{"id":15622,"date":"2016-03-10T08:53:12","date_gmt":"2016-03-10T13:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cos.ucf.edu\/?p=15622"},"modified":"2024-08-16T09:43:13","modified_gmt":"2024-08-16T13:43:13","slug":"college-sciences-recognizes-newest-group-outstanding-alumknights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/college-sciences-recognizes-newest-group-outstanding-alumknights\/","title":{"rendered":"College of Sciences Recognizes its Newest Group of Outstanding AlumKnights"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_15680\" style=\"width: 483px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15680\" class=\" wp-image-15680\" src=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2016\/03\/UCF030316-0190.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Michael Johnson, Dean of the UCF College of Sciences hosts the 2016 COS Outstanding AlumKnights awards reception.\" width=\"473\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2016\/03\/UCF030316-0190.jpg 960w, https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2016\/03\/UCF030316-0190-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2016\/03\/UCF030316-0190-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2016\/03\/UCF030316-0190-299x199.jpg 299w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 473px) 100vw, 473px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-15680\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Michael Johnson, Dean of the UCF College of Sciences hosts the 2016 COS Outstanding AlumKnights awards reception.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>On March 3, the UCF College of Sciences and its alumni chapter hosted their\u00a0second annual Outstanding AlumKnights awards ceremony.\u00a0The college\u2019s dean, Michael Johnson, hosted this year\u2019s festivities, which took place in the Grand Ballroom of the UCF <em>FAIRWINDS<\/em> Alumni Center, where guests enjoyed music, cocktails, heavy hors d\u2019oeuvres and a photo booth, in addition to the award presentations.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to all of this year\u2019s Outstanding AlumKnights!<\/p>\n<p>The 2016 awardees were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Anthropology | <strong>Amanda Groff, Ph.D.<\/strong>,<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\u201903, \u201905, \u201907, lecturer, UCF Department of Anthropology<\/li>\n<li>Biology | <strong>David Breininger, Ph.D.<\/strong>, \u201909, lead wildlife biologist, NASA Ecological Programs, Kennedy Space Center<\/li>\n<li>Chemistry | <strong>Robert DeVor, Ph.D.<\/strong>, \u201903, \u201908, scientist\/principal investigator, Vencore Inc.<\/li>\n<li>Communication | <strong>Marci Gonzalez<\/strong>, \u201905, reporter, ABC affiliate, New York<\/li>\n<li>Mathematics | <strong>Robert Muise, Ph.D.<\/strong>, \u201988, \u201990, \u201903, senior staff systems engineer, Lockheed Martin<\/li>\n<li>Physics | <strong>Howard Bender III, Ph.D.<\/strong>, \u201997, \u201998, R&amp;D program manager, National Security Technologies LLC<\/li>\n<li>Political Science | <strong>Carol Lawrence<\/strong>, \u201971, attorney at law, Carolyn J.B. Lawrence P.A.<\/li>\n<li>Psychology | <strong>Diane Robinson, Ph.D.<\/strong>, \u201906, \u201910, program director, Cancer Support Community\/Integrative Medicine Department, UF Health Cancer Center, Orlando Health<\/li>\n<li>Sociology | <strong>Monica Mendez, Ph.D.<\/strong>, \u201902, \u201908, executive director, Dress for Success Pittsburgh<\/li>\n<li>Statistics | <strong>Tiffany Wills<\/strong>, \u201906, assistant vice president\/actuary, Hannover Life Reassurance Company of America<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>View photos from the event <a href=\"http:\/\/ucfalumni.com\/gallery\/2016cosoutstandingalumknights\/?utm_source=bm23&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=photo+gallery&amp;utm_content=Thank+You+for+Attending!&amp;utm_campaign=COS+-+Thank+you+-++Outstanding+AlumKnights+2016\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cos.ucf.edu\/outstanding-alumknights\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on this year&#8217;s awardees.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 3, the UCF College of Sciences and its alumni chapter hosted their\u00a0second annual Outstanding AlumKnights awards ceremony.\u00a0The college\u2019s dean, Michael Johnson, hosted this year\u2019s festivities, which took place in the Grand Ballroom of the UCF FAIRWINDS Alumni Center, where guests enjoyed music, cocktails, heavy hors d\u2019oeuvres and a photo booth, in addition to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":15683,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5962,31,32,3,34,35,38,4,6,12,13,37,14,22,16,41,6491,28,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-political-science-alumni","category-alumni-news","category-anthropology","category-awards","category-biology-departments","category-chemistry-departments","category-breaking-news","category-departments","category-events","category-mathematics","category-news","category-communication","category-physics-departments","category-psychology-departments","category-political-science-departments","category-shining-knights","category-statistics-data-science","category-top-news","category-ucf-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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