Header image Great Expectations  
October 23, 2008

 

 

PEOPLE & PROGRAMS: STUDENTS

Students will highlight their accomplishments in engineering, the environment, the arts, athletics and other fields. Some of the programs they will share include Alternative Spring Break, and community service, the Language House, Robotics@Maryland, and Terps Racing.

Archaeology in Annapolis
Mark Leone, Professor and Director
John Blair, Student
Stephanie Duensin, Student

CIVICUS Living and Learning Program
Sue Briggs, Director

College Park Scholars
Thomas R. Holtz, Jr., Geology, Vertebrate Paleontologist and Faculty Director of College Park Scholars Earth, Life and Time Program, and the author of Dinosaurs: The Most Complete Up-to-Date Encyclopedia for Dinosaur Lovers of All Ages. See and touch dinosaur fossils!

Engineers Without Borders
Deborah J. Goodings, Chapter Advisor
Phil Hannam, Student President

4-H
Robbie Miller
Benjamin Brown
Jenn Hill
Kim Menendez
Colleen Nieman
Charlotte Sanford-Crane
Katherine Robinson
Amanda Brown Clougherty
Megan Baker

Gemstone, multidisciplinary four year research program for selected undergraduate honors students of all majors.
James Wallace, Professor and Director, and Teams of Students

Graduate School Charles Caramello, Associate Provost and Dean, and Graduate Students

The Hillman Entrepreneurs Program
Karen Thornton, Director
and Hillman Students

Hinman CEO (Campus Entrepreneurship Opportunities) Program
Karen Thornton, Director and Hinman CEO Students

Language House Phoenix Liu, Language House Immersion Program Director and Students
Philip Merrill College of Journalism
Lee Thornton, Professor and Interim Dean and student award winners

Maryland Incentive Awards Program
Jackie Lee, Director
Charlene Cooper, Assistant Director and Incentive Students

Meet Murray Valenstein, who with his wife Sue, have committed an endowment for the Suzanne G. and Murray A. Valenstein Baltimore Incentive Awards Program.

Robotics@ Maryland
David Akin, Associate Professor and Space Systems Laboratory Director
Gilmer Blankenship, Professor and Associate Chair, Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Nuno Miguel Martins, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Leo Singer, Junior, Physics major, President, Robotics@Maryland

Evan Ulrich, Research Graduate Assistant, Dept. of Aerospace Engineering, will demonstrate the maple seed flying vehicles (micro air vehicles)!

Student Achievement
Mock Trial Team, 2008 National Champions
Amir Sadeghy and Mark Graber, Coaches

Maryland Academic Quiz Team

Student Affairs Division will highlight:
Alternative Spring Break
America Reads/America Counts
Arts in the Union
Garden of Reflection and Remembrance
Student Crisis Fund
Veterans Initiative
Study Abroad
Michael Ulrich, Director

Michael Olmert, Emmy award winner professor of English, will discuss his annual Study Abroad trips to England

Terps Racing
Meet the students and see the car that won the 2008 Formula SAE West competition.
Greg Schultz, Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Brian Baker, 2009 Team Manager

Women in Engineering
(7:00—8:00 PM)
Paige Smith, Director
Meet Dr. Marilyn Berman Pollans, former Associate Dean of the Clark School of Engineering. Her gift helped the Women in Engineering Program establish a living-learning program to attract and retain more female engineering students.
 

 



DISCOVER STUDENTS

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Hinman CEO Program
The nation's first living-learning entrepreneurship program.
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Mark Leone
Professor and Director
Archaeology in Annapolis
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