Spring 2014

Features

June 10, 2014

Students, Faculty Bring New Life to Maryland Founder’s Home in England

In Brief

June 10, 2014

Maryland Helps Farmers Navigate Changing Laws

Innovation

June 10, 2014

Virtual Classroom, Real Teaching

Features

June 10, 2014

With a Nor’easter crawling toward his College Park office, Maryland geographer Matthew Hansen is thinking about traveling into untouched tropical wilderness.…

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

Innovation

June 10, 2014

Innovation

June 10, 2014

Professor Aims to Improve Athletes’ Health

Campus Life

June 10, 2014

Innovation

June 10, 2014

Campus Life

June 10, 2014

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

Parting Shot

June 10, 2014

Campus Life

June 10, 2014

In just a decade, Anthony Casalena ’05 (above) has taken his company froma one-man operation in his Maryland dorm room to one that can afford a $4 million…

Campus Life

June 10, 2014

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…

Campus Life

June 10, 2014

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

Campus Life

June 10, 2014

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,…

Features

June 10, 2014

Diagnosed With Rare Cancer, Honors Director Offers Lesson in Living Fully

Visualization tools being developed by UMD researchers

In Brief

June 10, 2014

Class Notes

News on Friends and Classmates

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80s

Robert P. Stoker Ph.D. ’83

Robert P. Stoker Ph.D. ’83 and Michael J. Rich analyze what came out of efforts to revitalize six distressed U.S. cities through large federal grants in “Collaborative Governance for Urban Revitalization: Lessons from Empowerment Zones.” They confront why…

90s

Jolene Ivey M.A. ’92

Maryland Del. Jolene Ivey M.A. ’92 is running for lieutenant governor. The Prince George’s County Democrat will be on the primary ballot June 24 with Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler, who is seeking the gubernatorial nomination. She’s now chair of the…

90s

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…

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…

Passings

John Crawford Buckner Ph.D. ’86

John Crawford Buckner Ph.D. ’86 of Weston and Marstons Mills, Mass., died Sept. 29 at the age of 55. He grew up in Seattle, Wash. and went onto Stanford University, graduating with honors and distinction in psychology. After earning his doctorate in…

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.

80s

Thomas Baden Jr. ’80,

Thomas Baden Jr. ’80, an award-winning editor with experience at newspapers across the country, is the new editor of The Daily Record. He came to the paper from Danbury, Conn., where he led the newsroom of The News-Times during the paper’s coverage of the…

90s

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…