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This issue of Terp is practically bursting with historic news. In fact, we had to add eight pages to hold it all!

In December, we officially marked the completion of our ambitious Great

Expectations campaign for the University of Maryland. Together, over 100,000 of our

alumni and supporters contributed to the campaign and raised an incredible $1

billion for our great institution. It’s an impressive figure—the largest campaign for a public institution in state history. Even more impressive

is the impact those funds will have on our students and faculty. For stories on

the ways your support is already making a difference, turn to Page 17.

And if that wasn’t exciting enough, we’re moving to the Big Ten Conference! The announcement that UMD would be leaving our longtime home in the Atlantic Coast Conference caught many of you by surprise. The benefits of this move are significant—financial, athletic and academic—and will positively contribute to the continued ascen-dancy of our university.

We’ve heard from many of you and know that questions linger. The special feature that starts on Page 2 answers many of them. For more information, you’ll also want to visit a Big Ten transition website at www.umd.edu/

Big_Ten. The site contains news clips, FAQs and a special feature that allows you to ask ques-tions about the move to the new conference. We encourage all of our alumni to use the site and let us know what you think.

Between the landmark completion of Great Expectations and the pending move to the Big Ten, there is much to look forward to in the coming years. If you supported the Great Expectations campaign, thank you. If not, now is a great time to reconnect with UMD and the Maryland Alumni Association. It’s going to be a great year to be a Terp!

Go Terps!

Timmy F. Ruppersberger ’77President, Maryland Alumni Association Board of Governors

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T h e M o v eT h e M o v e

Your eyes popped. Your mouth dropped. Yes, Maryland’s decision to move from the Atlantic Coast Conference to the Big Ten Conference was a stunner. ¶ The changes start going into effect July 1, when Maryland joins an elite academic partnership of the conference institutions and the University of Chicago that provides research and education opportunities, shares assets and saves

What happened, and Why?

Maryland and Big Ten leaders negoti-ated the university’s entry starting at a conference table in Chicago and ending at a kitchen table in College Park.

The two first came together in mid-Octo-ber near the Big Ten’s Midwest headquarters, where conference officials laid out their vision to President Wallace Loh, Athletics Director Kevin Anderson and two deputies: financial stability for members, expansion into the East Coast, the highest level of ath-letic competition and academic alignment.

Loh had signed a nondisclosure agree-ment that prevented large-scale outreach, but he approached about two dozen people for feedback and guidance, including University System of Maryland Chancellor (and former UMD president) Brit Kirwan, the Board of Regents leadership, the foundation’s Board of Trustees chairman, a former conference

commissioner and financial consultants. A particular draw was the Committee on

Institutional Cooperation, the academic con-sortium of research and flagship institutions like UMD. It provides collaborations in research, educational opportunities for students and professional development for faculty.

Another appeal was, of course, the money. Last year, a severe budget deficit in Athletics forced Loh and Anderson to cut seven teams, which Loh called “the most painful thing we have ever had to do.” (Private support later allowed men’s track and field to continue until the switch to the Big Ten.)

University officials say the substantial profits from the Big Ten’s TV network will pull Intercollegiate Athletics from the red to the black, allow at least some teams to return and even fund academic scholarships and programs. (The nondisclosure agreement

also prevents the university from discussing revenue predictions publicly.)

While guests at University House enjoyed a pregame football party on Nov. 19, Loh hunkered with advisers in the kitchen, and he verbally agreed to the move. He knew he’d face criticism from alumni who revel in the traditions and rivalries of the ACC, which Maryland helped found 60 years ago. His office received hundreds of negative emails within 24 hours of the announcement. But as emotions subsided and people considered the benefits of the move, the emails turned positive—with many coming from the same people who had first blasted his decision.

He hopes Terp supporters will understand his responsibility to consider the long-term well being of the university. “As hockey great Wayne Gretzky put it, ‘I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.’”

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money. Athletic competition in the Big Ten begins in the 2014–15 academic year. ¶ University officials have made a strong case for the academic, athletic and financial benefits, and they hope you’ll keep rooting for the Terps. ¶ But maybe you haven’t heard the whole story. And maybe you still have questions about what this change means to Maryland. We’ve got answers.

New research partNerships

CIC institutions pool their

resources in areas such as trau-

matic brain injury, international

public policy and information

technology. The combined

research strengths of the CIC,

which brings in about $9 billion a

year in external funding, will help

Maryland secure large federal

grants that require involvement

by multiple institutions.

Library resource shariNg

Maryland will have easy access

to a combined collection of more

than 80 million books, with

millions more digitized, thanks

to a CIC-Google partnership.

Combined buying power saves

those libraries millions of dollars

on databases.

FacuLty proFessioNaL

deveLopmeNt

The CIC offers career boosters

such as the Academic Leadership

Program for those interested in

deanships or department head

positions.

greater NetworkiNg

opportuNities

The committee organizes activi-

ties for nearly 100 different peer

groups, including finance officers,

student government association

leaders, study abroad directors

and federal relations teams,

which meet monthly in D.C.

access to big data, Faster

The CIC’s dedicated fiber optic

network allows the transmission

of large data sets used in weather

and climate prediction, astrophys-

ics and bioinformatics up to 100

times faster than commercial

Internet connections.

more study abroad

The Alliance for Expanded Study

in Overseas Programs (AESOP)

means expanded opportunities

for Maryland students, includ-

ing semester- and yearlong

programs in Kenya, Tanzania and

South Africa.

expaNsioN oF LaNguage study

Students will be able to choose

from more than 100 less-com-

monly taught languages, which

include government-designated

critical languages like Pashto

and Uzbek, Native American lan-

guages and heritage languages

such as Vietnamese and Hindi.

Many courses are offered through

videoconferencing.

group purchasiNg discouNts

The combined purchasing power

of CIC institutions produced $6

million in savings in 2011. These

commodities and services include

everything from routers to lab sup-

plies to travelers’ health insurance.

What Can the CIC do for UMd?

It’s not all about the sports. Maryland’s about to be welcomed into the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC), the premier consortium for top-tier research universities. The university will soon get connected to a big array of unique resources and opportunities:

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What do you think? The university wants to hear from you. ¶ Maryland has launched a website, www.umd.edu/big_ten, with the latest developments on the Big Ten move. It will include media coverage, a list of FAQs and a feature where visitors can comment and ask more questions.

What’s the bIg ten, anyWay?

The Terps are headed into unfamiliar ter-ritory with entry into the Big Ten, the nation’s oldest Division I athletic conference. Like the ACC, it has a rich history as well as traditions, legends and heroes. Here’s your primer.

It was founded as the Western Conference in 1896 by the presidents of Purdue, Northwestern, Chicago, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin. By 1912, Indiana Iowa and Ohio State had joined.

Chicago withdrew in 1939, and Michigan State got on board a decade later. It grew to a “big 11” in 1990 with Penn State. In 2011,

Nebraska’s membership expanded the conference to 12—many of them land-grant institutions like Maryland.

As part of the trend of the four national “superconferences” extending beyond tradi-tional geographical boundaries, the Big Ten is expanding beyond its Midwestern persona, welcoming Maryland and Rutgers starting in Fall 2014.

There’s also lots of conference customs, icons and lore: the pink visitors’ locker room at Iowa, the Ohio State marching band spell-ing “Ohio” in script on the field, Michigan

Stadium that seats nearly 110,000, Michigan State’s big-chinned mascot, Sparty.

The Big Ten is a groundbreaker, first imple-menting instant replay in football in 2004, as well as a powerhouse, with its teams winning more than 280 national championships. Plus, it’s the only conference with its own TV network, broadcast in 51 million U.S. and Canadian homes and available in 20 countries.

The national exposure makes cheering for the Terps easier than ever.

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uNiversit y oF michigaNServes more than 1.8 million patients a year through its medical school, three hospitals and 120-plus health centers and clinics; in 2012, became the first college football program to tally 900 victories.

uNiversit y oF iowaFirst U.S. public university to admit men and women on an equal basis

when it opened in 1855.

uNiversit y oF NebraskaFounded the discipline of ecology;

alumni include investor Warren Buffett and comedian Johnny Carson.

michigaN state uNiversit yNo. 1 in study abroad participation

among U.S. public universities.

NorthwesterN uNiversit yFounded to serve the people of

the original Northwest Territory, from which Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and part of

Minnesota were carved.

rutgers uNiversit yFounded in 1766, the nation’s oldest

Division I-A school.

uNiversit y oF wiscoNsiNResearchers there discovered Vitamin D and were the first to isolate and culture human embryonic stem cells.

uNiversit y oF iLLiNoisWhere Netscape, the first

Internet browser to show images, was invented.

peNN state uNiversit yHome of the largest student-run

philanthropy program in the world, with its 2012 dance marathon rais-ing a record $10.7 million to fight

pediatric cancer

ohio state uNiversit y The school's “Buckeye Bullet” electric car broke the world record for speed on Oct. 3, 2004, clocking 271.737 mph.

purdue uNiversit yIts “All-American" Marching Band has the world’s largest bass drum, measuring 8 feet across and nearly

4 feet wide and requiring six people to move and strike it.

uNiversit y oF miNNesotaUses 115-year-old rally cry, “Ski-U-Mah,” which incorporates a Sioux

battle yell, campus nickname the “U,” and a rhyme of “rah.”

iNdiaNa uNiversit yAlumni include “Hunger Games” author Suzanne Collins, Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban and “Glee” creator Ryan Murphy; home of highly respected Jacobs School of Music.

hoW does thIs shake Up sports?

Joining the Big Ten gives Maryland a unique chance to create new rival-ries, revive old ones and pack the stands, say athletic officials.

“this presents a new opportunity to expand our base in new states and reach alumni that we haven't connected with in the past,” says Director of Athletics Kevin Anderson. “We recognize how passionate our fan base is about our university and traditions. We feel these exciting matchups against outstanding universities in the nation’s top confer-ence makes this a perfect fit for the University of Maryland.”

Maryland doesn’t start playing in the Big Ten until the 2014–15 school year, but it’s not too early to look ahead. The conference gets the most attention in football and basketball, but the Terps may thrive on many other fronts—or fields. Here are just a few examples:

Football The Big Ten is one of

the strongest conferences in college

football, featuring giants Ohio State,

Michigan, Michigan State and Wisconsin.

Bringing these teams to Capital One

Field at Byrd Stadium will pack the

stadium and fire up the crowd. In par-

ticular, Maryland fans can look forward

to playing Penn State again, restarting

the rivalry that ended in 1993. “In athlet-

ics, you’re always trying to challenge

yourself to be the best and compete

against the best, and we’re going to face

this new challenge head-on,” says Coach

Randy Edsall. “This is something that will

enhance our football program.”

Men’s basketball The Big Ten is

best known for football, but its bas-

ketball tradition is strong, too. Six Big

Ten teams are currently ranked in the

top 25, including four among the top

10. Traditional powers include Indiana,

which Maryland beat to win the 2002

NCAA championship, and Michigan

State, which knocked Maryland out of

the 2010 tournament at the buzzer.

Field Hockey With the addition of

Maryland and Rutgers, the Big Ten will

have the largest field hockey confer-

ence in the country, with nine teams.

The Terps have won five of the last 10

national championships.

WoMen’s lacrosse Northwestern

has taken seven of the last eight national

championships. The one year it didn’t

win was 2010, when Maryland captured

the title. Since 1999, the two teams have

combined to win 11 championships.

Men’s lacrosse Big Ten men’s

lacrosse teams compete in the Eastern

College Athletic Conference. It features

strong contenders like Loyola University

Maryland, which the Terps played in the

last NCAA championship. With our addi-

tion, the Big Ten will be just one school

away from having its own conference

championship tournament.

Men’s soccer Maryland, a perennial

powerhouse, joins the conference with

three titles, including championships

in 2005 and 2008. Indiana captured its

eighth national title in the fall, the most

in NCAA history.

Wrestling Maryland has dominated

the ACC for years, holding four of its last

five titles. Big Ten schools have won the

last six national championships, how-

ever, giving the Terps a chance to prove

their mettle.

Where WIll the Money go?

a new panel appoinTed by President Wallace Loh will make recommendations on how to allocate the expected windfall from Maryland’s move to the Big Ten.

The 22-member President’s Commission on UMD and Big Ten/CIC Integration will consider how Maryland can get the most out of its membership in the conference in athletics; education, research and innovation; finance and business administration; and communications, fundraising and marketing.

Led by Maryland supporter Barry Gossett and Vice President for Student Affairs Linda Clement, it will review the operations and finances of Intercollegiate Athletics and come up with a plan to ensure its financial health for at least 20 years. The panel is expected to suggest whether any teams cut last year should be reinstated, and when.

“Finding the right opportunities, balanc-ing the opinions and viewpoints of lots of different people, that’s going to be our challenge. I expect there to be healthy discussions among commission members, and the entire university community,” says Gossett, vice chair of the Board of Regents.

The panel, comprising faculty, administra-tors, students, coaches, alumni and donors, will submit its report to Loh by June 30.

What aboUt the exIt fee?

Maryland is challenging a lawsuit the conference filed in North Carolina to collect a $52 million exit fee, arguing that state's court has no jurisdiction over the matter.

