Ravi & Swapna Adusumilli Welcome Baby Girl

Ravi Adusumilli ‘07 and his wife Swapna recently welcomed a new member to their family. Ravi, who has returned to work at HP, offered the following update about her birth:

Our little princess “Sanvi” was born on July 3rd at 11:27 PM. Sanvi showed up almost 2 months earlier than expected. Until then, both parents were proud of their timing that Sanvi would arrive after graduation allowing her dad to focus on his MBA. But Sanvi had other ideas and came early in order to see her dad graduate.

After spending about 3 weeks in the hospital, Sanvi is now home, weighs about 6 lbs and is growing well. She sleeps for most of the day but likes to keep her parents up all night.

- Ravi & Swapna Adusumilli

Q-Lid Finds a Market

The Q-Lid Sports Cap, a Rady Lab to Market project from Ameet Desai ‘07, was featured recently in the LA Times.  Congrats, Ameet, for achieving this notoriety.  Those inclined to help with quality assurance can purchase the Q-Lid from digitQ.

Untangled and Back at the Keyboard

After two weekends of travel and some serious crunch time in the new job, your editor is back.  The pipeline of upcoming content is some of our best yet, so don’t go away. 

New Organizational Behavior Text

Those of you in large organizations will appreciate a new text that is under review for our core Organizational Behavior course.  Click on the thumbnail to view in full size.

New Construction Honors Dean Sullivan

The Kenan-Flagler Business School at UNC Chapel Hill has named the new 5th floor of its building after Dean Sullivan.  Home to Kenan’s PhD students and IT staff, the floor will be called the Robert S. Sullivan, PhD Suite in honor of his “commitment to scholarship and service to the school.”  The idea originated with donors Betty Kenan and Jim Inscoes, who also supported construction of the space.

Graduation Press Coverage

The inaugural Full-Time graduation on June 18th was covered in a number of news outlets. Here are links to coverage in the San Diego Union Tribune, the San Diego Daily Transcript, and the San Diego Metropolitan.

Lifelong Learning

Rady alumni interested in extended learning should watch this space. Executive Education has awarded alumni a standing 25% discount on all Exec Ed courses and MBA Programs has awarded alumni the opportunity to audit current courses. To join an Exec Ed program, contact Assistant Dean Kurt May. To audit a regular course, contact Assistant Dean JoAnne Starr.

The Wire will report upcoming elective offerings and Exec Ed events as early as possible.

Passion Powers Clean Innovation Conference

The first California Clean Innovation Conference got off to a powerful start on May 11th at Caltech with stunning addresses from keynote speakes Dr. Nate Lewis and Vinod Khosla. The event was sold out days in advance and latecomers were turned away at the door of Caltech’s Baxter Auditorium. Rady’s Net Impact chapter played a crucial role in organizing this event under the leadership of Jay Brandeis and collaborators from UCLA Anderson and host Caltech. Sponsors included Rady, UCSD, Toyota, Chevron, AeroVironment, the Angeleno Group, and the Foundation for Enterprise Development. The conference included a dozen distinct sessions, thirty-six speakers and panelists, and over three hundred attendees.

Congrats to the organizers and sponsors of this fine event.

Alumni Board Technology Update

The web traffic slides from tonight’s alumni board meeting can be viewed here.

Guzik Launches Sailing eList

Brian Guzik ‘07 has stepped up to launch the sailing email list for Rady.  The list will connect and leverage Rady’s community of skippers by providing a dedicated communication channel.  Look for a flotilla coming your way soon.  You can sign up for the sailing list and many others on the email list page of the alumni website.