SCIENCE BEHIND THE SUDS 8 A PEAK OF PICKLE PLAYERS 12 A ROOTED RETURN 34 A NEWBRANDWORLD COLLEGE ATHLETES STARTING TO PROFIT FROM ENDORSEMENT DEALS ARE CHANGING THE GAME FOR UNIVERSITIES NATIONWIDE. UMD AIMS TO BE THE FIRST WITH A PLAYBOOK. PG.WINTER28 2022 / CONNECTING THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COMMUNITY

The Terps’ men’s basketball team huddles before the Dec. 1 “Gold Rush” game honoring former Maryland star Len Bias, following his induction into the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame.

Bias was a two-time All-American who twice earned Atlantic Coast Conference Player of the Year honors and finished his four-year career as UMD’s all-time leading scorer before being selected No. 2 overall in the 1986 NBA draft by the Boston Celtics. Two days later, he died of complications from a cocaine overdose.
The shocking development sparked federal anti-drug legislation, the resignation of university and athletics leaders, and an overhaul of the athletics department. Decades later, the wounds are finally healing, and Bias’ athletic legacy is being newly acknowledged. At this game, the first 4,000 students received replica Bias jerseys, and his parents were recognized on the court. Maryland Athletics also produced a new documentary on Bias, “34,” offering an unprecedented look at his life. It’s now available at umterps.com
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EMBRACING OUR BIAS

2 TERP.UMD.EDU ONCONTENTSTHEMALL POST-GRAD POST-GRAD 40 Alumni Association 42 “Protecting the Democratic Process Itself” 44 Letters of Hope and Familiarity 46 A Better Plan for Secondhand 48 From the Archives NEWS 6 New Lab, Center Advance Quantum Computing 7 Joint City Hall-UMD Building Opens 7 Indigenous People of Maryland Honored in New Dining Hall CAMPUS LIFE Science Behind the Suds 10 Living, Learning and Teaching 11 Projecting the Future 11 A Hardly “Boring” Achievement 12 A Peak of Pickle Players 13 Sports Briefs EXPLORATIONS 14 Book Pulls the Lid Off Canned Food’s History 15 Swipe Left on Dating Stereotypes 15 Robot’s Soft Touch Bests Super Mario Bros. 16 Sound Decisions 17 Health Literacy Spans Language Divide 18 Food Waste Feeds Ambitions for Fuel, Bioplastics 18 Another Kind of Tree Planting 19 The Big Question



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.
College athletes starting to profit from endorsement deals are changing the game for universities nationwide.
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Researchers Revisit Wild Wood
Innovative engineers’ latest discoveries include wood that can be fashioned into knives that cut like steel.

Entrepreneur Lands a ‘Big Deal’ Alum behind all-in-one handbags wins $100,000 purchase order from Macy’s on new pitch competition TV series.

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Design course challenges students to craft comfortable, sturdy chairs out of cardboard.
UMD aims to be the first with a playbook.
34 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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if “food desert” has an opposite, I live in it. Giant, Harris Teeter, MOM’s Organic Market, Aldi, Safeway and Target are all within about two miles of my home in Bowie. They’re all spacious and well-stocked with fresh produce, milk and meat.
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But fewer than 20 minutes west across Prince George’s County, the supermarket landscape isn’t so super. In Capitol Heights, bordering D.C., options within a similar radius include corner markets and small strip-mall stores with a limited selection of wholesome foods.
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Drakeford’s efforts to provide healthy choices close to home include opening a farmers market in the parking lot of the Capitol Heights Home Depot and helping to run a community garden; she next has big ambitions for Black churches to share their commercial kitchens and vacant land to support local growers.
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UMD doctoral student Brittney Drakeford is working to improve the menu of choices in this area, where her ancestors were once enslaved. Plantations and farms blanketed the landscape in the 1800s, then modest urban-suburban homes sprouted up for white families fleeing from the nation’s capital in the next century. Now Capitol Heights’ population is 90% African American, and for those without cars, the gleaming Wegmans four or five miles away in Lanham might as well be on Mars.
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And if you’ve ever been forced to question human nature after buying a dinette or sofa on Craigslist or Facebook Marketplace (hand raised here), you’ll enjoy our profile on page 46 about an alum whose business provides a safe online marketplace for middle- and high-end furniture.
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Don’t miss our cover story on page 28 about how the NCAA’s lifting of restrictions on student-athletes making endorsements and other deals is changing the world of college sports, and how Maryland is helping to steer Terps through it.
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You can read about her family’s history of tragedy, perseverance and aspiration in Sala Levin’s feature on page 34.
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Actually, you may just want to settle in on your own sofa to read the whole magazine.
The University of Maryland, College Park is an equal opportunity institu tion with respect to both education and employment. University policies, programs and activities are in conformance with pertinent federal and state laws and regulations on non-discrimination regarding race, color, religion, age, national origin, political affiliation, gender, sexual orientation or disability.
She juggles all this while not only pursuing her Ph.D. in urban studies but also working full-time for the county as a planner. One question guides her, she told me: “How may I better understand my family’s history and urban development and zoning in preserving family stories?”
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You truly drew me into the magazine with your statement that your son was moving into Denton Hall. Denton Hall was my first dorm, and I was imme diately transported back to my move-in day and thinking how different it probably was from
Every time I read about someone wanting a ferry or bus to Ocean City because of wasted fuel, I think that person has never packed a vehicle for a week at the beach with a husband, wife and three kids, the dog and grandmother. Try transporting beach towels, picnic baskets, balls, plastic buckets and shovels, beach umbrellas, a week’s worth of food, sheets, pillows, etc. on a bus, ferry and then a bus again. Ain’t gonna happen.
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I am so proud to see all the work that is going on at Maryland, from diversity to the inclusion of students with disabilities. I am proud to be a Terp. Keep up the good work.
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Fantastic! My son is a high school junior. We’d love for him to participate in this TerpsEXCEED program when he leaves high school. You also badly need to start a college wheelchair basketball team!
Wow! Just completed reading the Fall issue and I can’t come up with sufficient superlatives to express how much I enjoyed the entire issue. Cover to cover by far the best work ever! Thanks so much for all the work that went into this!
Jesse hopes to hang up on exploding cell phones and propel electric cars to new places by replacing flammable solvents in lithium batteries with a clean, helpalternative—water—thatabundantcanpowerourwaytoalesscarbon-dependentfuture.
Your diversity (hiring) cam paign caught my attention as I remembered my first encoun ter with Jewish students (one of whom was my roommate for my freshman and sophomore years). I learned so much from her and have fond memories of our time together.
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The NSF Quantum Leap Challenge Institute (QLCI) for Robust Quantum Simulation brings together computer scientists, engineers and physicists from five academic institutions and the federal government.
They’re developing technology to allow researchers to explore and understand quantum systems—for example, those that impact the properties of molecules—in realms including chemistry, drug development and material science. Quantum simulators are also expected to lead to the next step in quantum computing: programmable, practical computers for general use.
UMD Makes $20M Investment in Q-Lab, Leads $25M NSF Grant on Quantum Simulation
Also in September, the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced the University of Maryland would lead a $25 million effort to develop quantum simulation devices.

The QLCI is the seventh academic center based on quantum science at UMD, which continues to strengthen the region’s claim to the title “the Capital of Quantum,” says university President Darryll J. Pines.
In other quantum devel opments, the NSF also selected UMD to lead a $5 million, two-year effort aimed at creating quantum inter connects—crucial technology to allow quantum computers to share information with each other that will be part of the basis for a quantum computerbased internet.—cc
The National Quantum Lab, or Q-Lab, was announced in September in conjunction with quantum computing company IonQ, a UMD spinoff company, and will be the nation’s first facility providing scientists with hands-on access to its latest commercial-grade devices.
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President Darryll J. Pines and other UMD officials were on Wall Street in October as executives from IonQ—which is based in part on technology licensed from UMD—rang the bell at the New York Stock Exchange to become the world’s first publicly traded quantum computingspecific company. Read more at today.umd.edu
“Maintaining and growing our global leadership in quantum science and technology is important for the state of Maryland and a top strategic priority for its flagship campus, the University of Maryland,” he says.
A nearly $20 million investment from the university will fund the Q-Lab site adjacent to the company’s headquarters in the university’s Discovery District. The agreement provides access to IonQ’s trapped-ion quantum computer hardware for UMD students, faculty, researchers, staff and partners across the country, as well as a chance to work directly with the company’s scientific and engineering staff.
first-of-its kind lab and a multi-institutional center for discovery based in College Park both launched last semester, further building the University of Maryland’s reputation as a hotspot for quantum science and a beacon for the burgeoning quantum
THE UNIVERSITY’S FIRST new dining hall in nearly 50 years will bear a name from the Algonquian language spoken by the Piscataway, on whose ancestral lands the university stands today.

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“This campus has been here for a very long time— yet many of us were blind to its history,” President Darryll J. Pines said at the dining hall’s ground blessing ceremony in November. “As a land-grant institution, I believe it is our responsibility to record, to interpret and to raise public awareness about tribal history.”
“Having a beautiful place like this… makes me feel like I have a space here on campus that I can truly say represents myself, this represents my people, this represents my family,” says AISU treasurer Jeremy Harley ’23, a member of the Piscataway Conoy tribe.—KS
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“Yahentamitsi” (Yah-hen-tuh-meet-c), a term meaning “a place to go to eat,” will open in Fall 2022 in the new Heritage Community that also includes the Pyon-Chen and Johnson-Whittle residence halls.
The project is the latest achievement from the Greater College Park initiative, an ongoing effort to harness more than $2 billion in public and private investment to create one of the best college towns in the “Wecountry.saw an opportunity for strengthening and actualizing the partnership,” said Mayor Patrick Wojahn. “What this symbolizes … is a rebirth.”
“The university partnership with the city was borne out of a long-term vision,” UMD President Darryll J. Pines said at a December dedication cere mony. “That vision has taken a great leap forward.”
COLLEGE PARK HAS A REVITALIZED center of civic life with the opening of a new city hall, a collaborative city-university project of office and retail space along with a public plaza for residents and visitors.

The 7,000 square feet of retail space—managed by Terrapin Development Company, a real estate and economic development entity created by UMD and the
University of Maryland College Park Foundation—is anticipated to have food and beverage tenants, as well as space for local vendors.
New Dining Hall to Honor Indigenous People of Maryland
Yahentamitsi will feature art, artifacts and other educational materials from the Piscataway people. The name was developed in partnership with Piscataway elders and tribal members, as well as UMD faculty, staff and students, including the American Indian Student Union (AISU).
The $51 million, 95,000-square-foot building includes municipal and university offices along with community meeting rooms and glass-enclosed council chambers overlooking Baltimore Avenue.
Joint City Hall-UMD Building Opens
New Fermentation Major Will Support Growing Maryland Craft Beverage and Food Industries
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And now there’s a new pairing: the University of Maryland and an under graduate major in fermentation science.

