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Fall 2025

Fall 2025 closeup of a mosquito

Targeting the World’s Most Bloodthirsty Killer

UMD scientists built a fungus that wipes out mosquitoes. With African partners, they hope to save millions of lives.

 Post-Grad Shawn Callahan poses in office

For Marines’ Historian, It’s Semper FYI on Corps Lore

Grad Leads Book Publication to Mark 250th Birthday

 Post-Grad Samira Jackson and Edy Lawson-Jackson pose

Teaming Up to Tackle Barriers

Alumna Is Half of NFL’s First Mother-Daughter Agent Duo

 Post-Grad one student on bike pulls three others on roller skates, with one student running next to them

Terps on a Roll

An ‘Underexposed’ Photo From UMD History

 Post-Grad Chun-Hsi Wong poses at museum

A Life at the Museum

Alum Keeps Wildly Popular Smithsonian Venue Humming

 Post-Grad illustration of two Terps fans high-fiving

Alumni Association News

With Travel Program, Maryland Ties Extend Around the World; Tailgate Like a Terp

 Features stage in Jack Kay Theatre

A Silver Anniversary for the Gold Standard in Performing Arts

For nearly 25 seasons, The Clarice has celebrated theater, music and dance. Terp takes a photographic tour of the landmark center’s first act.

 Parting Shot bees swarm column

Column, Meet Colony

Honey Bees Settle Onto Reckord Armory

 Explorations forest fire illustration

Pulling a Global Fire Alarm

UMD’s Unique Forest-Monitoring Capabilities Revealed an Alarming Wildfire Spike

 Explorations cricket in spaghetti and meatballs

Surf, Turf—and Chirp?

Entomology Team Delves Into Benefits, Challenges of Eating Insects

 Campus Life group runs along trail

Not Just a Walk in the ‘Park’

Run Club Started by UMD Faculty Members Is Biggest in North America

 Campus Life handwritten letters with portraits of George Mason and George Washington

A New Page in U.S. History

Student Finds Little-Known Correspondence Between George Mason and George Washington

 Campus Life Jose-Luis Izursa works in aquaponics lab

Veggie Tails

Aquaponics Greenhouse Grows Lettuce and Fish for Education on Sustainable Systems

 Campus Life Jan Plane speaks to students during the CompSciConnect summer camp

Iribe’s $2.85M Gift to Expand Computing Pathways at UMD

Donation Launches University of Maryland Computing Catalyst

 Campus Life Brat Pack in academic regalia walk on Frat Row in "St. Elmo's Fire" movie

When the Brat Pack Lit Up College Park

At 40th Anniversary of ‘St. Elmo’s Fire,’ Alums Remember Filming on Frat Row

 Campus Life exterior of Barry P. Gossett Basketball Performance Center

New Facility Gives Assist to Terp Hoops

Men’s, Women’s Teams Celebrate Opening of Barry P. Gossett Basketball
Performance Center

 Campus Life Buzz Williams dribbles basketball, with red, white and gold background

Buzzwords With Buzz

Get to Know New Men’s Basketball Head Coach

 News construction worker works on new stoplight

Ready, Set, Glow

Campus Core Gets First Traffic Signal

 News Jim Smith and Darryll J. Pines smile at introduction event

UMD Now Home of the Braves’ Former Exec

Smith Brings Leadership and Business Experience to Build on Maryland Athletics’ Success

Class Notes

News on Friends and Classmates

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Passings

Ernest “Chuck” Torain Sr.

Ernest “Chuck” Torain Sr., of Harrisburg, Pa., died on July 31, 2025, at age 80. He was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on May 31, 1945. He was a nationally renowned high school football player at Baltimore Polytechnic Institute and a standout running back…
"As We Bloom: Wisdom From Extraordinary Everyday Women And Gender Nonconforming People" book cover

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Mia Bolton ’10

“As We Bloom: Wisdom From Extraordinary Everyday Women And Gender Nonconforming People,” (Indigo River Publishing), the debut book by Mia Bolton ’10, is a memoir of the author’s four-month, 10,000-mile journey across America in a minivan to interview…

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Jeff Wallace MBA ’08

Jeff Wallace MBA ’08 became chief financial officer of Space Needle + Chihuly Garden and Glass in Seattle. He most recently served as vice president of U.S. retail finance at Starbucks.

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Caroline Solomon Ph.D. ’06

Caroline Solomon Ph.D. ’06 was named president of Rochester Institute of Technology’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf and vice president of the university. She was previously dean of faculty at Gallaudet University. She earned a bachelor’s…

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Jigar Shah MBA ’01

Jigar Shah MBA ’01, former director of the U.S. Department of Energy Loan Programs Office, joined the board of directors at the Center for Sustainable Energy, a national nonprofit focused on clean transportation and distributed energy resources. A clean…

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Gusui Wu Ph.D. ’93

Gusui Wu Ph.D. ’93 joined biotechnology company GeneNeer as senior scientific adviser, following his retirement as global head of seeds research at Syngenta.  

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Dontá L. Wilson MBA ’05

Dontá L. Wilson MBA ’05 was elected chair of the University of North Carolina, Charlotte’s board of trustees. Wilson is chief consumer and small business banking officer at Truist Financial Corporation. He holds a bachelor’s degree in management from UNC…
"Transatlantic Disbelonging: Unruliness, Pleasure, and Play in Nigerian Diasporic Women’s Art" book cover

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Bimbola Akinbola Ph.D. ‘18

Bimbola Akinbola Ph.D. ‘18 has written the new book “Transatlantic Disbelonging: Unruliness, Pleasure, and Play in Nigerian Diasporic Women’s Art” (Duke University Press). It redirects the focus in diaspora studies from questions of loss and longing to…