EnTERPreneur Award: Lauren Foundos ’06
Lauren Foundos ’06
Founder and CEO of Fortë
Foundos left a successful career as a bond trader to launch Fortë, which has revolutionized the fitness industry by helping gyms of...
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EnTERPreneur Award: David C. Quattrone MBA ’05
David C. Quattrone MBA ’05
Co-founder and chief technology officer, Cvent
Under Quattrone’s direction, Cvent has become a leading meetings, events and hospitality technology...
Research Award: Dr. Kathleen Maletic Neuzil ’83
Dr. Kathleen Neuzil ’83
The Myron M. Levine, MD, DTPH, Professor in Vaccinology, director of the Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health and chief of the division of...
Research Award: Faez Ahmed Ph.D. ’19
Faez Ahmed Ph.D. ’19
Assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, head of the institute’s Design Computation & Digital Engineering...
Research Award: Bridget T. Kelly, M.A. ’96, Ph.D. ‘01
Bridget T. Kelly, M.A. ’96, Ph.D. ’01
Associate professor, diversity officer and chair of Council on Racial Equity and Justice at the UMD College of Education
An advocate for...
EnTERPreneur Award: Evandro Valente ’03, M.S. ’06 and Pramod Raheja ’91
Evandro Valente ’03, M.S. ’06, and Pramod Raheja ’91
Co-founders of Airgility
Former aerospace engineering students, Valente and Raheja founded Airgility to design and...
Rising Terp Award: Akash Magoon ’18
Akash Magoon ’18
Co-founder, Nayya
A UMD computer science alum, Magoon co-founded Nayya to help employees choose and enroll in health benefits and then engage with their health...
Rising Terp Award: Matthew Hollister ‘18
Matthew Hollister ‘18
Chairman and CEO of The James Hollister Wellness Foundation and co-founder of Save Pharmaceutical
As head of The James Hollister Wellness Foundation,...
Rising Terp Award: Audrey Awasom ’18
Audrey Awasom ’18
Founder, Noble Uprising
A graduate of the Robert H. Smith School of Business, Awasom founded Noble Uprising to empower women in shelters through job readiness...
Giving the Gift of Wisdom
Over the past year, the University of Maryland Alumni Association has had the pleasure of featuring more than 100 passionate, innovative and fearless Terps on this blog, sharing...
Alumni Spotlight: Bofta Yimam '04
There’s no such thing as a slow news day for Bofta Yimam '04, an Emmy and Edward R. Murrow Award-winning journalist and Washington correspondent for the Black News Channel.
Alumni Spotlight: Lauren Banyar Reich ’02
For more than a decade, entrepreneur Lauren Banyar Reich ’02 worked for public relations agencies in New York City.