The Maryland Awards: Meet This Year's Honorees
The Maryland Awards: Meet This Year's Honorees
  
          
    
Each year, we celebrate and honor the achievements of seven outstanding Terps at A Celebration of Terps: Featuring The Maryland Awards. These awards recognize fearless alums who have risen to the highest levels of public service, launched successful companies and made groundbreaking discoveries.
This year's alums are building a better tomorrow by nourishing communities here in Maryland, and around the world. They elevate women leaders and champion inclusive global growth. They work to safeguard our world’s health, and drive sustainable innovation. Chosen by the Alumni Association’s Board of Governors Awards and Recognition Committee, these honorees demonstrate the impact of a Maryland education put into action. Check out the ways these Terps are inspiring us to always move Forward, and showing us just how far Terps can go.
  
          First Lady Dawn Flythe Moore '97
Hall of Fame Inductee
First Spouse of Maryland
  
          Brendan Iribe '01
President's Award
Co-founder, Oculus VR, Inc.
  
          Kevin Tu '23
Outstanding Young Alumnus Award
Founder, Sustainabli
  
          Rita R. Colwell
Spirit of Maryland Award
Distinguished University Professor
  
          Margo Thomas, Ph.D. '90
Elaine Johnson Coates Award
Founder & CEO, Women's Economic Imperative
  
          Jackie Cardello '93
Tyser Gottwals Award
President and Managing Partner, GRF CPAs & Advisors
  
          Omar Tarabishi '13 M.A. '21
Do Good Award
Co-Founder and Executive Director of Leftover Love, Inc.
  
          
    Alumni Excellence Awards: Legacy Award Recipient Sue Bredekamp ’72, ’76, Ph.D. ’85
  
          
    Alumni Excellence Awards: Rising Terp Recipient Rick Marving Tamno ’17, ’20
  
          
    Alumni Excellence Awards: Legacy Award Recipient Dorothy Weinstein ’84