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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00s

Sabrina Teichman ’09

Sabrina Teichman ’09 joined AF Capital’s advisory board. She is founder and principal of Strategie, a boutique management consulting firm that provides strategic advisory and consulting services to clients operating at the intersection of public, private…

00s

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…

Passings

Donald “Silky” O'Sullivan ’72

Donald “Silky” O'Sullivan ’72 died in Delaware, Ohio, on Oct. 2, 2021, at age 74. Born on Nov. 25, 1946, in Silver Spring, Md., to the late Diarmuid and Hilda (Hirsch) O’Sullivan, O’Sullivan was drafted into the U.S. Army and sent to Vietnam in the 1960s.…

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.…

Passings

Raymond E. Grant ’49

Raymond E. Grant ’49 died on Oct. 23, 2021. Born on April 19, 1923, in Baltimore, he graduated from Baltimore Polytechnic Institute in 1941 before enlisting in the Navy’s V-5 pilot training program in 1943. He flew Torpedo and Dive Bombers in World War…

80s

Maj. Gregory T. Douds ’83

Maj. Gregory T. Douds ’83 was promoted to deputy staff judge advocate of the Georgia State Defense Force, an all-volunteer military branch of the Georgia Department of Defense that focuses on search and rescue, disaster relief, and National Guard support…

80s

Michael Genhart Ph.D. ’89

Michael Genhart Ph.D. ’89 has two new picture books: “May Your Life Be Deliciosa” from Cameron Kids/Abrams and “They’re So Flamboyant” from Magination Press.

90s

Brion W. Murray Ph.D. ’94

Brion W. Murray Ph.D. ’94 was appointed senior vice president of research at Lengo Therapeutics. Prior to that, he was vice president, cancer biology and translational research at Turning Point Therapeutics. At Pfizer, he was a research fellow and…