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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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…

00s

Sara Vincent ’00

Sara Vincent ’00 was named the director of marketing for the Access Segment by JLG Industries and Jerr-Dan Corp. Vincent is a student in the Master of Business Administration program at the University of Baltimore.

00s

Forrest Popkin ’08

Forrest Popkin ’08 was promoted to principal at ZA+D, an architectural firm in Frederick, Md. He was formerly a senior project manager.

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,…

00s

Anne Yoder ’02

Anne Yoder ’02’s novel, “The Enhancers,” (Meekling Press), was described in The Millions’ Most Anticipated: the Great Second-Half 2022 Book Preview, as a “dizzying, kaleidoscopic novel of three teenage friends navigating the journey to adulthood in a…

00s

LeNaya Hezel ’06

LeNaya Hezel ’06 joined the Warrior-Scholar Project (WSP) as director of diversity, equity and inclusion. She previously served as a certifying official at the George Washington University and as the inaugural Veterans Office director at Georgetown…

80s

Robert Rogers M.A. ’82, Ph.D. ’84

Robert Rogers M.A. ’82, Ph.D. ’84, professor of mathematics in the College of Science at Virginia Tech, was conferred the title of professor emeritus. A member of the Virginia Tech community since 1988, Rogers researched partial differential equations,…

00s

Joshua Audi ’03

Joshua Audi ’03, CFO of Catholic Charities Fort Worth, was named a 2022 Rising Star by the Texas Society of Certified Public Accountants, which recognizes CPA members 40 and younger who have demonstrated significant leadership qualities and active…