Attorney General Douglas Gansler in January moved to dismiss the ACC suit on behalf of the university and the university system's board of regents. The ACC sued the university the week after Maryland publicly announced its move to the Big Ten, seeking a fee three times the total operating budget of the ACC.

Loh stresses that he and other UMD officials factored payment of the fee into the evaluation of the academic, athletic and financial benefits of moving to the Big Ten.

The money for any exit amount will come from future athletic revenues. No tax or tuition dollars will be used; Maryland’s athletics department covers all of its own expenses.

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Class of ThousandsWith Massive Online Open Courses, UMD Enters New World of Learning

If you think planning a class for a lecture hall of 200 students sounds challenging, imagine an enrollment of 10,000 or even 100,000.

Five Maryland professors are teaching massive open online courses (MOOCs) this semester as the university tests the waters of a new trend in higher education.

Maryland is among the latest institutions that have signed on with leading MOOC provider Coursera to try the new online teaching platform, which has sparked both excitement and skep-ticism among educators.

“None of us know what the future looks like for MOOCs, but working with Coursera is an exciting challenge, an experiment of sorts, and we’ll learn a great deal from this experience,” says Senior Vice President and Provost Mary Ann Rankin.

“Ultimately, I expect that learning as we go will strengthen our efforts in blended learning and identify new ways of teaching.”

The allure of MOOCs is that anyone can sign up to take a free class, condensed to five to eight weeks long, and often taught by top professors in their fields at leading institutions. But ques-tions persist about the long-term viability of this model.

Students don’t receive credits for courses they complete. MOOC registrants also defy generalization. They include

graduate students and working professionals brushing up on particular skills or learning new ones; community college and international students augmenting their studies; and ambitious high school students exploring topics and interests they wouldn’t have access to otherwise.

James Green, Mtech’s director of entrepreneurship education, who is teaching a MOOC on developing innovative ideas for new companies, says it’s an “amazing” opportunity to recruit prospective undergraduate and graduate students from all over the world—the best, the brightest and the ones most interested in entrepreneurship.

Green says he’s learned to rethink his teaching style to adhere to the Coursera delivery model, which includes thematic lectures of eight to 12 minutes with a summary quiz at the end. “Preparing for this Coursera course has challenged me to think about how to deliver material online, in digestible, divisible segments, with interactive quizzes.”

Charles Clark, one of two scientists co-teaching a course in quantum physics, says MOOCs provide an opportunity to discuss new developments in the field with a broad international audience. “There is no other platform available in higher educa-tion that allows for that.”–cb

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dickinson photos courtesy sam carlo (above); amherst college special collections (right)

The Eyes Have ItProfessor Brings rare DiCkinson PhoTo To LighT

An English profEssor’s Effort to confirm only the second known photo of emily Dickinson is offering scholars and fans a new look at the reclusive poet.

For more than three years, Martha nell Smith worked to authen-ticate the image, found by a daguerreotype collector with the pseudonym “Sam Carlo” in a shop near Springfield, Mass.

the 1859 photo captures a forthright Dickinson (top) in her late 20s with her arm linked with that of friend Kate Scott turner. One other photo of Dickinson exists, and it conveys a timid, teenage ver-sion of the prolific writer in 1847 (below).

“the most important thing is what this photo does to our readerly imaginations,” says Smith, author of five Dickinson books.

to confirm Dickinson’s identity, Smith and colleagues at Amherst College turned to Dr. Susan Pepin, a Dartmouth ophthalmologist. She found the women depicted in the 1847 and 1859 photos had similar eyelid shapes and signs of astigmatism, the probable cause of Dickinson’s debilitating vision.

Smith is taking the image on tour via conferences and an online exhibit.–km

NASA Awards UmD $36m for earth Systems research how Air pollutAnts trAvEl across continents and oceans. the effects of Chesapeake Bay breezes on surface pollution levels. How satellite data and ground-based sensors can improve drought monitoring.

the university has received $36 mil-lion from nASA to continue these kinds of research, examining how the earth’s con-nected systems—atmosphere, oceans, land

surface and frozen regions—affect global and regional environment, weather and climate.

the five-year agreement funds an estab-lished partnership between nASA’s earth Sciences Division at the nearby Goddard Space Flight Center and the university’s earth System Science interdisciplinary Center (eSSiC), located in the University of Maryland research Park.

“with nASA’s space-based observations and our expertise in earth systems science, we are developing more accurate forecasting tools that can be used by both the private sector and government officials,” says Antonio Busalacchi, director of eSSiC and professor in the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science.–tv

To read Pepin’s report or comment on the research, visit the Dickinson Electronic Archives at www.emilydickinson.org.

nasa visualization: trent schindler, nasa/goddard/umbc

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Closing the Health-Care Gap$5.9M granT funDs researCh on raCiaL, eThniC DisPariTies

CompArEd to whitEs, African Americans in Maryland are three times more likely to die in infancy, twice as likely to die from diabetes, and much less likely to get flu vaccines than whites.

the Maryland Center for Health equity (M-CHe) in the School of Public Health (SPH) is driving new efforts to eliminate such racial and ethnic minority health disparities through a $5.9 million grant from the national institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities.

it has designated the M-CHe a Center of excellence on race, ethnicity, and Health Disparities research, supporting the center’s major new research, education and community outreach efforts.

“this will enable us to make a great leap forward in the national movement for health equity,” says Stephen B. thomas, M-CHe director and professor of health services administration.

new research includes studying the cultural beliefs that fuel African Americans’ distrust of medicine, resulting in lower vaccination rates for preventable diseases, and developing strategies to increase those rates. A second study will use the

social networks in barbershops and beauty salons to help African-American women increase physical activity and reduce obesity, diabetes and related chronic diseases. A third study will launch a black men’s health initiative with a focus on the role fathers can play in reducing infant mortality.

“we’re proud to be creating innovative solutions for Maryland and best practice models that could be used to promote health equity in communities across the country,” says Sandra C. Quinn, M-CHe senior associate director and an SPH associate dean.–kb

chang Leads New I&e Academy

A former Silicon VAlley

cApitAliSt who has led nation-

ally recognized venture creation

programs is now in charge of

the university’s Academy of

Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

Dean Chang was named

associate vice president for inno-

vation and entrepreneurship in

January, charged with coalescing

and expanding entrepreneurial

activities on campus. The academy,

which launches this fall, will

incorporate classes, workshops

and outside-the-classroom

experiences to infuse a culture of

innovation, entrepreneurship and

creativity across campus.

“We want students to be pas-

sionate about their ideas, and

take that enthusiasm and turn it

into something that can benefit

others,” says Chang, who for the

past five years directed incubator

and venture accelerator programs

in the A. James Clark School of

Engineering.

As a doctoral student at

Stanford University, Chang was

involved with a startup whose

gaming technology raised $51 mil-

lion in its initial public offering. He

has master’s and doctoral degrees

in engineering from Stanford

and an M.B.A. from the Wharton

School.–tv

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DuriNg my timE At mArylAND, i tooK photogrAphS for the Old line mAgAziNE, iNcluDiNg thE “girl of thE moNth” for thE NovEmbEr 1959 iSSuE. it AlmoSt got mE ExpEllED by ADElE h. StAmp, who wAS DEAN of womEN At thE timE. ArE thErE ANy copiES lEft?

—William “Bill” W. Bride III ’60

The Old Line, a student-run literary and humor magazine, was published on campus from 1930 through 1962. We do have a collection of them, including the issue you worked on. It’s sometimes amazing what was considered risqué in those days.

iN light of thE rEcENt SuccESS of thE NAtioNAlS AND thE oriolES, which mEmbEr of thE tErpS bASEbAll tEAm hAD thE moSt SuccESS iN thE big lEAguES?—Roy Alvarez

According to the 2012 base-ball media guide, 23 Terps have made it to the major leagues. Of them, perhaps the most notable was Charlie Keller, the only Terp to ever play in the All-Star game and the World Series. Keller was an outfielder for the Yankees and the Tigers from 1939 to 1952 and set a number of batting marks. The Yankees even honored him with a

“Charlie Keller Day” at Yankee Stadium on Sept. 25, 1948.

i hEArD thAt JuliE ANDrEwS wAS givEN AN hoNorAry DEgrEE At mArylAND. iS thiS truE? whAt othEr fAmouS pEoplE hAvE rEcEivED hoNorAry DEgrEES hErE? —Sameer “Sammy” I. Popat ’02

Julie Andrews, best known for her roles in “The Sound of Music” and “Mary Poppins,” was awarded an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts

degree at the June 6, 1970, commencement. Since 1921, Maryland has awarded honor-

ary degrees to many authors, scientists, political and business leaders, musicians, artists, historians and members of the military, marking their contributions to the world at large. Among them are former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, science fiction author Isaac Asimov, comedian Bill Cosby and lyricist Ira Gershwin.

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Before Reginald “Dwayne” Betts ’09 had completed his bachelor’s degree in English and literature, he had published his memoir, was one year into an M.F.A. program at Warren Wilson College, and was married with a young son.

Betts says he had a lot of time to make up after spending eight years in prison.

At the age of 16, he held a handgun for the first time and carjacked a sleeping driver in a mall parking lot. With his first offense, the honor roll student was sentenced as an adult.

Yet Betts never doubted he’d go to col-lege, despite the fact that he’d be the first in his family to earn a degree. “I knew I had no blueprint, but I also knew I had nothing to lose,” he says.

Betts came of age in his cell, learning to survive in an unforgiving place, and discovering poetry. At first, he read as

much as he could—Etheridge Knight, Robert Hayden, Sonia Sanchez—then he began to write as well.

“My poems don’t come from inspira-tion,” Betts says. “The ideas come from the world and arguments I am having with myself.”

Betts enrolled at Prince George’s Community College and after two years earned a scholarship to Maryland. At a summer writers’ conference, Betts met Michael Collier, an English professor at Maryland. The two bonded, and Collier discovered Betts was an intuitive and disciplined writer.

At Maryland, where Collier was a mentor, Betts went on to earn nearly perfect grades and won a full scholarship to pursue his master’s in North Carolina.

Betts, who has been researching and writing about juvenile justice since

his days in prison, began speaking and lecturing on the topic and was named the national spokesman for the Campaign for Youth Justice. More recently, President Obama appointed him to a three-year term on the Federal Coordinating Council on Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.

“The last line of one of Rainer Maria Rilke’s poems reminds me of Dwayne: ‘You must change your life.’ Not only has he changed his own life, but he has helped transform others’ lives as well,” says Collier.

Not one to sit still, Betts recently com-pleted a prestigious Radcliffe Fellowship at Harvard University and won a $15,000 2012 Lilly Poetry Fellowship. He pub-lished his second book, a collection of poems, in 2010, awaits publication of two more books and hopes to begin law school this year.–BC

Making Up for Lost TimeFormer Inmate Finds Success as Poet

 alumni profile / reGinALD BettS ’09

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’00s

John Romano ’01

wed Aqila Clement

on Sept. 22 at the Primate House at the

Philadelphia Zoo. The set-ting was appropriate: Romano is head of science and an instructor of biology, evolu-tion and comparative anatomy at Girard College, a boarding school in the city.

’80s

SandRa SmySeR ’80 was named the 2013 Colorado Superintendent of the Year, honoring her work to close the achievement gap among students in Eagle County Schools.

’70s

CaRL nathe ’74, announcer for University of Kentucky

football home games for the past 16 years, has received the Al Temple Award

from the Kentucky Broadcasters

Association, honoring out-standing contributors to the association. Nathe will enter his 10th season this spring as the voice of the Wildcats’ base-ball home games. But even his co-workers say he’s still a Terp at heart.

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Across God’s Frontiers: Catholic Sisters in

the American West by Anne Butler

M.S. ’75, Ph.D. ’79 shows readers

how nuns not only delivered social

services and education in this rugged

environment, but also helped shape

the west by creating social services

and building relationships with Native

Americans.

With humor and insight, Beth terry

’87 shares a contemporary journey in

Plastic-Free: How I Kicked the Plastic

Habit and How You Can Too. The book

is filled with stories, tips, recipes, DIY

instructions and more to encourage life

with less plastic.

In The Limits of Détente: The United

States, The Soviet Union, and the Arab-

Israeli Conflict, 1969-1973, CrAig

DAigle ’98 takes readers through

the intricate policies and competing

interests that led to the October 1973

Arab-Israeli War.

BOOKSHELF

 alumni profile / STacey Trock ’04, Ph.D ’08

Stacey trock ’04, Ph.D ’08 has one perky blog on knitting and crocheting stuffed animals, two books, 16 how-to videos, hundreds of patterns for sale—and a leading role in a subculture that goes gaga for cute and cuddly.

