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Post-Grad

Balancing Act

February 03, 2023

Circus Performer Combines Passions for Physics and Acrobatics

Post-Grad

Totally Turtle-y Taxidermy

February 03, 2023

Preserved Donation of Aquatic Animal Fits in Swimmingly at UMD

Post-Grad

‘Showtime’ for a Terp’s Transformation

February 03, 2023

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

Post-Grad

Here’s to a Terp Toastmaster

February 03, 2023

Alum’s Toast Wins $50K in Guinness Contest

Features

The Dreams of Fatema

February 03, 2023

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

Post-Grad

Beer, Off the Beaten Track

February 03, 2023

Alum Celebrates 35 Years of Craft Brewing Success in Alaska

Post-Grad

Alumni Association News

February 03, 2023

The Alumni Excellence Awards

Explorations

The Big Question

February 03, 2023

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

Explorations

Moving Beyond ‘Getting Tough’

February 03, 2023

Amid Spiraling Violence, Criminologist Studies New Approaches to Gun Crime

Explorations

Electromagnetic Control Could Pull Surgery Into the Future

February 03, 2023

UMD Mechanical Engineering Researcher Is ‘Disarming’ Surgery Robots

Explorations

Planetary Protectors

February 03, 2023

Terps Helped Propel NASA Mission to Redirect an Asteroid

Explorations

Backyard Climate Guard

February 03, 2023

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

Explorations

Roots of Injustice

February 03, 2023

Research Finds More Vulnerable Tree Canopy in Redlined Baltimore

Explorations

Cover Stories

February 03, 2023

ARHU Dean’s Podcast Debates Musical Remakes

Campus Life

Stadium Renamed in Partnership With SECU

February 03, 2023

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

Campus Life

Showing Support on the Court

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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Passings

Elizabeth R. (Rittenhouse) Nusz ’55

Elizabeth R. (Rittenhouse) Nusz ’55 died at her home in Starkville, Miss., on Sept. 22. She was 89. A native of Baltimore, she was Kappa Delta’s Alpha Rho chapter president and met her future husband, Dave Nusz, at Maryland. A lover of learning, she…

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Kevin Schmidt ’02

Kevin Schmidt ’02 joined Callan as a senior vice president and investment consultant. Callan is an institutional investment consulting firm. He has over two decades of industry and investment consulting experience.

90s

Marguerita “Rita” Cheng ’91, ’93

Marguerita “Rita” Cheng ’91, ’93 was appointed to the board of directors at the Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards. Cheng is the CEO of Blue Ocean Global Wealth.

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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…

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Ryan McCarthy MBA ’13

Ryan McCarthy MBA ’13 was appointed to the board of Directors at Lynx Software Technologies. He is also the Dean’s Scholar in residence at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University and is on the board of UMD’s Robert H.…

80s

Daniel Schrider ’87

Daniel Schrider ’87 was elected chair of the board of directors by Shady Spring Bancorp. He is the longtime president and CEO of the bank based in Olney, Md.

90s

Jeffrey Gluck Ph.D. ’98

Jeffrey Gluck Ph.D. ’98, a partner at the Philadelphia intellectual property law firm Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel, was named among IAM’s Strategy 300 Global Leaders for 2023, which honors the world’s leading intellectual property strategists.…

Passings

Daniel T. Adams Ph.D. ’72

Daniel T. Adams Ph.D. ’72, of Brockton, Mass., died on Jan. 5. He was 78 years old. He was a graduate of Cardinal Spellman High School, received his master’s degree from Boston College and his doctorate from UMD. He was a math teacher for over 30 years…