Johns Hopkins University’s student entrepreneurship and innovation hub, FastForward U, will be renamed for alum and EcoMap Technologies co-founder Pava Marie LaPere in a ceremony on Saturday, April 6.
LaPere, A&S ’19, was a tireless and vocal advocate for local and undergraduate entrepreneurship and a strong supporter of FastForward U, describing the space’s creation as “one of the highlights of my time at JHU.” Going forward, it will be called the Pava Center in honor of LaPere, who died in September 2023.
“Pava was vital to the new wave of entrepreneurship from our students across our campuses,” said Josh Ambrose, director of student ventures at FastForward U. “Her fingerprints are across all the many things we do.”
After graduating high school in Tucson, Arizona, LaPere moved to Baltimore to attend Johns Hopkins University. Though she originally applied with the intention of becoming a doctor, she soon realized that her passions lay elsewhere.
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