“This is very much a STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics)

the four-year major debuting this fall will increase knowledge around this ancient way to prepare and preserve food, while giving students the knowledge to turn it to newer uses like climate-friendly biofuels and pharmaceutical development. Not least, it aims to boost a range of homegrown craft food and drink industries, from the distilleries quickly multiplying around Maryland to longstanding cheese makers.
ine and cheese. Beer and sourdough pretzels. Brats heaped with sauerkraut.
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None of these delightful combinations would exist without the bubbling biological process of fermentation, in which yeast and other microorganisms themselves chow down on nutrients like sugars, fats and proteins to transform food into something magical—or at least, savory.
Offered by the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources (AGNR) both in College Park and at the Universities at Shady Grove,
If that sounds a bit Food Network-y, or like a good course of study to avoid math headaches, sorry—the “science” part of the name is for real.

major, with quite a bit of chemistry, micro biology and math in it,” says Frank Coale, AGNR professor and assistant dean for strategic initiatives who led the development of the new track. “It will give students a very good background in the biological sciences and will even prepare them to apply for medical school, if that’s what they want.”
Surveys of students who took an AGNR course on the history of fermentation suggest that what they really want is to work with fermented dairy products—think yogurt, kefir and cheese—followed by wine and sourdough. Perhaps surprisingly for college students, beer fell further down the list of favored study topics, after pharmaceuticals and fermented meat products like naturally cured sausage and tied with probiotics.

While laying the groundwork to propose the major, Coale found widespread enthusiasm among Maryland food, beverage and agriculture producers, along with a willingness to contribute their hard-earned knowledge.

that in addition to specialty food producers, the fermented corn stalk silage is also an important source of livestock feed on tradi tionalHowfarms.fermentation produces food—and managing food safety issues—is the domain of the nutrition and food science department, says its chair, Professor Cheng-I Wei.
Two AGNR departments—Nutrition and Food Science, and Plant Science and Landscape Architecture—will collaborate to offer the major. Plant science’s domain is the raw material for fermentation: grains for bread and beer and vegetables used in sauerkraut or pickles, says department chair and Professor John Erwin.
Max Hames, distillery operations manager of Sagamore Spirit, a Baltimore-based rye whiskey distiller founded by Kevin Plank ’96, says fermentation scientists could help delve into the subtleties of interactions of micro organisms and food sources in fermentation tanks that can help separate a good whiskey from a great one.

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The four-year major, one of only a small handful nationwide in fermentation science, is intensively multidisciplinary, and Wei says he hopes collaborations develop with the Robert H. Smith School of Business, the A. James Clark School of Engineering and others. The surveyed students also have widely divergent interests within the major.

“We’re not doing straightforward yeast fermentation—there are a lot of different creatures at work,” Hames says. “We’re always dialing in our fermentations on a day-to-day range, and having a solid understanding of what’s going on in all that complexity is important.”
“Some are very business-oriented and might want to run wineries and host agritourism; others want to improve operations of their family farms and produce goodquality agricultural products for these uses,” he says. “Some are just interested in making good products: the wine or cheese—maybe kimchi.”—cc
He appreciates good wine, and he says he sometimes has to ask sellers or café owners why they’re not stocking vintages from Maryland’s wine industry, which has grown rapidly in the 21st century to more than 100 wineries.“Ithink we in Maryland can do as good a job, or better, of producing all these products as other places,” he says, adding
“We could not be more supportive of the university efforts to stand up this program,” he says. “It helps in the long run to create the same sort of energy that has started around cheese making in Vermont, upstate New York or Wisconsin, where the land-grant universities have invested a lot in cheese making.”
Fermentation has been vital to human survival since prehistory—preserving milk, meat and grain for winter, or creating mildly alcoholic drinks safer than polluted water sources—but having a UMD major will inject new ideas and train a workforce of experts, says Mike Koch, co-founder and president of FireFly Farms, a Garrett County cheese maker.



find his own housing, or the use of the only residence-hall faculty apartment on campus. He chose the latter.
“It was fun to see things I only knew from TV or movies, like cheerleaders and the marching band, and how the students and parents and alumni were all wearing team colors,” he says.
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Honors College Scholarin-Residence Spends Semester Among Students in Residence Hall
Randy Ontiveros says, “We put a lot of emphasis in the program on giving students a global perspective on the humanities and why they matter in today’s world. In terms of what Gero teaches, who he is and where he’s coming from, it’s great to have him with students in this living and learning environment.”
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hen it came to the fastest commute to class this fall, Visiting Professor Gero Bauer had every faculty member at the University of Maryland beat.
Back in Anne Arundel Hall, Bauer enjoyed a few faculty perks. Living in an apartment, he didn’t have to share a bathroom, and he had his own kitchen. Now, as the spring semester starts, he offers advice for the new visiting scholar who will take over the space.

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“I just go downstairs from my apartment and I get to my first class of the day,” he says. That wasn’t on Zoom—he was in a classroom teaching Honors Humanities (HH) students, thanks to a unique lodging arrangement at Anne Arundel Hall.
“Take advantage of the fact that you’re staying right in the middle of campus,” Bauer says. “Check out the RecWell center, go see events at the student union and The Clarice, and explore all the lovely little corners and hidden spaces.”
Bauer was the first Honors College scholar-in-residence since the COVID-19 pandemic halted the program, which started 30 years ago. He had a choice: a stipend to
“I wanted to immerse myself in what life on campus is like,” Bauer says.
He taught two classes: an HH course called “Queer Outlooks in Contemporary Theory and Fiction,” and an English class called “Queer Modernisms.” A scholar of German LGBTQ activism, Bauer also shared his views on queer politics in the U.S. and his homeHHcountry.Director
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At UMD, Bauer embraced campus life— a major adjustment from the medieval university town of Tübingen University, where he normally teaches. Without a car, he got around by bike or Shuttle-UM, and he frequented the Stamp or Route 1 restaurants for meals. He attended movie screenings by Student Entertainment Events and partic ipated in the most quintessential American college pastime: a Terps football game.
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Student Team Wins Safety Award in Elon Musk’s Digging Contest
Family’s $2.5M in Gifts Will Fund Arts Innovation, Support Education Majors
A COURTYARD IN the Parren J. Mitchell ArtSociology Building will soon have new—and ever-changing—scenery: a 25-by-30-foot interactive projection screen showcasing art by students, faculty and guests.

The reimagined space is part of a $2.25 million gift from Nancy ’78 and Chuck Clarvit to the College of Arts and Humanities, which will invigorate the art department with research opportunities, programming, technology and renovated studios.
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“We’re a fully undergraduate-run team, and every decision, every design—it’s just us,” says team leader Shane Bonkowski ’23, an aerospace engineering
The new funds will also support scholarships in the graphic design program, a nod to Nancy’s major at UMD and her career as an art director. The gift boosts the university’s Arts for All
initiative to encourage innovation through collaborations across the arts, sciences and otherWithdisciplines.anadditional $225,000 gift, the couple’s daughter, Alison Clarvit ’13, M.Ed. ’14, is establishing the Clarvit Family Maryland Promise Scholarship for incoming students with financial need in the College of Education, as well as supporting TerpsEXCEED, which provides an
What the approximately 25 UMDLoop members didn’t do—actually run their digging machine they’d hand-built on campus—helped earn that prize from the Boring Company, established by billionaire Elon Musk to
accelerate construction of his Hyperloop project. Of 12 qualifiers, only four—from Germany, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and UMD—were cleared to dig. As they prepared to launch the complex, multiton tunnel-boring machine they’d trucked cross-country, the engineering, physics and computer science Terps realized its sensors had been damaged in transit. Rather than risk further breakage or injury to team members, they withdrew—earning kudos for a wise choice.
inclusive UMD experience for students with intel lectual and developmental disabilities. Her gift will be matched by the A. James & Alice B. Clark Foundation as a part of the Clark Challenge for the Maryland Promise.
“I want to make sure that people can study whatever they are most interested in without fear of not being able to afford their education,” Alison says.—SL
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A UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND team that competes in international challenges centered on a futuristic trainin-a-tube concept walked away from a tunnel-digging contest in Las Vegas last semester in the top four and hoisting the safety award.

teams competing to drive experimental vehicles, or pods, through tunnels in the 2017 SpaceX Hyperloop Challenge. While not fully satisfied this year, team members are proud of their accomplishment and excited about a Boring Company invitation to demonstrate their machine next year.
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among that growing fan base. Since Johns provided equipment and tutorials to introduce pickleball as a “Fun Friday” intramural sport in Fall 2019, it’s become a regular league offering. Twenty-four teams registered in the fall—including one called the Ben Johns Fan Club—and University Recreation and Wellness plans to keep it rolling this spring, says Jason Hess, assistant director for intramural sports and Reckord Armory.
(Oh, and about that odd name: Multiple origin stories claim to explain it, some claiming the moniker comes from the game founder’s dog, Pickles, while others think it comes from the term “pickle boat,” which carries a mismatched crew of spare rowers left over from other boats—just as pickleball adopts stray elements of other racket sports.)
The sport is pickleball—a combination of pingpong, tennis and badminton—and Ben Johns ’22, a materials science and engineering student, is the world’s No. 1 player. As more people come to relish the sport—it grew 21.3% in the U.S. from 2019-20, to 4.2 million players— Johns has championed the game through high-profile victories, a professional equipment sponsorship and even a vacation company that teaches pickleball around the“It’sworld.just a sport for absolutely everybody,” Johns says. “I’ve never seen a sport where people come back for coaching and instruction over and over like this one, just because they kind of get addicted to that feeling of improvement. It’s a real phenomenon, because you really can get a lot better very quickly.”
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Pickleball, played in singles or doubles matches, involves hitting a plastic whiffle ball-style ball over a net with a paddle on a badminton-sized court. Certain rules make it more of a finesse than a power sport, Johns says, like bans on serving overhand and a no-volley zone, commonly referred to as “the kitchen,” around the net.
With Pingpong-Tennis-Badminton Mashup on the Upswing, Terp Pro Leads the Way
set or two of paddles, a net, a ball and somehow zero fermented cucumbers: It’s a recipe for a sport that’s becoming a real big dill … er, deal, and a Terp has made the game his bread and butter.
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“It’s been really cool to see a lot of celebrities and just people in general pick up pickleball over COVID, because it was one of the few things you could do,” Johns says. “People just kind of set up a net wherever.”CountUMD
around 90 gold medals. That success landed him a partnership with Franklin Sports, with Johns tapping into his engineering studies to help design his own bestselling paddle.
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“That’s in big part thanks to Ben for pushing us to get it started,” he says. “It’s been a great addition.”
Johns, who played tennis for about a decade growing up, first tried pickleball in 2016. He entered its debut U.S. Open that year on a whim—and placed fifth. Since then, he’s shot up the leaderboards, dominating the pack in singles, doubles and mixed doubles and earning
While COVID-19 paused tournaments, banned crowds and canceled trips for Pickleball Getaways, the vacation business Johns co-owns, he got creative with his training during quarantine. “It might be not on a real court,” he says. “It might be on a park tennis court … anything that wasn’t lockedOthersup.”searching for a new pandemic pastime—from students and parents to actor Jamie Foxx and Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson— hopped on the bandwagon, too.

