Winter 2025

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Explorations

January 15, 2025

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

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Campus Life

January 15, 2025

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

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Campus Life

January 15, 2025

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

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Campus Life

January 15, 2025

UMD to Debut Oldest Existing Opera by Black Composer

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Campus Life

January 15, 2025

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

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Campus Life

January 15, 2025

With Passed-Down Perseverance, Shyanne Sellers Eyes Championship Run

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Campus Life

January 15, 2025

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

News

January 15, 2025

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

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News

January 15, 2025

Interactive Exhibit of Giant Rings Aims to Inspire Service

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News

January 15, 2025

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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Passings

Joanne Ruth Linduska Price ’59

Joanne Ruth Linduska Price ’59 of Lewes, Del., died on Dec. 13, 2024, at age 87. She was a graduate of Laurel High School and earned a degree in elementary education at UMD, where she was a member of Alpha Chi Omega sorority. Price taught kindergarten for…

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Monica Leigh Pearce '07

Monica Leigh Pearce '07 was named to the Maryland Daily Record 2024 Best Women-Owned Business List. She is the founder of Tenth Ward Distilling Co. in downtown Frederick.

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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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Peter Hopsicker M.A. ’94

Peter Hopsicker M.A. ’94, a professor of kinesiology at Penn State, was named associate vice provost for faculty affairs. Hopsicker started at Penn State Altoona in 1996 as an adjunct instructor and joined the Student Affairs staff a year later. He earned…

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Jean Moody-Williams M.P.P. ’95

Jean Moody-Williams M.P.P. ’95, deputy center director for the Center for Clinical Standards and Quality at the Centers for Medicare & Medicare Services (CMS) received a 2024 Presidential Rank Award from President Joe Biden. The honor recognized her…

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Marek Posard Ph.D. ’15

Marek Posard Ph.D. ’15 joined the Strategy, Forces and Resources Division of the Institute for Defense Analyses’ Systems and Analyses Center as a research staff member. He earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in political science from Loyola…

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Dean Muhtadi ’08, MBA ’11

Former NFL player and professional wrestler Dean Muhtadi ’08, MBA ’11 was named brand ambassador of the fitness company Beachbody Co. He is known to many by his wrestling persona “Mojo Rawley” and for his social media presence; he has more than 365,000…

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Mindi B. (Pollak) Levin ’98

Mindi B. (Pollak) Levin ’98 received the Ernest Lyman Stebbins Medal, the highest honor bestowed by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health for educational excellence. The award is presented to a member of the faculty annually for…