The Arts & Sciences Distinguished Alumni Awards honor alumni of the College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences whose accomplishments in their professions, communities, and university service advance and embody the arts and sciences in action.

The 2026 College of Arts & Sciences Distinguished Alumni Awards ceremony will take place on Saturday, September 19, 2026, 9:30–11:30 am, Metcalf Trustee Center, 1 Silber Way, 9th Floor, Boston, MA 02215. RSVP here.

Colleen DelVecchio (CAS’92)

BA, Psychology
Founder, Maxady

Colleen DelVecchio is the founder of Maxady, a Massachusetts-based leadership development, training, and coaching firm. A leadership coach, keynote speaker, and certified Gallup Strengths Coach, she has spent more than 20 years helping individuals and organizations maximize performance, develop talent, and build stronger teams. Her work includes corporate women’s leadership programs, mentoring initiatives, and executive training for Fortune 500 companies, universities, and small businesses. DelVecchio is an active volunteer with Girls Inc., EforAll Holyoke, and the Massachusetts Commission on the Status of Women.


Mark Moldwin (GRS’90,’93)

PhD, Astronomy
Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, University of Michigan

Mark Moldwin is an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering at the University of Michigan. He is the Director of the University of Michigan’s Office of Postdoctoral Affairs and the Executive Director of NASA’s Michigan Space Grant Consortium. He currently serves on the American Geophysical Union’s (AGU) Board of Directors and is Past-President of the Education Section. Prof. Moldwin is or has led numerous space flight magnetometer instruments on NASA and Air Force satellites and rockets. He is an award winner educator, researcher, and inventor. Dr. Moldwin received his Ph.D. in Astronomy/Space Physics from Boston University (1993).


Allen Wan (CAS’90)

BA, Political Science
Bureau Chief, Bloomberg News, Shenzhen

Allen Wan is an award-winning foreign correspondent for Bloomberg News in China. The New York-native is a proud graduate of Boston University, where he graduated cum laude with a degree in Political Science. He has carved out a career working in both print and media, recently winning an Emmy this year to go along with past SABEW and Sopa awards for his reporting on 9/11 and the Covid protests in Shanghai.

Allen’s lifelong dream has to be a renaissance man or Walter Mitty, fueled by a desire never to end up taking over his parent’s Chinese-American restaurant in Brooklyn, where he learned about hard work. His multiple careers include teaching in Japan and working for the U.S. government after graduating with a Masters degree from Georgetown. He also attended Rutgers Law School and passed the New York Bar Exam. In Shanghai, where he has lived for more than a decade, Allen has taught at Fudan and Jiaotong universities and is a past elected president of the Foreign Correspondents Club in Shanghai.

When not challenging his family at Scrabble and Twister, he plays in a softball league, trains in boxing and Kungfu and acts in community theater and independent film.