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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!

Web Only 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

Web Only 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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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.

90s

Kathleen H. Hicks MPM ’93

Kathleen H. Hicks MPM ’93 was sworn in as the U.S. deputy secretary of defense. She started her career at the Pentagon as a management intern in 1993, and was most recently senior vice president and Henry A. Kissinger Chair at the Center for Strategic and…

Passings

Edward E. Morler Ph.D. ’73

Edward E. Morler Ph.D. ’73 of Howey-in-the-Hills, Fla., died on Nov. 21 at age 80. He was founder and CEO of Morler International, a management training and consulting firm specializing in negotiation skills training, executive coaching and leadership…

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Raymond A. Plant ’57

Raymond A. Plant ’57 of Troy, Ohio, died on Jan. 8 at age 89. He was born on Jan. 24, 1931, in Dubois, Pa., to the late Anthony and Aurelia Plant. Plant was a veteran of the United States Air Force. He was a graduate of Duquesne University and a certified…

90s

Rick Buskirk ’98

Rick Buskirk ’98 was promoted to senior vice president and chief financial officer of Laureate Education. Buskirk was previously senior vice president of corporate development. Prior to joining Laureate in 2015, Buskirk was a CPA with EY and an investment…

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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Harry E. “Gene” Faul ’67

Harry E. “Gene” Faul ’67 died on Feb. 17 at age 76 at Country Meadows of York-West. Faul was born in Baltimore, Md., and graduated from Baltimore Polytechnic Institute. He earned a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from UMD and began working at…

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Sam Millman ’93

Sam Millman ’93 was hired as a loan originator dealing exclusively with reverse mortgages at the Steven J. Sless Group of Primary Residential Mortgage.