06 BS, ’07 MS, Biology) is working toward a Ph.D. in environmental toxicology at the UT Medical Branch at Galveston. She conducts research on the dangers of the space radiation environment and its effects on the health of astronauts in long-duration missions beyond low-Earth orbit. During the past year, she served as a student regent on the UT System Board of Regents. Noted: November 12, 2013
2006 Kyle Knight
(BBA, Marketing) received his Ph.D. in sociology from Washington State University and is assistant professor of sociology at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. Noted: November 12, 2013
2006 Michael A. Hill
(MEd, Educational Leadership and Policy Studies) is assistant superintendent of administration in the Arlington Independent School District. Previously he was principal at Arlington’s Seguin High School. Noted: November 12, 2013
2006 Kevin Ghassemi
(BBA, Management) is sales manager in the industrial products division of BNSF Railway Co. Noted: November 12, 2013
2006 Kimberly Buckhalton
(MEd, Educational Leadership and Policy Studies) is principal at Trinity Springs Middle School in the Keller Independent School District. Previously she was an assistant principal at Timber Creek High School in Keller. Noted: November 12, 2013
2006 Sastra Bour
(’06 BA, ’10 MA, Sociology; ’11 MSSW) is the refugee resettlement supervisor for Refugee Services of Texas in Dallas. Noted: November 12, 2013
2005 Winkler
(MArch) is marketing manager in the Dallas office of the Urban Design Group architectural firm. Noted: November 12, 2013
2005 David Walls
(MBA, Business Administration) is operations director for Texas Values, an Austin-based organization dedicated to preserving and advancing faith, family, and freedom in Texas. C.C. Noted: November 12, 2013
2005 Cory Summers
(BBA, Finance) is a certified financial planner for the Corpus Christi Financial Group. Noted: November 12, 2013
2005 Natalie Lukomski
(’05 BS, Microbiology; ’08 MS, Biology) is a microbiologist/chemist at MicroChem Laboratory in Euless. She performs tests for disinfectant and antimicrobial efficacy for companies around the world. Noted: November 12, 2013
2005 Julie Harcrow
(MEd, Educational Leadership and Policy Studies) is principal at Nicholls Junior High School in Arlington. Previously she was principal at Arlington’s Ditto Elementary School. Noted: November 12, 2013
2005 Carlos Donjuan
(BFA, Art) was selected to paint Dallas city-funded murals to brighten retaining walls beneath the Jefferson Boulevard bridge’s Zang and Marsalis entry/exit ways in Oak Cliff. He is a lecturer in art and art history at UT Arlington. Noted: November 12, 2013
2005 Hetal Bhatt
(MS, Civil Engineering) is a traffic engineer for the city of Arlington. Noted: November 12, 2013
2004 Cara Kristen West
(BA, Journalism) is public relations manager at Peterbilt Motors, a Denton-based truck manufacturing company. Noted: November 12, 2013
2004 Roseann Sears
(BBA, Management) received the Law Enforcement Commendation Medal from the Texas Society of the Sons of the American Revolution in April for saving seven people’s lives in an apartment fire and directing others to safety in Bedford in 2011. She is an officer in the Trophy Club Police Department. Noted: November 12, 2013
Frank Harrison
Noted: November 12, 2013
2001 Heather L. Reynolds
Reynolds (’02 MSSW) received the Nonprofit CEO of the Year Award from the Center for Nonprofit Management. She is CEO of the Catholic Charities Diocese in Fort Worth. Noted: November 12, 2013
1996 Willie Hernandez
Hernandez (’96 BS, Mechanical Engineering) is a 2013 inductee into the National Wheelchair Basketball Association Intercollegiate Division Hall of Fame. A Movin’ Mavs player from 1991-95, he founded and operates Per4Max Medical, one of the world’s largest sport wheelchair companies. Noted: November 12, 2013
1981 Anthony “Angelo” McClain
McClain (’81 MSSW) is chief executive officer of the 140,000-member National Association of Social Workers in Washington, D.C. He previously was commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families. Noted: November 12, 2013
2012 Christal Simanki
(BA, Philosophy and Political Science) is in her first year in the political science master’s program at the University of California, San Diego. Last year she was a State Department intern at the U.S. Embassy at the Holy See in Vatican City. This summer she was an intern with the U.S. Pacific Command’s Student Volunteer Intern Program in Hawaii. Noted: November 12, 2013
2012 Priscilla Sanchez
(BA, Public Relations) is a public relations specialist at Concussion, a Fort Worth-based marketing communications company. Noted: November 12, 2013
2012 Vasu Sampath
(Executive MBA) is an enterprise solutions architect for DocuSign, a provider of electronic signature technology. Noted: November 12, 2013
2012 Magdalena Salamon
(BA, Russian) is an upstream energy analyst for Hart Energy in Houston. She studies oil shale in the United States and serves as an analyst for European and Russian energy ventures. Noted: November 12, 2013
2012 Karen Ramirez
(BA, Broadcast Communication) is a production assistant for Telemundo KXTX-TV in Dallas. Noted: November 12, 2013
