Winter 2020

Features

Growing Beyond Meat

Features

A Life of Sentences

Campus Life

Oh, the Places You’ll Sniff!

Campus Life

Harry Potter, Shoved Aside

Campus Life

Live From College Park!

Campus Life

Fostering Community

Plans Unveiled for Basketball Performance Center

As the World Turns

Scales of Success

Class Act

Man-to-Man Coverage

Campus Life

Getting the Hall Rolling

Campus Life

News

Campus Life

Class Notes

News on Friends and Classmates

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Vincent L. Stephens Ph.D. '05

Vincent L. Stephens Ph.D. '05 is the author of “Rocking the Closet: How Little Richard, Johnnie Ray, Liberace, and Johnny Mathis Queered Pop Music,” published by University of Illinois Press. Stephens is director of the Popel Shaw Center at Dickinson…

Passings

David P. Seyler '78

David P. Seyler '78 of Kill Devil Hills, N.C., died at his home on Oct. 30 at age 64. He was born on Nov. 25, 1954, in Lock Haven, Pa., and grew up in Clinton, Md. Seyler graduated from Surrattsville High School in Surrattsville, Md. After completing his…

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Marissa B. Parra '15

Marissa B. Parra '15 started a new reporting job at CBS-owned WBBM-Channel 2 in Chicago. Parra previously worked for WSET, the ABC affiliate in Lynchburg, Va., and WUSA, the CBS affiliate in Washington, D.C.

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Akash Palkhiwala MBA '99

Akash Palkhiwala MBA '99 was named executive vice president and CFO of Qualcomm. He had been acting as interim CFO since August. He previously served as senior vice president and finance lead for Qualcomm CDMA Technologies. He has worked with the company…

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Jaimee Holmes '07

Jaimee Holmes '07 was a recipient of the Daily Record 2019 Leading Women Award. She is a lawyer in private practice. Prior to opening her own practice, Holmes interned in the Charles County Office of the Public Defender.

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Stacy Kula '93

Stacy Kula '93 joined the Steptoe & Johnson PLLC business department, practicing in the firm’s Lexington, Ky., office. She leads the firm’s hospitality and resorts team. She earned her law degree from North Carolina Central University and her LL.M. in…

Passings

Brenda L. Holmes '68

Brenda L. Holmes '68 died Nov. 17 at the age of 76. Holmes grew up boating on the Chesapeake Bay, and spent many happy summers water skiing, sailing and crabbing. Holmes began her career as a home economics teacher, and later became a part-time real…

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Colleen Vacelet '02

Colleen Vacelet '02 was one of Baltimore Business Journal’s 2019 40 Under 40 honorees. She is president of Intreegue Design Landscape Architecture.