By Mark Terranova, Associate Director, The Shriver Center

With another year at UMBC we welcome another outstanding group of students, faculty, and staff into our community. And as in past years, our community gathered at Convocation with a call to become engaged in our community.

For the third year in a row, over 50 UMBC students and staff began their first full weekend at UMBC not by heading down to the shore (I apologize - I grew up going to the Jersey shore - not "down the ocean"…), but waking up at dawn to clean a city park.

Since that first weekend, engagement activities are flourishing around campus. UMBC SERVES, an initiative of The Shriver Center, the Office or Residential Life and the Student Life Office, continues to successfully encourage hundreds of students to serve in volunteer, community service, and service-learning activities. Additionally, faculty continues to add service-learning components to courses and sponsor credit for internship opportunities. New and exciting research directly engages and serves the community.

UMBC and The Shriver Center are also participating in the American Democracy Project. This initiative aims to increase the number of undergraduate students who understand and are committed to engaging in meaningful civic actions.Designed to address decreasing rates of civic participation, the American Democracy Project focuses on increasing student involvement "in voting, in advocacy, in volunteerism in local grassroots associations, and in other forms of civic engagement that are necessary for the vitality of our democracy."

Engagement is becoming the culture at UMBC, and we invite all of you to participate in these exciting programs. Obviously, we have all had easier years; we are constantly doing more with less. However, the best way to transcend the challenges of today is to get outside of yourself and get involved helping someone else. So, whether you are new to UMBC or have been here since the start -- pick up a phone or e-mail any of these departments and become involved.

The Shriver Center: www.shrivercenter.org
The Student Life Office: www.sta.umbc.edu
The Office of Residential Life: www.umbc.edu/reslife
The American Democracy Project: www.aascu.org/programs/adp/default.htm

On September 15, Head Coach Don Zimmerman announced that Bobby Benson was named assistant men's lacrosse coach at UMBC.

The Baltimore native has been a standout on the lacrosse field, first for McDonough High School, and then for Johns Hopkins University. He earned Baltimore Metro Player of the Year honors as a senior at McDonough as he led the team to the MIAA "A" Conference title.

Benson proceeded to have a brilliant four-year career for the Blue Jays. He amassed 124 goals, currently sixth in school history, and is just the second player in the history of the Johns Hopkins program to lead the team in goal scoring in each of his four seasons. He capped his career by scoring 41 goals and adding 12 assists for a personal-best 53 points in the 2003 campaign. Eleven of Benson's 41 goals occurred in the post-season.

For his efforts, he earned Second Team All America honors, after being named Honorable Mention All America as a junior. Benson earned his degree in Economics, and was also a Second Team Verizon District II Academic All American last season.

Bobby's father, Rodney, earned four letters at UMBC from 1972-75, and his uncle, Jeff, earned a pair from 1974-75. Rodney amassed 125 goals, still the third-most in school history, and Jeff earned Second Team All America honors in 1975.

Benson becomes the third member of the Retriever coaching staff to have competed and earned All America status for the Blue Jays, joining Head Coach Don Zimmerman ('76) and Assistant Coach Brandon Testa ('01).

"We are very excited about the addition of Bobby Benson to the UMBC men's lacrosse staff," said Coach Zimmerman. "Coach Benson brings a truly current perspective of the game to our student-athletes, having just graduated from college. Bobby has demonstrated his ability to teach the finer points of the game in a manner by which today's players can relate. Most importantly, Coach Benson is a young man who will represent UMBC in a class manner."

By Jack Prostko, Director, Faculty Development Center

Having taught a course several times, faculty members often feel confident in waiting until just before a semester begins to review notes, update a syllabus, and check on books and materials. Yet curricular changes, budgetary demands, student interests, or restructured departmental offerings can alter the nature of the course one had planned on teaching. I once had a colleague ask advice on how to adjust her teaching strategies (and especially her requirement that students submit two ten-page papers) when her course enrollment jumped from twenty to well over 150 because the course had been identified as fulfilling a new general education requirement. It's not difficult to read 400 pages of students' work in a semester while offering useful and timely feedback. A three thousand-page stack of essays presents a challenge that few of us would willingly face.

