College Honors Six Outstanding Alumni
Penn State Science awarded six alumni with the 2009 Outstanding Alumni Award at a dinner held on October 2. The Outstanding Science Alumni Awards are presented annually to recognize and reward outstanding Penn State alumni for their success as leaders in science and for the impact they have had and will continue to have on society and their professions.
Message from the Director
As Director of Development and Alumni Relations, it gives me great pleasure to present the 2009 Outstanding Alumni Award recipients for the Eberly College of Science. The Outstanding Science Alumni Awards are presented annually to recognize and reward outstanding Penn State alumni for their success as leaders in science and for the impact they have had and will continue to have on society and their professions.
Dr. Mark Becker, '85 Ph.D. Stat
President, Georgia State University
Atlanta, Georgia
Dr. Jack Dickstein, '46 B.S. AB CH
Retired, President and Co-founder, Kibow Biotech and President of Monomer-Polymer and Dajac Laboratories
Huntington Valley, Pennsylvania
Dr. Laura "Kate" Hutton '71 B.S. Astro;
Seismologist, California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, California
Dr. Alvara Umaña, '73 B.S. Phys, '74 M.S. EPC
Senior Research Fellow, Tropical Agronomic Center for Research and Higher Education CATIE, Turrialba, Costa Rica
Advisor to the Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, D.C., and Costa Rica
Washington, D.C. and San Hose Costa Rica
Dr. Ching P. "CP" Wong, '72 M.S. Chem, '75 Ph.D. Chem
Regents’ Professor and the Charles Smithgall Institute Endowed Chair, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology.
Duluth, Georgia
Dr. Carol Zaher , '71 B.S. Zool.
Medical Director for the Appeals and Grievance Department, Health Net, Inc.
Los Angeles, California
These six alumni have further emblazoned the tradition of success and leadership for which the Eberly College of Science is known. They represent the presence of just a handful of our 50,000 science alumni who have applied their knowledge and skills to make scientific achievements and breakthroughs. Each one solely depicts the influence our science alumni has in today’s world.
I encourage you to learn more about these impressive individuals by clicking on their names to view their professional and biographical accomplishments. Congratulations from all of us at the Eberly College of Science!