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OUTLOOK

A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER FOR FACULTY AND STAFF AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND AT COLLEGE PARK

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SEPTEMBER 24, 1990
VOLUME 5, NUMBER 4

Research Awards Up Sixteen Percent

Research contracts and grants
administered by College Park for
the 1990 fiscal year topped the $100
million mark for the first time. This
represents a 16,2 percent increase
over FY 1989 and more than three
times the annual value of such
grants a decade ago, according to
Victor Medina, director of the Of-
fice of Research Administration
and Advancement.

According to a report released
last month by Medina's office,
1,439 grants and contracts were
awarded last year, for a total of
$101,259,673. the federal govern-
ment provides most of the research
money to College Park, with more
than 35 departments and agencies
accounting for 82 percent of the
award total. The National Aeronau-
tics and Space Administration
(NASA) is the largest single federal
sponsor of research on the campus,
providing 17.01 percent of alt grant
dollars. For FY 1990, NASA award-
ed a total of almost $17.4 million.

The National Science Founda-
tion was the next largest federal
research sponsor, awarding grants
and contracts for nearly $15.4 mil-
lion or 15.07 percent of College
Park's total awards. The Depart-
ment of Defense agencies (Army,
Navy and Air Force) followed with
almost $15 million, 14.68 percent of
all awards.

Rounding out the top group
were the Department of Energy
($6.2 million) and the Department
of Agriculture ($5.3 million). Vari-

Trying Out
Graduate School

Minority undergraduates
do summer research

New directions for
Physics Department

Boyd discusses challenges

Sandy Mack on
the CORE courses

Involving students in
the process of learning. . . .

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ous other federal agencies provided
a combined total of $24,7 million.

State of Maryland departments
such as Agriculture, Education,
Transportation, Natural Resources
and Environment provided 5.5 per-
cent of College Park's research mo-
ney with more than $5.6 million.
Private contributors such as corpor-
ations and foundations provided an
additional $6.9 million. Other sour-
ces of funds such as local govern-
ments and other universities provi-
ded almost $4,8 mil! ion.

The College of Computer,
Mathematical and Physical Sciences
received the largest share of re-
search dollars with a total of $42.8
million. Rounding out the top five
College Park recipients were the
Colleges of Engineering ($15.8 mil-
lion); Life Sciences ($11.3 million);
Agriculture ($7.6 million); and Edu-
cation ($5.2 million).

According to Medina, the fed-
eral share of total funding has de-
clined, but increases in private
binding and other non-federal sup-
port are offsetting that factor.

He points out that for interna-
tional development projects, federal
funding has increased dramatically.
"Grants and contracts with the U.S.
Agency for International Develop-
ment increased from $225,000 in FY
1989 to $2.4 million in FY 1990," he
says. "This is our largest increase in
funding from the smaller federal
agencies."

Medina says, however, that he
cannot make predictions for future

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federal funding because of the in-
creasing federal budget deficit and
the unresolved Middle East crisis.
"We will have to wait and see what
happens," he says. "There could be
an increase in demand for research
and development because of cur-
rent situations, or the opposite
could happen and funds could be
diverted to the production of De-
partment of Defense hardware. But
if there are problems getting fed-
eral funding to College Park, it cer-
tainly won't be because of a lack of
talent here."

Fariss Samarrai

Kirwan Reviews Funding Cut
at Campus Senate Meeting

In his State of the Campus ad-
dress at the Campus Senate meet-
ing on Sept. 13, President William
E. Kirwan outlined details of the
six percent cut in this year's Gen-
eral Funds budget mandated by
Governor William Donald Schaefer
recently. The cut amounts to a
$14.5 million reduction in the uni-
versity's current budget, said Kir-
wan.

All state agencies have been
asked to submit proposals for a
cost containment plan in response
to a $150 million shortfall in the
current state budget. As part of this
across-the-board cut in General
Funds, all institutions in the public
higher education system must
reduce their General Funds budget
by six percent, said Kirwan.

Changes in the university's plan
may occur later, but currently, the
$14.5 million funding cut will come
from the following sources,
deemed to have the least harmful
impact on the university's progress
in the short run:

• Curtail facilities renewal pro-
jects, $6,5 million;

• Implement a 1 percent cut in
salaries and wages, $3 million; no
current faculty or staff salaries are
affected by this reduction; it will be
implemented through a hiring
freeze, by not filling vacant posi-
tions or some part-time jobs, and
other salary savings measures;

• Restrict purchase of new
equipment, with special exceptions
made for the libraries and for com-
puter workstations and software
purchases, $4 million;

• Ban out-of-state travel that
relies on General Funds, $600,000;

• Reduce motor vehicles 'pur-
chases, $430,000.

After its plan has been approved
by the state, the university will
seek to have the flexibility to
decide where funding cuts should
take place, such as having the free-
dom to determine specific exemp-
tions for out-of-state travel and hir-
ing of necessary personnel, as long
as the $14.5 million total reduction
is achieved.

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UNIVERSITY

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MARYLAND

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COLLEGE

PARK

Maryland Joins Plan to Attract Women and
Minorities to Science Fields

The University of Maryland
along with 19 other top NSF-
funded research universities and
the National Science Foundation,
have developed a plan of action to
attract and retain more women and
minorities in science and engineer-
ing fields.

The plan, a response to the na-
tional need for more professionals
in science and engineering, outlines
ways to improve the adequacy of
pre-college science and mathe-
matics training and increase the
number of women and minorities

earning undergraduate and grad-
uate degrees in science.

It also seeks to facilitate the
entry of women and minorities into
science and engineering careers,
particularly faculty positions.

NSF Director Erich Bloeh and
the presidents of leading NSF-
funded universities, among them
Harvard, MIT, Columbia, Stanford,
Princeton, Berkeley, Illinois, Michi-
gan, Wisconsin and Minnesota,
have agreed to undertake joint ac-
tion and leadership to achieve
these goats.

The plan states that while "the
leading NSF-funded research uni-
versities must place high priority
on research productivity, they must
also fulfill the primary responsi-
bility of universities — to provide
quality education for undergrad-
uate and graduate students."

