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

Vernon “Bob” R. Schmalbach Jr. ’65

Vernon “Bob” R. Schmalbach Jr. ’65 of Wilmington, Del., died on Feb. 5 at age 78. Born in Baltimore, Schmalbach graduated from UMD with a mechanical engineering degree and the University of Delaware with an MBA. He worked as a mechanical engineer with…

10s

Audrey Farley Ph.D. ’17

Audrey Farley Ph.D. ’17 is the author of “The Unfit Heiress: The Tragic Life and Scandalous Sterilization of Ann Cooper Hewitt.” The book, out from Grand Central Publishing, tells the story of a 1930s millionairess whose mother had her declared…

90s

Kamel Haddad Ph.D. ’92

Kamel Haddad Ph.D. ’92 is now dean of the College of Natural and Health Sciences at the University of Northern Colorado. Previously, he was a professor of mathematics at California State University San Marcos with a special assignment as consultant for…

70s

Dr. Harold Koplewicz ’73

Dr. Harold Koplewicz ’73 is the author of “The Scaffold Effect: Raising Resilient, Self-Reliant, and Secure Kids in the Age of Anxiety,” released by Harmony Books. It guides parents through strategies for raising empowered, capable people. Koplewicz is a…

70s

Paul Travers ’73

Inspired by his dying father’s dream of hiking the Appalachian Trail, Paul Travers ’73 wrote the new book “Dancing with the Mountains ... Alzheimer’s, Angels, and the Appalachian Trail: A Journey of Spirit.” It chronicles Travers’ thru-hike to raise money…

Passings

Arthur Irving Bell Jr. ’54

Arthur Irving Bell Jr. ’54 died on Jan. 23 in Naples, Fla. He was born on Sept. 3, 1931. Bell spent the fourth year of his life in Kernan Hospital for Crippled Children (the current University of Maryland Rehabilitation and Orthopedic Institute) being…

90s

Danielle Guindo ’98

Danielle Guindo ’98, executive director of NYC-based Read Alliance, was recognized by the TV network PIX11 as a “Remarkable Woman.” Read Alliance trains high schoolers in a phonics-based curriculum and then meaningfully employs them to tutor younger peers…

90s

Andre Marshall Ph.D. ’96

Andre Marshall Ph.D. ’96 will become George Mason University’s vice president for research, innovation and economic development, as well as president of the university’s research foundation, effective July 1. Marshall currently serves as the program…