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Maryland Today

Spring 2022

Contemporary photo of the Iribe Center with archival photo of circle drive by Ritchie

Features

May 31, 2022
College Park is hopping and humming with new businesses, housing and other perks. See for yourself.
Bernice Sandler collage

Features

May 26, 2022
Fifty years after the law’s passage, the legacy of Bernice Sandler Ed.D. ’69 endures through the millions of girls and women whose lives she’s changed.
Sacoby Wilson

Features

May 26, 2022
Trash and toxic substances are often dumped where poor people and communities of color live. Public health researcher Sacoby Wilson is empowering them to fight for cleaner, safer conditions.
Career networking illustration

Post-Grad

May 26, 2022
Career Week in Review, An Event With Good Tastes and Terps Supporting Terps
Sheet music

Post-Grad

May 26, 2022
See How University Archives Restored a Rare Piece of Maryland’s Musical History
Watering can illustration

Explorations

May 26, 2022
What’s the Smallest Change People Can Make to Have the Biggest Positive Impact on Society?
Cat cafe

Post-Grad

May 26, 2022
Alum’s Popular ‘Cat Cafés’ in D.C., Hollywood Draw Celebrities While Saving Kitties
Three Mokhtarzada brothers

Post-Grad

May 26, 2022
Entrepreneurial Terps Sell Financial Planning App for $1.275B
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Post-Grad

May 26, 2022
Costume Designer Makes Stars Shine on Small and Big Screens
students stand in circle around candles spelling out "STOP WAR" on McKeldin Mall. One student holds a "Stop Putin" sign

Parting Shot

May 26, 2022
With Tears, Hugs and Anger, International Crowd Condemns Invasion
Collage of Jared Bernhardt playing lacrosse, football

Campus Life

May 26, 2022
Former Lacrosse Star Adds Football Title to Superb Collegiate Career
Gymnast Audrey Barber

Campus Life

May 26, 2022
Gymnast Vaults to Top of Maryland Leaderboard; Women Finish in Sweet 16
James Webb Space Telescope

Explorations

May 26, 2022
Hubble’s Giant Successor Has Plenty of Connections to UMD
Illustration of person dropped mask behind them as they walk, with sanitizer and glove on the ground behind them

Explorations

May 26, 2022
Study Finds Fatigue With Mobility Restrictions Sets in Quickly
Psyche Williams-Forson portrait

Explorations

May 26, 2022
In New Book, Professor Chews Over the Consequences of Food Shaming
Ron Walsworth in lab

Explorations

May 26, 2022
Physicist Translates Quantum Theory Into Medical Devices and Tomorrow’s Tech

Class Notes

News on Friends and Classmates

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Jake Eisenberg in the broadcast booth at baseball game

10s

Jake Eisenberg ’17

Jake Eisenberg ’17 was hired by the New York Mets as their third radio play-by-player on games this season. He was previously the lead play-by-player for the Triple-A Omaha Storm Chasers.
Alex Wu headshot

10s

Alex Wu MBA ’13

Alex Wu MBA ’13 was appointed vice president of digital transformation and chief information officer for Keolis North America. Most recently, he spent two decades working with the United States federal government serving as the deputy chief information…

Passings

Donald F. Smith Ed.D. ’75

Donald F. Smith Ed.D. ’75 of Muncie, Ind., died on Feb. 2, 2022, at the age of 83. Born Aug. 19, 1938, in Fredericktown, Ohio, Smith earned degrees from Wilmington College, Kent State University and UMD. He and wife Melba Kairn lived in Ohio and Maryland…
Deborah Lawrence headshot

70s

Deborah Lawrence ’76

Deborah Lawrence ’76 joined the board of governors of the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, Md. She retired as vice president of government affairs from the Williams Companies, a Tulsa-based energy company, in 2015. Lawrence received a law…
Francis Shushok Jr. headshot

00s

Francis Shushok Jr. Ph.D. ’02

Francis Shushok Jr. Ph.D. ’02 was appointed president of Roanoke College in Salem, Va. He was previously vice president for student affairs at Virginia Tech. Shushok has a bachelor’s degree from Baylor University and an M.A. in higher education and…

00s

Katya Gimbel ’06

Katya Gimbel ’06 is a new board member of Girls on the Run NOVA. Gimbel is an M&A tax managing director at KPMG. She holds an M.S. in taxation from American University.
Robert C. Cooksey headshot

Passings

Robert C. Cooksey Ed.D. ’73

Robert C. Cooksey Ed.D. ’73 of Anderson, Ind., died on Jan. 3, 2022, at age 86. Born in Indianapolis, he was the son of the late R. Nelson and Katherine Keller Cooksey. Cooksey received his bachelor’s degree in industrial education from Ball State…

Passings

Edward R. Ettner, Sr. M.A. ’74

Edward R. Ettner, Sr. M.A. ’74 of Lorton, Va., died on Jan. 26, 2022, at 100 years old. He was born in Manitowoc, Wisc., to Frank and Margaretha Ettner. He received an associate degree from Wisconsin University in 1943; completed studies in applied…