Spring 2014
Seeing the Forest and All Its Trees
With a Nor’easter crawling toward his College Park office, Maryland geographer Matthew Hansen is thinking about traveling into untouched tropical wilderness. On a computer screen is a large swath of green, a natural forest in the Congo, with a small black dot in the middle. Some of the forest has been burned along a nearby river, but the black dot—a lake—is in the ever-shrinking, unsullied portion of the world’s ecosystem.
Sophomore Omar Goheer’s burgeoning attempt to change the world began with rainstorms and a wet headscarf.
In just a decade, Anthony Casalena ’05 (above) has taken his company from
a one-man operation in his Maryland dorm room to one that can afford a $4 million Super Bowl ad.
The journalism major scaled back her jump-roping practice schedule during freshman year at Maryland, but she’s getting warmed back up for national competition with a trip to Brazil later this month in part to entertain World Cup fans.
Terp Farm, located 15 miles south of the university on its crop research facility in Upper Marlboro, will grow vegetables year-round.
Goal! Two Terps Head to World Cup
With Graham Zusi and Omar Gonzalez making the 23-man roster headed to Brazil in June, Terps are overrepresented on the squad. (Two other former UMD players, Clarence Goodson and Maurice Edu, were among the final cuts.)
Class Notes
News on Friends and Classmates
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Ed Armstrong ’79
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Jacqueline Dicker ’09
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Alexandra Rudolph ’99
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Camellia Blackwell Ph.D. ’85
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Laya Ballesteros ’01,
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Michael E. Strauch ’00, M.A. ’02
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Dr. Margaret B. Wilson M.B.A. ’90
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Dan Lamothe M.Jour. ’07