Event Recap: East Coast Doctoral Gathering
On Thursday, January 21, nearly 200 Terps, doctoral students and postdoctoral alumni, gathered virtually to explore how alumni can support the diverse career needs of current...
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.
The Inaugural Career Week Recap
The University of Maryland Alumni Association kicked off the new year by hosting its first-ever Career Week January 25-29, 2021. This virtual series engaged Terps of all career...
Terp Writer’s Corner: Joy Carol ‘68
Are you looking to press refresh on loving yourself and living life to the fullest? Through her new book, alumna Joy Carol ‘86 shares stories people can learn from in order to...
Alum Directs Growth of Expanding TikTok
If you’re one of the many who have found themselves newly glued to TikTok in the last year or so, scrolling endlessly through 60-second-or-less videos and wondering how so many...
Friday Five: Spaced-Themed Movement Challenge Honors Jeanette Epps (M.S. ‘94, Ph.D. ‘00)
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’s essentials in...
Friday Five: Inauguration of Darryll J. Pines
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’s essentials in...
An English Major Goes High-Tech
As a University Park elementary school student taking part in a research team in UMD’s Human-Computer Interaction Lab (HCIL), Emily Rhodes Fritz ‘13 didn’t know she was building...
When Terrapins Connect: Passing the Torch
Fresh off her UMD graduation and four-month internship at the U.S. Department of Defense, Hawa Anthony ’18 was ready to start her technology career.
Around the World and Still in Love with Maryland
Ray ’70 and Kim ’70 Ferrara’s love story has taken them to 70 countries and all seven continents, but they wrote the earliest chapters at the University of Maryland.
Friday Five: A New Vision for College Park
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’s essentials in...
A Terp Family Affair
The first time Wendy Olaitan ’07 met her future husband, Bernard Olaitan ’11, in September 1998, she wasn’t quite ready for a relationship.
From Video Gaming to Marriage
After several months of living together, getting to know one another’s dishwasher-loading strategies and the exact degree at which they each liked the apartment’s temperature...