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

MARCH 11, 1991
VOLUME 5, NUMBER 21

New Distinguished Scholar-Teachers Chosen

Three College Park faculty
members, noted for excellence in
both teaching and research, have
been named College Park's Distin-
guished Scholar-Teachers for 1991-
92.

The award winners are George
Callcott, professor of history; Bruce
Jarvis, professor of chemistry and
biochemistry; and Raymond Pater-
noster, associate professor of crimi-
nal justice and criminology.

The 1991-92 Distinguished
Scholar-Teachers were selected by a
committee of students and faculty
members chaired by Kathryn J.
Mohrman, dean of undergraduate
studies.

The honorees will receive a
$1,000 award for professional
expenses and each will present a
public lecture in the spring of 1992.
Because the university budget crisis
has reduced the funds available for
the program, the 1991-92 award
winners will not receive leave from
regular leaching duties in order to
design and teach special courses,
says Susan Koonce, assistant dean
of undergraduate studies.

Each of the award winners is a
respected scholar in his or her field
and has developed a reputation for
outstanding teaching.

George Callcott is a leading
scholar of State of Maryland history
and the preeminent authority on the
history of the University of
Maryland. His book, Maryland and
America, 1940 to 1980 (Johns Hop-
kins Press, 1985), examines Mary-
land as a microcosm of America
during the World War II and post-
war eras. His university history, A
History of the University of Man/land,

Technology Liaison Office
Has Active Year

Income from technology transfer O
is up Li

Finding New High Tech Uses
for Ceramics

Lloyd does conductivity and A

microscopy studies 71

Listening as a Communica-
tion Skill

Wolvin assesses climate, channels £
and commitment J

General Research Awards
Announced

Sixty-eight faculty

selected

{Maryland Historical Society, 1968),
describes the founding of institu-
tions in Baltimore and College Park
that would comprise the University
of Maryland and documents their
history through the 1960s.

Callcott has been honored num-
erous times throughout his career
for his skill in the classroom. In
1968, he was named as one of 33
"superprofs" by Esquire Magazine.
The College of Arts and Humanities
selected him as the winner of its
annual "Excellence in Teaching
Award" in 1987.

Bruce Jarvis has made major
contributions to the study of physi-
cal organic chemistry, especially in
the area of natural products chem-
istry. He is a leading expert on
mycotoxins, extremely poisonous
materials that are most often pro-
duced by molds and which con-
taminate foods and "sick" buildings.

Through a research program at
College Park, Jarvis has shown that
mycotoxins are produced by plants
and has theorized that a rather
unique interspecies gene transfer
from mold to plant is responsible
for the production of these materials
in plants.

As a teacher, Jarvis is highly
regarded at both the undergraduate
and graduate levels. Pre-med stu-
dents encounter Jarvis in his
demanding sophomore level organ-
ic chemistry course. At the graduate
level, he has successfully trained 17
Ph.D. students and eight
postdoctoral fellows.

Raymond Pasternoster is a
nationally renowned authority on
the death penalty and the theory
that the death penalty is a deterrent

George Callcott
Bruce Jarvis
Raymond Paternoster

to crime, His forthcoming book, The
Death Penally in America, which will
be published by Lexington Books in
1991, has received advance praise
for its observations on the role of
the death penalty in the American
criminal justice system.

As a teacher, Pasternoster is
widely known for the popularity of
his classes at the undergraduate and
graduate levels. In 1989, he was
nominated by the Institute of
Criminal Justice and Criminology
for an award as outstanding teacher
in the College of Behavioral and
Social Sciences.

Brian Busek

Soviet High Technology to be
Showcased for First Time in U.S.

For the first time ever, the United
States and the Western World will
be able to view some of the Soviet
Union's best high-tech equipment,
instrumentation and software on
March 17, 18 and 19 at College
Park's first Soviet Technology
Exhibit and Symposium.

About 50 state-of-the-art Soviet
products will be displayed, includ-
ing x-ray detectors, some of the
remotely controlled robot rovers
used during the Chernobyl reactor
disaster, lasers, exotic spacecraft
systems housed in a mock-up Soviet
spacecraft, materials processing
equipment for use in space, satellite
remote sensing devices, and various
software products. Soviet scientific
experts will be on hand to
demonstrate the products and to
answer questions.

