Winter 2026

Explorations

January 15, 2026

Engineers Use AI on Popular Video Game to Improve Autonomous Vehicles

Campus Life

January 15, 2026

Olympics’ Teen Track Star Signs With UMD; Historic Season for Men’s Soccer

Campus Life

January 15, 2026

Wrestler Trains With Men While Dominating Women in Independent Tournaments

Campus Life

January 15, 2026

After Conquering Cancer, Men’s Basketball Transfer Shoots for More Wins on the Court

Campus Life

January 15, 2026

Art Professor Depicts Different Sides of Baltimore in New Audiovisual Installation

Campus Life

January 15, 2026

UMD’s Golf Course Doubles as Sustainable Living Classroom

Campus Life

January 15, 2026

Spelling Champ, Basketball Record-Holder Juggles Skills

Campus Life

January 15, 2026

Student Entrepreneurs Win $250K in xFoundry Competition to Develop Tech That Detects Guns, Tracks Suspects in Schools

News

January 15, 2026

UMD Hits All-time High in U.S. News Rankings

News

January 15, 2026

Support to Benefit Professors, Postdocs, Students

News

January 15, 2026

Series of Commitments Adds to Legacy of Giving at UMD

Class Notes

News on Friends and Classmates

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Passings

David James Beatty ’60

David James Beatty ’60, a devoted LGBTQ+ advocate, educator, psychotherapist and naturalist, died on Oct. 19, 2025, in Seattle at age 87. Beatty was the first in his family to finish high school, graduating from Monroe Woodbury in New York. He earned a…

Passings

Juris Terauds Ph.D. ’72

Juris Terauds Ph.D. ’72 died on Sept. 30, 2025. Born in Latvia, he was a boy when his family was forced to flee encroaching Russian troops. After they arrived in Canada, Terauds took to sports, particularly the javelin. He still holds the record at the…

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David Quattrone MBA ’05

David Quattrone MBA ’05 received the Jerome Fisher M&T Distinguished Alumni Award, which honors alumni of the University of Pennsylvania’s Jerome Fisher Program in Management and Technology. He is co-founder and chief technology officer at Cvent, a…

Passings

Mario Louis Camardo MBA ’68

Mario Louis Camardo MBA ’68, of Dearborn Heights, Mich., known as “M. Louis” professionally, “Lou” by friends, and “Skip” or “Skipper” by family, died on Oct. 30, 2025, at the age of 81. Camardo grew up in Riverton, N.J., graduated from Villanova…

Passings

Donald Ray Soeken Ph.D. ’78

Donald Ray Soeken Ph.D. ’78 died at his home in Ellicott City, Md., on Nov. 21, 2025. He was 80. Born in Lyons, Kan., he graduated from the Youth Leadership Training Program at Valparaiso University, where he majored in theology. He received a Master of…

Passings

Susanne Bohrer ’73

Susanne Bohrer ’73 died on Nov. 4, 2025, after a lengthy illness. Born on Oct. 11, 1951, she was raised on a small farm in Carroll County, where she developed a love of the outdoors and horses. She majored in animal science at UMD, then worked for the…

Passings

Joseph Daniel Mullendore ’99

Joseph Daniel Mullendore ’99 of Clear Spring, Md., died at his home on Nov. 24, 2025, at age 50. He was a graduate of Clear Spring High School and UMD, where he received a bachelor's degree in government and politics. He worked for the University of…

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Seema Ponda Alexander ’00

Seema Ponda Alexander ’00 was recognized among the Washington Business Journal’s 2025 Women Who Mean Business. She is founder and CEO of Disruptive AI, a technology startup that builds AI-powered systems and funds new AI-technologies. Alexander also hosts…