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

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

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

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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50s

Justin L. Vigdor ’54

Justin L. Vigdor ’54 of Rochester, N.Y., has been honored with the 2014 Lifetime Achievement Award from the New York Bar Foundation. Vigdor was president of the New York State Bar Association from 1985–86 and president of foundation from 1992 to 1996. He…

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…

90s

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…

Passings

Margaret Wharton ’65

Artist Margaret Wharton ’65 died Jan. 20 at her home in Riverside, Ill. She was 70. Wharton lived in Virginia, North Carolina and Ohio before coming to UMD, according to The Chicago Tribune. She worked briefly in advertising before marrying and moving…

80s

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,…

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…

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…

80s

James Cook ’83

James Cook ’83 was named to Federal Computer Week’s Federal 100 list for 2014. Each year, the magazine recognizes 100 government, industry and academic leaders who have played pivotal roles that affect how the federal government acquires, develops and…