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June 7: Colonnade at the Zoo June 4: National Volunteer Council Meeting Jun 18: New York Regional Alumni Event |
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Donors Respond to Keep Me Maryland The Board of Trustees of the University of Maryland College Park Foundation led the way, and alumni and friends from around the world joined them in answering the call of students to “Keep me Maryland.” More than $140,000 in donations large and small have been raised in the first two and a half months of this effort to focus attention on students’ urgent need for financial aid assistance. The response helped push the Great Expectations campaign total to $616,269,192 as of May 15. Read more >>   Helping Students Reach for the Stars
With the economy in a tailspin earlier this year, longtime WTTG–TV reporter Karen Gray Houston was distressed to learn that a scholarship honoring her late husband, Maryland journalism alumnus K. Christopher Houston ’85, would not generate enough spendable income to distribute an award for 2009. Read more >>
At the Celebration of Scholarships they greeted each other with the warm embrace of reunited family. With a beaming smile, sophomore Kristen Noto says her scholarship benefactors, Guy '69, MBA '73 and Sharon '69, M.S. '73 Wiebking of Chicago have become like second parents to her. It’s a relationship that none of them foresaw. Read more >> View Photo Gallery >>
Josh Lacey remembers the intimidation he felt last fall entering the Robert H. Smith School of Business, one of the nation’s top-ranked business schools and home to 2,500 undergraduates. But an orientation for the Freshman Fellows program, a learning community designed specifically for incoming business students, helped Lacey connect with the school and the people who are his classmates and teachers for the next three years. Read more >>
Ryan Dearborn ’90 believes that you appreciate something more when you’ve worked for it. So while he’d like his new scholarship fund to grow, it will never pay a student’s full ride to Maryland. “I think working part-time is important,” he says. The first recipient of the Ryan L. Dearborn Scholarship, Myeshia Workeman, understands and appreciates her benefactor’s thinking. Read more >> Building First-Class Campus Environments
In 1974 teenaged Rick Jaklitsch ’80 knew that the football game pitting Maryland against Bear Bryant’s Alabama was sold out when he made the trek to campus from Lutherville, Md. He found himself instead watching the historic matchup from the seventh floor of nearby Hagerstown Hall. This fall Jaklitsch is assured a better view. He is among the first to lay claim to prime seating in one of the new luxury suites set to open in the renovated Tyser Tower at Chevy Chase Bank Field at Byrd Stadium. Read more >> Creating Innovations to Change the World
A new fellowship program in the A. James Clark School of Engineering is giving two doctoral engineering students the power to research alternative energy solutions. The John Hendricks Energy Research Fellows program was established last fall as part of a $450,000 gift from the John and Maureen Hendricks Charitable Foundation to the University of Maryland Energy Research Center, or UMERC, which promotes collaborative energy research across the university. Read more >> |
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