Several of the Soviet Union's
leading scientists will discuss
mutual commercial and scientific
opportunities between the U.S.S.R.

and the United States. The keynote
speaker will be Yuri Ossipian, sci-
ence advisor to Mikhail Gorbachev
and vice-president of the Soviet
Academy of Sciences. Other speak-
ers include Yuri Ryzhov, director of
Moscow's Space Research Institute
and Alec Galeev, Director of
Moscow's Space Research Institute.

Gov. William Donald Schaefer
will open the proceedings, and par-
ticipants will include a NASA rep-
resentative and business leaders
from such major U.S. corporations
as IBM and the Polaroid company.

The event is being sponsored by
College Park's East-West Science
and Technology Center and the
Soviet- American Venture Initiative,
with support from the Office of
Technology Liaison.

The exhibit and symposium will
be held at the Center of Adult Edu-
cation. Call Molly G. Brennan at
405-7280 for information.

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Campus to Host Conference for Blacks in Higher Education

The College Park Black Faculty and Staff Association will host the
4th Annual Conference for Blacks in Higher Education, Friday, April
19 at the Center of Adult Education. The theme of day-long confer-
ence, which begins at 8 a.m., is "African Americans in Higher Educa-
tion; Linking Our Past, Present and Future." It will feature speakers
Franklyn G. Jenifer, president of Howard University, and Crystal
Arlene Kuykendall, president of Kuykendall LTD and author of the
book Improving Block Student Achievement Through Enhancing Self-
image. The registration fee is $50 ($40 for BFSA members) with a
deadline of April 1. For more information, call Sharon Fries-Britt,
(301)314-8431.

Volunteer Faculty Advisors Sought

During the current academic
year, the Undergraduate Advising
Center has been able to assign more
than 350 of its nearly 1,000 freshmen
to College Park faculty advisors.
These advisors represent more than
20 departments from nearly every
college on campus.

But, according to Betty Beckley,
assistant dean for undergraduate
studies and coordinator of under-
graduate advising, the 1991-92 aca-
demic year could pose more severe
problems.

Nearly half of the some 3,000
entering freshmen and more than
500 new transfer students are
expected to be advised through the
Division of Letters and Sciences (the
Advising Center's new name) for
the first year or two — until they are
prepared to choose a major.

Be ca vise of the economic con-
straints that are having an impact
on programs and activities across
the campus, Becklev says, the Un-
dergraduate Advising Center is
asking College Park faculty mem-
bers to consider volunteering to
advise five or more students next
year.

"If 100 faculty would each vol-
unteer either through their depart-

ment or college or to the Division of
Letters and Sciences to advise as
few as five new freshmen or transfer
students during their first year, or
until they select a major, we will be
able to provide a high quality
experience for all our entering stu-
dents," Beckley says.

Faculty members who volunteer
to work through the Division of
Letters and Sciences would receive
several hours of training. They also
would be invited to visit one of the
summer freshmen orientation ses-
sions and to meet with their
advisees.

During the students' freshman
year, the advisors will be asked to
provide mentoring services rather
than regular advising. These ser-
vices might include discussions on
course selection, budgeting the use
of time, choosing a major, making
referrals, providing encouragement
and the like.

Division of Letters and Sciences
staff will be available to work with
faculty volunteer advisors to pro-
vide technical advising and the
clerical backup support that might
be necessary.

Marvin Scott, assistant professor
of kinesiology, says that when he

began advising two years ago, the
initial attraction was the opportun-
ity to help steer undecided students
to consider majoring in his special
field.

Since then, however, Scott says,
he has benefited from the advising
experience in a number of ways.

"I've been able to reap a better
knowledge of the general educa-
tional requirements of the univer-
sity, the USP and now the CORE
requirements that students must
meet. It has given me a more global
perspective."

He has also become much more
aware of and knowledgeable about
the various campus resources that
are available to students. That in
turn, he believes, has made him a
more effective advisor to both stu-
dents in his own discipline as well
as those who are undecided as to
their major field of study.

