Spring 2021

Campus Life

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Features

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In the Shadow of Climate Change and Overfishing, a UMD Researcher Finds Answers for Today’s Oceans in the Centuries-old Bones of a North Atlantic Fish.

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Acclaimed Theater Designer Takes Lead Role in Reimagining Live Performance

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Class Notes

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90s

Dr. Corey Booker ’99

Dr. Corey Booker ’99 joined the board of directors at Oklahoma City’s Mammoth Energy Services. He is the founder and CEO at OnPulse, a health care management services company. Booker practiced medicine as a maternal fetal specialist at Duke University…

Passings

Donald C. Mack ’54

Donald C. Mack ’54 of Annapolis, Md., died on Jan. 22. He was born in Philadelphia and grew up in Baltimore. He graduated from Baltimore City College and UMD, where he was a member of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity. He served in the U.S. Air Force and…

90s

Claudia Hughes ’90

Claudia Hughes ’90 is now senior vice president and chief sales officer of Systemax.

00s

Chryl Laird ’05

Chryl Laird ’05 was named the Marvin H. Green Jr. Assistant Professor of Government at Bowdoin College in Maine. A professor at Bowdoin since 2017, Laird studies American politics with a specialization in race and ethnic politics and political psychology.…

Passings

Andros A. Nicolaides M.A. ’70

Andros A. Nicolaides M.A. ’70, former ambassador of Cyprus to the U.S., died on Feb. 4 at age 83 in its capital of Nicosia. Born on Aug. 20, 1938, in Galata, Nicolaides studied at the School of Journalism in London, George Washington University and UMD.…

Passings

David L. Bamford ’51

David L. Bamford ’51 of Vienna, Va., died on Jan. 1 at age 93. He grew up in Verona, N.J., and served in the U.S. Navy in World War II. After graduating from UMD, he was in the lumber business for nearly 50 years. When he retired, he enjoyed playing golf…

10s

Audrey Farley Ph.D. ’17

Audrey Farley Ph.D. ’17 is the author of “The Unfit Heiress: The Tragic Life and Scandalous Sterilization of Ann Cooper Hewitt.” The book, out from Grand Central Publishing, tells the story of a 1930s millionairess whose mother had her declared…

Passings

Carol C. Thompson ’71

Carol C. Thompson ’71 died on March 21 at age 79 in Annapolis, Md., following a battle with Parkinson’s disease for 23 years. Thompson was a loved local philanthropist and founder of the Community Foundation of Anne Arundel County. She was raised in…