University Of Maryland

Walter V. Hohenstein, a University of Maryland administrator whose academic career took him overseas before he returned to a top post at College Park, died of cancer Wednesday at his University Park home. He was 72. For 16 years before his retirement in 1988, Mr. Hohenstein served as director of articulation for the University of Maryland's central administration, coordinating transfers and other activities among five university campuses and 17 community colleges. Mr. Hohenstein handled negotiations between professors at various schools, ensuring that students could receive credit for completed courses when they transferred from a junior college to a university.

Linnea Pagulayan of Westminster has been named to the dean's list at the University of Maryland, College Park for the fall 1998 semester.To be eligible for the list, students must attain a 3.5 grade point average or higher.She is a student in the college of behavioral and social sciences.Pagulayan is a 1997 graduate of Westminster High School.PoliceWestminster: An employee at Lee Weller Auto Sales on Tuc Road told police Sunday that a salt thrower was stolen from the rear of his truck while it was parked at the rear of the business.

Edith Joan Hunt, a professor at the University of Maryland, College Park, died Wednesday of chronic myelomonocytic leukemia at Johns Hopkins Hospital. The Towson resident was 70. A lifelong educator, she taught in the Department of Human Development and Institute for Child Study at the University of Maryland for nearly three decades until her retirement in 1992. Family and school conflict resolution were among her specialties. Born in Pomona, Calif., she graduated from the University of Redlands in 1954 and earned a master's degree from Claremont Graduate University in 1963.

The University of Maryland Board of Regents voted yesterday to lift its four-year ban on investing in companies operating in South Africa. The unanimous vote quietly extinguished in Maryland an issue that once seared American campuses.The vote, taken at a session at Towson State University, follows a national trend setting aside such restrictions after South Africa dismantled its white authoritarian government last spring.The Johns Hopkins University and the city of Baltimore, for example, dropped similar policies earlier this year.

Stem cell research pioneer Dr. Curt I. Civin has been named to lead the new Center for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. The move ends Civin's 30-year career at the Johns Hopkins University's medical school. He takes with him 15 of his postdoctoral fellows and $21.5 million in research funding. Civin's work at Hopkins led in 1984 to the discovery of a key technology for isolating stem cells from other blood cells, critical for study and transplantation into patients.

Dr. George Herschel Yeager, a vascular surgeon and administrator who "fixed bodies as well as hospitals," died of complications from a stroke Sunday at the University of Maryland Medical Center. He was 92 and lived in Catonsville.Dr. Yeager's association with the University of Maryland began in medical school in 1927 and ended in 1973, when he retired as a professor of clinical surgery."He was a giant and one of the great figures of the University of Maryland School of Medicine," Dr. Joseph McLaughlin, a professor of surgery at UM's medical school, said yesterday.

Marshall L. Rennels, a retired University of Maryland medical school research scientist and professor, died of cancer yesterday at his home in Elkridge. He was 65. Dr. Rennels, who devoted most of his career to the study of the brain, showed through his groundbreaking research how the body used the pulsation of arteries to force spinal fluid through brain tissue. He served as acting chairman of the university's anatomy department and as director of the medical and doctorate programs until his retirement in 2002.

Adrian, Odenton: Are there any plans to expand the stadium capacity at Byrd Stadium? Yes, a $95 million expansion is planned, but that can't happen until the naming rights for the field are sold. When I last spoke with AD Debbie Yow about it, she said the university was still in the process of finding and interviewing bidders. The plan includes 10,000 seats and luxury boxes. Mike G., Miami, Fl.: With the great recruiting classes of the last few years, do you think the Terps will contend for the ACC football title in 2006?