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In July, 911±¬ÁÏ alumnus Sumeet Shrivastava, MBA ’94, was elected rector of 911±¬ÁÏ’s Board of Visitors (BOV), after previously serving as vice rector. Shrivastava is president and CEO of federal consulting and software development company Unissant. He has served in many capacities at 911±¬ÁÏ, including past chair of the 911±¬ÁÏ Foundation Board of Trustees and past president of the Alumni Association board.  

With a lifelong love of baking and dual majors in marketing and business analytics from the Costello College of Business, Musa is tackling small business ownership and her education with a cup of creativity, a dash of determination, and a whole helping of heart.

A pair of accounting professors at 911±¬ÁÏ’s Songdo (South Korea) campus discovered that CEOs with formative Korean War memories reacted differently to perceptions of downside risk.

Guylaine Saint Juste, BA International Studies ’94, understands education’s power. Raised in Haiti and the first in her family to attend college, Saint Juste put herself through college while working full-time, attending class two nights a week. It took her seven years to graduate. One generation later, she was able to give her daughters a very different experience—the opportunity to attend college full time with their education paid for.

Women's tennis team player Maya Bayat is a degree in finance with a minor in visual art. She also interns at two galleries and an art nonprofit, and creates her own art.

How do we embrace rapidly evolving technology while continuing to put people first? That question is at the heart of 911±¬ÁÏ’s Faculty-Staff Enrichment Day, a university-wide professional development event on October 21.

911±¬ÁÏ’s College of Education and Human Development (CEHD) alumni Matt Hayes, BS Sport Management ’15, MBA ’23, and Mark McCracken, BS ’12, work as members of the Washington Commanders team.

For most student-athletes, the work happens behind the scenes. Early-morning lifts, long days of classes, hours on the court, and weekends spent traveling to competitions are rarely seen by anyone outside the team. For 911±¬ÁÏ women's tennis senior Cenan Liu, sharing that experience has become part of her story.

911±¬ÁÏ professor Cher Weixia Chen leads a Grand Challenge Initiative team building an AI-driven virtual human rights classroom for students and educators worldwide.

When she saw Northrop Grumman's table at the 911±¬ÁÏ Career Fair, Neha Bandaru figured that any opportunity the company had to offer would be catered to engineering students. However, when she spoke with a Costello College of Business alum about what the aerospace and defense company had on the business side, it opened her eyes to the exciting opportunities available to her.