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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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Passings

​​George E. Mattingly Jr. ’60, M.S. ’62

George E. Mattingly Jr. ’60, M.S. ’62 died on Jan. 24, 2025, at Knollwood in Washington, D.C., not far from where he grew up on Nebraska Avenue. Mattingly attended Priory School (now St. Anselm’s Abbey School) and throughout his life participated in the…
Jorge Diaz Schneider

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Jorge Diaz Schneider MBA ’09

Jorge Diaz Schneider MBA ’09 was named CEO of Beltsville, Md.-based solid-state battery maker Ion Storage Systems. He is a former vice president of advanced energy storage materials and lithium recycling at Charlotte, N.C.-based chemicals manufacturer…
Mia Eglinton

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Mia Eglinton ’94

Mia Eglinton ’94 joined Lee and Associates, a commercial real estate brokerage and management firm, as executive vice president. Eglinton brings more than 25 years of commercial real estate brokerage experience to the firm and was formerly senior vice…
Oana Brooks

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Oana Brooks ’00

Oana Brooks ’00 was a recipient of the Maryland Daily Record’s Maryland’s Top 100 Women Awards. She is an attorney and the founder of Baltimore-based BrooksLaw, a firm focused on employment discrimination, student misconduct, Title IX in higher education,…
Thomas Lake Sauter

Passings

Thomas Lake Sauter ’55

Thomas Lake Sauter ’55 of Hendersonville, N.C., died on April 28, 2025 at age 87. He was a graduate of Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School and received a bachelor’s degree in engineering at UMD and an M.S. from George Washington University. After retirement…
Jose Hidalgo

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Jose Hidalgo MBA ’05

Jose Hidalgo MBA ’05 was promoted to CEO of Frontier Technology, a provider of mission-tailored technology, data expertise and services for the U.S. Department of Defense, the intelligence community and other federal agencies. Hidalgo joined the company…
Raja Chatterjee

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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…

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Alexander N. Levin ’10

Alexander N. Levin ’10 was elected to partnership at the Nicolson Law Group. He focuses on education law, commercial transportation, construction liability, personal injury and products liability in cases spanning New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. He…