Ryan Bloom, English, in the Washington Post
Ryan Bloom, an instructor in the English department, has published a translation of Albert Camus’ Notebooks 1951-1959. The Washington Post review of Bloom’s translation, “The ‘True Glory’ and ‘Overwhelming Pressure’ of Being Albert Camus,” appeared on May 10.

www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/08/AR2008050803023.html

President Hrabowski in the Baltimore Sun
A feature photo on the front of the Baltimore Sun “Maryland” section showed President Freeman A. Hrabowski, III, at the 2008 undergraduate Commencement Ceremony. President Hrabowski was congratulating James “Jeeves” Murphy ’08 on receiving his bachelor’s degree. The photo essay, “Pomp, Circumstance, Picture for UMBC Grad,” appeared on May 23. (To date, the newspaper has not archived this photo. The Sun limits its archive database to photos that have appeared on www.baltimoresun.com.)

www.baltimoresun.com/bal-multimediasearch-page,0,4362270.htmlstory

Tom Schaller, Political Science, in Newsweek
In a question-and-answer interview with “Stumper,” the Newsweek magazine political blog, Associate Professor of Political Science Tom Schaller discussed 2008 presidential election strategies for the Democrats. The blog entry, “Expertinent: Can Obama Win Out West?” first was posted on May 28.

http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/stumper/archive/2008/05/28/expertinent-the-southwest-passage.aspx

Brady Walker ’08 in the Hagerstown (Md.) Herald-Mail
Brady Walker '08, political science, spoke at the graduation ceremonies for North Hagerstown High School in Hagerstown, Md. The Hagerstown Herald-Mail reported that Walker told the graduates, “Hold firm to being open to new things, your willingness to take risks, to being hungry for knowledge and experience, to being courageous and to remaining eager to see what the new day brings,” he said. The story, “North High Student Recognized for More Than 1,700 Service Hours,” ran on May 28.

www.herald-mail.com/?cmd=displaystory&story_id=195076&format=html

Swimming and Diving's Tina Cantwell Named America East Winter Scholar-Athlete
Swimming and diving junior Tina Cantwell has become the fourth UMBC representative to be named an America East Scholar-Athlete, after she garnered the award for the 2007-08 swimming and diving season, the conference announced recently.

www.umbcretrievers.com/sports/swimming/release.asp?RELEASE_ID=4144

Tennis Standout Cornelia Carapcea Earns ESPN The Magazine's Academic All-District II Women's At-Large First Team Honors
Junior tennis standout Cornelia Carapcea has been named to ESPN The Magazine’s Academic All-District II women's at-large first team.

www.umbcretrievers.com/sports/tennis/release.asp?RELEASE_ID=4136

Baseball's Rich Conlon Named to All-Championship Team
Baseball freshman Rich Conlon has been named to the America East All-Championship Team as a shortstop, the conference announced on Saturday.

www.umbcretrievers.com/sports/baseball/release.asp?RELEASE_ID=4142

Terry Kimener Heads Record-Tying Four Retrievers Named To USILA All-American Team; Former Coach Dick Watts Selected to U.S. Lacrosse Hall of Fame
Senior midfielder Terry Kimener and three Retriever teammates were handsomely rewarded for their outstanding seasons as the program tied a school record with four All America citations by the United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association. the United States Lacrosse Board of Directors has selected former Director of Athletics and Head Lacrosse Coach Dick Watts to the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame.

www.umbcretrievers.com/sports/mlacrosse/release.asp?RELEASE_ID=4141

Ali Levendusky Named to IWLCA Mid-Atlantic All-Region First Team
Senior attack Ali Levendusky was selected to the Intercollegiate Women’s Lacrosse Coaches Association (IWLCA) Mid-Atlantic All-Region First Team, the organization announced Thursday. She will now advance to the All-America ballots.

www.umbcretrievers.com/sports/wlacrosse/release.asp?RELEASE_ID=4138

From: President Freeman Hrabowski and Provost Art Johnson

We want to thank everyone who has participated in recent discussions about applying to become a host site for Army ROTC. In the academy, and particularly at UMBC, we respect and value people’s right to express different points of view. We appreciate the thoughtfulness and civility with which members of this community have comported themselves during these deliberations – in town meetings, in meetings of our faculty, staff, and undergraduate and graduate student Senates, and finally in the University Steering Committee (with representatives from all five Senates). We also want to thank those who have directly conveyed to us their perspectives, both in conversations and in writing. Most important, throughout this process, it has been clear to us that everyone, regardless of point of view, has had the best interests of our students and UMBC at heart.

