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

Campus Life

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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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…

80s

Paul Thompson ’87

Paul Thompson ’87 was added to the board of Carsins Run at Eva Mar, Harford County’s first continuing care retirement community. Thompson is president and director of Architectural Design Works.

70s

Steve Lafferty '71

Steve Lafferty '71 was nominated to serve as director of the Baltimore County Department of Planning, effective Jan. 15. Since August 2019, he had been the county's first chief sustainability officer. He previously served in the Maryland House of…

Passings

James F. Beck ’63

James F. Beck ’63 died Sept. 21 at age 80. He was born in Kyser, W.Va., a son of Charles and Beulah Beck. He graduated from the University of Maryland with a degree in chemical engineering and began his professional career with DuPont in Belle, W.Va. He…

80s

Kathleen Neuzil ’83

Kathleen Neuzil ’83, director of the University of Maryland School of Medicine’s Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, was named one of The Baltimore Sun’s 2020 co-Marylanders of the Year: The other was the thousands of men and women who make…

90s

Leigh Reichel MBA ’90

Leigh Reichel MBA ’90 was announced chief financial officer of Inky Technology, a pioneer in email phishing protection. Reichel has been deeply involved in more than half a dozen startup entities and several public companies, raising over $1 billion in…

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John C. Hoffsommer M.S. ’60

John C. Hoffsommer M.S. ’60, a chemist, pianist and longtime resident of Montgomery County, Md., died Nov. 25. He was 88. The son of Ruth Andrews Hoffsommer and Harold Charles Hoffsommer, he graduated from McKinley Technology High School and received a…

80s

Babette Hankey ’86

Babette Hankey ’86 was named one of the Orlando Business Journal’s 2020 CEOs of the Year. She is president and CEO of Aspire Health Partners, a $100 million nonprofit that provides a continuum of behavioral health services. Hankey is the first female…