Field hockey Head Coach Missy Meharg added a milestone victory to her sterling resume last season, as she led the Terps to a 3-2 victory over UConn on Oct. 17 to secure her 600th win.
Big Ten Champ Named Women’s Soccer Coach
“What it means is the university, the region, the school have been able to have the very best field hockey players choose the University of Maryland,” she said. “I’ve been really fortunate to coach great athletes who love to win.”
Meghan Ryan Nemzer, a Maryland native who coached Rutgers University to the 2021 Big Ten title and national semifinals, is the new head coach of UMD’s women’s soccer program, Barry P. Gossett Director of Athletics Damon Evans announced in December.

WIDTH: Johns again prefers the middle ground, playing with a 16-millimeter paddle that falls within the usual 1/2- to 3/4-inch range.
Nemzer, who graduated from St. Mary’s High School in Annapolis, had served on the staff at her alma mater, Rutgers University, for 14 years, including as associate head coach for the past eight. Last season, she helped lead the Scarlet Knights to an undefeated season in Big Ten play and the conference title, a spot in the College Cup—where they dropped a 1-0 decision to eventual champion Florida State—and a final ranking of No. 3 in the nation.
Meharg, in 34 seasons, has coached the Terps to 26 conference titles and seven national championships. She ended 2021 with another deep NCAA tournament run, with Maryland falling to Liberty in a doubleovertime Final Four battle.
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SURFACE: Johns goes with fiberglass. “It’s good because it’s springy, which gives the ball power,” he says, “but it also can be made quite rough, so that imparts spin on the ball.”

DIMENSIONS: Johns plays with a 16.5-by-7.5-inch paddle, in between the standard 16-by-8 doubles and 17-by-7 singles models—a perfect balance for players like him, who compete in both varieties of the sport. The handle he uses measures 5.6 inches, a bit beyond the normal 4.5 to 5. “That gives the paddle more flexibility so when you hit it, it’s going to bend slightly more.”
Longtime Field Hockey Coach Nets 600th Win
Rutgers earned bids in the past 10 NCAA tournaments and 12 times total during Nemzer’s time there, with two College Cup appearances. In 2018, she was named one of the top five associate/assistant coaches in the NCAA by Top Drawer Soccer, and last season, she was part of the 2021 North Region Staff of the Year.
Pickleball pro Ben Johns ’22 considers the following when choosing a paddle:

CORE: Most pickleball paddles, Johns says, use a polypropylene polymer honeycomb core. Polypropylene is a strong, cheap plastic, and the honeycomb shape helps maintain structural integrity. “It’s really light, because most of the core is actually air,” he says. “But you can still hit the ball hard.”
“The thicker you make it, the heavier it’s going to be,” he says, “but also, the less power you have and the more solidity you have, which just means you get less inconsistent hits.”
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Meharg, a Maryland Athletics Hall of Famer, became the first coach in any sport at the University of Maryland and the third in Division I field hockey to reach the 600-win mark.
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HUMBLE CANS OF PEAS , chicken noodle soup and chili got a little more respect during the COVID-19 pandemic, as people stocked up on shelf-stable foods to avoid unnecessary trips to the grocery store. But canned goods have fallen far from their 20th-century heyday.

Cupboard Staple’s Impact Goes Beyond the Dinner Table
“Rural canning factories really became one of the few ways that women could work outside of the farm for wages,” says Linebaugh. “It provided a seasonal oppor tunity to bring cash wages home, and an outlet for them to get out and socialize.”


As demand increased, immigrants, like Polish women from Baltimore, also became part of the summer workforce.
In his book, “Put a Lid on It: The Canning Industry in South Central Pennsylvania,” coming out in 2022, historic preservation Professor Donald Linebaugh takes a side trip from his archaeological digs in the region to explore the rise and fall of metal cylinder-packed food. It takes off with the introduction of the “Sanitary Can” in the 1890s, which kicked canning’s reliance on hand-crafted tin cans with poisonous lead soldering and dramatically increased production and safety.
The world wars “created an incredible demand for food that could be literally shipped around the world for our troops,” says Linebaugh. While previously, soldiers relied on dried foods like hard tack and salted pork that lacked nutrition, starting in the Civil War canned goods provided a more balanced diet. Labor shortages during WWII even brought German POWs into the canning story, as they harvested and worked in factories of the region.
Book Pulls the Lid Off Canned Food’s History

“Before canning, sweet corn was only available from the middle of July to early September. Everyone ate a seasonal diet,” says Linebaugh. But once farmers were able to preserve their perishable goods in large quantities, and railroads expanded shipping across the country in the late 1800s, everything from corn and tomatoes from Pennsylvania to seafood from the Pacific Northwest became accessible to American consumers.
“As Americans urbanized and people left farms to go into cities, they didn’t have the space and ability to grow the staples they could before,” he says. “At a time when refrigerators and other preservation methods weren’t available, canning meant you could deliver the bounty of the summer harvest 12 months a year.”
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Linebaugh highlights several ways that canning helped shape American society.—KS
“We moved from a period of general stores in little towns to the beginning of chain stores in the 1860s and supermar kets” like Kroger and A&P in the early 20th century, Linebaugh says. “These big national companies are making contracts with canning companies to bulk purchase and ship to their stores.” Some even sent their own labels—the first foray into store-branded goods.
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In a pre-pandemic survey of nearly 800 students over a onemonth period, just 60% reported having any romantic encounter during that time—and the majority of those said they only had one date. (Dates were broadly defined, including everything from a one-night stand to grabbing a bubble tea.)
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But attitudes toward apps could be changing since the survey was conducted in 2015. “COVID turned the entire population romantically desperate. There’s nowhere to meet people offline if there’s nowhere to go,” Gideon says.
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Selterman is curious if the spike in online dating was purely out of necessity, or if it reflects a true paradigm shift. He hopes to replicate the study post-pandemic to find out. “It’s fascinating, trying to solve this puzzle of how to create meaningful connec tions between people.”—KS
THINK OF COLLEGE and you might picture telltale “go away” socks hung on doorknobs and parties with hookup opportunities galore.But a new study from Dylan Selterman, senior lecturer in the Department of Psychology, and Sydney Gideon ’17 paints a different picture of dating life at the University of Maryland.
Robot’s Soft Touch Bests Super Mario Bros.
But in a key breakthrough, the team led by Ryan D. Sochol, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, developed techniques to 3D-print fully assembled soft robots with “integrated fluidic circuits” in a single step (carried out at the Terrapin Works 3D-printing hub).
The feat, highlighted on the cover of Science Advances, demonstrates the promise of “soft robotics”—flexible, inflatable robots powered by water or air rather than electricity. Their inherent safety and adaptability have sparked interest in using them for applications like pros thetics and biomedical devices. Unfortunately, controlling the fluids that make these soft robots bend and move has been a vexing challenge.
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The UMD study, which will be published in Computers in Human Behavior, also compared outcomes based on whether students met in person or via dating app. “Our data showed negative perceptions of dating apps, but the reality is, the experiences people had on dates or hookups were pretty similar,” says Gideon. Students found their dates just as attractive on physical and personality levels.
“You have a population that’s really interested in sex and dating, but having trouble finding it,” says Selterman.Forpsychology researchers, however, the findings aren’t surprising. “Studies show that young adults today are less sexually active than previous genera tions,” he says.
A TEAM OF RESEARCHERS from the University of Maryland has 3D-printed a soft robotic hand agile enough to play Nintendo’s Super Mario Bros.—and win.

Study Reveals Fewer Romances, Little Difference Between App, In-Person Pairings
As a demonstration, the team designed such a circuit that allowed the hand to operate in response to the strength of a single control input. For example, applying low pressure caused only the first finger to press the Nintendo controller to make Mario walk, while high pressure led to the portly plumber jumping. Guided by a program that autonomously switched between off and low, medium and high pressures, the robotic hand was able to complete the first level of Super Mario Bros. in fewer than 90 seconds.—ROBERT HERSCHBACH
The quality of a listening experience depends on how the ear and brain process sound—a young person with hearing loss and an older person with perfectly good hearing can have difficulty
What methods do you use to try to find the answers?
How has improvisational music influenced your scientific work, and vice versa?
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Sound is ubiquitous. We use it to communicate, to express emotions, for survival. But we know very little about how sound is represented in the brain and how we get from acoustics to perception is a total unknown—going from “I hear it” to “I know what it is.”
A percussionist in the D.C. jazz scene, Francis is an assistant professor in the Department of Biology and the first faculty member recruited by the new UMD Brain and Behavior Institute. He has built a career investigating our relationship with sound—specifically, how our brains process the cacophony of everyday life and allow us to recognize a bird call, react to a siren and hold a conversation.Herecentlyspoke to Terp about what we don’t know about sound, how his research could help fill those gaps and how he switches between the lab and the stage.—LF

listening to speech in a crowded environment. How do you enhance the listening experience for both? One way could be teaching listening strategies that change how the brain processes sound. That’s a possible direction of my research, to see how auditory interventions might induce specific kinds of brain plasticity that enhance listening.
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My lab examines brain activity in mice as they perform behavioral tasks that require listening.
Why do you study sound?
What applications could this research have for humans?
Researcher Beats His Own Drum in Considering How Brains Process and Understand Sound
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EVERY TIME Nikolas Francis crashes a cymbal, taps a tom-tom or brushes a snare drum, it’s both an art and a science.
For example, we train mice to remember sounds over short periods of time and consider how these sounds are processed in the mouse brain relative to a human. That comparison is how basic science informs medicine.
To generate something (musically) interesting,
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“You could spend a lot of money developing content based solely on Eurocentric views, but it won’t make sense to someone from China, someone from Haiti, someone from Vietnam,” she says. “Today we can employ this with COVID, tomorrow mental health, and infant mortality next—all of it.”—CC
Around 15% of the city’s population speaks languages other than English at home; these are some of the residents most at risk from COVID-19 and other diseases, says Cynthia Baur, director of the Horowitz Center for Health Literacy. In language communities with less access to official information sources, they may
you must listen very intently, but also remember what just happened and what you want to happen next: Is what I’m about to do going to sound to the listener as if it had to occur because of what I just did? If we, as an improvising group, can do that successfully, then we’ve made some music.
Health Literacy Spans Language Divide
The project combines the Horowitz Center’s expertise in crafting clear, compel ling messaging with on-the-ground cultural expertise, says Elizabeth Chung, executive director of the Asian American Center for Frederick, a partner organization.
also be more vulnerable to bad health information—but hammering people with simplistic, “correct” messages from officials is a losing strategy.
ONE OF THE GREATEST fights of the COVID-19 era has been against miscon ceptions and misinformation about the disease and vaccines—and that’s just taking English-language communications into account. UMD is on the front lines in Frederick, Md., training outreach workers in health literacy techniques to meet the needs of myriad language communities.
Supported by a $4 million grant to the city from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Horowitz Center is helping to develop community health workers who are already trusted in language communities, including Chinese, Urdu, Spanish and Russian, to spread accurate information in culturally appropriate ways.
That analytical process of using my experience to select the ideas that I know are going to move forward and leave other ideas out—both my training as a scientist and my experience as an improvising musician have helped me become more efficient at that process.

