Fall 2024

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

News on Friends and Classmates

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Passings

Vivian Thomas Haulton ’56

Vivian Thomas Haulton ’56, of Columbus, Georgia, died on May 23, 2024, at age 88, in Morgantown, West Virginia. She earned a B.S. degree in home economics from UMD and a master's degree in communication arts from Cornell University. Her career included…

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Ashok Veeraraghavan M.S. ’04, Ph.D. ’08

Ashok Veeraraghavan M.S. ’04, Ph.D. ’08, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Rice University, was awarded the Edith and Peter O’Donnell Award in Engineering from the Texas Academy of Medicine, Engineering, Science and Technology, one of…

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Ahmed Abdel-Saheb ’07, ’07

Ahmed Abdel-Saheb ’07, ’07 joined Signal Hill, a lower-middle market private equity firm, as managing director, based in Washington, D.C. Previously, he was a partner at Godspeed Capital and an investment banking vice president at Greenhill & Co. He…

Passings

Martin Joseph Higgins M.A. ’63, Ph.D. ’67

Martin Joseph Higgins M.A. ’63, Ph.D. ’67, formerly of Downingtown, Pennsylvania, and Beaufort, South Carolina, died on May 21, 2024, at age 86. Higgins graduated from Harrisburg Catholic High School, attended St. Francis University in Loretto and…

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Hadar Susskind ’01

Hadar Susskind ’01, president of Americans for Peace Now, was named to Washingtonian magazine’s list of 50 Most Influential People 0f 2024. He is a leading progressive in the Jewish community who during Israel’s war with Hamas, has urged Israel to “choose…

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Michele Hayes Dinterman ’12

Michele Hayes Dinterman ’12, a partner at the Baltimore law firm of Niles, Barton & Wilmer, was named one of The (Baltimore) Daily Record’s 2024 Leading Women Under 40. The list celebrates women who are 40 years old or younger for their professional…

Passings

Jesse Parker ’81, M.M. ’87, D.M.A. ’98

Jesse Parker ’81, M.M. ’87, D.M.A. ’98 died on June 8, 2024, a month shy of his 66th birthday. He played cello throughout his school years and became interested in conducting while attending Fairfax High School. He earned three degrees at UMD, where he…

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Rob Dyson ’90

Rob Dyson ’90 was tapped to lead the government contracting and information technology practice at the Freedom Bank of Virginia. He was most recently a senior vice president and market executive at Capital One, and before that, a vice president for credit…