former student

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“He was a hell of a writer,” said screenwriter and former student Brianna Brown in an emailed statement to The Times.

From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2026

He becomes the host to a former student named Sabiha, who has fled her home because she is suspected—wrongly, she claims—of killing her husband in a fire.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026

But it is a trait that Darnold has long exhibited, according to his high school coach Jaime Ortiz, who remembers his former student as a wildly gifted but quietly driven kid.

From Barron's • Feb. 4, 2026

“The school is trying to keep up with that technology and teach what to expect in the field,” former student Christopher Hernandez, 36, said.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 6, 2026

In 1920, Hermann Muller, the former student of Thomas Morgan’s, moved from New York to Texas to continue studying fly genetics.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee