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Fall 2023

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Rewriting the Script

Popular Football Uniform Returns Full-Time This Fall

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Underexposed

Can You Make Sense of This Horseplay?

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Lessons in Flavoring

Food Scientist Melds Chemistry, Culinary Passion at McCormick

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Brush With Greatness

Former Cornerback Tackles Subjects’ Essences on Canvas

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Cheers to Safe Bars

Alum Serves Up Resources to Improve Health, Equity of Hospitality Industry

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The Sweetest Connection

From College Park to the Caribbean, Sugar Hill Sisterhood Celebrates 50th Gathering

 Post-Grad fans watch as Mighty Sound of Maryland marches by

Alumni Association News

Meet the New Members; 3 Reasons to Return for UMD Homecoming

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Roads to Recovery

In rural Maryland, a new “been-there-done- that” approach to the opioid crisis offers hope on four wheels.

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All Hail David Do

Alum named NYC taxi commissioner navigates ridesharing’s rise, drivers’ economic woes—and plenty of midtown traffic.

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‘Get Listening, Kids’

How do you track 75 years of college radio at Maryland? Decades of deejays replay history, hijinks and the music that made WMUC.

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Burning Question for Babies’ Health

UMD Leads National Study on Long-Term Effects of Wildfires

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Building AI You Can Trust

Researcher Heading New $20M NSF-Backed Institute Says Systems Should Support Societal Good

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An Ally for Access

Palm-sized Robot Navigates Touchscreens for Visually Impaired Users

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Preschool Director Explains How to Turn Tots’ Chatter Into Conversation

Ask an Expert: Advice for Real Life

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Better Together

We’ll Give Up a Lot to Share Experiences With Loved Ones, Study Shows

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Gimme (Green) Shelter

UMD-Grown, Plant-Packed Bus Shelters Debut Near Campus

Class Notes

News on Friends and Classmates

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Passings

Thomas Edge Jacobs M.S. ’82

Thomas Edge Jacobs M.S. ’82 of West Lebanon, N.H., died on May 20, 2023, a day and time of his choice after living with metastatic colon cancer for five years. He was 76. Jacobs grew up in the Baltimore neighborhood of Govans and graduated at the top of…

Passings

Robert Haas Jr. ’52

Robert Haas Jr. ’52, a longtime Beltsville, Md., resident, died on May 20, 2023, at age 100. Haas was a Pennsylvania native who served as a chief warrant officer in the army during WWII. Through the GI Bill, he received an accounting degree from UMD,…

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Aaron Ghais ’89

Aaron Ghais ’89, an attorney with Shulman Rogers in Potomac, Md., was named to Best Lawyers 2024, a recognition based on peer review that he also earned last year. He practices in the areas of corporate law and mergers and acquisitions law.

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Michael Medick ’83

Michael Medick ’83 joined architecture firm Lessard Design as principal of land planning, single family and townhomes. He is a registered architect and urban planner whose notable works include the planning and architecture for Uptown Memphis, the Gulch,…

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Dr.

In November, the University of Massachusetts Press will publish the new book by Dr. Scott Kamen’s M.A. ’11, “From Union Halls to the Suburbs: Americans for Democratic Action and the Transformation of Postwar Liberalism,” on the most prominent liberal…
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Passings

Stephanie Damadio ’72

Stephanie Damadio ’72 died on May 12, 2023, at age 74. She was born in Albuquerque, N.M., and earned a bachelor's degree in anthropology from UMD, a master’s in forensic sciences from the George Washington University and a doctorate in biological…

Passings

Ursula H.K. McAuley M.A. ’78

Ursula H.K. McAuley M.A. ’78 of Odenton, Md., died on June 17, 2022, from congestive heart failure. She was 95 and had lived independently until April 2022, when she broke her kneecap in a fall. Born in Sprendlingen, Germany, Ursula Neubecker grew up…

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Angela Keyser ’86

Angela Keyser ’86 received the American Association of Physicists in Medicine’s Lifetime Achievement Award. She has worked for the organization since 1993 and has served as its executive director since 2004, overseeing its growth, relocation to…