“It’s a core public health principle: You meet people where they are and try to see the world from their perspective,” she says.
Researchers Help Mobilize Communities to Fight COVID, Other Diseases
As Zeng’s studies and tests since that initial epiphany confirmed, it requires gathering millions of trees that fall or are cut in backyards, city streets, forests and farms, and burying them deep—deep enough that the process of decompo sition does not set in. Or, growers could rapidly suck carbon dioxide from the air with a vigorous species like poplar, then harvest and bury it, and plant anew.
Zeng believes the method could quickly become a popular route for companies looking to reduce their carbon footprints through invest ments in carbon removal because of the ease of verifying the method is working. “All the wood is right there—you just have to watch it.”—CC
FROM LEFTOVERS FORGOTTEN until they get furry in the fridge to crops that spoil from faulty storage, a shocking one-third of the world’s food—nearly 1.5 billion tons yearly, according to a United Nations estimate—goes uneaten. Now, a University of Maryland professor is leading two new
Researcher Asks: Could Burying Enough Dead Wood Alter the Globe’s Climate Trajectory?
Her research has long focused on converting waste products into valuable,
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marketable products, often through a process called anaerobic digestion, which uses bacteria to break down waste and create natural gas, or gasification—a controlled thermochemical reaction that also produces the needed gases.
Whether a tree is bulldozed and burned or lies behind the back fence and slowly rots, carbon it gathered from the environment—up to several tons in many full-grown species—then escapes.
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As a natural part of the global carbon cycle, that’s hardly a cause for alarm. But returning from a conference in Australia more than a decade ago, a UMD scientist doing back-ofthe-napkin calculations realized dead trees offer an opportunity to buy time for the planet while human societies struggle to develop less destructive ways to live.

the environment to extract and use. The two grants are funding a consortium of scientists and industry partners led by Stephanie Lansing from the Department of Environmental Science and Technology to develop methods to create biofuels and bioplastics from food waste—potentially benefiting both the planet and people’s pocketbooks. “How can we take the resources we have and find a way to use them sustainably?” Lansing says.
Instituting a system of what amounts to wood dumps around the world—perhaps in quarries or abandoned mines—could yearly put away a billion metric tons of carbon dioxide. It’s about one-tenth of humanity’s total carbon production, says one of Zeng’s students, Henry Hausmann Ph.D. ’24. While not a small effort, it would be technically simple and inexpensive compared to carbon-removal schemes like direct capture from the air. Municipal dead wood collection might also be politically easier to sell than some other approaches.“Peoplecan bristle at the idea of some more individual requirements to address climate change, but a top-down approach that takes large amount of wood out of the carbon cycle can have big effects,” he says.
grants totaling $6 million from the U.S. Department of Energy that could take some of the bad taste out of all that food waste.
Traditional fuels and plastics rely on petroleum and other fossil energy sources, which are finite and costly to
IN A WORLD grappling with climate change, a living tree is a treasure—cleaning the air and soaking up carbon dioxide that causes global warming.Butadead tree? Not so much.
To help wood burial scale up to have an effect, Hausmann and other students of Zeng’s are designing a monitor for buried wood to ensure it’s not decomposing underground; they’ll compete in February in the XPRIZE student competition for carbon removal, which could fund deployment of the devices at test sites around the country if they win funding.
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Both the fuel and plastics-focused grants include funding to allow the researchers to test the new, greener products against ones now for sale to see how marketable these new bioplastics and biofuels can be. “This project is really about giving food waste a value,” Lansing says.—SAMANTHA WATTERS
“It didn’t take long on that terrible flight to assemble the conceptual pieces,” says Ning Zeng, professor of atmospheric and oceanic science. “The math works. This can keep a very significant effect on the atmosphere.”

Climate change is already affecting how we grow food. On the Eastern Shore of Maryland, rising seas are drowning our coastal farms. It is our job to figure out how to adapt to and mitigate climate change.
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OLIVER SCHLAKE
Climate change is altering weather and vegetation around the globe, thereby creating conditions that are favorable to high-intensity, uncontrollable wildland fires. These megafires are threatening human life and property in the path of the fire, affecting human health at remote locations through the transport of fire smoke, impacting the health and functions of ecosystems, and accelerating climate change itself through the release of large amounts of chemical compounds into the atmosphere.
More than ever, education has to look at the root causes that lead to the environmental devastation and climate change now threatening the extinction of millions of species and human survival. Education needs to focus on peacebuilding among people and with nature.
As a former science journalist who in 1981 covered the EPA’s first report on the “greenhouse effect,” every aspect of life on Earth will be affected, and journalism must lead the way to educate the public about the complex but critical details of how climate change will affect humanity.
ARNAUD TROUVÉ
The energy cost of information needs more public awareness. The carbon footprint of machine learning training for an AI entity can be multiple times greater than the lifetime footprint of a car. The use of information should be managed as a resource with environmental costs, similar to the use of fossil fuels.
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Changing the current energy and heating habits of American households is a major business opportunity for small and mid-size entrepreneurs. I can see a lot of business education, specifically entrepreneurship and innovation focus, around solar, wind, geothermal, battery storage and mini grids.
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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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Donations also help spark broad, ambitious success, funding competitions that equip students with the skills to eradicate homelessness or cybersecurity risks; endowed professorships that drive advances in quantum computing and violence prevention; and futuristic facilities that empower student and faculty researchers in computer science and engineering.
THE END OF FEARLESS IDEAS: THE CAMPAIGN FOR MARYLAND IS JUST THE BEGINNING. The more than $1.5 billion raised—a milestone in the university’s history— isn’t just money for research, scholarships and buildings. It’s an investment to tackle the grand challenges that we all face, from climate change and racial injustice to the ongoing COVID-19Achievingpandemic.thatmight not look flashy at first: Gifts big and small support mentorship for first-generation students navigating an unfamiliar world; fresh veggies and a cooking class for an undergraduate struggling with food insecurity; a grant to help a Terp find housing after a family emergency. But these lifelines lead to lifetimes of possibility, putting students on the path today to become tomorrow’s tech disruptors, artistic entrepreneurs and doctors saving lives in the local ER.
The transformational effects of this campaign are already evident across campus now and will reverberate around the world, touching generations to come.

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We wouldn’t have reached that number without the help of the Do Good grant. It was a huge step for us. It really is going to move our organization even further to reach remarkable levels.”
Since the pandemic began, the STUDENT CRISIS FUND has distributed more than $2 million in grants to nearly 3,000 students to pay for housing, utilities and other basic necessities.

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The DO GOOD INSTITUTE , generously funded by anonymous benefactors, leads programs, courses and research on social impact, including the annual Do Good Challenge that awards student projects and ventures addressing pressing issues.

“ROOTS Africa strives to improve the productivity of small-hold farmers in Africa. We do this by connecting them to agricultural extension agents, experts and trained students, and passing on education, training and knowledge to communities. So far, our five chapters have trained more than 2,000 farmers in Liberia and Uganda in areas such as recordkeeping, cultivation, soil health improvement, animal husbandry and more.
“Everything happened this year: In January I had surgery. In April I became homeless, then I lost my job. I also didn’t have a car. I needed transportation, so I had to use all my savings. I was in a really bad place. My counselor suggested I try the Student Crisis Fund because I had so much going on. I don’t know how I would have been able to survive without it. It was helpful in a practical sense, but it was extremely encouraging, too.”
—RACHEL WALLACE ‘24 (DIETETICS AND PSYCHOLOGY)
—DELINA PETER ’22 (GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS), TREASURER AND FORMER PRESIDENT, ROOTS AFRICA
EDWARD ST. JOHN LEARNING AND TEACHING CENTER
The BARRY AND MARY GOSSETT CENTER FOR ACADEMIC AND PERSONAL EXCELLENCE , named for longtime university supporters, prepares studentathletes for post-college life through paid internships, stipends, workshops and mentoring.

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I’m thankful to the coaches and academic advisers who guided me every step of the way. In my junior year, I was chosen to be in the first phase of the Gossett Fellows program. I not only got a scholarship, but learned about networking and branding. With those skills, I co-created the Pre-Health Terps Club with two peers to mentor younger student-athletes interested in health careers, and presented the club as my fellowship capstone.
I’m super appreciative for the oppor tunity to better develop myself as I apply to medical school and work to become a doctor. My parents, who are nurses, taught me to leave the community better than you found it. That’s what I always aim to do.”
—NADIA HACKETT ’21 (PUBLIC HEALTH SCIENCE), RESEARCH TECHNICIAN, DEPARTMENT OF IMMUNOBIOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA
A. JAMES CLARK HALL
E.A. FERNANDEZ IDEA (INNOVATE, DESIGN AND ENGINEER FOR AMERICA)
My Gossett Center advisers told me my student-athlete skills were transferrable and to apply for everything—and they were right. After my summer internship at the University of Arizona, my mentor offered me my full-time research position today.
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“I struggled initially with time management. In the fall, we practice almost every day, and then from January to June, we have a track meet almost every weekend, from Penn State to the University of Nebraska.
and engineers, I’m concentrating on com putational technology to reduce electricity consumption for the displays.
The Iribe Center’s ample collaboration and lab spaces help advance the team’s work, bringing together researchers from a wealth of backgrounds to focus on new frontiers in computing and creating world-changing progress.”
The technology can be very power-hungry, and as part of a team of computer scientists

—SUSMIJA REDDY JABBIREDDY PH.D. ’23 (COMPUTER SCIENCE); GRADUATE ASSISTANT, UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED COMPUTER STUDIES
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The BRENDAN IRIBE CENTER FOR COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING , spurred by a leadership gift from a Terp co-founder of Oculus VR, is a hub for innovation in virtual and augmented reality, artificial intelligence, robotics and computer vision.


“We are working toward the next generation of true 3D displays. They produce images that seem to float in space in front of you without the limitations of popular AR/VR headsets, which isolate you from your surroundings and create nausea, or ‘cybersickness,’ in some people. These interactive holographic displays could revolutionize electronic entertainment, but they’ll do much more as well, like help researchers better interact with data, or doctors quickly grasp medical imaging.