Having carefully considered the various points of view, we have decided that the campus should move forward to apply for Army ROTC host-site status. Most immediately, UMBC students will be able to complete Army ROTC program requirements here on campus, and more of these students will benefit from scholarship support.

During our recent campus conversations, a number of people made important points about process. This situation has underlined the importance of having ample time for discussion and deliberation when considering new initiatives and major decisions, and we sincerely regret not having had more time in this instance. If our application is accepted, we will continue to work closely with the University Steering Committee and representatives of the Faculty Senate on the various aspects of the implementation process.

With process in mind, the University Steering Committee has made a number of recommendations that the leadership of the campus will address over the coming months. Perhaps the most important has to do with the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, which many of us mentioned as an area of concern during the town meetings. It is our intent to continue expressing strong concern about this policy because we, as a campus, oppose discrimination against any group. We are in conversations with members of the Executive Board of the UMBC Freedom Alliance and will continue talking with them and others on campus about ways to express the need for the military to be supportive of all people and not to discriminate against anyone based on sexual orientation, gender identity, race, or ethnicity.
It also is our intent to continue encouraging conversations about the relationship between the military and public universities. Given UMBC’s reputation for excellence and diversity, we intend to add our voice to those of other academic leaders in conversations about the future of higher education, the military, and our country.

Finally, we are a very special community. The past few weeks have re-emphasized to all of us how much we care about this university and our students. During our discussions, we have shown our commitment in both substance and approach. We will continue to communicate with you throughout the summer. Thank you.

Golden ID Program in the Baltimore Sun
Baltimore Sun lifestyle columnist Kevin Cowherd profiled Melvin Epstein, 81, who has completed 53 courses in the UMBC “Golden ID” program. The program allows Maryland residents 60 and older who are retired or working part time to take courses at a reduced cost. The column, “A College Student Evermore,” ran on May 21.

www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/custom/today/bal-to.cowherd21may21,0,300471.column

James Grubb, History, on WJZ-TV Ch. 13
WJZ-TV interviewed Professor of History James Grubb about the decision by Pope Benedict XVI to defrock Jerome F. Toohey Jr. Toohey admitted in November 2005 that he sexually abused a high school sophomore nearly 20 years ago while Toohey was chaplain at a Baltimore private school. The story aired May 20.

http://wjz.com/video/?id=39002@wjz.dayport.com

Jason Loviglio, Media and Communication Studies, in the Baltimore Sun
The Baltimore Sun interviewed Jason Loviglio, director of the Media and Communication Studies program, regarding public radio station WEAA-FM’s decision to hire former WYPR-FM talk show host Marc Steiner and Steiner’s potential impact on WEAA’s ratings. The story, “Hiring Steiner Dovetails with Overall WEAA Plan,” ran on May 18.

www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/bal-al.weaa18may18,0,2237521.story

Tom Schaller, Political Science, in the Baltimore Sun
Associate Professor of Political Science Tom Schaller’s latest column for the Baltimore Sun addressed Barack Obama’s potential foreign policy approach and the notion Obama could be “the future ‘soft power’ president of the United States.” The column, “U.S. Needs ‘Soft Power’ Leader, and He Could Be Our Man,” ran on May 21.

www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bal-op.schaller21may21,0,5752532.column

Shriver Center, Lori Hardesty in the News
The greater Catonsville community has rallied to help a 23-year-old woman whose husband was murdered as she was preparing to give birth to her son. Staff, faculty and students at UMBC have been especially generous in responding to requests for support from Lori Hardesty, a program coordinator at the Shriver Center. On May 21, the Catonsville Times and WBAL-TV reported on the Center’s efforts.

http://news.mywebpal.com/news_tool_v2.cfm?show=localnews&pnpID=351&NewsID=903867&CategoryID=8381&on=1

www.wbaltv.com/news/16354799/detail.html

John Jancuska Named Coach of the Year, Four Retrievers Named To All- Conference Teams
Baseball head coach John Jancuska has been named the America East Conference Coach of the Year, four Retriever players have been named to the All-Conference team, and four players have earned spots on the All-Academic squad, the league announced Wednesday night at the annual awards banquet prior to the America East Conference Championship Tournament.

