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Friday Five: Jam Out to the Women's History Month Spotify Playlist
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 five categories for you to check out this weekend.
Student Spotlight
How Alumni Association Scholarships Help Terps Achieve Their Goals
Whether you’re a current student or a graduate, the University of Maryland Alumni Association is dedicated to supporting Terps in their quest to stay fearless.
Alumni Spotlight
Doing Good with Anthony Sartori ‘18
Anthony Sartori, a former psychology major and co-founder of UMD’s Scholars Promoting and Revitalizing Care (SPARC), designed the 10-week pilot program to arm educators with resilience and mindfulness strategies.
Events and Programs
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 doctoral students and postdocs.
Events and Programs
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 sectors, levels, affinities and industries, as well as graduates from a variety of UMD schools and colleges.
Terp Writers Corner
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 live their lives in gratitude, wisdom, humor, strength, wonder, and of course--joy.
Alumni Spotlight
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 people can be so much better at dancing than you are, you might have Julia Yan ’11 to thank.
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 five categories for you to check out this weekend.
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 five categories for you to check out this weekend.
Alumni Spotlight
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 the foundation for a future career merging technology and design.