NSF and the 20 universities
have agreed to generate and take
part in alliances to develop student
retention programs and to seek
more effective strategies for
increasing the advancement of
women and minorities in science.

Public Affairs Lecture Series Set

"America in a Changing World:
Succeeding or Getting By?" is the
theme of a four- part fall lecture
series sponsored by the School of
Public Affairs.

The series begins Tuesday, Sept.
25 with "East-West Axis in World
Affairs in the Wake of the Revolu-
tion of 1989." Public Affairs Dean
Michael Nacht will deliver this
lecture.

On Tuesday, Oct. 30, I.M.
Destler, professor of public affairs,
will speak on "Competition with
our Friends: Trade."

On Tuesday, Nov. 13, economics
professor Martin Baily will discuss
"Competition with our Friends:
Innovation."

And on Tuesday, Dec. 4, public
affairs professor Peter Brown will
speak on "Possibilities for Coopera-

tion: The Environment."

All lectures begin at 7:30 p.m. at
the University of Maryland's Cen-
ter for Advanced Research in Bio-
technology (CARB) Auditorium in
Shady Grove. The series is free and
open to the public. For more
details, call the School of Public
Affairs at 405-6330.

University to Host Super-Computer Symposium

College Park w r ill host "Frontiers
'90," the 3rd Symposium on the
Frontiers of Massively Parallel
Computations October 8-10 at the
Center of Adult Education.

The conference is sponsored by
the IEEE Computer Society, NASA
Goddard Space Flight Center and
the IEEE-National Capital Area
Council.

Larry Davis, director of
UMIACS, the University of Mary-
land Institute for Advanced Com-
puter Studies, is conference chair.

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"As our field progresses, our
definition of what constitutes a
massively parallel system changes,"
Davis notes. "For this year's confer-
ence, a system was regarded as
massively parallel if it contained
more than 1,00(1 processors. The
papers chosen for presentations
describe architectures, algorithms
and applications for such massively
parallel machines."

In addition to technical presen-
tations, the conference will include
tutorials by two of the top scien-
tists in the field — Michael Duff,
professor of applied physics and
head of the Image Processing
Group at University College, Lon-
don, and Guv Steele, senior scien-
tist at Thinking Machines Corpora-
tion—and a panel discussion focus-
ing on the future of massively par-

allel computing. The symposium's
program chair is Joseph F. Ja'Ja/
professor of electrical
engineering.

Kirwan Discusses Funding Cut

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This budget reduction is unfor-
tunate, hut should be viewed in the
national context, as part of a larger
economic downturn, said Kirwan.
He expressed the hope that the uni-
versity "would not allow this one-
time problem to slow down the
university's current momentum.
Recent cuts in other state higher
education budgets are even more
severe than those received by Col-
lege Park, said Kirwan, who said
that this news is ironic because it
comes at a time when College Park
is making tremendous progress
and has the strongest support in its
history.

The seriate meeting was
presided over by the new chair,

Bruce Fretz, Psychology. Senate ac-
tions included electing Gerald
Miller, Chemistry, as chair-elect. In
addition, an election for a new ex-
ecutive committee and for the
Council of University System Fac-
ulty also was held. These results
will be announced in a forthcoming
Outlook.

In other actions, a name change
was approved for the Department
of Art History to become the
Department of Art History and Ar-
cheology, and a master of Land-
scape Architecture degree was ap-
proved.

The next meeting of the Campus
Senate will take place on Monday,
Oct. 22.

Roz Hiebert

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Woman of the Year to be Honored Sept. 25

The Outstanding Woman of the Year, Vicki Freimuth, associate
professor in the Department of Speech Communication, will be the
featured speaker at a program honoring her achievements on
Tuesday, Sept. 25 at 3:30 p.m. in Room 1400, Marie Mount Hall.
New women faculty members also will be welcomed to the univer-
sity and a reception will follow the program. Sponsored by the
President's Commission on Women's Affairs, the event is open to
the campus community. Call 405-5806 for information.

AIDS Awareness Week Being
Planned at College Park

Faculty, staff and students at
College Park will be encouraged to
reflect upon how the AIDS epidem-
ic is affecting life at the university
and society as a whole during
AIDS Awareness Week Nov.
26— Dec. 2.

Under the theme "Bridges to
Understanding," a variety of activ-
ities will be held to spotlight the
ways in which AIDS, a fatal dis-
ease that has killed more than
80,000 Americans in the last
decade, affects life at the univer-
sity.

Major activities will include a
candlelight march followed by a
gathering in the Chapel, a day of
arts performances in the Atriums of
the Art/Sociology Building and
Stamp Student Union, a focus on
AIDS in academic classes and
screenings of the films "Longtime
Companion" and "Common
Threads: Stories From the Quilt."

The idea for the week originated
with Bill Patterson, assistant profes-
sor of theatre. Patterson, who is
involved with the NAMES project
(AIDS Memorial Quilt), saw a need
for the university community to
focus on the problem.

"AIDS is already here. We've
had cases of AIDS in our work-
place, and there are many people at
this university who are caring for
loved ones with the disease or are
grieving their losses. As this epi-
demic continues to grow, we will
find ourselves living with AIDS
more and more," Patterson says.

"For the people in our commu-
nity who live daily with the disease
— either as caregivers or people
with HIV infection or AIDS— we
want to recognize their struggle
and offer what support we can. For
those not yet touched directly by
AIDS, we want to awaken them to
how this disease is affecting their
lives even if the impact is not so
readily apparent.

"Also, in a larger sense, as an
educational institution, we must be

looking hard at the profound effect
this disease is having on our soci-
ety — on our health system, our pol-
itics, our economy."

Last spring, Patterson enlisted
support through a mailing to col-
leagues. A university- wide group
volunteered to serve on the pro-
ject's steering committee, including
representatives from behavioral
and social sciences, arts and
humanities, health and human per-
formance, the Health Center, cam-
pus activities, public information,
Hillel House, physical plant,
student affairs, theatre, human rela-
tions, experiential learning, human
relations, English, Stamp Student
Union, the Art Gallery, the Epis-
copal Campus Ministry, the Gay-
Lesbian Student Union, health edu-
cation, the Graduate Student Asso-
ciation, administrative affairs and
personnel.

