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Spring 2023

Parting Shot red shoes peek out of a teal hammock on McKeldin Mall

In the Sling of Things

Students Embrace Warmer Weather on McKeldin Mall

 Post-Grad students dance on McKeldin Mall

Underexposed

Can You Help Us Identify These Terps?

 Post-Grad Kylie D’Alessio films Alex measuring wall

Renovation Sensations

Thousands Follow Alums on TikTok, Instagram

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

Following the Yellow Brick Road

Alum to Head International Wizard of Oz Club

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

Serving Up Time-Honored Flavors Fast

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

 Post-Grad Amber Mayfield with "While Entertaining" magazine cover

Party Queen, Behind the Scenes

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

 Post-Grad four Terps Under 30 speakers

Alumni Association News

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

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Why Noncompetes Could Soon Be a Non-Thing

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

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Antidote to Overdoses: A Universal Treatment

New Compound Fights Both Fentanyl and Meth in Bloodstream

 Explorations Keisha Prawl-Woods stands in the forest

A Season of Healing

REI-Funded Center Promotes Nature-Based Research and Reparation

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Roll Over, Paper Towels

Engineers’ Picker-Upper Is Even Quicker

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An On-Campus Oscar Nominee

Researcher Executive-Produced Lauded Documentary

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Wildlife Ecologist Explains How to Get Ticks Off, Not Ticked Off

Ask a Researcher: Advice for Real Life

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Maryland, Start Your Engines

Survey Shows Cars Fuel Post-COVID Commute

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$30M in Grand Challenges Grants Awarded

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

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

Sports Briefs

Achievements by Women’s Basketball, Softball and Gymnastics Teams

Class Notes

News on Friends and Classmates

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10s

Portia Baker Hopkins Ph.D. ’16

Portia Baker Hopkins Ph.D. ’16 became the university historian at Rice University.​ She was formerly postdoctoral research associate in data curation for African American studies at Rice.

Passings

Michael John Wigglesworth M.A. ’72, Ph.D. ’77

Michael John Wigglesworth M.A. ’72, Ph.D. ’77 of SIlver Spring, Md., died on April 16, 2023. He was 79. Born in Washington, D.C., and raised in Bethesda and Chevy Chase, Md., he attended Gonzaga College High School and Catholic University before joining…
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Passings

Lynne C. Astrich ’60

Lynne C. Astrich ’60, of Bethesda, Md., died on Feb. 5, 2023. She was 84 years old. She graduated from Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School, and at UMD, she majored in Spanish, was a member of the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority and was crowned Miss Maryland. For…

Passings

Ida Barksdale Crawford Stewart ’50

Ida Barksdale Crawford Stewart ’50, a longtime vice president at the Estée Lauder Cos. and a special assistant to company founder Estée Lauder, died on March 25, 2023, at the Clinton (S.C.) Presbyterian Community. She was 100 years old. She was a graduate…
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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…

90s

Sarah Cooper ’93

Comedian and author Sarah Cooper ’93 made her off-Broadway debut in February in Anna Ziegler's “The Wanderers.”
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10s

Kevin Reilly ’12

Kevin Reilly ’12 was appointed director of the board of directors at ABG Acquisition Corp., where he focuses on private equity strategies in health care.

Passings

George C. Safford Jr. ’73

George C. Safford Jr. ’73 of Gambrills, Md., died on May 2, 2023. He was 77 years old. Born in Bryn Mawr, Pa., to George C. and Florence Safford, Safford served in the U.S. Army as a heavy equipment mechanic stationed in Alaska before studying business…