College's 2015 Distinguished Alumni Awardees Announced

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