Crocheting was a hobby for trock as she pursued her degrees in linguis-tics, but she decided after graduation to carve out a niche in the crafting market. She launched FreshStitches, offering plush-animal designs for everything from teddies to a hedgehog and a Christmas pickle.

trock blogs almost daily with fun commentary on her work and globetrotting with her husband, tim Hunter Ph.D. ’10. now she has more than 6,000 followers on Facebook and 3,000 on twitter.

with crochet guilds in Connecticut and Virginia, she rallied this “handmade” community after the Dec. 14 fatal shootings in newtown, Conn., urging people to create ani-mals for surviving students at Sandy Hook elementary School.

the response was “enormous,” trock says, but because newtown was already inundated with donations from well-wishers, she has urged followers to send their creations to groups such as Stuffed Animals for emergencies.

“it’s easy to feel hopeless when such awful events occur, but making an item that’s going to someone who will love and care for it is a fabulous feeling,” she says.–lb

A Career in Stitches

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Dr. Clifford Bassett ’80, director of Asthma & Allergy Care of New York, uses his psychology degree from Maryland and good communication skills to dispense advice beyond medicinal solutions for allergy sufferers. He frequently appears on “ABC World News,” “The Today Show” and “The Dr. Oz Show.” He also pulls from what he learned here in nutrition, geriatric

health and botany courses to shape his holistic approach. Bassett offers a few tips for winter:

Snuff out the SnifflesAllergist Talks Nationwide About Aggravators, Tests and Treatments

Teacher’s Dedication Pays OffFirSt-graDe teacher Rachel Faust ’09 was handed a check for

$100,000 on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” in September to support

her school, Van E. Blanton Elementary in Miami. Faust, an educa-

tion major, had written the show about the positive attitude of her

students, 99 percent of whom live in poverty. The education major

started working at the school through Teach for America and stayed

on, spending her own money to buy supplies for the children. The gift

from the JCP Cares Program is expected to go to a playground, build-

ing repairs and technology.

Recognize nontRaditional tRiggeRs

What you do is as important as what allergens you expose yourselves to.

“Stress can be blamed for some reactions,” he says. He might prescribe dance

therapy or other stress-reduction techniques.

go to a pRofessional Get tested by an allergist so that you have an individual action plan that

identifies and treats your allergies, rather than rely on guesswork.

Boost YoUR iMMUne sYsteM

“For many of us, vitamin D levels are lower during the winter,” he says. “In

asthma, lower levels may correlate with more severity.” He suggests adding

salmon, cod liver oil, breakfast cereals and supplements to your diet.

think BeYond the oBvioUsIf you have seasonal allergies, some foods cross-react with tree and ragweed

pollens. Apples, pears, carrots and even hazelnut-flavored coffee can cause

itchy eyes and throats, something called oral allergy syndrome. Again, see a

specialist. Also, consider using houseplants such as snake plant and corn plant

to help clean the air.–MAB

aLumni tRaveLauG. 7–15, 2013

Explore Celtic, Norse and Norman cultures, and enjoy

festive Highland dancers, bagpipe playing and a

traditional haggis ceremony.

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Veronica O. Davis ’01 didn’t mean to start a social movement. But when she rode through a public housing community in D.C. one day, a young African-American girl pointed at her and said to her mother, “Mommy, Mommy! There’s a black lady on a bike!”

Was she surprised? Yes and no. “It’s not that women of color don’t bike,

it’s that we’re underrepresented,” Davis says. She shared the story on Twitter, and Black Women Bike began. It’s swelled to more than 650 members in one year, attracting cyclists of all levels. They go on regular rides and hold workshops on

fixing flat tires, cycling in the winter and even bike fashion.

That’s just one reason Davis was named a 2012 White House Transportation Champion of Change. She’s also active on a number of local transportation boards and founded a sustainability and environ-mental consulting company, Nspiregreen LLC, with friend Chancee Lundy.

They work with the District Depart–ment of Transportation, as well as other local governments and nonprofit orga-nizations to give community members a voice in and stay informed on construc-tion projects.

Forging her own path as an engineer hasn’t been easy.

“It’s challenging to be a person of color, and being a woman in a very white male-dominated industry,” she says. “But we know what we’re talking about, and we’re passionate about our business.”

She credits Maryland with her dedica-tion to people-centric engineering.

“I’ll always remember when I took I̔ntroduction to Transportation Planning᾿

and my professor told me, ‘It’s not enough to design a road—you have to figure out that road in the context of the people,’” she says.—KS

Transportation MavenenTrePreneUriaL aLUMna honoreD for DeDicaTion To acceSS, PeoPLe-cenTric engineering

 alumni profile / Veronica o. DaViS ’01

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campus life

play by play

Alex len cAme to mArylAnd with more

than the average freshman’s reasons for anxiety.

The 7-foot-1 basketball recruit was already being

eyed for a future in the NBA. His family was nearly

5,000 miles away. And he didn’t speak English.

Over the next year, the former center on the

Ukrainian national team emerged as a breakout

star on the team, after boning up on American

culture and the language and bulking up to play

its more physical version of the sport.

“I had some struggles last year with language,

adjusting to a new culture, to the game,” he says.

“Now I feel much more confident.”

Len grew up with different career aspirations.

With Jackie Chan as his role model, the scrawny

kid too tall for his age practiced gymnastics

in the hopes of becoming an action star. One

day, a high school basketball coach walked into

Len’s gymnastics center, grabbed the towering

10-year-old and gave him a basketball. When the

shot went in, the coach said, “See, you were born

to play basketball.”

After seeing Internet highlights of the Terps’

upset over Duke in 2010, Len decided Maryland

was where he’d take his game.

Terp fans got a taste of Len’s acrobatic

abilities at Maryland Madness in 2011, where he

introduced himself by cartwheeling before easily

slam-dunking a ball. The crowd at the Comcast

Center exploded.

While fans, NBA analysts and coaches dis-

cussed his potential, Len found a support system

at Maryland. His roommate and teammate, John

Auslander, not only helped Len with English and

basketball but also acquainted him with American

collegiate dining: The two started with a bagel

before moving up to Boston Market and Chipotle.

“I always talk to him in English, help him out

with that,” Auslander says.

Len also began dating Essence Townsend, a

6-foot-7 center on the women’s basketball team.

The two bonded over their love of the game, and

figure they must be the tallest couple in the world.

After sitting out the first 10 games of the

season for violating NCAA amateurism rules, Len

was itching to get on the court. In his regular-

season debut last year against Albany, he netted

the first of four dunks just 54 seconds into the

game and totaled 14 points and eight rebounds.

“After the game, in the last 10 seconds,

everyone was chanting, ‘We love Alex! We love

Alex!’” he says. “It was kind of special for me; I

got goose bumps.”

He averaged 13.3 points and nine rebounds

in his first four games, but as the season wore on,

Len became lost. The rail-thin center dropped

passes and scored in double-digits only twice

in the last 18 games. Len finished the season

averaging six points and 5.4 rebounds per game.

From Acclimation to Adulationbasketball star and Ukrainian native alex len strengthens skills on, off CoUrt / BY ANNA LABONTE ’13

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After the game, in the last 10 seconds, everyone was chanting, ‘We love Alex! we love Alex!’ It was kind of special for me; I got goose bumps.”

“—ALEX LEN

Constrained by the language barrier, Len was

often unaware what play was called.

Instead of hanging his head, Len began

meeting with English tutors more, and also

gained about 25 pounds of muscle over the sum-

mer to be ready for this season.

And he was. At press time, Len ranked 12th

in the ACC with 13.8 points per game. He was

also fifth in rebounding and second in

blocked shots.

Coach Mark Turgeon likes to talk about the

importance of grinding, and Len has become the

prime example.

“Now that everyone’s seen him,” says Turgeon,

“It’s like, ‘Wow, he did grind it this summer. He

worked at it.’

Part IMaX MovIe, part screensaver—in the

new digital art installation in McKeldin Library,

data becomes art.

The vibrant display projected along the

70-foot corridor of the new Terrapin Learning

Common showcases the computer program-

ming skills of six students who sought to make

art out of life’s everyday events.

“The works are dynamic visualizations that are

generated in real time,” says Associate Professor

Brandon Morse, who led the project. “As such,

they will change and evolve over time on their

own, and will never look the same twice.”

The exhibit provides students’ perspectives

on themes ranging from the human condition

to vanity and creativity. Matthew Starsoneck ’12

revealed lines from great literature by gradu-

ally accumulating and layering letters of the

alphabet. Brian George ’12 graphically represents

real-time computer use by showing arcs emanat-

ing from Maryland to places around the globe

where students are accessing servers.

The Terrapin Learning Commons, the

second-floor space in McKeldin Library that

encourages collaboration, is a perfect place for

such an installation and partnership, says Pat

Steele, dean of University Libraries.

“Libraries are so much more than books—

they are environments to engage and inspire,”

she says. “We contribute to student learning

in many ways, and in this case it’s especially

satisfying to be able to display and enjoy the

results.”–tt

watch a video on this program at http://ter.ps/1pv.

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president’s march » The Mighty Sound of Maryland strutted from the Capitol to the White House during the Jan. 21 inaugural parade for President Barack Obama. The 255-member marching band, debuting its new uniforms, was selected from more than 2,800 applicants to perform in the parade. The band was last tapped to appear in President Ronald Reagan’s second inaugural parade in 1985, canceled due to extreme cold. The Terps marched before presidents Woodrow Wilson in 1917, Dwight Eisenhower in 1953 and John F. Kennedy in 1961. See a gallery of photos at www.umd.edu/Inauguration2013.

president’s march » The Mighty Sound of Maryland strutted from the Capitol to the White House during the Jan. 21 inaugural parade for President Barack Obama. The 255-member marching band, debuting its new uniforms, was selected from more than 2,800 applicants to perform in the parade. The band was last tapped to appear in President Ronald Reagan’s second inaugural parade in 1985, canceled due to extreme cold. The Terps marched before presidents Woodrow Wilson in 1917, Dwight Eisenhower in 1953 and John F. Kennedy in 1961. See a gallery of photos at www.umd.edu/Inauguration2013.

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For 75 years, they’ve climbed, hiked, kayaked and more throughout Maryland and places as far-flung as Belize. the terrapin trail Club is the oldest non-Greek student organization on campus, and with around 50 active members this year and outings nearly every weekend, it remains popular.

Members also give back: each month, they do trail maintenance at Great Falls Park, removing invasive plants or clearing paths.

“to our knowledge, the first hike the trail Club went on was at Great Falls,” says President Sarah Katz-Hyman ’13. “it’s so cool that we’re taking care of it now, and i like imagining that we’re walking where they walked.”–KS

Many Happy trailsClub Celebrates long history outdoors

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We couldn’t have raised $1 billion for the University of Maryland without you. ❡ The number is almost mind-blowing. In fact, the fundraising goal of Great Expectations, The Campaign for Maryland, publicly launched in late 2006, was the largest ever announced by a public institution in the D.C. region. ❡ To continue the university’s rise among the world’s best, the campaign called for investments from indi-viduals, corporations and nonprofits to attract the best students, provide scholarships to those in most need, and fund outside-the-classroom experiences; to hire and retain outstanding faculty; to build, update and equip facilities; and to support innovation. ❡ Nearly 130,000 of you responded to that call, donating $864 million for these priorities, plus $136 million for unrestricted use and program sup-port. In the following pages, we set out to show the impact of those gifts. Here are a few of the stories of students, past and present, and faculty who saw their lives change, who’ve gone on to change others’, who’ve advanced their fields. ❡ This is how you’ve fulfilled Maryland’s Great Expectations.

Thank you. and you. and you.

GREAT

EXPECTATIONS

ACHIEVED

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s one of the nation’s top public research universities, Maryland wants to attract outstanding students intent on changing their lives and the world around them. Private giving through Great Expectations lifted the financial barriers for some of these students. Scholarships have also helped Maryland compete for the best students, whether undergraduates seeking a special learning experience outside the classroom or graduate students developing life-saving technologies.

Broken glass crunches under Janiceia Adams’ feet as she stands in front of her family’s old one-bedroom apart-ment on Saratoga Street in Baltimore. The plywood covering the windows and door is faded and warped. The stoop is buried under empty bottles, grimy fast-food cups and other trash.

When Adams ’07 lived here, she never lingered outside. She commuted an hour to Northwestern High School in the city and stayed late for her clubs and com-munity service activities, on her way to becoming valedictorian.

Adams knew the escape from the pov-erty binding her, her mom and younger brother was education. She was accepted at 14 of the 15 universities where she applied. (“I wasn’t playing around,” she says.) She chose Maryland because of the Incentive Awards Program (IAP).

Founded by former university president Dan Mote, the privately funded program provides not only four years of full financial support for 17 outstanding incoming students from difficult backgrounds in

Prince George’s County and Baltimore, but also a support system to develop character, responsibility and leadership. Sixty-five students are now enrolled in IAP.

“It wasn’t just the money,” says Adams, now a manager of institute support with Teach for America. “It provided a sense of community and of duty, to go back and show how kids growing up in Baltimore can be successful.”

Adams’ parents divorced when she was 2, and her father wasn’t in the picture until she was at Maryland. Her mother, Myra Smith, spent 25 years as a geriatric nurse at Sinai Hospital, supporting Adams and her brother, Janeal, now 21.

Her mom’s back and knee problems frequently forced her to cut back to part-time or even more sporadic work. They moved from one sketchy Baltimore place to another, then down to the Orlando area, and back. They left Saratoga Street after a police shootout in the public hous-ing community that faced their rowhouse.

