Spring 2023

Post-Grad

June 02, 2023

Alums Share Advice at Terps Under 30, Women’s Leadership Development Conference

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Explorations

June 02, 2023

Maryland Economist’s Studies Fueled Federal Drive to Ban Controversial Employee Contracts

Explorations

June 02, 2023

New Compound Fights Both Fentanyl and Meth in Bloodstream

Explorations

June 02, 2023

REI-Funded Center Promotes Nature-Based Research and Reparation

Explorations

June 02, 2023

Engineers’ Picker-Upper Is Even Quicker

News

June 02, 2023

Future Supreme Court Justice Helped Desegregate UMD

Explorations

June 02, 2023

Ask a Researcher: Advice for Real Life

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Post-Grad

June 02, 2023

Thousands Follow Alums on TikTok, Instagram

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Parting Shot

June 02, 2023

Students Embrace Warmer Weather on McKeldin Mall

Post-Grad

June 02, 2023

Can You Help Us Identify These Terps?

Explorations

June 02, 2023

Researcher Executive-Produced Lauded Documentary

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Post-Grad

June 02, 2023

Alum to Head International Wizard of Oz Club

Sahil Rahman ’12 and Rahul Vinod ’11 pose outside Rasa restaurant

Post-Grad

June 02, 2023

Friends’ Fresh Take on Indian Cuisine Expands Across D.C. Area

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Post-Grad

June 02, 2023

Alum Highlights Black Chefs, Artists at NYC-Based Event Agency

Campus Life

June 02, 2023

New Course Teaches Coping Skills to Stressed-Out Students

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Campus Life

June 02, 2023

Store Offers Free, Gently Used Res Hall Requisites

Class Notes

News on Friends and Classmates

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90s

Nicole Zussman MBA ’94

Nicole Zussman MBA ’94 was named president and chief executive officer of the Appalachian Mountain Club, the nation’s oldest conservation and recreation organization. She was most recently chief people officer for Rute Gilt Groupe.

90s

William F. Tate IV Ph.D. ’95

William F. Tate IV Ph.D. ’95 was named by Forbes magazine as one of 10 Black higher ed CEOs to watch in 2023. He became the first Black president of Louisiana State University in 2021. He previously served as president of the American Educational Research…

Passings

Helene Hatsuno Horimoto Zeug M.S. ’72

Helene Hatsuno Horimoto Zeug M.S. ’72, of Honolulu, died on April 21, 2023, at the age of 82. Born in Wailuku, Maui, Zeug received a B.S. degree in home economics from the University of Hawaii, a master’s degree in family life and human development from…

00s

Kiandra D. Steffy ’09

Kiandra D. Steffy ’09 was named to the Pennsylvania Continuing Legal Education Board, an agency of the state’s Supreme Court. Steffy is senior counsel in Saxton & Stump’s Labor and Employment, Title IX, Investigations and Criminal Defense, Education…

10s

Rachel Koval ’10

Rachel Koval ’10 joined the Peace Corps and will serve as an education volunteer in Costa Rica.

Passings

Karl Freburger M.S. ’79

Karl Freburger M.S. ’79 died in his sleep on May 10, 2023. He was 66 and had been battling a frontotemporal dementia diagnosis for several years. Freburger was born in Oceanside, Calif., and attended high school in Ormond-by-the-Sea, Flal. He graduated…

00s

Cheryl Moore-Thomas Ph.D. ’00

Cheryl Moore-Thomas Ph.D. ’00 was named Loyola University Maryland’s provost and vice president for academic affairs. She had served in this role on an interim basis since July 2021. Previously, she was associate dean of the School of Education, associate…

Passings

Robert E. Weisblut ’65

Robert E. Weisblut ’65, of Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., died on May 1, 2023 at age 82. He was born in Washington, D.C. on April 29, 1941. He joined the U.S. Army while still attending Calvin Coolidge High School and served six months training at Fort Knox,…