UMBC Alumni Awards

2007 UMBC Alumni of the Year & Distinguished Service Award Winners

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Each year, the UMBC Alumni Association presents awards to honor alumni for their professional and personal achievements and service to the University.   Learn more about our past award winners. Outstanding Alumnus Social & Behavioral Sciences Eric A. Carlton ’91, Africana Studies After becoming the youngest high school principal in the country at age 29, Eric A. Carlton ’91, Africana studies, later launched Banner Schools, a private company that partners with public school districts to provide a successful educational environment for at-risk youth. The company has three schools in Chicago, one in Miami, and will open another in Detroit. Together, the… Continue Reading 2007 UMBC Alumni of the Year & Distinguished Service Award Winners

2006 UMBC Alumni of the Year & Distinguished Service Award Winners

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Each year, the UMBC Alumni Association presents awards to honor alumni for their professional and personal achievements and service to the University.  Learn more about our past award winners. Outstanding Alumna Natural & Mathematical Sciences Diane Auer Jones ’88, M.S. Applied Molecular Biology In addition to a successful career as an entrepreneur, government policy maker and administrator at Princeton University, in November Jones was appointed Deputy Associate Director for the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy. She also has served as an active member of the UMBC Research Park Corporation’s board of directors for the past eleven years. Outstanding… Continue Reading 2006 UMBC Alumni of the Year & Distinguished Service Award Winners

2005 UMBC Alumni of the Year & Distinguished Service Award Winners

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Each year, the UMBC Alumni Association presents awards to honor alumni for their professional and personal achievements and service to the University.  Learn more about our past award winners. Life Sciences Sheldon Broedel, 1984 M.S. and 1990 Ph.D. Biological Sciences, is chief executive and science officer of Athena Environmental Sciences. This 10-year-old company, headquartered at techcenter@UMBC, specializes in “ecologically responsible and economically sound solutions to environmental problems.” Humanities Sean Carton, 1990 English, is Dean of Digital Design at Philadelphia University, the author of Dot Bomb and a frequent contributor to Wired magazine. As co-founder of Carton Donofrio Interactive, a web and… Continue Reading 2005 UMBC Alumni of the Year & Distinguished Service Award Winners

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