Research Award: Faez Ahmed Ph.D. ’19
Faez Ahmed Ph.D. ’19
Assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, head of the institute’s Design Computation & Digital Engineering...
News & Stories
News & Stories
Keep up with your fellow alumni through spotlights, Q&As and more! Read inspiring stories, professional advice and exciting updates from your fellow fearless alumni. You may even find an old friend or story that reminds you of the great times you spent here at The University of Maryland.
Research Award: Bridget T. Kelly, M.A. ’96, Ph.D. ‘01
Bridget T. Kelly, M.A. ’96, Ph.D. ’01
Associate professor, diversity officer and chair of Council on Racial Equity and Justice at the UMD College of Education
An advocate for...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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: 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: Lauren Banyar Reich ’02
For more than a decade, entrepreneur Lauren Banyar Reich ’02 worked for public relations agencies in New York City.
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.
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...
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...