Spring 2021

Campus Life

A Campus Legacy, by Design

Features

Facing the Offensive Line

Features

The Almighty Cod

In the Shadow of Climate Change and Overfishing, a UMD Researcher Finds Answers for Today’s Oceans in the Centuries-old Bones of a North Atlantic Fish.

Features

Terps, as Seen on TV!

This Sucks: How Your Robovac Could Spy on You

Campus Life

$9M Gift Establishes Institute for Performance and Technology in the Arts

Campus Life

Ewe-MD’s Lamb Lessons

Fighting Forgetting

Stage Whisperer

Acclaimed Theater Designer Takes Lead Role in Reimagining Live Performance

Apple Appeal

Class Act

Flipping Out for 75 Years

UMCP, UMB Team Up to Climb in National Research Ranking

Researchers’ Aim: One Vaccine for Many Viruses

Campus Life

Pines of the Times

‘It’s Not an Error, It’s a Language’

Class Act

Pandemic Fighter’s Priorities

Class Notes

News on Friends and Classmates

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Passings

Paula K. Montgomery Ph.D. ’89

Paula K. Montgomery Ph.D. ’89, former chief of school library media services for the Maryland Department of Education and assistant professor at McDaniel College, died March 3 at her home in Federal Hill. She was 74. The daughter of Floyd Woodrow…

Passings

Dr. Stephen P. Cafferty-Freed ’82

Dr. Stephen P. Cafferty-Freed ’82 died on Feb. 8 at the St. Mary’s Hospice Center of Palm Beach County, Fla., following a brief illness. He was 65. He was born in Providence, R.I., to Bernard and Dorothy Freed and raised in Bowie, Md., where he graduated…

Passings

Dr. William Falls Jr. ’55

Dr. William Falls Jr. ’55 of Richmond, Va., died on April 29 at age 87. He was born on June 22, 1933, in Washington, D.C., to the late Dr. William Franklin Falls Sr. and Elizabeth Westbrook McGowen Falls. Falls received his undergraduate degree in zoology…

90s

Kathleen H. Hicks MPM ’93

Kathleen H. Hicks MPM ’93 was sworn in as the U.S. deputy secretary of defense. She started her career at the Pentagon as a management intern in 1993, and was most recently senior vice president and Henry A. Kissinger Chair at the Center for Strategic and…

80s

Dr. Ajay Verma ’84

Dr. Ajay Verma ’84 was appointed executive vice president, head of research and development at Yumanity Therapeutics, a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of innovative, disease-modifying therapies for neurodegenerative diseases. Dr.…

Passings

Louise C. Speicher ’61

Louise C. Speicher ’61 of Davidson, N.C., died on Jan. 5, at age 81. She was an avid quilter, and loved to mentor others in her craft. She enjoyed being part of the church’s Cuddle Quilt group. She volunteered and led many charitable groups including the…

00s

Zachariah Barratt ’05

Zachariah Barratt ’05 joined hedge fund Citadel as a portfolio manager. Previously, he was head of corporate credit trading at Apollo Global Management.

80s

Tonya Muse ’89

Tonya Muse ’89 joined Odgers Berndtson as partner in the U.S. Corporate and Government Affairs Practice, based in the Washington, D.C., office. Muse was previously executive director of the Council of Manufacturing Associations at the National Association…