Wendy Owens, director of the
Art Gallery, and Gretchen Van der
Veer, assistant to the vice president
of student affairs, are serving with
Patterson as co-chairs of the com-
mittee. Owens is coordinating
academic and arts programs; Van
der Veer is coordinating special
events and publicity.

J. Robert Dorfman, vice presi-
dent for academic affairs, has sent
a university-wide letter to faculty
members urging participation in
the week. Dorfman is asking the
faculty to include, wherever appro-
priate, a discussion of AIDS in their
classes.

"The response has been excel-
lent," Patterson says. "AIDS is a
disease that has been stigmatized
in so many ways that one always
wonders how people will react
when it's raised.

"With the support and open-
mindedness that have been
displayed thus far by the campus
community, I'm looking forward to
a positive and enlightening week of
activities and dialogue. The silence
that people often fee! they must
maintain about this disease is one
of its most demoralizing qualities.
Hopefully, we can begin to break
through the silence on this cam-
pus." he says.

Planned activities include:

• A candlelight march followed
by a gathering in the Chapel where
students, alumni and faculty and
staff members will describe per-
sonal experiences with AIDS. Some
speakers will talk of caring for
loved ones with AIDS, while others
will talk of living with the disease.
(Persons interested in speaking at
the gathering should contact Jon
Boone, assistant dean of arts and
humanities, 405-2087.)

• Workshops on "AIDS in the
Workplace" will be held for univer-
sity employees. Sponsored by the
department of personnel, the ses-
sions will focus on the responsibil-
ities and dilemmas facing super-
visors and co-workers when an
employee is diagnosed with AIDS.
(To date, there have been three
known cases of AIDS in the work-
place at College Park.)

• Screenings of "Longtime Com-
panion" and the Academy Award-
winning documentary "Common
Threads."

• A day of arts performances in
the Atriums of the Art /Sociology
Building and Stamp Student Union
will show how artists have tried to
comprehend the meaning of the
disease.

• Throughout the week, faculty
members will use regular classes to
focus on the implications of AIDS
in their fields of study. For instance
in business and management, AIDS
will discussed as a personnel issue;
in philosophy as an ethical issue.

Other faculty members are plan-
ning special assignments related to
AIDS. Jim Thorpe, assistant
professor of housing and design,
will stage an AIDS Awareness
Week poster design contest among
his students.

For more information on the
week or to suggest ideas for activ-
ities call Owens, 405-2763; Patter-
son, 405-6692; or Van der Veer,
314-8429.

Brian Bust'k

AIDS Awareness Week

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SEPTEMBER 24, 1990

OUTLOOK

CLOSE UP

Summer Program Gives Students a Taste of
What Graduate School is Like

Lori Alexander had often
thought she might go to graduate
school, but this summer after a six-
week program here that included
weekly meetings with her professor
and many trips to the National Lib-
rary of Medicine using MEDLAN,
a medical database, she says it is a
certainty.

"The summer research program
definitely swayed me toward get-
ting my Ph.D. in health education,"
savs the 20-year-old from West
Hyattsville, "The experience gave
me a sense of what graduate re-
search is like and that 1 could
handle it."

Alexander, a senior majoring in
dance and health science and pol-
icy at the University of Maryland
Baltimore County, was one of
thirteen students to attend the sec-
ond annual Summer Undergradu-
ate Research Program (June 4-July
13) at the University of Maryland
at College Park.

Open to all African-American,
Hispanic/ Latino, and American
Indian undergraduate students
who have completed their sopho-
more or junior year, the summer
undergraduate research program
was designed to give academically
talented minority students a closer,
more supportive look at the reali-
ties of graduate school.

"The program presents an excel-
lent opportunity for each student to
work closely with a professor in his
or her area of expertise," says Carla
Gary, associate director of the Of-
fice of Graduate Minority Affairs
which runs the program.

Students selected for the pro-
gram received a $2,000 stipend,
housing fees, round trip travel ex-
penses, and registration and tuition
fees. Students enrolled at College
Park were also able to receive 3-6
hours of undergraduate credit for
the summer program.

While most of the students en-
rolled were undergraduates, some
already had college degrees, were
well-established in careers, and had
even raised families.

Linda Williams is a resident of
Baltimore, Maryland and the
mother of seven children.
Having earned a B.A. degree from
Coppin State this spring, Linda
came to the summer undergraduate
research program to explore her in-
terest in early childhood education
with associate professor Elisa Klein,
director of the Center for Young
Children.

Williams says the summer re-
search program "provided me with
an orientation to graduate research
and introduced me to research
methods, something I had no prior
experience with."

As a result of her experiences,
Williams will be enrolling in the
Early Childhood Education pro-
gram of the College of Education in
the spring of 1991.

Charles Murphy, 43, a resident
of Columbia, Maryland, also has a
family with two children ages*21
and 14. He currently works as a
technician in the CCU/1CU unit of

Prince George's Community Hos-
pital. He is also a recovering addict
to drugs and alcohol.

"I had always wanted to go to
school," savs Murphy, "so when 1
stopped drinking four years ago, I
decided to do something for mv-
self."

At the time. Murphy was finish-
ing an A. A. degree at Coppin State
College in Maryland. But the de-
mands of work, family, and his
substance abuse stretched the pro-
gram to eight vears. To get his
bachelor's degree. Murphy went to
school full-time in 1988, and gradu-
ated with .i B.A. from Coppin State
in the spring of 1990.

During his time as an un-
dergraduate, Murphy realized he
would need at least a Masters' de-
gree to achieve his goal of becom-
ing a counselor to help addicts and
their families cope with the prob-
lems of drug abuse.

Murphy's research project in-
volved an analysis of the barriers
to individuals seeking career
changes. During the project, he
worked with Marv Ann Hoffman,
associate professor in the depart-
ment of counseling and personnel
services (CAPS).

The quality of his work was so
high that Murphy was encouraged
to apply to the CAPS program here
and was admitted for the fall
semester.

The Office of Graduate Minority
Affairs is already planning to ex-
pand next year's Summer Under-
graduate Research Program.

