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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Thomas A. Bradley ’80

Thomas A. Bradley ’80 was promoted from interim CEO to CEO of Argo Group International Holdings, an underwriter of specialty insurance products. He had previously served as Argo’s chairman since 2020 and as chief financial officer and executive vice…

Passings

Jared Patrick Melrath ’00

Jared Patrick Melrath ’00, 44, of Catonsville, Md., died on July 12, 2022. Jared was born on Nov. 28, 1977 in Wilmington, Del. He graduated from North East High School and earned his graduate degree from the University of Utah. He taught middle and high…

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Dr. Melissa Dooley ’01

Dr. Melissa Dooley ’01 assumed command of the 60th Medical Group and the Sacramento Directorship at the Air Force’s largest hospital, David Grant Medical Center at Travis Air Force Base in California. Dooley earned an M.D. from the Uniformed Services…

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Karen Myers ’85

Karen Myers ’85, senior contracts business partner in the Finance Directorate at the Institute for Defense Analyses’ Alexandria, Va., headquarters, was presented with the W. Y. Smith Award in recognition of her team’s contributions to the nonprofit. She…

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Michelle Singletary ’84

Michelle Singletary ’84 will receive a lifetime achievement from the 2022 Gerald Loeb Awards for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism, sponsored by the G. and R. Loeb Foundation Inc. and University of California, Los Angeles Anderson School of…

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Karen J. Baker ’90

Karen J. Baker ’90 was named chief of the Office of Renewable Energy Programs in the Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management. Baker went to BOEM from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, where she served as the regional program’s…

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Dave Wacyk M.M. ’12, DMA ’19

Dave Wacyk M.M. ’12, DMA ’19 is the new director of instrumental ensembles and assistant teaching professor of music at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. He was previously director of instrumental music at Saint Martin’s University in Lacey,…

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Maggie Hallbach MBA ’96

Maggie Hallbach MBA ’96 was named to the board of directors of the Northern Virginia Technology Council. She is senior vice president for Verizon Public Sector. Hallbach holds a bachelor’s degree from Brown University.