For more information about fac-
ility advising, contact Betty Beckley,
assistant dean and coordinator of
undergraduate advising, at 314-
8420.

Tom Otwet!

Technology Transfer Business is Booming

For the Office of Technology
Liaison, 1990 was a banner year.
And 1991 promises to be equally, if
not more, impressive.

According to its director Wayne
Swann, the office last year identified
and documented 46 new tech-
nologies developed by C ollege Park
researchers. Swann projects that
technology transfer income to the
campus will more than double last

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million dollars.

More options and licenses for
university inventions were executed
during the first six months of Fiscal
Year 1991 than in all of the previous
year. In addition, ten op-
tions/licenses (technology transfer
agreements) are pending.

Since it was created more than
four years ago, the office has iden-
tified and documented 165 new
technologies, conducted technology
marketing activities that have
resulted in the successful execution
of 40 technology transfer agree-
ments, and generated more than $1
million in technology transfer in-
come, Swann says.

A recent innovation that has been
licensed is a new procedure for
detecting salmonella bacteria which
is expected to provide faster and
more accurate test results.

The new test process was devel-
oped by Edward T. Mallinson of the
Virginia-Maryland Regional College
of Veterinary Medicine working
with researchers from the U.S.
Department of Agriculture. The
procedure allows for the testing of
large numbers of chicken flocks in a
short time, a key to locating the
sources of contamination before the
salmonella enter the food
processing and distribution chain.

The new testing procedure was
licensed to Environmental Systems
Service, Ltd. The Culpepper, Vir-
ginia-based company provides high
quality biological and chemical
technical services to poultry pro-
ducers and other customers.

The university's patent disclos-
ure profile (see chart) illustrates the
rapid increase over the past decade.

This growth is especially apparent
beginning in 1986, the year the
Office of Technology Liaison was
established.

According to Swann, disclosures
continue to come from a wide vari-
ety of campus departments, the
Maryland Biotechnology Institute,
the Engineering Research Center,
the Systems Research Center, and
other campus-based laboratories
and research centers.

Tom Ohvell

OUTLOOK

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Campus Child Care Center Has Openings

The Center for Young Children, the university's on-site laboratory
Child Care Center, has a few openings for its Summer 1991 program.
Applications will be processed on a "first-come first served" basis.
Application forms and information brochures are available upon
request. The center is also accepting applications for the 1991-92
school year. In April a lottery will be conducted to determine enroll-
ment for new applicants. For more information, call 405-3168.

Distinguished Scholar-Teacher Lectures
to Begin March 1 3

Five highly regarded College
Park faculty members will present
lectures during the next two months
as part of the 1991 Distinguished
Scholar-Teacher Lecture Series.

Distinguished Scholar- Teachers
are relieved of their normal teaching
duties and given the opportunity to
design and teach courses in their
area of expertise — usually a general
honors seminar and a course of
general interest to undergraduates.
Spring public lectures by each

award-winner are also part of the
program.

Here is the 1991 lecture schedule;

• March 13 — Charles
Butterworth, professor of govern-
ment and politics, "Socrates' Islamic
Conversion."

• March 20 — Richard Etlin, pro-
fessor of architecture, "Creativity in
Architecture."

• April 3 — Nancie Gonzalez,
professor of anthropology, "Anth-
ropology as Science and as Fiction."

• April 10— Ira Berlin, professor
of history, "Emancipation and the
Meaning of Freedom in 19th Cen-
tury America."

• April 24 — Anne Truitt, profes-
sor of art, "The Value of Art."

All of the lectures will be held in
the Art /Sociology lecture hall, 2203
Art /Sociology Building, at 4 p.m.,
with a reception following in the
Art/Sociology Atrium.

Letter To the Editor

Women in Science: Good News From the Life Sciences

Professor Brush's report on
Degree Attainment in Natural Sci-
ences and Engineering was an
excellent piece that correctly
described the successes we have
had in Life Sciences in attracting
talented women to our undergrad-
uate programs. Part of this success
is due to our revamped general
curriculum {the General Biological
Sciences curriculum that Professor
Brush alluded to) and our de-
emphasis of traditional subdisci-
pline based curricula in biology.
Perhaps the most important com-
ponent is our faculty commitment
to undergraduate education and
what I hope is a friendly climate.

