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Features

May 14, 2025
How Students in UMD’s Forensic Accounting Club Helped Crack a Murder Case
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Features

May 14, 2025
A unique scholarship program has transformed the lives of hundreds of UMD students. Twenty-five years later, its pioneers share how.
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News

May 14, 2025
High-Tech Field Will Bring Transformative Advances, Leaders Say
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News

May 14, 2025
State Initiative Adds $12.5M to Investment From Edward and Jennifer St. John
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Campus Life

May 14, 2025
Walk Back Through 40 Years of Fun Facts and Surprising Perks
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Campus Life

May 14, 2025
Piscataway, UMD Team Up to 3D-Print Replicas of Peace Medals
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Campus Life

May 14, 2025
Art Purchasing Program Puts Terps in Charge of Creative Choices for Gallery’s Collection
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Campus Life

May 14, 2025
Campus Farm Welcomes First Dairy Goats
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Campus Life

May 14, 2025
Alum Jim Henson’s Beloved Muppet Named Speaker for Campus Ceremony
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Campus Life

May 14, 2025
Powerhouse Men’s Lacrosse Program Celebrates 100th Season
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Campus Life

May 14, 2025
What to Know as Colleges Could Begin Paying D-I Student-Athletes
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Explorations

May 14, 2025
Centuries-Old Stones Uncovered by Archaeologist Reveal Stories of Ireland’s Mystical Past
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Explorations

May 14, 2025
Ask the Expert: Advice for Real Life
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Explorations

May 14, 2025
Diet, Exercise and Other Behaviors Can Impact Dementia Risk, Study of 20K Brain MRIs Shows
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Explorations

May 14, 2025
Gift to Maryland Democracy Initiative Supports Political Engagement, Literacy

Class Notes

News on Friends and Classmates

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Winston Gandy

10s

Winston Gandy ’13

Winston Gandy ’13 was named women’s basketball coach at Grand Canyon University in Arizona. He was South Carolina women’s basketball assistant coach for the past two years, and previously spent three seasons at Duke as the associate head coach. Gandy…
Ryan Lewis

00s

Ryan Lewis MPP ’09

Ryan Lewis MPP ’09 was appointed CEO of Rancher Government Solutions (RGS), the leader in secure Linux, Kubernetes and enterprise Open Source software for critical missions in the U.S. government. Prior to joining RGS, he served as partner at SRI…
Karen Hollinger Kamenitzer

Passings

Karen Hollinger Kamenitzer MBA ’79

Karen Hollinger Kamenitzer MBA ’79 of Smithfield, Va., died on April 27, 2025, at age 70 after a battle with aggressive metastatic cancer. She earned her B.A. from Douglass College and later her MBA from UMD. She spent her professional life as a business…
John “Jay” Moroughan

80s

Joseph Murgalo Jr. ’80

Joseph Murgalo Jr. ’80 was appointed by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to the Collier County Housing Authority. He works as a real estate adviser for Compass.

00s

Evan Scott MBA ’04

Evan Scott MBA ’04 was promoted to chief financial officer at Lockheed Martin. He has been with the company for 26 years, including serving as treasurer and CFO of two business areas. 
Raja Chatterjee

90s

Raja Chatterjee ’91

Raja Chatterjee ’91 joined Charles River Associates, a provider of economic, financial and management consulting services, as vice president in the company’s Risk, Investigations & Analytics Practice. Previously he was the general counsel of a…

00s

Michael Leister ’06

Michael Leister ’06, head of the Agency Residential and Commercial Mortgage Backed Security and Asset Backed Securities and Loans Trading businesses at Goldman Sachs, was promoted to partner. He joined the firm in 2007. Leister also serves on the KiDS of…
Charles “Chip” Warner

90s

Charles “Chip” Warner M.A. ’99

Charles “Chip” Warner M.A. ’99 was selected as the next CEO of the Ginger Cove life plan community in Annapolis, Md. Warner served as an executive with Erickson Senior Living and in various roles at local continuing care retirement communities as well as…