Insights: In the News

Men’s Basketball in the News
As the men’s basketball team captured the America East championship and prepared for the first round of the NCAA tournament, the Retrievers received coverage in multiple news outlets. For complete coverage, visit http://www.umbc.edu/retriever_believers/media.html.

Tom Schaller, Political Science, in the American Prospect
Tom Schaller, associate professor of political science, discusses the possibility of John McCain capturing the Southwest in 2008. The March 20 story was published in the American Prospect online.

www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=southwest_passage

Schaller post about Barak Obama, “On the subject of he who giveth great speeches,” was posted in the American Prospect’s “Tapped” blog on March 20.

www.prospect.org/csnc/blogs/tapped_archive?month=03&year=2008&base_name=on_the_subject_of_he_who_giveth_great_speeches

UMBC in the Baltimore Sun
UMBC’s coed housing pilot project was included in a feature roundup on the issue of gender-neutral housing at Maryland schools. “A tentative step toward coed living” appeared in the Baltimore Sun on March 17.

www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-te.md.coed17mar17,0,6083361.story

UMBC’s Ph.D. Completion Project in gradPSYCH
Linda Baker, professor and chair of psychology, and Ph.D. student Selena Emond, were featured in a story on the Council of Graduate School's Ph.D. Completion Project, in gradPSYCH, the magazine of the American Psychological Assocation of graduate students. Emond was also featured on the cover of the magazine.

http://gradpsych.apags.org/2008/03/cover-doctorate.html

March 20, 2008

In the News