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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Eddie Bates M.A. ’13

Eddie Bates M.A. ’13 joined Focus Real Estate in Boston as a licensed realtor. Bates had previously served as an urban planner in Brookline, Mass.

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Kevin Burris ’03

Kevin Burris ’03 was appointed to the senior staff at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, serving as its primary liaison to members of Congress, other federal agencies and state governments. He joined the SEC from the U.S. House Committee on…

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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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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

Mary T. Wachter Shenk ’72

Mary T. Wachter Shenk ’72 died on Feb. 4 at age 73 at her home in Daytona Beach Shores, Fla. She taught school for 42 years, including assignments in Maryland and Ohio. She was certified by the National Board of Professional Teaching Standards. She…

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Christian Douglas ’15

Christian Douglas ’15 released his first full-length album, “Inside Voice,” which he created, produced and recorded from his home during the pandemic. Special guests include singer-songwriter Becca Stevens and Snarky Puppy's Justin Stanton, among others.…

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Ronnie Footlick ’64

Ronnie Footlick ’64, who founded the beverage distributor Bond Distributing Co. in 1950, was a recipient of The Baltimore Business Journal’s Family-Owned Business Awards 2021.

Passings

R. Scott Beard M.M. ’90, DMA ’96

R. Scott Beard M.M. ’90, DMA ’96, provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at Shepherd University and a nationally recognized pianist, teacher, clinician, author and recording artist, died on March 28. He was born Aug. 24, 1964, in Richmond,…