Spring 2025

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May 14, 2025

How Students in UMD’s Forensic Accounting Club Helped Crack a Murder Case

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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

Campus Life

May 14, 2025

Campus Farm Welcomes First Dairy Goats

Campus Life

May 14, 2025

Alum Jim Henson’s Beloved Muppet Named Speaker for Campus Ceremony

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

Explorations

May 14, 2025

Gift to Maryland Democracy Initiative Supports Political Engagement, Literacy

Class Notes

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Passings

Michael Courlander M.A. ’78

Michael Courlander M.A. ’78, of North Potomac, Md., died on April 20, 2025, at Belmont Gardens retirement community in Lake Ridge, Va. He was 74. Courlander graduated from the University of Michigan, then earned a master’s degree in criminology from UMD.…

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Chris Lyons ’85

Chris Lyons ’85 was named president and CEO of the Food Production Solutions Association. His background includes tenures as CEO of the Society for Technical Communication and as COO of the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy. Lyons holds an MBA from MIT.

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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,…

90s

Eugene Bredow ’91

Eugene Bredow ’91 was named to the 2025 Virginia Business Power 50 list of Virginia’s 50 most powerful executives. Bredow is president and CEO of NVR, which operates in two business segments: homebuilding and mortgage banking.

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Matt Daddio ’03

Matt Daddio ’03 joined Columbia National Real Estate Finance as deputy chief underwriter, based in the Towson, Md., office. He serves as vice chair of the advisory board for the Howard County Department of Housing and Community Development and as the Real…

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Dilly Severin MPP ’08

Dilly Severin MPP ’08 joined the board of directors of the Inteleos Foundation, an international nonprofit organization driving access to medical imaging. Severin is executive director of Universal Access Project, an initiative of the United Nations…

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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…

Passings

Cathy Mantua ’82

Cathy Mantua ’82 of Chester, Md., died on April 16, 2025, after a battle with cancer. She was 65. Mantua graduated summa cum laude from UMD with a degree in finance, then started her career as a computer programmer. In 1985, she married her high school…