On February 1, over 150 alumni, family and friends were on hand to honor UMBC's Athletic Hall of Fame Class of 2003. Pictured holding their giftsfrom the UMBC Alumni Association are (left to right) David Bobb '97 (track and field), Jeff Berman '98 (baseball), Chris Cain '92 (lacrosse), Michael Meyer '95 (golf), Chad Cradock '97 (swimming), Jim Pfrogner, cross country and track and field coach, 1971-2000, Darius Taylor '91 (soccer), Director ofAthletics Charles Brown, and Amy Wolff '98 (softball).

The Major Indoor Soccer League announced that Blast rookie forward and UMBC alumnus P.J. Wakefield has been added to the MISL EasternConference All-Star Team. Wakefield is replacing Philadelphia's injured Joel Shanker and will join Blast teammates Denison Cabral and SeanBowers in Milwaukee for this weekend's MISL All-Star festivities. The All-Star Game will be played this Sunday, March 9 at the Bradley Center at 1:30 p.m. Central time.

"P.J. shows the poise and composure of a veteran,” said Head Coach Bobby McAvan. "This All-Star selection is a just reward for an incredible rookie.”

Baltimore's second leading scorer this season, Wakefield has 22 goals and nine assists for 55 points in 32 games. He recorded his first professionalhat trick on February 26th against the Philadelphia KiXX and has tallied points in 20 of the 32 games he's played in this season. The Blast selectedWakefield in the First Round of the 2002 Amateur Draft (14th overall) and he scored two goals in his Blast debut on October 5th against the ClevelandForce.

Wakefield played in every game in his four years at UMBC. He recorded the biggest goal of his collegiate career as a sophomore when he scored to give the Retrievers a 2-1 win over Mt. St. Mary's for the NEC Championship. As a youthplayer, his Soccer Club of Baltimore won six Maryland State Championships and one Region 1 Championship.

The 2003 All-Star Game will feature the East Team with players from the Baltimore Blast, Harrisburg Heat, Cleveland Force and Philadelphia KiXXtaking on the West Team with players from the Dallas Sidekicks, Milwaukee Wave, San Diego Sockers and Kansas City Comets.

By Joseph N. Tatarewicz, Associate Professor of History

When John Fritz asked me to give a talk in the TLT Brown Bag series, I thought about the book I've been re-reading while preparing to teach History of Science Since 1700 again. Historian Russell McCormach's Night Thoughts of a Classical Physicist is a masterful account of the pit-of-the-stomach anxiety felt by physicists at the turn of the century, when their most fundamental notions of space, time, matter, energy and causality were shape-shifting from classical physics to quantum mechanics and relativity theory.

"Night Sweats of a Geek Humanist Professor" seemed an appropriate theme for my Brown Bag talk, since our classical world of research, teaching and service is itself shape-shifting, from bricks-and-mortar classrooms and offices with face-to-face lecture and seminar, to other, more virtual forms. As a humanist who studies science and technology throughout history, and an unapologetic gadgeteer, I wanted to learn how my colleagues were faring in our own time full of promise and anxiety.

But, what I heard on NASA TV Saturday morning as I pondered these questions intruded. Houston told Columbia that they, too, saw the tire pressure readings blank out, and a voice from Columbia said, "Roger" -- and then a garbled word cut off, followed by silence, followed a few seconds later by clicking and static, like a microphone keying on-and-off. The trajectory plot on NASA TV stopped moving, 16 minutes to landing. I threw tapes into the VCRs, while that Groundhog Day for Historians feeling came over me.

Seventeen years ago, as a young curator at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum, I had been hip-deep in research, exhibits, and artifacts about space science, and what would become the Hubble Space Telescope. STS-51L was then off my radar screen, and I didn't even watch the launch, but was pulled out of a meeting to the NASA live feed to see multiple white streamers against a perfectly blue sky. Watching the remains of Challenger flutter down and splash into the ocean for hours, and then the remains of Columbia scattered over East Texas, I had that same, mournful, sickening feeling.

As historians we are trained to resist "going native," getting too chummy with our sources and losing the critical edge. I have had plenty critical to say about various parts of NASA at various times in history, and plenty to say that is deservedly lauditory. These times test our professionalism. Milt Heflin, chief of the flight directors, was in mission control for 12 horrific hours before he appeared at the first press conference Saturday. Choking back tears, Heflin sucked it up and gave the briefing -- all the facts he knew, right from his hand-written logbook, with grim professionalism, and honestly articulating his pain and his faith in the technology and the team.

