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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 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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Passings

Karen Jean Norman M.Ed. ’80

Karen Jean Norman M.Ed. ’80 died on July 1. She was born Jan. 6, 1952, in Jasper, Ind., daughter of Leon and Betty (Blandford) Epple. Norman attended Jasper High School, earned her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Evansville, and master’s degrees…

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Franco Gentile MBA ’08

Franco Gentile MBA ’08 was named vice president/general manager of KPTM (FOX) in Omaha. Gentile has held several leadership positions across Sinclair Broadcast Group, most recently as director of sales at WSYX/ABC 6, FOX28 and WWHO/CW, in Columbus, Ohio.…

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Burton R. Evans M.Ed. ’55, Ph.D. ’58

Burton R. Evans M.Ed. ’55, Ph.D. ’58 died on May 1 in Atlanta. He was 91. Evans was born in Harvey, Ill., the son of the late Burton Webb Evans and the late Ruth Carlson Evans. Evans was a U.S. Navy veteran and served as a medical corpsman during the…

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Mary Catherine “Katy” O’Neill M.L.S. ’12

Mary Catherine “Katy” O’Neill M.L.S. ’12 was named library director of the Loyola/Notre Dame Library, which provides information services and resources to Loyola University Maryland and Notre Dame of Maryland University. She has served the library in…

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Robert Waltermire Ph.D. ’89

Robert Waltermire Ph.D. ’89 joined Madrigal Pharmaceuticals, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company pursuing novel therapeutics for cardio-metabolic and fatty liver diseases with high unmet medical need, as chief pharmaceutical development officer.…

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William Mahlon Purdin Jr. ’72

William Mahlon Purdin Jr. ’72, a longtime resident of Marblehead, Minn., died on July 15 after battling colon cancer. He was 73. Born in St. Paul to William Mahlon Purdin Sr. and Ida Katherine DeWitt Purdin, he and his family moved several times before…

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Michelle Asha Cooper Ph.D. ’06

Michelle Asha Cooper Ph.D. ’06 was appointed the deputy assistant secretary for higher education programs in the Office of Postsecondary Education at the U.S. Department of Education. She had served as president of the Institute for Higher Education…

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Hugh J. Breslin III ’77

Gov. Larry Hogan appointed Hugh J. Breslin III ’77 to serve on the University System of Maryland Board of Regents. He is a media and management consultant who served as general manager at WDVM-TV in Hagerstown (formerly WHAG-TV) until 2018. He previously…