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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Kevin M. Bellamy ’84

Kevin M. Bellamy ’84 was named general manager of Value Dry Waterproofing, a basement waterproofing company in the mid-Atlantic region. Bellamy was most recently the general service manager for Limbach Company’s mid-Atlantic branch. Bellamy obtained an…

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…

Passings

William S. “Stew” Cloud ’68

William S. “Stew” Cloud ’68 of Longboat Key, Fla., died on May 12, 2022, at age 83. Before attending UMD, he served in the Army, where he was stationed at Fort Belvoir, Va., and received an honorable discharge. While at the university he met his wife of…

60s

Robert Pence ’67

Former U.S. Ambassador to Finland Robert Pence ’67 was appointed to George Mason University’s board of visitors by Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin.

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Alesia Cain ’89

Alesia Cain ’89 was elected vice president of communications by the Conference of Minority Transportation Officials’ New York chapter. She is solutions and market development director of Umo.

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James “Jace” Stirling ’91

James “Jace” Stirling ’91 was named regional sales manager of the Southeast region of Embrace Home Loans, a national mortgage lender. He began his career as a loan officer, then spent a decade with Wells Fargo, where he served as the general manager of a…

Passings

Franklin Dabney Eastham IV ’73

Franklin Dabney Eastham IV ’73 of Westminster, Md., died on June 2, 2022, at Bethania Care Home. He was 85. A North Carolina native, Eastham was an Eagle Scout, served in the Air Force and was a devoted member of Stone Chapel United Methodist Church. He…

10s

Donna Blackman MBA ’10

Donna Blackman MBA ’10 was promoted to chief financial officer of Stride, a provider of innovative, high-quality and tech-enabled education solutions. Blackman served as the company’s chief accounting officer and treasurer for two years, and before then…