Fall 2014

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

Class Act

October 06, 2014

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

Innovation

October 06, 2014

Researcher Creates Microbots Inspired by Insects

Brad Craddock Running up to kick a football

Campus Life

October 06, 2014

Aussie Transplant Takes Steps to Become NCAA Standout

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

Campus Life

October 06, 2014

Alum With Dyslexia Helps Provide Textbook Alternatives

Class Act

October 06, 2014

Network Exec’s Series Put New Appeal in the Past

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

Innovation

October 06, 2014

Raymond Sedwick, associate professor of aerospace engineering

Innovation

October 06, 2014

New UMD Center Seeks to Limit Junk in Orbit

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

Class Act

October 06, 2014

Alumna Leads Teach for America to Revitalize Hometown

Features

October 06, 2014

Terp Builds a Motocross Mecca in Southern Maryland

Class Act

October 05, 2014

Features

October 05, 2014

An Honor Aims to Heal a Painful Past

Features

October 05, 2014

Are Today’s Students More Anxious and Depressed Than Ever?

In Brief

October 05, 2014

Questions for Anne Turkos, the university archivist

In Brief

October 05, 2014

Oculus VR CEO’s Vision: UMD in Forefront of Virtual Reality

Class Act

October 05, 2014

Campus Life

October 05, 2014

Class Notes

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80s

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…

10s

Eric LaRoche ’14

Eric LaRoche ’14 is one of three people from around the world admitted to the Infiniti Performance Engineering Academy, a one-year program allowing him to work with the company’s Red Bull Racing team at its Formula 1 factory in England, as well as with…

70s

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…

00s

Charlotte R. Zilke ’02

Charlotte R. Zilke ’02 is the new director of conventions for the Helicopter Association International (HAI). She most recently served as its manager of convention services and began working for HAI in 2008 as the exhibits coordinator.

70s

Andrew Herndon ’75

Andrew Herndon ’75 was featured last year in Sunset Magazine after he stumbled into a new way to continue a long time home brewing hobby. Spying a vine during an Idaho trout-fishing trip, Herndon crushed a bloom in his hands—”It smelled like the best ale…

10s

Jill A. Perry Ph.D. ’10

Jill A. Perry Ph.D. ’10 has been appointed executive director of the Carnegie Project on the Education Doctorate, which brings together a consortium of colleges and schools of education to institute a clear distinction between the professional practice…

60s

Michael ’67

Brothers Michael ’67 and Jay Headman ’67, M.A. ’76 are working with the nonprofit Delaware Center for the Inland Bays to raise money for and awareness of the plight of the diamondback terrapin. The center’s Save the TERP (Terrapin Education and…

Passings

Dr. Charles E. Shaw Jr. ’44

Dr. Charles E. Shaw Jr. ’44, an internal medicine doctor who operated a private practice for more than 40 years, died Aug. 31, according to The Baltimore Sun. He was 94. After graduating from UMD and while a medical student at the University of Maryland,…