Professor Brush's analysis of
graduate degrees for women, while

statistically correct, is quite mis-
leading in that the combined num-
bers (CMPS, ENG, LISC) mask the
continued success of the College of
Life Sciences in producing women
M.S. and Ph.D. scientists. In fact, the
number of women graduate
students in LISC has remained vir-
tually unchanged in the last five
years, rising insignificantly from 44
to 45% resulting in gender balance
among our graduate population
that, while hard to improve on, is
exceptional in the sciences. By
individual departments and pro-
grams the percentages are: Botany
(41); Chemistry and Biochemistry
(42); Entomology (42); Marine
Environmental and Estuarine Stud-
ies and Molecular and Cellular

Biology programs combined (46);
Microbiology (51); and Zoology
(53). In fact, last year 26 women
earned Ph.D. degrees from the Col-
lege of Life Sciences, a number
which appears to represent virtually
all of the women who received
Ph.D.'s in the natural sciences and
engineering at College Park.
(Outlook, February 25, Figure 8).

The news for women is, in fact,
very good in the College of Life
Sciences. Our successes should be
advertised and celebrated, not bur-
ied in statistics.

Paul Mazzocchi

Dean

Colleges of Agriculture

and Life Sciences

College Park Picked to Run EDUCOM Soft-
ware Awards Program

The University of Maryland at
College Park has been selected as
the new home for EDUCOM's
Higher Education Software Awards
Program. The program is widely
recognized as one of the most pres-
tigious in the world.

Chad McDaniel and 5usan
Clabaugh will direct the awards
program. McDaniel is director of the
Academic Software Development
Group at the university's Computer
Science Center. Trained as an
anthropologist, with special
interests in cognitive models and
computer simulation, he has been
active in the development of disci-
pline-oriented computing tools for
more than 20 years.

Clabaugh is director of the Edu-
cational Technology Center in the
College of Education. Her home
discipline is educational technology,
where she has more than 20 years
experience, with special expertise in
video and computing technologies.

"We are honored that the Uni-
versity of Maryland is the new
home for the program," McDaniel
says. "We look forward to contin-
uing and hopefully, extending the
excellent program that Bob Kuzma,
Jere Johnson, and EDUCOM began."

Since its inception in 1987, the
Software Awards Program was
housed at the University of
Michigan and co-sponsored by the
National Center for Research to
Improve Postsecondary Teaching
and Learning. In its five years, the
program has made 90 awards to
individuals representing more than
65 institutions.

The program is designed to
foster improvement in the quality of
ed u ca t io n a I so f t w a re a n d to p ro -
mote its effective use in higher
e d u ca t io n . Th e p rogra m re v i e w s
materials and makes awards in two
distinct divisions — products (orig-
inal software designed to enhance
student learning) and curriculum
innovations (excellence in teaching
where computer software has been
used to enhance instruction).

During this year's cycle, the pro-
gram will be making awards in
three areas for undergraduate ap-
plications — Humanities, Engineer-
ing and Mathematics — and one for
graduate level — Law.

For more information about the
program, contact Chad McDaniel at
405-2920.

ICONS' Landis Speaks at
AASA Convention

Patty Landis, simulation director
of Project ICONS, spoke at the
American Association of School
Administrators annual convention
in New Orleans earlier this month.
The convention's theme was "Tech-
nology for the 90s." Landis' topic
dealt with "Linkages through Tech-
nology."

ICONS, which stands for Inter-
national Communication and
Negotiation Simulations, is a for-
eign policy and foreign language
simulation for high school and uni-
versity students conducted via a
computer network. It was started at
College Park ten years ago by
Jonathan Wilkenfeld, professor of
government and politics and cur-
rent department chair, and Richard
Brecht, professor of Germanic and
Slavic Languages.

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Sexual Harassment Education Workshop Scheduled

The Office of Human Relations Programs is sponsoring a Sexual
Harassment Education Workshop for all faculty and staff The
workshop is scheduled for March 14 from 10 a.m. to 12 noon in the
Maryland Room of Marie Mount Hall. To register for the workshop
or for more information call 405-2844.

