Fall 2020

Features

9 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About President Pines

Features

Portraits From a Pandemic

Features

Double Infection Fighter

Campus Life

Puzzling Greatness

Campus Life

Just Don’t Call It ‘Adulting’

Not If, but When

Campus Life

Flush With Success

How to Bee of Assistance

Campus Life

A Place to ‘Land’

Class Act

Painting Pictures of Hope

Class Act

Collecting a New Generation’s Stamp of Approval

The Big Question

Epidemiologist Takes Country’s Temperature in 280 Characters

Campus Life

Point of Pride

Campus Life

A Giant, in Theory and Practice

Class Act

Alumni Association News

Class Notes

News on Friends and Classmates

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Passings

Michelle Elizabeth Engebretsen M.Ed. ’96

Michelle Elizabeth Engebretsen M.Ed. ’96 died in her Salt Lake City home May 12 after a four-month battle with pancreatic cancer. Engebretsen was born in Seattle on Sept. 29, 1966, the eldest of six children born to Dr. Charles S. Wassum III and Ruth…

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Georgie Brophy MBA ’97

Georgie Brophy MBA ’97 was named director of business development at Noblis, a provider of science, technology and strategy services to the federal government. In previous government contracting roles, Brophy led Space Shuttle mission operations for the…

Passings

Dr. Jonas Rappeport ’50

Dr. Jonas Rappeport ’50 died Sept. 8 at age 95 in Cockeysville, Md. Rappeport graduated from Forest Park High School in Baltimore in 1942 and entered UMD. He was drafted in June 1943 and served in Europe until WWII ended. He returned to College Park in…

Passings

Jane Carey Gardner ’73

Jane Carey Gardner ’73 died July 11 after her final battle with cancer. Gardner was born to the late Pauline and Samuel Carey in Richmond, Va. She graduated from Douglas Freeman High School in Richmond and from UMD with a bachelor of arts degree in…

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Colin Kendall ’08

Colin Kendall ’08 is now the chief marketing officer of SC&H Group, a leading management consulting, audit and tax firm. Kendall graduated with a degree in journalism.

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Krissah Thompson M.Jour. ’02

Krissah Thompson M.Jour. ’02 was named The Washington Post’s first managing editor for diversity and inclusion. Thompson has been an assignment editor in the Post’s Style section for the past three years. She has also reported for the Financial, National…

Passings

William “Tom” Cockley M.A. ’80

William “Tom” Cockley M.A. ’80 died June 14 at age 69 in Frankfort, Ky. The son of Rosemary Seidell Chandler and William Cockley, he grew up the eldest of six brothers in Rockville, Md. By the time he graduated high school, Cockley had already become a…

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Andre Blackman ’05

Andre Blackman ’05 was named to Fortune’s 40 Under 40 list in the healthcare category. Blackman is founder and CEO of Onboard Health, a network of more than 6,500 BIPOC and LGBTQ+ professionals, working in everything from venture capital and design to…