"It's clear that as we near the
21st century, the workforce is going
to change color and gender," says
Gary. "The success of minorities
and women in higher education is
necessary for the future of us all."

lohn Fritz

This fall, five minority scholars
are taking part in a new Post-doc-
toral Fellowship Program for Black
Scholars.

"The purpose of this award is to
allow recent black doctoral gradua-
tes a chance to participate in the re-
search enterprise of the university,
to forward their own research care-
ers, and to interest them in careers
in an academic institution," says
Jacob K. Goldhaber, acting dean of
the graduate school.

The university has increased its
support for fellowships and grants
to black graduate students from
$119,000 in 1986 to the current level
of $1.6 million. This money is allo-
cated from a state desegregation
fund.

"The addition of a post-doctoral
fellowship program is a logical ex-
tension to the graduate support for
minorities on campus," says Joanna
Schmeissner, director of the gradu-
ate fellowship office.

Mark Carter earned a Ph.D. in
physics from Stanford University.
He plans to work with James
Gates, Jr, professor in the Depart-
ment of Physics and Astronomy on
"Spinor Variable Approach to

Hamiltonian Quantum Gravity."

Rachel Grant earned her Ph.D. in
secondary education at College
Park and will continue her research
on text processing with associate
professor Beth Davey in the De-
partment of Curriculum and In-
struction.

Mark Kellum received his Ph.D.
in mathematics from Washington.
He will work with mathematics
professor Henry King on Rieman-
nian foliations.

Walter Miller holds a doctorate in
mathematics from the City Uni-
versity of New York. He proposes
to investigate the convergence of
finite approximations of invariant
measures of dynamical systems
with his sponsor, mathematics pro-
fessor Michael Brin.

Clarence Talley received his
Th.D. in sociology from Maryland.
He will investigate the social, eco-
nomic, and demographic charac-
teristics of designated labor market
areas in the U.S. with a majority of
black residents. His campus spon-
sor is William Falk, professor and
chair of the sociology department.

John Fritz

Participants of the
Summer Undergrad-
uate Research Pro-
gram are (left to right)
Lori Alexander,
Charles Murphy, and
Linda Williams.

Grad School Begins New Post-doctoral
Fellowship Program for Black Scholars

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Program for Baltimore Teachers to Focus
on Women's Poetry

When the Center for Renais-
sance and Baroque Studies' CAST
program moves into Baltimore this
fall, it will offer a special initiative
for a special situation.

Martha Nell Smith, associate
professor of English at College
Park, and Margaret Reid, professor
of English at Morgan State Univer-
sity, will conduct a year-long insti-
tute for 30 public and private
secondary school teachers in
Baltimore on women's traditions in
American poetry.

As part of the institute, the
teachers will explore the influence
of race and gender on the treat-
ment of literature and discover
new texts for their high school cur-
ricula. Throughout the course, the
teachers will study pairs of poets,
with each pair including poets
from Anglo-American and African
American traditions. For instance,
Phillis Wheatley will be studied
alongside Anne Bradstreet, Frances
E.W. Harper with Emily Dickinson,
Alice Dunbar-Nelson with
Marianne Moore, and Angelina
Weld Grimke with Elizabeth
Bishop.

The program will include lec-
tures and readings by contem-
porary poets, including Be mice
Johnson Reagon, Lucille Clifton,
Sonia Sanchez and Sandra Mortota
Gilbert.

The CAST {Center Alliance for
Secondary School Teachers and
Texts) program, now in its third
year, is designed to help improve
the instruction of the humanities at
high schools in Maryland by
offering secondary school teachers
an invigorating year of study in the
subjects they teach. As part of the
program, College Park English de-
partment faculty members conduct
institutes at locations through the
state. In past years, institutes have
been held in Frederick, Dorchester,
Baltimore, Prince George's and
Montgomery counties, but never in
Baltimore city. The program is
funded with a $350,000 National
Endowment for the Humanities
grant.

Jane Deren, coordinator of the
CAST program, sees significance in
bringing a program with a multi-
cultural perspective into Baltimore,
where more than 80 percent of both
teachers and students in the public
school system are black.

"By studying various literary
traditions together, it acknowledges
the contributions of all groups," she
says.

The institute represents a depar-
ture for the CAST program in sev-
eral respects. It is the first time that
a College Park faculty member will
team- teach an institute with a
faculty member from another in-

stitution. In addition, past institutes
have tended to focus on dramatic
and prose literature rather than
poetry.

"Teachers often find poetry a
difficult subject to teach because
students are resistant to it at first,"
Smith says. "However, I've found
that once poetry begins to become
alive for students, they find it very
exciting.

"[In the institute] we'll work on
strategies to create that excitement.
Poets will attend sessions frequent-
ly and read from their work be-
cause hearing a poem read aloud
adds to the work. We'll also
explore the question of what makes
a poem in the 1990s. For instance,
is the music that students hear on
the radio a form of poetry?"

Pairing Anglo and African
American writers will generate in-
teresting issues for discussion,
Smith says. Among the poems of
Frances Harper, a black contempor-
ary of Emily Dickinson, is a poem,
"Learning to Read." That Harper
would see learning to read as
something less than a given in life
is one indication that she writes
from a much different socio-econo-
mic perspective than Dickinson,
Smith says.

Institute sessions will begin in
late September and continue
throughout the academic year.

Walking in the Footsteps of Handel — On the Very Floor!

In 1685 George Frideric Handel Traver adds with quiet pride. ments is unforgettable for

Brian Busek

In 1685 George Frideric Handel
was born in the little town of Halle,
in Saxony, which after World War
11, ended up as part of East
Germany.

In the fall of 1989 the Berlin
Wall came down and in the sum-
mer of 1990, professor and conduc-
tor Paul Traver brought the Mary-
land Handel Festival's acclaimed
production of the oratorio, Scmele
for performance at the world fa-
mous Handel Festival held each
year in the town of the great com-
poser's birth.

It was a sell out.

One of the first major coopera-
tive musical efforts since the end of
the old regime, the concert featured
an American chorus and conductor
and East German vocal soloists and
orchestra. Audiences were enthu-
siastic, with many 'bravos,' yelling
and curtain calls. The German
press designated Semele as the high
point of this year's Handel Festi-
val — "And I tend to think it was,"

Traver adds with quiet pride.

