Baltimore, MD - Two UMBC web sites won gold medals in the 1999 awards program for District II (Mid-Atlantic region) of the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE).

UMBC took gold in the entire site category and tied with Cornell University for gold in the special purpose/publication category, based on myUMBC, a web portal for students, faculty and staff. The awards will be presented at the 2000 CASE District II conference in Baltimore, February 5-8. The sites will also be entered in the CASE national awards program, which will convene during the national assembly in Toronto next July.

Staff from UMBC's Office of Institutional Advancement, University Computing Services and Enrollment Services participated in these efforts. The complete list of winners includes the following:

Entire Site
Gold	University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Silver	University of Maryland Carnegie Mellon University
Student Recruitment
Gold	Carnegie Mellon University
Silver	University of Waterloo
Alumni Relations
Silver	Carleton University University of Maryland
Publications/Special Purpose
Gold	Cornell University ("Beautiful Birds") University of Maryland, Baltimore County (myUMBC)
Silver	University of Toronto ("Blue Book" of faculty experts)

For more information on UMBC's web site, visit www.umbc.edu/website.