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

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

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

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

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

Jean Amos ’44

Jean Amos ’44 died March 1 of complications from dementia at her Loch Raven Village, Md. home, according to the Baltimore Sun. She was 90. Amos was born in Baltimore and raised in Mount Washington. After earning a bachelor’s degree in 1944 in English from…

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

Juanita Chase ’07,

Juanita Chase ’07, an improv actress and business owner, premiered the second season of her mockumentary Web series “Cleaners” on June 3. She owns an eco-friendly cleaning company the Green Queen, which serves as the inspiration for the show.

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Michael E. Strauch ’00, M.A. ’02

Michael E. Strauch ’00, M.A. ’02 has been elected a shareholder at Carlton Fields Jorden Burt. He is a member of the firm’s National Trial Practice, Bankruptcy and Creditors’ Rights, Financial Services-Regulatory, Financial Services and Insurance…

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.…

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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.

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…