Smith insisted that her daughter go to college. Teachers pushed her, too.

That goal doesn’t sound so ambitious without context: There were more than 1,000 students in her freshman class at Northwestern, Adams says. Only 200 graduated. About 150 planned to enroll in college—the highest number in seven years. A total of five earned a bachelor’s degree in four years.

As an Incentive Awards Scholar, the

shy Adams was pushed out of her com-fort zone, practicing public speaking, networking with D.C. professionals, vol-unteering in the community and visiting her alma mater to motivate students there. A criminology and criminal justice major, she joined the Student Government Association and advocated for a film stud-ies major, which starts this fall.

“She’s a quiet storm, somebody who is constantly making progress, but not out there in your face,” says IAP Director Jacqueline Lee. “She’s a wonderful example of what IAP is all about.”

Through a connection with one of her high school teachers, she secured an intern-ship at Teach for America, which she kept all four years. Then she joined the program, teaching fourth grade in the South Bronx, N.Y., for three years while earning her mas-ter’s in education at Pace University.

But it bothered her that she wasn’t giving back to Baltimore, the way she did through IAP. She shifted to coaching teach-ers in Baltimore for Teach for America and, now, organizing training events in the city and other areas. Adams recently moved to the Bronx with her mom and brother, and hopes to work in public school admin-istration someday, supporting teacher autonomy and inspiring students like her.

“It’s about knowing no matter what experiences you have in life, you can have goals,” she says, “and we’re going to help you achieve them.”–lb

The Incentive Awards Program pulled Janiceia Adams out of Baltimore, then empowered her to return to inspire others

the achiever

raisedraisedraised$253 million

STUDENTS

INNOVATION

STUDENTS

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(IAP) ProvIded A sense of communIty And of

duty to go bAck And show how kIds growIng uP In bAltImore cAn be successful. —Janiceia adams ’07

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My sister and I moved out on our own when I was 18 and she was 16. With this scholarship, I’ve been able to continue my education against all odds and keep my internship. It’s also inspired my sister to continue her studies at Montgomery College. She can see there are resources out there for students who are struggling. —nicholas Garcia ‘13, manaGement

I went to Costa RICa In summeR 2011 to study sustaInable CommunIty desIgn. I Really enjoyed what I leaRned about how easy and affoRdable you Can make some systems In the buIlt envIRonment. It Really helped InfluenCe how I want to dIReCt my futuRe CaReeR.—lucy WanG ’12, landscape architecture

Eric B. Young, MD intErnational travEl-StuDY awarD

I receIved grants, some scholarshIps. I stIll had a humongous chunk that wasn’t covered. I got ‘keep me maryland’ last year. I was just super relIeved and excIted and thrIlled. just to have thIs unexpected bundle fall out of the sky, It was the greatest thIng. —nicole prentice ’13, socioloGy

KEEp ME MarYlanD

clifforD anD caMillE KEnDall EnDowED ScholarShip (at thE univErSitiES at ShaDY grovE)

I was applying to graduate schools while in the Peace Corps in Thailand, and I knew I wanted to work in inter-national development, preferably in the govern-ment. Maryland’s School of Public Policy’s pro-gram with the Robertson Foundation provided unparalleled support to accomplish my goals. —Kent elliott m.p.p. ’13

MorningStar ScholarShip in hEBrEw languagE pEDagogY

I always wanted to study abroad, so when I heard about this opportunity from my department at Tel Aviv University to come teach Hebrew and continue my work in Jewish studies, it was amazing. Once

you are seeing so many diverse ways of thinking, and meeting so many international students, it broadens your horizons and enriches you as a

person. It just makes you a better student. —shirly malachi m.a. ’13

Getting Banneker/Key was a dream, but it’s also making sure that I give back. I wouldn’t be here if somebody didn’t do something for me. Last semester, a friend and I started a B/K community council, which focuses mostly on building the community of B/K students and across campus. We’re going to bring in alumni to network and work together to do some community service. —ed Waddill ’15, marKetinG

BannEKEr/KEY ScholarShip

Hundreds of scholarships were funded throughout Great Expectations: for undergraduates and graduate and transfer students, for merit and for need, for study abroad and many other opportunities. Here's what scholarships meant to just a few of the recipients:

roBErtSon fEllowShip prograM

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Soprano Amber Schwarzrock was prepared to take out loans to cover her graduate education in the Maryland Opera Studio. She’d already signed the papers when the opera director told her she’d received a newly established scholarship.

“I burst into tears,” she says. “The cost definitely put a strain on our family, because we’re essentially paying for three households.”

The Suzanne Beicken Memorial Scholarship, named for a lecturer who taught for 32 years in the School of Music and died in May 2011, covered part of her tuition. Schwarzrock’s husband, Kristofer, is in the Army and stationed in California, and her children, Trysten, 8, and Leila, 3, live with her parents and in-laws in Minnesota, defraying the costs of child care and allowing her to focus on her studies.

The scholarship was established by Beicken’s husband, Germanic studies professor Peter Beicken.

“He’s been to all of my perfor-mances and has been a wonderful supporter,” Schwarzrock says.–KS

Opera Graduate Student Benefits from New School of Music Scholarship

the voice

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Raised in rural Yuba City, Calif., Roel Mora ’13 didn’t want his future to include picking any more peaches in 100-degree heat or planting endless rows of tomato plants.

“When I was going through high school, I heard all of the negative statistics about minorities, how 50 percent of us wouldn’t graduate,” he says. “I thought, ‘I’m not going to be one of those.’”

Mora, 29, became an Air Force staff sergeant who served two tours of duty in Iraq, and he’s about to complete his bachelor’s degree in economics as a Tillman Military Scholar. The scholar-ship funded by the Pat Tillman Foundation in honor of the late Army Ranger recognizes service members and their spouses who demonstrate leadership potential, military and personal achieve-ment and service. Mora, now a reservist, is one of five Maryland Tillman scholars; the funds cover a portion of their in-state tuition.

He’s persevered despite a recent diagnosis of constrictive bronchiolitis. Regular exposure to toxic fumes from garbage-burning pits overseas scarred a portion of his respiratory system.

“There’s nothing they can give me to make it better,” he says, “but it doesn’t worsen.”

His no-wallowing attitude motivated the Mexican-born Mora to earn U.S. citizenship and two associate’s degrees while stationed at Andrews Air Force Base.

Mora hopes to combine his military experience and aptitude for “seeing how things work” to land a position with the Air Force Executive Office of Combat and Missions Support.

Terry Zacker, who works closely with Maryland’s Tillman scholars in her role in the Division of Student Affairs, says Mora’s future is so much brighter than the one he faced work-ing in the fields.

“I know he'll be successful,” she says. “He loves learning and what he's doing.”–MAb

After two tours in Iraq, respiratory damage, Roel Mora perseveres with Tillman Scholarship

the veteran

STUDENTS STUDENTS STUDENTS

studentsstudentsstudents

I know he’ll be

successful. he loves leArnIngAnd whAt he’s doIng. —terry zacKer, coordinator of development and student relations, division of student affairs

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It’s a common warning heard by freshmen in engineering schools: Look to your right, then to your left. Only one of you will graduate.

The coursework is particularly tough, says Professor William Fourney, and fresh-men often have to run a gauntlet of physics, calculus and chemistry courses before even learning what engineers do.

Looking to buck this national trend, Fourney and Nariman Farvardin, then dean of the A. James Clark School of Engineering, decided in 2005 to overhaul Maryland’s curriculum for freshmen and transfer students. With support from Lockheed Martin and the Clark School’s board of visitors, they launched the Keystone Program, which features dedi-cated lab space and a core set of classes to give new students a solid engineering foundation while piquing their interest.

The most essential step in getting the program up and running, Fourney says, was recruiting some of the engineering

William Fourney breaks tradition by recruiting the best faculty to excite freshmen through a novel approach: teaching them about engineering

he success of any great university depends on recruiting, retaining and advancing great faculty. They make a profound impact through teaching, research, scholarship and service. Private support for faculty during the campaign took on many forms: providing world-class research and teaching facilities; endowing chairs that offer a financial incentive to relocate or remain at UMD; and creating programs that help faculty soar to the forefront of their fields.

the motivator

challenging engineering freshmen to excel in problem solving is an important part of the keystone program led by william fourney (background center, brown sweater) and kevin calabro (kneeling center, brown jacket).

STUDENTS

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school’s top faculty to teach these fundamen-tal courses.

“We wanted [faculty] who were convinced beyond a doubt that it’s extremely worthwhile to motivate students, challenge students and have them understand just how rewarding a career in engineering can be,” says Fourney, a former chair of two departments.

With Fourney as the lead Keystone profes-sor—he teaches two freshmen courses every semester and is joined by 17 other Keystone professors and four instructors—the program has blossomed. In six years, Maryland’s first-year engineering retention rate jumped from 81.9 percent to almost 91 percent, and the Clark School now graduates nearly two out of every three students who enter engineering.  

The most visible of the Keystone courses is ENES 100, an introductory course that chal-lenges teams of students to design, build and test an autonomous hovercraft.

“We try to make it as realistic as possible for what they’ll be doing after they graduate,” says Kevin Calabro ’05, a Keystone instructor and associate director of the program. “The students have an impossible problem; they’ve got a deadline that has to be met; they have a limited amount of knowledge; and they have to come together as a team to make this thing work.”

It doesn’t always pan out, Calabro says, but most students report the experience was invaluable nonetheless.

“Our craft failed every time,” recalls Zachary Dane, now a third-year electrical and computer engineering major. “But I learned more from that one class about teamwork, time manage-ment and critical thinking than in all my other freshman classes combined.” 

That’s the point, says Calabro.“One of the greatest things we provide

these students with is the ability to analyze and solve problems,” he says. “And that is going to allow them to be successful in almost anything they choose to do in life, including engineering.”—tV

robert h. Smith ’50 donates $30M to support students, faculty and pro-grams in the business school that now bears his

name and at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center.

a. James clark ’50 donates $30M to support scholarships at the engineer-

ing school named for him.

John B. colvin ’69 and his wife Karen give $3M to establish the Colvin Institute of Real Estate Development,

Fatemeh Keshavarz, new director of the Roshan Center for Persian Studies, isn’t thinking small: She wants to move her field “to the center of humanities on campus,” she says.

Keshavarz, who is also the first Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute Chair in Persian Studies, is planning projects such a first-time translation of the seminal “Our Bodies, Ourselves,” a collaboration with the Department of Women’s Studies, and awarding fellowships to train academic leaders who broaden the field’s scope by working across disciplines. Keshavarz also hopes to improve digital access to poetry, music, lectures and scholarly texts.

“The Iranian community in the United States is just coming to realize that it has a lot to offer,” she says.

Keshavarz brings her own impressive record to Maryland. An internationally respected interpreter and scholar, she spoke before the United Nations in 2007 on the importance of cultural education to world peace.–MAb

An author and peace activist, Fatemeh Keshavarz hopes to expand appreciation for Persian culture in the U.S.

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2005thousands of donors came together to meet the Great Expectations goal. here are just some of those gifts that changed the face of maryland:

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the IrAnIAn communIty In the unIted stAtes Is just comIng to reAlIze thAt It hAs A lot to offer.—fatemeh Keshavarz

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home of the School of Architec-ture, Planning and Preservation’s Master’s in Real Estate Develop-ment program.

robert a. facchina ’77, CEO of

yogurt and beverage maker Johanna Foods, establishes a $1.2M endowment to help create the Center for Food Safety and Security Systems in the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources.

chevy chase Bank (now capital one) announces $2M to create endowment for scholarships for business students.

robert E. fischell M.S. ’53, with

help from his three sons, donates $31M to establish the Fischell Department of Bioengineering and the Robert E. Fischell Insti-tute of Biomedical Devices.

What would happen if every smartphone user in New York City tried to simultaneously view this year’s Super Bowl halftime show?

Absolutely nothing, says Mohammad Hajiaghayi, who addressed the problem of congested wireless networks as a senior research scientist at AT&T Labs. The solu-tion, Hajiaghayi says, lies in identifying the intent of individual users; which are texting, sending photos, talking—or watching a live broadcast—and then directing their data to specific cell towers with enough capacity to meet their needs.

He helped pioneer this concept, known as incentive-aware algorithm design, and he was lured to Maryland in 2010 to continue the work as the Jack and Rita G. Minker Professor in computer science.

“I’ve always been driven to work on real, large-scale data problems that require practi-cal solutions,” Hajiaghayi says. 

The chair at Maryland offers Hajiaghayi a platform to expand this quest for practi-cal knowledge, providing funding for new research and support for graduate assistants and postdocs. He also has access to the university’s technology commercializa-tion network to keep developing his ideas; Hajiaghayi already holds several patents from his work at AT&T.

“Mohammad brings a strong background in network optimization and an entrepreneurial mindset that he readily shares with students and colleagues. We’re very fortunate to have him,” says Amitabh Varshney, director of

Endowed professorship lurescomputer science pioneer Mohammad Hajiaghayi to expand his work whilehonoring its namesake

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A $1.5M gift from Joseph ’51 and alma ’53 gildenhorn enables a major expansion of the Israeli stud-ies program, renaming it the Gild-enhorn Institute for Israel Studies.

