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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Kelly Robertson-Slagle ’03

Kelly Robertson-Slagle ’03 joined the College of Southern Maryland Foundation as a director. The nonprofit helps increase access to higher education through scholarship opportunities and raises funds for college projects involving workforce development.…

Passings

Dr. Joseph A. Nizolek Jr. ’58

Dr. Joseph A. Nizolek Jr. ’58 of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, died Nov. 21 from head injuries due to a fall. He was 82. He was born to Joseph A. Sr. and Sophie Nizolek. He studied at UMD, then completed medical school and an anesthesiology residency at the…

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Dorothea “Dorothy” M. Chrismer ’74

Dorothea “Dorothy” M. Chrismer ’74, a longtime University of Maryland employee, died Oct. 5 at age 68. She was born on April 17, 1952, to Carol Dean Shifflett and Elizabeth May (Gussio) Shifflett in Washington, D.C. She was raised in Greenbelt, Md., and…

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Jennings F. Worley III ’90

Jennings F. Worley III ’90 of Carlsbad, Calif., died Nov. 28 at age 62. He grew up in Forestville, Md., and after graduating from UMD, he pursued his studies in molecular biology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, achieving a doctorate in…

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Lou Ellen Campbell ’74

Lou Ellen Campbell ’74 of Elkton, Md., died Nov. 3 at age 77. She was born in Richland, Va., on Nov. 3, 1943, to the late Harman and Gladys (Meadows) Allison. While growing up, Campbell enjoyed participating in 4H by submitting award-winning canning and…

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Eddy G. Lee ’69

Eddy G. Lee ’69 died Nov. 22. He was born in Washington, D.C., in 1948, the youngest son of the late Olive Louis Doong and Ark Kee Lee, both of Toishan, Canton, China. He graduated from Northwestern High School in 1965, and completed his degree from the…

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Brewster Chamberlin ’66, Ph.D. ’72

Brewster Chamberlin ’66, Ph.D. ’72, a writer and historian, died at the age of 81 on Nov. 12 in Key West, Fla., his home since 2001. After completing work on a Ph.D. in modern European history, Chamberlin became known for the seminal German-American…

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Mirela Gavrilas ’90

Mirela Gavrilas ’90 was appointed director of the Nuclear Response Commission’s Office of Nuclear Security and Incident Response. She joined the commission in 2004 as a reactor systems engineer and most recently was deputy office director for reactor…