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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 helps clients in the professional services, high-tech, higher education and nonprofit industries implement cloud technology to assist their daily operations.

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 improvements that can add tens of thousands of dollars to sales prices.

When the “International Code of Conduct for Organizations Developing Advanced AI Systems” was endorsed by President Joe Biden and G7 Leaders in October 2023, it was a career highlight for Daniel Oates '13.

Irene M. (Rodríguez) Zoppi ‘04 was promoted to brigadier general in August 2017. It marked the first time a Puerto Rican woman held the rank of general in the U.S. Army Reserve.

As president of the University of Portland since July 2022, Robert Kelly ‘05 is the first layperson and the first person of color to lead the private Catholic institution that sits on a scenic bluff overlooking Oregon’s Willamette River.

Read on to learn how far the Alumni Association has come, from the thoughts of former Alumni Association Board of Governors President Jeffrey Rivest '75.

Check out Dr. Steinberg's journey from UMD graduate to President of the Pawtucket Red Sox.. and beyond!

Driven by her love for the complex game, a passion passed down by her mother, Cara has spent nearly 20 years trying to make mahjong easier for her others to understand. This year, she’s done it.

Gene Fatula ’88 (right) described his father, Edward, as a noncompliant diabetic. In 1998, at the age of 61, he suffered a heart attack at his son’s Philadelphia-area home and did not survive. But because he was an organ donor, 17 others did.

Some people have a dream college from the time they’re in middle school. For Stephanie Groff ’13, that moment came a little earlier: in utero.