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

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.

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.

Post-Grad

Alumni Association News

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

Post-Grad

Clean Sheet

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

Post-Grad

Creating Style to Augment Substance

Costume Designer Makes Stars Shine on Small and Big Screens

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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Passings

Camilla P. Schlegel ’75

Camilla P. Schlegel ’75 died in Silver Spring, Md., on Feb. 28, 2022, after a battle with ovarian cancer. She was 70. Schlegel was born on April 11, 1951, in Des Moines, Iowa, to the late Charles Wiliam Phillips and Elizabeth Seitner Phillips. She…

Passings

Janice Claire White Bain-Kerr MLS ’66

Janice Claire White Bain-Kerr MLS ’66 died on March 1, 2022, in Frederick, Md. She was 80. Born in Philippi, W.Va., she received her B.A. from Davis & Elkins College in 1963. She served as associate dean of library sciences and university college…

Passings

Louis “Lou” Elder McConnell ’58

Louis “Lou” Elder McConnell ’58 died on March 8, 2022, at age 91. McConnell was born on Sept. 20, 1930, in Bronx, N.Y., but grew up in Southeast Washington, D.C. He served in the U.S. Navy and graduated from the University of Maryland with an economics…

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Karla Galva ’01

Karla Galva ’01 joined Essex Realty Group. Prior to joining Essex, Galva worked in marketing and transaction management for a residential real estate brokerage firm.

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.…

Passings

Carroll W. Smith Ph.D. ’72

Carroll W. Smith Ph.D. ’72 of Raleigh, N.C., died on April 29, 2022, after many years of Alzheimer’s disease. Smith was the son of the late Dr. Earl Smith and Aileen Watson Smith, both of long family lines from Travelers Rest, S.C., and Gap Creek. Smith…

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Leonard Hughes ’70, M.A. ’73

Leonard Hughes ’70, M.A. ’73 published “The Great Gatsby’s Southern Exposure: Walker Percy’s Debt to F. Scott Fitzgerald in ‘The Moviegoer,’” which explores for the first time a detailed relationship between Percy’s first novel and the classic Fitzgerald…

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…