Spring 2014

Features

The Things He Carries

In Brief

Visualization tools being developed by UMD researchers

Virtual Reality, Made More Real

Class Act

Campus Life

Campus Life

In Brief

Washington: Rome Reborn

Campus Life

Teaching Center Seeks “A” in Innovation

Features

Conference Impact to Extend Across Campus

Class Act

The Accidental Golf Czar

Class Notes

News on Friends and Classmates

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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

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

Sharon L. Friedlander ’75, M.A. ’03

Sharon L. Friedlander ’75, M.A. ’03, a beloved Baltimore County public schools special education teacher, died Jan. 24 of giant cell myocarditis, at Johns Hopkins Hospital, according to The Baltimore Sun. The former Sharon Lee Falk was born and raised in…

70s

Thomas A. Bogar ’70, M.A. ’74

Theater historian Thomas A. Bogar ’70, M.A. ’74 has written the book “Backstage at the Lincoln Assassination” from a unique perspective: a view from backstage at the Ford’s Theater in Washington D.C. It establishes for the first time that the theater was…

70s

Ted Offit ’77

Ted Offit ’77 (left) and Don Schaaf ’85 (right) are board members for the U.S. Olympic Committee’s National Federation for Bobsled and Skeleton, whose athletes brought home six medals from the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi, Russia. Schaaf is president 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,…

70s

David W. Guth ’73,

David W. Guth ’73, an associate professor of journalism at the University of Kansas, chronicles the politics and other problems—engineering, cultural and environmental—that had to be overcome to build the Chesapeake Bay Bridge in “Bridging the Chesapeake:…

00s

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…