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- Welcome New Dean: Wendy Power
- ALEI and the Hughes Center Welcome to 2025 Brinsfield Interns, MPower UM Scholar, & UMB Public Interest Law Intern
- ALEI and UMES Extension Caps Statewide Heirs’ Property Education Series with Free Webinar
- Megan Todd and Nicole Cook Teamed Up with Future Harvest for Free Webinars on Online Sales and Marketing for Farms
- Goeringer Elected to the International Farm Transition Network Board
- Undergraduate Contributions to the Maryland Agrivoltaic Project
- Elizabeth Thilmany’s Upcoming Farewell
Welcome New Dean: Wendy Power
The University of Maryland named Wendy Powers as dean of the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, effective July 1. As dean, Powers will build on the college’s more than 150-year history to promote a culture of impactful scholarship and student success, advancing opportunities for interdisciplinary research and educational partnerships that support the university’s land-grant mission.
ALEI and the Hughes Center Welcome to 2025 Brinsfield Interns, MPower UM Scholar, & UMB Public Interest Law Intern
Together with the Harry R. Hughes Center for Agro-Ecology, ALEI is pleased to welcome four interns for the upcoming Russell Brinsfield Internship Program. Founded in 2017, the Brinsfield Internship Program engages law students from the Francis King Carey School of Law at the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) and the University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP).
ALEI and UMES Extension Caps Statewide Heirs’ Property Education Series with Free Webinar
Nicole Cook, Samantha Capaldo, and their colleagues from University of Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES) Extension wrapped up a year of in-person workshops across Maryland with a free webinar series on June 5th, June 12th, and June 19th. The series provided essential education about heirs’ property—land passed down informally within families, often without a will or legal documentation, resulting in shared ownership among multiple descendants.
Megan Todd and Nicole Cook Teamed Up with Future Harvest for Free Webinars on Online Sales and Marketing for Farms
Megan Todd and Nicole Cook, in collaboration with Future Harvest, presented a free, two-part webinar series on May 27th and June 3rd to provide Maryland farms with a comprehensive overview of the legal considerations for direct online sales and marketing. The webinars aimed to help farms—particularly small and beginning operations—understand the complex legal landscape of e-commerce and online marketing.
Goeringer Elected to the International Farm Transition Network Board
Farm succession education was a reluctant area that Paul got involved with when he started with UMD back in 2012. “I started before ALEI existed, and one of the first things that I was asked to do was assist with outreach efforts by UME and my department related to estate planning. I felt like the initial presentations I did were boring because I was asked to focus on wills and trusts to assist ag operations in the state in estate planning,” said Paul Goeringer, Principal Faculty Specialist and Extension Specialist in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics and with ALEI.
Undergraduate Contributions to the Maryland Agrivoltaic Project
Since February 2025, two University of Maryland – College Park undergraduates, Stella Kahric and Grace Herschberg, have been working with Paul Goeringer, Elizabeth Thilmany, Drew Schiavone, and other faculty on the Maryland Agrivoltaic Demonstration Project and are actively working on the project during the summer as well.
Undergraduate Contributions to the Maryland Agrivoltaic Project
After four years as a Faculty Specialist in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of Maryland, Elizabeth Thilmany will depart UMD and the Ag Law Education Initiative this August to begin a PhD in Applied Economics and Management (Food & Agriculture) at Cornell University this fall. She first joined ALEI as an undergraduate research assistant under Paul Goeringer, and since then has…
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Agriculture Law Education Initiative March 2025 Quarterly Update
