Alumni Profiles

Emily Winston wearing a "Boichik Bagels" button-down shirt placed in front of an assembly line with a bagel-making robot and a tray of unbaked bagels.

Alum’s bagel business is booming

  • by Courtney Tompkins
  • September 04, 2023
UC Davis alum Emily Winston, M.S. ’04, has turned a favorite childhood memory into a thriving enterprise that is giving the East Coast bagel scene a run for its money. Winston is the founder of Boichik Bagels, a New York–style bagelry based in Berkeley, Calif.
Abiel Malepeai with his fraternity cane outside the UC Davis Fire Department.

Recent graduate wins UC President’s Award

  • by Shreya Kumar
  • July 31, 2023

Abiel Malepeai is guided by an old Samoan proverb that translates to English as “The pathway to leadership is service.” The recent UC Davis graduate has advocated for Pacific Islander students, served as a student EMT with the UC Davis Fire Department and helped meet the basic needs of students.

Thien Ho takes his oath of office standing beside his wife, Jenny, whom he met as an undergraduate at UC Davis.

Serving the community

  • by Cody Kitaura
  • July 31, 2023

With more than two decades as a prosecutor under his belt, Thien Ho ’95 is no stranger to putting people behind bars — in fact, he was the lead prosecutor on the case that sent Joseph DeAngelo, the “Golden State Killer,” to prison for life in 2020 for more than a dozen murders and kidnappings. But as Sacramento County’s newest district attorney, he said he hopes to focus on building relationships with the community.

Nazzy, wearing a white top with black print patterns of palm leaves, poses with a white and black microscope in her hands while peering down at it. She is outdoors.

Making a “buzz” about science

  • by Clémentine Sicard
  • July 03, 2023

How much do you know about the pesky insects that buzz and bite in your everyday life? Nazzy Pakpour ’99 has dedicated her career to studying mosquitos and other parasites, and now she’s uncovering their mystery with her upcoming children’s book, Please Don’t Bite Me!

“These insects are easy points of entry to learning about science because we see them or interact with them all the time,” Pakpour said. “People say ‘don’t let the bedbugs bite,’ but do they know what a bedbug is?”

Blue background with stars in the night sky. Text reads "A night at the Aggies" and "the 50th annual UC Davis alumni awards" with the date "Thursday, May 4, 2023". There is a gold statue of a person holding up a star in the middle.

A half-century of Aggie excellence

  • by Ashley Han
  • March 02, 2023

The Cal Aggie Alumni Association of the University of California, Davis, today (March 2) announced the recipients of its 2023 Alumni Awards. This year is the 50th anniversary of honoring the achievements and impact of outstanding alumni and friends of UC Davis. 

The winners are leaders in engineering, global and local government relations, agriculture, investment and education who are being honored for their unwavering efforts to help others through their work.

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