The Arts at UMBC on Maryland Public Television
The Maryland Public Television (MPT) program Artworks This Week profiled Xerxes Mehta, professor of theatre. The program aired retrospective material of his work and footage from the current campus production of The Threepenny Opera, which Mehta is directing. It initially aired on Dec. 5 and will be rebroadcast at 8:30 a.m. Dec. 8.
www.mpt.org/artworks/thisweek/
MPT’s Artworks This Week aired a segment featuring the current exhibition in the Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery, “Inge Morath: The Road to Reno.” The segment initially was aired on Oct. 24.
www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/streaming/morath/index.html
Tim Brennan, Public Policy, in the Baltimore Business Journal
The Maryland Public Service Commission (PSC) has advised state lawmakers to seek long-term contracts with generators to spur an increase in the electricity supply. Tim Brennan, professor of public policy and economics, told the Baltimore Business Journal that “a difficult problem facing policymakers” is a disconnect exposed in the PSC’s simultaneous conclusion that Marylanders should consume less electricity but that its price is too high. “Reducing prices, in and of itself, will only increase demand and make the supply situation worse,” Brennan said. The article, “PSC Says State Intervention Needed to Solve Electricity Supply Shortfalls,” ran in the paper’s daily headlines alert.
http://baltimore.bizjournals.com/baltimore/stories/2007/12/03/daily16.html?b=1196744400^1559303&surround=etf
Tom Schaller, Political Science, in the News
Associate Professor of Political Science Tom Schaller’s latest column in the Baltimore Sun was critical of Republican presidential candidates for espousing proposals to improve the U.S. economy that are high on empty rhetoric and short on practical solutions. “Because tax cuts must be venerated at all times, no matter the budgetary or economic situation, the candidates have been reduced to repeating pat phrases and focusing on peripheral issues,” Schaller wrote. The column, “On Economy, GOP Candidates Offer Up Slogans Instead of Solutions,” ran on Dec. 5.
www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/bal-op.schaller05dec05,0,2657260.column?coll=bal_news_opinion_util
Hillary Clinton is not likely to be a political “drag” on the hopes for other Democratic office-seekers in the 2008 election, Schaller wrote in a column for The New Republic. “Neither she nor her main rivals will provide a significant drag or lift for Democratic office-seekers,” Schaller wrote. The column, “Drag Queen,” appeared in the Nov. 30 issue.
www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=8016f442-6d56-4042-8d8a-938f6fbabbe8
John Schumacher, Erickson School, in the Baltimore Sun
John Schumacher, associate director of the Center for Aging Studies in the Erickson School, received a $1.2 million grant from the National Institute of Aging to investigate the relationships between health providers and residents of assisted-living facilities. Schumacher is the lead investigator of the study. The Baltimore Sun cited the grant in its “Names in the News” section on Dec. 6.
www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/bal-to.hs.names06dec06,0,5736324.story