The David h. and Suzanne D. hill-man family foundation gives $1.7M to launch the Hillman Entre-preneurship Program, supporting promising transfer students from Prince George’s Community College.

The John S. and James l. Knight foundation announces grants totaling $5.4M to the Philip Merrill College of Journalism, prompting the college to name its planned new building for the Knights.

t.K. “patrick” Sung ’69, ph.D. ’72 and wife Marguerite Sung ’70 donate $2M to endow two chemical engineering professorships in the A. James Clark School of Engineer-

Ritu Agarwal explores how health information technology is altering the medical landscape

Bringing together advances in digital technology and medicine sounds like a cure for much of what ails doctors’ offices, hos-pitals and labs. But accomplishing that has challenges, and Ritu Agarwal studies them.

As the dean’s chair of information systems in the Robert H. Smith School of Business, Agarwal benefits from discretionary funding that assists in her research and scholarship.

She explores how health information technology (IT) can expand health-care access, improve quality and reduce errors and costs—as well as barriers to its success, including usability and privacy.

“If there isn’t any rigorous evaluation of what the benefits of using these technologies are,” she says, “people are reluctant to make investments of both time and money.”–tV

mohammad hajiaghayi is the jack and rita g. minker professor of computer science.

the university’s Institute for Advanced Computer Studies. The chair endowed by Jack Minker, professor emeritus and founder of

Maryland’s computer science department, carries name recognition in the international scientific community: He was at the forefront of early research in artificial intelligence, and his late wife was a noted computer scientist. He’s also known for his efforts in the 1970s and ’80s to assist scientists worldwide whose human rights were violated, including Soviet physicist Andrei Sakarov.

“Having a chair named for Dr. Minker means that anything I do will reflect on his legacy. That is important to me,” Hajiaghayi says. “I hope I’m successful enough that one day there might be a chair in my name, and people will remember my work, too.”–tV

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As a brand-new reporter, Holly Nunn, M. Jour. ’11 relished the chance to go into the heart of Baltimore and do on-the-ground reporting. Sandy Banisky’s class was just the ticket.

“I knew I could sit in a classroom with amazing professors all day long and never learn how to be an actual reporter,” says Nunn, now a politics reporter for The Gazette of Politics and Business. “Sandy’s class is designed to make you go do the work. She makes her students look at tough issues from all sides.”

Banisky, a former deputy manag-ing editor at The Baltimore Sun, came to Maryland in 2008 as the Abell Professor in Baltimore Journalism. The position is the result of a gift from the Abell Foundation, which is dedicated to enhancing quality of life in Baltimore and Maryland.

“It’s been extraordinary to watch young reporters, particularly many suburban students, explore a city that is in many ways struggling to rein-vent itself,” she says.

Over the last four years, her classes have explored issues including obesity, poverty, juvenile justice and even the impact of the Orioles’ then-13-year losing streak. All their work goes up on an interactive site, for which they create graphics, slideshows, videos and more.

“Sandy’s class taught me that journalism isn’t easy work, and that I will do this job for years and years and still have a lot to learn,” Nunn says.–KS

ing and a mathematics fellowship in the College of Computer, Mathe-matical, and Physical Sciences.

Former business school dean and UMD Foundation board of

Students investigate tough urban issues in Baltimore with former editor of The Sun

sandy banisky, center, with students at The Baltimore Sun.

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directors chair william E. Mayer ’66, M.B.a. ’67 donates $5M, a portion of which created William E. Mayer Mall outside Van Munching Hall.

A $3M gift from the roshan cultural heritage insti-tute, an independent chari-table foundation, signifi-cantly expands the Persian studies program.

Jean Mullan ’68 donates $500,000 to create the endowed Jeffrey and David Mullan Professorship in Teacher Education-Professional Devel-opment, named for her sons.

sAndy’s clAss Is desIgned to mAke you go

do the work. she mAkes her students look At tough Issues from All sIdes.

—holly nunn, m. Jour. ’11

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John Fisher is an engineer who designs bridges. Not for cars. For bones.

In his Tissue Engineering & Bio-materials Laboratory, Fisher is designing bioengineered materials that may one day form a “living scaffold” to regenerate bone structure in people who’ve suffered severe facial injuries.

He’s using a patent-pending bioreac-tor that can nurture human bone cells and biodegradable materials that, when combined, offer physicians an alternative to metallic implants that are prone to infection.

This groundbreaking work is just one of the projects under way in the Fischell Department of Engineering, launched in 2006 with a $31 million gift from bio-medical inventor Robert Fischell M.S. ’53 and his three sons.

Bionengineering research to regenerate bone structure holds promise for victims of severe facial injuries, defects

alice horowitz ph.D. ’92 gives $2M to create the Herschel S. Horowitz Center for Health Liter-acy and the Herschel S. Horowitz Endowed Chair in Health Literacy in the School of Public Health.

Barry and Mary gossett give $10M, with $8M designated for Intercollegiate Athletics, making it the largest private gift in Mary-land Athletics history, and $2 million for scholarships.

Bill longbrake ’76 and his wife Martha give $1.5M to expand the Smith School, includ-ing creating the Longbrake Ph.D. Suite and Director’s Office in Van Munching Hall’s North Wing.

The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center receives $1M from the Morris & gwendolyn cafritz foundation to support the technology and equipment infrastructure.

aryland encourages creative thinkers and entrepreneurial ideas, nurturing them from research and development into the marketplace. Private giving has been central to this focus on turning ideas into impact. It’s allowed faculty and students to take a “high-risk high-reward” approach and means for outreach to the state and beyond, including community-based wellness groups, clean energy or the next generation of surgical implants.

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What Would 24-hour radio programming for the deaf look like? Could state prison officials use cell phones confiscated from inmates to identify and track outside criminal networks? How can the National Park Service improve public access to millions of its photos and other items documenting American history and culture?

These are just a few of the ideas floated as part of a seed grant competition launched last fall by the Future of Information Alliance (FIA), an eclectic group of students, faculty and staff who are teaming up with 10 outside organizations to address some of today’s most perplexing information challenges.

The seed grants—funded for at least three years as part of a $1 million gift from the Robert W. Deutsch Foundation—will support teams of UMD students tasked with develop-ing novel concepts and prototypes or coming up with research findings that lead to practi-cal information applications.

“We challenged them to dream big, to think of ideas and solutions that have the potential to change lives,” says the iSchool’s Allison Druin, who with journalism’s Ira Chinoy is leading the alliance.

Four teams of students and their faculty mentors were expected to be selected in February to each receive up to $25,000 to carry out their projects this spring.

Part of the rationale behind the seed grants is to develop ideas to the point where they might spark interest from other funding sources, says Chinoy. Another focus is on finding cost-effective solutions for organizations with limited resources.

National Public Radio affiliate WAMU 88.5, for example, has broached the idea of offering 24-hour programming that is easily accessible for people who are hearing-impaired.

There are already information tools that can quickly translate voice com-munications to closed captioning, says Brendan Sweeney, who produces WAMU’s “Kojo Nnamdi Show,” but much of that technology is proprietary and can’t be duplicated.

“We don’t have the resources of a tech giant like Google, so we’re hoping to work with Maryland students and others to come up with an effective solution to improve and expand the WAMU experience for our audience,” Sweeney says.–tV

With a $1M pledge, lisa and george Zakhem establish the Kahlil Gibran Chair for Values and Peace to address the concerns, issues and principles reflected in the work of the Lebanese poet.

Seed grants help students and Alliance grow bold ideas about how to address contemporary information challenges

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“The private support [from Fischell] has moved my research forward from day one,” Fisher says.

He cites the establishment of the department itself, the addition of a bioengineering wing to the Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building in 2008 and Fischell’s support of graduate students, who are vital to any research project.

Diana Yoon Ph.D. ’08 was the first graduate student in Fisher’s lab, working on earlier research involving bioen-gineered materials to help regenerate cartilage growth. She completed her doctoral degree with a full fellowship established by Fischell and is now at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

“The fellowship allowed me to choose a lab that inspired me, rather than one where funding just happened to be avail-able,” Yoon says.

Fisher’s work to help heal catastrophic facial injuries is several years from clinical trials, but he foresees a day when physi-cians will take a 3-D scan of an injured area and literally “print out” a support scaffold made of his bioengineered material.

“We take the approach of the engineering discipline and apply it to biological problems where we can help people,” Fisher says. “That’s really what bioengineers bring to the game—helping people and solving problems.”–tV

u Gov. martin o’malley and the state of maryland

u library of congress

u national archives and records administration

u national Geographic society

u the newseum

u sesame Workshop

u Wamu 88.5

u the Barrie school

u u.s. national park service

u smithsonian institution

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Baltimore developer and philanthropist Edward St. John ’63 pledges $10M to build the Edward St. John Learning and Teaching Center.

The Philip Merrill College of Journal-

ism creates the Shirley Povich Center for Sports Journalism, following a $1M challenge gift from the legend-ary sportswriter’s children, lynn, David and Maury (who’s married to journalist connie chung ’69).

Bruce and Karen ’76 levenson provide funding to create the Center for Philan-thropy and Nonprofit Leadership.

the PrIvAte suPPort hAs moved my reseArch forwArd from dAy one.

—John fisher

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“Wellness circles” help diabetic Latinas take charge of their health

Professor Michael Brin and wife Eugenia Brin give $3 million to endow a mathematics postdoctor-ate fellowship program.

Young entrepreneur makes solar power cheaper

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2012 An anonymous donor pledges a $1M planned gift to create the Col. Robert A. Stewart USAF Veterans Scholarship Fund, honoring the 1962 graduate who was killed in combat in Vietnam.

After watching her grandmother, mother and uncles succumb to diabetes, Tatiana Quintanilla considered her diagnosis a “death sentence.”

Participating in a seven-month wellness program with other diabetic Latinas helped the mother of two improve her health and outlook. She was one of 20 women selected for bi-weekly wellness circles, a collaboration between the Primary Care Coalition of Montgomery County, the School of Public Health’s Horowitz Center for Health Literacy, the Spanish Catholic Center, Impact Silver Spring and others.

The Horowitz Center was founded through a gift from research associate professor Alice M. Horowitz Ph.D. ’92, a former member of the NIH Committee on Health Literacy who wanted to help Americans better understand and use health information.

Aided by bilingual facilitators, low-income and low-literacy participants in the wellness circles improved self-care habits like glucose monitoring and shared tips with their peers, such as how to cook brown rice.

“They were learning so much, partly because they formed strong friendships,” says Izione Silva, pro-gram director at Primary Care Coalition. “It brought that empowerment piece of getting patients to view diabetes as a disease they can manage.”

Routine glucose testing among Latinas, says Horowitz Center Director Linda Aldoory, tends to

be “significantly lower” than among African Americans or Caucasians.

Monitoring can minimize complications. Wellness circle

participants reduced their hemoglobin A1c an average of one percentage point, enough to lower heart disease risk.

Aldoory has applied for a $20,000 grant to

establish a virtual wellness circle that combines formal reminders and factoids with “peer cheer” text messages.

Quintanilla is eager to participate. Today, she walks up to five times a week and makes sure her family avoids sugary foods.

“I want to teach them from a young age the good habits I didn’t learn until I was an adult,” she says.–KM

A new method to improve solar power efficiency may be looking Andrew Oles ’10 in the face.

With support from a Warren Citrin Graduate Fellowship, awarded to outstanding graduate students focused on innovation and sustainability, the mechanical engineering student seeks to upgrade solar thermal power plants. The up-and-coming green energy source uses large solar mirrors that can rapidly heat water for steam-powered generators.

The biggest challenge is the cost associated with building and mounting the solar mirrors, known as heliostats. “We need to go from heliostats that cost $140 per square meter to units at about $100 per square meter to effectively compete against coal and other fossil fuels,” says Oles, a Hinman CEOs program alumnus.

He’s refining the design of the motors and infrastructure used to swivel the mirrors toward the sun. Then he wants to commercialize a system that he believes will be 20 percent cheaper and 30 percent more efficient.–tV

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ricks and mortar can help ensure that learning, teaching, research and achievement flourish. Private giving during the campaign has allowed Maryland to design and build high-tech buildings and to upgrade labs and classrooms and arts and athletic facilities. Gifts also have enhanced the campus grounds, so they’re more vibrant, visually appealing, pedestrian friendly and environmentally sensitive than ever.

the nonprofit open spaces, sacred places supported construction of a granite laby-rinth, two sustainable fountains and green spaces outside memorial chapel.

Garden of reflecTion and remembrance

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The desiGn sTudiothis comprehensive space in the art-sociology building for working and learning, supported in part by nancy clarvit ’78, features tables for art students to sketch on, laptops with software to design on, and printers, a scanner, a projector and a critique board.

maryland neuroimaGinG cenTer a state-of-the-art facility normally seen only in teaching hospitals allows maryland researchers to examine the human brain in real time using noninvasive techniques like functional magnetic resonance imag-ing (fmrI) and magnetoen-cephalography (meg).

clarice smiTh PerforminG arTs cenTer TechnoloGyfunding from the morris and gwendolyn cafritz foundation supports new technology and equip-ment infrastructure needed to present nearly 1,000 performances and events each year.

