Portland State Magazine Fall 2015

FALL 2015 PORTLAND STATE MAGAZINE 25 Albert Chen MS ’72 is founder and CEO of Telamon Corp., a telecommunications, energy management, industrial assembly, business-process outsourcing and telehealth company based in Raleigh, N.C. Terry Cross MSW ’77 spoke at PSU’s June commencement and received an honorary doctorate. Cross is the founding executive director of National Indian Child Welfare Association, a Portland-based policy and advocacy organization for Indian children and their families. Larry J. Brant ’81 received the highest award of merit that an Oregon tax attorney can earn from the state bar in June. He is with the law firm of Garvey Schubert Barer in Portland. Fariborz Maseeh ’80, MS ’84 spoke at PSU’s June commencement and received an honorary doctorate. He is a pioneer in the field of micro-electro mechanical systems and his philanthropy supports the PSU engineering school, which is named after him, as well as PSU departments, fellowships, professorships and scholarships. Matt Zybas MURP ’93 earned a top award from the Washington State Association of County Engineers for his leadership in the emergency response and debris removal following a road-destroying landslide near Oso, Washington. He is director of the Snohomish County Public Works Solid Waste Division. P S U A L U M N I A S S O C I AT I O N A L U M N I I N T H E N E W S FOR MORE ALUMNI NEWS follow us @PSU_Alums on Twitter and PortlandStateAlumni on Facebook. Have news you would like to share? Email psu a lum@pdx.edu or mail your information to Portland State University, Office of Alumni Relations, PO Box 751, Portland OR 97207-0751. To submit your own alumni news online, go to www.pdx.edu/alumni/contact . Albert Chen Amanda R. Ulrich Terry Cross Berri Leslie Fariborz Maseeh Safina Korishi Matt Zybas Kim Adamson Amanda R. Ulrich ’01 was campaign director for a policy passed in August by the Portland City Council that assures the city will not purchase communication equipment that contains metals illegally mined in or smuggled out of the Congo. Ulrich is co-founder of the Oregon Coalition for Humanity. Rob Melton ’03, MA ’05 recently opened a second location for his Opus School of Music. His first school opened in Ridgefield, Wash., almost a decade ago. The new School is in Camas, Wash. Berri Leslie MPA ’06 is overseeing the Oregon Health Insurance Marketplace (formerly Cover Oregon) within the Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services. Safina Korishi MPH ’09 is medical director of Columbia Pacific Coordinated Care Organization in Oregon. She is a family practice physician and works out of Portland and Scappoose. Kim Adamson MPA ’12 is general manager for DeepWater Desal, a company that is constructing a 25-million-gallons-per-day desalination plant in Moss Landing, Calif. The plant will provide drinking water in Santa Cruz and Monterey counties.