Pennsylvania-based GWC Warranty named Scott Lugger, BA '93 (marketing), a regional sales manager for the company's western region.

Steven Johnson, BS '86 (marketing), has been appointed senior director of communications at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California.

After 24 year career as a technology and business reporter, Arik Hesseldahl (JComm 1993) joined the Germany-based software company SAP as Vice President and Global Head of Content and is based at the company's offices in New York. He'll be directing SAP's global efforts to produce stories about its efforts to help the world run better.

Hesseldahl was a founding senior editor at the influential Silicon Valley news site Recode, and was a regular contributor to NBC News, CNBC and National Public Radio. In 2015 he was executive producer of Recode's inaugural Code/Enterprise Series of conferences in San Francisco and New York. From 2010 he worked for The Wall Street Journal's All Things Digital and was a regular WSJ contributor. Before that he spent 11 years combined on the staffs of BusinessWeek Magazine (now Bloomberg Businessweek) and Forbes, and also contributed to Bloomberg News, Wired and CJR.

He received a Master's Degree from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism in 1997.

Robert Davies, MBA '91 (finance), has been appointed president of Central Michigan University in Mount Pleasant.

Karen Church, BS '90 (elementary education), has been inducted into the Snohomish County Sports Hall of Fame in Washington.

Charisa Moore, BS '86 (health education), has been named “Educator of the Year” by the Bainbridge Island Kiwanis Club of Washington.

The New-Press Gazette company has promoted Jerry Upham, BS '83 (journalism), to general manager for its Palm Springs broadcast stations.

Todd Petersen, BA '92 (telecommunication and film), published his third novel, It Needs to Look Like We Tried, which explores the ways in which our failures work on the lives of others, resulting in an intricate web of interconnected stories.

Pamela Ralston, BA '91 (English), has been named interim executive vice president of educational programs at Santa Barbara City College in California.

Todd Van Rysselberghe, BS'83 (political science), has been appointed to serve as a judge on the Clackamas County Circuit Court in Oregon City.

Alice Cannon, BS '91 (planning, public policy and management), was hired as a senior associate at Jensen Strategies, a policy and organizational development company in Portland.

Peter Hollens, BM '05 (music performance), earned Billboard number one spots on the classical albums and classical crossover albums charts with Legendary Folk Songs. Founder of the UO a cappella group On the Rocks, Hollens was also the first a cappella artist to reach the top 10 on the emerging artists chart.

John Kelley, MS' 93 (psychology), PhD '97 (psychology), was awarded the 2018 Distinguished Professorship at Endicott College in Massachusetts for his excellence in teaching, research, and service.

Laurie Muggy, BS '94 (sociology), has been hired as director of human resources at Tyree Oil, Inc. in Eugene.

Mark Elias, BA '95 (history), has joined First Transit, a Cincinnati-based public transportation management company, as vice president of operations for the northwest region.

Ricardo Vasquez, BA '95 (English), has been hired as communications coordinator for the Woodburn School District.

Matt Searfus, BS '96 (economics), has joined Yamaha Corporation of America as vice president of marketing.

JESSICA WOOD, JD '96, joined the Grand Rapids, Michigan, office of Dickinson Wright, focusing on municipal law and finance, and economic development.

The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History has named Andy Beyer, BA '01 (history), the 2018 Oregon History Teacher of the Year.

Sarah Cannon, BA '97 (Spanish), released her debut memoir, The Shame of Losing, a book about the brutal realities of a brain injury and a young mother trying to save her own life.