Winter 2022

Explorations

Food Waste Feeds Ambitions for Fuel, Bioplastics

Explorations

Health Literacy Spans Language Divide

Researchers Help Mobilize Communities to Fight COVID, Other Diseases

Explorations

Robot’s Soft Touch Bests Super Mario Bros.

News

Joint City Hall-UMD Building Opens

Campus Life

Sports Briefs

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

Features

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.

Features

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.

Features

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.

Explorations

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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Roxanne Taylor ’80

Roxanne Taylor ’80 was elected to the board of directors of Unisys Corp., an information technology company. Taylor serves as chief marketing and communications officer for Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City.

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Marcos Nogués ’93

Marcos Nogués ’93 was named chief investment officer of First Merchants Corp. Previously, Nogués worked at Oxford Financial Group, Mirador Family Wealth Advisors, Bank of America, Lasalle Bank and ABN AMRO Private Investment in Chicago. He earned a…

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John T. McBride ’08

John T. McBride ’08 joined the Stoel Rives Real Estate group, where his practice involves a range of real estate matters, including leasing, financing, acquisition, disposition and development. He received his J.D. with honors from the George Washington…

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Shaun Eddy ’88

Shaun Eddy ’88 joined the board of directors of the Howard Community College Educational Foundation. Eddy is the owner and CEO of Oxford Planning Group.

Passings

Raymond E. Grant ’49

Raymond E. Grant ’49 died on Oct. 23, 2021. Born on April 19, 1923, in Baltimore, he graduated from Baltimore Polytechnic Institute in 1941 before enlisting in the Navy’s V-5 pilot training program in 1943. He flew Torpedo and Dive Bombers in World War…

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Dax Alvarez ’92

Dax Alvarez ’92 relocated from the Los Angeles office of the law firm Snell & Wilmer to its Reno, Nev., location. Alvarez is a member of the intellectual property practice group. He earned his J.D. from the Catholic University of America.

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Andrew Weiner ’96

Andrew Weiner ’96 joined the Washington, D.C., office of law firm Miles & Stockbridge as a principal in the insurance recovery group. He was most recently a partner in the D.C. office of Reed Smith LLP and earned his law degree at the University of…

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Kimberly Boulmetis ’92

Kimberly Boulmetis ’92 was hired as a managing director and head of U.S. financial institutions for the Debt Capital Markets group at Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, based in New York. She has 25 years of experience covering the capital markets and…