—JACKSON MARTINEZ ’22 (BUSINESS MANAGEMENT), THE UNIVERSITIES AT SHADY GROVE
The Maryland Promise Program (MPP) made it possible for me to enroll at the Smith School of Business—the only school I wanted to attend.
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“I never had the luxury of choosing school automati cally. My family never had the funds. I always had to see if I could get enough financial support to continue my education, or if I should keep working.
The $219.5 million Building Together investment from the A. James & Alice B. Clark Foundation, the largest in UMD history, is having a transformational impact on campus and beyond. Strengthening the legacy of late philanthropic builder A. James Clark ’50, the investment has created scholarships, endowed professorships and funded new facilities and research opportunities.
—ELIZABETH QUINLAN, CLARK LEADERSHIP CHAIR IN NEUROSCIENCE, BRAIN AND BEHAVIOR INSTITUTE DIRECTOR, PROFESSOR OF BIOLOGY
long focused on how one neuron communicates with another neuron or on the dialogue between neurons in small groups. But new technol ogy, such as high-field magnetic resonance, allows

“Everyone talks about how the Clark gift has transformed campus. For me, this means the literal transformation of research in my lab. We study how age constrains the brain’s ability to learn, in order to develop methods to rejuvenate the brain, and the Clark gift has allowed me to introduce cutting-edge tools into this Neuroscienceresearch.has
I used to be terrible at talking to people. But the business program focuses heavily on group work, and now, I’m able to speak out, share my ideas and better learn the material. The leadership skills I’m learning through MPP and Smith will really help me in the future, because I hope to be a business leader or entrepreneur.”
The MARYLAND PROMISE PROGRAM , funded by the Clark Foundation, other generous donors and UMD, opens access to a life-changing education for students with financial need from Maryland and D.C.


examination of the entire brain in operation from ear to ear and front to back.
The funding from the Clark Leadership Chair is making it possible to incorporate whole-brain MR imaging into this research. The opportunity to move in an entirely new direction is rare, especially for a senior scientist, and I wouldn’t have imagined trying this a year and a half ago.”
mentoring in MPP are so helpful. I feel like I have an on-campus family.
I’m a first-generation college student, so I’m just trying my best to get through. My parents try their best, but they aren’t able to fully support me aca demically or financially. That’s why the meetings and
Endowed professorships, like the CLARK LEADERSHIP CHAIR IN NEUROSCIENCE , help recruit and retain exceptional faculty members.
The environment is so welcoming. They offer workshops on cultivating vegetables indoors or teaching you to make dishes like yellow squash stew.
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“The gift from the Brin family helps us expand upon the experience of innovating theater and dance during the pandemic. With remote performances and virtual performances, we have different ways of seeing art that don’t have to be in person. We can venture outside of traditional spaces.

The CAMPUS PANTRY, which provides free and nutritious emergency food, saw its usage nearly triple during the pandemic and moved in June to a larger home with a commercial refrigerator and teaching kitchen funded in part by donors.
—NOAH LEE ’24 (ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY)
“I live off campus, so it can be hard to get to the market. After a friend told me about the pantry, I’ve picked up protein like beans, fresh fruits and veggies from Terp Farm, and occasionally a treat like marshmallows. I grew up helping my mom with the garden at home, and I love cooking, so it’s important to me to have a variety of options. I’d be eating less nutritious food if it weren’t for the pantry.
The Campus Pantry is an investment in current students that will help us reach new heights. Once I graduate, I hope to build up communities back in Baltimore to make them safer, both socially and environmentally, creating a more sustainable future.”
A major gift from mathematics Professor Emeritus Michael and Eugenia Brin and the Brin Family Foundation founded the MAYA BRIN INSTITUTE FOR NEW PERFORMANCE , where students and faculty explore how technology can reimagine the performing arts.


—ANDRÉS POCH MFA ’22

All of my colleagues and I can jump into a new wave of theater and dance. The Brin family’s gift supports that research.”
Now, I’m a volunteer. I wanted to give back because a lot of my friends and classmates didn’t know about it, and people won’t try something unless there’s someone familiar there. I didn’t want them to be worried about the stigma.
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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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LIPPERY, SPEEDY WIDE RECEIVER Rakim Jarrett was ranked among the nation’s top 100 high school players in late 2019 when the fivestar Washington, D.C., prospect surprised the college football recruiting world by flipping his commitment from Louisiana State to the hometown Terps.
Until last July, any of those deals would have been major NCAA violations for both the player and program. Now, Jarrett and other Terp athletes are members of the first generation that can capitalize on their fame while still in college following the NCAA’s suspension of rules preventing athletes from profiting off their own “name, image and likeness,” a landmark shift in the governing body’s history.

For Jarrett, UMD’s biggest earner so far, it most immediately means he could see up to $60,000 from endorsement deals during his sophomore year. The NFL hopeful, who is currently squirrelling away his earnings, sees his increasingly lucrative personal brand as validation for making his name seven miles from home rather than banking on traditional football bluebloods.
“It shows that it can be done,” he says.
Now a sophomore, Jarrett has shown flashes of his potential, racking up 144 yards and two touchdowns against Penn State in 2020 and a crucial 60-yard score against West Virginia last season. But his off-the-field activities—signing an agent from marketing powerhouse Creative Arts Agency, selling personalized T-shirts and endorsing Jimmy’s Famous Seafood—might be even more game-changing.
The “NIL” decision followed more than a century of debates and lawsuits over educational and financial benefits for college athletes, as well as a more recent burst of state-by-state legislation ending restrictions on earning money from their popularity. The University of Maryland has sought to be a national leader in this new marketplace, but navigating it has required constant vigilance: Should athletes be allowed to use their schools’ official marks and logos? What are the pitfalls if a player endorses beer or liquor? What happens when spon sors and agents are added to the chorus of voices in a student’s ear?
So far, the only certain answer is that it will take years to fully grasp how NIL will shift foundational practices.
“It’s like a perfect storm right now for those who have been pushing change,” says Damon Evans, the Barry P. Gossett Director of Athletics for the University of Maryland. “We need to embrace all this stuff and figure out how best we adjust and adapt.”
Not surprisingly, tensions increased between the NCAA, universities, athletes and advocates when licensing revenue exploded in the 1980s and 1990s. While the sanctioned money available to students remained largely limited to scholarships, the television deals, stadium gate receipts and coaches’ salaries continued on a far steeper climb.
Video games proved the modern flashpoint. Former UCLA basketball star Ed O’Bannon filed an antitrust lawsuit over his digital likeness being used without permission in the 2009 edition of Electronic Arts’ NCAA Basketball franchise. The qualified successes of his and additional
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BY EARLY 2021, when legislators in Annapolis began to consider the issue in earnest, UMD athletics officials were already drafting their NIL playbook. The university had been working since 2019 with the sports branding company Opendorse, which also links professional athletes with endorsement opportunities, to help provide photos, videos and graphics that Terps can use to promote themselves and connect with fans on social media. With NIL on the way, an additional four-year partnership was signed to collaborate on this new process.
While neither the athletic department nor Opendorse can arrange deals for individual athletes, the company’s online platform estimates someone’s fair market value; helps companies and brands identify potential clients based on factors such as location, sport and size of social media following; and informs the institution about student deals.
So the lofty stated principles of the NCAA, founded in 1906, were always in tension with how colleges chased success in high-stakes sports. From cushy dorms and exotic vacations to outright salaries and commissions from local cigarette sales, early 20th-century benefits constantly raised worries that amateur competition had been breached by professionalism. In 1929, a landmark report from the Carnegie Foundation denounced perks of the era from “costly sweaters and extensive journeys in special Pullman cars” to broader practices including high school recruiting and admissions offices prioritizing athletic skill over scho lasticYetaptitude.inchbyinch, allowances that would have once horrified proponents of amateurism were integrated into college sports. The so-called Sanity Code of 1948 let schools pay athletes’ tuition, but an effort to expel a targeted “Sinful Seven” schools, including the University of Maryland, for going beyond that failed two years later—a tacit acknowl edgment that everyone else was just as guilty.
THE FIGHT OVER what students should earn for athletic achievements was already well underway by 1852, when a railroad company tried to spur tourism by paying for Har vard and Yale to row against each other on a New Hampshire lake—the first intercollegiate contest in the United States.
T.J. Ciro ’02, senior vice president and head of part nerships for Opendorse, says UMD showed a “progressive mindset.”“Alotof schools were waiting for the NCAA to provide more direction,” he says. “Maryland was definitely one of the early adopters.”
In 1957, the NCAA allowed members to add room, board and fees, essentially covering athletes’ living and educa tional expenses. But another clause was approved as well, stating “a student-athlete’s picture may not be associ ated with a commercial product in such a way as to imply endorsement, nor may he receive remuneration.”
So without many guidelines, UMD has been feeling its way through: New NIL deals have to be disclosed to the university within 14 days of an agreement; students can sign with competitors of a university sponsor (i.e., Nike vs. Under Armour, Coke vs. Pepsi), but tobacco companies, adult entertainment and anything involving NCAA-banned
legal challenges amplified the NIL conversation in media, government and player circles. Then in 2019, California became the first state to allow college athletes to earn endorsement money. With no competing federal or NCAA policy, the opening whistle had blown for states to run their own NIL race.
The Maryland NIL rules won’t take effect until July 1, 2023, unless the General Assembly votes to implement them sooner during the annual 90-day legislative session that began in January. But the NCAA suspended its compensation ban last July 1, allowing athletes to earn endorsements pur suant to individual state, conference and school oversight.
American collegiate athletics were born out of the British “amateur ideal,” a philosophy that, even if never completely honored, prized schoolboy recreation over results. But disap proval of salaries, coaching and even practice also doubled as a way to keep lower socioeconomic classes off the pitch, an uneasy fit in a New World that prided itself on self-made success and moral development through fierce competition.
In April, the Maryland General Assembly passed the Jordan McNair Safe and Fair Play Act. Named after the UMD football player who collapsed from heatstroke and died following a 2018 team workout, the legislation bundled together NIL regulations and safety requirements for state intercollegiate athletics programs.
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as Clemson, Florida, Texas and Ohio State, released an early snapshot of the bottom line for athletes who have secured deals through its platform. From July 1 through Nov. 30, the Big Ten Conference, which includes Maryland, was tops in the country in terms of total compensation and activity. Football earned about 48% of the available compensation, trailed by women’s and men’s basketball, at about 25% and 17%, respectively. The average com pensation for Division I athletes was $1,256, compared to $75 for Division II and $37 for Division III.
DeBerdine praises Maryland Athletics’ efforts to teach her and other athletes how to navigate the new rules and UMD’s tools to support them. For example, in October, it launched a licensing program with the Brandr Group so athletes can collectively opt into an agreement and legally use the university’s trademarks and logos on their ownOpendorse,products. which has also partnered with schools such

While an athlete’s celebrity might attract a first deal, Ciro says, the students collecting multiple endorsements are the ones put ting time and effort into their promotions. Fresno State basketball players Haley and Hanna Cavinder were able to leverage their
“We need to embrace all this and figure out how best we adjust and adapt.”
DAMON EVANS, BARRY P. GOSSETT DIRECTOR OF ATHLETICS
Students in niche sports are finding opportunities as well. Brooke DeBerdine, a Terp midfielder, signed a deal with Longstreth Field Hockey to represent its Gryphon line of sticks, bags, protective gear and shoes. A national team member hoping to compete in the 2024 Summer Olympics, DeBerdine says NIL has provided valuable business and brand building experi ence prior to leaving College Park.
“I saw this as a win-win,” says Evans, a former Georgia wide receiver. “Why shouldn’t (athletes) have the right?”
THE BEGINNING OF the endorsement era has had no shortage of heady deals: an Oregon defensive lineman started his own cryptocurrency; Arby’s handed out $500 to the first 200 Division I running backs (“#ArbysRBs”) who posted a video saying, “Tonight, I’m getting Arby’s;” a Kentucky freshman basketball player rolled up to campus in a Porsche after inking an agreement with a luxury car dealership; a protein bar company struck an agreement with the entire BYU football team, even paying walkons enough to cover tuition.
“It’s a good time to be able to do that before having a complete lifestyle change (after graduation),” she says. “It was definitely exciting, but also overwhelming.”
substances—including medical marijuana and other cannabis products—are off-limits; and students with products or ads using official trademarks and logos are subject to paying UMD its stan dard 12% royalty rate.
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On the national stage, the NCAA has been lobbying Congress to pass a framework that would include mandated financial counseling on tax and scholarship implications and ensure a fair, competitive environment across jurisdictions. Much like their predecessors, the organization’s leaders also say they are trying to preserve the unique dual athletic-educational character of collegiate competition and protect amateurs who should make just as many gains in lecture halls as in weight rooms.
At the start of NIL, women’s basketball Coach Brenda Frese wondered how her already-busy collegiate players would respond to its commercial demands. But so far, Frese says, NIL syncs with her roster’s existing social media habits and has given players positive opportunities to build their personal brands.
Frese says NIL will also pay dividends for the visibility of women’s basketball and a successful program like UMD, which is located in a large media market, plays high-profile matches on national television and is consistently in the hunt for national championships.
“I don’t want to think too far ahead,” Jarrett says. “(But) that’ll be pretty cool to think back on.” terp

