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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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…

90s

Seema Verma ’93

Seema Verma ’93 joined the board of directors of Lumeris. She most recently served as administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Modern Healthcare ranked her as the “Most Influential Person in Healthcare” in 2019 and one of the…

Passings

George W. Spencer ’61

George W. Spencer ’61 of Sycamore, Ill., died at Kishwaukee Hospital in DeKalb, Ill., on Jan 21. He was 81. Born in Wooster, Ohio, he was the son of Jack T. and Edith Spencer. Spencer graduated from Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School in Maryland and earned…

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Amber Wendland ’10, M.Arch. ’13

Amber Wendland ’10, M.Arch. ’13 was a recipient of the Daily Record 2021 Maryland’s Top 100 Women Award. Wendland is an urban, collegiate and neighborhood planner—she works on projects that bridge disciplines from feasibility studies for the Smithsonian…

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Nancy Maher ’88

Nancy Maher ’88 joined Entheon Biomedical Corp., a biotechnology company focused on developing psychedelic medicines to treat addiction, as special advisor of data science and regulatory affairs. Maher has served as an executive and consultant for major…

Passings

Bernard P. Walter Jr. ’63

Bernard P. Walter Jr. ’63 of Linthicum, Md., a legendary Anne Arundel County baseball coach, died on Feb. 5 at age 78 following a battle with cancer. Born to the late Anna and Bernard Walter Sr., he graduated from Brooklyn Park (Md.) High School and…

80s

Jean Parker ’82

Jean Parker ’82, general manager of Merriweather Post Pavilion, was the recipient of the Daily Record 2021 Maryland’s Top 100 Women Award.

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John Wright ’88

John Wright ’88 was named executive vice president, chief financial and operating officer of Sanibel Captiva Community Bank. Wright joined the bank in April 2020.