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

The Big Question

Class Notes

News on Friends and Classmates

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90s

Alethia Nancoo ’90, M.Ed. ’92

Alethia Nancoo ’90, M.Ed. ’92 was selected by the Washington Business Journal as one of its 2020 Minority Business Leaders. Nancoo is a partner at Squire Patton Boggs, where her practice focuses on public, private and project debt finance. She advises…

80s

Connie Lynch ’89

Connie Lynch ’89 was named assistant vice president of claims legal for Geico. After working as a defense attorney in private practice, Lynch joined Geico’s staff counsel as a trial attorney in 1997 and transferred to the claims legal division in 2008.…

10s

Daniel Thomas ’11

Daniel Thomas ’11, a Ph.D. student at the University of Texas, won first place at his university in the Three Minute Thesis competition for his presentation on his thesis, “Black Male Teachers Entangled in Pathology.” He went on to the regional Three…

80s

Paul G. Ullmann ’89

Paul G. Ullmann ’89 was elected to the board of directors of the MPT Foundation, the 501(c) (3) fundraising affiliate of Maryland Public Television. He is vice president of private wealth services, SunTrust Bank and also serves on the board of the…

80s

David Gwyn ’89

David Gwyn ’89 was promoted to worldwide sales chief operating officer at enterprise cloud computing firm Nutanix. Gwyn arrived there eight years ago as director of federal sales and was most recently senior vice president of sales for the U.S. West,…

Passings

Jack A. Grubber ’59

Jack A. Grubber ’59 died on March 17 at his home in Great Mills, Md., at age 89. He was the son of Michael J. Grubber and stepmother Jean Elaine Grubber, and Sara Ellen Bennett and stepfather Joseph H. Bennett. He was born on May 13, 1930, in Moundsville,…

10s

Tim Schwartz ’14

Tim Schwartz ’14 was named sports editor of Capital Gazette, the news organization covering Annapolis and Anne Arundel County. He’s been with Baltimore Sun Media for more than five years, previously covering prep sports in his native Howard County.

80s

Jonathan Gold ’89

Jonathan Gold ’89 joined law firm Dickinson Wright’s Washington, D.C., office. Gold focuses on creditors' rights and complex financial restructuring matters, as well as in state court and bankruptcy litigation matters. Gold received his J.D. from the…