One change this professor knew she had to make was to plan on lecturing more and leading discussion less (though she didn't cut out classroom discussion or classroom learning activities entirely). In addition, she knew she had to begin experimenting with new kinds of assignments that still allowed her to assess students' level of success in attaining her goals for the course.

According to Maryellen Weimer, effective evaluations of student performance are ones that "[1] are used in ways that enhance their already inherent potential to promote learning . . . [and 2] are opened to students in ways that give them opportunities to develop self- and peer assessment skills" (p. 125).* These are two parts of the same issue-to make students more conscious not only of what they learn but of how they learn (and how they can become better and more effective learners). To improve skills, then, students need to understand the goals of a course, practice the skills need to reach those goals in in-class and out-of-class exercises, and then be evaluated both on the content goals of the course and on how, and how well, they develop skills to attain content goals.

It's fairly common to hear colleagues lament the generally poor study skills students have acquired in high school. But even at the university, far too few courses explicitly address ways to develop learning skills (listening, note taking, reading, writing and thinking critically) while concentrating on disciplinary content. Even as juniors and seniors, student often still need more help in developing the discipline-specific skills that a major requires. Knowing how to read a journal article in biology requires specific learned skills, as does reading a 19th century account of travel through the United States, and ways of developing these skills need to be part of the classroom activities and assessment process.

Many kinds of learning evaluations can be done quickly in class and are usually called Classroom Assessment Techniques or CATs, and I'll discuss these in more detail as the semester progresses; (see www.psu.edu/celt/CATs.html for a quick introduction). These evaluation tools -- sometimes graded, sometimes not -- help us determine students' skills in such areas as synthesis of information, creative thinking, problem-solving, application of information, as well as their study strategies and behaviors. For example, asking student to document the thinking process they are going through in solving a problem (in words) can be prove to be more insightful to you and the student than just a representation of the problem on the page-as can be an analysis (again in words) of why students can't solve a problem, or solve it incorrectly. Or a process analysis of an assignment-essentially a diary of the steps students take to carry out an assignment, and their analysis of the methods they used-can help determine if students are improving on either basic or discipline-specific study techniques.

As for the colleague of mine, one of her paper assignments turned into a group project that was presented in supplemental class sessions and also briefly summarized in writing. She started giving a series of ungraded quizzes and also brief assignments requiring students to perform small parts of more complicated sorts of tasks; and these brief assignments (while staying brief) became more and more complex over time. She gave many short assignments rather than waiting until the end of the semester for a paper, and she used peer review of some assignments to ease some of the burden of grading (but also to help students develop better analytic skills). Not everything she tried worked, but she eventually found evaluation strategies that accurately assessed students' knowledge while also helping them improve their learning strategies.

To learn more about experimenting with assignments, and especially about aligning course goals with classroom activities, assignments, and assessments, please attend the Faculty Forum on Teaching and Learning to be held Friday, September 19, Noon-3:30 p.m., University Center, room 312. Lunch will be provided. To register, contact Sue Hahn in the Faculty Development Center at ext. 5-3916 or hahn@umbc.edu.

For faculty members interested in exploring course design and student learning issues in more depth, the Faculty Development Center will sponsor an informal reading group (meeting three or four times during the semester, according to participants' schedules). The FDC will provide copies of L. Dee Fink's Creating Significant Learning Experiences: An Integrated Approach to Designing College Courses (San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 2003) and Maryellen Weimer's Learner-Centered Teaching: Five Key Changes to Practice (San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 2002) to participants. The first meeting is scheduled for Wednesday October 1st from 3:30-4:45 p.m. in ACIV 213. Again, contact Sue Hahn if you are interested in attending: ext. 5-3916 or hahn@umbc.edu.

And remember to explore the National Teaching and Learning Forum.