The chorus also performed a
choral concert of German and
American music in a former
church, including in the program a
major work by the pre-Bach com-
poser, Samuel Scheidt, also a native
of Halle.

During a rehearsal of this music,
the house manager asked to speak
to the chorus. Standing on the po-
dium next to Traver, he told the
chorus that on the very spot where
their conductor was standing,
Scheidt had been baptized more
than 400 years before. Traver and
his singers stood in awed silence.

The Maryland musicians were in
for an even bigger thrill. Asked to
sing in the chapel of nearby
Weissenfels Castle, they were told
as they entered that not only had
Bach and Handel both performed
here, but they had actually walked
on the very floor the group was
about to step on.

The authenticity of such mo-

ments is unforgettable for musi-
cians. As Maryland student ac-
companist Lino Rivera said, "I'll
never read and think about Bach
and Handel in the same way — I've
been there."

In Belgium, some sixty other
chorus members joined the fifty-
voice Chamber Singers to sing
well-received performances of
Mendelssohn's Elijah and an a
cappella concert of German and
American music in such pictur-
esque settings as Louvain and an
old abbey near Namur.

Not resting long on their laurels,
the well-seasoned travelers
returned and almost immediately
were caught up in the excitement
of preparing for the celebration of
the Maryland Handel Festival's
tenth anniversary. The festival,
coming up October 31 -November 4,
is sure to bring the chorus new ac-
colades for their world class musi-
cianship.

Linda Freeman

Martha Nell Smith will
leach an institute for
high schoolteachers
this spring.

Maryland Handel Festival

Tenth Anniversary Season
Oct, 31-Nov. 4

• Concerts, Lectures, Recitals

• Special gala performance of Messiah in Baltimore's Joseph
Meyerhoff Symphony Hall Oct. 31

• Full-scale performance of the

opera Agrippina in Tawes Recital Flail Nov. 3

• First American performance of the oratorio Joseph in Memorial
Chapel Nov. 4

For Information call 301-405-5571.

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RESEARCH

New Chair of Physics Discusses Challenges

"We are a good
research department,
but we now have to
elevate the status of
teaching by providing
rewards for it. With
better courses and
better taught
courses, we can pro-
vide the intellectual
stimulation our
students deserve."
Derek A. Boyd

Derek A. Boyd, professor in the
Laboratory for Plasma Research,
became chair of the Department of
Physics and Astronomy July 1. He
succeeds Chuan S. Liu, who had
served in that post since 1985. Liu
will resume his position as a pro-
fessor of physics.

Boyd, an experimental plasma
physicist, joined the university in
1 973 as a research associate. He be-
came a full professor in 1983. Be-
fore coming to the University of
Maryland, he was a research assis-
tant at Stevens Institute of Tech-
nology in Hoboken, N.J. where he
earned his Ph.D. in physics in 1973.
Early in his career he was a re-
search associate at the United
Kingdom Atomic Energy Author-
ity's Culham Laboratory. Boyd also
has been a visiting scientist with
the Joint European Torus in
England.

Boyd is a member of the Ameri-
can Physical Society and the Amer-
ican Association of Physics Teach-
ers. He also serves on the editorial
advisory board of the International
j mi mat of Infrared ami Millimeter
Waves. Boyd is a fellow of the
American Physical Society and in
1988 was a visiting fellow at
Wolfson College in Oxford. He has
published 70 articles in scientific
journals and has authored many
invited and contributed papers to
numerous major scientific confer-
ences and meetings.

During the five years of his ap-
pointment, Boyd expects to face
several challenges, the biggest be-
ing the retirement of faculty
members. "We may have about two
retirements per year through 1995,
and about four per year during the
second half of the decade," he says.

"The challenge will be to raise
the level of the department by hir-
ing high quality people— while
losing several key faculty members
who currently are with us. We
have to find ways to get better
without getting bigger."

Boyd says the department will
have to improve salaries and main-
tain important grants if it is to at-
tract and keep top quality scientists.

Boyd points to Soviet physicist
Roald Sagdeev {who recently ac-

Derek A. Boyd

cepted a distinguished professor-
ship in the department) as an ex-
ample of the type of faculty the
department is hoping to hire.

"Sagdeev is going to greatly en-
hance our reputation as a leading
physics department, and be will
increase our cooperative ties with
other Soviet physicists," Boyd says.

Sagdeev is widely regarded as
one of the top physicists in the
world. He will head the univers-
ity's new East-West Science and
Technology Center, which will
work toward creating scientific
linkages between the United States
and the Soviet Union.

"We also are taking a hard, com-
prehensive look at ourselves
through an evaluative committee
headed by Alex Dragt (professor of
physics and former department
chair)," Boyd says. "This will help
us to debate our future and deter-
mine directions to take."

One direction the department
needs to take, according to Boyd, is
to eventually triple the number of
women on its faculty. "Of 75 facul-
ty members, only two are women,"
he says. "There is no way we can
afford to stay like that. We have to
explain our poor record for recruit-
ing women and we have to begin
correcting this systematic error
soon."

Boyd says the department must

Y.Y. Hsu Appointed to Atomic
Energy Post in Taiwan

Y.Y. Hsu, a professor in the De-
partment of Nuclear Engineering,
has accepted an appointment to
chair the Atomic Energy Council of
the Republic of China.

During the next two years,
while on leave of absence from the
university, he will head a 12-mem-
ber, cabinet-level post that oversees
nuclear reactor safety in Taiwan.
Hsu says that six reactors at three
power plants there generate about
half of the nation's electrical power
needs.

Hsu notes that the island nation
is heavily dependent on exports
and consequently ample power is

of critical importance to the coun-
try's industry and economy.

While a visiting professor at a
Taiwan university with an exten-
sive nuclear engineering depart-
ment, he was asked to make a pre-
sentation to the nation's leaders on
reactor safety and improvements.
He was then asked to consider tak-
ing the post.

