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Fall 2021

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Alumni Association News

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A World of Language Learning—at Your Fingertips

New UMD-Developed App Offers 420 Immersive Lessons in Seven Languages

 Campus Life Two Terps Earn Places on Podium: Wrought iron red M Gate against brick outside of Maryland Stadium.

Two Terps Earn Places on Podium

Bronze-Medal Winners Highlight Group of Six Alum Athletes at Olympics

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Cracking a New Code

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A Cooler Way to Help the Hungry

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The Postwar Campus Crunch

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A New Decade of Diversity

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UMD Creates Incubator for Quantum Startups

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Pressing Play

Esports Have Become an International Phenomenon. With Terps Already Competing at the Highest Levels, UMD Powers Up Support for Gamers.

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It’s All Good

How Terps Cooked Up Food Recovery Network 10 Years…

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Last Words

For Two Decades, a UMD Professor Has Led a Writing Workshop for Holocaust Survivors. Seventy-six Years After World War II’s End, Their Task Has an Urgency Both Personal and Public.

Class Notes

News on Friends and Classmates

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Victoria Lobley ’93

Victoria Lobley ’93 was appointed by Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan to serve on the Washington County District Court. Lobley has been a sole practitioner since 2015 under the name Lobley Law Office. She has a general practice with a concentration on criminal…

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Karen Addis ’85

Karen Addis ’85 was elected to the national board of directors of CHC: Creating Healthier Communities, a nationwide nonprofit that serves as a catalyst for good health. She is president and CEO of Addis Communications. Addis holds a master’s certificate…

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Balaji Panchapakesan Ph.D. ’01

Balaji Panchapakesan Ph.D. ’01, professor of mechanical engineering and founding director of the Small Systems Laboratory at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, was selected for a 2021-22 Fulbright Award to India.

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Christopher Griffith M.S. ’91

Christopher Griffith M.S. ’91 was promoted from chief operating officer to president of KCI, an engineering, consulting and construction firm. Griffith joined KCI in 1997 after serving as an officer in the U.S. Navy Civil Engineer Corps. Griffith earned a…

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Christina Billiet ’05

Christina Billiet ’05 is the new managing partner of Waranch & Brown, one of the top litigation defense firms in Maryland. Billiet has practiced law since 2008 and spent her entire career at Waranch & Brown, advancing from a summer law clerk to…

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Alex Aust ’13

Professional lacrosse player, fitness instructor and entrepreneur Alex Aust ’13, who competed with the Terps, became the first woman from the sport to appear in Sports Illustrated’s annual swimsuit issue. She wrote on Instagram, “8-YEAR-OLD ALEX WOULD BE…

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Margaret Nagle ’78

Margaret Nagle ’78, senior director of public relations at the University of Maine, is the recipient of the 2021 Steve Gould Award for demonstrating superior qualities of unselfishness and compassion in service to the university and its ideals.

Passings

H. Edwin “Ed” Lanehart ’58, M.A. ’77

H. Edwin “Ed” Lanehart ’58, M.A. ’77, a retired Baltimore County Public Schools physical education instructor and school official who was a bodybuilder and champion tenpins bowler, died on Aug. 9 at his home in Ellicott City. He was 86. Lanehart, son of…