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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

Edythe Zeck Adams ’50

Edythe Zeck Adams ’50 of Hollywood, Fla., died on Jan. 21 at age 92. Adams was born July 9, 1928, in Washington, D.C. She earned a B.S. in practical arts from UMD, where she met her future husband, Charles B. Adams. They were married in 1950 and lived in…

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Julia Redding Bryant Ph.D. ’88

Julia Redding Bryant Ph.D. ’88 of Wallace, N.C., died on April 9 at age 73. She was the oldest child born to the late Charles McArthur Redding and the late Geneva Jones Redding in Durham, N.C. She graduated from Hillside High School and earned her…

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Mary A. Lynch Turner ’82

Mary A. Lynch Turner ’82 of Perryville, Ky., died on Jan. 10 at age 63. She was raised in Bethesda, Md. She also earned a doctor of veterinary medicine degree from Purdue University and ran a veterinary practice in Kentucky, focusing on large animals. She…

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Joanne Wise Williams ’60

Joanne Wise Williams ’60, of Ocean Pines, Md., died on Feb. 15 at age 84. Born in Forest Glen, Md., she was the daughter of the late Joel Wise and Anna Schauck Wise. Williams taught elementary school in Montgomery County, Md. She also worked in…

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Carol J. Griffin M.S. ’71

Carol J. Griffin M.S. ’71 of Stephenson, Va., died on Dec. 28. Griffin was born on Oct. 21, 1947, in New Hampshire to Robert and Frances Anderson. She grew up in Wharton, N.J. Griffin graduated from Denison University, where she met her late husband, John…

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Carlos F. Matus ’86

Carlos F. Matus ’86 was named acting director of the Diplomatic Security Service in the U.S. Department of State. He is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service and has been with DSS since 1987.

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Jon Pessah ’74

Jon Pessah ’74 published “Yogi: A Life Behind the Mask,” a biography of Yogi Berra. He was a founding editor of ESPN The Magazine and sports editor at Newsday and The Hartford Courant.

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John Snyder ’73

John Snyder ’73 has written a screenplay based on his book, “The Golden Ring,” which was selected as a semi-finalist Search Screenwriting Awards and has been optioned twice.