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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Passings

Jean M. Brandt ’47

Jean M. Brandt ’47 died of cardiac failure Jan. 7 at the Fairhaven Retirement Community in Sykesville, Md., where she lived for 18 years. She was 93. Born and raised in Halethorpe, she was the daughter of James Price McComas and Margery McGuigan McComas.…

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Kiandra Steffy ’09

Kiandra Steffy ’09 joined the firm Saxton & Stump as an associate to focus on labor and employment, Title IX and commercial litigation. She previously served for five years as an associate in the litigation group of a Harrisburg-based law firm. Steffy…

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Sophia Hadjipanteli ’18

Sophia Hadjipanteli ’18, founder of the #UnibrowMovement on social media, was featured on a cover of the digital February issue of Glamour UK, celebrating self-love and showing the changing faces of beauty.

Passings

Janice Mary McWeeny M.L.S. ’70

Janice Mary McWeeny M.L.S. ’70 of Falmouth, Mass., died Jan. 7 at age 72 after a battle with cancer. Born in Boston, she was the daughter of George P. and Alice A. Driscoll. She was educated in the Milton Public Schools, at Fontbonne Academy in Milton and…

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H. James West ’02

H. James West ’02 was named administrative judge of the Circuit Court for Charles County. West was appointed to the court in 2014. After serving as a U.S. Army intelligence analyst and paratrooper with the 82nd Airborne Division, West graduated from UMD…

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Cullen O'Grady ’03

Cullen O'Grady ’03 joined Greystone, a national commercial real estate lending, investment and advisory company, as a managing director and senior loan originator based in the company’s Rockville, Md., office. Prior to joining Greystone, he was a managing…

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Jenna Frey ’10

Jenna Frey ’10 is now vice president of operations at Whitebox, an e-commerce automation company based in Baltimore.

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William F. Tate IV Ph.D ’91

William F. Tate IV Ph.D ’91 was appointed executive vice president for academic affairs and provost at the University of South Carolina. He was previously dean of the Graduate School, vice provost for graduate education and the Edward Mallinckrodt…