www.umbcretrievers.com/sports/baseball/release.asp?RELEASE_ID=4135

Terry Kimener, Taylor Marino Selected to Play in 67th Annual North-South All-Star Lacrosse Game
Senior midfielders Terry Kimener and Taylor Marino have been selected to play in the 67th Annual USILA North/South Senior All-Star Lacrosse Game. The contest will take place at Harvard Stadium on Friday, May 23, as part of a triple header. The Division III game will be played at 2 p.m. and the Division I/II game will be played at 4 p.m. The evening will conclude with the Boston Cannons game vs. the Rochester Rattlers at 7 p.m.

www.umbcretrievers.com/sports/mlacrosse/release.asp?RELEASE_ID=4134

Remembering Louis Cantori, Political Science, in the Baltimore Sun
A Baltimore Sun obituary recalled the vast teaching and research career of Lou Cantori, professor emeritus of political science. The obituary appeared on May 14.

www.baltimoresun.com/news/obituaries/bal-md.ob.cantori14may14,0,2536662.story

Robert Provine, Psychology, in the Washington Post
The Washington Post cited the ongoing body of research on laughter conducted by Robert Provine, professor of psychology. The item, “Worth a Laugh,” appeared on May 13.

www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/12/AR2008051202188_3.html

Tom Schaller, Political Science, in the Los Angeles Times
In advance of the West Virginia primary, Associate Professor of Political Science Tom Schaller spoke with the Los Angeles Times about strategies that could be critical to the success of Barack Obama’s campaign. “The best way for Obama to make inroads with white voters in blue-collar, leaning-red states is to push economic issues to the front and continue to depict the war as a money pit,” Schaller said. The story, “West Virginia Could Spell Trouble for Obama,” ran on May 10.

www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-race10-2008may10,0,5432711,full.story

James Trela, Sociology, in the Baltimore Sun
James Trela, associate professor and chair of the sociology department, discussed the social and networking options that make the annual Preakness Stakes horse race a unique event in Maryland. The article, “They’re Off … to Party at the Preakness,” ran on May 15.

www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/music/bal-li.scene15may15,0,7037950.story

Joe Tropea ‘06, Graduate Student in Historical Studies, in the Baltimore City Paper
Joe Tropea ’06 history, a graduate student pursuing a master’s degree in historical studies, published an extensive piece in the Baltimore City Paper about the 40th anniversary of the “Catonsville Nine” peace demonstration against the Vietnam War. The feature, “Hit and Stay,” appeared in the May 14 issue.

www.citypaper.com/news/story.asp?id=15722

Dana Shepherd Earns Academic All-District First Team Honors for Third Straight Year
UMBC senior infielder Dana Shepherd was named to the ESPN the Magazine Academic All-District II University Division First Team for the third year in a row, the College Sports Information Directors of America announced last week. Shepherd now advances to the national ballot, where she will compete with members of each all-district first team for Academic All-America recognition.
www.umbcretrievers.com/sports/softball/release.asp?RELEASE_ID=4126

A. Charles Catania, professor of psychology, is retiring at the end of the spring 2008 semester after serving in the department for 35 years. The department will host his retirement celebration on Thursday, May 29, 4-8 p.m. on the 7th floor of the Albin O. Kuhn Library. If you plan to attend, RSVP to Elaine O'Heir at oheir@umbc.edu by Tuesday, May 20.

Catania began his teaching career as an undergraduate teaching assistant in an Experimental Psychology laboratory course at Columbia College in 1956-1957 and taught his first regular course while a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University in 1961-1962. After teaching and serving as chair of the Department of Psychology at the University Heights campus of New York University, he came to UMBC in the fall of 1973.

The courses he has taught here have included the Psychology of Learning at both graduate and undergraduate levels. For a number of years he team-taught the undergraduate learning course with his late colleague, Eliot Shimoff, and together they developed a number of computer simulations and other computer exercises for the learning course and for introductory psychology.

Catania has conducted both human and pigeon laboratory research since his days as a graduate student in the early 1960’s, with almost continuous research funding from the mid-1960’s through the late 1980’s from the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health. He has been privileged to host visitors from Norway, Brazil, Japan, Spain and Italy who have come to UMBC to work in his laboratory, and he conducted other international collaborative research in Wales during a Fulbright Senior Research Fellowship.

He has published many professional articles, chapters and books, including an undergraduate text in learning, and has served and continues to serve on various editorial boards. He has held offices in several professional organizations, including the presidency of the Association for Behavior Analysis. In collaboration with colleagues at the Kennedy Krieger Institute, he established the Master's track in Applied Behavior Analysis within the Human Services Psychology program, and served as its director and later co-director through spring 2007.

