Winter 2026

Explorations

January 15, 2026

VR Reading Adventure Improves Skills for Dyslexic Youth

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

Class Notes

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Jeanelle J. Johnson MBA ’04

Jeanelle J. Johnson MBA ’04 was named to Washingtonian magazine’s 2025 list of Most Powerful Women and was recognized among the Washington Business Journal’s 2025 Women Who Mean Business and its Power 100 list. As managing partner at the Washington office…

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Thea LaFond-Gadson ’14

A year after winning gold in the triple jump at the 2024 Paris Olympics, Thea LaFond-Gadson ’14 took silver at the 2025 World Championships in Tokyo with a mark of 14.89 meters.

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Aydin Mohtashamian MBA ’16

Aydin Mohtashamian MBA ’16 was named president of tech company Kagwerks and DTC North America. Mohtashamian joins from Perry Labs, where he was COO, leading operations and tech development efforts across five sites. He earned his bachelor’s degree from…

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Aisha Braveboy ’97

Prince George’s County Executive Aisha Braveboy ’97 was named to Washingtonian magazine’s 2025 list of Most Powerful Women. The former Prince George’s state’s attorney was sworn in on Juneteenth on the UMD campus and is focused on public safety and her…

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Shaina A. Hernandez ’05

Shaina A. Hernandez ’05 is the new CEO and president of the Baltimore Public Markets Corp., a quasi-governmental nonprofit. She was most recently Maryland Gov. Wes Moore’s deputy chief of staff. She is the first Latina to lead Baltimore’s public market…

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Tom Sundlof ’04

Tom Sundlof ’04 joined the Washington, D.C., office of Blank Rome LLP on the Life Sciences industry team and Corporate, M&A, and Securities practice group. He came from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, where he served as associate chief counsel…

Passings

Joel Allen Carlson M.S. ’73

Joel Allen Carlson M.S. ’73 of Linthicum, Md., died on Nov. 22, 2025, at MedStar Harbor Hospital in Baltimore. He was 88. Carlson was born in Muskegon, Mich., where he was valedictorian at Muskegon Central Catholic High School. An accomplished pianist and…

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Francisco Gonzalez ’95

Francisco Gonzalez ’95 was promoted at Gensler, the largest architecture firm in the world, to co-regional managing principal of its Southeast region. He had co-led the D.C. office of Gensler since 2018. Principal JJ Rivers ’12, M.Arch. ’14 will replace…