UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The Penn State Alumni Association will honor 11 prominent young alumni at the 2024 Alumni Achievement Awards Ceremony at 6 p.m. EST on Friday, March 15.
The ceremony will be held at the State Theatre in downtown State College and can be viewed everywhere by livestream.
The Alumni Achievement Award recognizes alumni 35 years of age and younger for their extraordinary professional accomplishments, demonstrating to students that Penn State alumni can succeed in exceptional fashion at an early age.
Recipients are nominated by an academic college or campus and invited to return to Penn State to share their expertise with students and the University community.
Following are the names, graduation year(s) and academic colleges of this year’s honorees. Honorees whose nominating unit differs from their graduating college are designated with an asterisk:
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Jemar Bather '14 Sci — senior scientist, Merck
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Birgitt Boschitsch '18 Eng — co-founder and CEO, spotLESS Materials
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Joshua Glick '14g Med — assistant professor, Perelman School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
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Alice Adu Gyamfi '15 Lib, '20g Law (Law*) — associate attorney, DLA Piper LLP
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Mikel Jones '15 Com — vice president for brand and sponsorship communications, corporate communications, Citi
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HanBin Lee '14 Behrend – CEO, Seoul Robotics
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Chad Littlefield '13 Edu, '13 Lib, '15g Edu (Schreyer*) — co-founder & chief experience officer, We and Me
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Julia Lucas '17 Nur – registered Nurse, navy nurse corps – pediatric intensive care Unit, United States Navy, Walter Reed Army Medical Center
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Alfredo Malaret Baldo '16g IAS — urban violence officer, Kroc Institute For Peace and Justice
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Santosh Sankar '10 Bus — co-founder and managing partner, Dynamo Ventures
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Paul Suhey '14 Eng (Schreyer*) — co-founder and COO, Revel
Click here to learn more about the 2024 award recipients.
For more than 150 years, the Penn State Alumni Association has provided alumni with a strong and welcoming community representative of the Penn Staters it proudly serves. The association keeps alumni connected to the University and to each other, while upholding Penn State traditions and supporting the University’s mission of teaching, research and service. The association also produces the award-winning Penn Stater magazine and other publications, and offers alumni and friends volunteer opportunities, educational programming, and many other services. For more information about the Alumni Association, visit alumni.psu.edu/youbelong.