Joyce Marx, vice president for finance and CFO, and Jay Wang, comptroller, for the University System of Maryland Foundation will be on campus for Foundation training and review on Tuesday, July 1, 9-11 a.m. in the UC, Room 312.

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UMBC has received the Maryland Charity Campaign’s 2007 Governor’s Cup for per capita giving for employers of our size (500-2,499 employees) during the fall 2007 campaign.

UMBC’s new food services contractor, Chartwells, commences providing services on Thursday, July 3. Learn more about the summer schedule.

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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.

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After more than 30 years of teaching, directing and service to the UMBC community, Xerxes Mehta, professor of theatre, has announced his intention to retire at the end of the current academic year.

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Wednesday, April 9
University Center Ballroom
12-1 p.m.
(Light lunch served at 11:30 a.m.)

Each year, the UMBC community comes together to celebrate the accomplishments of our outstanding faculty and staff.

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The UMBC men’s basketball team will advance to conference championships for the first time in school history. The game is now sold out.

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It was an exhilarating experience on Saturday, Feb. 23 as the Retrievers clinched the America East Conference regular season title and the school’s first post-season berth at the Division I level. But the journey is not complete. Please consider supporting the Retrievers by making a trip to the beautiful BU Events Center at Binghamton University as UMBC goes for the big prize of “The Big Dance.”

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President Hrabowski's message to the UMBC community regarding the tragedy at Northern Illinois University.

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A conference committee of Maryland Senate and House leaders will meet this week to resolve differences between Senate legislation that dedicates supplemental funds for higher education and House legislation that eliminates dedicated funding and proposes cuts to higher education
budgets.

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A dedicated funding source for higher education is at risk as the Maryland Senate prepares to vote on Governor O’Malley’s budget plan November 8.

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This week, it is vital that our voices be heard by Governor Martin O’Malley and the Maryland General Assembly, as they address the state's structural deficit and dedicated funding sources for higher education.You can make a big difference in just five minutes. The University System of Maryland (USM) has launched a Legislative Alert Center at http://capwiz.com/usmd/home/ where you can read about the upcoming Special Session, find out how to contact your legislators and ask them to support higher education in Maryland.

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Find out how to order regalia and RSVP. Please note: regalia should be ordered by Friday, October 26. After that date, you will be asked to pay a late charge of $20. Even if you do not order regalia, you must RSVP to march in the Commencement procession, so that appropriate seating arrangements can be made.

This fall marks the first time that UMBC has enrolled more than 12,000 students — 12,041. This fall’s enrollments include 1,439 new first-time freshmen (with an average combined SAT of 1,191), 1,113 new transfer students (up 142 from fall 2006), and 881 new graduate students (up 112 from fall 2006). Especially encouraging are the increased retention rate of first-year, full-time freshmen (82.0 percent to 84.4 percent) and the 8.2-percent increase in the total number of graduate students.

The Department of Mathematics and Statistics is pleased to host David E. Keyes from Columbia University for a colloquium talk on Friday, October 26. Keyes is a distinguished researcher in scientific and parallel computing working on large-scale problems from many applications including Department of Energy applications areas. As the Vice President of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), Keyes is particularly interested in technical dialogs with engineers, physicists and computer scientists. All members of the UMBC community are welcome.

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The Learning Resources Center is glad to announce and welcome the
following new staff members for fall 07: Lorine Dabeck, administrative assistant, and Teresa Valais, academic skills coordinator.

Please welcome UMBC’s newest faculty and staff (hired 7/1-9/30/07).

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Years of partnership between environmental and water scientists at UMBC and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) are now etched in bricks and mortar. The USGS Maryland-Delaware-District of Columbia Water Science Center has moved over 60 hydrologists, engineers and biologists to a 23,500-square-foot facility in bwtech@UMBC, and the building is abuzz with activity.

UMBC’s Inclement Weather Policy is posted at www.umbc.edu/facultystaff/snowpolicy.html.

Distinguished University Professor of History Warren I. Cohen, one of the world’s leading experts on the history of American-East Asian relations, has received the 2005 University System of Maryland Regents’ Award for Research/Scholarship/Creative Activity.

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UMBC announced that three new tenants have agreed to move into the second building in bwtech@UMBC, the University's on-campus research and technology park. The new arrivals include the award-winning information technology firm BDMetrics, Inc.; the $148 million NASA Goddard Earth Sciences and Technology Center; and all UMBC departments related to technology transfer and entrepreneurship education.

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The subject of bias in our media is one that gets many people's hearts racing right around election time. And that is just what Patricia La Noue, director of interdisciplinary studies, had in mind when choosing this year's topic for the annual Mosaic Roundtable Forum on October 27. The panel will be comprised of four distinguished UMBC faculty: Thomas Schaller (political science), Christopher Corbett (English), Jason Loviglio (American studies) and Susan Dwyer (philosophy), who will serve as moderator. Terry Eastland, publisher of the Weekly Standard, will also be attending as a guest participant.

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Warren I. Cohen, distinguished university professor of history at UMBC, has been awarded one of the top honors given to American historians--the Norman and Laura Graebner Prize of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. Cohen is the ninth person to ever win the award.

The Department of Human Resources has announced UMBC's first Employee ofthe Quarter award recipients.

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BrainChild Maryland has announced that it has signed partnership agreements with both UMBC and Johns Hopkins University's Whiting School of Engineering (WSE) to facilitate the commercialization of technologies developed at those institutions.

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UMBC and companies with UMBC connections had a distinct presence at the Greater Baltimore Technology Council's annual TechNite awards ceremony in October. Four of the twelve nominees for "Purple Cow" awards � named for the best seller by entrepreneur Seth Godin and given to innovators whose new approaches stand out from the competition � had links to UMBC, and two of them took home "Purple Cow" awards.

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UMBC is one of only 15 universities selected by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation to compete for a small number of $5-million challenge grants the foundation will award to universities that can make entrepreneurship a common and accessible experience for all students.

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.

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UMBC's Chess Team further solidified its place as one of the greatest in the history of college chess with its first-ever President's Cup title, secured on April 6 with a win over arch-rival University of Texas, Dallas (UTD).

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Alicia Wilson, a UMBC Public Affairs Scholar and former valedictorian at Mergenthaler HS (Baltimore), has been awarded the prestigious Harry S. Truman Scholarship, awarded annually to 75 outstanding college juniors who are preparing for careers in government. Wilson is majoring in political science and plans to pursue joint degrees in public interest law and urban policy after completing her studies at UMBC.

Researchers from UMBC and Achillion Pharmaceuticals announced the discovery of a new target on the HIV molecule that could potentially lead to a new class of drugs to fight the virus that causes AIDS. The study, headed by Michael Summers, UMBC professor of chemistry/biochemistry and Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Investigator, is featured on the cover of this week's Journal of Molecular Biology.

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UMBC's efforts to build a comprehensive, supportive environment for women and minority graduate students were recognized by the Council of Graduate Schools (CGS), who awarded the university's Graduate School the CGS/Peterson's Award for Innovation in Promoting an Inclusive Graduate Community.

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