CAHSS
Faculty, Staff, Student, Alumni, and Program
HIGHLIGHTS
SUMMER - FALL 2012
Bruce Walz, Professor of Emergency Health Services, received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Association of Emergency Medical Services Educators in August.
A short film titled
"Threshold," by Maurice Berger, Research Professor at
the Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture (CADVC), was screened at
the 2012 Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New
York as part of "BLEED," a five-day residency of the artists
Alicia Hall Moran and Jason Moran.
Guenet Abraham,
Associate Professor of Visual Arts, received an Award for Excellence in
two categories from the University and College Designers Association's
42nd Annual UCDA Design Competition in September for her design of Visual
Culture and Evolution, published by UMBC's Center for Art, Design,
and Visual Culture in 2012.
Robert R. Provine's
book Curious Behavior: Yawning, Laughing, Hiccupping, and Beyond,
was published in August by Harvard University Press, followed by numerous
reviews, including one in The New York Times on August 13 and The
Wall Street Journal on August 24, 2012.
Eric Dyer,
Associate Professor of Visual Arts, was awarded a 2012 John Simon Guggenheim
Memorial Foundation Fellowship, one of the most prestigious awards for
faculty in the arts and humanities.
John Sturgeon,
Professor of Visual Arts, received a Fulbright US Scholar Award to conduct
research at the University of the Arts London in the Fall 2012 semester.
This is Professor Sturgeon's second Fulbright Scholar Award.
Several recent CAHSS
alumni received 2012-13 Fulbright Awards: David Anguish '12, Political
Science, to do research in Mexico; Vivian Ekey '11, Political Science
& Modern Languages, Linguistics, and Intercultural Communication,
to conduct research in Brazil; Achsah Joseph '12, Media and Communication
Studies & Interdisciplinary Studies, to teach English in Malaysia;
and Elena Mawyer '12, Modern Languages, Linguistics, and Intercultural
Communication to teach English in Spain.
Dawn Biehler,
Assistant Professor of Geography and Environmental Systems, is part of
a research group awarded a $1.4 million grant from the National Science
Foundation to work with communities in Baltimore to examine the relationships
among changing social and environmental dynamics, mosquitoes, and disease.
Eric Zeemering,
Assistant Professor of Public Policy, received the 2012 Clarence Stone
Young Scholar Award, as well as the Norton Long Developing Scholar Award,
both from the Urban Section of the American Political Science Association
in recognition of his scholarship, teaching, and public service in the
areas of public management, intergovernmental relations, and urban policy.
Roy Meyers,
Professor of Political Science, received the Frieder Naschold Award for
Excellence in Scholarship in the Field of Public Management for best paper,
presented at the 2012 International Public Management Network (IPMN) Conference
in Hawaii. The honor will be formally awarded at the 2013 IPMN Conference
in Siena, Italy.
Lynn Cazabon, Associate Professor of Visual Arts, was named the first Artist-in-Residence in the Baltimore Ecosystem Study (BES) Long-Term Ecological Research Program. The residency will culminate in an exhibition of her work at the BES Annual Meeting in October, 2012.
Maurice Berger, Research Professor at the Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture (CADVC), has been commissioned by The New York Times to author "Race Stories," a regular column for the newspaper's blog "Lens." Berger's first piece, "A Radically Prosaic Approach to Civil Rights Images," ran on July 16, and his second, "Malcolm X as Visual Strategist," ran on September 19, 2012.