"There is a kind of siege mental-
ity in the (nuclear power) industry
worldwide because of the accidents
at Three Mile island and Cherno-
byle," the Taiwan native says. "My
heritage and profession made me
want to accept this assignment."

begin placing a higher emphasis on
education as well. "In recent years
we have been attracting better stu-
dents, but we've been keeping
teaching standards at the same lev-
el," he says. "We are a good re-
search department, but we now
have to elevate the status of
teaching by providing rewards for
it. With better courses and better
taught courses, we can provide the
intellectual stimulation our stu-
dents deserve."

Boyd believes the department
also could extend its interaction
with the rest of the university and
with local communities. "We need
to reach out to area high schools
and organizations and let them
know about our physics programs,"
Bovd says. "This is another way we
can enhance our educational mis-
sion."

Boyd points to several improve-
ments occurring in the department
as well. The Center for Supercon-
ductivity Research continues to
grow as additional staff members
are hired and the center's offices
are renovated. The department also
is searching for a top physicist to
fill a newly-created endowed chair.

"The key for the coming decade
will be to keep and attract the best
people, despite the fact that we will
be losing some of our best through
retirements," Boyd concludes.

Fariss Samarrai

Maryland Policy
Studies Focuses on
Blacks in Maryland

The current edition of
Maryland Policy Studies, published
by the Bureau of Governmental
Research in the School of Public
Affairs, examines the social and
economic condition of blacks in
Marytand.

The findings in the various ar-
ticles show persistent disparity in
black-white incomes, low levels of
minority business enterprise, and a
deterioration in the economic con-
dition of female-headed house-
holds. Several articles focus on
problems facing the City of Balti-
more where a declining manufac-
turing sector and growing spatial
distance between residence and
work have retarded the economic
opportunity of low-income blacks.

The articles have been adapted
from papers presented at a confer-
ence on the social and economic
condition of blacks in Maryland
convened this past summer by the
Bureau of Governmental Research
in cooperation with the university's
Afro-American Studies Program.

The Bureau's mission, accord-
ing to its director Allen Schick, is
to bring policy researchers and
government officials together to
discuss issues affecting state and
local government in Maryland.

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Maynard Mack on Undergraduate Teaching

Maynard "Sandy" Mack, jr., associate
professor of English, will meet Sept. 24
with faculty members to discuss the
new CORE general education courses.
The following are excerpts of his prepa-
red remarks.

I am not fresh and green enough
to believe there is very much that [
can say that will help you in your
epic struggle to teach the new
CORE general education courses
better than they have been taught
in the past. Like marriage, teaching
is a stunningly intimate and per-
sonal art and each of you will have
to sort out, as you always have in
the past, the best ways to reach a
group of insecure, untrained, and
sometimes reluctant undergraduates.

We talk about the drama of the
classroom, and it is sometimes that,
but "epic" is really more what it is
about; the burden of the whole cul-
ture sits on teachers' shoulders,
and the problem is that a course is
not a tidy five-act performance end-
ing with insight or metamorphosis,
marriage or death, but rather a
long journey, from Troy to Rome,
to keep the fires of civilization
burning, Troy is always in flames;
our very mortality not to mention
our venality sees to that. But the
new city is always waiting to be
built, new fires waiting to be lit,
young people waiting to be taught
how to be human.

Maynard "Sandy" Mack, Jr.

As teachers, we are not allowed
the luxury of tragedy rather, ours is
the agon of epic, of the long-
distance run, the partial victory, the
quiet failure, the lonely dark night,
and the weary acceptance that mid-
dling success may be greeted by
our class as enthusiastically as sma-
shing, shattering, epiphanic victory.
We accept the grays we can
achieve while keeping as our goat
lighting that gray to blazing light
or, as our Provost Bob Dorfman
likes to put it, creating a campus
on which everyone's head is on
fire.

You know all this, and yet this
occasion is supremely important. It
is the first big, public step to fulfill
the spirit of the Report of the Sen-
ate Ad Hoc Committee on Under-
graduate Education, better and pro-
perly known as the Pease Report,
titled Promises to Keep. ...The campus
has actually put its mind to making
the changes, and promises to put
its pocketbook there as well. But
something wild and reckless hap-

pens when a program goes out of
the dark committee room and into
the blazing heat of the classroom.

The real cooking begins: com-
mitted teachers try to make things
better for students who need to be
taught how to leam. We know our
audience very well, and our job is
to make CORE work with our stu-
dents as they are. Anything goes,
anything that works at getting
lights to go on, students to work,
ideas loved and respected. You
have not only license but an obliga-
tion to try almost anything that
might work....

The present administration, spe-
cifically Brit Kir wan, started things
moving by singling out under-
graduate education a? one of She
focus points when the campus was
up for routine reaccreditation six
years ago. More fuel was added by
a dozen national studies from
groups like the Association of
American Colleges and the Carne-
gie Institution all saying that pro-
fessiona ligation and departmentali-
zation were making our university
campuses unsafe for undergradu-
ates.

Students simply were not receiv-
ing enough guidance and inspira-
tion to learn how to become active
members of the academic commun-
ity. They were being processed, not
learning how to process; they were

campus community. He just talked,
cajoled, and negotiated, with a little
help from the rest of his committee,
until Promises to Keep became the
pivot around which the campus,
turned its brontosaurian body 45
degrees from the straight path of
research and discovered that it had
the resources and the obligation to
address its undergraduate program
as well. Promises to Keep was hailed
by the Regents as the best reading
they had had in fifteen years; the
Campus Senate approved it with
minor changes; and Dean of Un-
dergraduate Studies Kathryn
Mohrman arrived on campus
charged with implementing it....

The major importance, and here
is my main point, the major impor-
tance of Promises to Keep is that it
calls for smaller classes and more
active involvement by students in
the process of learning. This is the
throbbing center. This is the still
point in the turning world. Tinker-
ing with hours in area A as op-
posed to hours in area C will never
revolutionalize education. But a
serious commitment to smaller
classes where possible, and more
active learning everywhere, will.

Now, smaller classes are going,
unfortunately, to have to wait a
few years until there is more mon-
ey. College Park does have an im-
mense amount on its plate all at

being treated as products, not jun-
ior members in a millennium-old
experiment called the university.

