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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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80s

Kenneth J. Colaianne ’89

Kenneth J. Colaianne ’89 was promoted to vice president of marketing at Brethren Mutual Insurance Co. He joined the company in 2018 as director of marketing and previously worked for Grangers Mutual Insurance Co., USF&G, St. Paul Insurance Co.,…

80s

Sanjoy Paul Ph.D. ’88

Sanjoy Paul Ph.D. ’88 was appointed executive director of the new Rice Nexus, an innovation factory for prototyping, testing and launching new ventures by Rice University faculty and students. Before joining Rice, he led global R&D initiatives at…

90s

Brett Schulman ’95

Cava Group CEO Brett Schulman ’95 and his partners—including former UMD student Ted Xenochirstos—received the Legendary SWaN Award from SWaN & Legend Venture Partners. The original Mediterranean fast-casual brand opened its original full-service…
Steve Hoffman

80s

Steve Hoffman ’89

Steve Hoffman ’89 was named to the AFCEA (Armed Forces Communications & Electronics Association) International Executive Committee. He is president of Fortinet Federal, a provider of cybersecurity platforms for federal agencies.

80s

Philip Hosmer '84

Philip Hosmer '84 presented at the International Union of Forest Research Organizations' Global Congress in Stockholm in May. Founder and executive director of Maryland nonprofit Nature Worx, he discussed findings from a research study that documented the…
Michael Drayne

10s

Michael Drayne M.P.M. ’13

Michael Drayne M.P.M. ’13 was appointed senior vice president for capital markets at the Housing Policy Council. He served from 2018-23 as senior vice president for strategic planning and policy at Ginnie Mae, and before that held senior management and…
Jim Carroll

80s

Jim Carroll M.Arch. ’89

Jim Carroll M.Arch. ’89 was promoted to vice president of Facilities Management at Auburn University. He previously served as the university architect from 2011 to 2017, where he led a team managing more than 13 million square feet of space and a capital…

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…