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

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

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

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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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…

Passings

Sara Karen “Sally” Hastings ’60

Sara Karen “Sally” Hastings ’60 died of kidney disease Feb. 8 in Philadelphia, according to The (Lewes, Del.) Cape Gazette. She was born in Cleveland and grew up in Baltimore. She was an art teacher in Baltimore County before moving with her mother to…

Passings

Elizabeth Setzer M.Ed. ’67

Elizabeth Setzer M.Ed. ’67 died Dec. 27 at a hospice in Centennial, Colo. She was 96. The cause was heart disease, her daughter Nancy Setzer Luria said. Setzer was born in San Diego and was a 1940 graduate of the University of California at Berkeley. From…

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…

Passings

John R. Tydings ’63

John R. Tydings ’63, who spent 24 years as president and chief executive of the Greater Washington Board of Trade and helped revive the city in the aftermath of the 1968 riots, died Nov. 16 at his home in Potomac of a degenerative brain disorder,…

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…

00s

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…

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…