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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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John ’05 and Stacy Spaulding Jowers ’06

John ’05 and Stacy Spaulding Jowers ’06 of Silver Spring, Md., welcomed the arrival of daughter Carina Joy on Jan. 28. They report that Carina is already looking forward to cheering on the Terps this fall.

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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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Jacqueline Ulman ’96

Jacqueline Ulman ’96 has been elected to the National Aquarium Board of Directors. She has worked for the past 16 years in IBM’s Public Sector Consulting division. She earned a master’s degree in public administration from the Maxwell School at Syracuse…

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Mark McEwen ’76

Mark McEwen ’76, a longtime journalist who suffered a stroke in 2005, returned to Orlando’s WKMG Local 6 in February to host regular segments for the noon broadcast called “Positive Mark.” He previously spent 16 years with “CBS This Morning,” during which…

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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

Roy Thompson Jr. ’61

Roy Thompson Jr. ’61, a decorated officer during the Korean War who, while on duty, played himself in a Hollywood movie shot on location, died April 22 in Panama City, Fla., according to The New York Times He was 85. Thompson was a lieutenant in the army…

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William F. Tate Ph.D. ’91,

William F. Tate Ph.D. ’91, the Edward Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor in Arts & Sciences and chair of the Department of Education at Washington University in St. Louis, has been named dean of the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences…

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Dan Lamothe M.Jour. ’07

Dan Lamothe M.Jour. ’07 has joined The Washington Post’s national security team to start a military-focused blog and write about military affairs. He has reported on the war in Afghanistan extensively from both the war zone and Washington, D.C., covered…