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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70s

Marianne Schmitt Hellauer ’77

Marianne Schmitt Hellauer ’77 was added to Venable LLP’s Private Wealth Planning Group. Hellauer advises high-net-worth clients on estate planning strategies that include complex business entity and trust structuring issues

90s

Brian Woods M.S. ’99, Ph.D. ’01

Brian Woods M.S. ’99, Ph.D. ’01 was appointed by President Joe Biden to join the Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board, which provides oversight of the Department of Energy (DOE) program to manage and dispose of nuclear waste and spent nuclear fuel. Woods…

80s

Dan Cotter ’86

Dan Cotter ’86 was promoted to vice president of finance and operations at the Cigar Association of America. He joined the association in 2015 as financial controller and industry statistician, and his career goes back decades. He also has an M.A. from…

00s

David Helmreich MBA ’01

David Helmreich MBA ’01 was appointed chief commercial Officer of Innovid, an advertising platform for converged TV.

Passings

Margaret C. Tripp ’40

Margaret C. Tripp ’40, of Hastings, Mich., died on Jan. 11 at age 104. She was a lab technician at Sibley Hospital in Washington, D.C., when she enlisted in the U.S. Army during World War II and served overseas for two years as a second lieutenant. She…

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.…

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…

90s

W. Bryan Lewis ’99

W. Bryan Lewis ’99 was appointed to the board of directors at Essential Utilities, a water and wastewater utility company. Lewis is the vice president and chief investment officer for the United States Steel Corp. He serves on several nonprofit boards,…