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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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Passings

Andrew Jackson “Jack” Smith ’60

Andrew Jackson “Jack” Smith ’60 of Princess Anne, Md., died on Nov. 1, 2021. Born in Portsmouth, Va., to the late Andrew Jackson Smith and Myrtle Owens Sickman, he served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War for three years. He worked with the Radio…

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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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Jeff Silberman ’01

Jeff Silberman ’01 joined global law firm Morrison & Foerster as a partner in its FinTech and Financial Services groups. Previously, Silberman served as global co-chair of the FinTech practice at another leading international firm. He earned his J.D.…

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James Warren Smith Ph.D. ’71

James Warren Smith Ph.D. ’71 died on Nov. 26, 2021, at age 78. Born in Johnstown, Pa., he was the son of the late Warren J. Smith and Kathryn McCann Smith. He received his bachelor’s and master of science from Penn State University and his Ph.D. in dairy…

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Daniel K. Wims Ph.D. ’94

Daniel K. Wims Ph.D. ’94 became the 12th president of Alabama A&M University. He had served as its provost and vice president for academic affairs and research, as well as professor of agricultural sciences. He also held positions at Fort Valley State…

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Brian Thompson MBA ’09

Brian Thompson MBA ’09 was named vice president and general manager for the intelligence mission solutions business unit at Peraton, a Herndon, Va.-based technology company. He came to Peraton from Leidos Holdings, where he served as senior vice president…

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Stephen Robert Cassola ’56

Stephen Robert Cassola ’56 of Webster, Texas, died on Oct. 19, 2021, at age 90. Born on Jan. 12, 1931, in Brooklyn, Cassola served in the U.S. Air Force during the Korean War. He spent his career as an aerospace engineer in and around the manned space…

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Mary Giddens Washington McCray Ph.D. ’80

Mary Giddens Washington McCray Ph.D. ’80 died on Oct. 24, 2021. She was born on Jan. 13, 1930, in Jamesville, Va., and received an associate degree from the Norfolk Division of Virginia State College B.S. and M.S. degrees in home economics and elementary…