In the early '90s I had been in Milt's little cubicle at the Johnson Space Center, interviewing him about the first Hubble Space Telescope Repair mission, for which he had been lead flight director. He talked just as honestly then about designing the mission, training, turf wars among NASA centers and even dealing with some members' distrust of anybody "badged headquarters." Gleaming and enthusiastic, he opened what seems to be a standard-issue "NASA Briefcase," festooned with stickers and pins from all the missions he'd worked, pulling out his Hubble logbooks and notes. Now Milt must lead all of Building 30, which includes several flight control rooms and even an entire school for flight directors, through very tough times.

Ted Foster, assistant dean of engineering, and I teach a regular segment of the Human Context of Science and Technology introductory course on the Challenger accident. As Ted, a career aerospace engineer and leader of research teams, and I have gone through the voluminous Challenger material, I am struck by how dedicated, thorough, and just plain smart the engineers, managers, and astronauts are. Every one of them could make much more money and enjoy infinitely better working conditions in industry (I was shocked the first time I gained entry to the inner sanctum-the astronaut "offices" at Houston-standard government issue grey desks, awful cubicle dividers, crammed in like sardines). They work in the space program because they have the fire and the faith. Of course, there has always been greed, corner-cutting, politics, and everything else associated with huge, expensive, programs. But, overwhelmingly, the bench and line workers are good, professional and dedicated.

Technological disasters happen, even when everybody does the best that they can with the resources available to them. No system can be known completely; no predictions of behavior or performance can be certain; it's always a game of odds in a climate of ambiguity. Shuttle Program Manager Ron Dittemore, his face grim with resolve while his eyes teared, could barely get the words out: "We missed something-I missed something-but I guarantee you we're going to fix it."

In the old, comfortable, classical Newtonian physics there were a few laws and, a whole lot of variables and complexity, but in principle one could predict with confidence. The better you knew the system, the better would be your predictions, even if you had to make do in the world of limited resources. What gave the classical physicist "night thoughts" was the new prospect that uncertainty and subjectivity were at the very heart of reality, and no Herculean calculation of whatever scope could ever beat that.

Physicists have had to learn to live with anxiety, and push on nonetheless. Rocket scientists have known this all along, but somewhere up the line of managers, politicians, and citizens that kind of honesty becomes program suicide. We need to face up. Like the popular CDW Commercials, featuring "Fred" the beleaguered IT Manager, say: "Dealing with Technology is hard."

Tatarewicz kicks off the spring TLT Brown Bag Series on Thursday, February 13 at noon in The Commons, room 318. The title of his talk is "Night Sweats of a Geek Humanist Professor: Liberal Arts, Technology and Labor." Read more about it in this month's Tech Watch.

The Student Involvement Center (SIC) is an oasis for students who want to give something back to the UMBC and Baltimore communities. A division of the Office of Student Life, SIC is the place to find a volunteer event such as the Oxfam Hunger Banquet or an ongoing community service program such as Best Buddies.

Now in its second year, SIC is already acting as a model for other universities. "A lot of schools are struggling with apathy," says Cally Rockwell, coordinator for student organizations and involvement. Rockwell says Texas A&M and other universities are looking at SIC's programs and then tailoring them to fit their own needs.

Despite the perception of college students as apathetic, Rockwell says she would describe most UMBC students as hesitant and shy. "Most students will come to a meeting, but want to do more," she says. "We have a lot of different areas that we cover in this office." By visiting the SIC, students get an idea of how many opportunities there are to make a difference at UMBC and in Baltimore.

SIC has a number of missions. The first is to help student organizations recruit and maintain members through events such as Involvement Fest. Held at the beginning of each semester, Involvement Fest gives students a chance to interact with people that head up campus groups.

Another SIC objective is to promote the volunteerism effort, including blood drives, campus clean-up days, and the annual Into the Streets, which sends students to a wide range of Baltimore organizations for a day of service. "We've expanded the community outreach programs with the addition of blood drives, the Oxfam Hunger Banquet and National Volunteer Week," says Rockwell. SIC staff has also created programs to help students develop leadership skills.

