Today, the University of Maryland's College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences held a luncheon ceremony to honor the college's 2015 Distinguished Alumni award winners from each department. Congratulations to all of the awardees!
ASTRONOMY DISTINGUISHED ALUMNUS:
Robert Hanisch, M.S. ’78, Ph.D. ’81, Director, NIST Office of Data and Informatics
ATMOSPHERIC AND OCEANIC SCIENCE DISTINGUISHED ALUMNUS:
David DeWitt, M.S. ’92, Ph.D. ’94, Meteorology, Director, NOAA Climate Prediction Center
BIOLOGY DISTINGUISHED ALUMNUS:
Julius Hyatt, B.S. ’80, Zoology, Co-owner and Oral Maxillofacial Surgeon, Maryland Center for Oral Surgery
CELL BIOLOGY AND MOLECULAR GENETICS DISTINGUISHED ALUMNA:
Stefanie Vogel, B.S. ’72, Ph.D. ’77, Microbiology, Professor, University of Maryland School of Medicine
CHEMISTRY AND BIOCHEMISTRY DISTINGUISHED ALUMNUS:
Brian Crawford, B.S. ’76, Biochemistry, President, American Chemical Society Publications Division
COMPUTER SCIENCE DISTINGUISHED ALUMNUS:
Shayan Zadeh, M.S. ’02, Co-founder, Zoosk and Gear Zero
ENTOMOLOGY DISTINGUISHED ALUMNUS:
Wayne White, B.S. ’80, Vice President, American Pest
GEOLOGY DISTINGUISHED ALUMNUS:
Philip Piccoli, Ph.D. ’92, Senior Research Scientist, University of Maryland
MATHEMATICS DISTINGUISHED ALUMNA:
Georgette Kiser, B.S. ’89, Chief Information Officer, The Carlyle Group
PHYSICS DISTINGUISHED ALUMNUS:
Jordan Goodman, B.S. ’73, M.S. '75, Ph.D. '78, Professor, University of Maryland
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The College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences at the University of Maryland educates more than 7,000 future scientific leaders in its undergraduate and graduate programs each year. The college's 10 departments and more than a dozen interdisciplinary research centers foster scientific discovery with annual sponsored research funding exceeding $150 million.