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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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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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Scott Nance ’91

Scott Nance ’91 joined boutique lobbying and consulting firm A1.9 Strategies as vice president. He served for nearly two decades on the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security, including as its staff director from 2017-21.

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Aaron Sporck MBA ’14

Aaron Sporck MBA ’14 was appointed by Huntington to lead middle market banking and support the company's continued growth in West Virginia. Sporck previously served 20 years in public service and most recently as director of economic development for U.S.…

Passings

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…

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Monica Norton ’87

Monica Norton ’87 was promoted to deputy managing editor of The Washington Post, where she had been deputy Local editor for planning and enterprise since 2011. Since her arrival at The Post in 2005, Monica has also served as Metro’s day editor, technology…

Passings

Beverly A. Lusey MLS ’71

Beverly A. Lusey MLS ’71 died on Nov. 15, 2021, at age 81. A native of Northern California, Lusey was a graduate of San Francisco State College before attending UMD. She worked as a children’s librarian, an assistant director and reference librarian at…

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Mohammed Allieu Abdullah Ph.D. ’84

Mohammed Allieu Abdullah Ph.D. ’84 died on Oct. 26, 2021, at age 75 in Dayton, Ohio. Born on Feb. 13, 1946, to Dr. Aileu Sheikh Abdullah and Haja Mariatu Wahid, he grew up in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Abdullah received a B.A. from Indiana University, a…

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Gabriel Escobar M.A. ’83

Gabriel Escobar M.A. ’83, editor and senior vice president of The Philadelphia Inquirer, was elected to the Pulitzer Prize board. He spent 16 years at The Washington Post and while at the Inquirer has worked as managing editor, deputy managing editor for…