Fall 2021

Class Act

Alumni Association News

Explorations

A World of Language Learning—at Your Fingertips

New UMD-Developed App Offers 420 Immersive Lessons in Seven Languages

Campus Life

Wrought iron red M Gate against brick outside of Maryland Stadium.

Two Terps Earn Places on Podium

Bronze-Medal Winners Highlight Group of Six Alum Athletes at Olympics

Campus Life

Cracking a New Code

Campus Life

A Cooler Way to Help the Hungry

Campus Life

The Postwar Campus Crunch

Campus Life

A New Decade of Diversity

UMD Creates Incubator for Quantum Startups

Features

Pressing Play

Esports Have Become an International Phenomenon. With Terps Already Competing at the Highest Levels, UMD Powers Up Support for Gamers.

Features

It’s All Good

How Terps Cooked Up Food Recovery Network 10 Years…

Features

Last Words

For Two Decades, a UMD Professor Has Led a Writing Workshop for Holocaust Survivors. Seventy-six Years After World War II’s End, Their Task Has an Urgency Both Personal and Public.

Class Notes

News on Friends and Classmates

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70s

Gerald Boarman ’70, M.A. ’77

Gerald Boarman ’70, M.A. ’77 was named deputy head of school at Springdale Preparatory School in New Windsor, Md. He most recently served as president and head of school at the Bullis School in Potomac, Md., and before that as chancellor of North Carolina…

10s

Mark A. Johnson M.A. ’11

Mark A. Johnson M.A. ’11 wrote the book, “Rough Tactics: Black Performance in Political Spectacles, 1877–1932,” a look at the earliest Black efforts to overcome disfranchisement in the Jim Crow South. He is a lecturer in the Department of History at…

10s

Lauren DeStefano MBA ’10

Lauren DeStefano MBA ’10 joined Hotaling & Co., a San Francisco-based artisanal spirits distiller and importer, as chief financial officer. DeStefano received her bachelor’s degree in managerial economics and Spanish studies at Allegheny College.

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.

00s

Will Jones Jr. ’05, M.Ed. ’08

Will Jones Jr. ’05, M.Ed. ’08 was named executive director of the office of career exploration and success at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. Before then, Jones was the associate director for external relations and information technology for the…

Passings

Dr. Harold R. Weiss ’52

Dr. Harold R. Weiss ’52 died on June 28 at the Greater Baltimore Medical Center. He was 91. Dr. Weiss, son of August Weiss and Verna Weiss, was born in Baltimore. After graduating in 1947 from Polytechnic Institute, he earned a bachelor’s degree in 1950…

90s

Seth Goodman ’99

Seth Goodman ’99 was appointed senior vice president-chief revenue officer at WebBank. He has over 20 years of banking and financial consulting experience and received his MBA from Columbia Business School.

00s

Daniel Powell ’01

Daniel Powell ’01 is the author of "Paper Birds and Other Flying Objects." The book tells the story of Elvira "Ellie" Zak, a 10-year-old origami maker, amateur astronomer and outsider who takes a perilous but incredible journey when nearly everyone in…