Campus Researcher Probes High
Tech Roles for Ceramics

For Isabel Lloyd, ceramics means
much more than fine bone china tea
cups or bathroom shower stall tiles.

An assistant professor of mater-
ials engineering, Lloyd, now in her
second year on the College Park
faculty, is the first ceramist in the
College of Engineering in more than
twenty years. Her special research
and classroom interests focus on the
properties, behavior, fabrication and
uses of novel ceramic materials,
manv of which have found new
high technology applications.

"Ceramics research is very ap-
pealing to me because it raises both
basic science and applied engineer-
ing questions," Lloyd says. "It
involves a variety of materials that
can have a multiplicity of applica-
tions relevant to problems of the
present and the future."

Isabel Lloyd

When one thinks of ceramics, it is
bricks, pottery, earthenware, elec-
trical insulators, spark plugs, as well
as tea cups and shower tiles that
come to mind.

But like so many other fields,
ceramics has undergone remarkable
changes in recent years. Ceramic
materials now have numerous high
technology applications. As a result,
they must be more highly refined
and their properties better
understood.

One class of ceramics of interest
to Lloyd are what she calls active
electrical ceramics. These include
materials whose crystals generate
voltage when subjected to pressure
or, when subjected to an electrical
field, undergo mechanical stress,
alternately expanding and
contracting.

These piezoelectric ceramics are
commonly used in broadcast trans-
mitters, radar and sonar, and stereo
system pick-up needles.

They also have application in
such high tech devices as ultra-sonic
cleaners, micro positioners used to
adjust the mirrors on space
telescopes or in other situations
where very fine remotely controlled
positioning is called for, or on
control devices used to change light
waves in fiber optic cables.

"The way ceramic materials are
fabricated affects their structure and

their behavior in application," Lloyd
says.

By studying the relationships
between processing and piezoelec-
tric behavior, particularly the
chemical homogeneity and near
surface polarization of these ceramic
materials, Lloyd hopes to provide
the foundation for a new generation
of devices.

Another area of Lloyd's research
involves less active ceramics. Cur-
rently she is working with samples
made of aluminum oxide, a ceramic
material commonly used as an
electric substrate and packaging
material as an electrical insulator.

Televisions, video recorders,
radios and most other consumer
electronic products employ epoxy
semiconductor circuit boards. But
for supercomputers and military
and space electronics that may be
subjected to severe heat or cold,
aluminum oxide ceramic circuit
boards are used because they are
mechanically stronger and can seal
out the hostile environment, Lloyd
says.

Lloyd currently is carrying out
studies of both the conductivity of
these ceramic materials as well as
their microstructure. Such research
involves both scanning and trans-
mission electron microscopy techni-
ques involving magnifications of
one hundred thousand or more to
determine how individual crystals
are bonded together.

In a lab furnace, aluminum oxide
powder is heated to temperatures of
1000 degrees C or more to create the
densely-bonded ceramic material.
Impurities are added to facilitate
this bonding process. But, as Lloyd
notes, the effect of these impurities
on the grain boundaries — the zone
between single aluminum oxide
crystals created during the bonding
process — is not known. Her
research focuses on this question.

Lloyd, who says she is very
much an experimentalist, believes
she may be the only ceramist in the
country currently carrying out both
conductivity and microscopy stud-
ies of ceramic materials.

In addition to her research, Lloyd
is teaching a graduate course on
electronic ceramics that explores
their use as superconductors, semi-
conductors, fuel cells, batteries,
sensors and lightening protectors.
She is'also teaching a 400-level in-
troduction to ceramics class that
focuses on their basic properties,
how and why they work, and their
applications.

Even as a child, Lloyd says, she
was fascinated with how things
worked. "I took everything apart
and I loved looking at those work-
ing models in museums."

As an undergraduate student,
she began as a chemistry major at
Pennsylvania State University, but
was quickly wooed by Penn's small
but growing ceramics program and
earned her B.S. degree in ceramic
science. Her Ph.D. is in ceramics
from the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology.