In the two years since the horrific attacks of September 11 and the ensuing American invasion of Afghanistan, the world's attention has shifted away from the plight of the Afghan people, who have been ravaged by decades of war. But even before 9-11, Anne Brodsky, an associate professor of psychology and affiliate professor of women's studies at UMBC, was already risking her life to tell the story of Afghan women under the oppression of the Taliban and other fundamentalist Islamic factions and she continues that fight today.

Brodsky's research background studying the resilience of women and the role of communities in resisting societal risks such as violence, poverty and racism led to her current work with the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA).

RAWA is a humanitarian and political women's organization that has operated clandestinely in Afghanistan and Pakistan for the past 26 years. Brodsky has been working with the group for over three years to help raise awareness of the plight of women who still risk their lives when they stand up for basic freedoms like going to school, having a job, wearing modern clothes, and being able to leave the house unescorted by a male.

As part of these efforts, Brodsky has traveled to underground girls' schools, orphanages and refugee camps in Afghanistan and Pakistan. She has risked her life – both from the dangers facing a Western woman in areas controlled by fundamentalist groups, and from the ongoing fighting and unexploded landmines and ordnance that litter the countryside.

Recent news items have underscored the relevance of Brodsky's work: a report released this summer by Human Rights Watch detailed how women are still being raped and attacked by Afghan warlords outside of Kabul and a Newsweek story noted the post 9-11 rise in domestic violence in American Muslim families.

Even worse is the apparent resurgence of the Taliban, who have launched several recent attacks on Afghan border police and girls' schools from just across the Pakistan border, a development that doesn't surprise Brodsky.

"While schools for girls have reopened, only about 32 percent of the students who returned were girls,” she says. "Girls' schools have been fire bombed and threatened; and forced marriages, imprisonment of girls and women for attempting to escape abusive marriages, forced medical chastity tests and other extreme forms of oppression are ongoing, thus RAWA's activities and message are still urgently needed.”

Since 9-11, Brodsky has continued her research through multiple trips to the region and by helping to bring members of RAWA to the United States and UMBC to tell their stories. Earlier this year, Brodsky published a book about RAWA and her experiences with the group, With All Our Strength: The Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (Routledge).

Publisher's Weekly described With All Our Strength as "Groundbreaking...The first writer with in-depth access to RAWA, Brodsky writes a passionate narrative...[S]tands out as a lone and important study of a remarkable organization." Ahmed Rashid, author of Taliban, calls it "A powerful story."

Brodsky will never forget her five months in the field with the brave women of RAWA. "I gained a much deeper understanding and appreciation for their struggle, and was able to record the in-depth stories of real people's lives under so many years of oppression, war and trauma,” she says. "But more than being victims, RAWA has empowered women, children and men to use education as a tool to fight for democracy, freedom, human rights and peace.”

According to Brodsky, the fight for democracy and human rights in Afghanistan is far from over. "RAWA remains a threatened group for their outspoken opposition to the oppression of women and all democratically minded people that continue under the current, warlord dominated government,” she says. "They fervently hope that the rest of the world will continue to support them and will not, once again, turn their backs on the long suffering people of Afghanistan.”

Brodsky's work on behalf of women at UMBC and beyond was recognized with the 2003 award from the President's Commission for Women, one of several presented at UMBC's 37th Anniversary Opening.

The AT&T Foundation donated $50,000 to the UMBC's Center for Women and Information Technology (CWIT), as UMBC welcomes a new group of CWIT Scholars -- college students who receive scholarship support to pursue information technology careers -- to campus.

The grant will support CWIT's educational and community outreach programs that work to bridge the IT gender gap. Annual events like Computer Mania Day connect CWIT Scholars, business leaders and other role models to middle school girls to help spark their interest in computing and technology careers.

The CWIT Scholars Program identifies a limited number of high-achieving high school seniors annually and provides four years of financial and programmatic support to pursue a bachelor's degree at UMBC in an IT-related field. The program is open to both women and men who support women's full involvement in information technology.

"A solid educational foundation for today's workplace must include information technology and computers," said President Freeman A. Hrabowski. "UMBC and CWIT are delighted to have this crucial support from a national leader in technology like AT&T as we work together to close the IT gender gap."

