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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Guclu Batkin ’00

Guclu Batkin ’00 was appointed CEO of TAV Airports’ subsidiary, TAV Operation Services. Batkın previously held other management roles at TAV Airports since 2005. He started his professional career in global securities and later worked at PwC before…

Passings

Bernard (Bud) Leightheiser ’55

Bernard (Bud) Leightheiser ’55 died on Feb. 16 in Wyomissing, Pa. He received a full tennis scholarship to attend UMD and was a business student. After graduation, he received a commission in the U.S. Air Force as a second lieutenant and spent two years…

Passings

William H. Mobley Ph.D. ’71

William H. Mobley Ph.D. ’71, former president of Texas A&M University and former chancellor of the Texas A&M University System. died March 25 in Austin after a battle with bile duct cancer. Mobley was born Nov. 15, 1941, in Akron, Ohio, grew up in…

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Orlando Carvalho MBA ’06

Orlando Carvalho MBA ’06 was elected to the board of directors of Mercury Systems. He is former executive vice president of Lockheed Martin’s aeronautics business, a 24,000-employee enterprise. Carvalho serves as the vice chairman on the board of advisors…

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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.

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Sofia Kosmetatos M. Jour. ’03

Sofia Kosmetatos M. Jour. ’03 was hired as an account director at Amendola Communications, a health care IT public relations and digital marketing agency. Most recently, she served as director of public affairs for West Health, a family of nonprofit…

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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.…

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Daniel Singh MFA ’04

Daniel Singh MFA ’04 is senior manager of tourism and cultural arts for Baltimore County. Singh most recently served as activation manager at Montgomery Parks.