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Alumni Spotlight
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Legacy Award: Rita B. Leahy Ph.D. ’89
Rita B. Leahy Ph.D. ’89
Asphalt technology authority, Graduate School Doctoral Careers Advisory Board member, founder of the annual Rita B. Leahy Doctoral Career Series
Through...
Legacy Award: Jonathan Claiborne ’77
Jonathan Claiborne ’77
Former UMD football safety, retired partner of Whiteford Taylor Preston
Since graduating, Claiborne has served as president of UMD’s former Young Alumni...
Legacy Award: John C. Ford ’64 and Sandra Sollod Poster ’64
Longtime supporters of the School of Theatre, Dance and Performance Studies (TDPS)
Former radio and television students, Ford and Poster are ambassadors for TDPS and have...
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...
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,...