Winter 2025

Explorations

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Salt Life

Take a Home Tour to Learn How We’re Worsening Salinity Around the World

Campus Life

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Freshmen Philanthropists

For 10 Years, iGive Students Have Learned by Awarding Grants to Nonprofits

Campus Life

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Steady Eye on the Target

Hoops Shooters and Sharpshooters Pioneered Terp Women’s Sports a Century Ago

Campus Life

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A ‘Mind-Blowing’ Premiere, 130 Years Later

UMD to Debut Oldest Existing Opera by Black Composer

Campus Life

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A Taste of Adele’s

Panera Opens at Site of Longtime Restaurant—Without the Tin-foil Swans

Campus Life

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Shooting for Success, Fueled by Family

With Passed-Down Perseverance, Shyanne Sellers Eyes Championship Run

Campus Life

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Sports Briefs

Terp Races to NCAA Cross Country Championship; Men’s Lacrosse Defensive Coordinator Earns Top Assistant Coach Honor

News

Trailblazing NBA Exec Donates $18M to UMD

Gift From Stephen M. Schanwald ’77 to Endow Sports Management Program

News

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‘Do Good’ Vibrations

Interactive Exhibit of Giant Rings Aims to Inspire Service

News

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UMD Climbs to No. 17 Among Public Universities in U.S. News’ Ranking

Record-High Placement Reflects Improvements in Graduation Rates, Student-to-Faculty Ratio, Alums’ Earnings

Class Notes

News on Friends and Classmates

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70s

Stephen D. Ambrose ’76

Stephen D. Ambrose ’76 joined federal contractor Alpha Omega as its first chief scientist. His career includes leading the SAIC Climate Enterprise program and supporting initiatives for NOAA, NASA,, the Department of the Interior, Environmental Protection…

90s

Dan Groman ’98

Dan Groman ’98 was promoted to executive vice president, general counsel, secretary and chief compliance officer at Walker & Dunlop. He has worked at the real estate finance and advisory services firm since 2012, and before that served as associate…

90s

Jeffrey Rosen ’98, MBA ’05

Jeffrey Rosen ’98, MBA ’05, managing partner of Rosen, Sapperstein and Friedlander in Towson, Md., was among 31 leaders recognized by The Daily Record as the 2024 Most Admired CEOs. Honorees were selected based on professional accomplishments, community…

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William White ’72

William White ’72 will step down in February as vice president of advanced technology at the United States Gypsum Co., a manufacturer of construction materials and one of Home Depot’s primary suppliers of gypsum wallboard and ceiling tile. He has worked…

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Fred A. Balkin ’85

Fred A. Balkin ’85, principal at Stein Sperling Bennett De Jong Driscoll PC, was named to The Daily Record’s 2024 Personal Injury & Medical Malpractice Law Power List.

90s

Ted Halpern ’91

Ted Halpern ’91 sold Halpern Financial, the Ashburn, Va., investment advisory firm he founded in 1991, to MAI Capital Management and joined it as regional president.

Passings

Thomas Caldwell Morrison ’56

Thomas Caldwell Morrison ’56 of Greenwich, Conn., died on Sept. 4, 2024, at age 89. At UMD, he majored in business and was a member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity; the Men's League named him one of the 10 outstanding seniors in his class. After graduation,…

Passings

William Super Jr. ’73

William Super Jr. ’73 died at home in Annapolis, Md., on Dec. 11, 2024, at age 78 after a two-year battle with prostate cancer. He grew up in Baltimore and earned a degree in mathematics at UMD, then a Master of Science in Administration degree in…