Fall 2022

Campus Life

Da Vinci Drone’s New Twist

UMD Students Help Renaissance Master’s 500 Year-old Design Take Flight

Campus Life

‘Bridging’ an Academic Divide

Faculty and Students Bring Writing Course to D.C. Corrections Facilities

Campus Life

Tell and Show

Guests Curate Driskell Center Exhibit by Sharing Artworks That Moved Them

Campus Life

A New Recipe for Success

As Yahentamitsi Opens, See How Student Dining Has Changed

News

Home on the Range

Donation, Land Purchase Permanently Place Angus Cattle Program on UMD Land

News

illustration of gun with a knot at the end

UMD, GMU Launch Gun Violence Prevention Effort

Collaboration With D.C.-Area Universities to Pursue Evidence-Based Solutions

News

‘A Link to the Past and a Window to the Future’

School of Public Policy’s Dynamic New Building Invites Problem-Solving Discourse

Parting Shot

Out With the Crowd

Fans Pack Baseball Stadium to Cheer on Terps in NCAA Regional Tournament

Features

The Modern Battle for Maryland’s Oysters

Pirates plundered and diseases decimated the Chesapeake’s bounty, but UMD researchers are wielding AI and robotics to save a struggling industry.

Features

Coal Veins

Waves of immigrants have long clashed in Pennsylvania coal country, where a UMD anthropologist is digging into the commonalities between old and new.

Features

A Bucketload of Terp Traditions

The “M Book,” with its 20 don’t-miss Maryland milestones, is back. Join a super-spirited student on her journey to complete them all.

Class Notes

News on Friends and Classmates

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Passings

Richard “Dick” W. Thompson

Richard “Dick” W. Thompson, 84, of Whitehouse, NJ died on Aug. 28, 2022. He played soccer at Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, Md., and at the University of Maryland, where his team won the ACC Championship twice and participated in the first…

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Philip Ravita ’11

Philip Ravita ’11 became an endorsed artist for Aguilar Bass Amplifiers. Ravita has also received an artist endorsement for REMIC Microphones and will release a CD, “City Lights,” in February 2023. He teaches at Mount St. Mary’s University, Prince…

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Julianne A. Oberg ’98

Julianne A. Oberg ’98 was appointed by Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan to serve as a member of the University System of Maryland Board of Regents. Oberg is director of economic development for Calvert County, and previously spent 14 years with the Maryland…

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Adam Cohn ’08

Adam Cohn ’08 joined Valence Surface Technologies as chief financial officer. Most recently, he was treasurer and a corporate officer at Triumph which designs, engineers, manufactures, repairs and overhauls aerospace and defense systems and components. He…

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Hua Jiang Ph.D. ’09

Hua Jiang Ph.D. ’09 was appointed associate dean for academic affairs at Syracuse University’s Newhouse School. Jiang has been a Newhouse faculty member since 2013. She holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Nanjing University.

Passings

Louis Kriser M.A. ’71

Louis Kriser M.A. ’71 died on July 25, 2022, at age 95 at Falcons Landing Military Retirement Community in Potomac Falls, Va. He graduated from Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn, N.Y. and enrolled in the Navy V-5 (Aviation) program. He became a Flying…

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David B. Levy MLS ’94

David B. Levy MLS ’94 is the author of “Gluskin Family History” and lectures on the intersection of library studies and Jewish ethics.

Passings

Laura Beth Covarrubias ’07

Laura Beth Covarrubias ’07 of Glenmont, N.Y., died on June 8, 2022, as a result of a motorcycle accident. Born in Olney, Md., she moved to Wisconsin after graduating from the University of Maryland. She received a master’s degree from the University of…