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edward sT. John learninG and TeachinG cenTerthe first new building on campus in 50 years dedicated solely to classroom space will be outfitted with technology designed to meet the needs of the future.

sTained Glass ocular the unique ocular in the samuel riggs Iv alumni center’s orem hall was a gift from a. ford hall sr. ’68 and june b. hall. It features a design based on the maryland state flag and measures nearly 8 feet in diameter.

fischell bioenGineerinG winGa 7,400-square-foot addition to the kim engineering building houses new labo-ratories and office suites for maryland’s rapidly growing bioengineering program.

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Tyser Tower a major renovation to the five-story tower included the addition of 64 luxury skyboxes, 400 new mezzanine-level seats, an upgrade to the press box area and enhanced seating for disabled fans.

mayer mall an expansive green space with benches,

landscaping and a stately clock tower

outside van munching hall was funded by

former smith school dean william e. mayer

’66, m.b.a. ’67.

men’s lacrosse locker roomalumni of the men’s lacrosse program stepped forward to refurbish the space in gossett team house, reconfiguring the space, replacing the steel lockers with solid wood ones and install-ing new carpeting.

uniVersiTy housefunded by private donations, the new facility includes ample public space where the university presi-dent can host events.

michelle smiTh collaboraTory for Visual culTureusing virtual reality and multimodal displays, the facil-ity allows users to “visually immerse” themselves in subjects ranging from 12th century japanese art scrolls to european architecture.

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thank you

campaign co-chairsu david c. driskell,

professor emeritusu alma Gildenhorn ’53,

philanthropist u Barry p. Gossett, ceo,

acton mobile enterprisesu William e. mayer ’66,

m.B.a. ’67, partner, park avenue equity partners

u lowell r. Glazer ’55, president, a&g management

honorary campaign co-chairsu a. James clark ’50,

chairman and ceo, clark enterprises Inc.

u robert e. fischell m.s. ’53, chairman, fischell biomedical llc

u robert h. smith ’50, chairman, charles e. smith commercial realty and charles e. smith residential. he passed away in december 2009.

scholarship co-chairsu connie chung ’69,

journalistu Gary Williams ’68, former

men’s basketball coachu Buno pati ’86, m.s. ’88,

ph.d. ’92, chief executive officer, sezmi corp.

silent phase: july 2004–october 2006

public phase: october 2006–december 2012

thank you

John s. and James l. kniGhT hallhigh-tech classrooms and advanced multimedia labs help one of the nation’s leading journalism school’s prepare students for a rapidly changing industry.

uniVersiTy Golf course a privately supported renovation fund helped with reconstruction of all tee and green complexes to usga specifications, new concrete golf car paths, construc-tion of new bunkers and expanded practice facilities.

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innovation

Wonder “Worm”ReseaRcheRs Developing Mini Robot foR bRain suRgeRy

Removing any bRain tumoR is a delicate proposition. Deeply embedded tumors raise the stakes: Even the subtlest disturbance during neurosurgery can lead to disability or death.

An engineer, a radiologist and a neuro-surgeon are combining their expertise to

develop a tiny robotic tool that, aided by magnetic resonance imaging,

one day could offer greatly improved visuals of brain tumors and pinpoint accuracy for safely removing them.

Jaydev P. Desai (left), University of Maryland associ-

ate professor of mechanical engineering who specializes in

surgical robotics; Rao Gullapalli, associ-ate professor of diagnostic radiology and nuclear medicine; and neurosurgeon J. Marc Simard, both at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore, head a research team that recently won $2 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop their prototype.

They’ve been working on the metal worm-like tool for several years in the kind of joint UMD-UMB research that the two institutions are encouraging through the MPowering the State initiative.

“It allows our engineers and others to see firsthand the problems that physicians face, further motivating them to innovate new solutions in health care and design the next generation of biomedical devices,” says Patrick O’Shea, UMD’s vice president for research and chief research officer.

Type, location and size of tumors are all factors in patients’ long-term outlook, as are advances in surgery, chemotherapy and radiation treatments. The National Cancer Institute reported nearly 23,000 new cases of brain tumors in the U.S. in 2011, and 13,700 deaths.

In conventional neurosurgery, surgeons make a corridor that may be nearly as large as the tumor itself through normal overlying tissues.

“Obviously, this is potentially harm-ful to the patient,” says Simard. “It

would be much better if a very narrow cor-ridor could be made to introduce a miniature device to remove the tumor.”

The Minimally Invasive Neurosurgical Intracranial Robot (MINIR) may be that device. About a half-inch in diameter and the length of a finger, MINIR would be inserted into the brain through a small opening. By watching continuous magnetic resonance images, the surgeon would be able to see the precise sites

of the tumor and the robot.The robot then electrocauterizes the

tumor and sucks the debris through another suction tube, causing minimal trauma to normal brain tissue.

“This technology has the potential to revolutionize the treatment of patients with difficult-to-reach intracra-nial tumors,” Desai says.–et

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23,000The NaTioNal CaNCer iNsTiTuTe reporTed Nearly

New Cases of braiN Tumors iN The u.s. iN 2011.

Hear more University of maryland experts in tHe media at twitter.com/UmDNews.

“Just as the Taliban scare us with terror, we must scare them by making them unable to oper-ate. We must terrorize them by investing more than ever before in educating girls.”

—Madiha afzal, public policy, on the outrage

following the Taliban’s shooting of a 14-year-old girl,

in an op/ed in the (Pakistan) Express Tribune, Oct. 11,

2012 (Excerpt in CNN.com Oct. 13).

“There is no line item in these departments that reads ‘waste, fraud and abuse.’”

—PhilliP Joyce, public policy, on the challenges

the president and Congress face in cutting the fed-

eral budget, in Bloomberg Businessweek, Nov. 8, 2012.

“Just as music can stir the emotions, language that appeals to the ear can lift people’s sights and spirits, inspiring them to do things that they would otherwise not.”

—StePhen cohen, communication, on charisma

in oratory, in The Financial Times, Jan. 2, 2013.

The baby shooTs of arugula, red cabbage and other veggies dressing up your restaurant dinner plate can also add pizzazz to your diet.

A Maryland researcher has found that these microgreens carry four to six times the nutrients of their mature counterparts and are a great source of cancer-fighting antioxidants.

“we were a bit surprised the numbers came back so high. we used several different [testing] methods to make sure,” says Qin wang, an assistant professor of nutrition and food science who conducted the research with graduate student Zhenlei Xiao and scientists from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

The researchers are currently working on a follow-up study to see how stor-age, light and other factors might affect the nutritional value of microgreens.

But don’t expect to see microgreens at your local fast-food joint anytime soon. Because they’re difficult to grow and transport, wang says, the small shoots are usually seen only in fine dining establishments.

“we use them for flavor, color and texture, but also because they’re good for you,” says Nora Pouillon, executive chef and owner of Restaurant Nora in washington, D.C. “Food, after all, is about both presentation and nutrition.”–tv

Microgreens pack Nutritional punch

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NewsDeskUniversity of Maryland

faculty are the source news media turn to for expertise.

Microgreens carry four to six times the nutrients of their mature counterparts and are a great source of cancer-fighting antioxidants.

Microgreens top the Hawaiian Hearts of Palm Salad at D.C.’s Restaurant Nora, the nation’s first certified organic restaurant.

photo by sCott robertsterp wINTER 201338

Q. how did you make The TransiTion from a working in a chimp

lab in ohio To exploring The dark side of human naTure?

a. There is a common thread: wanting to understand why. The fundamental nature of psychology is to understand what we see. Primates and dolphins evolved separately, so why are their capabilities similar to each other, and to ours? With evil, it’s not sufficient to say, “They’re bad people.”

Q. you warn sTudenTs in The syllabus ThaT some of The

maTerials may be graphic or disTurbing, such as phoTos of

murder scenes or a discussion of whaT moTivaTes people To

harm oThers. did planning The course give you pause?

a. It’s so important for students to really understand what we’re talking about. I want to be sensitive. But to understand it in a scientific way, you have to have the emotional experience, too. I definitely don’t do it for shock value, but this is not some-thing that you can learn about in abstract.

Q. you and The direcTor of The disTurbing Thriller

“compliance” parTicipaTed in a Q&a aT an early screening

This summer. The film was based on a True sTory of how an

auThoriTaTive sTranger persuaded several people To assaulT a

young woman. whaT did The aTTendees wanT To know?

a. They had a hard time understanding why people would do these things and are convinced they wouldn’t. When we are confused, stressed and afraid, we do not behave rationally. These were not crazy people in a normal situation; it is the other way around.

Q. on The flip side of This gloomy work are your oTher

inTeresTs: phoTography, graphic design and developing some

enTrepreneurial endeavors. how do They fiT in?

a. The balance is all about being creative. I’m lucky because teaching gives me that as well. I’m creating a learning expe-rience that challenges and engages students. I certainly wish that there were more time in the day for the creative projects and business ventures.

Q. you live nexT To and commuTe To work wiTh your younger

broTher, andrew (associaTe direcTor of markeTing and commu-

nicaTions for The college). is ThaT a TogeTherness overload?

a. We have so much in common, the same sense of humor and the joint entrepreneurial interests. We both relish in the fact that we get to contribute to this overall thing [the university] we believe in. We have too much fun together for it to be an overload.

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a talk on the dark sideStudents flock to hear Scott Roberts Ph.D. ’08 talk about deviant behaviors and why being bad sometimes feels good. His popular new course,

“The Psychology of Evil,” delves into topics such as morality and religion and nurture vs. nature. It might sound like a change in direction for someone who’s done cognitive research on chimpanzees and trained dolphins. Roberts, lecturer and director of undergraduate studies in the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences, explains why it’s not.–Mab

Paving the Futurecivil engineeRs, afghans to iMpRove RavageD RoaDs

DecaDes of conflict and unstable

leadership have left afghanistan’s out-

dated and limited infrastructure

crumbling. as the country starts to

rebuild, maryland’s Center for advanced

Transportation Technology (CaTT) is lend-

ing valuable expertise.

“There are challenges because it’s still

very much a war zone,” says CaTT director

Tom Jacobs. “but we’ve certainly offered our

technical support and want to help them.”

in the new three-year partnership, the

afghanistan ministry of public works is

interested in CaTT’s work on the maryland

state highway administration’s cutting-

edge virtual weigh station. sensors

on the highway collect data including

truck classification, gross weight and

axle weight, making it harder for drivers

to avoid being weighed and helping

officers target overweight vehicles for

enforcement. The afghan ministry hopes

to use this system to keep super-heavy

trucks—sometimes more than 150,000

pounds, nearly double the u.s. weight

limit—from damaging roads.

The afghan government is also looking

for ways to monitor the salang Tunnel,

an essential north-south route through

an extensive mountain range that cuts

a three-day journey to just one. The

ministry wants to be able to act when

snow, avalanches or other problems cause

blockages or congestion.–ks

Y e a r s

a unique partnership that joins university experts with

maryland-based companies seeking to develop new products

celebrated a quarter-century of success in November.

MiPs

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commercial products generated via miPs include:

martek biosciences’ nutritional oils

hughes Communications’ hughesNet

high-speed satellite internet

medimmune’s synagis to

prevent respiratory syncytial

virus infections in infants

black & decker’s bullet speed-tip

masonry drill bit

President Barack Obama has named physics Professor Sylvester James

“Jim” Gates Jr. a 2013 recipient of the National Medal of Science. Along with the National Medal of Technology, it’s the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. gov-ernment on scientists, engineers and inventors. Gates is known for his groundbreaking work in string theory as well as for popu-larizing science among young people.

heav y MedalPhysics Professor Awarded National Medal of Science

From russia with LoveProfessor Honors Mother with Department Endowment

When Emeritus Professor Michael Brin brought his family to the United States from the Soviet Union in 1979, he and his mother both found a home at the uni-

versity. He researched and taught math for more than 30 years, and she, a former English teacher, taught in the Russian department for nearly 10.

“She liked the people, she liked the work,” Brin says. “It was good for her.” That’s why he’s given $600,000 to establish the Maya Brin Endowment in

Russian, following her passing in March 2012. The endowment will fund a resi-dency, which will bring leading Russian scholars, artists and cultural figures to campus for short-term stays to promote Russian culture, and a new permanent

teaching position. “This has great potential, both for students studying Russian and those

outside the field,” says Russian Undergraduate Director Elizabeth Papazian. “It’s a way to bring Russian culture closer to non-Russian speakers. I hope this will inspire more students to take on this difficult language.”–ks

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For seven years, the Cupid’s Cup busi-ness competition has awarded cash prizes to the top entrepreneurs at the university. Now the competition is looking for the best in the country.

Kevin Plank ’97, founder and CEO of Under Armour, has made a significant gift to Maryland’s Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship to expand its contest to the national stage and supersize the prize.

Applicants will compete for awards totaling $70,000, up from $25,000, as well as coaching from successful entrepreneurs, services from top companies and the title of Cupid’s Cup winner. Plank will also grant the 2013 grand-prize winner exclusive access to his network.

