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Spring 2014

Features Kiplin opener

Estate of the State

In Brief Farm illustration

Clearing the Field

Innovation Teachers in training

Virtual Classroom, Real Teaching

Features Hunter

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.

 Innovation Talk About Digital Firepower: Wrought iron red M Gate against brick outside of Maryland Stadium.

Talk About Digital Firepower

Innovation App to Keep Athletes on Track: Wrought iron red M Gate against brick outside of Maryland Stadium.

App to Keep Athletes on Track

Campus Life 100 Years of Extension’s Cultivation: Wrought iron red M Gate against brick outside of Maryland Stadium.

100 Years of Extension’s Cultivation

Innovation Crowd(funding) Control: Wrought iron red M Gate against brick outside of Maryland Stadium.

Crowd(funding) Control

Campus Life Hanifah Batool ’12

A Head Covering With a Cause

Sophomore Omar Goheer’s burgeoning attempt to change the world began with rainstorms and a wet headscarf.

 Parting Shots Opener

Tree of (New) Life

Campus Life Square space creator

A Site for Sore Eyes

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.

 Campus Life woman jump roping

The Joy of Jumping

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.

 Campus Life Planting

From Plot to Plate

Terp Farm, located 15 miles south of the university on its crop research facility in Upper Marlboro, will grow vegetables year-round.

 Campus Life Soccer stars

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.)

 In Brief Anne on campus

Ask Anne

Class Act Protestors crowd Egypt’s Tahrir Square

Witness to History

Class Notes

News on Friends and Classmates

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David W. Guth ’73,

David W. Guth ’73, an associate professor of journalism at the University of Kansas, chronicles the politics and other problems—engineering, cultural and environmental—that had to be overcome to build the Chesapeake Bay Bridge in “Bridging the Chesapeake:…

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Duane Adler ’91

Screenwriter Duane Adler ’91, made his directorial debut in April with the dance drama “Make Your Move.” It starred Derek Hough of “Dancing with the Stars” and Korean pop star BoA as star-crossed lovers in Brooklyn’s club scene. Adler was also the…

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Dr. Margaret B. Wilson M.B.A. ’90

Dr. Margaret B. Wilson M.B.A. ’90 has been promoted to vice dean at the East Carolina University School of Dental Medicine. Wilson joined the dental school in 2009 as associate dean for student affairs and clinical professor. She previously was on the…

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Ed Armstrong ’79

Ed Armstrong ’79 was named Mr. Clearwater at the 92nd annual meeting of the Clearwater (Fla.) Regional Chamber of Commerce in February. He has practiced law in Clearwater for 30 years, most often representing developers, but sometimes those who opposed…

00s

Indraneel “Neel” Dey ’06

Indraneel “Neel” Dey ’06 has been hired as senior Web developer at Willow Marketing in Indianapolis. He previously worked in the government and education sectors and as a freelance developer.

Passings

William F. Best M.A. ’66

William F. Best M.A. ’66 died April 30 at his home in St. Michaels, Md. He received a B.S. in education at Frostburg State Teachers College in 1951. While in graduate school at UMD, he worked as an assistant intramural director and assistant baseball…

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Thomas P. Slaughter ’76, M.A. ’78

In “Independence: The Tangled Roots of the American Revolution,” noted historian Thomas P. Slaughter ’76, M.A. ’78 takes a long-term and inclusive approach, going back to the founding of the colonies to tell a 150-year story. Slaughter is the Arthur R.…

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Linda A. Weir M.S. ’01

Linda A. Weir M.S. ’01 co-wrote “North American Amphibians,” published by the University of California Press. The book covers the 300 recognized species found in the United States and Canada, many of which are endangered or threatened with extinction.