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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 Shot 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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Camellia Blackwell Ph.D. ’85

Mixed-media artist Camellia Blackwell Ph.D. ’85 in April hosted 20 art collectors and enthusiasts at her art studio and gallery, an event organized by the Smithsonian Anacostia Museum. Her work combines photography and printmaking, and she is also a…

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Laya Ballesteros ’01,

Laya Ballesteros ’01, a teacher at Achievement First Bushwick Elementary in Brooklyn, N.Y., has been recognized by the network of nonprofit charter schools as a “distinguished teacher.” The title acknowledges her success in student achievement, student…

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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…
Ryan Chowdhury

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Brigid Julia Ryan ’01

Brigid Julia Ryan ’01, married Jyoti Bhasker Chowdhury April 30 at the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, according to The New York Times. She is a foreign service officer with the U.S. State Department. In May, she was to be posted to the United…

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…

Passings

Joseph “Walter” Gibson ’69

Joseph “Walter” Gibson ’69 of La Plata, Md., died Jan. 16 in East Stroudsburg, Pa., according to the Southern Maryland News Net. He was 73. Gibson served in the army from 1962 to September 1964 in Tobeyhanna Army Depot, Pa. He worked as a soil scientist…

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Linda A. Weir M.S. ’01

Linda A. Weir M.S. ’01 co-wrote “North American Amphibians,” published by the University of California Press. The book covers the 300 recognized species found in the United States and Canada, many of which are endangered or threatened with extinction.

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Geoff Gross ’02

Geoff Gross ’02, president and CEO of Medical Guardian, was named to Digital Marketing News’ “40 Under 40” list for building a comprehensive in-house marketing team. The company has enjoyed 318% growth over the last three years, bringing in $10.9 million…