Fall 2023

water from air absorbing into black cube

Explorations

September 14, 2023

Invention Offers Trickle of Hope for Climate-Driven Crisis

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

Campus Life

September 14, 2023

After Setting Nearly Every Terps Passing Mark, Star Quarterback ‘Not Done Yet’

Campus Life

September 14, 2023

Libraries Exhibit Looks at Century of Student Activism

Campus Life

September 14, 2023

75 Years After Its Groundbreaking, Revived UMD Wind Tunnel Revs Up

Campus Life

September 14, 2023

Using Emerging Tech, Students Create Innovative Art, Interactive Games in Incubator Program

Campus Life

September 14, 2023

Gardens Host Pollen-Fueled Rager, Earning National Recognition

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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90s

Ricardo Jackman

Ricardo Jackman ’95 was hired as a partner at the Washington, D.C., office of Morris, Manning & Martin, where he chairs the new sports and entertainment practice. Most recently, Jackman served as co-chair of Ballard Spahr’s sports and entertainment…

Passings

Lynald “Sils” E. Silsbee Ph.D. ’81

Lynald “Sils” E. Silsbee Ph.D. ’81 of Wescosville, Pa., died on May 19, 2023, at Lehigh Valley Hospital-Cedar Crest. He was 80. He was born in 1942 in Williamsport, and earned his bachelor's and master's degrees at Bloomsburg University, and eventually…

Passings

Elayne Nord Mangad Ph.D. ’84

Elayne Nord Mangad Ph.D. ’84 died on May 19, 2023, in North Miami Beach, Fla., at the age of 88. Born and raised in Pittsburgh, Mangad graduated from Peabody High School and earned a B.S. from Carnegie Tech. After graduation, she traveled to Israel, where…

Passings

Glenn Grant ’71

Glenn Grant ’71 of Blackwood, N.J., died on May 18, 2023, at age 74. Grant took pride in being an educator, spending the entirety of his career as a history teacher at Williamstown High School. He enjoyed the beach, basketball and tending to his lawn.…

20s

Caroline Drogin M.L.S. ’2

Caroline Drogin M.L.S. ’20 was named the islands engagement manager at The Trustees of Reservations for Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket. She most recently worked as a children’s librarian on Martha’s Vineyard.

Passings

Allen Lee Dawson ’07, M.S. ’10

Allen Lee Dawson ’07, M.S. ’10 of Mt. Airy, Md., died on June 9, 2023, at the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center from injuries received nine days earlier. He was 47. Born in Westminster, he was the son of the late Marshall Ellsworth Dawson and…

20s

Jacob Farmer ’21

Jacob Farmer ’21, founder and CEO of Farmer Cleaning, a Black-owned cleaning business, was named to the National Small Business Association Leadership Council.

Passings

George J. Lavery M.A. ’70

George J. Lavery M.A. ’70 died on July 18, 2023, at his home in Shrewsbury, Pa. He was 79. Lavery was a graduate of Geneseo (N.Y.) Central School and the State University of New York Geneseo. He went on to earn a master's degree from the University of…