Winter 2014

Innovation

February 07, 2014

Using Atoms to Create Superfast Computers

Illustration Courtesy Of Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp.

In Brief

February 07, 2014

Campus Life

February 07, 2014

Soil-judging Students Get Down and Dirty to Defend National Title

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

Class Act

February 07, 2014

Alum Champions Sustainability Throughout Brewing World

In Brief

February 07, 2014

Researchers Awarded $19M to Study Tobacco’s Toxicity, Bacteria, Addictiveness

Winter 2014

February 07, 2014

Innovation

February 07, 2014

Professor Creates Renewable Energy From an Unpleasant Source

Campus Life

February 07, 2014

Campus preschool celebrates 20 years of helping children with speech and language delays

Class Act

February 07, 2014

Innovation

February 07, 2014

Class Notes

News on Friends and Classmates

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Dave Melson ’01

Dave Melson ’01, a lieutenant commander in the U.S. Navy Judge Advocate General’s Corps, was selected to serve as the command judge advocate for the USS George Washington, homeported in Yokosuka, Japan.

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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…

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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…

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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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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…

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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…

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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.