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Spring 2024

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Features

May 17, 2024
UMD-themed vanity plates are the highway four-leaf clovers we love to spot. We share some of the best—and the tales behind the tags.
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Explorations

May 21, 2024
Researchers Use Recipes to Test Tool for Analyzing DoD Classification Guidelines
Melvin Edwards poses with statue

Parting Shot

May 17, 2024
Sculpture Dedicated to Late Groundbreaking Artist
people hold hands along Baltimore Avenue

Post-Grad

May 17, 2024
An ‘Underexposed’ Photo of UMD History
Lauren Champion rowing

Post-Grad

May 17, 2024
Terp, Teammate Complete Race Across Atlantic in Record Time
collage of Lee Mendelowitz, Di Zou and Benjamin Eidelberg

Post-Grad

May 17, 2024
3 Alums Crunch Numbers as Sports Analytics Experts for Pro Teams in the DMV
Jeanette Epps in astronaut gear

Post-Grad

May 17, 2024
Alum Astronaut Joins International Space Station
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Post-Grad

May 17, 2024
Terps ‘Do Good’ on Campus and Beyond
A couple sits behind a table with some card games on it

Features

May 17, 2024
A Fluctuating, Ever-Changing, Up-and-Down Journey to Gaming Success
The image is a stylized, futuristic illustration that depicts a hilly landscape with a car winding through it.

Features

May 17, 2024
Ninety-second battery fill-ups. All-day range. Unparalleled safety. UMD researchers are powering up EVs to save the planet.
two baby deer near mailbox

Explorations

May 17, 2024
Is Neighborhood Wildlife Spreading COVID?
one person whispers into another's ear

Explorations

May 17, 2024
Gabbing About Others Offers Unexpected Benefits in Social Groups, UMD and Stanford Researchers Find
three cartoon brains exercising

Explorations

May 17, 2024
Researcher Finds That Moderate Movement Can Protect Memory and Cognition
SHELBI NAHWILET MEISSNER portrait

Explorations

May 17, 2024
Professor Tells Stories Behind Her Traditional Tattoos
Frederick Douglass statue

Explorations

May 17, 2024
New Center Links Humanities, Social Change

Class Notes

News on Friends and Classmates

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10s

Christopher Neely ’14

Christopher Neely ’14 was part of the team at Lookout Santa Cruz that won a 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting for its coverage of catastrophic flooding and mudslides that displaced thousands. He is a politics and policy correspondent at the…

90s

Herb Heiserman ’90, M.Arch. ’92

Herb Heiserman ’90, M.Arch. ’92 was named executive vice president of design and construction of Zoom Room, an indoor dog training gym. Prior to this, he served as managing principal at Streetsense and spent over 25 years as principal and owner of The…
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80s

Philip W. Steitz Ph.D. ’90

Philip W. Steitz Ph.D. ’90 joined Clear Demand as chief technology officer. He has held that role at American Express, Deem, Edgenuity, Pegasus and Nextiva.
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90s

Ravi K. Khanna ’98

Ravi K. Khanna ’98 was promoted to CEO of GSE Systems, which provides engineering, staffing and simulation software to nuclear, electrical and other power industries. He joined the company in 2016 as a digital delivery manager and was promoted to senior…

Passings

Harvey Walden M.A. ’73

Harvey Walden M.A. ’73 died on Aug. 25, 2022. Walden earned a master’s degree in applied mathematics at UMD and worked at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center for 57 years. Among his many accomplishments, Walden chose the site of the landing of the lunar…
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Passings

Clifford Douglas Feldwick ’70

Clifford Douglas Feldwick ’70 died in Columbia, Md., on Jan. 20, 2024, at age 73 after a long battle with cancer. Born in England, he immigrated to Baltimore with his brother, Ray, and parents, Douglas and Elizabeth. He graduated from Baltimore…
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00s

Michael B. Goldberg ’00

Michael B. Goldberg ’00 was promoted to partner at Royer Cooper Cohen Braunfeld LLC. He focuses his practice on corporate and business law as well as real estate matters.

90s

Ivonne C. Lindley ’97

Ivonne C. Lindley ’97 was named to the Maryland Daily Record’s Top 100 Women List for 2024. Lindley is a principal partner at Stein Sperling law firm practicing personal injury law.