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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Andrew Gretes ’04

Andrew Gretes ’04 in his debut novel “How to Dispose of Dead Elephants” traces the journey of two young men, one with re-emerging epilepsy and the other confronting his unknown origins, as they seek out Aesop fables to doodle over. Gretes’ short stories…

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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…

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Brian J. Malkin ’04

Brian J. Malkin ’04 and Maryana Olman M.B.A. ’04 celebrate their 10th anniversary on June 12—they were married in Memorial Chapel and had photographs taken at the stables on campus. He recently joined McGuireWoods LLP as a senior counsel to lead its FDA…

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Jacqueline Dicker ’09

Jacqueline Dicker ’09 has been named associate to the family practice at Mishcon de Reya New York LLP. Her enthusiasm for the legal practice stemmed from watching “L.A. Law” as a child with her father. Her interest in family and matrimonial law was…

Passings

Julie Sutherland Jones ’74

Julie Sutherland Jones ’74, who retired in the early 1990s as deputy director of public affairs at the Labor Department, died of cancer Jan. 24 at her home in Arlington, Va. She was 65, according to The Washington Post. She attended Northwestern High…

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Alexandra Rudolph ’99

Alexandra Rudolph ’99 has joined the Chicago litigation firm Zagnoli McEvoy Foley LLC as a senior consultant. She specializes in conducting focus groups, mock trials, shadow juries and preparing experts and witnesses for trials and depositions. She has a…

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Luke Young ’87

Luke Young ’87 has released the new online book, “Friends Wanting Benefits,” a prequel to his romantic comedy “Friends With Benefits” series. Set on a Caribbean cruise ship, it chronicles the budding friendship between Victoria Wilde and Jillian Grayson,…

Passings

Sharon L. Friedlander ’75, M.A. ’03

Sharon L. Friedlander ’75, M.A. ’03, a beloved Baltimore County public schools special education teacher, died Jan. 24 of giant cell myocarditis, at Johns Hopkins Hospital, according to The Baltimore Sun. The former Sharon Lee Falk was born and raised in…