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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 Shots 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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80s

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…
Zadeh Mehr

00s

Shayan Zadeh M.S. ’02

Shayan Zadeh M.S. ’02 (left) and Alex Mehr Ph.D. ’03 (right), co-founders of the romantic social network and dating service Zoosk, were featured in the March 6 issue of Forbes magazine in a story called “Up-and-Comers: Entrepreneurs Who Want to Find You…

90s

Katharine Knowlton Ph.D. ’97,

Katharine Knowlton Ph.D. ’97, professor of dairy science at Virginia Tech’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, was recently named the Colonel Horace E. Alphin Professor in Dairy Science by the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors. A member of the…

Passings

Maria M. Murphy-Andary ’81

Maria M. Murphy-Andary ’81 died Jan. 9 at her home Montgomery Village, Md., according to the Washington Post. She was 67. The cause was breast cancer, said her husband, James Andary. Murphy-Andary had worked for US Airways as a flight attendant since…

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

Robert V. Hess ’83

Robert V. Hess ’83, who as New York City’s commissioner of homeless services presided over a gradual decline in the homeless population, died of liver cancer on Dec. 24 at his home in Egg Harbor Township, N.J., according to The New York Times. He was 57.…

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.…

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…