We're Proud of our Grads!

Tens of thousands of UMass Boston Alumni can be found from Boston to California and beyond are pursuing a variety of interesting careers.

Here are a few examples of what they're doing:

• Berkeley W. "Buzz" Cue Jr., Vice President for pharmaceutical sciences at the Groton, Connecticut, laboratories of Pfizer Global Research and Development heads the research division that created the antibiotic Zithromax.

• Steve Sweeney, dubbed by one admirer as "the undisputed King of Boston comedy." Sweeney embodies, almost literally, the city he calls home and is so thoroughly Bostonian that he merits his own stop on the Freedom Trail.

• Thomas Menino, Mayor of the City of Boston.

• Susan "Sunta" Izzicupo, is Senior Vice President for movies and miniseries at CBS and is responsible for developing more than 60 TV movies and miniseries each year including the CBS miniseries Joan of Arc.

• Maureen Cullen, a Boston MedFlight nurse.

• After winning a fellowship to the Sorbonne, Joseph Abboud became an internationally renowned fashion designer and has won back to back Designer of the Year awards for men's wear from the Council of Fashion Designers of America.

• Joseph P. Kennedy is a former Massachusetts Congressman, and President of the Citizens Energy Corporation, a non-profit company which supports a wide array of social and charitable programs in the United States and abroad.

• Alton Brann, chairman and CEO of the 7,000 employee Unova Inc., an industrial-technologies company.

• Dan Rea, television reporter for WBZ-TV, Boston.

• Betty Yau, CEO of Yau's Marketing and producer of a weekly entertainment and information radio program in Chinese on WJDA in Quincy.

• Joe Papapietro, Vice President and General Manager, Coca-Cola Bottling Company of New England

• Clayton Turnbull is the CEO and owner of the Waldwin Group, Inc., which owns and operates Dunkin Donuts and Baskin-Robbins stores across Boston. He also serves as Chairman of the City of Boston Neighborhood Housing Trust and is Vice President of The Boston 2004 Democratic National Convention planning committee.

• Mark Governor, President, Citysound Music. Mark has composed music for 20 feature films and over 25 television specials and documentaries.

• Mickey Wiles, corporate controller for ice cream maker Ben & Jerry's

• Gemima St. Louis, clinical psychologist with the Boston Medical Center's Children's AIDS Program (CAP) and works on behalf of Haitian children.

• Mary Shaughnessy, reporter and researcher for People magazine.