During the current academic year he has co-edited the autobiography of Fred S. Keller, the teacher with whom, in 1954-1955, he took the undergraduate course in introductory psychology that got him started in his career. At My Own Pace has just been published (Sloan Publishing, May 2008). With Koji Hori, who is visiting UMBC on a sabbatical leave from Rikkyo University in Tokyo, he has been having regular discussions in preparation for Hori’s Japanese translation of his learning book.

This month Catania will attend meetings of the Society for the Quantitative Analysis of Behavior and of the Association for Behavior Analysis and will accept a Distinguished Career Award for his work on verbal behavior. He expects to remain professionally active in his retirement; his writing plans include a book on verbal behavior and even some research papers based on data obtained during the years when his UMBC laboratory was still active.

The Office of Undergraduate Education is now accepting letters of nomination for the first annual Jakubik Family Endowment. The family of current and former members of the UMBC community has created an endowment to recognize outstanding UMBC staff. Stan Jakubik, his wife, Jan, and daughter, Stephanie, hope the award will recognize staff who play a critical role in supporting student success. The awardee will receive $500 in recognition of his or her service.

"We have traditionally created rewards for excellence in teaching and in research, awards generally geared toward our exceptional faculty. As an institution, we also benefit tremendously by a staff equally committed to student success and the advancement of student learning" said Stan Jakubik. "All associate or classified staff position on campus have an impact on student success. Some are obvious, such as staff advisors, coaches, learning resources personnel and librarians. Some are less obvious players, but of equal importance in the overall mission of the campus; for example, registrars who facilitate enrollment, financial aid workers who make it possible for students to afford tuition and IT staff who support our computer services."

Stan joined UMBC as registrar in 1980 and was assistant provost for academic services when he left in 1997. He is currently the assistant vice chancellor for the University System of Maryland. Stephanie Jakubik Day '96 first served UMBC as recruitment director for the Shriver Center’s Police Corp program and later as associate director of alumni relations.

If you would like to honor an exceptional staff person who has contributed to student academic success, all you need to do is write a letter of nomination describing the staff person’s activities and impact in any or all of the following areas:

1. through innovative advisement or student academic services
2. excellence in teaching
3. providing mentoring to undergraduate students
4. the development of new programs to further the learning environment
5. and/or through the creative application of technology to the student learning process.

All staff members who have worked at UMBC for at least five years and made a positive contribution to student success in any or all of the areas listed above are eligible. Do speak to their specific contributions as listed above, and feel free to mention any others that have made a difference for our students.

Letters of nomination are due May 30, 2008 and will be vetted by a committee comprised of staff. The first annual Jakubik Family Staff Award will be announced June 9, 2008.

For more information and to submit nominations, follow these steps:

1. Login to Blackboard via myUMBC or directly at http://blackboard.umbc.edu
2. Click the Community Tab
3. Search for "UMBC Scholarships & Awards" and "enroll" in this Bb site
4. Follow links to the "Jakubik Staff Award for Student Success"
5. Submit a Letter of Nomination

To view a short video "show & tell" of this process, visit http://screencast.com/t/GrB52YhcYw0

If you have any questions, contact Diane Lee in the Office of Undergraduate Education at dlee@umbc.edu or 410-455-2859.

Fr: Cheryl Miller, Associate Professor and Chair, Political Science

It is with great sadness that I inform you of the passing of Louis Cantori, Professor Emeritus of Political Science. Lou passed away on Monday, May 12.

Provost Arthur T. Johnson said, “Lou will be remembered fondly for his gregariousness and kindness; his love of scholarly discussion and debate and his contributions to the field of comparative politics; and for his support of UMBC and its students, especially members of the UMBC crew. UMBC owes Lou much and will miss his presence.”

Lou joined UMBC’s Department of Political Science in 1972, and served as Chair from 1979 to 1985. He was an internationally recognized expert on Middle East politics and policy, and over the course of his career he lived in the region for a cumulative total of seven years. Lou was the author, co-author or editor of four books and over 40 articles on the Middle East and other subjects. His Op-Eds and commentary appeared on NPR, C-SPAN, and Salon.com, and in USA Today, The Baltimore Sun, and other media outlets.

Lou was a Sergeant of the U.S. Marine Corps from 1951-55, an affiliation in which he took great pride. He was a Distinguished Visiting Lecturer on the Middle East at the U.S. State Department and Adjunct Professor at Marine Corp University in Quantico, Virginia. Lou also taught at West Point, the U.S. Air Force Academy and the U.S. Marine Corps University. He founded or was heavily involved with various Middle East policy groups, including The American Council for the Study of Islamic Societies and The Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy.

