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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Passings

Joyce Daly Margie M.S. ’72

Joyce Daly Margie M.S. ’72 died of complications of Alzheimer’s disease in Bethesda, Md., on Sept. 25. She was 82. As a college student, she was diagnosed with a life-threatening form of renal disease, which she survived in part due to the treatment she…

80s

Jeffrey MacLauchlan ’82

Jeffrey MacLauchlan ’82 assumed the role of EVP, CFO and treasurer of CACI International, a provider of expertise and technology to government enterprise and mission customers. He joined CACI in May 2022 as a senior vice president on the finance team.…

00s

Tiffany Wright ’03

Tiffany Wright ’03 has joined the White House Counsel’s office as associate counsel to President Joe Biden. She recently was an Orrick Fellow and Co-director of Howard University School of Law’s Civil Rights Clinic. The National Bar Association last year…

90s

Matthew A. Calderone ’95

Matthew A. Calderone ’95 was promoted to chief financial officer at Booz Allen Hamilton. He was previously the firm’s chief strategy officer. Calderone holds an MBA from Yale University.

10s

Lauren A. Rosenberg ’13

Lauren A. Rosenberg ’13 was named assistant clinical professor in the Section of Psychiatry at Fox Chase Cancer Center. She received her doctorate in clinical psychology from Yeshiva University in New York City. A researcher focused on mindfulness and…

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.…

60s

Dennis D. Urban ’69

Dennis D. Urban ’69 published “The Making of a Civilian Soldier in the Civil War: the First Diary of Private William J. McLean Along the C&O Canal and the Affair at Edwards Ferry.”

90s

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…