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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.

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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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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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Megan E. Kanefsky ’05

Megan E. Kanefsky ’05 was named vice president, human capital at the private equity firm J.F. Lehman & Company. Kanefsky spent 15 years in the human resources group at Blackstone. She earned an M.A. in industrial and organizational psychology from…

Passings

William Turco ’87

William Turco ’87 of Silver Spring, Md., died suddenly on March 10, 2022, at 59. Turco was born to Martha W. Turco and Ronald F. Turco Sr. Turco worked as a CPA and was the exempt organization senior director, tax, at RSM US LLP, specializing in…

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Amit Singh M.S. ’03

Amit Singh M.S. ’03 was appointed chief financial officer of AgileThought, a provider of digital transformation services, custom software development and next-generation technologies. He was most recently head of finance, U.S. and global head of investor…
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Omar Paredes ’06

Omar Paredes ’06 was named associate director, industry engagement at SoundExchange, a music-tech organization. Prior to joining SoundExchange, Omar was director of artist services of Latin for the Orchard, a global digital distributor, and founder of…

Passings

Robert Glenn Miller ’50

Robert Glenn Miller ’50 died on March 9, 2022, at age 97. Born in Accident, Md., he was the son of the late Lloyd E. and Cora M. Miller. He was a WWII veteran, having served in the U.S. Navy for nearly two years in the Pacific theater. In 1949, he married…
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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…
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Srijan Kumar M.S. ’16, Ph.D. ’17

Srijan Kumar M.S. ’16, Ph.D. ’17 was named to the 2022 Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list in the category of science. An assistant professor at Georgia Institute of Technology, he develops data science and machine learning solutions to combat malicious online…