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Spring 2022

Campus Life Gymnast Audrey Barber

Sports Briefs

Gymnast Vaults to Top of Maryland Leaderboard; Women Finish in Sweet 16

 Campus Life Collage of Jared Bernhardt playing lacrosse, football

Dual Threat

Former Lacrosse Star Adds Football Title to Superb Collegiate Career

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Peace in Minds

With Tears, Hugs and Anger, International Crowd Condemns Invasion

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Sounding the ‘Factory’ Whistle

New Engineering Building Expands Students’ and Researchers’ Opportunities to Innovate

 Campus Life Leah Bush portrait

Ph.D. Research: Why Goths Age Happily

Terp Investigating Whether Elder Goths Hold Secret to Aging Happily

 Campus Life Illustration of Maryland flag welcome mat

A Foothold for Refugees

UMD Welcomes Afghan Arrivals to Campus Residences

 Campus Life Collage of three puppets

A Puppet by Any Other Name

Exhibit Highlights the Art Form’s Variety

 Campus Life Kevin Bacon

A Decade of Do Good Times

Student Competition Changed the Lives of Its Veterans—and Transformed Their Ventures

 Campus Life Students ice skate on temporary rink at La Plata Beach

La Plata Beach’s Cool Transformation

SGA, RecWell Install Skating Rink to Temporarily Create Winter Wonderland on Campus

 Campus Life Illustration of Testudo with Terrapin Strong flag

TerrapinSTRONG From the Start

Onboarding Initiative Introduces Terps to UMD’s History, Values

 Campus Life Two fencers fence in wheelchairs

En Garde for Accessibility

New Equipment Allows Students Who Use Wheelchairs to Participate in Fencing Club

Class Notes

News on Friends and Classmates

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Pete Casasanto ’02

Pete Casasanto ’02 was hired as chief biopharma officer at Sophia Genetics. Prior to this role, he was vice president of new commercialization initiatives at CellCarta. He holds an MBA in pharmaceutical management from Drexel University and a master’s…
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Kiandra D. Steffy ’09

Kiandra D. Steffy ’09 was appointed to the Eastern District of Pennsylvania Merit Selection Panel to fill a federal magistrate judge vacancy. Steffy is an attorney with Saxton and Strump and a director at large on the Lancaster Bar Association’s board of…
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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…

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Somprawin Manprasert Ph.D. ’04

Somprawin Manprasert Ph.D. ’04 was appointed first executive vice president and chief economist of the Economic Intelligence Center. Somprawin previously served as chief economist and executive vice president of the Bank of Ayudhya’s research team and as…
Gene Shue

Passings

Gene Shue ’55

Gene Shue ’55, a former NBA player and two-time coach of the year. died on April 3, 2022, at his home in Marina del Rey, Calif., at age 90. He was born in Baltimore on Dec. 18, 1931 and was a star basketball player at UMD. For 10 years, he played in the…

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Drew Plisco ’04

Drew Plisco ’04 joined ATP, a leading provider of information services and software solutions for the aviation industry, as chief financial officer. Before joining ATP, he served as chief financial officer of Holon Solutions and Infutor Data Solutions.
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Vanessa Smith MBA ’04

Vanessa Smith MBA ’04 joined the board of directors of Fastly, the world’s fastest global edge cloud network provider. She is senior vice president, global go-to-market at ServiceNow.

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Emily McManaman ’05

Emily McManaman ’05 joined wealth management practice Seventy2 Capital as human resources and operations director.