It was interesting to be an outside reader for the dissertation defense of Zach Whalen, a PhD candidate in the UF English Department under the guide of Profs. Terry Harpold and Don Ault.

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Good to see the new 2007 graduates ready to step out the door with their portfolios. I wonder what they will do next? Some have summer classes to finish up, others are ready to launch their job hunt. Arlyn got hired at the Miami office of Bridger|Conway. Jessica was interning at Spark and now is at Interbrand in SF. Sameera has started working for Southern Brand Collective in the Miami Design District. Amber is illustrating for Scrapblog. Shelley is most likely heading to LA. And Ciara freshened her French for a few months in scenic Sanary sur Mer and is now at Primal Screen in Atlanta.

MFA student Matt Grady is now at The Morrison Agency in Atlanta. Here are details on the grads from last year, 2006.

Another year of the student-run graphic design show, Ligature, presented by voxGraphis. Guest speakers Ken Barber of House Industries and Jan Wilker from KarlssonWilker.

It is great to see our UF design students quickly finding successes and their first steps out of school. Jarrod is at VSA Partners in Chicago, Andrea at Say It Loud in Orlando, Karen in Atlanta at Denmark, Casey at CK Communications in Melbourne.

Cassie is married and working at Southern Living in Birmingham, Cassie McD studying design in England at Leeds, Sabrina teaching English and traveling in China, Cassandra returning from a summer in Europe and now living in NYC.

Ashley in packaging and creative development at Play Along Toys. Lindsay way up north at ESPN studios, Meagan starting business school at UF in their Entrepreneurship program. Jon working in Atlanta at the Melia Design Group.

I think I heard that Avery was working at ad agency YPB&R in Orlando. Boyd strumming out another album and working at +scale in NYC. Greg at Doink Design in Coral Gables. Elliott in Tampa at Spark.