Spring 2023

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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?

Kylie D’Alessio films Alex measuring wall

Post-Grad

June 02, 2023

Thousands Follow Alums on TikTok, Instagram

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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

Amber Mayfield with "While Entertaining" magazine cover

Post-Grad

June 02, 2023

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

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

Explorations

June 02, 2023

Researcher Executive-Produced Lauded Documentary

Explorations

June 02, 2023

Ask a Researcher: Advice for Real Life

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Explorations

June 02, 2023

Survey Shows Cars Fuel Post-COVID Commute

Explorations

June 02, 2023

Unprecedented UMD Research Program Targets Climate, Racial Justice, Energy and More

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Campus Life

June 02, 2023

Achievements by Women’s Basketball, Softball and Gymnastics Teams

Class Notes

News on Friends and Classmates

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Passings

Stephen Paul Bartels ’71

Stephen Paul Bartels ’71, of Webster, N.Y., died on May 4, 2023, at age 75. He grew up in Bethesda, Md., and became an ophthalmologist at the Eye Research Institute of Boston after marrying his wife, Judith Anne Bartels, in 1978. His lifelong dream was to…

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Nicholas C. Stewart ’06

Nicholas C. Stewart ’06 became a partner at Duane Morris LLP, where he represents a wide range of private funds. Most recently, he was a partner at Saul Ewing LLP. Stewart is a graduate of the George Washington University Law School.

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Michelle Smirnova Ph.D. ’13

Michelle Smirnova Ph.D. ’13 wrote the book “The Prescription-to-Prison Pipeline: The Medicalization and Criminalization of Pain,” which focuses on the opioid drug epidemic. She is an associate professor at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.

Passings

Benjamin B. Newsom Jr. MBA ’92

Benjamin B. Newsom Jr. MBA ’92 died suddenly on April 13, 2023 at age 64. Born in Belleville, Ill., Newsom graduated from Madison County High School then from Washington and Lee University with a math/applied sciences degree. He went on to receive an MBA…

Passings

Bruce Hultslander ’76

Bruce Hultslander ’76 of Jefferson, Md., died at his home on April 4, 2023. He was 71. He was a native of Rome, N.Y., and after receiving his accounting degree from UMD and an MBA from Frostburg State University, spent his career as a comptroller and…

Passings

Sean Durkin ’68, M.S. ’72

Sean Durkin ’68, M.S. ’72, of Phoenix, Ariz., died on April 22, 2023. He was 76 years old. Born in 1946 in Baltimore, Md, He earned a B.S. in electrical engineering and a master’s degree in electro-physics at UMD and spent his career in the defense…

Passings

David Dashiell Keck ’61

David Dashiell Keck ’61 died suddenly on April 27, 2023 while recovering from a heart procedure. He was 84. Keck was born in Baltimore, graduated from Westminster High in Carroll County and studied marketing at UMD. He served three years in the U.S. Army,…

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Tara K. Gorman ’88, MBA ’97

Tara K. Gorman ’88, MBA ’97 joined the real estate practice of Womble Bond Dickinson as a partner in the D.C. office. Gorman earned a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center. Gorman focuses her practice on hospitality law and has 20 years of experience…