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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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…

80s

Dean Ventola ’82, ’83,

Dean Ventola ’82, ’83, AIA, has joined Bowie Gridley Architects as director of construction administration. He brings more than 30 years of experience in architecture and urban planning, including work throughout the Mid-Atlantic region. He also serves as…

00s

Brigid Julia Ryan ’01

Brigid Julia Ryan ’01, married Jyoti Bhasker Chowdhury April 30 at the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, according to The New York Times. She is a foreign service officer with the U.S. State Department. In May, she was to be posted to the United…

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…

00s

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.…

Passings

Philip Joseph DiPaula ’49

Philip Joseph DiPaula ’49 died of Alzheimer’s disease complications March 22 at St. Agnes Hospital, reported the Baltimore Sun. The Edmondson Heights resident was 90. Born and raised in Baltimore, he served in the army during World War II and earned two…

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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…