"AT&T is proud to support CWIT and its students in pursuing their IT education and career aspirations," said Jennifer Jones, Sales Vice-President - AT&T Business Services. "We recognize the importance of investing in the future of technology directly and indirectly through programs such as these that encourage advancement in information sciences."

In spite of reports that the Internet gender gap is closing, women are still seriously under-represented as developers of IT, and they are often not well served as IT users. Women make up 51 percent of the population and earn morethan half of all bachelor-level degrees awarded, but earn only about one-quarter of the bachelor-level computer and information sciences degrees awarded in the U.S. - down from the 1980s when those numbers were in the mid 30's. Business and educators alike are concerned about what this means for long-term growth in the IT industry.

www.umbc.edu/announcements

Christopher Corbett Reads at Borders Books (10/15)
English faculty member Christopher Corbett will read from Orphans Preferred: The Twisted Truth and Lasting Legend of the Pony Express at Borders Books (415 York Road, Towson Commons) at 7 p.m. on October 15. For more information call (410) 291-0791. For more information about Orphans Preferred, visit www.orphanspreferred.com.

Soccer Standout Derek McElligott Making National News
Junior men's soccer standout Derek McElligott is 13th in the nation in goals per game with seven tallies in eight contests. In 45 career outings, McElligott has 31 goals, already tied for fourth place on the school's goal scoring list. In his America East debut, he scored a pair of goals vs. Northeastern, the second with 3:14 to play as the Retrievers managed a 2-2 tie with the host Huskies. Dating back to last season, McElligott has scored 12 of UMBC's last 21 goals. The Baltimore product (Greater Grace Christian Academy) is a two-time First Team All NEC performer and was the league's Rookie of the Year in 2001.

McElligott has helped UMBC to a 4-1-3 record and a ranking of #7 in theSouth Atlantic region. Of course the Retrievers have stocked the Blast'sMISL title team over the past several years, including the last two league Rookies of the Year, Billy Nelson and P.J. Wakefield, in addition to Giuliano Celenza.

Theater Professor Xerxes Mehta to Present at the University of Delaware'sBeckett FestivalXerxes Mehta, a professor of theater and founding director of the Maryland StageCompany, will be a guest presenter at The University of Delaware's Beckett Festival October 9-11. Mehta is an internationally known expert on and director of the plays of Samuel Beckett.

Ilse Schweitzer Receives Master's Scholarship
Spring 2003 Honors College graduate Ilse Schweitzer has received theprestigious Master's Scholarship from the Centre for Medieval Studies atthe University of York in England. Read more about Ilse at www.umbc.edu/window/schweitzer.html

Volleyball's Jennifer Davis Named America East Player of the Week
UMBC women's volleyball graduate student Jennifer Davis (Ontario, Canada/Sir Allen MacNab) was named America East Baden Player of the Week for the week ending September 14. The Retrievers' middle hitter had an outstanding weekend, hitting .378 over the course of three matches en route to earningall-tournament honors and leading the Retrievers to a second place finish in their home invitational.

Davis started off the weekend hitting .400 with 11 kills on 25 attacks against Providence in the first game of the UMBC Retriever Volleyball Invitational. Davis also recorded five block assists and three aces.

In the opening game of second day competition in the tournament the Retrievers' middle hitter racked up five more block assists and recorded 10 kills with no errors on 26 attacks (.335 hitting percentage) against a tough Georgia State team. In the final game of the tournament for the Retrievers, Davis continued her hot hitting streak with 10 kills for a .348 hitting percentage in the win over Rider, 3-0.

On the season, Davis ranks among some of the America East's best as she currently sits at third in hitting percentage with a season mark of .335, seventh in blocks at 0.80 bpg and seventh in serving aces with 17 on the year, 0.49 per game. Davis' 17 aces ranks third on the Retrievers' squad that leads the conference with 108 on the year, 3.00 per game.

Derek McElligott named America East Men's Soccer Player of the Week
UMBC junior forward Derek McElligott was named America East Player of the Week in the league's initial selection of the 2003 season.

