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Winter 2022

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Food Waste Feeds Ambitions for Fuel, Bioplastics

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Health Literacy Spans Language Divide

Researchers Help Mobilize Communities to Fight COVID, Other Diseases

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Robot’s Soft Touch Bests Super Mario Bros.

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Joint City Hall-UMD Building Opens

Campus Life Sports Briefs: Wrought iron red M Gate against brick outside of Maryland Stadium.

Sports Briefs

Longtime Field Hockey Coach Nets 600th Win; Big Ten Champ Named Women’s Soccer Coach

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A Brand New World

New rules allowing college athletes to profit from endorsement deals are changing the game for universities nationwide. UMD aims to be the first with a playbook.

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Fearless Futures

UMD exceeded the record $1.5 billion goal of its Fearless Ideas campaign. Now those funds are changing the university—and the world—for the better.

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A Rooted Return

Her ancestor was enslaved in Prince George’s County. Five generations later, a doctoral student is reinvigorating the area’s agricultural—and communal—ties.

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Sound Decisions

Researcher Beats His Own Drum in Considering How Brains Process and Understand Sound

Class Notes

News on Friends and Classmates

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Steven Lehrer ’82

Steven Lehrer ’82 joined the board of advisors of BioHarvest Sciences. He is a member of the University of Maryland’s Bioengineering Department Advisory Board and sits on the board of directors for two life science companies. Previously, Lehrer was head…

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Maj. Gregory T. Douds ’83

Maj. Gregory T. Douds ’83 was promoted to deputy staff judge advocate of the Georgia State Defense Force, an all-volunteer military branch of the Georgia Department of Defense that focuses on search and rescue, disaster relief, and National Guard support…

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Bahareh Kamali ’97

Bahareh Kamali ’97 was promoted to executive vice president of strategic development at MTV Entertainment Group. She previously served as senior vice president of strategic development.

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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H. Russell “Russ” Potts Jr. ’64

H. Russell “Russ” Potts Jr. ’64 died on Dec. 19, 2021, at age 82. Potts served 20 years in the Virginia Senate, representing the northern Shenandoah Valley. Potts was born in Richmond on March 4, 1939, and spent most of his life in Winchester, Va. After…

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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…

Passings

George S. Douglass Jr. ’52

George S. Douglass Jr. ’52 of Potomac, Md., died on Oct. 20, 2021, at age 95. Douglass served in the U.S. Navy before graduating from the University of Maryland. He was a founding director of LND and also worked as a director of Teledyne MEC, where he…

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Richard “Dick” Eigenbrot Jr. ’66

Richard “Dick” Eigenbrot Jr. ’66 died on Sept. 29, 2021, at age 80 in San Antonio. Born on June 17, 1941, in Drexel Hill, Pa., to Elizabeth Deary and Richard Lewis Eigenbrot Sr., he graduated from the University of Maryland on a football scholarship. He…