Winter 2021

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$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

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Where Wood Gets Weird

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Taken to Extremes

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Trading Touchdowns for Tangos

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Archiving Astronomical Achievements

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Don’t Take the (Click)bait

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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

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‘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

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News on Friends and Classmates

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10s

Jay Turakhia ’11

Jay Turakhia ’11, the greater Baltimore market president of Truist Financial Corp., was named to The Baltimore Sun’s 40 Under 40.

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Audrey Awasom ’18

Audrey Awasom ’18 was named to DC Inno’s 2020 25 Under 25. She is the founder and CEO of Noble Uprising, a nonprofit that helps provide job opportunities and readiness training to women experiencing homelessness and unemployment.

Passings

Phyllis F. Herndon ’52

Phyllis F. Herndon ’52 died Oct. 28 at Collington Life Plan Community following a long struggle with Alzheimer's disease. Phyllis was the only child of Milton and Harriet Fohrman of University Park, Md. She graduated from McKinley Technical High School in…

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Jin Kang ’86

Jin Kang ’86 joined the McDaniel College board of trustees. He is president and chief executive officer of WidePoint Corporation and serves as a director of the company. He is also the founder of WidePoint Integrated Solutions Corp. and served as its…

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Meshal DeSantis ’12

Meshal DeSantis ’12 joined the National Wildlife Federation as communications director. DeSantis mostly recently worked in communications at PL+US: Paid Leave for the United States and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Passings

Glen E. Weston ’43

Glen E. Weston ’43, the S. Chesterfield Oppenheim Professor of Antitrust & Trade Regulation Law Emeritus at George Washington University, died July 26, five days after his 98th birthday, at his home in Naples, Fla. Raised on a small farm in Shawnee,…

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Eileen Frazier ’90

Eileen Frazier ’90 was appointed chief administrative officer of NSBA, where she will be responsible for aligning and developing key organizational functions to maximize effectiveness and will lead NSBA’s finance divisions and facilities and office…

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Carolina Uechi ’10, M.RED. ’12, M.Arch ’14

Carolina Uechi ’10, M.RED. ’12, M.Arch ’14 was promoted to associate at architecture firm Quinn Evans. She is a designer who has contributed to many of the firm’s high-profile projects for the Smithsonian Institution and the John F. Kennedy Center for the…