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Campus Life

A Campus Legacy, by Design

May 21, 2021

Features

Facing the Offensive Line

May 19, 2021

Features

The Almighty Cod

May 19, 2021

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.

Features

Terps, as Seen on TV!

May 19, 2021

Spring 2021

This Sucks: How Your Robovac Could Spy on You

May 19, 2021

Campus Life

$9M Gift Establishes Institute for Performance and Technology in the Arts

May 19, 2021

Campus Life

Ewe-MD’s Lamb Lessons

May 19, 2021

Spring 2021

Fighting Forgetting

May 19, 2021

Spring 2021

Stage Whisperer

May 19, 2021

Acclaimed Theater Designer Takes Lead Role in Reimagining Live Performance

Spring 2021

Apple Appeal

May 19, 2021

Class Act

Flipping Out for 75 Years

May 19, 2021

Spring 2021

UMCP, UMB Team Up to Climb in National Research Ranking

May 19, 2021

Spring 2021

Researchers’ Aim: One Vaccine for Many Viruses

May 19, 2021

Campus Life

Pines of the Times

May 19, 2021

Spring 2021

‘It’s Not an Error, It’s a Language’

May 19, 2021

Class Act

Pandemic Fighter’s Priorities

May 19, 2021

Class Notes

News on Friends and Classmates

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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…

90s

Yuan Xu Ph.D. ’93

Yuan Xu Ph.D. ’93 was appointed an independent director of Akero Therapeutics, a cardio-metabolic biotechnology company. Xu most recently served as a board member and chief executive officer for Legend Biotech. Xu received a B.S. in biochemistry from…

Passings

Donald J. Gonsalves ’53

Donald J. Gonsalves ’53 of South Windsor, Conn., died on Jan. 3. He was 89. He was born in Hyattsville, Md., and entered the Air Force upon graduating from UMD in 1953. He was stationed at Hanscom AFB in Massachusetts. Upon his discharge, he worked for a…

00s

Diana Bramble ’04

Diana Bramble ’04 was hired as superintendent of the Cowpens National Battlefield and Kings Mountain National Military Park. She was previously chief of maintenance at National Capital Parks-East, spanning 8,000 acres, including historic homes, commuter…

Passings

Eleanor I. Smith M.Ed. ’60

Eleanor I. Smith M.Ed. ’60 of Houston died at age 84 on Dec. 27. She earned a bachelor’s degree in home economics from the University of Georgia in 1957 and a master’s degree in adult education from UMD. Smith taught home economics at Houston schools. She…

00s

Lydia Hu ’06

Lydia Hu ’06 joined Fox Business Network as a New York-based correspondent. Hu came from NY1, where she was a general assignment reporter and enterprise storyteller. Most recently, she covered the plight of New York City hospitals and their workers…

Passings

Retired Air Force Maj. Gen. DeWitt Richard Searles ’49

Retired Air Force Maj. Gen. DeWitt Richard Searles ’49, a fighter pilot in World War II and Vietnam, died at his Virginia home on Feb. 27 at the age of 100. Searles was born in Birmingham, Ala., and graduated from the Bolles School, a military academy in…

10s

Hosanna “Hosea” Tran ’15

Hosanna “Hosea” Tran ’15 is now senior accountant at UHY LLP, a national CPA firm. Tran received a bachelor’s degree in accounting and finance and is a licensed CPA in the state of Virginia.