Lou received his Ph.D. and M.A. in Political Science from the University of Chicago, and his B.A. in Political Science from University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He studied Islamic philosophy at Al-Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt.

Lou was one of the greatest gifts to higher education UMBC and the Department of Political Science have provided. His scholarship, teaching, and mentoring had enormous impact on the lives and careers of hundreds of UMBC students. Lou received UMBC’s annual teaching award in political science for the academic years 1979-80 and 1981-82. He spearheaded some of the department’s most successful initiatives. Under his chairmanship, UMBC became part of a select number of colleges and universities that annually send delegates to the annual Student Conference on United States Affairs (SCUSA) at the United States Military Academy at West Point. Lou also conducted the Department’s first study-abroad course, to Egypt in 1984.

No matter the length of time anyone spent in Lou's orb, it readily became clear that he cast a giant shadow. Lou's zest and love for life, teaching, politics informed by rationalism and fairness, and UMBC are the stuff of legend. He also served as faculty advisor to the UMBC Crew team with gusto. He thought these scholar-athletes epitomized the exceptionalism of UMBC. After his retirement in 2005, in addition to his ongoing service to the UMBC Crew team, Lou continued to write and present papers internationally.

Without a doubt, Lou’s greatest love was for his loving and supportive family. Lou is survived by his wife, Joan; sons Greg and Eric, who are UMBC alumni; a daughter, Nadia; and nine grandchildren. The family requests that flowers not be sent; condolence letters may be sent to the family in care of Joan Cantori at 716 Dryden Drive, Baltimore, Maryland, 21229.

There will be a private family ceremony with interment at Garrison Forest
Veterans Cemetery, Owings Mills, Md on Friday, June 6.

There will be an open house to celebrate his life on Sunday, June 8 at Nadia's home near Laurel, Md. We would be honored to have you attend. Please RSVP by e-mailing cantorifamily@gmail.com.

Exact details on time and directions will be available soon at http://rememberlou.blogspot.com
Please check back soon. We will be updating and checking this site frequently.

In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to either of the following:

Lou Cantori Scholarship Fund
c/o Kim Robinson
UMBC
8th Floor, Administration Building
1000 Hilltop Circle
Baltimore, MD 21250
(Please make checks payable to the UMBC Foundation)

or

Kidsave c/o Lou Cantori Memorial Fund
PO Box 277587
Atlanta, GA 30384-7487

www.kidsave.org/

Charles Bieberich and Xiang Li, Biological Sciences, Receive Patent
Congratulations to Charles Bieberich, and Xiang Li, Biological Sciences, for their issued U.S. patent #7,368,258, entitled "Devices and Methods for Profiling Enzyme Substrates". This invention relates to apparatus and methods for separating and detecting enzyme substrates using separation gels. To view this patent in its entirety, go to www.uspto.gov, and click on Patents. If you would like more information on patents, copyrights, or start up companies, visit the Office of Technology Development's Web site at www.umbc.edu/otd.

Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, Franc Nunoo-Quarcoo, Receive Publication Awards
Two Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture publications --Andrea Robbins and Max Becher: Portraits and The 1980s: A Virtual Discussion -- have been selected by the American Institute of Graphic Design (AIGA) for their annual Fifty Books / Fifty Covers award. The books were designed by Franc Nunoo-Quarcoo, professor and chair of visual arts.

The award is the highest honor the AIGA bestows for: book design and production. It is extremely rare for one institution to receive two awards in this category in the same year.

Fifty Books / Fifty Covers is scheduled to travel nationally, beginning at the American Institute of Graphic Design in New York in September.

Fauntleroy Claims Field Triple Crown, Most Outstanding Field Award as Track and Field Finishes Fourth, Fifth at America East Championships
Senior Ashley Fauntleroy was named the America East Outdoor Championship Most Outstanding Field Performer for the second straight year as the men’s and women’s track and field teams finished fourth and fifth, respectively at the conference championship meet in Orono, Maine last weekend.

www.umbcretrievers.com/sports/track/release.asp?RELEASE_ID=4113

Baseball Junior Retz Named America East Player of the Week
Baseball junior Shawn Retz has been named the America East Player of the Week for the week ending May 4, the conference announced Monday. The award is Retz’s first since joining the Retrievers at the beginning of the 2007-08 season.

