Spring 2022

Features

Contemporary photo of the Iribe Center with archival photo of circle drive by Ritchie

How We Picture Greatness

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

Explorations

The Big Question

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

Post-Grad

A Tail of Success

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

Post-Grad

Brothers’ Truebill Pays Off, Truly

Entrepreneurial Terps Sell Financial Planning App for $1.275B

Post-Grad

Creating Style to Augment Substance

Costume Designer Makes Stars Shine on Small and Big Screens

Features

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.

Post-Grad

Clean Sheet

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

Post-Grad

Alumni Association News

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

Features

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

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

Plaque, Unity Mural Represent ‘Only the Beginning’

Explorations

Illustration of birds flying near buildings

Safer Flights

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

Explorations

From MRIs to the QTC

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

Explorations

No Appetite for Racist Stereotypes

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

Explorations

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Lockdown Breakdown

Study Finds Fatigue With Mobility Restrictions Sets in Quickly

Explorations

Telescope Terps

Hubble’s Giant Successor Has Plenty of Connections to UMD

Campus Life

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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Haley Kaufman ’86

Haley Kaufman ’86 was named to Working Mother Magazine’s ranking of “Top Wealth Advisor Moms.” She was also named to Forbes’ list of best in-state women wealth advisors. Kaufman is a financial advisor for Bank of America Merrill in Washington, D.C.

10s

Andrew Katz ’11

Andrew Katz ’11 married Marysa Greenawalt on Oct. 24 at the Wythe Hotel in Brooklyn, according to The New York Times. Katz is the deputy director of photography for Time magazine. He earned a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University.

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Dan Goodwin ’04

Dan Goodwin ’04 joined GrammaTech, a provider of application security testing products and software research services, as head of its cybersecurity research division. He was previously vice president for the digital and cyber solutions business of…

10s

Ryan McCarthy MBA ’13

Ryan McCarthy MBA ’13 joined the Washington, D.C., office of Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. McCarthy is former secretary of the U.S. Army. At Maxwell, he is serving as a strategic adviser, subject matter expert and…

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Andy Kalbaugh ’87

Andy Kalbaugh ’87 joined the management advisory board of TowerBrook Capital Partners, an international investment management firm. He is the former managing director and divisional president of national sales and consulting at LPL Financial.

Passings

June B. Wrona ’56, M.A. ’62

June B. Wrona ’56, M.A. ’62 of Rockville., Md., died on March 10, 2022, at age 87. Wrona was born on Jan. 19, 1935, to the late Hilary and Nadine Banachowski, She graduated first in her undergraduate class at UMD’s College of Arts and Sciences. Wrona…

Passings

Barbara C. Coulson ’52

Barbara C. Coulson ’52 died on Nov. 27, 2021, at age 92. Coulson was born in Muskegon, Mich., and moved to Towson, Md., as a young girl. She received her bachelor’s degree in education from the UMD and traveled to Japan and then Germany to teach at the…

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Liz Sara ’80

Liz Sara ’80 was hired as president of the SCORE Foundation, which supports startups, entrepreneurs and small businesses around the country. She was previously the first female chair of the Dingman Center of Entrepreneurship.