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Winter 2023

Julia Ruth ’14 poses in Cyr wheel

Post-Grad

February 03, 2023
Circus Performer Combines Passions for Physics and Acrobatics
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
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
Gold star on red backgroud

Post-Grad

February 03, 2023
The Alumni Excellence Awards
pants on fire illustration

Explorations

February 03, 2023
What’s Been the Most Significant Lie or Untruth Told to the Public?
Rod Brunson portrait

Explorations

February 03, 2023
Amid Spiraling Violence, Criminologist Studies New Approaches to Gun Crime
colorful magnet illustration

Explorations

February 03, 2023
UMD Mechanical Engineering Researcher Is ‘Disarming’ Surgery Robots
Progressively closer photos of Dimorphos

Explorations

February 03, 2023
Terps Helped Propel NASA Mission to Redirect an Asteroid
House with a garden

Explorations

February 03, 2023
Extension Experts: Climate-Resilient Gardening’s Just a Few Steps Away
rowhouses in Baltimore

Explorations

February 03, 2023
Research Finds More Vulnerable Tree Canopy in Redlined Baltimore
weaved-together photos of singers/bands

Explorations

February 03, 2023
ARHU Dean’s Podcast Debates Musical Remakes
SECU Stadium

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

News on Friends and Classmates

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80s

Gail McMillan M.A. ’81

Gail McMillan M.A. ’81 director of scholarly communications and professor of University Libraries at Virginia Tech, was named professor emerita. A member of the Virginia Tech community since 1982, McMillan directed the software development on a project…
Anthony M. Ruiz headshot

00s

Anthony M. Ruiz ’09

Anthony M. Ruiz ’09 was named a partner of Zuckerman Speeder LLP, where he has been an associate for nearly six years. He received his J.D. from New York University’s School of Law.
Morgan Beckford headshot

10s

Morgan Beckford M.M. ’13

Morgan Beckford M.M. ’13 was appointed the first director of Silkroad Connect, a partnership between the touring ensemble and social impact organization Silkroad, the Kennedy Center’s Turnaround Arts program and four middle-school classrooms in…
Antulio Bomfim headshot

80s

Antulio Bomfim ’87, Ph.D. ’92

Antulio Bomfim ’87, Ph.D. ’92 was named head of global macro at Northern Trust Asset Management, a leading global investment management firm with $1 trillion in assets under management . He has nearly 30 years of experience spanning roles within…

Passings

James W. Kenney ’66

James W. Kenney ’66 died on Nov. 14 in Philadelphia at age 79. Raised in Haverford, Pa., he earned a master’s degree in engineering at the University of Pennsylvania. Kenney had a distinguished career as the head mechanical engineer at Drummond Scientific…
Tiffany Wright headshot

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

Thomas W. Fugate ’57

Thomas W. Fugate ’57, of Thurmont, Md., died on Sept. 29. He was 88. He graduated from Ramsey High (N.J.) School, where he played the trombone and was student high school band director for four years. His love for trombone continued in the Air Force ROTC…

00s

Vincent Kiernan Ph.D. ’02

Vincent Kiernan Ph.D. ’02 wrote the new book “Atomic Bill: A Journalist's Dangerous Ambition in the Shadow of the Bomb,” published by Three Hills. He examines the fraught career of New York Times science journalist William L. Laurence, whose professional…