McElligott earned the Most Valuable Offensive Player Award in UMBC's championship run to the Battle of Baltimore title. He scored the game-winning goal in the 80th minute in the 1-0 semi-final win over Towson, and then tallied the game's first goal and assisted on Mike Joseph's game winner in a 2-1 win over two-time defending Loyola.

The Second Team All South Atlantic striker was also Most Valuable Player in the adidas Kick Off Classic at UMBC on August 29-31.

McElligott has four goals in four games, helping UMBC to a 3-0-1 record and a sixth ranking in the South Atlantic region. He has 28 career goals, and is already eighth on UMBC's all-time scoring list.

Chris Corbett Named a Finalist for Barnes and Noble Discover Award
English department faculty member Chris Corbett has been named a finalist for Barnes & Noble's Discover Award, and his new book, Orphans Preferred: The Twisted Truth and Lasting Legend of the Pony Express, is part of Barnes and Noble's fall 2003 Discover Great New Writers promotion, which includes high visibility on the store's Web site and in 630 locations across the U.S. The Discover Great New Writers program was established in 1990 to bring attention to the works of first-time and little known writers of excellence in the areas of literary fiction and narrative non-fiction.

Corbett will read from and discuss his book at the Enoch Pratt Free Library, 400 Cathedral Street in Baltimore City, at 6:30 p.m. on September 23. For more information, visit the Library's Web site.

Visual Arts Alumus Brian Dannelly's Film Premieres This Fall, Mentioned on "20/20" (9/5)
Visual arts alumus Brian Dannelly's film "Saved," with Macaulay Culkin, Eva Amurri, Mary-Louise Parker and Mandy Moore premieres this fall. Culkin will be interviewed on ABC's "20/20." Dannelly '97 says Culkin mentions "Saved" and, hopefully a clip will survive the editing process.
Information on "20/20": www.abcmedianet.com/shared/ams/assets/both/2003/08/12/081203_01.html

Information on "Saved," courtesy of Yahoo: http://movies.yahoo.com/shop?d=hv&id=1808429908&cf=info

John Jeffries Speaks to Laurel Historical Society (9/11)
John Jeffries, professor of history, will present a program on the home front during World War II at the Laurel Historical Society meeting. 7:30 p.m., Laurel Pool Club Room, Ninth and Main Streets in Laurel. Call (301) 725-7975 for more information.

UMBC Student-athlete Success in NCAA Report
UMBC student-athletes received their highest grades ever in the most recently released NCAA Official 2003 Division I Graduation-Rates Report. The entire report is available online.

A record 72 percent of UMBC's student-athletes who entered as freshmen in the 1996-97 academic year earned their degrees (within a six-year span), according to the study released on August 25. The national graduation rate for NCAA Division I scholarship athletes came in at 62 percent.

In addition, 91 percent of UMBC's student-athletes who exhausted their athletics' eligibility over a ten-year span had earned their degree by August of 2002. This study tracked all student-athletes that entered the University from 1987-88 through 1996-97.

These reports survey only student-athletes who receive athletics' aid from the university for any period of time during their entering year.

The report is another example of how UMBC student-athletes are faring in the classroom. Last semester, 50 percent of all Retriever student-athletes earned 3.0 grade-point averages or higher; 25 percent were at 3.5 or higher; and 29 student-athletes earned perfect 4.0 grade-point averages.

Nine Retriever teams earned 3.0 grade-point averages or higher, and the department GPA was 2.91. In the past five years, UMBC has produced 23 Academic All-Americans, including a school record 12 in the past two years.

