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Campus Life

September 06, 2024

Researcher Reveals How Stereotypes Were Reinforced

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Campus Life

September 06, 2024

Grant Program Greens Campus

News

September 06, 2024

Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence and Security Addresses National Challenges With a Human-Centered Lens

Campus Life

September 06, 2024

Terp Farm Celebrates 10 Years of Growing Fresh Produce for Campus

Campus Life

September 06, 2024

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

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News

September 06, 2024

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

News

September 06, 2024

Triple Jumper, Basketball Player Earn Top Honors in Paris Olympics

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Features

September 06, 2024

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.

Features

September 06, 2024

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

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Joseph Stecher ’02

Joseph Stecher ’02 is the new president and CEO of Third Party International, an aviation and aerospace component manufacturing and consulting service, bringing a background in engineering and operations. His previous roles include director of operations…

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Christopher J. Griffith M.S. ’91

Christopher J. Griffith M.S. ’91 was promoted to CEO of engineering firm KCI Technologies. He joined the company in 1997 and most recently served as president and chief operating officer. Griffith has a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from the U.S.…

Justine (Ingeborg Larsen) “Julie” Li with dog

Passings

Justine (Ingeborg Larsen) “Julie” Li ’70, M.A. ’73

Justine (Ingeborg Larsen) “Julie” Li ’70, M.A. ’73 died on April 2, 2024, in Hyattsville, Maryland, at age 83. The oldest of nine siblings, she began college at the University of Utah and soon followed a friend to the University of Maryland in 1962. She…

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Rani Al-Mashat M.A. ’98, Ph.D. ’03

Rani Al-Mashat M.A. ’98, Ph.D. ’03 was appointed Egypt’s minister of planning and international cooperation. She was most recently the minister of International Cooperation and served as the first female minister of tourism. She also worked at the Central…

Passings

Henry Albert Taitt M.S. ’58

Henry Albert Taitt M.S. ’58, died on June 17, 2024, in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, at the age of 90. He earned a B.S. in physics from Western Maryland College (now McDaniel College), a M.S. in education administration from UMD, a M.S. in physics from the…

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Susan Cross ’81

Susan Cross ’81 was named board director of SiriusPoint, a global specialty insurer and reinsurer. She has been director of Enstar Group Limited since 2020, and prior to that served as executive vice president and global chief actuary at XL Group (now AXA…

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Elizabeth “Beth” Joffrion M.L.S. ’97

Elizabeth “Beth” Joffrion M.L.S. ’97, director of archives and special collections at Western Washington University Libraries, was inducted as a fellow of the Society of American Archivists. She holds a master's degree in American history and archives and…

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Carolyn Goolsby MLS ’93

Carolyn Goolsby MLS ’93 was named dean of the Omak campus of Wenatchee Valley College in Washington State. She previously served as director of the University of Alaska Fairbanks’ Kuskokwim Campus, Before then, Goolsby worked extensively in public…