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Ten College of Sciences alumni were recognized Thursday for their career achievements at the 2018-19 Distinguished Alumni Awards.<\/p>\n
\u201cTonight\u2019s awardees were selected based on their professional achievement, exceptional community service and reflection of the college\u2019s mission to expand knowledge in the sciences, mathematical sciences, and communications,\u201d COS Dean Michael Johnson, Ph.D., told the audience gathered at the Morgridge International Reading Center.<\/p>\n
Awardees represented each of the COS departments and a broad spectrum of graduation dates, career milestones and professional achievements. In accepting their awards, awardees thanked friends and family who joined them for the ceremony and attributed their success to hard work, taking chances and the UCF professors and classes who spurred them on to greatness.<\/p>\n
The awardees are:<\/p>\n
Anthropology<\/strong> Biology<\/strong> Chemistry<\/strong> Nicholson School of Communication & Media<\/strong> Mathematics<\/strong> Physics<\/strong> Political Science<\/strong> Psychology<\/strong> Sociology<\/strong> Statistics<\/strong> Ten College of Sciences alumni were recognized Thursday for their career achievements at the 2018-19 Distinguished Alumni Awards. \u201cTonight\u2019s awardees were selected based on their professional achievement, exceptional community service and reflection of the college\u2019s mission to expand knowledge in the sciences, mathematical sciences, and communications,\u201d COS Dean Michael Johnson, Ph.D., told the audience gathered […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":23882,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5962,31,32,34,35,38,5957,12,37,14,22,16,6492,6491,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-political-science-alumni","category-alumni-news","category-anthropology","category-biology-departments","category-chemistry-departments","category-breaking-news","category-distinguished-alumni","category-mathematics","category-communication","category-physics-departments","category-psychology-departments","category-political-science-departments","category-sociology-department","category-statistics-data-science","category-top-news"],"yoast_head":"\n
\nBrian Smith ’03
\nDirector of Management and Administration for Naval Reactors at the National Nuclear Security Administration<\/em><\/p>\n
\nDiane Mahoney ’96 ’01MEd ’14Eds
\nCEO at Kavaliro<\/em><\/p>\n
\nDarlene Slattery ’86 ’89MS
\nRetired researcher at Florida Solar Energy Systems<\/em><\/p>\n
\nGloria LeQuang ’97
\nDirector of Marketing and Community Relations at BRIDG<\/em><\/p>\n
\nTed Rassmann ’82
\nRetired Vice President, Account Executive at IBM<\/em><\/p>\n
\nMichael LoMurro ’89
\nPresident of Certified Payments<\/em><\/p>\n
\nJ. Christopher Lombardo ’80
\nManaging Partner at Woodward, Pires & Lombardo, P.A.<\/em><\/p>\n
\nJohn Mattone ’80 MS
\nPresident and CEO at John Mattone Global, Inc.<\/em><\/p>\n
\nKathleen Black ’84 ’01 ’02MS
\nChief Nursing Officer at Dr. P. Phillips Hospital<\/em><\/p>\n
\nLesley Cheema ’97 ’99MS
\nYield Improvement Engineer for Defect Meteology at Qorvo, Inc. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"