The triggering match was lit by
this campus' reorganization, Balka-
nization some of us called it,
whereby an incoming student at 17
or 18 was going to be confronted
with a fifteen-headed monster most
parts of which she or he had never
encountered high school. Whatever
the rights and wrongs of the cam-
pus reorganization into little col-
leges and schools, it was not
planned with undergraduates in
mind, who are and wish to remain
blissfully ignorant of the divisions
educational management may select.

Some of us cried out in pain, the
Senate bought us off by promising
a committee, the committee got
Professor John Pease of Sociology
as its chairman, it reinvented the
wheel, praised apple pie, put a few
teeth in the science requirement,
and then something wonderful
happened .

John Pease out-talked the whole

one time, and access to classes of
any size probably has to come first.
We all trust the campus' commit-
ment to increased spending for
CORE is serious. But more active
learning is something that can be
fostered right away, this year, in
your classes....

The heart of the CORE experi-
ment is not numbers or hours re-
quired. It is the transactions that
either will or will not take place in
your classrooms. They take place,
apparently, in far too few class-
rooms on campus. Promises to Keep
commits us to trying to change
that. Sometimes doing it is even
easier, and more fun than pretend-
ing we are professionals with bot-
tomless wells of information and
answers, known things, facts. ■
Sometimes it is easier to admit the
fragility of the whole construct of
knowledge, and invite our students
to work with us, I hope you'll find
that.

"Teaching must
first be a matter
of people so it
can become a
matter of know-
ledge... minds
are never-resting
force fields and
a part of our job
has to be to
keep them
energized."

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CALENDAR

SEPTEMBER 24-OCTOBER 3

FRIDAY

Improvisations Unlimited produces unlimited smiles at its September 3D "Performance for
Children." Reservations required; call 405-3190.

MONDAY

Art Gallery Exhibition: "Trouble
in Paradise," lodav Oct 26, The

Art Gallery, Art'Soc Bldg. Call
5-2763 for info.

Center for International
Extension Development
Colloquium; "Norway's
Research Extension Circles; An
Innovative Approach lo
Agricultural Intormalion Sharing,"
featuring Ruin Haug, Agricultural
and Extension Education, noon
ibrinq brown ban lunch), 0115
Symons Hall. Call 5-1253 lor
into.

College of Agriculture and
College of Lite Sciences'
Reception tor New Students,
14 p.m. 1208 ZooPsych Bldg.
Call 5-2080 for info.

Teaching Workshop, for all
faculty teaching CORE -approved
general education courses. 1 :30-
4:30 p.m.. Maryland Room, Marie
Mount Hall. Call 5-9359 for into.

Time Management Workshop.
3-4:30 p.m.. 2201 Shoemaker
Bldg. Call 4-7693 for info

Computer Science Colloquium:

"Towards Industrial Strength
Software Development
Environments," featuring^
Dewayne E. Perry, Am Bell
Laboratories, reception, 3:30
p.m.. 1152 A.V. Williams Bldg..
feature, 4 p.m., 01 1 1 Classroom
9ldg. Call 5-2661 for info.

Horticulture Seminar:
"Tissue-priming Techniques in
Plants," tea! u ring Rosannah
Taylor, USDA Plant Hormone
Lab, Beltsville, 4 p.m., 0128
Holzapfel Hall. Call 5-4360 for
info.

Art History Lecture: "Why Does

Art Offend?,* featuring Jane
Adams Allen, art critic. 4 p.m.,
2203 Art'Soc Bldg.. reception to
follow. Call 5-1475 for info.

Space Science Seminar: "How
to Make the Mosi of the
NSSDC ." featuring Susan Kayser
National Space Science Data
Center. NASA'Goddard. 4:30
p.m., 1113 Computer and Space
Sciences Bldg. Call 5-4B29 for
info.

SUPC's Issues & Answers
Committee Movie: "Thin Blue
One," 6:30 p.m.. discussion with
Randall Adams, 8 p.m.. Hoff
Theatre. Call 4-6495 lor info.

TUESDAY

Maryland Center for Quality
and Productivity Seminar:
"Introduction to Total Quality, "

loday and lomorrow, 8 a.m. -4:30
p.m.. Calvert Holiday Inn,
Beltsville. Call BO-4535 lor info."

Zoology Lecture: "Episodic
Hypoxia in the Chesapeake Bay:
Interacting Effects of Recruitment,
Behavior, and a Physical
Disturbance." featuring Denis e
Brettburg. Benedict Estuarine
Laboratory, noon, 1208
Zoo/Psych Bldg Call 5-6948 for
info.

Meteorology Seminar:

'Precipitation Change in the
U.S.S.R.," featuring Pavel
Groisman, State Hydrolic
Institute Leningrad, U.S.S.R 2
p.m., 2114 Space Sciences Bldg.
Call 5-5391 for info.

Woman of the Year Program:

Honoring Vicki Freimuth, speaker.
and welcoming new women
faculty members. 3:30 p.m.. 1400
Mane Mount, reception to follow
in Maryland Room, Marie Mount.
Sponsored by President's
Commission on Women s Affairs.
call 5-5806 for info.

Women's Field Hockey vs.
Penn State, 7 p.m., Astroturf
Field Call 4-7064 for info.

School of Public Affairs
Lecture: "East-West Axis in
World Affairs in the Wake of the
Revolution of 1989." featuring
Dean Michael Nacht. Public
Affairs. 7:30 p.m.. Cenler for
Advanced Research in
Biotechnology Auditorium, Shady
Grove. Call ^-6342 lor Info.

WEDNESDAY

Employee Development
Seminar: "Taking the Puzzle out
of Procurement and Supply." 9
a.m. -2 p.m., registration, 8:45
a.m., Marylandfloom, Marie
Mount Hall. Call 5-5651 for info.

First Look Fair, today, 10 a.m -4
p.m. and tomorrow, 10 a.m. -2

p.m. Engineering Field. Call
4-7174 tor info.

Counseling Center Research &
Development Meeting: "Student
Apathy in the I990s,"1eaturing
Daniel Cones, SGA, noon-1 p.m.,
0106-0114 Shoemaker. Call 4-
7691 -for info.