Students who get involved with SIC's programs find they get back as much as they give. As a freshman, English major Crissi Bailey began volunteering with Best Buddies, an organization that works one-on-one with people who have intellectual disabilities and is dedicated to integrating them into society. Now a sophomore, Bailey is an intern who handles the daily running of the program.

"I love the intimacy and flexibility and the fact that I know I am making a huge difference in someone's life," Bailey says. "It's a lot of work, but it is definitely worth every moment just to see the happiness it brings to the Best Buddies and the college volunteers."

Rockwell shares this willingness to change the lives of others. She is also dedicated to stemming the lack of interest and indifference that is prevalent on so many campuses across the country. "We want you to come in and speak with us," Rockwell says. "The first step is for students to get involved."

- Jennifer Leigh Gibson

On view at UMBC's Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery from January 30 through March 9, "Massin in Continuo: A Dictionary" is the first United States exhibition of the French graphic design artist Robert Massin (known simply as Massin). It explores the work of self-taught French designer Massin and his groundbreaking career. The exhibition is curated by Laetitia Wolff, founder of the New York-based marketing/design firm futureflair and editor-in-chief of Graphis magazine.

While Massin is relatively famous in France, his originality and influence in graphic design is not as well known in the United States. The exhibition will give American audiences the opportunity to explore his innovative work within the context of the developing graphic design industry in France.

A model of creativity, Massin transcended many long-established boundaries in the field of graphic design and works within multiple disciplines with elegance, humor and diversity. His career has been groundbreaking, spanning editorial graphics, poster and logo design, art direction, typography, photography, publishing, design education and writing.

Long before the idiosyncratic, broken type of Pentagram, Massin dared to play with letters, manipulating the alphabet, cutting titles, experimenting with forms, signs and fonts, and creating surprising three-dimensional limited-edition covers. He also created a popular series of creative book bindings.

Collaborating with playwright Eugene Ionesco and writer Raymond Queneau, Massin explored the realm of kinetic typography, making their texts come alive in what he calls "expressive typography." Massin has worked for Gallimard, publishing empire of the French literary intelligentsia, for over forty years. In Gallimard's 1964 edition of La Cantatrice chauve (The Bald Soprano) by Ionesco, Massin combined the pictorial directness of a comic book with the expressive letter forms of Futurist poetry to create a design masterpiece of "visualized literature."

The exhibition includes futureflair's documentary film on the artist. In addition, futureflair has produced a poster designed by Mirko Illic, sponsored by Scheufelen Paper and Arti Grafiche, which functions as a catalog and documents the life and work of Massin with a chronology and interpretative texts.

"Massin in Continuo" was first shown at the Cooper Union Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design and Typography. It is sponsored in part by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, New York; and Les Editions Gallimard, Paris, and its presentation at UMBC is supported in part by an Arts Program Grant from the Maryland State Arts Council, an agency funded by the State of Maryland and the National Endowment for the Arts; and the Friends of the Library & Gallery.

Admission to the Gallery is free. Hours: Monday, Tuesday and Friday, 12-4:30 p.m.; Thursday, 12-8 p.m.; and Saturday, 1 - 5 p.m. For more information call (410) 455-2270. Click here for a list of upcoming visual arts events.

Some people are born with a gift for creation. It lives inside them waiting for an opportune moment to burst forth for all to enjoy. Nineteen-year old junior Colin Holter is one of these people. A talented singer and composer, Holter is a music major who exudes enthusiasm about his years at UMBC. "I think that the musical climate at UMBC is really improving," he says.

Holter emanates a passion and a contentedness about the state of the music department. "It's a really good one that specializes to a great extent on new music," he says, adding, "There are a lot of talented students."

Holter says he also benefits from the way the music department is formatted. "We have four faculty composers so I can study under a different professor each year," he says, adding, "That's rare among schools this size." These composers have helped to guide his growth and development through intensive classes and working on compositions.

One of Holter's compositions was performed in The Commons twice last semester. Entitled Common Music for Public Spaces, the changes that occur in the music reflect the changes in the environment. Because the music and the environment change together, the piece of music is never played the same way. Holter explains, "It's in a constant state of revision."