For his part, the Terps’ Rakim Jarrett is trying not to let the lure of financial success go to his head. In July, he jokingly tweeted (with a skull emoji), “Didn’t know I was going from high school to paying taxes!!” Yet in looking at his sur prise financial opportunities once only available to the pros, he allows himself a moment to consider the trailblazing route he’s already running for future players in red, black and gold.
“The future is really bright,” she says. “I’m super optimistic for our girls.”
Other shifting factors also make it hard to predict NIL’s potentially seismic effects. Fights over the College Football Playoff’s format reignite just about every year; conference membership switches and an explosion in transfers and COVID-19-era eligibility tweaks have further complicated team management; coaching contracts have taken another strato spheric leap, further upping competition between universities for staff and ballooning salary and contract buyout obligations.
“It was long overdue for players to use their own rights,” she says. “They have done a really good job knowing how much they can take on. It’s just another thing they have to balance.”
But, among many other questions, how sustainable the most lucrative agreements will be at the individual or group level is still to be determined—the volatile and inconsistent nature of college sports inevitably dims some of August’s future stars into December’s afterthoughts. One high school quarterback enrolled a full year ahead of schedule at Ohio State with endorsements and a $1.4 million autograph contract, but decided to transfer last month to Texas after recording just two snaps in his nascent Columbus career.
The Supreme Court has signaled a willingness to hear more challenges to traditionally accepted NCAA practices, and in September, National Labor Relations Board General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo issued a memo saying that student-athletes should be afforded the same protections, including the right to unionize, as other employees—a classification that, if officially conferred, would tear the last threads connecting America’s stadiums to the 19th-century fields of Oxford and Cambridge.
EVEN IF TERP ATHLETES won’t be bartending at Bentley’s or driving Shuttle-UM buses anytime soon, it’s clear that burgeon ing stars such as basketball player siblings Julian and Angel Reese will have plenty of available gigs, with Julian endorsing NFL quarterback Tom Brady’s new apparel line and Angel doing Instagram promotions for Giant Food, Starface skin care and Prissy Athletics clothing.
“Every person who follows them, follows them for a reason,” he says. “When you start to scale that (influence) across the country, you can see why brands are excited.”
And it’s undeniable that NIL has become a consideration for sought after recruits when they pick a program. While many talented football players finish their high school requirements a semester early to get a jump on college practice and condi tioning in the spring, one Kentucky high school player even left his team mid-season to head to Rutgers and ink a reportedly six-figure NIL deal.
“We already are hearing from athletics programs giving evidence of a negatively changed recruiting landscape,” NCAA President Mark Emmert told the House Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Commerce in a September hearing. “As new states rush to keep up with the states that have enacted NIL reform, we are likely to see a ‘race to the bottom,’ with each state trying to ensure that its schools have a competitive advantage over other states until eventually the protections for student-athletes become so thin that there is little discernible difference between college athletes and professional sports figures.”
millions of followers on TikTok to land a deal with Boost Mobile, but Ciro says companies also see value in the tens of thousands of less famous options whose audiences may be smaller but are more invested in their success.
33WINTER 2022 NIL at a Glance 145 PERDISCLOSURESDEALSDISCLOSEDSPORT 54% from Olympic sports 46% from football and men’s and women’s basketball AVERAGE VALUE PER DEAL 69%$780 cash deals 31% in-kind PERCENTAGE OF DEALS WORTH $1,000 OR MORE 12% PERCENTAGE OF DEALS $10,000WORTHORMORE 2% UMD REPRESENTEDTEAMS 17 of 20 programs HIGHEST UMD EARNER JarrettRakim football wide receiver BREAKING DOWN THE DEALS 59% social activitiesmedia 17% endorsementsrights/ 8% appearances/events 8% content creations 6% merchandise 2% autograph sessions Here’s how name, image and likeness activity played out for Terp athletes from July through early December: “A lot of schools were waiting for the NCAA to provide more direction. Maryland was definitely one of the early adopters.” T.J. CIRO ’02, SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT AND HEAD OF PARTNERSHIPS FOR OPENDORSE

When Harrod owned it, the land had fronted a street called Harrod Road or Harrod Avenue. Now, the overgrown road is called Deputy Lane. “To literally see this complete erasure—it made me furious,” Drakeford says.

Brittney Drakeford, a doctoral student in UMD’s School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, grew up in the county and recalls accompanying her mother and grandmother on drives where they’d pass a particular stretch of land, vacant and wild. They’d always point out that it had once belonged to Brittney’s great-great-great-grandfather.
Her ancestor was enslaved in Prince George’s County. Five generations later, a doctoral student is reinvigorating the area’s agricultural—and communal—ties.
He bought 13 acres near present-day FedEx Field, which he farmed throughout his life, then divided into smaller parcels for each of his five children. Their legacy was cut off in the 1970s, however, when the state and Prince George’s County took own ership of the land as the result of unpaid property taxes.
A ROOTED RETURN
IN 1902, Robert Harrod Sr. signed the deed to own land in the very county where he had spent the beginning of his life legally owned and enslaved.
BY SALA LEVIN ’10 | PHOTOS BY STEPHANIE S. CORDLE
It’s an erasure that Drakeford, at least the sixth generation of her family to live in Prince George’s County, is set on halting. Despite the county’s rich agricultural history, many of its resi dents now lack access to fresh food and are disconnected from the land seeded for centuries with a painful history. As a senior planner with the county and community leader, Drakeford is determined to remedy that. Through her volunteer efforts developing a neighborhood garden, opening farmers mar kets and helping churches become hubs for nourishment, Drakeford is building a community empowered in its relation ship to the environment.
34 TERP.UMD.EDU 1940 PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY MAP COURTESY OF BRITTNEY DRAKEFORD

During Berry’s lifetime, dozens of enslaved people worked at Concord, growing crops and raising milk cows, oxen, swine, sheep and other animals in the shadow of his Federal-style mansion. By 1800, Berry was Prince George’s County’s seventhlargest slaveholder and a well-known figure in a county that was a stronghold of slavery in Maryland. In 1850, the county was home to 11,510 enslaved people, nearly half of its population.
Drakeford’s ancestor was likely enslaved at the Concord plantation, seen here in 1936.
“My great-grandparents, my mother, they probably never would have thought that they’d even be able to tap into this information, and now they have a descendant who’s literally in a position to research their story, affirm their story, hopefully protect their family lineage,” she says. “I feel responsibility and a burden.”
THE CONCORD plantation, built in the 1790s in what is now Capitol Heights, was the jewel of Zachariah Berry’s extensive landholdings—and the site where records suggest Drakeford’s ancestor was enslaved.

Drakeford began to piece together the story of Robert Harrod Sr. in high school, when she was assigned to research her family history. She learned that he was born in 1851 or 1852, likely at Concord but possibly at one of Berry’s other properties. She
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As a planner with the county, Drakeford has the power to “bring in people who have not necessarily participated in these processes before,” she says. She can inform friends and
TOP PHOTO BY JOHN O. BROSTRUP / HISTORIC AMERICAN BUILDINGS SURVEY; RIGHT PHOTO COURTESY OF BRITTNEY DRAKEFORD.
began collecting information from her relatives, obituaries, census records, family bibles, wills and elders at her church, where a stained-glass window is dedicated to Robert Harrod Jr. and his wife. Eventually, Drakeford found the property deed recording Robert Harrod Sr.’s purchase in the Huntsville area.
It was “not unusual at all” for Black people to buy land in the county in the decades after the Civil War, says Susan Pearl, his torian for the Prince George’s County Historical Society, though “13 acres is a pretty good amount.” Many Black families supported themselves on two or three acres, she says.
Black farming communities began springing up around the 1880s, and Black ownership of farms increased into the early 1900s. But by the middle of the century, suburban sprawl threat ened both white- and Black-owned farms.
The fate of the Harrod family farm encapsulates the main thrust of Drakeford’s academic, professional and personal interests: how zoning and land-use regulations have real-world consequences, especially for marginalized communities. What can a parcel of land be used for? Where can food be grown or sold? Can you plant a vegetable garden at your own home?
She began volunteering at the African American Atelier, an art gallery that she’d stumbled upon one day while walking downtown. Eventually, she became a youth director and curator, organizing exhibits focusing on women living in poverty or young, up-and-coming artists.
Some of the Cottage City gardeners are part of the seed-saving movement, in which native plants are preserved by passing their
Like those plants, Drakeford knows how to bloom in the land she’s planted in. “There are these environmental factors that make it easier for me, because of that familiarity, to navigate in this environment.” When she struggled in school, she’d drop in at her aunt’s house for a home-cooked dinner. When she needs advice today, she visits her dad down the street.
It was in college that Drakeford began to realize her interest in place and people. When a fellow student complained that Greensboro was boring, Drakeford balked. She thought that was impossible in any city, with all its residents and their stories bouncing up against one another in parks, offices, coffee shops and homes—and she was determined to prove it. She began exploring Greensboro, “just sitting back, watching, learning, listening and then saying, ‘Okay, well, what can I do?’”
seeds on to future generations. The indigenous peanuts, peas and sweet potatoes growing in the garden have evolved to thrive in the acidity of the local soil, the sun exposure and the weather.
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This 1902 deed documents the sale of land from Mary Sheriff to Robert Harrod Sr.

