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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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…

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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…

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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.…

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Dr. Margaret B. Wilson M.B.A. ’90

Dr. Margaret B. Wilson M.B.A. ’90 has been promoted to vice dean at the East Carolina University School of Dental Medicine. Wilson joined the dental school in 2009 as associate dean for student affairs and clinical professor. She previously was on the…

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Dan Lamothe M.Jour. ’07

Dan Lamothe M.Jour. ’07 has joined The Washington Post’s national security team to start a military-focused blog and write about military affairs. He has reported on the war in Afghanistan extensively from both the war zone and Washington, D.C., covered…

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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.