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

Class Notes

Class Notes

News on Friends and Classmates

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

Illustration of person dropped mask behind them as they walk, with sanitizer and glove on the ground behind them

Lockdown Breakdown

Study Finds Fatigue With Mobility Restrictions Sets in Quickly

Explorations

Telescope Terps

Hubble’s Giant Successor Has Plenty of Connections to UMD

Class Notes

News on Friends and Classmates

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60s

Charles Fefferman ’66

Charles Fefferman ’66 was awarded the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in basic sciences. The awards recognize basic research and creative work worldwide that significantly enlarges the stock of knowledge in a discipline, opens up new fields,…

10s

Alex Wu MBA ’13

Alex Wu MBA ’13 was appointed vice president of digital transformation and chief information officer for Keolis North America. Most recently, he spent two decades working with the United States federal government serving as the deputy chief information…

Jake Eisenberg in the broadcast booth at baseball game

10s

Jake Eisenberg ’17

Jake Eisenberg ’17 was hired by the New York Mets as their third radio play-by-player on games this season. He was previously the lead play-by-player for the Triple-A Omaha Storm Chasers.

00s

Robert D. Kelly Ph.D. ’05

Robert D. Kelly Ph.D. ’05 was named president of the University of Portland, a Catholic university in Oregon. He was previously vice president and special assistant to the president at Loyola University Maryland in Baltimore.

80s

Monica Norton ’87

Monica Norton ’87 was named a deputy managing editor of The Washington Post. Norton was previously the deputy local editor for planning and enterprise. In previous roles at Newsday, she edited Washington news, and served as assistant and then deputy Long…

Passings

Charles “Mike” Mann ’69

Charles “Mike” Mann ’69 died suddenly from cardiac complications on Jan. 11, 2022, in his home on Kent Island, Md. He was the only son of Henry and Edith Mann of West Annapolis, Md. He graduated from Severn School in 1963, and he received his bachelor’s…

00s

Lorenzo Cremaschi Ph.D. ’04

Lorenzo Cremaschi Ph.D. ’04 was named Auburn University’s director of undergraduate research. He joined the university in 2016 as a professor in the department of mechanical engineering, following several years as a faculty member at Oklahoma State…

90s

James Johnson MBA ’98

James Johnson MBA ’98 was named chief information officer of James Hardie Industries, the world’s top producer and marketer of high-performance fiber cement and fiber gypsum building solutions. Most recently, Johnson held the role of CIO at Carpenter…