AT THE END of a quiet residential street in Cottage City, Md., past the brick town hall on a lot near the Anacostia River, Drakeford is at home in more than one sense. She wends her way through the community garden, its plants laden with cherry tomatoes, eggplants and peppers, pointing out the new irri gation system, the Concord grapevines, the beehives in the back.
Drakeford was a senior in high school in 2004 when her mother, Sharon, died of pulmonary sarcoidosis, a rare lung dis ease resulting from the body’s immune response. The root cause is unknown, but research suggests that the triggers could be fungi, chemicals, dust, bacteria or viruses. The Cleveland Clinic reports that African Americans are four to 17 times more likely to develop the disease than white people and are more likely to have a severe form. Drakeford believes her mom’s case “was probably because of the neighborhood where she grew up, the impacts of residential segregation and the trauma of displace ment,” she says.
“I started to realize that how we designed an exhibit … forced people to have certain types of internal reflections and certain types of internal conversations, and it also forced these external conversations,” Drakeford says. It was an early revelation that the physical environment shaped relationships.
After earning a master’s degree in management at Wake
neighbors about projects, forums, meetings, proposed regu lations. “I know how to communicate to them, ‘This is what planning really means for your neighborhood.’” And yet, as she sees her loved ones struggle with the diseases and difficulties that can come from an unhealthy or unsafe personal environ ment, she wonders, “Can I even protect my family?”
Her mother’s death sparked Drakeford’s interest in her family history, which she continued researching as an undergraduate studying journalism and African American history at North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro, and in her gradu ate and professional work.
THE COTTAGE CITY Community Garden is one example of Drakeford’s on-the-ground approach. Though she loved playing in the dirt as a kid, she didn’t nurture her green thumb until her aunt suggested they build a memorial garden at Drakeford’s grandmother’s home to honor her mother. Crepe myrtle trees, rose of Sharon bushes and irises soon took hold.
Farmers markets are another avenue for Drakeford to help feed people, physically and emotionally. In 2018, after the local Safeway closed, she and her cousin, Kyle Reeder, launched the Capitol Heights farmers market, now in partnership with her church, Gethsemane United Methodist.
Drakeford and the team founded a second location in Suitland, and now the two farmers markets draw about 60 vendors, most of whom are Black farmers. On a late summer Sunday morning at the Suitland location, in a strip mall’s parking lot, the bounty included fruits, vegetables, baked goods, jams and sausages.
Later, Drakeford joined the Port Towns Youth Council, a pro gram of the nonprofit End Times Harvest Ministries. Since 1996, the nonprofit has gotten Prince George’s County youth involved in their communities through peer education, internships and career readiness programs. The Cottage City Community Garden, founded in 2010, was one of its projects, and Drakeford now serves as its co-manager.
“I’ve learned things (from Drakeford) that I wasn’t nec essarily able to see from academe and from a researcher’s perspective, in terms of … the bureaucracy of the process of planning,” says Marccus Hendricks, Drakeford’s adviser and assistant professor in the School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. “She is a sponge in terms of soaking up as much information and knowledge as she possibly can, and really driven to really support communities in a way that they see fit.”
Other benefits follow, too. The physical activity of gardening is good exercise, and studies show that regular access to fresh
Forest University, Drakeford returned to Maryland and began working for the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission (MNCPPC), which governs land-use planning in Montgomery and Prince George’s counties. She learned the nuances of zoning ordinances and started a doctoral program in urban and regional planning and design at UMD
produce may have a positive effect on conditions like diabetes and hypertension. A ban on pesticides and chemicals helps keep the garden environmentally healthy, too.
Drakeford often impresses with her ability to deliver what seems improbable. “We had this grandiose plan, which I was shaking my head about, about getting a grant to build a new irri gation system,” says Denise Hamler, a Cottage City resident who works in the garden. With Drakeford’s help, “by gosh, we got that grant, and we have a new cistern and irrigation system.”
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She wanted the garden to be not just a place to grow cucum bers, but a neighborhood centerpiece and a space for locals to find fellowship. In Cottage City, gardening tools and an irrigation system provided by the garden team allow residents to focus on planting, harvesting and socializing rather than figuring out how to supply their own materials. During the COVID-19 pandemic, neighbors have gathered in the garden for outdoor happy hours, and—in non-pandemic times—the garden hosts workshops and events for Cottagestudents. Cityhas few restaurants, coffee shops or other public spaces people can talk to one another. “By the nature of us having this garden, we literally create a space where people can come and gather,” Drakeford says.
Train tracks run directly behind the Cottage City Community Garden that Drake co-manages.


She “helps us to remain connected and remain relevant, and she continues to bring to the table what the needs of the community are and helps us to focus so that we are meeting the needs,” says Ron Triplett, Drakeford’s pastor.
In person, Drakeford is buoyant and talkative, willing to give generously of herself and her time. And yet, she admits, “I’m exhausted.” She feels the trauma her long-ago ancestors experienced on this land, and newer trauma, too. Her father, she says, was pulled over by county police when he was a teenager, accused of robbing a store he’d never been to and put in the back of the police car. Though he wasn’t physically harmed, Drakeford says the moment was “a very pronounced incident” in his relationship with the county he grew up in.


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Churches are a locus of another of Drakeford’s goals: to turn unused kitchens, cold storage space and, sometimes, land into a new branch of the food system, allowing farmers to use that real estate for food production. In a county where one in seven residents experiences food insecurity, according to a 2015 study conducted by the MNCPPC, churches—often central places in many Prince Georgians’ lives—could be key to expanding access to nutritious foods.
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On her personal website, Drakeford muses about how Black people must look both forward and backward in shaping their lives. “If you’ve sat in a conversation with me for more than 30 minutes, at some point I’ve probably drifted into some ideas of Afro-futurism; Black people planning their future and preserving their history as radical acts of time travel and time reclamation.” She plans and builds, believing that doing so can take back some of what was Drakeford’slost.father and his sisters own a parcel of inherited property in South Carolina, where she’s leading the family in creating a land trust to preserve it permanently. At 15 acres, it’s a little more than the farmland her great-great-great-grandfa ther bought for himself and his descendants. She hopes one day they’ll start a family farm there—a loop connecting past and future, a harkening to what came before and a stake in what is still to come. terp
AT SOME POINT during the pandemic, as she was preparing for her comprehensive exams, Drakeford spent the better part of a month crying. Her uncle had recently died, and there was talk of selling the church where her great-great-grandparents were buried. She felt powerless. “I have perceived power” because of her position in county gov ernment, she says, but “I don’t have enough power to save my family, in a sense.”
—BRITTNEY DRAKEFORD
We launched our Alumni Excellence Awards in 2020 to honor some of these Terps. This year we’re celebrating Hollister and 13 other outstanding graduates (see story on facing page), and I hope you’re just as inspired as we are by all that they have accomplished.Hereatthe Alumni Association, we’re eager to encourage pride as well as connections among Terps. One of the best ways to make those bonds is through the Alumni Directory, where you can create an account and locate friends, classmates and colleagues.Another way to get—or stay—in touch with fellow Terps is through the Terp Referral Exchange Business Directory. If you’re the owner or leader of a business, sign up for this business directory for the opportunity to promote your company to fellow alumni and learn about other Terp-owned businesses. Get to know other entrepreneurial Terps, and discover how you can learn from and support one another.
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Under Quattrone’s direction, Cvent has become a leading provider of meeting, event and hospitality technology for more than 23,000 customers worldwide.
As we enter a new year, we are excited to share lots of ways to connect with you in person and virtually. Be on the lookout for new programs and events where you can continue to strengthen your relationships with each other and the university.
I wish each of you a safe and healthy winter.
Letter From the DirectorExecutive Rising Terp Award
EnTERPreneur Award
Foundos left a successful career as a bond trader to launch a streaming service that puts subscribers virtually in classes with instructors in gyms around the world.

The aerospace engineering graduates now design and manufacture unmanned aerial vehicles that can improve and save lives.
These Terps are fearlessly disrupting their industries as successful entrepreneurs who have notably contributed to their respective fields.
A computer science alum, Magoon co-founded Nayya to help employees choose and enroll in health benefits and then engage with their health plans.

IT WAS ONLY a few years ago that Matthew Hollister ’18 stood on the stage at the Do Good Challenge, telling the audience about how his father’s passing inspired him to start a nonprofit that reduces medication waste by sending unused but still-potent drugs to developing nations.
CO-FOUNDER, NAYYA

CO-FOUNDERS, AIRGILITY
PRAMOD RAHEJA ’91 AND EVANDRO VALENTE ’03, M.S. ’06
AUDREY AWASOM ’18
MATTHEW HOLLISTER ’18
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AKASH MAGOON ’18
Awasom’s nonprofit serves women experiencing homelessness, poverty and overall hardship.
DAVID C. QUATTRONE MBA ’05
FOUNDER AND CEO, FORTË
Amy Eichhorst Associate Vice President, Alumni and Donor Relations Executive Director, Alumni Association

The following alumni are an inspiration to the next gener ation of Terp leaders. All under the age of 30, they have already made significant professional accomplishments.
CHAIRMAN AND CEO, JAMES HOLLISTER WELLNESS FOUNDATION; CO-FOUNDER, SAVE PHARMACEUTICAL Hollister’s foundation collects and sends donated medications to low-income countries. His new venture will match facilities with a pharmaceutical surplus to clinics in need.
He’s among the many amazing Terps—from entrepreneurs to scientists to artists to business and government leaders—who are making meaningful changes in their communities and the world.
Go Terps!
FOUNDER, NOBLE UPRISING
LAUREN FOUNDOS ’06
The University of Maryland is one of the world’s premier research institutions. This award recognizes three alumni for their transformational research and its impact.
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Learn more at alumni.umd.edu/excellence.
DR. KATHLEEN MALETIC NEUZIL ’83


Research Award
RITA B. LEAHY PH.D. ’89
RETIRED PARTNER, WHITEFORD TAYLOR PRESTON

JOHN FORD
MYRON M. LEVINE, M.D., DTPH, PROFESSOR IN VACCINOLOGY; DIRECTOR OF THE CENTER FOR VACCINE DEVELOPMENT AND GLOBAL HEALTH; CHIEF, DIVISION OF GEOGRAPHIC MEDICINE, UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE

Through his research on machine learning and engineering design, Ahmed hopes to improve product design and quality, and as a result, human efficiency.
BRIDGET T. KELLY M.A. ’96, PH.D. ’01
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FAEZ AHMED PH.D. ’19
JONATHAN CLAIBORNE ’77
’64 OWNER, JOHN C. FORD ASSOCIATES SANDRA SOLLOD POSTER ’64 COMMUNICATIONS CONSULTANT These two communications professionals have served as ambassadors for the School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies and funded two dance scholarships.
Neuzil, one of the world’s leading research scientists in vaccine development and policy, was instrumental in developing and testing COVID-19 vaccines during the pandemic.
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The former Terps football safety has served as president of UMD’s previous Young Alumni Organization and the M Club and supported the C. D. Mote, Jr. Incentive Awards Program.
This distinguished award honors alumni who left a positive legacy in their community, celebrating their personal and professional lifetime achievements.
Legacy Award
An advocate for equity, Kelly and her research have helped educators across the country understand the experiences of women and people of color in higher education.
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, DIVERSITY OFFICER AND CHAIR OF THE COUNCIL ON RACIAL EQUITY AND JUSTICE, UMD COLLEGE OF EDUCATION

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; DIRECTOR, DESIGN COMPUTATION & DIGITAL ENGINEERING LAB, MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

