Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery in Baltimore Magazine
Settling in the United States in 1962 after marrying Arthur Miller, Australian photographer Inge Morath turned to portraiture and the American landscape. The “Road to Reno” exhibit at the Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery documents an 18-day trip Morath and a colleague took from New York to the Nevada city set for The Misfits, John Huston's anti-western and both Marilyn Monroe's and Clark Gable's final movie. Baltimore magazine cites the exhibit in its October 2007 issue.
www.baltimoremagazine.net/
Freeman Hrabowski, UMBC President, in the News
Some leading African American educators in Maryland believe that some black high school students are failing to achieve in part because their parents are failing to invest themselves in their children’s education. UMBC President Freeman A. Hrabowski told the Baltimore Sun, “We have to admit to ourselves that large numbers of parents are not as involved in their children’s education as they need to be. We have to get away from thinking that if the children aren’t doing well, it is the teacher’s fault.” The article, “A Critical Gap,” appeared on Sept. 23.
www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/ideas/bal-id.educate23sep23,0,1052310.story
In its October 2007 issue, Baltimore magazine recalls the life of the late Baltimore businessman and public servant Walter Sondheim Jr. “He taught us the meaning of the word citizen, and the importance of believing in ourselves,” President Hrabowski said.
www.baltimoremagazine.net/
UMBC's New Multicore Computational Center in the News
A partnership between UMBC and IBM has launched the new Multicore Computational Center, or the MC2. The MC2 will work to harness the supercomputer power at the heart of Sony’s Playstation3 gaming console. The MC2 will explore new frontiers in computer modeling applications for aerospace/defense, financial services, healthcare/life sciences and predicting climate change and weather. Three television outlets – WBAL-TV, WBFF-TV (Fox) and WMAR-TV – reported on the dedication ceremony of the center on Sept. 21. The WBAL-TV report, which includes an interview with UMBC President Freeman A. Hrabowski, and a profile by the technology blog Engadget can be seen below:
www.wbaltv.com/video/14176513/index.html
www.engadget.com/2007/09/25/umbc-ibm-team-up-to-create-playstation-3-based-supercomputer/
Robert Provine, Psychology, in the News
Robert Provine, professor of psychology, discussed his research on contagious behaviors such as yawning and his quest to design a yawn so powerful it would make everyone who saw it yawn back. National Public Radio (NPR) interviewed Provine in a report aired on Sept. 24. The NPR report is summarized in a Wall Street Journal news brief on Sept. 6, available to subscribers only.
www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=14654608
Tom Schaller, Political Science, in the News
New York Times columnist Paul Krugman cited Tom Schaller’s research on the impact of race in Southern politics, as documented in Schaller’s book Whistling Past Dixie. “There’s a large statistical literature on the subject, whose conclusion is summed up by the political scientist Thomas F. Schaller in his book Whistling Past Dixie: ‘Despite the best efforts of Republican spinmeisters to depict American conservatism as a nonracial phenomenon, the partisan impact of racial attitudes in the South is stronger today than in the past.’ ” The column, “Politics in Black and White,” ran on Sept. 24.
www.nytimes.com/2007/09/24/opinion/24krugman.html?_r=2&hp&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
Schaller’s latest column in the Baltimore Sun assessed the candidacy of Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Rodham Clinton. Schaller writes that if Clinton wins the nomination, “she assumes the burden of being the Democratic presidential candidate in what may be the most favorable cycle her party has had since 1976… (T)he pressure that would immediately fall on Mrs. Clinton’s shoulders to win the White House would be immense – and the blame, if she were to lose, would be endless and merciless.” The column, “Poor Mrs. Clinton: She Has Everything Going for Her in the ’08 Race,” ran on Sept. 26.
www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bal-op.schaller26sep26,0,1291494.column
Political analysts are divided over whether the decision by the four leading Republican candidates to skip a presidential debate – set at a historically black college in Baltimore and focusing on issues of importance to minority voters – is likely to inflict enduring wounds. “When you have candidates who are already questionable on choice, already questionable on gay rights, already perhaps not acceptable on issues like immigration, do they want to go the further, additional step and answer questions on affirmative action, in front of a black audience?” Schaller told the Baltimore Sun. The story, “Analysts Split on Impact of Debate Snub,” appeared on Sept. 27.
www.baltimoresun.com/news/nation/bal-te.debate27sep27,0,6954938.story
