2 Big Picture Veterans Center opens; WaterShed preparations; Gary Williams retires; and more 6 Terp online Philanthropy follow-up; Loh inauguration photo album; and more 7 Ask Anne Red and White Game review; faux Terps on film; and more 8 Class Act Businesswoman designs new career; nonprofit’s good taste; and more 12 m-file Tracking biodiversity; battlefield’s leadership lessons; building a better sneaker; and more 16 Play-by-play Edsall’s playbook 17 SpotlIght Voices of American history 18 Maryland Live Fireworks on the Fourth; youth orchestra festival; and more 32 In the Loop Entrepreneurship center; Colonnade’s 20th; and more 36 Interpretations Four-part vision
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cataloging grief
UMD interns at the National Park Service archive mementos left at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, part of a larger effort to tell the stories of the fallen. by lauren brown
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THINK. MOVE. LIVE.
A Maryland researcher is building a computer interface that connects human thought with robotic prosthetic limbs, offering new hope to amputees and victims of stroke. By Tom Ventsias
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LEARNing TO GIVE
A new program offers students a unique way to study philanthropy: They have one semester to decide how to give away $20,000. By priya kumar ’09
photo by john T. Consoli; Illustrations by Brian G. Payne and Patti look
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