University of Maryland graduates are among the best and brightest in their fields. From scholars and innovators to entrepreneurs, teachers and researchers, our alumni are leaving their mark on our state, nation and the world. The Alumni Excellence Awards provide an opportunity to rec ognize the accomplishments of select Terps and honor these recipients with distinction. Careful consideration was made in selecting the follow ing standout alumni, our 2021 recipients of the Alumni Excellence Awards.
Through her service on UMD’s Graduate School Doctoral Careers Advisory Board, and as founder of a speaker series established in her name, Leahy has helped doctoral students understand career options.
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police chief for decades in D.C.’s two biggest suburban counties, J. Thomas Manger ’76 knows well the procedures for backing up law enforcement agencies facing unrest in the nation’s capital. As he watched a mob storm the U.S. Capitol last Jan. 6 on live TV, brutalizing badly outnumbered U.S. Capitol Police and District of Columbia officers, it was clear those steps weren’t being followed.
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he’d turned in his badge in early 2019 to enjoy time with his wife and teenage children while easing into a less life-anddeath assignment as legislative director of the Major Cities Chiefs Association. Now, for the first time, he regretted retiring.
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Alum Takes Over as Capitol Police Chief in Wake of Jan. 6 Riot

“I was alternately angry and in tears,” Manger says. “I just wanted to grab 150 of my cops and go down there.”
Except he no longer had officers to lead into the fray. After 15 years as Montgomery County, Md., police chief,
He wouldn’t have to for long. Congressional recruiters quickly recog nized that Manger’s blend of D.C. smarts, emphasis on community engagement and dedication to officers’ well-being made him an ideal successor to Steven Sund, who resigned as Capitol Police chief a day after the attack.
Manger started his third posting as a police chief in July, making clear he doesn’t consider his job one of cleaning house or fixing a broken department.
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RAMIT VARMA ’96 , co-founder of the test prep company Revolution Prep, is running for mayor of Los Angeles. Varma, a Democrat with no prior political experience, is campaigning on a platform of ending homelessness in the city and building more affordable housing.

Just as in previous top jobs, he’ll focus heavily on relationships, says a former assistant chief in Montgomery County who calls Manger a mentor. That includes building ties with his officers, the community he’s sworn to protect and community leaders (no shortage of those on Capitol Hill, Manger
“A lot of his leadership is based on listening and knowing what to do with that. … Tom’s approach is, ‘Let’s find what’s working well and build on it.’ ”
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He was living with his family in Silver Spring and applying for jobs throughout the region when he got the call from Fairfax County, Va. Over 27 years, he worked his way up to chief, a position he held for six years before moving to Montgomery County. In those postings he focused on police accountability—for instance, intro ducing dashcams in Fairfax and wearing a body camera himself in Montgomery—and changing depart ment cultures to embrace a “serve and protect”
BRIONNA JONES ’16 , a forward with the Connecticut Sun since 2017, was named the 2021 Associated Press and Kia WNBA Most Improved Player. She averaged 11.2 points, 5.6 rebounds, 1 assist and 26.1 minutes in 21 games, including scoring 34 points against the Indiana Fever during a game last July. She ranked second in the WNBA in offensive rebounding.

—LUTHER CHARLESTON,REYNOLDS,S.C.,POLICE CHIEF
The commitment to serve rather than dominate a department or community was strongly inculcated in him in University of Maryland crimi nology classes, Manger says—although his first job out of college as an Ocean


Longethos.before the killings of Michael Brown and George Floyd transfixed the nation on the toll of unequal policing, Manger worked on building bridges to marginalized communities; today, he says, much has changed for the better in both style and substance from the early days of his career, when his jaw dropped at racial slurs casually tossed about in squad rooms.
FRANTIŠEK BRABEC PH.D. ’05 won second place and $125,000 in NASA’s Space Robotics Challenge, a multiyear virtual competition to develop software that would allow robots to operate autonomously on the surface of the Moon and find, excavate and transport resources needed by future astronauts on lunar missions. He is a computer scientist, serial entrepreneur, inventor, adviser and mentor to startups.
BRANDIE SMITH PH.D. ’10 was named the John and Adrienne Mars director of the Smith sonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute. Since joining the staff in 2008, she helped revitalize the giant panda program by integrating excellence in animal husbandry with new technology in reproductive biology.
The U.S. Senate confirmed TRACY STONEMANNING ’88 as director of the Bureau of Land Management, which oversees grazing, logging and drilling on 245 million acres of public land. She was most recently senior adviser for conservation policy at the National Wildlife Federation, and previously served as chief of staff to Montana Gov. Steve Bullock.

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“He’sjokes).notgoing to go in and fire a lot of people, or pound his fist and say, ‘We’re doing things my way now,’” says Luther Reynolds, now police chief in Charleston, S.C. “A lot of his leader ship is based on listening and knowing what to do with that … Tom’s approach is, ‘Let’s find what’s working well and build on it.’”
J. THOMAS MANGER ’76
City summer cop in 1976 was far from a leadership academy. “I think they gave us a week of training and then sent us out with a gun and a badge,” he says.
Leading the U.S. Capitol Police Department—which suffered widespread physical and psycholog ical injuries during the Jan. 6 attack, including the deaths of several officers and the resignations of many others since then—he focuses on the stresses of policing in the 21st century, to support his officers and reshape a national narrative he worries will make it harder to carry out the department’s unique charge. “There’s no other police agency,” Manger says, “that does what we do—protecting the members of Congress and protecting the democratic process itself.”—cc
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While the force couldn’t keep rioters out of the Capitol, it did accomplish— with much individual heroism—the imperatives of protecting lawmakers and allowing the 2020 presidential election certification to proceed.
Letters of Hope and Familiarity

Alum’s New Book Highlights African Americans’ Relationship to Lincoln


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they would be to any other soldiers. The addressee of that letter was President Abraham Lincoln, and it is among dozens of examples of raw, angry, eloquent and hopeful correspondence collected in a new book edited by Jonathan W. White M.A. ’03, Ph.D. ’08. “To Address You as My Friend: African Americans’ Letters to Abraham Lincoln” (University of North Carolina Press) provides rare insight into how Black Ameri cans viewed themselves and the president.

“A lot of times when historians quote African Americans from periods like the Civil War, they have to rely on what white people wrote down after they heard Black people talk. It’s hard to find
The White House and its decisions were therefore far from abstract. Annie Davis, an enslaved Marylander in Bel Air, wrote Lincoln in August 1864 to ask whether she could see her family on the Eastern Shore even though “my mistress won’t let me;” three months later, Lincoln’s behind-thescenes efforts to promote emancipation in the state helped it come to fruition.
White, a former research assistant for Ira Berlin, the late UMD professor and historian of the African American experi ence, dedicates the book to his teachers at Maryland. He was also inspired by the Freedmen and Southern Society Project, a UMD collaboration with the National Archives that since 1976 has published documents exploring the beginning of the Civil War through Reconstruction.
or six months, Black officers in a Union regiment stationed in Florida had been building fortifications and guarding a nine-mile perimeter while earning just over half the salary of their white counterparts—though cannons and rifles themselves wouldn’t discriminate by skinFearingcolor. their families back home in New Orleans were starving, the officers implored their commander in chief in January 1864 for better pay because “our lives is as Sweet” to them as
Black voices in the hand of the Black writer or thinker,” says White, an associate professor of American studies at Christopher Newport University. “Recovering those voices is one of the things that makes this book important.”
The book’s 125 letters, most of which have never before been published, often address the president in familiar terms and beseech him to end their suffering as second-class citizens.“This new book is unlike anything else,” says Richard Bell, a UMD history professor and expert on slavery and the Civil War-era United States. “We get these unvarnished insights into African American life and consciousness as they put their hope in Abraham Lincoln … someone they’ve come to regard as their unexpected friend.”
“They feel as if they know him,” White says. “No one grieves more than African Americans when Lincoln is assassinated. They know the personal loss they are going to experience.”—lf
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—CAROLA ROJAS ’24 (BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES)
The Clark Challenge for the Maryland Promise will establish a $100 million endowment to provide need-based scholarships to talented undergraduates in Maryland and the District of Columbia.
Getting into college is a big barrier, but once you’re accepted, being able to afford it is yet another one. I had proposed (to my family) that I would take a gap year to raise money for the second half of my college education. The scholarship made it so that I didn’t have to do that. It was a weight lifted.”

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Today, she’s expanded AptDeco to more than 100 employees and is preparing to enter new markets, including Washington, D.C.
Despite Fagiri’s success, she knows the odds are stacked against other entrepreneurs like her: Black, immigrant and female. “There’s very little capital that goes to women or minorities. But that shouldn’t stop you. If you have an idea, do it.”—ks
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The young company got a boost when it was accepted by the Y Combinator, a famed Silicon Valley startup accelerator that has funded the likes of DoorDash and Airbnb, and helped Fagiri and her co-founder, Dennis Kalam, meet inves tors and learn from other startups.
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With a background in software devel opment and an MBA, she was equipped for the challenge, co-founding AptDeco, a furniture resale website, in 2014. The online marketplace—which has grown from servicing just New York City to much of the Northeast, from Delaware to Connecticut, as well as the San Francisco Bay Area—eliminates the sketchiness around peer-to-peer sales by offering pricing suggestions, a secure payment system, and pickup and delivery.

A Better Plan for Secondhand
eham fagiri ’04 turned to popular classifieds site Craigslist to sell her furniture before a move to New York City. But after a string of no-shows, strangers parading through her home and awkward haggling, “I thought to myself, there has to be a better way to do this,” she says.
“We wanted to create a trusted community where you could remove the friction and the scams,” she says. Initially rolled out to friends and family, the website soon expanded—and the site’s first sale, a headboard, was made by a stranger. “The first moment I thought, ‘Wow, this is a real business’ is when I didn’t recognize any of the people shopping on the site.”
REHAM FAGIRI ’04
“I come from a family of entrepreneurs. In Sudan, like in a lot of developing countries, there aren’t a lot of big corpo rations. To be successful, you have to create your own business and solve your own problems,” she says.
The hustle of startup life is familiar to Fagiri, who grew up in Sudan and came to the University of Maryland as a 16-yearold to study electrical engineering.
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But AptDeco also faced stumbles. Initially, the company contracted its pickup and delivery to moving companies. But when a truck didn’t show up, or the service quality was poor, AptDeco got the blame, not the third party. Now, they’ve brought delivery operations in-house, and the company has created software to optimize delivery routes.
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As Women’s Basketball Team Shoots for More Success, Get a Glimpse of 1920s Game-day Garb
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efore the University of Maryland women’s basketball team was commanding the court in today’s streamlined and sweat-wicking uniforms, Terps seemed to take “suit up for game day” literally—neckties andAsall.UMD competes to defend its Big Ten title this season, we took a timeout with University Archives to look into the program’s past. Team photos from the 1920s, well before women’s basketball was even recognized as a varsity sport, feature players donning knee-high socks, scarves or ties, plain white shirts and belted shorts.
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A donated gym suit from the collection of Mildred P. Smith, a 1922 grad who organized UMD’s first women’s hoops team, gives fans a front-row perspective. Between the collar, long sleeves and ballooning bottoms, it might be hard to believe someone could drill a jump shot or scramble after a loose ball in this. But maybe the wear and tear and not-so-subtle stains can convince you.—ak

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