Fall 2021

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

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

Campus Life

‘Inclusion Matters’

New Program Enrolls UMD Students With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

Explorations

Vaccine Distrust Gets a Trim

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

Explorations

Harriet Tubman’s ‘Training Ground’

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

Post-Grad

Open Secrets

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

Post-Grad

‘Freedom House’ at 50

Nyumburu Celebrates Milestone Anniversary as Center for Black Culture on Campus

Class Notes

Class Notes

News on Friends and Classmates

News

Making Rooms for History

Pyon-Chen Hall Opens, Honoring Pioneering Terps

Campus Life

The ‘Ripple’ Effect

Terps to Build Sustainable Structures Near Burning Man Festival Site

Explorations

Conservation Crime Fighter

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

Explorations

Sniffing Out Climate Change

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

Explorations

How the ‘Diet Soda Effect’ Cuts the Benefit of Climate-Friendly Cars

Explorations

Diagnosis: Rude

Business Research Finds Everyday Unpleasantries Affect Doctors’ Performance

Post-Grad

An Imagined History

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

Post-Grad

Reaching New Heights

Entrepreneur Creates Taste of Mountain Adventure in Midwest

Class Notes

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Chanan Weissman ’06

Chanan Weissman ’06 was appointed White House liaison to the Jewish community. He was previously the director for technology and democracy on the National Security Council and served as the Jewish liaison during President Obama’s final year in office.

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,…

90s

Emily Smalley ’99, MFA ’01

Emily Smalley ’99, MFA ’01 was named CEO of Calmer Choice, a thought leader in secular mindfulness, and social emotional health and wellbeing in schools and communities. Smalley, who joined Calmer Choice in 2017, previously served as the organization’s…

10s

Lauren (Cevis) Rhodes ’11

Lauren (Cevis) Rhodes ’11 joined the Penn State Intercollegiate Athletics staff as the senior associate athletic director, student-athlete performance, health and welfare and senior woman administrator. Rhodes spent the past seven years at Jacksonville…

10s

Varun Murthy ’14

Varun Murthy ’14 married Rashmitha Vasa on Aug. 28 at the Grandover Resort and Spa in Greensboro, N.C., according to the New York Times. Murthy is a computer engineer in Washington for the U.S. government.

10s

Nora Eckert M. Jour. ’19

Nora Eckert M. Jour. ’19 was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize as part of a team of reporters from The Wall Street Journal uncovering misinformation about COVID-19 deaths in nursing homes.

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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.…

90s

Michael “Jarmo” Jarmolowich ’92

Michael “Jarmo” Jarmolowich ’92 was hired as a managing director at PACE Loan Group, a provider of Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy (C-PACE) financing. He held that same title at Stifel Financial Corp.; his experience also includes progressively…