Spring 2024

Explorations

May 17, 2024

Terps Discover How Urine Gets Its Hue

split illustration: half with woman working at laptop and drinking coffee, half with her snuggling with child on couch watching Netflix

Explorations

May 17, 2024

Ask the Expert: Advice for Real Life

Writer Maggie Haslam drives lunar rover while wearing spacesuit

Explorations

May 17, 2024

We Road-Test Students’ New Moon Buggy Concept at NASA

Stanley Bobb Baseball Player Development Center rendering

Campus Life

May 17, 2024

Baseball, Softball Development Centers Break Ground; Terp Triple Jumps to World Title

Campus Life

May 17, 2024

Undergrad Aims to Represent U.S. at Paris Olympics

Campus Life

May 17, 2024

Student Forms Group for Peers With Incarcerated Parents

Dairy employee pours hot fudge on sundae

Campus Life

May 17, 2024

Look Back on the Maryland Dairy’s Funky Flavors and Coach-Inspired Creations

News

May 17, 2024

Funding to Endow Brin Mathematics Research Center, Establish Endowed Chair, Launch a Summer Camp for Maryland High Schoolers

News

May 17, 2024

Interdisciplinary Research to Focus on Responsible Use of Revolutionary Tech

Campus Life

May 17, 2024

Undergrad Virtually Builds Mall, Drawings Fans Globally to ‘Campus’

Campus Life

May 17, 2024

New Course Creates Innovative Ways to Increase College Election Participation

News

May 17, 2024

New Chemistry Building to Ignite Quantum, Sustainability Research

Class Notes

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10s

Christopher Neely ’14

Christopher Neely ’14 was part of the team at Lookout Santa Cruz that won a 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting for its coverage of catastrophic flooding and mudslides that displaced thousands. He is a politics and policy correspondent at the…

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Grant H. Hackley ’00

Grant H. Hackley ’00 was appointed of counsel in Rawle & Henderson’s Pittsburgh office. Hackley represents corporations, small businesses, individuals and their insurers in civil litigation involving insurance coverage, construction, causality and…

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Edward St. John ’61

Edward St. John ’61 was named to The (Maryland) Daily Record’s “Power 100” list for 2023-24, which highlights people who play an important role in culture, lifestyle, civic conversations and economic fortunes of Maryland. He founded St. John’s Properties…

Passings

Louis Cote ’55

Louis Cote ’55 died in Western Springs, Ill., on Jan. 21, 2024, at the age of 90. Cote earned an interior design degree at UMD and an MBA from American University. He served in the U.S. Air Force in the 1950s, and was stationed in Florida and Texas. His…

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Chris Clarkson ’08

Chris Clarkson ’08 wrote the book “That Summer Night on Frenchmen Street,” in which two teens from vastly different backgrounds discover that sharing their strengths may be the path to finding wholeness within themselves. It is set in New Orleans, where…

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Colleen Vacelet ’02

Colleen Vacelet ’02 was selected as the Baltimore Business Journal’s “2024 Mentor of the Year.” She is the founder of Intreegue Design, an Elkridge-based landscape architecture firm, and last year acquired Order Green Supply, a Baltimore firm that…

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Willie May Ph.D. ’77

Willie May Ph.D. ’77 was named to the Baltimore Business Journal’s “Faces to Watch” for 2024, which highlights leaders in Greater Baltimore business who are leading top companies, nonprofits and projects with “a mission to effect change.” May is the vice…

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Jake Rozhansky ’17

Jake Rozhansky ’17 joined the New England-based Bulfinch Group, a wealth management firm, as a financial representative. He played professional soccer for the past seven seasons—three as captain of the New England Revolution II, and four in Israel.