The junior led the Retrievers last weekend as they won their second straight season series, downing the defending America East Conference champion Albany Great Danes, three games to one at UMBC.

www.umbcretrievers.com/sports/baseball/release.asp?RELEASE_ID=4111

Kali Shirk Tabbed America East Softball Player of the Week
Senior catcher Kali Shirk was named America East Player of the Week for the final week of the regular season, the conference announced Monday. The award is Shirk’s first this season and the second of her career.

www.umbcretrievers.com/sports/softball/release.asp?RELEASE_ID=4110

Maurice Berger, CADVC, in the New York Times

A New York Times review of an art exhibit at the Jewish Museum in New York cited “context galleries” organized by Maurice Berger, a senior researcher and curator at the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture. The article, “Rivalry Played Out on Canvas and Page,” appeared on May 2.

www.nytimes.com/2008/05/02/arts/design/02acti.html?_r=3&pagewanted=1&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1210263888-tM3YlJQY6RArfMU0uhKfqw&oref=slogin

Jamie Heard Obituary in the Baltimore Sun
A Baltimore Sun obituary celebrated the life and spirit of Meyerhoff Scholar Jamie Heard ’09. The obituary appeared on May 6.

www.baltimoresun.com/news/obituaries/bal-md.ob.heard06may06,0,5062595.story?track=rss

President Hrabowski on CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360
An interview with UMBC President Freeman Hrabowski aired nationally on the CNN program, Anderson Cooper 360, at 10 p.m., Friday, May 2. The interview focused on the issue of academic achievement and race in America.

www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/anderson.cooper.360/index.html

Tom Schaller, Political Science, in the News
Associate Professor of Political Science Tom Schaller’s latest column for the Baltimore Sun assessed the race in Maryland’s 1st Congressional district between Republican Andy Harris and Democrat Frank Kratovil, Jr. The column, “Fight in the First,” ran on May 7.

www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bal-op.schaller07may07,0,7325404.column

Writing for Salon.com, Schaller analyzed Hillary Clinton’s strategies in gaining the African-American vote. Schaller wrote that her failure to challenge Barack Obama’s huge momentum among African-Americans, not a given at the start, might have doomed her campaign. The column, “How Hillary Clinton Botched the Black Vote,” appeared on May 5.

www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2008/05/05/clinton_blackvote/print.html

In an opinion column for The American Prospect, Schaller wrote that the question now in the Democratic presidential race is whether Clinton can see “the increasingly obvious end of her campaign.” The piece, “Is Clinton the Last to Know It’s Over?” ran on May 7.

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

Schaller discussed the presidential campaign on two separate radio shows affiliated with the National Public Radio (NPR) network, Mid Day with Dan Rodricks on WYPR-88.1 FM (Baltimore) and NPR’s To the Point. Both shows aired on May 7.

www.wypr.org/mid_day.html
www.kcrw.com/news/programs/tp

Ellen Handler Spitz, Visual Arts, in the Chronicle Review
Ellen Handler Spitz, a professor in the visual arts department, wrote an essay for the Chronicle Review that recalls Mary Mothersill, the late professor under whom she studied while a graduate student at Columbia University. “As we mourn the passing of our teachers, we should remember what they gave us, each in his or her own way,” she wrote. The essay, “Fond and Fearful Memories of an Influential Professor,” appeared in the May 9 issue.

http://chronicle.com/temp/email2.php?id=hTcjcQzm3tHZndmQVJm9BQ3zsnC8nXCt

UMBC in the News
Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond senior financial analyst Dale Klein, speaking before public policy and economics students at UMBC on April 28, discussed the housing market, commercial construction and land development. The seminar received coverage from Bloomberg and WYPR-88.1 FM.

www.publicbroadcasting.net/wypr/news.newsmain?action=article&ARTICLE_ID=1268420

From: President Freeman Hrabowski

The campus continues to mourn the loss of Meyerhoff Scholar Jamie Heard. We wanted to share with the UMBC community the following statement written by Jamie, "Life is Beautiful," reflecting his philosophy of life.

"I value life because I realize that too many people waste it. I smile because I realize that too many people cry. I laugh because I know too many people take things too seriously. I lead because too many people have been led astray. I teach because so many people are ignorant. I speak because people need to listen. I listen because so many people have been ignored. I have fun because too many people are always busy. I live for a purpose, because too many people have died for no purpose. I love because too many people show hate. I keep trying because too many people give up. I appreciate what I have because so many people take it for granted. Life is beautiful."

