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Fall 2024

Campus Life Boxers in ring

Book Throws Jab at Art of Black Boxers

Researcher Reveals How Stereotypes Were Reinforced

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Sustainable Developments

Grant Program Greens Campus

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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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Farm to Table, UMD Style

Terp Farm Celebrates 10 Years of Growing Fresh Produce for Campus

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From Ashes to Awe

Students and Faculty Mark 20 Years of Excavating and Documenting Little-Known Ruins Near Pompeii

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Testudo on Tap

UMD Joins With Baltimore Brewery Co-founded by Alum to Offer New Beer

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2 Terps Take Gold

Triple Jumper, Basketball Player Earn Top Honors in Paris Olympics

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‘Connie’ Breaks a Story: Her Own

Trailblazing journalist Connie Chung ’69 battled misogyny and racism to reach the pinnacle of TV news. In a new self-titled memoir, she shares what it took to get there.

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10 in 10

From titles to revenue to academics, Maryland scored by joining the Big Ten Conference. Here are 10 ways it’s been a B1G decade.

Class Notes

News on Friends and Classmates

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Andrew Sears

90s

Andrew Sears Ph.D. ’93

Andrew Sears Ph.D. ’93 was appointed provost and senior vice president at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He was most recently professor and dean of the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University, and before that held similar roles at Penn…
Raphael Haran Mingo

Passings

Raphael Haran Mingo ’00

Raphael Haran Mingo ’00 died on May 7, 2024, at the age of 48 at Washington Hospital Center. He graduated from Laurel High School and majored in engineering at UMD, where he interned at Verizon, the company where he spent his career, eventually becoming…

80s

Howard W. Kingsley ’83

Howard W. Kingsley ’83 joined Tannenbaum Helpern as a partner Litigation and Dispute Resolution practice. He has extensive expertise in New York and federal courts in real estate, commercial, and construction litigation involving mortgage foreclosures,…

Passings

George Theodore Bachmann Jr. ’52, M.A. ’60

George Theodore Bachmann Jr. ’52, M.A. ’60 died on May 27, 2024, at his home in Westminster, Maryland. He was 94. Bachmann served in the Army during the Korean War but since he spoke French was sent to France, where he was a lieutenant and supply clerk.…
Michael David Tate

Passings

Michael David Tate ’61

Michael David Tate ’61 died in his Leesburg, Virginia, home on June 15, 2024. He was 84. As the son of an army officer, Tate grew up in Louisiana, Georgia, North Carolina, Colorado, Florida, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Kansas and Japan. He…
Ronald Alan Mummert

Passings

Ronald Alan Mummert ’63

Ronald Alan Mummert ’63 died at his Topeka, Kansas, home on June 1, 2024. He was 83. Mummert graduated from Bladensburg High School and UMD, then served in the U.S. Army, during which time he graduated from the Presidio of Monterey's Defense Language…
Ashok Veeraraghavan

00s

Ashok Veeraraghavan M.S. ’04, Ph.D. ’08

Ashok Veeraraghavan M.S. ’04, Ph.D. ’08, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Rice University, was awarded the Edith and Peter O’Donnell Award in Engineering from the Texas Academy of Medicine, Engineering, Science and Technology, one of…
Marvalee Bascus Leslie

00s

Marvalee Bascus Leslie ’03

Marvalee Bascus Leslie ’03 joined the board of trustees of Brooklyn Children’s Museum. She is vice president of loyalty marketing membership activation at American Express in the U.S. Consumer Services Business.