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Maryland Today

Fall 2024

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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
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News

September 06, 2024
Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence and Security Addresses National Challenges With a Human-Centered Lens
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Campus Life

September 06, 2024
Terp Farm Celebrates 10 Years of Growing Fresh Produce for Campus
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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
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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.
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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

News on Friends and Classmates

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Passings

Arnold Rheingold Ph.D. ’70

Arnold Rheingold Ph.D. ’70, a distinguished emeritus professor of chemistry at the University of California, San Diego, died on March 3, 2024, after a long illness. He was 83. Rheingold grew up in Rockford, Illinois, and his passion for chemistry was…
Tricia Bishop

90s

Tricia Bishop ’99

Tricia Bishop ’99 was promoted to managing editor of The Baltimore Sun. She had been director of opinion and features content since 2019. She started as a features editorial assistant at The Sun after graduating from UMD and worked as a reporter,…
Brett Kleger

90s

Brett Kleger ’92

Brett Kleger ’92 was appointed chief executive officer of Inspire, an online health community and real-world data platform. He was most recently CEO of Datacubed Health and chief commercial officer and chief operating officer at DrugDev. Kleger holds a…
Michael Wayne Keane

Passings

Michael Wayne Keane ’78

Michael Wayne Keane ’78 died on May 16, 2024, in Bradenton, Florida at age 74. He grew up in Berwyn and Greenbelt, Maryland, and served in the U.S. Air Force from 1967-71 and was stationed in Europe, Asia and North America. Keane completed a bachelor's…

Passings

Jeremiah "Jerry" Francis Durkin ’86

Jeremiah "Jerry" Francis Durkin ’86, Kennebunk, Maine, and North Port, Florida, died in Sarasota, Fla., on June 9, 2024, following a short illness. He was 92. He grew up in Somersworth and Dover, N.H. and graduated from Dover High. Durkin served in the…
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…

90s

Christopher Jones Ph.D. ‘97

Christopher Jones Ph.D. ‘97 was elected to the board of Norfolk Southern Corp. He is a former corporate vice president and president of the technology services sector of Northrop Grumman Corp.
Ross A. Berman

00s

Ross A. Berman ’02

Ross A. Berman ’02 was hired as senior vice president, commercial team lead in the Rockville market of John Marshall Bank. He most recently served as a senior vice president, commercial loan officer for Forbright Bank. Berman serves as treasurer of the…