Winter 2024

Explorations

January 12, 2024

Persimmons, Pawpaws and Beach Plums Thrive in Edible Ecosystems

robot under nose identifies cheese, fire, fish, etc.

Explorations

January 12, 2024

Futuristic Smeller Uses Talents of Living Cells

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Explorations

January 12, 2024

Ask an Expert: Advice for Real Life

Explorations

January 12, 2024

Researchers Pinpoint Unexploded Shells, Rockets in Ukraine’s Agricultural Regions

Taulia Tagovailoa looks to pass football

Campus Life

January 12, 2024

Tagovailoa Named Big Ten’s All-Time Passing Leader; Expanded Field Hockey and Lacrosse Complex Opens

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Winter 2024

January 12, 2024

Print Your Own Terp Covers Showcasing Historic Mascot Images

Matt Swope bumps fists with player rounding bases

Campus Life

January 12, 2024

Former UMD All-Star Steps Up to the Plate as Head Coach

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Campus Life

January 12, 2024

Researchers Develop Online Platform to Improve, Expand Instrumental Education

Campus Life

January 12, 2024

Adviser for Decades of Space, Robot Competitions Isn’t Powering Down

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Campus Life

January 12, 2024

In Wilderness Survival Class, Students Rely on Wits, Not a Whiteboard

News

January 12, 2024

Relocation Expected to Expand Partnerships With UMD

News

January 12, 2024

Initiative to Award Up to $2M for Student Solutions to Grand Challenges

News

January 12, 2024

A. James & Alice B. Clark Foundation Investment Gives Program Permanent Home

Class Notes

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Passings

Pearl Alice Hanson Johnson ’67, M.Ed. ’73

Pearl Alice Hanson Johnson ’67, M.Ed. ’73 died in Salt Lake City, Utah, on Dec. 28, 2023, after a short illness. She was 98. Johnson was raised in Idaho as the fourth of 11 children and attended Utah State University for one year. She worked as a doctor's…

90s

Brian Doheny ’92

Brian Doheny ’92 was named chief operating officer at Lucet, a provider of behavioral health solutions and services to commercial health plans, government agencies and other sponsors of care. He was most recently vice president of Medicare trend and…

70s

Pia Marie Winters Jordan ’78

Pia Marie Winters Jordan ’78 wrote the book “Memories of a Tuskegee Airmen Nurse and Her Military Sisters,” focusing on the years during World War II when up to 28 Black women from the Army Nurse Corps—including her mother—staffed the station hospital on…

00s

Robyn Dixon ’00

Robyn Dixon ’00, one of the cast members of the Bravo reality show “The Real Housewives of Potomac,” opened a franchise of GLO30, a monthly membership facial business, in Columbia. She also created the company Embellished, which sells satin-lined hats and…

Passings

Mary Ethel Jacocks McCorkle ’68

Mary Ethel Jacocks McCorkle ’68 of Hillsborough, N.C., died Dec. 18, 2023, at the age of 79. She majored in sociology at UMD and was an accountant at Saint Mary’s School in Raleigh, N.C., for many years. After moving to Emerald Isle, McCorckle enjoyed…

70s

Daniel Goldberg ’70

Daniel Goldberg ’70 joined the Institute for Defense Analyses as an adjunct research staff member in its Systems and Analyses Center. He earned his master’s degree in Soviet and East European studies from the George Washington University and is a member…

Passings

Robert Kremer Howell ’59, M.S. ’61, Ph.D. ’65

Robert Kremer Howell ’59, M.S. ’61, Ph.D. ’65, of Beltsville, Md., died on Dec. 17, 2023. He was 92. Howell was born in Stuarts Draft, Va., and served in the U.S. Navy during the Korean conflict, He earned a doctorate in plant pathology at UMD and worked…

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Jason Sartori MCP '05

Jason Sartori MCP '05 was appointed planning director for the Montgomery Planning Department in October. Sartori has worked for the Montgomery County Planning Department since 2016.