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

Post-Grad

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

Post-Grad

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

Backyard Climate Guard

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

Explorations

Roots of Injustice

Research Finds More Vulnerable Tree Canopy in Redlined Baltimore

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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Gary Kaplan ’94

Gary Kaplan ’94 joined Jones Day as a partner in the Business Restructuring & Reorganization Practice in New York. Kaplan has approximately 25 years of experience representing debtors, creditors, official and unofficial committees and institutional…

Passings

Kenneth L. Egolf Ph.D. ’78

Kenneth L. Egolf Ph.D. ’78, of Carlisle, Pa., died on Dec. 30. He was 84 years old. He earned a B.S. in chemistry from Dickinson College and an M.S. from Purdue University before attending UMD. He was also a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army and…

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Lauren Roso ’07

Lauren Roso ’07 received the Relativity Innovation Award for Education and Mentorship from ProSearch, where she is a client services engagement director and takes a holistic approach to, e-discovery management, planning, and execution of complex…

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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…

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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…

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Scott Dance ’06, MPP ’14

Scott Dance ’06, MPP ’14 joined The Washington Post as a climate and weather reporter. He spent the past decade at The Baltimore Sun, most recently as its environmental reporter. He was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University and was part of the Pulitzer…

Passings

Kenneth J. Leahy ’81

Kenneth J. Leahy ’81, of Westminster, Md., died on Nov. 21. He was 64. He began his career as a project engineer with Century Engineering and had a diverse career helping to manage construction projects across the mid-Atlantic, including the Baltimore…

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Chris Mielke M.A. ’10

Chris Mielke M.A. ’10 is executive director of the Beverly Heritage Center in Beverly, W.V. He recently opened an escape room in the Randolph County Jail building from 1841. A previous puzzle was Prohibition-themed, while the current one is Civil War…