Fran Manning ’83 has been named one of south New Jersey’s 25 Executives of the Year by South Jersey Biz magazine. Manning, an expert in helping executives with commercial disputes and product liability matters, is the partner-in-charge of Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young’s New Jersey office in Cherry Hill.

Ralph Cohen ’67 has received the 2013 Shakespeare Steward Award from the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., for his contributions to the teaching of Shakespeare in American classrooms. Cohen is the founding executive director of the American Shakespeare Center in Staunton, Virginia, and a professor of Shakespeare at Mary Baldwin College.

Rob Amler ’72 has earned the 2013 Medical Entrepreneur Award from the Westchester County (New York) Medical Society and the Westchester Business Journal, in part for developing a biotech incubator for researchers and building a training facility for biotech and disaster medicine. Amler, a 25-year veteran of the U.S. Public Health Service and Centers for Disease Control, is currently dean of the New York Medical College School of Health Sciences and Practice.

Bjong Wolf Yeigh ’86 has been named chancellor at the University of Washington Bothell, a 128-acre campus in the Puget Sound region that opened in 1990 and offers more than 30 undergraduate and graduate degree programs. He was previously president of the State University of New York Institute of Technology.

Stephanie (Nearpass) Gonzalez ’99 finished first in the top women’s division of the U.S. Cycling Masters Road National Championship last fall in Bend, Oregon, just six months after taking up cycling as a sport. Gonzalez, who had previously competed as a triathlete and while at Dartmouth ran cross-country and competed in the hammer throw, completed the 84-kilometer race in 2:29:49.

Amanda Brown ’07, the national political director for Rock the Vote, has been named to Forbes’ 2014 “30 Under 30” list in the law and policy category. Previously an advisor for strategic planning at the U.S. Department of Energy and an assistant in the White House Office of Political Affairs, Brown was cited for “getting young voters to the polls through digital tools and effective civic engagement programming.”