Winter 2023

man holds microphone while presenting taxidermied sea turtle on field

Post-Grad

February 03, 2023

Preserved Donation of Aquatic Animal Fits in Swimmingly at UMD

Post-Grad

February 03, 2023

Circus Performer Combines Passions for Physics and Acrobatics

Delante Desouza ’16 shoots a basketball as Michael Cooper in "Showtime" TV show

Post-Grad

February 03, 2023

Computer Science Grad Channels ’80s Lakers Star on Hit HBO Series

Three hands raise beer glasses for toast

Post-Grad

February 03, 2023

Alum’s Toast Wins $50K in Guinness Contest

Fatema Hosseini is shown in front of a projected image of Afghans lining up to board a military jet to evacuate the capital, Kabul

Features

February 03, 2023

Driven from Afghanistan by extremism, a journalism student lands at UMD and prepares to reclaim her lost homeland.

Geoff Larson ’80 poses near brewing equipment with mountains in the background

Post-Grad

February 03, 2023

Alum Celebrates 35 Years of Craft Brewing Success in Alaska

Post-Grad

February 03, 2023

The Alumni Excellence Awards

Explorations

February 03, 2023

What’s Been the Most Significant Lie or Untruth Told to the Public?

Explorations

February 03, 2023

Amid Spiraling Violence, Criminologist Studies New Approaches to Gun Crime

Explorations

February 03, 2023

UMD Mechanical Engineering Researcher Is ‘Disarming’ Surgery Robots

Explorations

February 03, 2023

Research Finds More Vulnerable Tree Canopy in Redlined Baltimore

Explorations

February 03, 2023

Extension Experts: Climate-Resilient Gardening’s Just a Few Steps Away

Progressively closer photos of Dimorphos

Explorations

February 03, 2023

Terps Helped Propel NASA Mission to Redirect an Asteroid

Explorations

February 03, 2023

ARHU Dean’s Podcast Debates Musical Remakes

Campus Life

February 03, 2023

Credit Union to Support Maryland Athletics, Financial Literacy and Community Service

UMD men's basketball team stands on sideline, with one player with Ukrainian flag draped over his shoulders

Campus Life

February 03, 2023

Men’s Basketball Player From Ukraine Grapples With War From Afar

Class Notes

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70s

Sharon Allen Gilder '72

Sharon Allen Gilder '72 published her third historical romance novel, "The Widow of Woodholme." Lovers of local history will find themselves transported to 1821 to the bustling city of Washington and the federal district’s neighboring environs of…

00s

Tiffany Wright ’03

Tiffany Wright ’03 has joined the White House Counsel’s office as associate counsel to President Joe Biden. She recently was an Orrick Fellow and Co-director of Howard University School of Law’s Civil Rights Clinic. The National Bar Association last year…

Passings

George A. Rabey Jr. ’64

George A. Rabey Jr. ’64, of Jackson’s Gap, Ala., died on Sept. 17. He was 82. Born in Atlanta, he knew he wanted to fly planes by the time he was 8. At UMD, he was a member of Lambda Chi Alpha and completed the Air Force ROTC program. Once commissioned,…

Passings

Daniel T. Adams Ph.D. ’72

Daniel T. Adams Ph.D. ’72, of Brockton, Mass., died on Jan. 5. He was 78 years old. He was a graduate of Cardinal Spellman High School, received his master’s degree from Boston College and his doctorate from UMD. He was a math teacher for over 30 years…

90s

Jeffrey Gluck Ph.D. ’98

Jeffrey Gluck Ph.D. ’98, a partner at the Philadelphia intellectual property law firm Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel, was named among IAM’s Strategy 300 Global Leaders for 2023, which honors the world’s leading intellectual property strategists.…

00s

Tim Zhang ’05

Tim Zhang ’05 joined Middleburg Communities as principal and vice president of indirect investments, working out of the firm’s headquarters in Vienna, Va. He came from Sunac China Holdings Limited and received his MBA in finance and accounting from New…

00s

Jake Day ’04

Jake Day ’04 was appointed by Maryland Gov. Wes Moore as the secretary of housing and community development. Moore was previously mayor of Salisbury, Md. Prior to that, Day worked for the Eastern Shore Land Conservancy, utilizing design, planning and…

90s

Anna Czege ’96

Anna Czege ’96 was promoted to partner by Miitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP. She has 22 years of experience in general corporate law and advising companies. She received her J.D. from Columbia Law School.