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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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Nora Eckert M. Jour. ’19

Nora Eckert M. Jour. ’19 was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize as part of a team of reporters from The Wall Street Journal uncovering misinformation about COVID-19 deaths in nursing homes.

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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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Pamela Gore ’77

Pamela Gore ’77 was appointed a member of the state board of registration for professional geologists by Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp. Gore is a professor of geology at Georgia State University, Perimeter College. She serves as vice president of the Atlanta…

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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.

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…

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Jose Torres ’83, M.Ed. ’85, Ph.D. ’99

Jose Torres ’83, M.Ed. ’85, Ph.D. ’99 was named interim chief of Chicago Public Schools. Torres recently retired as head of the Illinois Math and Science Academy in Aurora, after six years. Before that, he served for six years as superintendent at Elgin…

Passings

Timothy D. O'Hare ’79

Timothy D. O'Hare ’79 died at his Los Angeles home on May 5 after a two-year battle with cancer. He was 65. O’Hare attended Immaculate Conception High School in Montclair, N.J., where he was a three-sport athlete (baseball, basketball, football), earning…

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Seema Verma ’93

Seema Verma ’93 was elected to the board of directors of LifeStance Health, one of the nation's largest providers of outpatient mental health care. Verma is a leading national health policy expert with over two decades of experience in the healthcare…