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Fall 2024

Campus Life fresco

From Ashes to Awe

Students and Faculty Mark 20 Years of Excavating and Documenting Little-Known Ruins Near Pompeii

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Testudo on Tap

UMD Joins With Baltimore Brewery Co-founded by Alum to Offer New Beer

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2 Terps Take Gold

Triple Jumper, Basketball Player Earn Top Honors in Paris Olympics

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‘Connie’ Breaks a Story: Her Own

Trailblazing journalist Connie Chung ’69 battled misogyny and racism to reach the pinnacle of TV news. In a new self-titled memoir, she shares what it took to get there.

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10 in 10

From titles to revenue to academics, Maryland scored by joining the Big Ten Conference. Here are 10 ways it’s been a B1G decade.

Class Notes

News on Friends and Classmates

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10s

M.K. Foster MFA ’15

M.K. Foster MFA ’15 was selected for the 2024-25 Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award in Creative Writing to the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s University, Belfast, U.K. She is a writer, historian of science and educator from Alabama. A 2024 MacDowell Fellow in…
Alex Bryer

90s

Alex Bryer ’96

Alex Bryer ’96, a financial adviser at Snowden Lane Partners’ Riverstone Capital Wealth Group, was recognized by AdvisorHub in its ranking of 2024 Advisors.

Passings

Melissa “Moe” Gail Daston M.A. ’78, MBA ’80, M.S. ’87

Melissa “Moe” Gail Daston M.A. ’78, MBA ’80, M.S. ’87 died at her Laurel, Maryland, home on June 9, 2024, after a long illness. She was 69. Daston grew up in North Carolina and Maryland, graduating from Duke University then earning three degrees in…
Mohamed Abdel-Mottaleb

90s

Mohamed Abdel-Mottaleb Ph.D. ’93

Mohamed Abdel-Mottaleb Ph.D. ’93 was named the founding chair of the new Department of Computer Science at the Indiana University Luddy School of Informatics, Computing and Engineering. Previously, he served 15 years as professor and chair of the…
Robert L. Parker

Passings

Robert L. Parker M.S. ’58, Ph.D. ’60

Robert L. Parker M.S. ’58, Ph.D. ’60, of Washington, D.C., died on April 21, 2024, at the age of 94. Raised primarily in Des Moines and Pocahontas, Iowa. Parker received his bachelor's degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his graduate…
Madieu Williams

00s

Madieu Williams ’03

Madieu Williams ’03 joined Eagle Title as a settlement officer. He previously worked in corporate and nonprofit organizations,and has an MBA from the University of Maryland Global Campus and a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Baltimore School of…
Mary E. (Caldwell) Tschabrunn

Passings

Mary E. (Caldwell) Tschabrunn ’74

Mary E. (Caldwell) Tschabrunn ’74 of Greenbelt, Maryland, died on June 1, 2024, at age 83. She graduated from Regina High School in Hyattsville and earned a degree in special education at UMD. She was fond of Greenbelt, particularly Buddy Attick Lake and…
Dan Freiman

90s

Dan Freiman ’94, MBA ’04

Dan Freiman ’94, MBA ’04 was named chief financial officer at West Monroe, a management and technology consulting firm. Based in Washington, D.C., Freiman joins the firm from JSI, a telecom-focused consultancy, where he spent four years as CFO. Before…