Winter 2022

Campus Life

January 31, 2022

With Pingpong-Tennis-Badminton Mashup on the Upswing, Terp Pro Leads the Way

Campus Life

January 31, 2022

Family’s $2.5M in Gifts Will Fund Arts Innovation, Support Education Majors

Explorations

January 31, 2022

Cupboard Staple’s Impact Goes Beyond the Dinner Table

Campus Life

January 31, 2022

New Fermentation Major Will Support Growing Maryland Craft Beverage and Food Industries

Explorations

January 31, 2022

Study Reveals Fewer Romances, Little Difference Between App, In-Person Pairings

News

January 31, 2022

UMD Makes $20M Investment in Q-Lab, Leads $25M NSF Grant on Quantum Simulation

Post-Grad

January 31, 2022

Alum Takes Over as Capitol Police Chief in Wake of Jan. 6 Riot

Explorations

January 31, 2022

Researcher Asks: Could Burying Enough Dead Wood Alter the Globe’s Climate Trajectory?

Campus Life

January 31, 2022

Student Team Wins Safety Award in Elon Musk’s Digging Contest

Campus Life

January 31, 2022

Honors College Scholar-in-Residence Spends Semester Among Students in Residence Hall

News

January 31, 2022

Post-Grad

January 31, 2022

Alum’s New Book Highlights African Americans’ Relationship to Lincoln

Post-Grad

January 31, 2022

Alum’s Streamlined Furniture Resale Website Aims to Cushion the Stress of Online Sales

Post-Grad

January 31, 2022

As Women’s Basketball Team Shoots for More Success, Get a Glimpse of 1920s Game-day Garb

Class Act

January 31, 2022

Explorations

January 31, 2022

Class Notes

News on Friends and Classmates

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Passings

Henry Herman Walbesser Jr. M.S. ’60, Ph.D. ’65

Henry Herman Walbesser Jr. M.S. ’60, Ph.D. ’65, a former University of Maryland professor, died on Jan. 1, 2022, at age 86. The only child of Florence Schoenl and Henry Walbesser of Buffalo, N.Y., he earned a B.A. at the University of Buffalo, where he…

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František Brabec Ph.D. ’05

František Brabec Ph.D. ’05 won second place in NASA’s Space Robotics Challenge, a multi-year virtual competition. Brabec was awarded $125,000 at a Sept. 28 awards ceremony at Johnson Space Center in Houston. The challenge asked teams to develop a software…

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Phyllis Caldwell ’81, MBA ’87

Phyllis Caldwell ’81, MBA ’87 was elected to the board of directors of Oaktee Specialty Lending. She is founder and has served since 2012 as managing member of Wroxton Civic Ventures, which provides advisory services on financial, housing and economic…

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Erek L. Barron ’96

Erek L. Barron ’96 was sworn in as the 49th United States attorney for the District of Maryland. Barron was most recently a partner in a law firm in Maryland, with a focus on complex business and criminal litigation. Barron received his law degree from…

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John Ferrara ’73

John Ferrara ’73 was appointed to the board of directors of SCWorrx. Since 2017, he has been a partner at CFO Performance Partners. He was previously CFO of Wild Sky Media, CFO of Cartesian and CFO of The Street Inc. Ferrara is a CPA and has an MBA in…

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Clay Siegall ’82

Clay Siegall ’82 was appointed chair of the board of directors of Umoja Biopharma. He serves as president and chief executive officer of Seagen, which he co-founded in 1998 to develop antibody-drug conjugates for the treatment of cancer. Prior to founding…

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Kevin Davis ’02, ’07

Kevin Davis ’02, ’07 was promoted to member of the law firm Caplin and Drysdale. His principal practice area is complex commercial litigation, with a particular emphasis on creditors' rights and bankruptcy litigation.

Passings

Donald Lee Deardorff II ’90

Donald Lee Deardorff II ’90, 54, of Xenia, Ohio, died on Oct. 22, 2021. Born in Providence, R.I., on Oct. 1, 1967, to Donald L. Deardorff and Dorothy Ann Frizzell Deardoff, he earned his B.A. from Gettysburg College, his M.A. from the University of…