Winter 2023

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

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

Progressively closer photos of Dimorphos

Explorations

February 03, 2023

Terps Helped Propel NASA Mission to Redirect an Asteroid

Explorations

February 03, 2023

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

Explorations

February 03, 2023

Research Finds More Vulnerable Tree Canopy in Redlined Baltimore

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

News on Friends and Classmates

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00s

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…

70s

Harlan F. Weisman ’75

Harlan F. Weisman ’75 was appointed interim chief executive officer of TFF Pharmaceuticals. He has over 30 years of experience as a senior health care executive.

Passings

Will Olan Brimberry ’75

Will Olan Brimberry ’75 died on Nov. 7 in Alexandria, Va., at age 71. He was active in Sigma Nu fraternity at UMD and upon graduation served four years with the Peace Corps in Mali, West Africa. Brimberry spent most of his career in the federal…

80s

Claudia B. Robinson MBA ’85

Claudia B. Robinson MBA ’85 joined AreaProbe, a Washington, D.C.-based real estate advisory firm, as head of institutional capital and real estate advisory services. She completed her bachelor's degree at McGill University and came to AreaProbe from Bank…

00s

Gary Aiken ’01

Gary Aiken ’01 was named chief investment officer of Concord Asset Management, a division of Concord Wealth Partners, where he will oversee investment strategies, including macroeconomic analysis, asset allocation, security selection, and trading and…

00s

Tim Wong ’08

Tim Wong ’08 joined the board of directors of Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Wong is director of product design, growth at Roblox. Previously, he built teams, scaled businesses and defined…

90s

Ericka Covington ’92

Ericka Covington ’92 was named to The Arc Baltimore’s board of directors. Covington is associate professor of management and past Faculty Senate president at Coppin State University. She has an M.S. in criminal justice administration from Coppin State and…

10s

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…