Outside of the classroom and studio, Holter is a member of both the Task Force on the Arts and the Student Task Force for Arts and Humanities. "The Task Force currently is in the middle of preparing a report for the administration that expresses the school's position regarding the arts -- what it already has and what it needs." This differs somewhat from the Student Task Force, he says, adding, "The Student Task Force is more of a grassroots type of group that promotes arts to students on campus and promotes more student activities." Holter feels that UMBC's student newspaper played a key role in the attention that the arts are currently receiving on campus. "I have to credit The Retriever Weekly quite a bit -- I think that they are highly responsible for the attention the arts are getting now."

After graduating, Holter hopes to continue his training in a graduate program. "I want to get my Ph.D. in Composition," Holter says. He is considering programs at Rutgers, Stanford and the University of California, San Diego. But while looking toward the future, Holter is not rushing through the present and the time he has left at UMBC. "I really couldn't be happier," he says.

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- Jennifer Leigh Gibson

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UMBC Research Fellows 2003-2004
The UMBC Research Fellows Program, sponsored by the Office of the Provost, permits release time for one semester for faculty to devote full time to their scholarly work. The following faculty members served on this year's selection committee: Christoph Irmscher, Assistant Professor of English; Kriste Lindenmeyer, Associate Professor of History; Ed Orser, Professor of American Studies; Nancy Miller, Associate Professor of Policy Sciences; Alan Sherman, Associate Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering; Douglas Teti, Professor of Psychology; and Lynn Zimmerman, Professor of Biological Sciences.

Based on the Committee's recommendations, congratulations are extended to the three faculty members who have been named UMBC Research Fellows for the 2003-2004 academic year:

Carole McCann
"Birth Control, Eugenics, and the Foundations of Demography"

John Schumacher
"Process of Care: Elders in the Emergency Department (PROCEED)"

John Stolle-McAllister
"Transition from Below: Social Movements, Popular Culture and Political Change in Mexico"

Men's Swimming and Diving Captures its Sixth Consecutive ECAC Championship
The UMBC men's swimming and diving team captured its sixth consecutive ECAC Championships by defeating 29 other squads in Pittsburgh, PA this weekend. The Retrievers amassed 564 points, followed by Seton Hall (419.50), Marist (393) and Towson (352.50). Junior Brad Green (Philadelphia, PA) led UMBC as he won both the 50 (20.67) and 100 yard (45.36) freestyle events.

The UMBC women placed third, totaling 358.50 points, behind only champion New Hampshire (389) and Boston College (366). Junior Astrid Sperling (Halle, Germany) won both the 100 and 200 yard backstroke events, setting a school record of 57.00 in the 100 and an ECAC mark of 2:00.53 in the 200.

New Attendance Record for Men's Hoops
Despite a tough season on the court, the UMBC men's basketball team did set one very positive record this year. The Retrievers drew 17,170 fans in ten home games, an average of 1,717 per game, which is a new school record. The previous mark was an average of 1,681 during the 1998-99 campaign, when UMBC was 19-9. The 3,034 fans who turned out to see the Retrievers defeat Quinnipiac in the season finale on Saturday represented the fifth-largest crowd to see a game at the RAC Arena.

Brian Bradley Receives TEDCO Award
Brian Bradley, professor of biological sciences, received a $50,000 award from the Maryland Technology Development Corporation (TEDCO) to develop a kit that can be used in the field to distinguish seriously injured patients from less critically injured patients by identifying the signature proteins indicative of shock. Once these proteins are identified, antibodies would be made that would become part of the kit.

William Rosenberger Receives Book Award
Randomization in Clinical Trials: Theory and Practice, by Associate Professor of Mathematics and Statistics William Rosenberger, was awarded the Outstanding Professional and Scholarly Title, 2002, Mathematics and Statistics Division, by the Association of American Publishers.

Senior Kevin Allen's Paper Accepted in Symposium
Senior Kevin Allen's paper, "A Matrix-Free Conjugate Gradient Method for Cluster Computing" was accepted for presentation at the Sixth IMACS International Symposium on Iterative Methods in Scientific Computing at the University of Colorado at Denver in March 2003.