Men's Soccer vs. Old
Dominion, 3 p.m.. Soccer Field.

Call 4-7064 for info.

Center on Population, Gender,
and Social Inequality Lecture:

"II Children Are Not Inferior Then
Sometimes They Must Be Bad/
featuring Warren Sanderson. The
World Bank. 3:30 p.m., 2115
Art'Soc Bldg. Call 5-6422 for
info.

Astronomy Colloquium; "The
Structure of the Earth's
Magnetopause and Other
Boundary Layers in Space
Plasmas," featuring Peter Cargill.
Asironomy, 4 D.m.. 1113
Computer & Space Sciences
Bldg. refreshments, 3:30 p.m..
0254 CSS. Call 5-1524 for info.

Memorial Service, for the
Reverend Canon Wofford K.

Smith. 4 p.m.. Memorial Chapel,
Call 5-8453 for info.

Writers Here & Now Reading,

featuring Elena Castedo, author
of Paradise, 8 p.m., 3101
McKeldin Library (Katherine Anne
Porter Room). Call 5-3B19 for
info.

THURSDAY

Maryland Center tor Quality
and Productivity Seminar,

"Developing Meaningful
Measures of Quality and
Produclivity." today and
tomorrow, 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m.,
Calvert Holiday Inn. Call 80-4535
lor info.*

Annual Arts and Humanities
Faculty Assembly, 3 p.m..

receotion lo follow, 2203 Art'Soc
Bldg Call 5-2095 lor info

Meteorology Seminar:

"Estimation ol Precipitation From
Satellite Infrared and Microwave
Observations." featuring Robert
Adler. Nasa'Goddard. 3:30 p.m.,
2114 Computer and Space
Sciences Bldg.. refreshments at 3
p.m. Call 5-5392 for info.

SUPC's Glass Onion Concerts
Thursday Night Atrium Concert
Series, 8 p.m., Atrium, Stamp
Student Union. Call 4-8495 tor
info.

Early American History
Seminar: "The Weber Thesis
Revisited: The Protestant Ethos

and the Reality of Capitalism in
Early America. ' featuring James
Henretia, History, 8 p.m., 0109
Center ot Adult Education. Call
5-4265 for info.

"Lunch n Learn" Mental Health
Lecture: "Managing Sexually

Compulsive Behavior," featuring
Katherine Bethell, Counselor,
Washington. DC, 1-2 p.m. 3100E
Student Health Center. Call 80-
8106 for info.

Men's Soccer vs. Radford, 2

p.m.. Soccer Field. Call 4-7064
lor info.

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SUNDAY

Dance Performance for
Children, Improvisations
Unlimited; 2 p.m EE
Sludio'Theaier. Reservations
required. Call 5-3190 for info

Women's Soccer vs, Duke, 4
m., Soccer Field. Call 4-7064
or info.

Wesley Foundation Meeting:
"My Career and Christianity.
dinner at 6 p.m.. meeting at 7
p.m., University United Methodist
Church. Call 422-1400 for into. 1

Wanderlust: "Scotland and the
Scottish Isles," today at 3 p.m.
and tomorrow at 8 p.m., Hoff
Theatre. Call 4-8495 lor info '

MONDAY

Art Gallery Exhibition: "Trouble
in Paradise," today-Oci. 26, The
Art Gallery, Art'Soc Bldg. Call
5-2763 for info.

Campus Recreation Activities
Registration, Mon.-Thu 8:30
a.m. -6 p.m.. Fri, 8:30 a.m. -4:30
p.m., 1104 Reckord Armory. Call
4-7216 for info.'

Study Skills Workshop, 3-4:30

p.m ,2201 Shoemaker Bldg. Call
4-7693 for info.

Computer Science Colloquium:
"The UNIX System and Software

Produclivity," featuring Brian
Kernighan, ATST Belr
Laboratories, reception, 3;30
p.m.. 1152 A V. Williams Bldg..
lecture, 4 p.m.. 01 1 1 Classroom
Bldg, Call 5-2661 for info.

Horticulture Seminar: "Modified
Atmosphere Packaging Films for
Horticultural Crops, featuring
Donald Schlimme. Horticulture, 4
p.m., 0128 Holzapfel Hall. Call 5-
4630 for info.

Space Science Seminar:
"Formation of Spherical Shell
Distribution by Cometary Ions in
the Solar Wind: Theory and
Observations," L. F. Ziebel,
Universidade Federal do Rio
Grande do Sul. Brazil. 4:30 p.m.,
1113 Computer and Space
Sciences Bldg. Call 5-4829 for
info

SEE Productions Open House.
5-6 p.m.. 1104 Stamp Studenl
Union. Call 4-8342 tor info.

Guarneri Open Rehearsal, 7
p.m., Tawes Recital Hall. Call
5-5548 tor info.

Women's Studies Lecture:
"Voices of Consciousness: The
Emergence of African American
Women's Leadership," featuring
Bernice Johnson Reagon,
National Museum ol American
History, 6 p.m.. 2203 Art'Soc
Bldg. Call 5-6877 for info.

TUESDAY

Employee Development
Seminar: "Employee Relations
and the Supervisor." 9 a,m,-4
p.m.. registration, 8:45 a.m., 1152
A V. Williams Bldg, Call 5-5651
for info.*

Institute ot Applied Agriculture
Picnic Lunch, 11 a.m.5 p.m..
Lawn of Jull Hall. Call 5-4686 for

into

WEDNESDAY

Employee Development
Seminar: "English Refresher."
today and tomorrow. 9 a.m. -4
p.m., 1143 Stamp Student Union.
Call 5-5651 for info.*

Women's Soccer vs. U.M.B.C,
1 p.m.. Soccer Field Call 4-7064
for info.

Zoology Lecture: "A Search for
Markers of Lens Determination in
Chicken Embryos." featuring

Charles Sullivan. Biology. Grinnell
College, 3 p.m., 1208 Zoo'Psych
Bldg. Call 5-5922 for info.

* Admission charge for Ihis
event. All others are free.

Over 300 student organizations, local businesses, campus offices and
departments will be represented at this year's First Look Fair,
September 26 & 27. Call 314-7174 for Information.

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