Winter 2023

Post-Grad

man holds microphone while presenting taxidermied sea turtle on field

Totally Turtle-y Taxidermy

Preserved Donation of Aquatic Animal Fits in Swimmingly at UMD

Post-Grad

Balancing Act

Circus Performer Combines Passions for Physics and Acrobatics

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

‘Showtime’ for a Terp’s Transformation

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

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Three hands raise beer glasses for toast

Here’s to a Terp Toastmaster

Alum’s Toast Wins $50K in Guinness Contest

Features

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

The Dreams of Fatema

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

Post-Grad

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

Beer, Off the Beaten Track

Alum Celebrates 35 Years of Craft Brewing Success in Alaska

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Alumni Association News

The Alumni Excellence Awards

Explorations

The Big Question

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

Explorations

Moving Beyond ‘Getting Tough’

Amid Spiraling Violence, Criminologist Studies New Approaches to Gun Crime

Explorations

Electromagnetic Control Could Pull Surgery Into the Future

UMD Mechanical Engineering Researcher Is ‘Disarming’ Surgery Robots

Explorations

Progressively closer photos of Dimorphos

Planetary Protectors

Terps Helped Propel NASA Mission to Redirect an Asteroid

Explorations

Roots of Injustice

Research Finds More Vulnerable Tree Canopy in Redlined Baltimore

Explorations

Backyard Climate Guard

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

Explorations

Cover Stories

ARHU Dean’s Podcast Debates Musical Remakes

Campus Life

Stadium Renamed in Partnership With SECU

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

Campus Life

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

Showing Support on the Court

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

Class Notes

News on Friends and Classmates

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Bibi Barnes ’17

Bibi Barnes ’17 was named housing staff attorney and equal justice works fellow with Mid-Shore Pro Bono. She is a recent graduate of the University of Baltimore School of Law with experience working on human trafficking issues with the University of…

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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

Valerie “Val” (Kontos) Sunderland ’68

Valerie “Val” (Kontos) Sunderland ’68, a former UMD administrator, died at her Wittman, Md., home on Nov. 12. She was 76. Raised in Southeast Baltimore, she graduated from UMD then earned a master’s degree from what is now Loyola University Maryland.…

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Donald Treacy Ph.D. ’00

Donald Treacy Ph.D. ’00 was named senior vice president, development operations at Maxwell Biosciences, a preclinical drug platform company focused on the development of synthetic compounds that mimic biomolecules known as biomimetic therapeutics. He most…

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Lauren A. Rosenberg ’13

Lauren A. Rosenberg ’13 was named assistant clinical professor in the Section of Psychiatry at Fox Chase Cancer Center. She received her doctorate in clinical psychology from Yeshiva University in New York City. A researcher focused on mindfulness and…

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DeWayne Wickham ’74

DeWayne Wickham ’74 was named public editor of the Baltimore Banner. He began his journalism career as an intern with The (Baltimore) Evening Sun and over the next 45 years, worked as a broadcast and print journalist for media organizations including USA…

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Brian Shepter ’05

Brian Shepter ’05 was appointed deputy chief of staff by Howard County Executive Calvin Ball. He was previously deputy director in the county’s Department of Planning and Zoning.

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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…