The Women's Community: Alumnae

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Clark School alumnae, please send us your name, photo and career highlights for adding to the site. Your example may inspire a young woman to explore engineering.

Duong Receives Distinguished Engineering Alumna Award

Anh N. Duong (B.S. '82, CHE) received the Clark School's 2009 Distinguished Engineering Alumna Award. The award recognizes an "engineering alumnus who exemplifies the bold visions, bright future and new directions that make them a proud reflection of the leadership that is nurtured and grown at Maryland." Duong, director of the Borders and Maritime Security Division in the Science and Technology Directorate of the Department of Homeland Security, is an internationally recognized expert in explosives currently focusing her efforts on combating terrorism.

Who's That Girl?

Wondering who has been pictured in our e-newsletter? It's Elizabeth Quinn (B.S. '68, electrical engineering).

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Among the many Clark School alumnae helping to advance engineering and improve society are these excellent examples:

	Pinar Akcora Chemical engineering alumna Pinar Akcora (Ph.D. '05) has received a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (NSF CAREER) Award for a proposal titled "Multi-functional Particle Assemblies in Polymer Nanocomposites." Akcora is an assistant professor at Stevens Institute of Technology in the Dept. of Chemical Engineering and Physical Science.

	Kimberly Brown Kimberly Brown, chemical engineering alumna, received the Baltimore SmartCEO Brava! Women Business Achievement Award in 2011. She is president and CEO of Amethyst Technologies, LLC in Baltimore, Md.

	Carol Caldwell Department of Fire Protection Engineering alumna Carol Caldwell (B.S. '81) runs her own business, Enlightened Solutions, Ltd., a fire engineering consultancy firm, in Christchurch, New Zealand. Previously, she worked for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories and Sandia National Laboratories.

	Anh Duong Dept of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering alumna Anh Duong (B.S. '82) was recently featured in Newsweek magazine's column The Last Word, written by Pulitzer Prize-winning author George F. Will. The column, titled "Anh Duong, Out Of Debt" describes her desire to give back to her adopted country by helping to fight the War on Terror.

	Mounya Elhilali Electrical engineering alumna Mounya Elhilali (M.S. ’03 and Ph.D. ’04) is an NSF CAREER Award recipient and recently was selected for the Office of Naval Research's Young Investigators Program for her project "Active Listening: Closing the Loop between Sensation, Perception and Behavior."

	Jeanette Epps Aerospace engineering alumna Jeanette Epps (M.S. '94 and Ph.D. '00) was selected as an astronaut in the NASA 2009 candidate class.

Brenda Freeman
Dept of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (ChBE) alumna and Clark School Women In Engineering (WIE) Advisory Board member Brenda Cornish-Freeman (B.S. '87) has been named to the newly created position of chief marketing officer for Turner Animation, Young Adults & Kids Media, part of the Turner Broadcasting System. She will provide overall vision and leadership to all areas of marketing, on-air and trade creative services that support the cable television networks Cartoon Network, Adult Swim and Boomerang, along with their on-line businesses, and the digital enterprises GameTap and Super Deluxe.

no image available	Muluwork Geremew Electrical and computer engineering alumna Muluwork Geremew (M.S. '06, EE) has been named a 2009 Most Promising Engineer by Career Communications Group. She will be honored at the 23rd Annual Black Engineer of the Year Awards Conference.

	Lu Jiang Biological Resources Engineering alumna Lu Jiang (Ph.D. '09) recently received a Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Ph.D. Students Abroad.

	Cynthia Jones Nuclear Engineering alumna Cynthia Jones (M.S. '96 and Ph.D. '01) has been appointed nuclear safety attaché at the U.S. Mission to International Organizations in Vienna, Austria.

no image available	Nancy Linton ECE alumna Nancy Tarlton Linton, a systems engineer at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md., was awarded the 2008 Black Engineer of the Year Award for Outstanding Technical Contribution in Government. The award was presented at the 22nd Black Engineer of the Year Awards Conference in Baltimore, on Feb. 16, 2008.

	Michelle Lynne Mazurek ECE alumna Michelle Lynne Mazurek has received a Facebook Fellowship for her work in creating effective and secure forms of content sharing.

no image available	Bonnie Ramey Chemical engineering alumna Bonnie Ramey has worked for E. I. DuPont de DeNemours and Co. in Richmond, Va., since she graduated. She earned the corporation's Engineering Excellence Award in 2001 for multivariable control technology implemented in the Nomex(R) paper process.

	Ana-Luisa Ramirez Electrical engineering alumna Ana-Luisa Ramirez (B.S. '05) was recently awarded the Luminary Award at the Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Awards Conference.

Yan Sun
ECE Ph.D. alumna Yan Lindsay Sun '04, an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Rhode Island, has received a National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award. Dr. Sun, a former advisee of Professor K. J. Ray Liu (ECE/ISR), received the honor for her research initiative, titled "Building Trust in Distributed Networks: Theories, Architecture and Applications."

	Florence Tan Electrical and computer engineering alumna Florence Tan (B.S. '86) works at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. She is the lead electrical engineer for the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) module aboard the Mars Rover Curiosity that lifted off in November 2011.

	Norine Walker Alumna Norine Walker, B.S. '81 urban studies and '83 civil engineering, received the Conference of Minority Transportation Officials Trailblazer Award, in recognition of significant contributions to the transportation industry in the Washington Metropolitan area. Walker was a project manager for the Woodrow Wilson Bridge Project.

	Peggy White Civil engineering alumna Peggy White (B.S. '84), professional engineer, is owner of Axiom Engineering Design, LLC, a full-service civil engineering firm. Licensed in four states, White is a LEED-accredited professional as well as National Association of Homebuilders Green Certified.

	Enlu Zhou Aerospace engineering alumna Enlu Zhou (M.S. '08 and Ph.D. '09) received an Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Award for her proposal "Dynamic Decision Making under Uncertainty and Partial Information."