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

Wrought iron red M Gate against brick outside of Maryland Stadium.

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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Passings

James Patrick Leer ’76

James Patrick Leer ’76, a disc jockey, road manager for touring bands and volunteer, died Nov. 12 at his Mechanicsburg, Pa., home. He was 62. Leer was employed by Bristol Sounds Co. as a radio disc jockey for a popular station in the D.C. metro area for…

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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…

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…

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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…

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Jonathan Schaudies ’13

Jonathan Schaudies ’13 has joined Invotex, a national accounting, financial, and economic consulting firm, as a consultant. Previously, he interned with the Department of Economic Development at the Montgomery County Innovation Network.

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Dr. Matthew Jonathan Siegel ’08

Dr. Matthew Jonathan Siegel ’08 and Alexa Jordan Silverman were married Nov. 23 at Temple Sinai in Roslyn Heights, N.Y. He received a dental degree from the New York University College of Dentistry and is a first-year dental resident at Lutheran Medical…

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Imad Madanat ’95, M.I.M. ’99

Imad Madanat ’95, M.I.M. ’99 has been promoted to vice president of the Adventist Development and Relief Agency International, a humanitarian organization. A 14-year veteran of the agency, he previously served as senior program finance manager.

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Jason Newton ’00

Jason Newton ’00, a Baltimore native and former anchorman at WISN-TV in Milwaukee, has joined WBAL to take on co-anchoring duties at 5, 6 and 7 a.m. weekdays.