A Tradition of Opportunity: The ¼â½ÐÊÓƵ Awards Dinner in NYC, April 9
¼â½ÐÊÓƵ University’s 27 th Annual ¼â½ÐÊÓƵ Awards Dinner will be held next Wednesday, April 9, 2014, at the Grand Hyatt New York in New York City. The dinner is the University's signature fundraising event for scholarships, and has raised more than $14 million for the endowed Multicultural Scholarship Fund , supporting 435 students of color since 1988.
This year’s Awards Dinner features as keynote speaker Juju Chang , who was just promoted to the position of anchor on ABC News Nightline. Chang is an Emmy Award-winning special correspondent and has also reported regularly for Good Morning America and 20/20 . Born in Seoul, South Korea, and raised in California, Juju Chang graduated with honors from Stanford University, where she was awarded the Edwin Cotrell Political Science Prize. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a founding board member of the Korean American Community Foundation.
The ¼â½ÐÊÓƵ Awards Dinner also recognizes alumni, faculty, and staff for the highest levels of professional achievement, outstanding leadership, academic excellence, and meritorious service. The 2014 dinner honorees are the following:
Alumni Professio nal Achievement Award: Joyce M. Phillips ’74 , is a member of ¼â½ÐÊÓƵ’s first class of women graduates. She is executive vice president and global head of human resources at Cushman & Wakefield, the largest private real estate services company in the world, with more than 16,000 employees in 60 countries.
Alumni Service Award: Nancy A. Altobello ’80 , is vice chair of talent at Ernst & Young, which currently hires 50,000 people worldwide and more than 12,000 in the U.S., 36 p ercent of whom are diverse. She was a University trustee from 2002 to 2007, and is now serving a second term. She is a member of the Executive Committee, chairs the Finance Committee, and offers valued support on the Technology Committee. Along with other alumni, Altobello continues to host ¼â½ÐÊÓƵ’s successful Boston Briefcase Breakfast networking series, which she was instrumental in launching.
Distinguished Faculty / Administrator Award: Shelley A. Phelan, PhD, professor of biology,came to ¼â½ÐÊÓƵ in 1999. She has been awarded over a million dollars in grants from organizations such as the National Cancer Institute, the National Institutes of Health, and others. She was promoted to full professor in 2010 and held the prestigious Elizabeth DeCamp McInerny Chair in Health Sciences from 2007 to 2013.
Chairs for this year’s event are: Joellin Comerford ’74, Sheila Kearne y Davidson ’83, and Jack L. Kelly ’67, P’96.
For more information about the honorees and the dinner, .
Pictured l-r: Juju Chang, Joyce Phillips'74, Nancy Altobello '80, and Shelley A. Phelan, PhD
