Fall 2022

Campus Life

Talk About an Impressive Season

Men’s Lacrosse Team Captures NCAA Title—and We’ve Got the Final Words (and Tweets) on It

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

Photo

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…

Passings

Mary Louise Green ’90

Mary Louise Green ’90 of Caswell Beach, N.C,, died on July 22, 2022,at age 79. She grew up in Denton, Md., and she and her husband, Gene, raised their family in Laurel, Md., then moved to Severn, Md., and to Caswell Beach in 2012. She served on the…

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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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Matthew W. Garbark ’07

Matthew W. Garbark ’07 was named the first infrastructure czar of Baltimore by Mayor Brandon M. Scott. Garbark has served as the deputy director for the Baltimore City Department of Public Works since 2019. He has an MBA from the University of Maryland…

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Mona Mack Melampy ’78

Mona Mack Melampy ’78 published her first book, “Goodwill: The Around-the World Flight of Cong. Peter F. Mack Jr.” In it, she writes about her father, a young congressman from rural Illinois who solo-piloted a single-engine airplane—which he borrowed from…

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Molly Morris ’13

Molly Morris ’13 released her debut novel, “This is Not the End.” Ever since the sudden deaths of his parents, 17-year-old Hugh has developed a serious preoccupation with endings–and things get a little complicated when he meets Olivia Moon, a high-school…

Passings

George Lieberman M.S. ’72

George Lieberman M.S. ’72 died at his Rockville, Md., home on June 25, 2022. He was 85 years old. His family fled from Austria when he was an infant, in 1937, and settled in Kew Gardens, N.Y. He earned a B.S. from Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, a…

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Brandon “Randy” Belote ’74

Brandon “Randy” Belote ’74 was named a member of the Columbia State Foundation Board. He is the president and CEO of Flat Rock Farms in Lewisburg, a special destination events venue created with family after his retirement as corporate vice president from…