Freeman Hrabowski and Shlomo Carmi Speak at Deans Summit Conference
President Freeman Hrabowski and Dean of Engineering Shlomo Carmi were speakers at the January 2003 Deans Summit II: Fostering Campus Collaborations, a milestone event that brought together engineering and education deans and faculty to examine K-12 education in engineering, science, technology, and mathematics. President Hrabowski gave a keynote speech on "Campus Collaborations: Creating a Climate of Success." Dean Carmi presented "Building a Bridge to AP Engineering: A Collaboration of Engineering and Education at UMBC," based on a collaborative report with Assistant Dean of Engineering Ted Foster and Department of Education Chair Eugene Schaffer.

Accolades for CAVC Artist Fred Wilson
Fred Wilson, whose first-ever retrospective was presented by the Center for Art and Visual Culture (CAVC) in 2001, will represent the United States at this year's Venice Biennale. The CAVC exhibition, "Fred Wilson: Objects and Installations, 1979 - 2000," and accompanying catalog no doubt helped to raise the artist's profile with Bienniale decisionmakers.

CAVC Curator Maurice Berger says, "One major criterion for selection to the Biennale is a distinguished exhibition history. The retrospective -- for the first time -- comprehensively documented Fred's career. Since most of his installations are ephemeral, created as they are for the individual institutions they critique, they easily could have been lost to history. The retrospective recovered these objects by documenting them through words and images, and made them once again available to museum visitors and readers of the catalog. No doubt, as Fred reminded me, the State Department and other interested parties took a long, hard look at the catalog. I'm delighted it served as a surrogate advocate for the artist.

"Were it not for the Center for Art and Visual Culture, this exhibition would not have happened--at least not for a number of years," Berger adds. "The Center has led in this regard rather than followed. The UMBC community is amazing. I have never worked in such a generative and creative academic environment."

On February 19, the College Art Association (CAA), the national organization of artists, art historians, curators and critics, will present Fred Wilson with the Award for Distinguished Body of Work, Exhibition, Presentation, or Performance for his CAVC retrospective.

The Wilson retrospective is now on a national tour. Upcoming venues include the Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, University of California, Berkeley (January 22, 2003 - March 30, 2003); the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Houston, Texas (May 3, 2003 - July 27, 2003); the Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts (Fall 2003); the Santa Monica Museum of Art (December 5, 2003 - February 8, 2004); and the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (April 28, 2004 - July 4, 2004); and other locations to be determined.

Stefanie Thomas Named NEC Women's Indoor Track Rookie of the Week
Stefanie Thomas earns her first NEC Rookie of the Week accolade after running the league's top time in the 5,000 meters last weekend. She finished seventh among stiff competition at the Penn State Nation Open with a new school record time of 17:35.04.

Thomas' teammates also put in outstanding performances: Huguens Jean won the high jump with a leap of 6'11"; Ed Warner was the runner-up in the high jump (6'9"); The 4 x 800 relay team (Mike Caputi, Aaron Johnson, Izzy Mehmedovic, James Simms) qualified for the IC4A's with a time of 7:47.50; Chris Baumler set a new school record in the 1,000 meters (2:30.03); The 4 x 800 meter relay team (Ohita Asein, Cara Wetlaufer, Sherita Baker, Yasmin Fields) set a new school record with a time of 9:07.78; and Ohita Asein set a new school record in the 8000 meters with a time of 2:15.48.

Astrid Sperling Named NEC Swimmer of the Week for the Fourth Time This Season
Junior Astrid Sperling (Halle, Germany/Halle) continues to accumulate NEC Athlete of the Week awards, taking home her fourth of the season aftercapturing gold in five individual events, winning every IM and backstroke eventshe competed in at dual meets during the regular season.

Sperling recorded first place finishes in the 200 back (2:05.17) and the 200 IMwith a time of 2:09.27 versus Johns Hopkins. To close out the week, the juniorclaimed first place in the 100 back (59.07), 200 back (2:04.72), and 200 IM(2:10.85) at the Marist/Old Dominion meet. In addition, Sperling was a keycontributor in medley relay events over the past week.

Continuing to make her mark on the NEC, she holds the top spot in the league inthe 100 back (57.25), 200 back (2:00.87), and the 200 IM (2:06.12).

Ph.D. Student Sherece West Accepted Into Duke Fellowship Program
Policy sciences Ph.D. student Sherece West has been accepted into Duke University's Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy and the University of Cape Town's Emerging Leaders Fellowship Program. Duke's binational partnership with Cape Town recruits emerging leaders for special training and pairs Fellows with established leaders who serve as personal advisors. In April, West will travel to South Africa for the first fellowship retreat. For more information on the program visit www.pubpol.duke.edu/centers/clpv/index.html.

