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Fall 2021

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The Big Question

Where Should Infrastructure Investments in the U.S. Start?

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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

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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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Deni Elliott ’74

Deni Elliott ’74, a media ethicist who has taught journalism at USF St. Petersburg since 2003, became the campus’ interim vice provost and regional associate vice chancellor of academic affairs. Before coming to the university in 2003, she taught at Utah…

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Matthew Sarna ’14

Matthew Sarna ’14, an associate in DLA Piper’s restructuring practice, received the 20/20 Partners Rising Young Leader Award from the Business Bankruptcy Committee of the American Bar Association Business Law Section. The award recognizes the nation’s top…

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Brian Gibbons ’84

Brian Gibbons ’84, chairman of the board and CEO of Greenberg Gibbons, was named a 2021 Influential Marylander by The Daily Record. Since joining the company in 1998, he has led many of the Baltimore region’s premier developments, including the Village at…

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Jon Schwartz ’97

Jon Schwartz ’97 was named senior vice president of communications, marketing, digital and social media of the Big Ten Conference. Prior to this, Schwartz served as senior vice president, communications and public affairs, for the National Football…

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Jim Farrell ’84

Jim Farrell ’84 joined the Dallas-based SRS Real Estate Partners as senior vice president and market leader for the Charleston, S.C., area. He was previously executive director of leasing and brokerage at McLean, Va.-based Rappaport.

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Michael Fellerman ’97

Michael Fellerman ’97 joined the Baltimore office of Miles & Stockbridge. He will work across practice groups in the firm on tax matters related to public finance, health care and business transactions. He has two decades of experience working for a…

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Seth Goodman ’99

Seth Goodman ’99 was appointed senior vice president-chief revenue officer at WebBank. He has over 20 years of banking and financial consulting experience and received his MBA from Columbia Business School.

Passings

Nicki Y. Noel ’78

Nicki Y. Noel ’78 of Lanham, Md., died on June 18 at the University of Maryland Medical Center after battling ovarian cancer. She was born July 22, 1956, in Chambersburg, Pa., the eldest daughter of W. Theodore Noel and the late Anna L. (Diehl) Noel. Noel…