Kuhn Library Gallery Exhibition in Radar
The Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery exhibition, "Intermedia: The Dick Higgins Collection," was reviewed in the September 2003 issue of Radar, a journal of Baltimore arts and culture. The journal is edited by UMBC alumnus and visual arts instructor David Crandall.
www.radarreview.net

Don Norris in the Baltimore Sun
Don Norris, director of MIPAR and professor of public policy, was quoted in the September 26 Baltimore Sun story, "Meeting on hotel closed to public: Advisors to quiz parties seeking to build near convention center."
www.sunspot.net/business/realestate/bal-bz.hotel26sep26.story

Anne Brodsky in CounterPunch
An article of Afghanistan by Anne Brodsky, associate professor of psychology and affiliate associate professor of women's studies, appeared in the September 2003 issue of CounterPunch magazine.
http://counterpunch.org/brodsky09202003.html

Uri Tasch in the Baltimore Sun
The Reaction Force Detection System, created by a team of inventors headed by Uri Tasch, professor of mechanical engineering, was featured in the Baltimore Sun on October 1.
www.sunspot.net/business/bal-bz.lame02oct02,0,5245134.story?coll=bal-business-headlines

Christopher Corbett in the Baltimore Sun and Ingram E-newsletter
A profile on English department faculty member Christopher Corbett and his new book, Orphans Preferred: The Twisted Truth and Lasting Legend of the Pony Express appeared in the Baltimore Sun on September 23.
www.sunspot.net/features/booksmags/bal-to.corbett23sep23,0,2674651.story?coll=bal-features-headlines

Corbett's book was also listed in the "Sleepers" section of Ingram's e-newsletter. Ingram is the world's largest book distributor.
www.ingrambookgroup.com/nwsltr/august03/IBG_sleepers.html

Jeff Halverson, JCET/ UMBC Hurricane Expert, in Baltimore Sun
As Hurricane Isabel approached Maryland, Jeff Halverson, a research meteorologist at UMBC's Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology, wasinterviewed by the Baltimore Sun on September 18. Halverson, who discussed new forecasting technologies, said, "It behooves us to better understand how these storms operate…so we can get people out of harms way."

Retriever Derek McElligott in the Baltimore Sun
Junior soccer forward Derek McElligott was featured in the September 11 Baltimore Sun story, "McElligott's scoring prowess brightens local soccer scene."
www.sunspot.net/sports/college/bal-sp.colnotes11sep11,0,455550.story?coll=bal-college-sports

Project Support in the Baltimore Sun
Project Support, a federally funded program at UMBC and two other areauniversities that helps professionals who want to change careers and become teachers, was mentioned in the September 24 Baltimore Sun. The article detailed how Baltimore City Schools are becoming more selective in teacher hiring.
www.sunspot.net/news/education/bal-md.hire24sep24,0,311666.story?coll=bal-education-top

Donald Norris in Associated Press Article
"It's really O'Malley and the seven dwarfs….None of his opponents has any funding, organization or political credibility," said Donald Norris, professor of policy sciences and MIPAR director, in the September 7 Associated Press article, "O'Malley runs against little-known challengers in early primary."

Carlo Diclemente in the U.S. News & World Report
"Imposed change won't last long….The redecorations will stay but the style and how the house is kept probably won't," says Carlo Diclemente, professor and chair of the psychology department, in the September 15 U.S. News & World Report article, "Eye on the Queer Guys," about the hit TV makeover show Queer Eye for the Straight Guy. The article also mentions that, 20 years ago, Diclemente and professor James Prochaska (University of Rhode Island) developed a model to investigate how people change which is still used today.
www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/030915/misc/15diversions.htm

bwtech@umbc and Govind Rao in the Daily Record
On September 18, the Daily Record included a feature on the groundbreaking for bwtech@umbc's second building, which will house Grosvenor USA Limited, a subsidiary of London-based Grosvenor Group.
www.mddailyrecord.com/archives/4_67_thursday/businessnews/146196-1.html

In addition, two recent bwtech@umbc companies, Scientific Products & Systems and BDMetrics, and Govind Rao, professor and chair, chemical and biochemical engineering, were named 2003 Innovators of the Year and featured in the Daily Record's Innovator of the Year supplement.
www.mddailyrecord.com/innovator/2003winners.html

Doctoral student Tom Vincino's Letter in the New York Times
A letter to the editor by Tom Vincino, a research assistant in CUERE and a doctoral student in the Department of Public Policy was published in the New York Times on September 5. Vincino's letter was a response to a story on Baltimore's "Believe" campaign.
www.nytimes.com/2003/09/05/opinion/L05BALT.html