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President Hrabowski on NPR
President Freeman Hrabowski was a guest on National Public Radio's "Talk of the Nation March 4. The subject was Intellectualism on America's campuses.
www.npr.org/programs/totn/

Center for Art and Visual Culture Exhibition in Baltimore Sun
The Center for Art and Visual Culture's exhibition of work by Nayland Blake was reviewed in the Baltimore Sun March 6.
www.baltimoresun.com/features/lifestyle/bal-to.blake06mar06,0,2649276.story

Center for Art and Visual Culture Exhibition Reviewed in City Paper
"Some Kind of Love: Performance Video 1989-2002 by Nayland Blake," now on view at the Center for Art and Visual Culture, was reviewed in the February 19 City Paper.
www.citypaper.com/current/gallery.html

Tim Nohe on National Public Radio
Visual arts professor Tim Nohe's installation, "Occidio," currently on view at School 33 Art Center in Baltimore through March 7, will be featured in a broadcast of National Public Radio's "Living on Earth" this weekend. AnnaSolomon-Greenbaum produced the segment.

"Occidio" reinterprets NASA scientific visualizations documenting climate change on Earth through the interplay of video, sound and drawing. In this new work of environmental art visitors see and hear the sound of global warming.

In Baltimore the program airs on WYPR 88.1 FM, on Sunday from 2-3 p.m. In Washington, DC the program airs on WAMU 88.5FM, on Saturdays from 1-2 p.m. In New York the program airs on WNYC 820AM, on Saturdays, 6-7 a.m.

Other station listings are available online at www.loe.org.

For more information on "Occidio" please visit www.loe.org and www.research.umbc.edu/~nohe/OCCIDIO/.

UMBC Alumnus David Crandall on Marc Steiner Show
David Crandall, MFA Imaging and Digital Arts '99, was part of a panel that discussed Baltimore's growing reputation as a haven for a burgeoning and multifaceted arts community on WYPR FM's Marc Steiner Show on February 10.

Mikhel Kushner in the Baltimore Sun
Mikhel Kushner, director of UMBC's Women's Center, was featured in a February 8 Baltimore Sun story on the ACLU.
www.sunspot.net/bal-te.aclu08feb08.story

Scott Bass in the Boston Globe
An OpEd by Dean of the Graduate School and Vice Provost for Research Scott Bass appeared in the Boston Globe on February 1.
www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/032/editorials/US_technological_supremacy_is_in_danger+.shtml

Lou Cantori on Iraq
UMBC political science professor and Middle East expert Lou Cantori has been increasingly in the news this week during the build-up to a probable warwith Iraq.

Cantori was featured in the February 2 Baltimore Sun as part of aPerspective article by Michael Hill.
www.sunspot.net/news/opinion/perspective/bal-pe.invade02feb02,0,2737836.story?coll=bal%2Dperspective%2Dheadlines

On January 28, Cantori was interviewed by California NPR affiliate KPCC89.3 FM for the show "Air Talk" on the question of going to war with Iraq.
www.kpcc.org/play/audio.php?media=/news/shows/airtalk/2003/01/20030128_airtalk&start=00:55:04&end=001:49:02

On February 4, Cantori was interviewed along with U.S. Congressman BenCardin by WJZ-TV 13 News.

On February 5, Cantori spoke with Toronto, Canada radio station Newstalk1010 AM leading up to U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell's speech atthe United Nations.

George LaNoue in the Baltimore Sun
Policy Sciences Graduate Program Professor George LaNoue's views on race-neutral programs as an alternative to traditional affirmative action were featured in the February 2 Baltimore Sun Perspective section.
www.sunspot.net/news/opinion/perspective/bal-pe.affirmative02feb02,0,2190626.story?coll=bal%2Dperspective%2Dheadlines

Thomas Cronin in Science
Thomas Cronin, professor of biological sciences, was featured in the January 2003 issue of Science magazine. A vision ecologist, Cronin discusses avian iridescence and the light-sensing capabilities of moths and marine animals. The article documents some of the topics discussed by scientists at the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology symposium in Toronto. Cronin presented a talk entitled, "Polarization vision and its role in underwater signaling."