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Fall 2014

Class Act Tyrone Brooks in a Pirates baseball uniform, holding a baseball bat

Big League View

Innovation wires and light emitting diodes cover a very small six legged robot sitting on a shiny surface

Tiny Robots, Big Plans

Campus Life Brad Craddock Running up to kick a football

No Weekends at Home for Terps Kicker

Campus Life Wrought iron red M Gate against brick outside of Maryland Stadium.

See It, Hear It

Class Act Dirk Hoogstra

History in the Making

Innovation Michele Lamprakos sits on a high black studio chair sketchbook in hand. one of Michele's sketches is superimposed on the background.

Unraveling Architectural Mysteries

Innovation Raymond Sedwick, associate professor of aerospace engineering

Waste in Space

Class Act Our North star here is setting up our kids to go to college, through college, and back to Detroit

Motor City Motivator

Features Terp F2014 Feature moto

Home Field Advantage

Class Act Wrought iron red M Gate against brick outside of Maryland Stadium.

A Totally Awesome Anniversary

Campus Life Clarice

Click and Clap

Campus Life Wrought iron red M Gate against brick outside of Maryland Stadium.

A Hackerspace, from A to Tee

Class Act Wrought iron red M Gate against brick outside of Maryland Stadium.

Merch Madness

In Brief Mmorgan 140912 4928 fixed for web

Record $31M Gift to Jump-Start Computer Science Building

In Brief Halloween costumes

Ask Anne

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Stressed for Success

Class Notes

News on Friends and Classmates

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Deborah Slaner Larkin M.B.A. ’81

Deborah Slaner Larkin M.B.A. ’81 has been appointed chief executive officer of the Women’s Sports Foundation. Larkin served as the WSF’s second executive director from 1986 to 1992 and most recently served as executive director of the United States Tennis…

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Michael Martirano ’81, M.Ed. ’92

Michael Martirano ’81, M.Ed. ’92 was recently appointed West Virginia state superintendent of schools. He has been an educator for 30 years and most recently served as superintendent of St. Mary’s County Public Schools in Leonardtown, Md. He was selected…

10s

Nelson Yanes ’14

Nelson Yanes ’14 and Elena Shrestha ’12 have been named to Penton’s Aviation Week‘s “Tomorrow’s Engineering Leaders: The Twenty20s.” The program connects the next generation of aerospace and defense talent with established leaders.
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Passings

Mary Jane Lusby M.Ed. ’66

Mary Jane Lusby M.Ed. ’66, a teacher and principal for 37 years in the District of Columbia and Prince George’s County, Md., died Aug. 22 at Latrobe Area Hospital near her home in Blairsville, Ind., according to the Indiana Gazette. She was 75. A native…
Barbara Zimmer

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Barbara (Baney) Zimmer ’89

Barbara (Baney) Zimmer ’89 was recently selected Maryland’s “Home-Based Business Champion of the Year” for 2014 by the Small Business Association. She is a certified public accountant and founder of B Zimmer & Company in Pasadena.
Laura Mc Kechnie

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Laura McKechnie ’01

Laura McKechnie ’01 stands with U.S. Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.) in her workplace, USAID/Vietnam’s Office of Economic Growth and Governance, in Hanoi. She is the deputy office director there.

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Renee Domogauer ’76, M.L.S. ’83

Renee Domogauer ’76, M.L.S. ’83 and the late Lynne Hicks ’74 co-wrote “The Washington Oak Kittens,” a children’s book that brings to life the story of a 300-year-old tree that was a historic part of a Connecticut community. Lynne died of breast cancer in…

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Andrea Ingram ’71

Andrea Ingram ’71 was honored in September for her quarter-century of service as executive director of Grassroots Crisis Intervention, the nonprofit organization that includes Howard County’s only homeless shelter and a variety of other services.