“The University of Maryland has proven to be incredibly fertile ground for talented entrepreneurs,” he says, “and I am excited to expand our search and to share this inspiring program with passionate stu-dents nationwide.”

Plank named the competition after the rose-delivery business he started at Maryland. His experience running it gave him the confidence—and seed money—to launch Under Armour.

The contest is for students and alumni who own and operate their own businesses. On April 5, the five finalists will pitch their businesses to Plank and a panel of judges before an audience of more than 1,000. The day’s events will also include a business and innovation showcase highlighting campus and regional startups.

“This competition inspires students to start businesses when they see others doing so successfully,” says Dingman Center Director Elana Fine. “Regardless of the businesses they start now, they’re much more likely to take risks on other opportunities later.”–lb

A Bigger Pour for Cup

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the art gallery / maya brin photo courtesy of michael brin

“T h e Un ive rs it y o f M a ryl a n d h a s p rove n to b e i n c re d i b ly fe rt i le g rou n d fo r t a le nt e d e nt re p re n e u rs .”

$600kfor

endowment fund

rocking Out, Frame by FrameGift boosts concert poster collection

a new Jersey-based poster collector has donated $5,000 to the Art Gallery to expand its collection of silkscreen concert posters, already one of the largest in the country.

The newly named Marcus Calendrillo Concert Poster Collection of nearly 300 prints features bands from the mid-’90s to today, including Animal Collective, Feist and The Black Keys. well-known artists like Jay Ryan and Frank Kozik designed the posters.

“These posters tie in pop culture and visual design, and at the same time, are marvelous examples of fine art,” says Director John Shipman.–ks

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Chelsea Gracyalny had barely started elementary school when she lost both parents in a horrific accident.

Now in college, Gracyalny is keeping their memory alive by helping others pur-sue an opportunity her father never had. She recently gave $13,000 to double the College of Arts and Humanities’ Douglas and Holly Jacobs Memorial Scholarship, granted each year to a community col-lege transfer student who demonstrates financial need. She’ll give another $5,000 on her father’s birthday for the next four years, a commitment that should enable annual awards to increase.

The pledge makes her the college’s youngest donor during the Great Expectations campaign.

“It was always something that I wanted to do,” says the third-year film and video major at Baltimore’s Maryland Institute College of Art. “As a student, I know how expensive college can be.”

Gracyalny remembers her father as “very social and adventurous.” Originally from Pittsburgh, he attended community college, then joined the Air Force. While stationed in England as part of the dental service, he met Holly, a reserved Louisiana native, when he was assigned to clean her teeth.

Although Douglas Jacobs never com-pleted a four-year degree, he went on to a successful career in dental supply sales. He was awarded in 1999 for his outstand-ing performance with a trip to Napa Valley, Calif. There, the hot-air balloon the couple was riding in hit power lines and burst into flames less than 300 feet from takeoff.

At 7, Chelsea became an orphan. Her aunt, Wendy Jacobs, an art professor and associate dean at UMD, brought Chelsea from Georgia to Maryland, and she and

her husband, David Gracyalny, later adopted her.

Her father’s co-workers hosted golf tournaments and friends raised money for Chelsea’s care. A wrongful death suit brought on her behalf resulted in an annuity that ensured her needs would be met into adulthood. Her family decided in 2002 to instead use the contributions

from friends and colleagues—an initial $4,000 that grew to about $13,000—to establish a living legacy at the university.

Now that Gracyalny understands the fund’s value, she sees it as a way to con-nect with her mom and dad.

“I didn’t create this fund, but my fam-ily knew it would be important,” she says. “Their memory isn’t forgotten.”–km

transferring a legacy Student Funds Scholarship to Honor Late Parents

$13kfor

transfer scholarships

photo by John t. consoli

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’10s

AAron CArter

M.Jour. ’12 has

been hired as a

sportswriter at the

Centre Daily Times

in State College, Pa.,

focusing on Penn State

men’s basketball. He

was an all-conference

basketball player while

earning his bachelor’s

degree at Bloomsburg

University.

StACey AnitA

GAenzle Ph.D. ’12

is engaged to marry

Frank Joseph Havlik

this summer. Stacey

earned a bachelor’s

degree from Rutgers

University and a mas-

ter’s degree from the

College of William &

Mary, and is a professor

at Villanova University.

Steve BuzinSki

Ph.D ’11 and kyM

WeeD M.A. ’11 wed on

May 12 on the beach

in Stone Harbor, N.J.

She is working on a

doctorate in English at

the University of North

Carolina at Chapel

Hill. He is the director

of undergraduate

research and a lecturer

in the Department

of Psychology at

Chapel Hill.

’00s

noAh elkrie ’07 has

written “A Guide to The

Present Moment: How

to Stop Believing the

Thoughts that Keep

You from Feeling Free,

Whole and Happy.” It

debuted this fall at No.

1 in six Amazon Kindle

categories.

Alonzo WAShinGton

’07 has been appointed

to fill the seat in the

Maryland General

Assembly vacated by

Del. JuStin roSS ’98.

He is a former chief

of staff to Prince

George's County

Council member

William A. Campos.

noAh Seth reiSS ’06

was married Dec. 15

to Regina Gail Klein

at Temple Beth El in

Cedarhurst, N.Y. He is

an associate at Morris,

Duffy, Alonso & Faley,

a Manhattan law firm

that specializes in

insurance defense. He

received a law degree

from Hofstra University. 

ADAM Brett MoSer

’04 and Shelby Nicole

Ebert were married

Nov. 3 at the Royalton

Mansion in Roslyn

Heights, N.Y., according

to The New York Times.

He is an associate

at the White Plains

law firm Pilkington &

Leggett. He received

a law degree from

DePaul University.

MiChAel P. uonG ’04

has been promoted

to audit supervisor at

Councilor, Buchanan

& Mitchell, P.C., a

Bethesda, Md.–based

full-service CPA and

business advisory firm.

Army Maj. ArChie

BAteS M.A. ’03, Ph.D.

’06 was named a

2012-13 White House

fellow, serving as

executive officer to

the director of Army

Human Resources

Policy. Previously, he

served as assistant

professor at his alma

mater, the U.S. Military

Academy, and has

lectured internationally

on leadership. Bates

deployed to Baghdad

with the 2nd Brigade,

101st Airborne Division

and was responsible

for the individual

readiness of more than

8,000 soldiers. 

Astrum Solar, co-

founded by JoSh

GolDBerG ’03, landed

the No. 2 spot on Inc.

magazine’s 2012 list of

the fastest-growing

private U.S. companies.

Based in Annapolis

Junction, Md., and co-

founded by Ben Davis

and Vadim Polikov, the

company sells and

leases solar electric sys-

tems to homeowners.

 

riChArD keAton

Ph.D. ’03 received the

Outstanding Young

Alumnus Award from

the Eastern Illinois

University (EIU)

Alumni Association.

A lead chemist in

core research and

development for the

Catalyst Synthesis

and Implementation

Group at the Dow

Chemical Co., he’s

written 12 patent

applications and 40

internal research-

driven technical

reports.  He graduated

from EIU in 1999.

AlexAnDrA

CrAWforD núñez

’02 and Patrick

Charles Costello were

married Sept. 22 at

the University of

Massachusetts Club in

Boston, according to

The New York Times.

She is the political

director for U.S. Sen.

John Kerry (D-Mass.)

and received a master’s

in public policy from

the Catholic University

of America.

JonAthAn MiCAh

Stein ’02 and Amanda

Sharee Fein were mar-

ried Dec. 15 in Rockville,

Md. He received a

law degree and a mas-

ter’s in environmental

law from Vermont Law

School and works as

a lawyer-adviser in

the external compli-

ance division of the

Federal Environmental

Protection Agency’s

Office of Civil Rights.

linDSAy PAiGe riCh

’02 and Michael Justin

Madarash were mar-

ried Dec. 15 at Cold

Spring Country Club

in Huntington, N.Y.

She earned a master’s

degree and doctorate

in psychology from

Hofstra University

and is a school psy-

chologist at the Central

Boulevard Elementary

School in Bethpage. N.Y.

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U.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr.

DAviD klieMAnn

M.B.A. ’01 was honored

during the Jan. 5

Packers-Minnesota

Vikings wild card

playoff game as part of

Operation Fan Mail. The

Green Bay Packers and

WPS Health Insurance

hosted a family at

each 2012 home game.

Kliemann, a native of

Wind Lake, Wis., serves

as the director of the

Navy Red Team, charged

with protecting Navy

computer networks

from cyberattacks. He

will retire in 2013 after 20

years of service.

JoShuA toBin ’01

and Stacie Yellin are

scheduled to marry on

June 29, 2013, at the Four

Seasons, Palm Beach, Fla.

He works at Lendstrong

in Sunrise, Fla.

AnDreA elizABeth

MAthiAS M.A. ’00

and ShAne WilliAM

WArren ’94 are

engaged to be mar-

ried this fall. She is

a 2006 graduate of

McDaniel College

and a third-grade

teacher at Springfield

Estates Elementary in

Fairfax, Va. He recently

received his M.B.A.

from Northwestern

University and, with his

brother, owns Warren

Construction Co. in

Upper Marlboro, Md.

MArylee roBinSon

’00 has been elected a

director at Invotex, a

national accounting,

financial and economic

consulting firm. She

provides litigation

consulting services

and has participated

in several recent high-

profile trials, including

Apple Inc. v. Samsung

Electronics Co. Ltd.

et al. She earned an

M.B.A. from Loyola

University Maryland.

’90s

AliCe JeeyounG

honG ’99 and Brant

Duncan Kuehn were

married Sept. 22 at

St. Elizabeth Roman

Catholic Church in

Edgartown, Mass. She

works in New York as

the deputy director

of the National Urban

Security Technology

Laboratory, a division

of the Department of

Homeland Security.

She received a master’s

degree in public policy

from Georgetown

University.

SCott levy ’97 was

promoted to execu-

tive director from

senior manager in

the financial services

office of Ernst & Young

LLP in San Francisco.

He’s also worked in the

firm’s Washington,

D.C., London, and New

York offices.

ShAne ho kiM ’96

and Suzy Yunjin Lee

and were married

Oct. 27 at Fifth Avenue

Presbyterian Church in

New York. He is a part-

ner in Camden Partners,

a Baltimore investment

firm, where he focuses

on investments in

payment processing

companies.

MAttheW r.

ShinDell ’96 has been

named special counsel

at the Philadelphia

office of Goldberg

Segalla. He previously

held the title of associ-

ate and concentrates

his practice in the

defense of medical

malpractice claims.

He recently completed

the American Board

of Trial Advocates

National Trial College at

Harvard Law School.

The Boot Camp Girl

LLC, founded by

StePh-Anie DiGnAn

’94, was recently

named a “Best of

Washington” winner in

Washingtonian maga-

zine’s Highly Rated Boot

Camps category in the

D.C. metropolitan area. 

BrenDAn flAnAGAn

’91 has been promoted

to the new position of

vice president of state

and local affairs at the

National Restaurant

Association. Flanagan

has spent nearly 20

years working on

public policy issues

for the restaurant

industry at the local,

state and federal level,

including 11 years at

the association.

linDA ArMyn ’90

has been elected

chairman of the

board at the Cradle of

Aviation Museum on

Long Island, N.Y. She is

senior vice president

of corporate strategy

at Bethpage Federal

Credit Union and

serves as co-chair on

the Leadership Council

for the Mentoring

Partnership of Long

Island, vice chair of

YMCA Long Island, and

board vice president at

the Child Care Council

of Suffolk.

’80s

MóniCA l. villAltA

’88 has joined the

American Institutes for

Research as director of

diversity and inclusion.

She previously served

as director of diversity

programs for Kaiser

Permanente of the

Mid-Atlantic States.

She holds a master of

public health degree

from the University

of California, Berkeley

and completed the

executive education

program at Harvard

and the seminar on

international institu-

tions at the American

University in Paris.

MiChAel v. BeAll ’87

has been appointed

president and chief

executive officer of the

National Cooperative

Business Association.

He previously served

as president and chief

executive officer of the

Missouri Credit Union

Association. Beall

holds a juris doctorate

from the University

of Richmond and is a

member of the Virginia

State Bar.

viPin kuMAr Ph.D.

’82, the William Norris

Professor and head

of the Department

of Computer Science

and Engineering

Department at

the University of

Minnesota, won the

2012 Innovation Award

from the Association

for Computer

Machinery’s Special

Interest Group on

Knowledge Discovery

and Data Mining.

DeBorAh SlAner

lArkin M.B.A. ’81

was presented with

a 2012 Women of

Distinction honor

sponsored by the New

York State Senate. She

is executive direc-

tor of USTA Serves

Inc., the national

charitable foundation

of the United States

Tennis Association.

