
VCU Alumni Stars
VCU Alumni will celebrate and honor the 2022 Alumni Stars on Sept. 29 at the Dewey Gottwald Center at the Science Museum of Virginia. The 2022 awardees will be announced in the spring and tickets to attend the event will be available in August.
Throughout the worlds of art, business, education, service and health care, VCU alumni reflect the brilliance of the university. Their knowledge and experience shine in all areas of human endeavor, illuminating problems, creating solutions and strengthening the quality of our lives. We invite you to explore below the awardees from previous years.
Questions? Contact Ashley Dow Burton, executive director of DAR Signature Events, at aldburton@vcu.edu
Past honorees
- 2019
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2019 Alumni Stars
Person image Person details Randy Adams, D.D.S. (Cert.’80/D) Jeffrey Blount (B.S.’81/MC) Julia Cain (B.S.’01/En) and Nicholas Cain (B.S.’01/En) Ricardo Capilla (B.S.’99/B; M.B.A.’00/B) Rosalyn Dance (M.P.A.’94/GPA) Rodney F. Ganey, Ph.D. (B.S.’75/H&S) Charles Larry Horne, FASID (B.F.A.’69/A) Lauren Kern (M.Envs.’13/LS; M.T.’15/E) Ali Khan, M.D., MPP, FACP (B.S.’05/MC; M.D.’10/M) Jeanine Harper Maruca (B.S.W.’86/SW; M.S.W.’93/SW) Nancy McFarlane (B.S.’80/P) Cindy Munro, Ph.D. (Ph.D.’92/N; Cert.’97/N) Thomas Porter, M.D. (H.S.’87/M; H.S.’91/M) Rodney Robinson (M.Ed.’11/E) DaNika Neblett Robinson, Ed.D. (B.A.’11/H&S; Cert.’14/GPA; M.P.A.’15/GPA; Ed.D.’18/E) Fred Sammons (Cert.’55/HP) - 2017
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2017 Alumni Stars
Person image Person details School of Nursing
Judith B. Collins, RN, WHNP, BC, FAAN (Cert.’75/N)
View Collins videoRichard T. Robertson School of Media and Culture
Anne M. Cooper-Chen, Ph.D. (M.S.’79/MC)
View Cooper-Chen videoSchool of Engineering
Fahad Saif Harhara, Ph.D. (B.S.’00/En)
View Harhara videoSchool of the Arts
Emerson Hughes (B.M.E.’65/A)
View Hughes videoSchool of Allied Health Professions
Jess N. Judy (M.H.A.’77/AHP)
View Judy videoSchool of Dentistry
Gerald M. “Jerry” Kluft, D.D.S. (D.D.S.’73/D)
View Kluft videoSchool of Pharmacy
Harvey B. Morgan (B.S.’55/P)
View Morgan videoSchool of Social Work
Robert W. “Bob” Peay (M.S.W.’74/SW)
View Peay videoVCU Life Sciences
Elizabeth Prom-Wormley, Ph.D. (M.P.H.’99/M; Ph.D.’07/LS)
View Prom-Wormley videoSchool of Medicine
Eduardo D. Rodriguez, M.D., D.D.S. (M.D.’99/M)
View Rodriguez videoVCU Honors College
Amy T. Rose, M.D., FACS (B.S.’90/H&S)
View Rose videoSchool of Education
Anna Lou Schaberg (B.S.’66/H&S; M.Ed.’70/E)
View Schaberg videoSchool of Business
Linda M. Warren (B.S.’75/B)
View Warren videoL. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs
Gregory H. Wingfield (B.S.’75/GPA; M.U.R.P.’76/GPA)
View Wingfield videoCollege of Humanities and Sciences
Peter Zucker, Ph.D. (M.S.’81/H&S; Ph.D.’84/H&S)
View Zucker video - 2015
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2015 Alumni Stars
View event photos and a video montage that captures the personal and professional side of the 2015 honorees.
<Person image Person details College of Humanities and Sciences
Barbara L. Hartung (B.A.’72/H&S)The Honors College
Minh Q. Tran, M.D. (B.S.’92/H&S; M.D.’96/M)School of Allied Health Professions
Christine S. Zambricki, D.N.A.P. (D.N.A.P.’12/AHP)School of the Arts
Morgan E. Yacoe (B.F.A.’11/A)School of Business
Thomas J. Dorsey (B.S.’75/B)School of Dentistry
Del. Todd E. Pillion, D.D.S. (D.D.S.’01/D)School of Education
Michael T. Gamel-McCormick, Ph.D. (Ph.D.’95/E)School of Engineering
Bradley T. Trevillian (B.S.’06/En)L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs
Keith T. Parker (B.A.’90/H&S; M.U.R.P.’93/GPA)Richard T. Robertson School of Media and Culture
Katherine Wintsch (M.S.’01/MC)School of Medicine
Norma S. Kenyon, Ph.D. (Ph.D.’87/M)School of Nursing
Wilsie S. Bishop, D.P.A. (B.S.’70/N; M.S.’78/N)School of Pharmacy
Jean-Venable R. Goode, Pharm.D. (B.S.’89/P; Pharm.D.’94/P)School of Social Work
Grace E. Harris, Ph.D. (M.S.W.’60/SW)School of World Studies
Jonathan W. Waybright (B.A.’90/WS)VCU Life Sciences
Sterling W. Thomas, Ph.D. (Ph.D.’10/LS) - 2013
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2013 Alumni Stars
Person image Person details School of Allied Health Professions
Arthur W. Layne (B.S.’72/H&S; M.H.A.’76/AHP)School of the Arts
Angela Bacskocky (B.F.A.’09/A)School of Business
Jane G. Watkins (B.S.’75/B)
School of Dentistry
Julian C. Metts Jr., D.D.S. (D.D.S.’63/D)School of Education
S. Dallas Dance (M.Ed.’02/E; Ph.D.’07/E)
School of Engineering
Oscar L. Martin Jr., Ph.D. (Ph.D.’09/En)
College of Humanities & Sciences
Tonya Mallory (B.S.’88/H&S; M.S.’90/H&S)
School of Mass Communications
Jesse E. Vaughan (B.S.’80/MC)
School of Medicine
Raymond A. Dionne, Ph.D. (Ph.D.’80/M)
School of Nursing
Josephine L. Hargis (B.S.’55/N)School of Pharmacy
Susan M. Learned (Pharm.D.’97/P; Ph.D.’97/P)
School of Social Work
Stephen S. Harms (M.S.W.’82/SW)L. Douglas Wilder School of Government & Public Affairs
Joseph F. Damico (M.P.A.’97/H&S)
School of World Studies
Sainath R. Iyer (B.S.’10/MC; B.A.’12/H&S) - 2011
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2011 Alumni Stars