Spring 2024

Explorations

May 17, 2024

Terps Discover How Urine Gets Its Hue

split illustration: half with woman working at laptop and drinking coffee, half with her snuggling with child on couch watching Netflix

Explorations

May 17, 2024

Ask the Expert: Advice for Real Life

Writer Maggie Haslam drives lunar rover while wearing spacesuit

Explorations

May 17, 2024

We Road-Test Students’ New Moon Buggy Concept at NASA

Stanley Bobb Baseball Player Development Center rendering

Campus Life

May 17, 2024

Baseball, Softball Development Centers Break Ground; Terp Triple Jumps to World Title

Campus Life

May 17, 2024

Undergrad Aims to Represent U.S. at Paris Olympics

Campus Life

May 17, 2024

Student Forms Group for Peers With Incarcerated Parents

Dairy employee pours hot fudge on sundae

Campus Life

May 17, 2024

Look Back on the Maryland Dairy’s Funky Flavors and Coach-Inspired Creations

News

May 17, 2024

Funding to Endow Brin Mathematics Research Center, Establish Endowed Chair, Launch a Summer Camp for Maryland High Schoolers

News

May 17, 2024

Interdisciplinary Research to Focus on Responsible Use of Revolutionary Tech

Campus Life

May 17, 2024

Undergrad Virtually Builds Mall, Drawings Fans Globally to ‘Campus’

Campus Life

May 17, 2024

New Course Creates Innovative Ways to Increase College Election Participation

News

May 17, 2024

New Chemistry Building to Ignite Quantum, Sustainability Research

Class Notes

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00s

Houri Tamizifar ’03

Houri Tamizifar ’03 was included in Women We Admire’s Top 50 Women Leaders of Maryland for 2024. She is founder, president and CEO of Cynuria Consulting. She also recently accepted a position as an advisor for the Transformative Leadership Program at…

90s

Akash Palkhiwala MBA ’99

Akash Palkhiwala MBA ’99 was promoted to CFO and COO at Qualcomm. He has worked for the company since 2001, most recently as chief financial officer since 2019. He earned his undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering from L.D. College of Engineering…

Passings

Paul Mider ’72

Paul Mider ’72 died in Austin, Texas, on Feb. 20, 2024, after a long bout with Lewy body dementia. He was 77. Mider was born in Cincinnati and attended Muskingum College for one year on a football scholarship before enlisting with the U.S. Air Force,…

90s

Nora Shearer ’91

Nora Shearer ’91 was named Seward & Kissel’s chief marketing and business development officer. Most recently, she served as chief business development and marketing officer at Nardello & Co., the global investigations and business intelligence…

90s

J. Wellford Dillard III MBA ’97

J. Wellford Dillard III MBA ’97 was named chief executive officer of Avid, a technology provider to the media and entertainment industry. He has more than 20 years of experience in the software industry.

10s

Jake Rozhansky ’17

Jake Rozhansky ’17 joined the New England-based Bulfinch Group, a wealth management firm, as a financial representative. He played professional soccer for the past seven seasons—three as captain of the New England Revolution II, and four in Israel.

80s

Beth C. Rosenwald ’88

Beth C. Rosenwald ’88 was included in Women We Admire’s Top 50 Leaders of Maryland for 2024. Rosenwald is managing director and financial advisor for RBC Wealth Management. She also serves as a board member of Women United of United Way of Central…

80s

Marisa Bartolomei Ph.D. ’82

Marisa Bartolomei Ph.D. ’82 was awarded the 2024 March of Dimes Richard B. Johnston, Jr., MD Prize. She is a co-director of the Epigenetics Institute at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine, where she is also a professor of cell…