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President James M. Rosser congratulates 2012 Alumna of the Year Olga Shalygin Orloff at the 38th Annual Alumni Awards Gala in October. Photo by Bernard Kane.Orloff covers the 1991 fire in Oakland that burned 1,520 acres, destroyed over 3,300 homes and killed 25 people. Photo courtesy of Olga Shalygin Orloff.An elderly woman stands in disbelief among the rubble and faces a contingent of mounted riot police after residents demonstrate in the streets for reforms in Moscow in 1992. Photo courtesy of Olga Shalygin Orloff.In 1995, residents of the Grozny, in the breakaway former Soviet Republic of Chechnya, make their way through the rubble of their war-ravaged city, carrying what little remains of their possessions. Photo courtesy of Olga Shalygin Orloff.An image from a 2011 documentary about the Yanomami Indians of the Venezuelan Amazon jungles. Photo courtesy of Olga Shalygin Orloff.Thousands of Afghan refugees live in makeshift tent homes in refugee camps in 2002 because they fear returning to their villages where armed militias roam the countryside. Photo courtesy of Olga Shalygin Orloff.Afghan refugees return home from neighboring Pakistan in 2002, often to find their homes and their fields destroyed. Photo courtesy of Olga Shalygin Orloff.In 2002, Olga was in northern Afghanistan shortly after the Taliban was temporarily defeated by US-aided northern alliance. Photo courtesy of Olga Shalygin Orloff.