For Immediate Release
May 14, 2007
Contacts: Neil Tickner, 301 405 4622 or ntickner@umd.edu
UM Grads' Exotic Experiences and Research
University of Maryland graduates have some exotic and remarkable stories to tell about themselves and their work. Here are profiles of some students who will graduate from the University of Maryland on May 20. Click below to read each full profile.
Student Who Survived Rwanda Genocide Graduates with Engineering Degree
A Rwandan-born Maryland senior is the only member of his immediate family to survive the 1994 genocide. On May 20, he will graduate with a degree in civil engineering.  Dancing with Giant Pandas
Animal science major's research took him into the arms of pandas, not in a nearby zoo, but right to the creatures' native China. Working near the Tibet border, he became a valuable member of the Chinese team studying the reproductive behavior and sperm quality of male pandas.
Working with China's Poorest Children
For years, University of Maryland graduating senior Jennifer Miller has pursued a calling that led her to some of China's poorest children. She spent several months working with some of the most challenged orphans -- street children in a small Chinese city.
UM Graduates May Have the Next YouTube
Two University of Maryland graduate students and a recent alum hope their new website, may be the next YouTube. On "doFlick" you'll find short videos showing how to do things -- from operating lab equipment to making guacamole.
Tragedy and Triumph
For Tracee Johnson, college brought challenges she had could never have imagined when she left Syracuse to begin her landscape architecture studies at the University of Maryland. The challenges tested her indomitable spirit, and her spirit won.
PhD Student Researches Clues to Hawaiian Bird Devastation
On his journey to a research area in the South Pacific, Jon Beadell went armed with the tools of 21st century field research, but the trip was more like something out of an old Humphrey Bogart film.
Fighting Climate Change Economically
Thanks to a scholarship endowed, in part, by U.S. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, Maryland graduate student Haewon Chon is using economic research to help test out alternative technologies.
To interview the students, contact Neil Tickner, 301-405-4622; ntickner@umd.edu.
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