Winter 2020

Class Act

Found in Space

Cloudy With a Chance of Microbes

Tackling Parental ADHD to Help Kids

Class Act

Alumni Association News

The Big Question

Campus Life

A Home for the Public Good

Information Pump

Campus Life

Diamondback to End Century-plus Print Run, Take All-Digital Approach

Campus Life

Room(s) to Grow

The Page Turner

Tunnel Vision

Class Notes

News on Friends and Classmates

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Michael Field '83

Michael Field '83 is a senior policy adviser for the office of Baltimore County Executive Johnny Olszewski Jr. Field was previously county attorney, a role in which he drafted every major piece of legislation introduced by any county executive since 2005.…

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Francis V. Bonanno MBA '08

Francis V. Bonanno MBA '08 was named the Baltimore Business Journal’s Best in Finance, CFO Awards Recipient. He is the CFO of Urban Teachers, a four-year teacher training program that involves a year of teacher residency and three years of classroom…

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Larry Clark '75

Larry Clark '75 was a winner of the 2019 Presidential Rank Award, the highest award bestowed on civilian federal employees for exceptional long-term accomplishments. He is director of the APHIS-Wildlife Services’ National Wildlife Research Center in Fort…

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Elissa Buie MBA '87

Elissa Buie MBA '87, co-founder and CEO of Yeske Buie, received the 2019 Alexandra Armstrong Lifetime Achievement Award as part of InvestmentNews' Women to Watch initiative. The award celebrates female pioneers in the financial planning profession who…

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Robert Klemko '10

Robert Klemko '10 joined The Washington Post as an investigative reporter in the sports department. Klemko previously worked at Sports Illustrated as a senior staff writer focusing on coverage of the National Football League, and at USA Today.

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Akash Palkhiwala MBA '99

Akash Palkhiwala MBA '99 was named executive vice president and CFO of Qualcomm. He had been acting as interim CFO since August. He previously served as senior vice president and finance lead for Qualcomm CDMA Technologies. He has worked with the company…

Passings

Phyllis Marian Skinner Johnson '44

Phyllis Marian Skinner Johnson '44 died Nov. 25 at age 95. A Calvert County native, Johnson was born on March 21, 1924, in Port Republic. Johnson graduated from Calvert County High School in 1941 at the age of 17. She received a Maryland State Senatorial…

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Stephen M. Underhill Ph.D. '12

Stephen M. Underhill Ph.D. '12, associate professor of communication studies at Marshall University, published his dissertation as a book with Michigan State University Press, "The Manufacture of Consent: J. Edgar Hoover and the Rhetorical Rise of the…