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Fall 2023

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Explorations

September 14, 2023
Invention Offers Trickle of Hope for Climate-Driven Crisis
Camden Yards

Explorations

September 14, 2023
How MLB Stadiums Scored With Fans by Adding Shopping, Theme Park Elements
five Team USA lacrosse players pose with gold medals

Campus Life

September 14, 2023
5 Terps Win Gold in Lacrosse Championship; Shortstop Becomes UMD’s Highest MLB Draft Pick
Taulia Tagovailoa

Campus Life

September 14, 2023
After Setting Nearly Every Terps Passing Mark, Star Quarterback ‘Not Done Yet’
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Campus Life

September 14, 2023
Libraries Exhibit Looks at Century of Student Activism
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Campus Life

September 14, 2023
75 Years After Its Groundbreaking, Revived UMD Wind Tunnel Revs Up
student creates "learn-to-dance" game

Campus Life

September 14, 2023
Using Emerging Tech, Students Create Innovative Art, Interactive Games in Incubator Program
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Campus Life

September 14, 2023
Gardens Host Pollen-Fueled Rager, Earning National Recognition
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Campus Life

September 14, 2023
News Anchor Gayle King ’76 Recalls Life, Love and Ledo on First Return to Campus
electric Shuttle-UM bus at charging station

News

September 14, 2023
$40M Grant to Fund Climate-Friendly Shuttle-UM Buses
Rendering of new basketball performance center

News

September 14, 2023
Facility Will House Practice Court, Locker Rooms, Strength and Conditioning Areas, and More

Class Notes

News on Friends and Classmates

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00s

Nathan Leslie M.F.A. ’00

Apprentice House (Loyola University Maryland) published the 12th book of fiction by Nathan Leslie M.F.A. ’00, the short story collection “A Fly in the Ointment.” It paints a portrait of 21st-century America in a steady state of decline. He won the 2019…

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…

10s

John Devlin M.M. ’11, D.M.A. ’15

John Devlin M.M. ’11, D.M.A. ’15 received a 2023 Georg Solti Career Assistance Award, given to 22 young conductors by the Solti Foundation U.S. His contract as music director of the Wheeling (Va.) Symphony has been renewed for four years, and he was…
Mae Benham Hutchinson Kinsman headshot

Passings

Mae Benham Hutchinson Kinsman ’46

Mae Benham Hutchinson Kinsman ’46 died July 9, 2023, in Norfolk, Va., at age 100. She graduated from Westfield High School in New Jersey, Green Mountain College in Virginia and UMD, where she majored in home economics and met her future husband, James…

Passings

Suzanne Margaret Peloquin Bready ’80

Suzanne Margaret Peloquin Bready ’80 of Charles Town, W.V., died on June 7, 2023, from complications of Parkinson's disease. She was 70. The eldest of six children, Bready was born in Silver Spring, Md., and spent her formative years on Oliver Street in…

90s

Laura Woods Ellsworth ’93

Laura Woods Ellsworth ’93 was promoted to assistant vice president for curriculum, programs, and regulation at Prince George's Community College. Ellsworth previously served as associate dean for its Professional Studies and Community Education Division,…

80s

Barry Lowenthal ’87

Barry Lowenthal ’87 was appointed president of Inuvo, provider of the first generative artificial intelligence solution made specifically for brands and agencies. He was previously CEO of Media Kitchen. He has an MBA in marketing from Baruch College.

Passings

Cecelia “Gail” Coffin Ed.D. ’93

Cecelia “Gail” Coffin Ed.D. ’93 died on July 2, 2023, at age 80. Coffin was born in California, Pa., and graduated from Clinton Dale High School, Wayne State University, where she earned undergraduate and master’s degrees, and the University of Maryland.…