When college student Alex Davidson attended a dance marathon hosted by the University of Maryland to raise money for Children’s National Hospital in 2013, the last thing he expected was to kick off a series of events that would save the life of a little girl.
Allison Micale signed up for a bone marrow and blood stem cell donor registry in 2021 when a registry organization visited her sorority chapter at the University of Miami. Then, in February of her senior year...Micale received life-changing news: she was a match for a woman battling leukemia.
One morning a few months ago, Sam Shulman (JKHA ‘15/RKYHS ‘19) saw an email in his inbox from the Gift of Life Registry. Intrigued, he opened it and to his surprise, he read that he had matched as a stem cell donor.
Gift of Life Campus Ambassador Leah Bregman was honored as a 2024 Senior Marshal at the University of Maryland. Marshals are given the honor of representing their schools and colleges in the commencement ceremony.
The non-profit organization Gift of Life provides donations for those in need of bone marrow transplants and stem cells. This came in handy for freshman Carson Colombo, who suffers from aplastic anemia and needed a bone marrow transplant.
