News & Stories: Alumni Spotlight

February 01, 2024

Alumni Excellence Awards: Rising Terp Award Winner Oneyda Hernandez '23

Hernandez founded the Audelia Community Response Team (ACRT) to address food insecurity in Montgomery and Prince George’s counties. What began as an effort by Hernandez and...

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February 01, 2024

Alumni Excellence Awards: Rising Terp Award Winner Khalil Pettus '15

Just two years after graduating, Khalil Pettus '15 established a scholarship fund recognized by ODK, within the Division of Student Affairs, to support students who are “leaders...

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January 31, 2024

Alumni Excellence Awards: Terp Research Award Winner Charles Fefferman '66

As a 14-year-old math and physics major at Maryland, Charles Fefferman '66 got more than his share of double takes from classmates.

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January 31, 2024

Alumni Excellence Awards: Terp Research Award Winner Jonathan White M.A. ’03, Ph.D. ’08

There is a reason Jonathan White’s name is well known to Civil War scholars and history buffs. He’s the author or editor of 17 books.

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January 31, 2024

Alumni Excellence Awards: Terp Research Award Winner Bryan Dickinson ’05

Helping to advance the field of synthetic biology, Bryan Dickinson, a chemistry professor at the University of Chicago since 2014 established a lab that seeks to create...

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January 31, 2024

Alumni Excellence Awards: Terp Research Award Winner Simon Levin Ph.D. ’64

Levin is a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at Princeton University, where he is director of the Center for BioComplexity in the High Meadows Environmental...

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January 30, 2024

Alumni Excellence Awards: Terp Legacy Award Winner Margaret Moose Swallow '75

Following her 2002 retirement, Margaret Moose Swallow '75 launched a second career, becoming executive director of the Coffee Quality Institute (CQI). The nonprofit helps coffee...

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January 30, 2024

Alumni Excellence Awards: Terp Legacy Award Winner Chip Sollins '82

Sollins didn’t think twice about volunteering for his alma mater for 14 years after graduation. Starting in 1998 he served as a member of the Alumni Association Board of...

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January 30, 2024

Alumni Excellence Awards: Terp Legacy Award Winner Maurice Dorsey '70, Ph.D. '83

Dealing with racial disparity during his childhood helped shape Dorsey’s empathy, and his role at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). There, in addition to his job as...

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January 29, 2024

Alumni Excellence Awards: EnTERPreneur Award Winner Steven Krein '92

Since founding New York-based StartUp Health, Steven Krein, the CEO, and his team have assembled a worldwide network of founders, funders, innovators and industry leaders to...

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January 29, 2024

Alumni Excellence Awards: EnTERPreneur Award Winner Richard "Rick" Rudman '84

As president and CEO of Potomac, Md.-based Curbio, Rudman works with realtors and homeowners to make repairs and updates to homes before they go on the market. They’re...

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January 29, 2024

Alumni Excellence Awards: EnTERPreneur Award Winner Pallavi Agarwal '05

In India, “Aagarwal” describes a mercantile caste in the country’s central region. Pallavi Agarwal has taken her surname to heart. She’s CEO and founder of Kander, a firm that...

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