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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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Nicole Bouknight Johnson ’93

Nicole Bouknight Johnson ’93 was selected to serve as Hudson County Community College’s inaugural vice president for advancement and communications. Most recently, Johnson served as national director of development and communications for the nonprofit A…

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Tim Kurkijan ’78

Tim Kurkijan ’78 is the 2022 winner of the Baseball Writers’ Association of America’s Career Excellence Award. He is a longtime writer and ESPN analyst covering Major League Baseball. Kurkjian previously covered the MLB for the Dallas Morning News, The…

Passings

Billie Joe Redmond ’57

Billie Joe Redmond ’57 died on Oct. 29, 2021, at age 91 in LaVale, Md. Born on April 1, 1930, to Charles Steven and Ruby Agnes (Mitchell) Redmond in Powellton, W.V., he served eight years in the National Guard and enlisted in the Marine Corps. He worked…

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Maxine Batie Cunningham M.Ed. ’59

Maxine Batie Cunningham M.Ed. ’59 of Annapolis, Md., died on Oct. 22, 2021. Born to Albert and Caroline Batie on May 13, 1921, in Cumberland, Md., she completed her undergraduate studies at Towson University and earned her master’s in education at UMD.…

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Katie Donahue MPM ’09

Katie Donahue MPM ’09 was hired as the city of Fort Collins’ Natural Areas Department director. Since 2016, Donahue has served as the district ranger for the Canyon Lakes Ranger District on the Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National…

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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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Christine Edwards ’74

Christine Edwards ’74 received the Distinguished Graduate Award from the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law. Edwards, a 1983 Carey graduate, is a recently retired partner and chair of the bank regulatory practice at Winston &…

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Phyllis Caldwell ’81, MBA ’87

Phyllis Caldwell ’81, MBA ’87 was elected to the board of directors of Oaktee Specialty Lending. She is founder and has served since 2012 as managing member of Wroxton Civic Ventures, which provides advisory services on financial, housing and economic…