Throughout her career

Larkin has focused on

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➤ Five Terps were honored by The Washington Business Journal as “2012 Women Who Mean

Business,” honoring the region’s most influential businesswomen:

CAthy DelCoCo ’82, executive

vice president of CBRE’s Global

Corporate Services GroupJAtriCe MArtel GAiter ’74, execu-

tive vice president of external

affairs of Volunteers of America

BArBArA MArtin ’94, principal at

BrandLinkDC Communications

roBin PortMAn ’80, senior vice presi-

dent at Booz Allen Hamilton Inc.

Julie roSenthAl ’88, president of

JR Communications.

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Jonathan Mark Mirsky ’92 of Oakland, Calif., died Dec. 17, according to The Alameda Sun. He worked in the contracts and grants accounting depart-ment at the University of California, Berkeley. He is survived by his wife, Liz Baqir Mirsky; parents Susan and Barry Mirsky; siblings Ira and Mim; and two nephews.

Allen R. Coale ’77, who worked for more than four decades for the old C&P Telephone Co., died Nov. 24, according to The Washington Post. He lived in Silver Spring, Md., and was 95. He was a World War II Army Air Forces veteran and retired from the Air Force Reserve at the rank of lieutenant colonel in 1977. He installed phones for C&P before World War II and retired in 1982 as a supervisor in the company’s securities fraud divi-sion. He earned his degree at Maryland at age 61. He was predeceased by his first wife, Louella Mead Coale, who died in 1992 after 50 years of marriage, and his second wife, Dorothea D’Iorio Coale, who died in 2003. His third wife, Zandra Sperling Coale, died in 2010 after a two-year marriage. A daughter from his first marriage, Margaret Marsh, died in 2004. Survivors include two children, Helen Coale and Charles Howard Coale; seven grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren. 

Belinda G. Galbreath ’75, a retired Baltimore County librarian, died Oct.

14 of complications from diabetes, according to The Baltimore Sun. She was 59. She began her career at the Perry Hall branch, where she was an accomplished storyteller, then was a staff librarian at the Parkville and White Marsh branches. She retired in 2009. Galbreath is survived by her mother, Thelma R. Galbreath; two siblings, Brian R. Galbreath and Marlene G. Herculson; three nephews; and a niece.

Christine Cross Pearcy ’75, who retired from the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in 1981 as a statistician, died Sept. 23, according to The Washington Post. She was 93 and had lived in Kensington, Md. She worked for the federal government for 26 years and previously for the Army in the Washington area and in New Jersey. Survivors include her husband of 67 years, Klyne F. Pearcy; and two sons, Michael K. Pearcy and Stephan F. Pearcy.

Esther Everitt Dombrowski M.L.S. ’72, a retired Bel Air High School librarian, died of pneumonia Oct. 8. She was 81 and lived in Bel Air, according to The Baltimore Sun. She was a 1948 gradu-ate of Bel Air High, where she worked for 31 years after earning a bachelor’s degree at Millersville State College. She met her husband of 52 years, band director Raymond Dombrowski there. He died in 2008. In addition to her sister, Ann Weaver, survivors include five nephews.

promoting civil rights,

women’s leadership and

gender equity.

’70s

BArry MAx levy ’77

was inaugurated as the 2012-13 president of the american Society of Pension Professionals & actuaries. He is president and pension consultant at levy & associates in Fort lauderdale, Fla., and has been recognized in federal and state courts as an expert in the area of qualified retirement plans.

’60s

JoyCe BortniCk ’67

has written her debut

novel “That’s What You

Think,” which captures

both a mother’s

struggles to cope with

old age and a daugh-

ter’s devotion. Bortnick

is married, has two

children and four grand-

children and divides her

time between Florida

and Maryland.

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Thomas Moran ’71, a longtime employee of Fairchild Publications, died at age 64 Jan. 6, according to Women’s Wear Daily. He received an M.S. from the Columbia University School of Journalism and was hired at Fairchild in 1975. In 1977, he was integrally involved in the magazine’s Pulitzer Prize-nominated 10-part series on the Mafia’s billion-dollar involve-ment in Seventh Avenue. He then became managing editor of Fairchild News Service, overseeing 50 corre-spondents worldwide. He later became a group executive editor for Fairchild, helped develop the men’s magazine M and then became a senior editor at W. He wrote five books and became a Tennessee Williams fellow, professor of creative writing and writer-in-residence at Sewanee University. Moran, who lived in Woodstock, N.Y., is survived by his wife, Annemarie Kammerlander; a son, Harry; and a daughter, Altynai.

Charles E. Castle Jr. ’70, who built the College Park-based Ace Fire Extinguisher Service into one of the nation’s largest fire extinguisher sales and service companies, died Nov. 5 after a stroke, according to The Washington Post. He was 73 and a Rockville, Md., resident. He was a member of the Terrapin Club, a Scottish Rite Mason and past president of the Mount Rainier-Brentwood chap-ter of the Lions Club. Survivors include his wife of 47 years, Elaine Pratesi Castle; three sons, Charles “Chuck” Castle III, Patrick Castle, and Daniel Castle of Washington; a sister, Noel Oliff; and six grandchildren.

Mike Auldridge ’67, one of the most distinctive dobro players in the history of country and bluegrass music, died Dec. 29 of prostate cancer, according to The Washington Post. He was 73 and lived in Silver Spring, Md. Auldridge studied guitar and banjo as a boy and picked up the dobro at 17. He appeared in clubs in the Washington area in the 1960s and joined the band Emerson and Waldron two years after graduating from Maryland. In 1971, he and several other musicians formed the Seldom Scene, whose weekly

performances at the Birchmere Music Hall in Alexandria, Va., enhanced the capital area’s reputation as a haven for progressive bluegrass music. Auldridge also recorded solo albums and played with several other bands, including Chesapeake and the Good Deale

Bluegrass Band. In 2012 the National Endowment for the Arts awarded him a National Heritage Fellowship. He is survived by his wife of 51 years, Elise; two daughters, Michele Auldridge and Laura Auldridge; two brothers, Tommy and Gene; and a granddaughter.

Vera Welch Hall ’62, M.L.S. ’72, a retired Baltimore City public school teacher and librarian, died of heart disease Oct. 6. The West Baltimore resident was 86, according to The Baltimore Sun. After graduating from Coppin State Teacher’s College in 1947, she began teaching at an elementary school near today’s Harbor East and was later assigned to the Alexander Hamilton School and Franklin Square Elementary School. When graduate schools in Maryland were closed to African-American students, Hall took a 5 a.m. Saturday train to Philadelphia to earn a master’s degree in education from the University of Pennsylvania. She is survived by a daughter, Patrice A. Hall; and several nephews. Her 1950 marriage to Calvin Hill, a city schools shop teacher, ended in divorce.

David M. Cohn M.B.A. ’61, co-founder and chief executive officer of Sage Financial Group in Montgomery County, died Oct. 8, according to The Philadelphia Inquirer. He was 77. Cohn earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Drexel University. He was senior executive vice president at Decision Sciences Corp., an inter-national management-consulting firm. He formed Sage Financial, a wealth-management firm, with sons Stephen and Alan in 1989, then Sage Online, an Internet-based investment-research firm, in 1995. In addition to his wife of 50 years, Harriet, and sons, Cohn is survived by seven grandchildren.

Mark H. Haller M.A. ’54, a professor emeritus at Temple University who was an expert on the history of organized crime, died Sept. 22 of pneumonia at Brooke Grove, a retirement community in Sandy Spring, Md., according to The Philadelphia Inquirer. He was 83. Haller joined Temple’s faculty in 1968 and helped establish the history and crimi-nal justice departments. Haller wrote a book on the eugenics movement and

“Life Under Bruno: The Economics of an Organized Crime Family.”

Gustav “Gus” Baer ’50, a retired executive and certified public accountant who had a second career as a pianist, died Oct. 9 of a neurode-generative disorder, according to The Baltimore Sun. The longtime Baltimore County resident was 84. During his college years, he composed an opera that was performed on campus. Baer continued graduate studies at Catholic University and earned his C.P.A. certificate from the former Baltimore College of Commerce. He worked for Price Waterhouse and the John Davis accounting firms, the Army Chemical Center in Edgewood in 1962, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Office of Budget and Finance and the Small Business Administration, from which he retired in 1995. That year he began performing classics from the Great American Songbook—from memory—at the Nordstrom department stores in Towson and Columbia. Baer also played a

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Thomas G. Alexander ’46, who retired in 1989 from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as a supervisory analytical pharmaceutical chemist, died Oct. 28 of congestive heart failure and respiratory failure, according to The Washington Post. He was 84 and lived in Silver Spring. He joined the FDA after working as an Army chemist at Fort Detrick, Md., during the Korean War. He received a master’s degree in chemistry from George Washington University in 1957. As an adult, Alexander was active in the Boy Scouts, receiving its Silver Beaver Award, and also received the Oxon Hill Lions Club’s distinguished service award. He remained a community volunteer despite suffering a stroke 18 years ago. He was predeceased by his first wife, the former Eleanor Harkness, and a step-son, Daniel Hoey. Survivors include his wife of 21 years, Amy Hoey Alexander; children Lyle Alexander, Helen Nelson and Carol Fredericks; stepchildren Cecelia Tillman, Catherine Yanacek, and Michael Hoey; sisters Alice King and Martha Alexander; 17 grandchil-dren; and three great-grandchildren.

Alice Louise Stribling Williams ’42 died at her Washington, D.C., home on Sept. 5. She was 92. Williams enlisted in the Army during World War II and served in the Women’s Auxiliary Corps in Australia and the Philippines. After her military service, she worked at the Philippine War Damage Commission in Manila. While living there, she met her future husband, Roger Nelson Williams. She raised her family in the Marianas Islands, the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore and France. She returned to the United States in 1971 and settled in Weston, Conn., living there until 2010. Williams was an active member of her college sorority, Kappa Kappa Gamma, for 70 years. She also helped establish and support a chapter at Yale University.

Williams was preceded in death by her former husband. She is survived by her children, Ann Williams, Catherine Williams and James Williams; sister Elizabeth White; four grandchildren; and one niece.

Oden Bowie ’37, a longtime Prince George’s County farmer who served as secretary of the Maryland Senate, died Oct. 23 following complications from a fall, according to The Washington Post. He was 97 and lived his entire life on his family’s ancestral estate, Fairview, near Bowie. His grandfather, also named Oden Bowie, was Maryland’s governor from 1869 to 1872. The younger Bowie was a letterman on Maryland’s national champion lacrosse teams of 1936 and 1937. He raised cattle and grew tobacco, sod and other crops on his farm. For more than 20 years, he also raised thoroughbred racehorses. He served as secretary of the Senate from 1969 to 1997. His wife of 42 years, Laura Brainerd Bowie, died in 1988. Survivors include daughters Ambler Bowie Slabe and Maude Bowie; and two grandsons.

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It takes a broad and impassioned base of support to raise a world-class research university to new heights of excellence.

It takes nearly 130,000 people—like you—willing to create the scholarships, endow the faculty chairs, build the advanced facilities and support the innovative ideas that propel the University of Maryland on its upward trajectory.

I express my heartfelt gratitude to each of you who helped us meet our Great Expectations.You have committed to us. Here is my commitment to you:

We will relentlessly pursue excellence in education, research and public service for the betterment of our state, our nation and the world.

We will ensure that talent finds its muse. Financial aid enables outstanding students to afford a University of Maryland education. Faculty support ensures that we attract and keep the best educators and scholars.

We will incorporate advanced technologies in our classrooms, labs and arts studios because that is the future of learning and teaching in our digitized and globalized world.

We will make innovation and entrepreneurship a signature feature of the University of Maryland, where students and faculty translate ideas into impact—economic and/or societal impact.

We will do all these things and more because we are blessed with strong public and private support. Our future as a top 20 public research univer-sity depends on the support of both.

We are grateful to our state’s elected officials for protecting funding for higher educa-tion. They have kept it affordable for Maryland residents at a time when many other states are slashing education budgets. And we are grateful to all of you who made Great Expectations possible, because private support provides the margin of excellence.

Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine recently recognized the power of this combination. Its new annual ranking places us at No. 5 in the nation among public institutions for “best value,” a measure based on quality and affordability.

When my predecessor, Dan Mote, and Brodie Remington, former vice president for University Relations, launched Great Expectations seven years ago, they knew that your generosity would make a dramatic impact on the University of Maryland. On behalf of all of us, I thank them for their extraordinary vision and leadership. And I thank our amazing team in University Relations for bringing this campaign to a successful close.

Ultimately, you are the ones who answered the call. You stepped forward to help make possible the successes of the University of Maryland. With your continuing support, I can promise you that we will always pursue—fearlessly—new ideas and inno-vations that exceed our greatest expectations.

—Wallace D. Loh, President

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Some gave $5. A few gave $5 million. In all, nearly 130,000 generous people everywhere opened their wallets. They raised an unprecedented $1 billion through Great Expectations, The Campaign for Maryland. Thanks to that support, the University of Maryland has provided new scholarships and amazing beyond-the-classroom experiences, hired fabulous faculty, built new facilities and supported innovation.

And we’re just getting started. More than ever, we encourage entrepreneurship and creativity. We embrace hunches, theories and hypotheses. Nurture them. Test them. Break them down and make them better. And then get them out there to change the world.

Fearless ideas? We’ve got a billion of ’em.

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