Fall 2021

September 17, 2021

Terp Group’s Virtual Performance Earns First Place in International A Cappella Competition

September 17, 2021

Jones-Hill House, Named for Athletics Trailblazers, Features Tech-Filled Training Areas, a Tricked-Out Locker Room and Plenty of Maryland Pride

Campus Life

September 17, 2021

New Program Enrolls UMD Students With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

Explorations

September 17, 2021

Program to Make Barbers and Stylists Ambassadors for Public Health Goes Nationwide

Explorations

September 17, 2021

Professor Helps Discover Site of Eastern Shore Cabin Owned by Abolitionist’s Father

Post-Grad

September 17, 2021

Alum Leads Renovation of NSA Museum—and Shares Some of its Treasures

Post-Grad

September 17, 2021

Nyumburu Celebrates Milestone Anniversary as Center for Black Culture on Campus

News

September 17, 2021

Pyon-Chen Hall Opens, Honoring Pioneering Terps

Campus Life

September 17, 2021

Terps to Build Sustainable Structures Near Burning Man Festival Site

Explorations

September 17, 2021

Geographical Sciences Researcher Shapes New Way to Understand Offenses Against the Earth

Explorations

September 17, 2021

New Lab Detects Subtle Differences in Methane to Pinpoint Sources of Pollution

Explorations

September 17, 2021

Explorations

September 17, 2021

Business Research Finds Everyday Unpleasantries Affect Doctors’ Performance

Post-Grad

September 17, 2021

Alum Finds Success With Debut Novel on Vietnamese Family Immigrating to U.S.

Post-Grad

September 17, 2021

Entrepreneur Creates Taste of Mountain Adventure in Midwest

Explorations

September 17, 2021

Where Should Infrastructure Investments in the U.S. Start?

Class Notes

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80s

Nellie Liang M.A. ’84, Ph.D. ’86

The U.S. Senate confirmed Nellie Liang M.A. ’84, Ph.D. ’86 as the Treasury Department’s undersecretary for domestic finance. Liang, who joined the Federal Reserve as a research economist in 1986, was the founding director of its division of financial…

80s

Robert Waltermire Ph.D. ’89

Robert Waltermire Ph.D. ’89 joined Madrigal Pharmaceuticals, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company pursuing novel therapeutics for cardio-metabolic and fatty liver diseases with high unmet medical need, as chief pharmaceutical development officer.…

60s

Francesco Da Vinci ’68

Francesco Da Vinci ’68 is the author of “I Refuse to Kill: My Path to Nonviolence in the '60s,” which focuses on the civil rights and peace movements and includes Da Vinci’s own personal story as a nonviolent activist.

70s

Pamela Gore ’77

Pamela Gore ’77 was appointed a member of the state board of registration for professional geologists by Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp. Gore is a professor of geology at Georgia State University, Perimeter College. She serves as vice president of the Atlanta…

10s

Noam Auslander Ph.D. ’18

Noam Auslander Ph.D. ’18 was hired as an assistant professor in the molecular and cellular oncogenesis program of the Wistar Institute Cancer Center in Philadelphia. Auslander majored in computer science and biology at Tel Aviv University and received her…

90s

Maria Douglas Reeve M.Jour. ’92

Maria Douglas Reeve M.Jour. ’92, managing editor of the Houston Chronicle since November 2019, was named its executive editor. She joined the Chronicle in 2019 from the Star Tribune in Minneapolis, where she served in various roles including assistant…

10s

Leah Cox Ph.D. ’10

Leah Cox Ph.D. ’10 was named vice provost for equity and inclusion and chief diversity officer at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She was previously the inaugural vice president for inclusion and institutional equity at Towson University,…

Passings

Nicki Y. Noel ’78

Nicki Y. Noel ’78 of Lanham, Md., died on June 18 at the University of Maryland Medical Center after battling ovarian cancer. She was born July 22, 1956, in Chambersburg, Pa., the eldest daughter of W. Theodore Noel and the late Anna L. (Diehl) Noel. Noel…