-Jamie Heard

From: John Jeffries, Dean, College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences

I am pleased to announce that John Sturgeon, Professor of Visual Arts, has been named the Lipitz Professor of the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences for Academic Year 2008-09. This professorship is supported by an endowment created by Roger C. Lipitz and the Lipitz Family Foundation "to recognize and support innovative and distinguished teaching and research in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County."

Professor Sturgeon is an internationally renowned and pioneering artist in video and new media technology. His exhibitions and installations have appeared in leading institutions in the United States and abroad, and his works are in collections in major museums and art institutions around the world, including the famed Museum of Modern Art in New York and the National Museum of American Art at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington. He has recently been selected as one of a small handful of pioneers in video art whose work will be archived in the J. Paul Getty Museum/Getty Research Institute at the Getty Center In Los Angeles, perhaps the most important art institution in the world. He has received fellowships and awards from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Fulbright Scholar Program and has served as visiting artist at the American Academy in Rome and Schwabisch Hall, Germany. He has also contributed as author and editor to a number of books, catalogs, and periodicals.

Professor Sturgeon will focus his efforts as Lipitz Professor on restoring some of his early works for transfer to the Getty Center and on completing two major new projects, both of them non-linear and poetic video narratives. He will deliver the annual Lipitz Lecture in Spring, 2009.

I know that everyone will join me in congratulating Professor Sturgeon on his extraordinary record of accomplishment and on being named the Lipitz Professor of the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences for Academic Year 2008-09.

From: President Freeman Hrabowski

Please join me to celebrate Provost Art Johnson’s service to the campus at a reception on Thursday, May 8, 3-5 p.m. on the 7th Floor of the Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery.

Earlier this year, I announced that Art would leave his position as Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and resume his work as Professor of Political Science at the end of this academic year (June 30, 2008). The reception is a wonderful opportunity for all of us to come together as a community to recognize and celebrate Art’s many contributions during his tenure as Provost over the past decade.

I also hope you will consider making a contribution to the Arthur T. Johnson Transfer Scholarship Fund. This scholarship will recognize the academic achievements of outstanding Maryland community college transfer students who wish to continue their studies at UMBC (including UMBC programs at Shady Grove). For more information on donations to this fund, please contact Kim Robinson (ext. 5-3700, trowbrid@umbc.edu) in Institutional Advancement.

It has been an honor working with Art. He has served as Provost since July, 1998, which gives him the distinction of being not only our longest serving Provost, but also the most senior Provost in the University System of Maryland. During his tenure, UMBC has grown substantially -- from 10,100 to 12,050 students -- and we have expanded and strengthened the academic program. He has led our strategic planning process and the reorganization of our academic departments, overseen revisions to general education, and emphasized our core values of academic integrity, civility, and diversity. Art also helped oversee the construction of the Information Technology/Engineering and Public Policy Buildings, as well as major renovations of other academic facilities.

We are fortunate that Art will remain on campus, and I am delighted that he has agreed to serve informally to me as an advisor.

Again, I hope you will join me on Thursday, May 8, in thanking Art for his stellar service as our Provost.

bwtech@UMBC in the Catonsville Times
The Catonsville Times reported that Plant Sensory Systems, a company in bwtech@umbc’s incubator program, will receive a $100,000 Small Business Innovative Research grant from the National Science Foundation. The story, “Research Grant Provides Seed Money for Small Business in UMBC Incubator,” appeared on April 30.

http://news.mywebpal.com/news_tool_v2.cfm?pnpID=351&NewsID=898501&CategoryID=8381&show=localnews&om=1

Tom Beck, Albin O. Kuhn Library and Gallery, in the Baltimore Sun
The Baltimore Sun noted that celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz’s imitation of an Old Master image of “Hannah Montana” star Miley Cirus isn’t necessarily fine art but holds historical and sociological precedent. “The Cyrus pictures certainly point out one of the biggest contradictions in our society,” Tom Beck, chief curator of the Albin O. Kuhn Library and Gallery, told the paper. “On the one hand, our society loves to be titillated with erotic imagery… On the other hand, we have worked mightily to diminish the sexual display of young women under 18.” The story, “Miley Cyrus Photograph,” appeared on April 30.

www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/bal-to.miley30apr30,0,5671900.story

