Winter 2014

Features

Imprint on History

Innovation

Monroe’s Doctrine

In Brief

Illustration Courtesy Of Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp.

Spacecraft Goes AWOL, but Leaves “Deep Impact”

Campus Life

Digging It

Class Act

Engineering a Better Beer

Class Act

The Power of Artivism

In Brief

Smoke Detectors

UMD Launches Language Center

Innovation

Waste Not

Campus Life

A LEAP Forward

Class Notes

News on Friends and Classmates

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Charlotte Stephanie Malerich M.A. ’07,

“Meat,” a short story by Charlotte Stephanie Malerich M.A. ’07, is included in the new anthology “Among Animals: The Lives of Animals and Humans in Contemporary Short Fiction.” Her other short stories have appeared online in Aphelion and Sorcerous…

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Julie Baughman ’12

Julie Baughman ’12 joined the staff of the Independent Record in Helena, Mt., as the cops and courts reporter.

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Frances Woodard ’96

Frances Woodard ’96 has joined Human Rights First as its vice president of human resources. She previously held senior leadership roles at the ONE Campaign, ONE Economy Corp. and the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry.

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Chris Malone ’86

Chris Malone ’86, with Susan T. Fisk, wrote “The Human Brand: How We Relate to People, Products and Companies,” a book suggesting that customers choose companies and brands on the basis of their warmth and competence. He is managing partner of Fidelum…

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Eliot Sokalsky ’98

Eliot Sokalsky ’98, president of Doctors Asset Group in Fort Myers, Fla., has been selected by Medical Economics magazine as a 2013 Best Financial Adviser for Doctors.

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Ryan Spiegel ’00

Ryan Spiegel ’00 has joined the law firm of Paley Rothman as a member of the litigation, commercial transactions and government contracts practice groups. He spent the past decade in the D.C. office of Winston & Strawn, and he graduated from Stanford…

Passings

John “Jack” Lawrence O¹Brien ’69

John “Jack” Lawrence O¹Brien ’69 died Jan. 28 at his home in College Park. Originally from Paterson, N.J., the former Terp football player, physical education teacher and award-winning coach is survived by his wife of nearly 42 years, Sharon; his brother,…

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David Rensin ’94

David Rensin ’94 has joined the Novitas Group as senior vice president for products. He comes from Amazon Web Services, where he was working to bring public cloud infrastructure to the U.S. intelligence community and was named “Most Valuable Amazonian” in…