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Spring 2022

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How We Picture Greatness

College Park is hopping and humming with new businesses, housing and other perks. See for yourself.

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The Big Question

What’s the Smallest Change People Can Make to Have the Biggest Positive Impact on Society?

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A Tail of Success

Alum’s Popular ‘Cat Cafés’ in D.C., Hollywood Draw Celebrities While Saving Kitties

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Brothers’ Truebill Pays Off, Truly

Entrepreneurial Terps Sell Financial Planning App for $1.275B

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Creating Style to Augment Substance

Costume Designer Makes Stars Shine on Small and Big Screens

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The Godmother of Title IX

Fifty years after the law’s passage, the legacy of Bernice Sandler Ed.D. ’69 endures through the millions of girls and women whose lives she’s changed.

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Clean Sheet

See How University Archives Restored a Rare Piece of Maryland’s Musical History

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Alumni Association News

Career Week in Review, An Event With Good Tastes and Terps Supporting Terps

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Growing Justice From Grassroots Science

Trash and toxic substances are often dumped where poor people and communities of color live. Public health researcher Sacoby Wilson is empowering them to fight for cleaner, safer conditions.

 News Collins memorial on campus

Campus Plaza Honors 1st Lt. Richard W. Collins III

Plaque, Unity Mural Represent ‘Only the Beginning’

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Safer Flights

Faculty, Students Study How to Make Buildings More Bird-Friendly

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From MRIs to the QTC

Physicist Translates Quantum Theory Into Medical Devices and Tomorrow’s Tech

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No Appetite for Racist Stereotypes

In New Book, Professor Chews Over the Consequences of Food Shaming

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Lockdown Breakdown

Study Finds Fatigue With Mobility Restrictions Sets in Quickly

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Telescope Terps

Hubble’s Giant Successor Has Plenty of Connections to UMD

 Campus Life Gymnast Audrey Barber

Sports Briefs

Gymnast Vaults to Top of Maryland Leaderboard; Women Finish in Sweet 16

Class Notes

News on Friends and Classmates

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Sachin Sankpal M.S. ’95

Sachin Sankpal M.S. ’95 was appointed senior vice president, growth and transformation at Acuity, a market-leading industrial technology company. Prior to joining Acuity, Sankpal was the president of product and solutions at Resideo, a leader in smart…

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Utpal Koppikar ’91

Utpal Koppikar ’91 joined the board of directors of C4 Therapeutics, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company. Koppikar is the chief financial officer of Atara Biotherapeutics, a leader in T-cell immunotherapy. Koppikar earned an M.S. in aeronautical…
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Madhushree Ghosh Ph.D. ’98

Madhushree Ghosh Ph.D. ’98 is the author of “Khabaar: An Immigrant Journey of Food, Memory, and Family,” published by University of Iowa Press. The book is a food memoir and personal narrative that braids the global journeys of South Asian food through…
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Chris Sullivan ’05

Chris Sullivan ’05 was promoted to chief financial officer at Avalo Therapeutics, a leading clinical-stage precision medicine company that discovers, develops, and commercializes targeted therapeutics for patients with significant unmet clinical need in…
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Bill Fahrbach ’02

Bill Fahrbach ’02 joined Facet Wealth as chief financial officer. He previously spent 10 years overseeing the growth of private equity-backed software-as-a-service firms.
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Adam Turbowitz ’06

Adam Turbowitz ’06 was named partner at law firm Boies Schiller Flexner. He represents clients in complex matrimonial and family law cases. Turbowitz also serves in leadership positions for the Council of the American Bar Association’s Family Law Section.

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Emily McManaman ’05

Emily McManaman ’05 joined wealth management practice Seventy2 Capital as human resources and operations director.
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Jesus Jackson ’10

Jesus Jackson ’10 joined technology firm ArdentMC as its chief technology officer. He was formerly the vice president for engineering at CollabraLink Technologies.