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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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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…
Zadeh Mehr

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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…

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…

70s

Maurice W. Dorsey ’70, Ph.D. ’83

Maurice W. Dorsey ’70, Ph.D. ’83 has written his first book, “Businessman First: Remembering Henry G. Parks (1916 to 1989); Capturing the Life of a Businessman Who Was African American; An Authorized Biography.” The only African American in his class at…

90s

William F. Tate Ph.D. ’91,

William F. Tate Ph.D. ’91, the Edward Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor in Arts & Sciences and chair of the Department of Education at Washington University in St. Louis, has been named dean of the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences…

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Andrew Gretes ’04

Andrew Gretes ’04 in his debut novel “How to Dispose of Dead Elephants” traces the journey of two young men, one with re-emerging epilepsy and the other confronting his unknown origins, as they seek out Aesop fables to doodle over. Gretes’ short stories…

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Kelley Benham French M.J. ’02

Kelley Benham French M.J. ’02, a 2013 Pulitzer Prize finalist and a longtime writer and editor for the Tampa Bay Times, will join the faculty of the Indiana University Media School on Aug. 1 as a professor of practice. French, a former high school…

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…