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Spring 2025

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Explorations

May 14, 2025
Undergrad Coproduces First Database Documenting Events Worldwide
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Explorations

May 14, 2025
Insurance Expert Proposes Plan to Save Homeowners’ Coverage
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Explorations

May 14, 2025
After Key Bridge Collapse, Engineer Seeks to Ease Commutes in Baltimore
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Features

May 14, 2025
On the farm and in the lab, researchers are fighting a virus that’s pushing up food prices and threatening a new pandemic
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Post-Grad

May 14, 2025
Love of a Lifetime; 5 Reasons to Join Now
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Post-Grad

May 14, 2025
At New Dinosaur Museum Led by Paleontologist Alum, Visitors Can Dig In
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Post-Grad

May 14, 2025
Alum’s Rhythmic Fitness Regime Exercises Body and Mind
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Post-Grad

May 14, 2025
Alum Strives to Help Residents Reclaim Vibrant Black Community in Redeveloped Barry Farm
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Post-Grad

May 14, 2025
An ‘Underexposed’ Photo From UMD History
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Parting Shot

May 14, 2025
Women’s, Men’s Basketball Teams Advanced to Sweet 16 Together for First Time

Class Notes

News on Friends and Classmates

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Robert Kennick

70s

Robert Kennick ’72

Robert Kennick ’72 was hired by the city of Harrisburg, Pa., as its finance director. Kennick is a certified public accountant. Most recently, he served as controller of K&W Tire Co. in Lancaster, Pa. 
Jacob Day

00s

Jacob Day ’04

Jacob Day ’04 received the Advocate for Change Award from nonprofit organization Bridges to Housing Stability. Day is the Maryland secretary of housing and community development. 
Kelsey Nelson

10s

Kelsey Nelson ’14

Kelsey Nelson ’14 was a recipient of the Maryland Daily Record’s Maryland’s Top 100 Women Awards. Nelson is director of communications at MENTOR, a nonprofit working to close the mentoring gap for one in three young people without a mentor. 
Sam DiPaola

90s

Sam DiPaola MBA ’97

Sam DiPaola MBA ’97 joined Bowen to lead its defense practice. He joins Bowen following a diverse 30-year career in investment banking, leadership and operational roles. He was previously president and head of investment banking at Evergreen Advisors,…
Graciela Martinez

10s

Graciela Martinez ’17

Graciela Martinez ’17 joined St. John Properties as project manager, interior construction in the company’s Virginia and Central Maryland Regional Office. She came from Davis Construction, where she was assistant project manager. 
Myron Holly Winget Jr.

Passings

Myron Holly Winget Jr. ’56

Myron Holly Winget Jr. ’56 of Winterville, N.C., died on April 17, 2025. Winget received his undergraduate degree in bacteriology from UMD and his doctorate in pharmacy from Georgetown University. He served as a pharmacist for over 50 years. A devoted…

10s

Susan Holcomb ’10

“Wolfbaby,” a collection of short fiction by Susan Holcomb ’10 about what it means to mother, won the 2023 Cupboard Pamphlet Contest and was published this spring. She holds an M.F.A. in writing from the Vermont College of Fine Arts and studied for a…
Dudley Curtis “Curt” Hoffman Jr.

Passings

Dudley Curtis “Curt” Hoffman Jr. ’65

Dudley Curtis “Curt” Hoffman Jr. ’65 died at his home in Aurora, Colo., on Feb. 17, 2025, after a brief battle with cancer. He was 83. Hoffman spent much of his early life in Maryland, attending the McDonogh School before earning a degree in civil…