Winter 2021

Campus Life

$6.8M Gift Follows Unlikely Family Connection

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Grand Challenges Central

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A New Age in Physics

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Women’s Studies Named for Civil Rights Icon

Where Wood Gets Weird

Taken to Extremes

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Trading Touchdowns for Tangos

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Archiving Astronomical Achievements

Don’t Take the (Click)bait

Research Asks: Can Robots Get Us to Follow COVID Safety Rules?

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Fearsome Fabrications

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For Terp Fans, an Instant (Fall) Classic

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Spring 2021: Virtually the Same Experience as Fall

‘Smart Bra’ Could Provide Speedy, Early Warning of Cancer

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Photographing the Unseen

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50 Seasons of Netting Success

Class Notes

News on Friends and Classmates

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Pritpal Rahman Kalsi ’04

Pritpal Rahman Kalsi ’04, director of SC&H Group, was named to The Baltimore Sun’s 40 Under 40 list.

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Derrick E. White ’97

Derrick E. White ’97 wrote the book “Blood, Sweat, and Tears: Jake Gaither, Florida A&M, and the History of Black College Football,” published by UNC Press. Among the first broad-based histories of Black college athletics, the book centers on Gaither,…

Passings

John M. Uzick ’57

John M. Uzick ’57 died Nov. 12 at age 86, in Pottsville, Pa. Born in New Jersey on Sept. 4, 1934, Uzick was the son of the late Michael and Elizabeth (née Shulla) Uzick. A 1952 graduate of Tamaqua High School, he graduated from the University of Maryland…

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Kimberly Wilson ’09

Kimberly Wilson ’09 was one of 76 recipients nationwide awarded funds from the Google for Startups’ Black Founders Fund. Her D.C.-based startup, HUED, connects Black and Latino patients with culturally competent health care providers.

Passings

Charles G. “Gary” Benevento ’86

Charles G. “Gary” Benevento ’86 of Scarborough, Maine, died at Maine Medical Center on Dec. 5 at the age of 63. Raised in Duxbury, Mass., Benevento joined the Navy upon completing high school. His military service relocated him to Virginia, where he met…

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Ethan Zweig ’07

Ethan Zweig ’07 received the 2020 Daily Record Excellence in Construction Award-Project Manager. Zweig is the director of project management at Tradepoint Atlantic, where he promotes constructive collaboration among project stakeholders to deliver…

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Katherine Faulkner MBA ’17

Katherine Faulkner MBA ’17 is vice president, people and culture at Bridge Connector, an interoperability company changing the way health care communicates. Faulkner and other leadership recently announced the company’s Series B funding at $25.5 million.

Passings

Robert (Bob) Cummings ’63

Robert (Bob) Cummings ’63 died at his Hertford, N.C., home Nov. 5 after a long battle with prostate cancer. He was 82. Bob was born in Baltimore to Bill and Helen Henry Cummings and attended Patterson Park High School and UMD. There he played lacrosse and…