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

Ryan Bunch poses with "Oz and the Musical" book, on yellow background with white and gray Wizard of Oz illustrations

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

Maryland women's basketball player shoots ball vs. South Carolina

Campus Life

June 02, 2023

Achievements by Women’s Basketball, Softball and Gymnastics Teams

Class Notes

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Passings

Richard Levick ’79

Richard Levick ’79, a prominent Washington crisis communication consultant, died April 11 at a hospice center in Bethesda, Md., at age 65. The cause was cancer. He graduated in 1975 from Walt Whitman High School, majored in urban studies at UMD, earned a…

Passings

Joseph Kapust ’89

Joseph Kapust ’89, of Rockville, Md., died on April 29, 2023. He was 56 years old. He spent much of his professional career with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. He was a craftsman, avid outdoorsman and fan of cinema and the Terps. He is…

80s

David Krell ’89

David Krell ’89 wrote the new nonfiction book “Do You Believe in Magic? Baseball and America in the Groundbreaking Year of 1966.” The MSNBC producer is also the author of “Baseball and America in the Time of JFK” and “Our Bums: The Brooklyn Dodgers in…

Passings

Charles Edward White ’43, M.S. ’55

Charles Edward White ’43, M.S. ’55 of Silver Spring, Md., died on March 27, 2023. He was 100. He was born in Washington, D.C., and after earning a B.S. in aeronautical engineering during World War II, joined the Army Air Corps. He later worked at NASA…

Passings

Lucienne Marie Beach ’70

Lucienne Marie Beach ’70 of Severna Park, Md., died on May 3, 2023, two days after turning 75. She earned a degree in French language and culture at Maryland and worked for eight years as a bilingual secretary for Monsanto Chemical in Brussels, Belgium.…

80s

Cheri Bustos ’83

Cheri Bustos ’83, a former U.S. congresswoman, was appointed to the board of directors at REX American Resources Corp., a major producer and seller of ethanol. She is a former five-term congresswoman from Illinois.

Passings

Kathleen Frank Brannigan ’79

Kathleen Frank Brannigan ’79, of Haymarket, Va., died on April 13, 2023, at age 66 after a 13-year battle with cancer. She grew up in Bowie, Md., and graduated from Elizabeth Seton High School in 1975. She spent a semester studying abroad in…

Passings

Carol Lynn Main ’69

Carol Lynn Main ’69 died on April 9, 2023, at home near Lancaster, Pa. She was 77. Main was born in Baltimore and graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Gettysburg College—where she met her future husband—and received her master's at UMD. Her passions were history…