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College of Natural and Mathematical Sciences



OUTSTANDING Alumni

Congratulation to Reid C. Thompson ’85, Biological Sciences, who was named as the 2008 Outstanding Alumnus in the College of Natural and Mathematical Sciences. Dr. Thompson is vice chairman of neurological surgery, director of the Vanderbilt Brain Tumor Center, and associate professor of neurological surgery at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn. Thompson received his M.D. from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where he completed his internship and residency, followed by a fellowship in cerebrovascular surgery at Stanford. A diplomat of the American Board of Neurological Surgery, he also is the author or more than 30 published research papers and abstracts. Thompson’s expertise is in the surgical treatment of patients with complex brain and spinal cord tumors, particularly those involving the most critical parts of the brain such as the brain stem and skull base.

Dr. Thompson joins the list of persons who have been honored as UMBC's Outstanding CNMS Alumni including Joseph P. McCloskey ('81 M.S., '83 Ph.D., Applied Mathematics) who received the 2007 Outstanding Alumnus Award; Diane Auer Jones, '88 M.S. Applied Molecular Biology, who received the 2006 Outstanding Alumna Award; Sheldon Broedel, 1984 M.S. and 1990 Ph.D. Biological Sciences, who was honored as the 2005 Outstanding Alumnus; and Paul W. Behrens '80 M.S. and '83 Ph.D. Biological Sciences, who was honored as the 2002 Outstanding Alumnus.

Did you know that the College of Natural and Mathematical Sciences has four alumni on the Alumni Association's Board of Directors, the 25-member group that governs this association of over 51,000 UMBC alumni. The CNMS Alumni Association Board members are David S. Pfarr, '81 Biological Sciences, Joseph Morales, '00 Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, a patent attorney at Whiteford, Taylor, Preston; Shivonne Laird, '99 Biological Sciences, who recently received her PhD from the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University, and Charles Maris, '97 Biological Sciences, a research scientist trained at Hopkins and Emory who has returned to this area

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