Donald Norris in the Washington Post
Donald Norris, professor of policy sciences and director of MIPAR, was quoted in a September 6 Washington Post article on Baltimore Mayor Martin O'Malley. (Prof. Norris' quote appears at the end of the article.)
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36558-2003Sep6.html

Center for Art and Visual Culture in the New York Times
The Center for Art and Visual Cultures upcoming exhibition, "Whiteness," curated by Maurice Berger, was part of the New York Times fall arts preview on September 7.
www.nytimes.com/2003/09/07/arts/artsspecial/07JOHN.html?pagewanted=5

Thomas Schaller in the Baltimore Sun
Assistant Professor of Political Science Thomas Schaller was quoted in a September 9 Baltimore Sun article on the Democratic presidential candidates' debate, which was held in Baltimore.
www.sunspot.net/news/local/bal-debate0908.story

Jeffrey Halverson on WUSA Channel 9
Jeffrey Halverson, research associate professor of geography with UMBC's Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology (JCET), discussed NASA and hurricanes for Washington D.C.'s WUSA Channel 9 TV on September 10.

UMBC Student and UM Student Regent Phil Shockley in the Diamondback
A profile of Phil Shockley, UMBC student and UM student regent, appeared in the Diamondback on September 10.
www.inform.umd.edu/News/Diamondback/archives/2003/09/10/news6.html

Anne Brodsky in the Baltimore Sun
A feature on Anne Brodsky, associate professor of psychology and affiliate professor of women's studies, and her work with the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan, appeared in the Baltimore Sun on September 11.
www.sunspot.net/features/booksmags/bal-to.brodsky11sep11,0,703975.story?coll=bal-features-headlines

Robert Deluty in the Baltimore Sun
An Op-Ed article based on Robert Deluty's Convocation address appears in the September 5 Baltimore Sun. Deluty is Associate Professor of Psychology and was UMBC's 2002 Presidential Teaching Professor.
www.sunspot.net/news/opinion/oped/bal-op.freshmen05sep05,0,1611098.story?coll=bal-oped-headlines

You can read the full text of Deluty's address here.

Tom Schaller on WBAL Radio 9/6
Assistant Professor of Political Science Tom Schaller will be a guest on WBAL's Rob Douglas radio show (AM 1090) this Saturday, September 6 at 2p.m. Schaller will talk about his article on political fundraiser Colleen Martin-Lauer that appears in this month's Baltimore Magazine.

Chris Corbett's Book Reviewed in the Baltimore Sun
Chris Corbett's new book, Orphans Preferred: The Twisted Truth and Lasting Legend of the Pony Express (Broadway Books, Sept. 2003), was reviewed in the Baltimore Sun on August 31.
www.sunspot.net/features/booksmags/bal-bk.orphan31aug31,0,1823776.story?coll=bal-society-utility.

Corbett will read from and discuss his book at the Enoch Pratt Free Library, 400 Cathedral Street in Baltimore City, at 6:30 p.m. on September 23. For more information, visit the Library's Web site.

Margaret Re in U.S. News & World Report
Associate Professor of Visual Arts Margaret Re was interviewed for "A Man of Letters: If you like what you read, you should thank Matthew Carter," an article on the seminal type designer and creator that appeared in U.S. News & World Report this week. Re curated "Typographically Speaking: The Art of Matthew Carter," the traveling exhibition organized by the Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery and now on view at the University of Pennsylvania.
www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/030901/misc/1font.htm

UMBC Music in the Baltimore Sun
"…for one-stop, new-music shopping, nothing beats the University of Maryland, Baltimore County," says Baltimore Sun music critic Tim Smith. Smith mentions the variety of new music events UMBC offers in his September 4 fall season preview.
www.sunspot.net/entertainment/music/bal-li.fallclass04sep04,0,3700191.story?coll=bal-artslife-music

For information on music department events, visit www.umbc.edu/arts.