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Winter 2023

Campus Life A video projection shows photos and newspaper clippings of slain Black men

‘Food’ for Thought

Performance Piece Asks Tough Questions Via Unexpected Messenger: Puppets

Campus Life Plane tickets, passport and plane in the clouds

Roam Again

Terps on Board in Return to Study Abroad

Campus Life Sister Maureen Schrimpe

‘A Mission of Welcome’

Nun Nutritionist Has Served UMD Students for 30 Years

Campus Life collage of images from Jen Golbeck's social media accounts

The Secrets to Social Success

Students Learn to Game Algorithms and Grow Audiences in Popular Class

Campus Life combat robots with "FLIP," "CRUSH" and "SPIN" written in comic book-style

Gearing Up for Battle

Sparks—and Creativity—Fly When Combat Robotics Club Enters Arena

Campus Life students play esports

UMD Esports Comes Online

RecWell Program Puts Teams Into Elite Competition

News Aerial rendering of Aviation Landing

A Flying Start for Greater College Park

Aviation Landing to Rise Across From Metro Station

News Student hugs Testudo statue

UMD Makes $20M Investment in Need-Based Financial Aid

Terrapin Commitment Program to Expand Support for Pell Grant-Eligible, In-State Students

News Confetti falls at ceremonial groundbreaking event

‘A Hub for Discussion, Innovation and Discovery’

Ceremonial Groundbreaking Held for Zupnik Hall

Parting Shot collage of arts photos from around campus

Staging a Revolution

Terps Have Endless Opportunities to Explore, Innovate in the Arts

Features The image depicts a historical moment during World War II in April 1942, showing Japanese Americans arriving by train at the Santa Anita Park assembly center in California.

Truth in Exile

Decades after more than 100,000 Japanese Americans were forced into camps during World War II, a UMD archival expert is making sure the dark history of their management finally comes to light.

Features Maryland’s vanishing tobacco barn is surrounded by trees

Structural Damage

Maryland’s vanishing tobacco barns represent the vestiges of slavery and a legacy of disease. UMD historic preservationists are racing to document them anyway.

Class Notes

News on Friends and Classmates

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10s

Morgan Beckford M.M. ’13

Morgan Beckford M.M. ’13 was appointed the first director of Silkroad Connect, a partnership between the touring ensemble and social impact organization Silkroad, the Kennedy Center’s Turnaround Arts program and four middle-school classrooms in…

Passings

George J. Broadwell M.Ed. ’58

George J. Broadwell M.Ed. ’58, died on July 9, in Ithaca, N.Y. He was 92. Born in Troy, N.Y., he spent a year in the U.S. Army and graduated from the College of Agriculture at Cornell University. Broadwell worked as a Cooperative Extension field agent in…
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70s

DeWayne Wickham ’74

DeWayne Wickham ’74 was named public editor of the Baltimore Banner. He began his journalism career as an intern with The (Baltimore) Evening Sun and over the next 45 years, worked as a broadcast and print journalist for media organizations including USA…

Passings

Randall E. Herr ’75

Randall E. Herr ’75, of Long Beach, Miss., died on Sept. 23. He was 72. He served in the U.S. Navy and later had a 25-year career as a marine geophysicist at the U.S. Naval Oceanographic Office (NAVO). His professional life revolved around gravity data…

90s

Jason Isenberg ’96

Jason Isenberg ’96 joined the board of directors of Intelligent Bio Solutions, a company formerly known as GBS that develops noninvasive, real-time diagnostic testing for patients and their primary health practitioners at point of care. Isenberg currently…

90s

Jeffrey Gluck Ph.D. ’98

Jeffrey Gluck Ph.D. ’98, a partner at the Philadelphia intellectual property law firm Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel, was named among IAM’s Strategy 300 Global Leaders for 2023, which honors the world’s leading intellectual property strategists.…
Brooks Kenny web

90s

Brooks Kenny ’95

Brooks Kenny ’95 was appointed vice president of marketing by Altoida, a precision neurology company. Previously the vice president of consumer engagement and partnerships at the nonprofit UsAgainstAlzheimer’s. She also directed the organization’s Women’s…

90s

​​Gary Kaplan ’94

​​Gary Kaplan ’94 joined Jones Day as a partner in the Business Restructuring & Reorganization Practice in New York. Kaplan has approximately 25 years of experience representing debtors, creditors, official and unofficial committees and institutional…