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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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Colin James Doyle

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Colin Doyle M.M. ’21

Colin Doyle M.M. ’21 received the Frances MacEachron Award and a $1,500 prize at the 44th annual Lyndon Woodside Oratorio-Solo Competition Finals Concert, held by the Oratorio Society of New York at the Riverside Church in New York City. Doyle sang two…

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Utpal Koppikar ’91

Utpal Koppikar ’91, chief financial officer of Atara Biotherapeutics, joined the board of directors of Flexion Therapeutics Inc. Before starting at Atara in 2018, he held senior financial leadership positions at Gilead Sciences and Amgen. Koppikar…

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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P. Anthony Sammi ’95

P. Anthony Sammi ’95 joined Latham and Watkins’ New York office as a partner in the litigation and trial department and as a global vice chair of the intellectual property litigation practice. Sammi is a first chair trial lawyer with extensive experience…

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Bruce Frank Ph.D. ’91

Bruce Frank Ph.D. ’91 was named vice president, CDMO operations of Altasciences. Frank has 30 years of experience with product formulation and development. He received a doctorate in organic chemistry from the University of Maryland and a bachelor’s…

Passings

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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Dr. Harold R. Weiss ’52

Dr. Harold R. Weiss ’52 died on June 28 at the Greater Baltimore Medical Center. He was 91. Dr. Weiss, son of August Weiss and Verna Weiss, was born in Baltimore. After graduating in 1947 from Polytechnic Institute, he earned a bachelor’s degree in 1950…

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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…