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Danilo de Sousa Nhantumbo, M.A. ’18, and Chris Light ’92 ‘93 are both entrepreneurs, working in their respective fields to improve life for others.
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Terp Time Warp - Love Edition - Part One
Check out some of these heartwarming and fun memories in this look back at our favorite Terp couples! The winner of the sweepstakes will be announced this Friday, Feb. 17, 2023...
Terp Time Warp - Love Edition - Part Two
Check out some of these heartwarming and fun memories in this look back at our favorite Terp couples! The winner of the sweepstakes will be announced on Friday, Feb. 17, 2023 on...
Let Your Light Shine - The Holistic Life Foundation's Promise
While most of us go through life trying to figure out our place in the world, it’s the people that look to inspire positive change in others that we remember most fondly.
As...
Alumni Excellence Awards: Legacy Award Winner Ralph Crosby '56
Ralph Crosby ’56 lives by four simple words: inspiring actions that matter. It’s a mantra that’s guided him since 1973, when he launched Crosby Marketing Communications, Inc....
Alumni Excellence Awards: Legacy Award Winner Sapienza Barone '77
Few people can boast to UMD Dining Services naming an ice cream flavor in their honor. One of those few is Sapienza Barone ‘77, who retired in 2018 after working 41 years at the...
Alumni Excellence Awards: Legacy Award Winner Alice Horowitz
The numbers tell the story: 15 percent of children aged 5 to 19, many of them poor, have untreated cavities, according to the National Center for Health Statistics. While...
Alumni Excellence Awards: EnTERPreneuer Award Winner Roy Schwartz '98
When Roy Schwartz ’98, MBA ’01 co-founded the online news website Axios in 2016, he was guided by a singular mission: articles would be 250 to 500 words, and bullet points would...
Alumni Excellence Awards: EnTERPreneuer Award Winner Adriana Avakian '12
Whether you’re asking Google for driving directions or enabling your computer’s spam filter, artificial intelligence – or AI – is an indispensable part of life. The idea that...
Alumni Excellence Awards: EnTERPreneuer Award Winner Seema Alexander '00
In working with hundreds of growth-focused entrepreneurs and CEOs around the world, Seema Alexander ’00 starts with two simple questions: “Why does your business exist?” and...
Alumni Excellence Awards: Terp Research Award Winner Dr. Matthew Stamm
Have you heard of “fake news” or struggled to discern if a photo was real or had been digitally altered? This is just one area where Dr. Matthew Stamm’s lifework has been...
Alumni Excellence Awards: Terp Research Award Winner Dr. Merdad Parsey
In the nascent days of the COVID-19 global pandemic, doctors and medical researchers were scrambling to understand what treatments could help stop the effects of the deadly...