BVA Group is proud to announce that Erica Bramer has assumed the role of Managing Partner as of January 1, 2020. Since joining the firm in 2013, Erica has played an integral role in driving growth for the firm, both as a practitioner and also as a member of the firm’s Management Committee. In her […]

BY KEN TYSIAC / ASSOCIATED PRESS Georgetown goalkeeper Tomas Romero stopped Virginia’s Axel Gunnarsson in the seventh round of penalty kicks to give the Hoyas their first NCAA men’s soccer championship Sunday night. The Hoyas are coached by Brian Wiese, an Albuquerque Academy alumnus. READ MORE.

The University of Texas at Austin has named Claudia Mora the next dean of the Jackson School of Geosciences. Her appointment will begin February 1, 2020. Dean-designate Mora comes to UT Austin from Los Alamos National Laboratory, where she serves as the deputy division leader of the Chemistry Division. In this role, she helps lead […]

BY SCOTT TURNER / JOURNAL STAFF WRITER Albuquerque native Jason Karaian discovered a passion for writing while studying economics at Northwestern University in Chicago. “I found out I was much better at constructing sentences than building equations,” the Albuquerque Academy graduate said. Specifically, he found out that he loved writing about how an economy works, […]

By Kate Kelly, The New York Times R. Martin Chavez, one of Goldman Sachs’s most senior executives, will retire from the firm at the end of the year. READ MORE.

By Francesca Washington (KRQE) An Albuquerque teen has made it her mission to feed thousands — literally one step at a time. With every step, a meal is supplied for a person in need. READ MORE.

BY PATRICK NEWELL/FOR THE JOURNAL Recent Albuquerque City Golf Championship events have been dominated by local college golfers. Sunday afternoon at Los Altos Golf Course, Simon Miller scored one for the “old guys.” Miller, 26, put together a nearly flawless final round shooting a 5-under-par 67 to win the 78th annual Albuquerque City Championship. READ […]

BY JOURNAL STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS University of Memphis coach Penny Hardaway has added more NBA experience to his staff by hiring former Phoenix Suns assistant Cody Toppert. Toppert will be an assistant coach at Memphis. He replaces Sam Mitchell, a former NBA coach who left Memphis’ staff after the 2018-19 season to pursue a […]

BY DAVID STEINBERG / FOR THE JOURNAL The dominant theme of Mira Jacob’s new book “Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations” is race in America. Though the graphic memoir’s subject is weighty, the text and the graphics infuse the book with a relaxed, approachable tone and imagery from the get-go. Conversational, indeed. Jacobs is the […]

BY JOURNAL STAFF REPORT Shayla Heavner’s students come to her via the world of the web, a path she, too, has navigated with deftness. An adversity of life drew the Albuquerque native and Albuquerque Academy graduate to online education. It was her success online as a student that led her to become an online teacher. […]