Winter 2023

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

Campus Life

February 03, 2023

Performance Piece Asks Tough Questions Via Unexpected Messenger: Puppets

Plane tickets, passport and plane in the clouds

Campus Life

February 03, 2023

Terps on Board in Return to Study Abroad

Campus Life

February 03, 2023

Nun Nutritionist Has Served UMD Students for 30 Years

collage of images from Jen Golbeck's social media accounts

Campus Life

February 03, 2023

Students Learn to Game Algorithms and Grow Audiences in Popular Class

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

Campus Life

February 03, 2023

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

Campus Life

February 03, 2023

RecWell Program Puts Teams Into Elite Competition

News

February 03, 2023

Aviation Landing to Rise Across From Metro Station

News

February 03, 2023

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

Confetti falls at ceremonial groundbreaking event

News

February 03, 2023

Ceremonial Groundbreaking Held for Zupnik Hall

collage of arts photos from around campus

Parting Shot

February 03, 2023

Terps Have Endless Opportunities to Explore, Innovate in the Arts

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.

Features

February 03, 2023

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.

Maryland’s vanishing tobacco barn is surrounded by trees

Features

February 03, 2023

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

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60s

Bob Cantales ’69

Bob Cantales ’69 wrote in to report that every year for the past 50 years, he and a group of Terps who met while living at Baltimore Hall have reunited the evening before Thanksgiving to celebrate the past and the future of UMD. The gatherings for the…

Passings

Patricia Agnes Farr MLS ’80

Patricia Agnes Farr MLS ’80 died in Falmouth, Va., on Nov. 11. She was 77. Born in Ohio, she earned a B.A. at Youngstown University before attending UMD. She started out as a librarian assistant at Mary Washington College before beginning a long career…

00s

John D.B. Carr ’00

John D.B. Carr ’00 was elected Prince George’s County sheriff. He had most recently served the sheriff's office as lieutenant colonel, serving as one of three assistant sheriffs and running the Bureau of Field Operations.

00s

Vincent Kiernan Ph.D. ’02

Vincent Kiernan Ph.D. ’02 wrote the new book “Atomic Bill: A Journalist's Dangerous Ambition in the Shadow of the Bomb,” published by Three Hills. He examines the fraught career of New York Times science journalist William L. Laurence, whose professional…

00s

Michelle Asha Cooper Ph.D. ’06

Michelle Asha Cooper Ph.D. ’06 joined the higher-education focused Lumina Foundation as vice president for public policy and executive director of its Washington, D.C., office. She was previously deputy undersecretary at the U.S. Department of Education.…

Passings

George A. Rabey Jr. ’64

George A. Rabey Jr. ’64, of Jackson’s Gap, Ala., died on Sept. 17. He was 82. Born in Atlanta, he knew he wanted to fly planes by the time he was 8. At UMD, he was a member of Lambda Chi Alpha and completed the Air Force ROTC program. Once commissioned,…

80s

Robert Rogers M.A. ’82, Ph.D. ’84

Robert Rogers M.A. ’82, Ph.D. ’84, professor of mathematics in the College of Science at Virginia Tech, was conferred the title of professor emeritus. A member of the Virginia Tech community since 1988, Rogers researched partial differential equations,…

Passings

Will Olan Brimberry ’75

Will Olan Brimberry ’75 died on Nov. 7 in Alexandria, Va., at age 71. He was active in Sigma Nu fraternity at UMD and upon graduation served four years with the Peace Corps in Mali, West Africa. Brimberry spent most of his career in the federal…