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Explorations

A New Twist on Tornado Tracking

May 14, 2025

Undergrad Coproduces First Database Documenting Events Worldwide

Explorations

Losing a Game of Risk

May 14, 2025

Insurance Expert Proposes Plan to Save Homeowners’ Coverage

Explorations

Bottleneck Buster

May 14, 2025

After Key Bridge Collapse, Engineer Seeks to Ease Commutes in Baltimore

Features

Solutions to Bird Flu Hatched

May 14, 2025

On the farm and in the lab, researchers are fighting a virus that’s pushing up food prices and threatening a new pandemic

Post-Grad

Alumni Association News

May 14, 2025

Love of a Lifetime; 5 Reasons to Join Now

Post-Grad

‘Jurassic Park,’ a Little More Real

May 14, 2025

At New Dinosaur Museum Led by Paleontologist Alum, Visitors Can Dig In

Post-Grad

Beating the Drum for Brain Benefits

May 14, 2025

Alum’s Rhythmic Fitness Regime Exercises Body and Mind

Post-Grad

Building on a Legacy

May 14, 2025

Alum Strives to Help Residents Reclaim Vibrant Black Community in Redeveloped Barry Farm

Post-Grad

A Towering Terp Achievement

May 14, 2025

An ‘Underexposed’ Photo From UMD History

Parting Shot

Sweet Success

May 14, 2025

Women’s, Men’s Basketball Teams Advanced to Sweet 16 Together for First Time

Class Notes

News on Friends and Classmates

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Greg Mayer ’09

Greg Mayer ’09 was promoted to partner at Argosy Healthcare Partners, a private equity firm. Mayer received an MBA from the UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School.

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Kiran Mulgund ’03

Kiran Mulgund ’03 joined the board of trustees of the Montclair Inn, a retirement community in Montclair, N.J. Mulgund is the owner and executive director of CareBuilders at Home of West Essex, N.J., which provides home health aide services to seniors,…

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Ryan Basen M.Jour. ’05

Ryan Basen M.Jour. ’05 is the author of “Death of a Childhood,” a memoir that tells the parallel stories of his rough transition from childhood to early adolescence while encountering personal issues, and the Baltimore Orioles’ 1989 season when they…

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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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Wendy M. Thompson Ph.D. ’09

Wendy M. Thompson Ph.D. ’09 published her debut poetry collection, “Black California Gold”  (Bucknell University Press). It tells the story about the Second Great Migration, Black life in the California Bay Area and the West, and dreams of the future amid…

Passings

Dr. Richard S. Glass ’62

Dr. Richard S. Glass ’62 died on April 30, 2025, in Wheeling, W.V., at age 85. He attended Montgomery Blair High School, the University of Maryland and the University of Maryland Medical School, then joined the U.S. Army Medical Corps to complete his…

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.…

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…