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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.

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Terps on a Roll

An ‘Underexposed’ Photo From UMD History

 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 Chun-Hsi Wong poses at museum

A Life at the Museum

Alum Keeps Wildly Popular Smithsonian Venue Humming

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Column, Meet Colony

Honey Bees Settle Onto Reckord Armory

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Alumni Association News

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

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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.

 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

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Pulling a Global Fire Alarm

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

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Surf, Turf—and Chirp?

Entomology Team Delves Into Benefits, Challenges of Eating Insects

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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

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Career Investment

Buffett Scholar Reflects on Role Model’s Retirement

 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

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New Facility Gives Assist to Terp Hoops

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

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Buzzwords With Buzz

Get to Know New Men’s Basketball Head Coach

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Ready, Set, Glow

Campus Core Gets First Traffic Signal

Class Notes

News on Friends and Classmates

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Bill Proctor ’74

Bill Proctor ’74 is president and CEO of Bill Proctor & Associates, a new Bloomfield Hills, Mich., firm providing investigative and legal support services. He is an award-winning journalist with a career spanning four decades in electronic media. He…
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Chelsea Brown M.P.M. ’21

Chelsea Brown M.P.M. ’21, principal and lead strategist at the Black Mill, was named to The Maryland Daily Record’s 2025 Power 100 List, recognizing the 100 men and women who are shaping the state’s businesses, nonprofits, law firms and other key…

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…

Passings

Matthew Joseph McCormack MBA ’20

Matthew Joseph McCormack MBA ’20 of Alexandria, Va., died on Aug. 19, 2025, at age 51. He grew up there and graduated from Bishop Ireton High School and the College of William & Mary, where he majored in art history and was a Division I swimmer,…
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James A. Chance ’79

James A. Chance ’79 was awarded the Federal Magistrate Judges Association’s 2025 Founders Award, presented to a person who has made valuable and lasting contributions to the magistrate judges system of the U.S. courts. He has served as senior judicial…

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Sue Baughman MLS ’81

Sue Baughman MLS ’81 was named to the board of directors of the Given Tufts Foundation, which supports the Given Memorial Library and Tufts Archives in Pinehurst, N.C. 
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Passings

Bonnie Lean Solomon ’68

Bonnie Lean Solomon ’68 of Tampa, Fla., died on May 31, 2025, at age 79. A native of Baltimore, she earned her bachelor's degree in elementary education at UMD. During her time there, she met and married her husband of 53 years, Dr. David Solomon. The…
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Passings

Florence Audrey (Knott) Graf ’61

Florence Audrey (Knott) Graf ’61 died on Aug. 29, 2025, at her Westminster, Md., home. She was 86. Born in Washington D.C., she majored in education at UMD, where she met her future husband, Charles "Chuck" Richard Graf Sr. They wed in 1960, and Graf…