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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

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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Randy Paffenroth Ph.D. ’99

Randy Paffenroth Ph.D. ’99 was granted tenure at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts. He is an associate professor with a collaborative appointment in the Department of Mathematical Sciences, the Department of Computer Science and the Data…

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Geoffrey E. Harrison ’79

Geoffrey E. Harrison ’79 of Savannah, Ga., died on Feb. 12 after a four-year battle with cancer. He was born in London on May 24, 1953, to Gwendoline Marie Gibbs Harrison and Leo Peter Harrison. He and his sister, Louise, joined their mother in Maryland…

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Lorrie M. Norrington ’81

Lorrie M. Norrington ’81 was appointed to the board of directors of Ancestry. She previously served as an adviser to the company and has more than 30 years of operating experience in technology, software and internet businesses. Norrington, who has an MBA…

Passings

Oliver B. Wittig M.Ed. ’66

Oliver B. Wittig M.Ed. ’66 of Severna Park, Md., died at age 83 on Jan. 28 after battling a long illness. He was born in Frostburg, Md., and served as an assistant in administration at Annapolis Junior High, Corkran Junior High School and Glen Burnie High…

Passings

Dr. Stephen P. Cafferty-Freed ’82

Dr. Stephen P. Cafferty-Freed ’82 died on Feb. 8 at the St. Mary’s Hospice Center of Palm Beach County, Fla., following a brief illness. He was 65. He was born in Providence, R.I., to Bernard and Dorothy Freed and raised in Bowie, Md., where he graduated…

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Andrew Gladstein ’06

Andrew Gladstein ’06 was promoted to special counsel at Schulte Roth & Zabel, where he practices in the areas of complex commercial and white-collar litigation in federal and state courts. He has extensive experience representing investment managers…

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Kiandra (Bair) Steffy ’09

Kiandra (Bair) Steffy ’09, an attorney with Saxton & Stump, was appointed to the Lancaster Bar Association’s Board of Directors. She also serves as a board member for the LINK Foundation, which provides monetary grants to local nonprofits, sits on the…