Fall 2024
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Welcome to the Hotel Influenza
A groundbreaking UMD researcher investigating how respiratory infections spread asks volunteers to check in—and get sick for science.
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Lab Awarded Record-Setting Research Contract of Up to $500M
Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence and Security Addresses National Challenges With a Human-Centered Lens
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Grant Program Greens Campus
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Book Throws Jab at Art of Black Boxers
Researcher Reveals How Stereotypes Were Reinforced
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Women’s, Nonbinary Esports Teams Change the Game in Conference Competitions
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Physicist Who Helped Send Mirrors to Moon on Apollo 11 Prepares to Launch an Improved Model
![Atmospheric and oceanic science Associate Professor Tim Canty, UMD President Darryll J. Pines and College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences Dean Amitabh Varshney discuss the technology behind a newly installed water level sensor](https://umd-homecoming.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/images/terp/Hydronet_ClimateResilienceNetwork_06052024_JC_0257.jpg?w=960&h=500&auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=crop&dm=1733386405&s=0a6dd5d02e7986bdfdc41a6e27040bd6)
UMD Casts HydroNet to Predict, Prepare for Floods
Researchers, Local Leaders to Track Real-time Data in State’s Waterfront Communities
![blue radiation emerges from the UMD reactor](https://umd-homecoming.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/images/terp/Feature_ArtworkandThumbnail-18_2024-09-03-175830_itxm.jpg?w=960&h=500&auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=crop&dm=1733386290&s=16681b60543123f123217e7ee2024367)
Glowing ‘Gem of the University’
Maryland’s Little-Known Nuclear Reactor Observes a Half-Century of Fission
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How to Zap Your Phone-Charging Phobias
Ask the Expert: Advice for Real Life
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An Insider’s Look at a Prison’s Imprint
Criminologist, Once Convicted, Studies Ripple Effects of Legal System Involvement
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From Sidewalks to Streetlights, Common Features Shown in Google’s Tech Linked to Crash Frequency
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System Could Derail Video Fakes, Deep or Shallow
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Tailgates, Touchdowns and Togetherness
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What Happens in Vegas (Is Thanks to a Terp)
Alum Brings Big Concerts to Sin City
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Behind Baltimore’s Closed Doors
Alumna Investigates the Small Histories in Charm City’s Houses
Class Notes
News on Friends and Classmates
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00s
Ashok Veeraraghavan M.S. ’04, Ph.D. ’08
80s
Sanjoy Paul Ph.D. ’88
![Sheila A. Rovelstad](https://umd-homecoming.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/images/terp/Rovelstad-Sheila_web.jpg?w=192&h=192&auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=crop&dm=1733386554&s=858b6f7a0f293258b3b3fa409d83fbb8)
Passings
Sheila A. Rovelstad ’72
![Ronald Rowe Jr.](https://umd-homecoming.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/images/terp/Rowe-R_web.jpg?w=200&h=250&auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=crop&dm=1733386554&s=23e7116580d15679a010c882589d61fa)
90s
Ronald Rowe Jr. ’94
![Rose Mince](https://umd-homecoming.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/images/terp/Mince-R_web.jpg?w=200&h=250&auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=crop&dm=1733386499&s=ec512facbcb5fc2e3be53fb12a873314)
80s
Rose Mince ’83, Ph.D. ’94
Passings
Arnold Rheingold Ph.D. ’70
![Chris Bakewell](https://umd-homecoming.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/images/terp/Bakewell-W.C._web.jpg?w=200&h=250&auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=crop&dm=1733386167&s=646f8bed91674bad495e7b4f478b104b)
90s
Chris Bakewell MBA ’93
10s
Christine Mahan Ph.D. ’10