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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. 

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Friday Five: Giving the Gift of Wisdom

Welcome to the Friday Five, a roundup of the best your Alumni Association and other UMD communities have to offer. From the latest events to fun facts, here are essentials in...
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5 Stocking Stuffers: Terp Edition

Ah, the stocking, home of small and unique gifts and gadgets for your family and loved ones. There is surely an art that comes to selecting just the right “stuffers” for your...
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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...
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Top 5 Decorations for Terps

The holiday season means one important thing — decorations! Deck your halls withTerrapin pride this year with these Terp-themed holiday decorations.
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Friday Five: UMD Holiday Gift Guide 2021

Welcome to the Friday Five, a roundup of the best your Alumni Association and other UMD communities have to offer. From the latest events to fun facts, here are essentials in...
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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.
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Friday Five: 'Tis the Season

Welcome to the Friday Five, a roundup of the best your Alumni Association and other UMD communities have to offer. From the latest events to fun facts, here are essentials in...
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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.
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The Power of Informational Interviews, with Hallie Schwartzstein '22

Post graduation, Hallie Schwartzstein ’22 has her eyes set on a marketing career in the entertainment or sports industry.
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Friday Five: #GivingTuesday

Welcome to the Friday Five, a roundup of the best your Alumni Association and other UMD communities have to offer. From the latest events to fun facts, here are essentials in...
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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.
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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...
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