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Spring 2021

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A Campus Legacy, by Design

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Facing the Offensive Line

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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.

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Terps, as Seen on TV!

Vacuum spy

This Sucks: How Your Robovac Could Spy on You

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

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Ewe-MD’s Lamb Lessons

Fighting Forgetting: Wrought iron red M Gate against brick outside of Maryland Stadium.

Fighting Forgetting

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Stage Whisperer

Acclaimed Theater Designer Takes Lead Role in Reimagining Live Performance

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Apple Appeal

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Flipping Out for 75 Years

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UMCP, UMB Team Up to Climb in National Research Ranking

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Researchers’ Aim: One Vaccine for Many Viruses

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Pines of the Times

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‘It’s Not an Error, It’s a Language’

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Pandemic Fighter’s Priorities

Class Notes

News on Friends and Classmates

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Passings

Ronald John Smetanick M.Ed. ’71

Ronald John Smetanick M.Ed. ’71 died in his Rainbow Lake, N.Y., home on April 17. He was 79. Ron was the first child born to John and Irene Smetanick on Jan. 9, 1942, in Tarentum, Pa. He graduated from New Kensington High School and received a bachelor’s…

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Ronald Attman ’68

Ronald Attman ’68, who founded Acme Paper and Supply Co. in Savage, Md., was a winner of The Baltimore Business Journal’s Family-Owned Business Awards 2021.

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Richard J. Montgomery Ph.D. ’79

Richard J. Montgomery Ph.D. ’79 died at age 86 on Jan 14. He served as the chairman of the science division at Hagerstown Community College for 21 years. During those years, he developed a reputation for respecting the opinions of his colleagues and…

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Joseph L. Colburn Ph.D. ’63

Joseph L. Colburn Ph.D. ’63 died on Feb. 10 at age 91 in Elkhart, Ind. He was born in Baltimore and attended Mount Saint Joseph High School, before attending Loyola College. He worked part time at St. Agnes Hospital pharmacy, where he met his wife, Martha…

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Amy Brandt ’96

Amy Brandt ’96 joined the board of directors of Queenstown Bancorp of Maryland and Queenstown Bank of Maryland. Brandt is a certified public accountant and partner at Accounting Strategies Group. She also serves on the board of directors for Choptank…

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Tonia Pankopf ’89

Tonia Pankopf ’89 joined the board of 180 Degree Capital Corp., a firm investing in microcapitalization public companies. She has held vice president and senior equity analyst positions at Goldman Sachs & Co. and Merrill Lynch & Co. Pankopf is a…

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Eleanor I. Smith M.Ed. ’60

Eleanor I. Smith M.Ed. ’60 of Houston died at age 84 on Dec. 27. She earned a bachelor’s degree in home economics from the University of Georgia in 1957 and a master’s degree in adult education from UMD. Smith taught home economics at Houston schools. She…

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Alicia O'Brien ’97

Alicia O'Brien ’97 was appointed senior counsel and special assistant to the president in the White House Counsel’s Office. She served at the Department of Justice as an associate deputy attorney general and as a deputy assistant attorney general in the…