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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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…

70s

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.…

90s

Kathy Hedge M.B.A. ’99

Kathy Hedge M.B.A. ’99 has been named executive director of the nonprofit Parent Encouragement Program, which offers in-depth parenting classes in the D.C. area. She previously provided strategic planning, fundraising consultations and training as an…

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…

Passings

John R. Tydings ’63

John R. Tydings ’63, who spent 24 years as president and chief executive of the Greater Washington Board of Trade and helped revive the city in the aftermath of the 1968 riots, died Nov. 16 at his home in Potomac of a degenerative brain disorder,…

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…

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…

00s

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…