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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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Alka Bhave ’96, M.S. ’98

Alka Bhave ’96, M.S. ’98 was promoted to chief operations officer of Riverside Research. Bhave joined the company in 2021 as vice president and chief of staff. Previously, Bhave was vice president of performance excellence at Perspecta and Peraton.

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Velma Speight M.Ed. ’65, Ph.D. ’76

Velma Speight M.Ed. ’65, Ph.D. ’76 will be honored with a building named after her at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, where she earned two bachelor’s degrees. She is also a former chairwoman of the N.C. A&T board of…

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Errol Rajesh Arthur ’94

President Biden nominated Indian American magistrate judge Errol Rajesh Arthur ’94 to be an associate judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. Arthur has served in the Criminal Division, Domestic Violence Division and Family Court, and he…

Passings

Donald V. Fellers Jr. ’78

Donald V. Fellers Jr. ’78 of Southport, N.C., died on Nov. 13, 2021. Fellers was born on Sept. 17, 1952, in Waco, Texas, to the late Donald Vonrow Fellers Sr. and Betty Marie Dillow Fellers. Fellers graduated from Frederick High School in Maryland and…

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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.

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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…

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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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…