News & Stories: Alumni Spotlight

January 10, 2022

EnTERPreneur Award: Evandro Valente ’03, M.S. ’06 and Pramod Raheja ’91

Evandro Valente ’03, M.S. ’06, and Pramod Raheja ’91 Co-founders of Airgility Former aerospace engineering students, Valente and Raheja founded Airgility to design and...

Alumni Spotlight

January 08, 2022

Rising Terp Award: Akash Magoon ’18

Akash Magoon ’18 Co-founder, Nayya A UMD computer science alum, Magoon co-founded Nayya to help employees choose and enroll in health benefits and then engage with their health...

Alumni Spotlight

January 07, 2022

Rising Terp Award: Matthew Hollister ‘18

Matthew Hollister ‘18 Chairman and CEO of The James Hollister Wellness Foundation and co-founder of Save Pharmaceutical As head of The James Hollister Wellness Foundation,...

Alumni Spotlight

January 07, 2022

Rising Terp Award: Audrey Awasom ’18

Audrey Awasom ’18 Founder, Noble Uprising A graduate of the Robert H. Smith School of Business, Awasom founded Noble Uprising to empower women in shelters through job readiness...

Alumni Spotlight

December 15, 2021

Giving the Gift of Wisdom

Over the past year, the University of Maryland Alumni Association has had the pleasure of featuring more than 100 passionate, innovative and fearless Terps on this blog, sharing...

Alumni Spotlight

December 07, 2021

Alumni Spotlight: Bofta Yimam '04

There’s no such thing as a slow news day for Bofta Yimam '04, an Emmy and Edward R. Murrow Award-winning journalist and Washington correspondent for the Black News Channel.

Alumni Spotlight

December 02, 2021

Alumni Spotlight: Lauren Banyar Reich ’02

For more than a decade, entrepreneur Lauren Banyar Reich ’02 worked for public relations agencies in New York City.

Alumni Spotlight

November 15, 2021

Terp Writer’s Corner: Briana A. Thomas M.A. ’17

Briana A. Thomas M.A. ’17 has been published in Washingtonian Magazine, the historic Afro-American newspaper, and the Washington Post throughout her journalism career.

Alumni Spotlight , Terp Writers Corner

November 12, 2021

A Chance Encounter Helps Alum Commemorate a WWII Fighter Pilot and Fellow Terp

One day in the early 1950s, Chuck Day ’53 tagged along with a friend of his on an unusual outing: as part of an assignment for an applied psychology class at the University of...

Alumni Spotlight

November 10, 2021

The Secret to Making Friends as an Adult

I've lived my 20s as a part-time nomad, flip-flopping between New York City and Washington, D.C., wandering around Haiti for two summers, and spending six months in Trinidad and...

Alumni Spotlight

November 08, 2021

10 for TEN: Michelle Riley ’12

It’s time to make yourself a priority. Michelle Riley ’12, founder of Fierce and Fit, customizes online training and nutrition plans to empower women at all stages of life to...

Alumni Spotlight , Terp Business Spotlight

November 04, 2021

3 Ways Employers Can Advance Mental Health Accommodations

It has become increasingly clear, through conversations on social media, many organizations are still missing the mark when it comes to being inviting, accommodating workplaces...

Alumni Spotlight