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ARHU Recommends: Summer 2025 Faculty & Staff Media Picks

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Art History and Archaeology

A Future in Conservation

At UMD, graduating senior Lylah Messinger restored a 2,500-year-old Etruscan vase. Now she’s headed to graduate school in London.

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Communication

From Fan to Force in Sports Media

Graduating senior Connor Perkins leverages creativity, drive and a love of sports to carve his path in digital content creation.

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Whatever your interests and aspirations, ARHU is committed to providing the knowledge, skills and opportunities all our students need to write their own stories and chart their own paths.

"In ARHU, you’re learning about how people interact with the world and each other. My goal is to build things that people are going to use. Just technology knowledge can only go so far. You have to understand how people are going to use them to be truly successful."

Ozzie Fallick '14, Software Engineer, Google
Linguistics

"Cross-cultural communication is one of the most important skills that I learned at ARHU, and I use it to engage and inform the community in Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean about our events, exchanges and any other information that supports our key policy priorities in the region. ARHU gave me the tools to understand why in diplomacy, it’s as much about what you say as how you say it."

Krystle Norman '08, Foreign Service Officer, U.S. Department of State
Spanish and Portuguese

"I had always loved art, but I never knew you could make a career out of it until I studied abroad in Rome. There, I took a full course load of art courses and learned all about the factors of being an art professional. It was life-changing. Now I feel lucky that I’m doing something that I’m so passionate about."

Laura Sheridan Raiffe '09, Regional Account Manager, Christie's Fine Arts
Art History and Archaeology

"One of the most important things I got out of my ARHU experience is my ability to parse arguments, think critically and see multiple sides of an issue. Being in law school, it’s important to do that—it’s a skill I use every day. Not a class goes by, not a case gets read that this skill doesn’t come into play."

AJ Clayborne '13, Student, Harvard Law School
English

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Starting this Sunday, Kai Dambach ’13 will compete in the 25th World Transplant Games, a weeklong event featuring 2,500 organ transplant recipients and donors competing in 17 sports, in Dresden, Germany. With the goal of raising awareness of lifesaving transplantation, Dambach, who’s had three kidney transplants, will take the field and court for his fourth Games in basketball, squash, shot put, discus, ball throw and pétanque, a bocce-like game. Dambach, who studied broadcast journalism and Germanic studies, said, “Every single one of those people who’s competing out there, they’re not supposed to be alive today…The miracles of modern medicine are just profound, and we’re living proof of that. It’s a beautiful thing that we all come together, and we can share in the gift of life.” To cheer Dambach on, visit @2025worldtransplantgames and read the full Maryland Today story at the link in our bio.
Two English majors spent three weeks in Rome and Bologna on @umdeducationabroad’s “Food Writing in Italy” course taught by Principal Lecturers Peter Grybauskas and Catherine Bayly. Grace Marshall ’26 and John Parmach ’26 share their experiences being immersed in Italian food and culture while fulfilling their professional writing requirement: “Everywhere in Italy has such quality ingredients. Every red sauce paired with Italian pasta is so simple and delicious. In Rome, though, I took to one without it: spaghetti aglio, olio, e peperoncino (garlic, olive oil, and chili peppers). Derived from cucina povera, or poor cooking, this dish can be made quickly with pantry staples and is considered ‘the Italian midnight snack.’ It is incredible that each dish served in Italy is held to a standard. For example, heavy cream doesn't really exist (pasta water combined with cheese does the trick for that creaminess), and there are no preservatives in food or sulfates in wine. I will find myself missing the Italian diet forever. Buon Appetito!” - Grace “Unsurprisingly, the best dish I had in Bologna was lasagna bolognese. The sauce was flavorful but not overwhelming, and the pasta that made up the lasagna was just incredible. The ingredients everywhere in Italy are so fresh and well-sourced that the simple foods like pasta become highlights of each dish they’re in. However, learning more about Italian cuisine may also result in some heartbreak (it certainly did for me) when you realize that certain ‘Italian’ staples like chicken parmesan and fettuccine alfredo don’t actually exist in Italy. Our final assignments included reviewing a restaurant of our choice in Rome, and writing a recipe to learn more about Italian culture.” - John
Ten years ago, a new musical changed Broadway forever. In honor of the anniversary of Hamilton's debut, we're revisiting this article about UMD history professor Richard Bell, an expert in the American Revolution, who shares what the musical gets right—and wrong—about our founding fathers. Link in profile! #Hamilten #UMD #History #HamiltonMusical #LinManuelMiranda

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