md´«Ã½¹ú²ú¾ç Marathon bombing survivors Patrick Downes ’05 (Human Development) and Jessica Kensky awarded the first scholarship from a fund created by Downes’s classmates in a campus ceremony in October. The first recipient of the is Carroll School of Management sophomore Jack Manning, who lost his leg to cancer and now volunteers to support and mentor young patients who face the prospect of losing limbs.
Kali Flanagan ’19 (Applied Psychology & Human Development) skated with the U.S. women’s hockey team at the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea in February.
Kaliya Johnson ’16 (Applied Psychology & Human Development), a former md´«Ã½¹ú²ú¾ç College hockey player who signed with the md´«Ã½¹ú²ú¾ç Pride, the National Women’s Hockey League team, was featured on as a face of the shifting tide in a male-dominated sport.
James Kale ’16 (Applied Psychology and Human Development), M.Ed. ’17 (Curriculum and Instruction and Donovan Urban Teaching Scholar), was selected to be a Fulbright Scholar and is in Petrolina, Pernambuco, Brazil in spring 2018.
Andrew Miller, Ph.D. ’17 (Curriculum and Instruction), is director of academics at the Catholic Schools office at the Archdiocese of md´«Ã½¹ú²ú¾ç.
Kristen Renn, Ph.D. ’98 (Higher Education), a professor of Educational Administration at Michigan State University, was named the recipient of the AERA Distinguished Contributions to Gender Equality in Education Research Award.  Â
Myra Rosen-Reynoso, Ph.D. ’03 (Applied Development and Educational Psychology), is associate director of research at the Barbara and Patrick Roche Center for Catholic Education at md´«Ã½¹ú²ú¾ç College.
Holly Schindler, Ph.D. ’07 (Applied Development and Educational Psychology), an assistant professor at the University of Washington, received tenure.