UMD INFO College Alumni Spotlights

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The UMD INFO College Takes Great Pride in its Graduates

From archivists to librarians, web developers to information architects, our INFO alumni succeed as information professionals in every field imaginable. Scroll down to learn more about your fellow alumni! We’d also like to hear from you and share your story.

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Featured INFO Alumni

INFO alumni go on to be leaders in shaping the world through information and technology for good. Here are just a few of our stars.

Alumni Awards & Recipients PhD Alumni

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Wendy Simmons, PhD, Class of 1990

Wendy Simmons is a retired Foreign Service Officer. She was also an adjunct lecturer for the College of Information Studies from 2015 t …

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Alice Crites, MLS

Alice Crites, Washington Post researcher, has been a part of a half-dozen Pulitzer teams.

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Tracy Jeffcott, MLS, Class of 2012

Tracy Jeffcott is the recipient of the 2017-18 Maryland School Librarian of the Year award, which honors a school librarian for exempla …

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Dr. Diane Ledbetter Barlow, MLS, Class of 1975

Dr. Diane L. Barlow, who passed February 6, 2018, was a monumental figure in the history of the University of Maryland College of Infor …

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Jamuna Sundararajan, MIM, Class of 2005

Jamuna is currently the President and CEO of Cyberbahn Federal Solutions LLC. Cyberbahn Federal Solutions LLC was Jamuna’s dream since …

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Melissa Wertheimer, MLIS, Class of 2017

Meet Melissa Wertheimer, Archivist of the Music Library Association and Music Reference Specialist at the Library of Congress.