Spring 2014

Features

Estate of the State

In Brief

Clearing the Field

Innovation

Virtual Classroom, Real Teaching

Features

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

Innovation

App to Keep Athletes on Track

Campus Life

100 Years of Extension’s Cultivation

Innovation

Crowd(funding) Control

Campus Life

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

Tree of (New) Life

Campus Life

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

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

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

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

Ask Anne

Class Act

Witness to History

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

Mark McEwen ’76

Mark McEwen ’76, a longtime journalist who suffered a stroke in 2005, returned to Orlando’s WKMG Local 6 in February to host regular segments for the noon broadcast called “Positive Mark.” He previously spent 16 years with “CBS This Morning,” during which…

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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

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…

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Dr. Jana Lori Lewis ’05

Dr. Jana Lori Lewis ’05 and Joshua Reuven Deitch were married March 22 at Cold Spring Country Club in Huntington, N.Y. She is a fourth-year resident in general surgery at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn. She received her medical degree from St.…

70s

David W. Guth ’73,

David W. Guth ’73, an associate professor of journalism at the University of Kansas, chronicles the politics and other problems—engineering, cultural and environmental—that had to be overcome to build the Chesapeake Bay Bridge in “Bridging the Chesapeake:…

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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.

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…