Prior to joining the Maryland
faculty, she had been a visiting sci-
entist at the Naval Research Labor-
atory and before that an assistant
professor of materials science and
engineering at the University of
Pittsburgh. Lloyd also has worked
at Westinghouse Electric Corpora-
tion's Research and Development
Center.

Tom Otuvll

Engineering Lecture to Celebrate
Women's History Month

Lilia Abron, president and
founder of PEER Consultants, will
deliver a lecture entitled "Impact of
Women on the Stability of the En-
gineering Profession in the United
States" as part of the College of En-
gineering's celebration of Women's
History Month.

The lecture will be held Tuesday,
March 12 at 2 p.m. in the Judith
Resnik Lecture Hall (Room 1202) of
the Engineering Classroom
Building.

PEER Consultants is an environ-
mental and sanitary engineering
firm with headquarters in Wash-
ington, D.C. and eight regional of-
fices in the Eastern United States.
Founded by Abron in 1978, it has 80
employees.

Abron holds a B.S. degree in
chemistry from LeMoyne College in
Memphis, an M.S. in environmental
and sanitary engineering from
Washington University, and a Ph.D.
in chemical engineering from the
University of Iowa.

She has worked on environmen-
tal problems as a research chemist
and sanitary engineer and has
taught at Vanderbilt, Tennessee
State and Howard universities.

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University Community Concerts Celebrates 15th Season

To celebrate 15 years of presenting outstanding artists and ensem-
bles to the university and Washington area music lovers. University
Community Concerts will host a gala benefit performance, Monday,
March 18th at 7:30 p.m., at Arena Stage's Kreeger Theatre. Featured
artists will be the Klezmer Conservatory Band, a lively, eleven- piece
band that has offered an eclectic brand of Yiddish music to audienc-
es throughout Eastern Europe and America. Tickets are $25 to the
concert only, and $75 for the concert, supper party and dance. Call
403-4240 for info.

Wolvin Finds Listening
as Important as Speaking

To Andrew Wolvin, chair of
the department of speech com-
munication, the name of his depart-
ment touches on only half of the
equation.

In verbal communication, the
speaker gets most of the attention,
but the listener provides at least 50
percent of the input, Wolvin says.

Wolvin, however, devotes well in
excess of 50 percent of his scholarly
attention to the listening side of
verbal communication. A national
expert on listening, he is the co-
author of a standard textbook on the
subject and has done consulting
work on listening training with a
number of major corporations.

"One of the basic points about
listening is that it is a centra! func-
tion in communications in both
personal relationships and large
organizations," Wolvin says.

Listening is not a passive act, and
it is an activity that goes beyond
merely receiving a message, he says.
Through training, people can learn
to become more active and effective
listeners.

Concentration, attention and
energy levels all affect the quality of
listening, Wolvin says. By raising
these levels people can become
better listeners.

One of the common pitfalls of
good listening is the fact that people
process verbal information more
quickly than it is delivered. Studies
have shown that people listen about
four times more quickly than they
speak, Wolvin says. The way in

which a person uses that differential
often determines the quality of that
person's listening.

In examining the quality of lis-
tening within large organizations,
the "listening environment"
becomes a crucial element, Wolvin
says. Building a positive listening
environment is a common goal
within corporation and other large
institutions, he says.

In a recent survey of listening
training within Fortune 500 com-
panies for a forthcoming paper,
Wolvin and his colleague Carolyn
Gwynn Coakley found that cor-
porate managers see listening as an
important part of corporate com-
munications and that they have
found that training improves
employee listening skills.

Closer to home, as chair of the
Campus Senate Task Force on Non-
Senate Governance, Wolvin is ap-
plying his expertise to the univer-
sity's decision-making process. He
has identified three areas of com-
munication that should receive spe-
cial attention in the communications
process: climate, channels and
commitment.

The study of listening is a rela-
tively new endeavor and one that
usually receives less emphasis than
speech.

"The subject has been somewhat
overlooked historically. But actually
people tend to spend most of their
time as communicators listening,"
Wolvin says.

Brian Busek

Historic Preservation Program Taps
Into Resources On and Off Campus

The opportunities more than
equal the number of students in
College Park's historic preservation
graduate certificate program.

