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

See all Class Notes from this issue

70s

John Graves ’77

John Graves ’77, owner of the software company NetComm Inc. in Rockville, Md., and married grandfather of five, has signed up for a coveted flight into space on Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo later this year. “After meeting (Virgin founder) Richard…

90s

Jackie Clarke ’98

Jackie Clarke ’98, CPA, was recently named manager of the audit department at McQuadeBrennan LLP. She previously served as controller and chief financial officer of various national not-for-profit organizations.

Passings

Joan A. (Adams) Spurrier ’58

Joan A. (Adams) Spurrier ’58, a retired legal secretary and former UMD “Queen of the May,” died of kidney failure Oct. 27 at Greater Baltimore Medical Center, according to The Baltimore Sun. The Idlewylde resident was 80. Spurrier was a 1951 graduate of…

00s

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…

00s

Nicholas Haydn Tangney ’05

Nicholas Haydn Tangney ’05 and Samantha Robyn Lee were married Nov. 9 in New York at Trinity Church. He is pursuing an M.B.A. at New York University and is a managing director in the New York office of Lorentzen & Stemoco, a Norwegian ship brokerage…

90s

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…

Passings

Kathy A. McGovern ’78

Kathy A. McGovern ’78, a medical researcher and teacher in Arizona, died Dec. 1 at Anne Arundel Medical Center in Annapolis. She was 55. The cause was complications from a stroke eight years earlier, The Washington Post reported. She was a 1975 graduate…

00s

J. Ross Burhouse M.S. ’01

J. Ross Burhouse M.S. ’01, PE, has been promoted to associate in the Fairfax, Va., office of Dewberry, a privately held professional services firm. He has more than 15 years of experience as a structural engineer with a focus in the design and analysis of…