Gabriel Sanchez ’94 was appointed associate justice, Division One of the California First District Court of Appeals Oct. 26 by California Governor Edmund Brown Jr. If confirmed by the California Commission...
Incumbent Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti '88 won reelection Tuesday in an election marked by low turnout.
Garcetti decisively defeated his 10 challengers, earning approximately 81 percent of the vote.
Garcetti...
Alum and District Four L.A. Unified School District board candidate Nick Melvoin ’04 aims to lead the charge in implementing necessary change to modernize the LAUSD.
Melvoin is in the final month of...
Charlie Stigler ’11 created Zaption, a website that allows users to add interactive elements to clips of videos from sites like Youtube.
Zaption will be open for public use in the coming weeks. A user...
By David Lim
Charlie Stigler ’11 won the "20 under 20" Thiel Fellowship and will use his $100,000 grant to develop new digital platforms for education over the next two years.
Venture capitalist...
By Eoijin Choi
The California Institute of Technology presented professor Paul Asimow ’87 with the Richard P. Feynman Prize for Excellence in Teaching.
Asimow said he felt surprised and gratified...
By Eli Haims and Elana Zeltser
Scott Becker ’05, who sold a company he co-founded to Google for $70 million last year, spoke to a nearly packed Rugby Auditorium March 14 at break. Later in the...
By Vivien Mao
"Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.", by Sam Wasson ’99 reached 13 on the New York Times bestseller list for hardcover non-fiction books on Aug 13. The book is about the making of the 1961 movie...
By Michelle Nosratian
English teacher Adam Howard ’93 and former Head of the Performing Arts Department Dan Fishbach ’94 performed side by side in playwright Howard Korder’s...
As an alumnus of Harvard High School â91, I was deeply saddened to learn of the cheating scandal. What makes Harvard-Westlake so special is the tremendous pride that students and alumni feel to be...
Sahil Chaudry â04 was elected President of the Undergraduate Student Government at USC. At Harvard-Westlake, Chaudry represenated his class for five years running. Beginning in eighth grade, he was...
Masi Oka â92 is a regular cast member on the new drama series "Heroes." Oka plays Hiro Nakamura, an underachieving Japanese office worker who discovers that he has the ability to bend the space-time...
