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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.

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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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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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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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Alumni Association News

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

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Clean Sheet

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

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Creating Style to Augment Substance

Costume Designer Makes Stars Shine on Small and Big Screens

 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

 Explorations James Webb Space Telescope

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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Luis Bitencourt-Emilio ’05

Luis Bitencourt-Emilio ’05 joined the board of trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation. He is based in São Paulo as the chief technology officer at Loft, leading engineering, product, data and design teams to further the goal of homeownership for Latin…
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Courtney Geduldig ’97

Courtney Geduldig ’97 was named corporate vice president for public affairs at Micron Technology. Prior to Micron, Geduldig was head of government and public affairs at Chime Financial. She earned her J.D. from the University of Baltimore School of Law.

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​​Oyinade Koya ’05

​​Oyinade Koya ’05 joined the law firm Mitchell Sandler. She earned her J.D. from the University of Baltimore.
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Donnelly Bohan MBA ’09

Donnelly Bohan MBA ’09 was appointed chief operating officer of Nauticus Robotics, a Houston-area developer of surface and subsea robots, autonomy software and associated ocean services. Bohan was most recently at Leidos, where she served as vice…
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Deborah Lawrence ’76

Deborah Lawrence ’76 joined the board of governors of the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, Md. She retired as vice president of government affairs from the Williams Companies, a Tulsa-based energy company, in 2015. Lawrence received a law…
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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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Shauro Bagchi ’06

Shauro Bagchi ’06 was elected to the governance committee of law firm Maslon LLP. Bagchi is a partner in and co-chair of Maslon’s Corporate & Securities Group.
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Passings

Nancy S. Riley ’70

Nancy S. Riley ’70 of Ellicott City, Md., died on March 31, 2022. She was 74. Riley was a 1965 graduate of Catonsville High School. She attended Baldwin Wallace University in Ohio before transferring to UMD, where she earned a degree in piano performance.…