President Hrabowski on CNN’s "Anderson Cooper 360"
An interview with President Freeman Hrabowski is scheduled to air nationally on the CNN program, "Anderson Cooper 360," at 10 p.m., Friday, May 2. The interview focuses on the issue of academic achievement and race in America. The program runs for 60 minutes.

www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/anderson.cooper.360/index.html

Christina Ralls ’07 in the Christian Science Monitor
The Christian Science Monitor interviewed Christina Ralls ’07 about her parents’ experience during the 1968 race riots in Baltimore and a mosaic project she is developing “to express memory and emotion (about the riots) in visual form.” The story, “Baltimore Tries to Heal Wounds From Riots – 40 Years Later,” ran on April 24.

www.csmonitor.com/2008/0424/p20s01-ussc.html?page=1

Theatre in the News
The Baltimore City Paper and the Howard County Times reviewed She Stoops to Conquer, which the Department of Theatre presented April 16 through 27.

http://citypaper.com/arts/story.asp?id=15636

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UMBC in the Baltimore Sun
A Baltimore Sun column discussed the “government debt bomb” that could be left behind by the baby-boom generation. The column cited the speech delivered last fall at UMBC by then-U.S. Comptroller General David Walker. The column, “U.S. Planting a Debt Bomb,” ran on April 30.

www.baltimoresun.com/business/bal-bz.hancock30apr30,0,4722061.column

Chein-I Chang, Computer Science/Electrical Engineering, Receives Patent
Congratulations to Chein-I Chang, professor of computer science and electrical
engineering, for his issued U.S. patent #7,366,326, entitled "Real-time Implementation of Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA) Design in Hyperspectral Imaging". This FPGA design uses a Coordinate Rotation Digital Computer algorithm that can convert a Givens rotation of a vector to a set of shift-add operations.. To view this patent in its entirety, go to www.uspto.gov, and click on Patents. If you would like more information on patents, copyrights, or start up companies, visit the Office of Technology Development's Web site at www.umbc.edu/otd.

Baseball's Drewyer Named Conference Rookie of the Week
Baseball redshirt freshman Austin Drewyer has been named the America East Conference Rookie of the Week for the week ending April 27, the conference announced Monday. Drewyer earned the first save and first win of his collegiate career during last weekend’s sweep of Hartford, the Retrievers’ first-ever four-game series sweep.

www.umbcretrievers.com/sports/baseball/release.asp?RELEASE_ID=4092

Terry Kimener Named America East Men's Lacrosse Player of the Year; Head Coach Don Zimmerman Named Coach of the Year
Senior midfielder Terry Kimener was named 2008 America East Conference Men’s Lacrosse Player of the Year and Head Coach Don Zimmerman was named Coach of the Year in voting by the league’s coaches. Kimener’s selection marks the third time in five league campaigns that a Retriever has earned the league’s top honor. Zimmerman has piloted the Retrievers to the school’s highest USILA ranking ever at No. 5 and the school’s fourth consecutive regular season league title.

www.umbcretrievers.com/sports/mlacrosse/release.asp?RELEASE_ID=4097

The Department of Africana Studies invites you to join with us in honoring Professor Willie B. Lamousé-Smith on the occasion of his retirement from the University at the end of this academic year. The reception honoring his 33 years of service to the UMBC community will take place on Friday, May 16, at 3:30 p.m. in the UC Ballroom. RSVP by May 12 to Wanda Soares Nottingham (wsoares@umbc.edu, ext. 5-2158).

Lamousé-Smith received the Doctoral Degree in Political Science (Cum Laude) in 1966 from the University of Muenster (North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany). Following faculty positions at the Free University of Berlin, Makerere University (Ghana), and Syracuse University, he joined the UMBC faculty in 1975 as a tenured professor and director of the African American Studies Program (1975-1977) and served as department chair from 1977-1981, and from 1997-2000.

During the 33 years that he has been at UMBC, Lamousé-Smith has been a tireless supporter and advocate for the department and its students, and his contributions on our behalf have been invaluable. He also has maintained a vigorous research agenda, having made significant contributions to the study of politics, leadership, demography and health in Africa and its Diaspora. He developed affiliations and collaborations with many illustrious scholars and educators in Africa and America and has published papers on these topics in numerous academic and governmental publications.

Lamousé-Smith provided expert testimony to the U. S. House of Representatives as well as the United Nations and Organization of African Unity committees on these topics and has co-authored an informative and authoritative map series, Africa Interactive Maps. He currently serves on the advisory boards for two of Maryland’s prestigious museums, the Maryland Museum of African Art and the Maryland African American Museum Corporation.