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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 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

Donald “Silky” O'Sullivan ’72

Donald “Silky” O'Sullivan ’72 died in Delaware, Ohio, on Oct. 2, 2021, at age 74. Born on Nov. 25, 1946, in Silver Spring, Md., to the late Diarmuid and Hilda (Hirsch) O’Sullivan, O’Sullivan was drafted into the U.S. Army and sent to Vietnam in the 1960s.…

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Moon Kim ’88, Ph.D. ’99

Moon Kim ’88, Ph.D. ’99 is one of two recipients of the federal government’s Meritorious Senior Professional Award. Kim is a research leader for the USDA’s Agricultural Research Service’s Environmental Microbial and Food Safety Lab in Beltsville, Md.

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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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Eric Walter ’04, M.RED ’10

Eric Walter ’04, M.RED ’10 was promoted to president of Baltimore County-based development firm Greenberg Gibbons. Walter previously served as its executive vice president and chief investment officer.

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Joel Vilmenay ’90

Joel Vilmenay ’90 was hired as general manager of KCBS-TV Channel 2 and KCAL-TV Channel 9 in Los Angeles. Vilmenay has spent two decades with Hearst Television, including as president and general manager of its NBC affiliate in New Orleans, WDSU-TV…

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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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Elizabeth “Libby” Eppley ’48

Elizabeth “Libby” Eppley ’48 died on Oct. 23, 2021. She was born on Jan. 18, 1927, to Elizabeth and Geary Eppley (1920), the noted UMD athletic director, dean of men and assistant professor of agronomy whose name is on the university’s recreation center.…

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Julia Clark Downs ’91

Julia Clark Downs ’91 died on Oct. 5, 2021, in Taos, N.M., after her car was struck by another motorist at high speed. Downs was born on May 25, 1978, in Evanston, Ill., to Emilie and Clark Downs. She grew up in Chevy Chase, Md., and studied English…