Winter 2022

Campus Life

A Peak of Pickle Players

With Pingpong-Tennis-Badminton Mashup on the Upswing, Terp Pro Leads the Way

Campus Life

Projecting the Future

Family’s $2.5M in Gifts Will Fund Arts Innovation, Support Education Majors

Explorations

Book Pulls the Lid Off Canned Food’s History

Cupboard Staple’s Impact Goes Beyond the Dinner Table

Campus Life

Science Behind the Suds

New Fermentation Major Will Support Growing Maryland Craft Beverage and Food Industries

Explorations

Swipe Left on Dating Stereotypes

Study Reveals Fewer Romances, Little Difference Between App, In-Person Pairings

News

New Lab, Center Advance Quantum Computing

UMD Makes $20M Investment in Q-Lab, Leads $25M NSF Grant on Quantum Simulation

Post-Grad

‘Protecting the Democratic Process Itself’

Alum Takes Over as Capitol Police Chief in Wake of Jan. 6 Riot

Explorations

Another Kind of Tree Planting

Researcher Asks: Could Burying Enough Dead Wood Alter the Globe’s Climate Trajectory?

Campus Life

A Hardly ‘Boring’ Achievement

Student Team Wins Safety Award in Elon Musk’s Digging Contest

Campus Life

Living, Learning and Teaching

Honors College Scholar-in-Residence Spends Semester Among Students in Residence Hall

News

New Dining Hall to Honor Indigenous People of Maryland

Post-Grad

Letters of Hope and Familiarity

Alum’s New Book Highlights African Americans’ Relationship to Lincoln

Post-Grad

A Better Plan for Secondhand

Alum’s Streamlined Furniture Resale Website Aims to Cushion the Stress of Online Sales

Post-Grad

Throwback Threads

As Women’s Basketball Team Shoots for More Success, Get a Glimpse of 1920s Game-day Garb

Class Act

Alumni Association News

Explorations

The Big Question

Class Notes

News on Friends and Classmates

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Passings

Richard “Dick” Eigenbrot Jr. ’66

Richard “Dick” Eigenbrot Jr. ’66 died on Sept. 29, 2021, at age 80 in San Antonio. Born on June 17, 1941, in Drexel Hill, Pa., to Elizabeth Deary and Richard Lewis Eigenbrot Sr., he graduated from the University of Maryland on a football scholarship. He…

80s

Stephanie Turco-Williams ’87

Stephanie Turco-Williams ’87 was appointed special advisor to Libya by United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres. She will lead mediation efforts and engagements with Libyan regional and international stakeholders to pursue implementation of the…

80s

Shaun Eddy ’88

Shaun Eddy ’88 joined the board of directors of the Howard Community College Educational Foundation. Eddy is the owner and CEO of Oxford Planning Group.

90s

Dax Alvarez ’92

Dax Alvarez ’92 relocated from the Los Angeles office of the law firm Snell & Wilmer to its Reno, Nev., location. Alvarez is a member of the intellectual property practice group. He earned his J.D. from the Catholic University of America.

80s

Roxanne Taylor ’80

Roxanne Taylor ’80 was elected to the board of directors of Unisys Corp., an information technology company. Taylor serves as chief marketing and communications officer for Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City.

00s

Brian Thompson MBA ’09

Brian Thompson MBA ’09 was named vice president and general manager for the intelligence mission solutions business unit at Peraton, a Herndon, Va.-based technology company. He came to Peraton from Leidos Holdings, where he served as senior vice president…

Passings

Elizabeth “Libby” Eppley ’48

Elizabeth “Libby” Eppley ’48 died on Oct. 23, 2021. She was born on Jan. 18, 1927, to Elizabeth and Geary Eppley (1920), the noted UMD athletic director, dean of men and assistant professor of agronomy whose name is on the university’s recreation center.…

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Steve Eigenbrot ’05

Steve Eigenbrot ’05 was promoted to deputy athletics director at the University of South Carolina. In his 12th year at South Carolina, Eigenbrot has served in various fundraising roles within Gamecock Athletics, most recently as executive associate…