Spring 2020

Features

Sticking Together

Features

Secrets, Satellites and Howard Stern

In Race With Virus, Engineers Speed Development of Medical Equipment

Campus Life

UMD Fights Pandemic With Historic Changes

Campus Life

‘Building Champions’

Campus Life

(Re)Introducing Darryll Pines

Campus Life

‘You Had a Feeling That You Could Change the World’

Campus Life

Disposable Knowledge

Class Act

Former Olympic Gymnast Takes the Next Leap

Art and Craft

Forecasts of the Future

Breaking Out of a Web of Censorship

Campus Life

Millions Gone, But Not Forgotten

Class Act

Maryland’s Leading Lady

Campus Life

An Unexpected Final Whistle

Web Only

The Big Question

Class Notes

News on Friends and Classmates

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80s

Michael Severino ’87, M.D.

Michael Severino ’87, M.D., was appointed to the board of directors of Avantor, which manufactures and distributes chemicals, reagents and laboratory supplies. Severino is the vice chairman and president of AbbVie, a research-driven biopharmaceutical…

00s

Pradeep Sharma Ph.D. ’00

Pradeep Sharma Ph.D. ’00, the M.D. Anderson Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Physics at the University of Houston, was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. He uses theoretical and computational approaches to understand physical phenomena across…

70s

David Paulson ’73

David Paulson ’73 joined Greenspring Realty Partners, a commercial real estate and investment company, as senior vice president. He formerly held that role at Blue & Obrecht Realty. Paulson also earned a master’s degree in regional planning from the…

70s

Bruce Surosky, M.D. ’79

Bruce Surosky, M.D. ’79 was recognized by Continental Who's Who as a Lifetime Achiever in the field of Medicine as an OB/GYN at Twin Tier Women's Health. He trains residents in vaginal surgery and has served as a clinical professor of OB/GYN at Rochester…

00s

Jessica Solomon ’04

Jessica Solomon ’04 was named vice president of the Robert W. Deutsch Foundation, which annually makes grants in excess of $4 million to Baltimore-area nonprofits. Solomon joined the foundation in 2017 as a senior program officer.

Passings

Thomas Francis Aidala Jr. ’57

Thomas Francis Aidala Jr. ’57 of North Caldwell, N.J., died on Feb. 3. He was 84. Aidala was born on Nov. 26, 1935, in Corona, Queens, N.Y. Aidala was a proud graduate of the University of Maryland, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran and a successful sales…

Passings

Robert “Ed” Novak Sr. ’50

Robert “Ed” Novak Sr. ’50 died of heart failure April 18 at the Glen Meadows Retirement Community in Glen Arm, Md., at age 94. Born in Baltimore, he was the son of Franklin J. Novak Sr. and his wife, Pearl. He was a 1944 graduate of Baltimore City…

Passings

Virginia Rice Morton M.L.S. ’02

Virginia Rice Morton M.L.S. ’02 died Feb. 29 at her home in Fredericksburg, Va., at age 64 of complications from cancer. Morton was born and raised in Alexandria, Va., the daughter of Edward Taylor Morton and Virginia Read Morton. She graduated from…