The program's 19 students bene-
fit from a variety of resources both
on and off campus, says J. Kirk-
patrick Flack, associate professor of
history and chair of the academic
committee that oversees the pro-
gram.

On campus, students in the four-
year-old program can tap into the
National Trust for Historic Pre-
servation Library, the largest pre-
servation library in the United
States. The collection was trans-
ferred into the university in 1986.

Students are also eligible to work
on preservation projects sponsored
by the seven academic departments
and institutes participating in the
program such as the Department of
Architecture's Cape May and Kiplin
Hall restoration projects. The
program brings together students
from the departments of architec-
ture, history, geography anthropol-
ogy, American studies, horticulture,
and the urban studies and planning
institute for an eclectic study of
preservation issues, according to
Flack.

David Fogle, associate professor
of architecture, was recently
appointed director of the program.

Off campus, students receive
hands-on training through joint
programs involving local historical
sites. For instance, students will
participate in a conference on the
restoration of Riverdale's historic
Calvert home April 20-21.

Since January 1989, seven historic
preservation students have been
working with teams of professional
researchers on a project at Harpers
Ferry National Historical Park. As
part of their work on this National
Park Service -sponsored project, the
students have been preparing his-
toric structures reports tracing the
histories of buildings in the lower
town of Harpers Ferry.

"We're working to expand our
contacts with the National Park
Service and other organizations.
We're trying to develop more
opportunities for hands-on training
and are also trying to bring profes-
sionals here to teach classes," Flack
says.

Communicating at
College Park

In his role as chair of the Campus
Senate Task Force on Non-Senate
Governance, Andrew Wolvin, chair
of the department of speech
communication, is lending his ex-
pertise in listening and other aspects
of communication to university
governance issues,

"Studies of corporate America
today consistently identify effective
communication as one of the hall-
marks of organizational excellence.
....Clearly, this need for effective
communication extends to educa-
tional organizations as well,"
Wolvin says in a forthcoming article
for The Faculty Voice.

Here are some excerpts of
Wolvin's observations on climate,
channels and commitment within
the communications environment at
College Park:

Climate — "The communication
climate at College Park is perceived
to be troublesome. While strong
organizations work at developing
an open communication climate, we
have heard concerns on this campus
that our communication climate is
the predictable byproduct of much
too closed a
system."

Channels — "The (College Park)
communications channels are more
healthy than our climate percep-
tions might suggest. The Campus
Senate, for example, serves as the
main conduit for decision-making
on the campus.. .the Outlook campus
newsletter reaches everyone with
coverage of major issues we face as
a campus community.. .And the
campus administration is certainly
open and responsive to faculty, staff
and student concerns alike. Indeed,
the communication channels at the
campus level are in place."

Commitment — "An important
third dimension of a healthy orga-
nizational communication system is
a strong sense of commitment to
maintaining those communication
channels. As a faculty we have
made remarkable strides forward in
the past few years in gaining access
to information and in participating
in the decision-making process. ..My
experience in organizations would
suggest, howeveT, that campus
administrators will be interested in
including faculty at the center of the
decision-making process only
insofar as we are willing to be equal
partners in the two-way communi-
cation process."

Andrew Wolvin

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RESEARCH

Women of Influence Sought

Faculty, staff and students are encouraged to nominate under-
graduate women for the prestigious "Women of Influence" awards,
sponsored by the Committee on Undergraduate Women's Leader-
ship in conjunction with the Maryland Leadership Development
Team. Nominees should be women in good academic standing who
bring passion and commitment to a chosen area of involvement,
providing a positive influence for the campus. The committee is
especially seeking women who use their influence in non-traditional
settings. Nominations are due in the Office of Campus Activities
(324-7174) bv April 4.

Grad School Announces Awards

Ira Berlin

Carol E. Robertson

Leo Blitz

4

W. Andrew Marcus

Carol Karahadian

Sixty-eight faculty members
have been selected for 1991-92
General Research Awards, accord-
ing to the Office of Graduate
Studies and Research.

Semester Research Awards go to
tenured faculty, allowing them to
take off one semester from
teaching for research interests.
Summer Research Awards are for
outstanding younger faculty mem-
bers, and are designed to provide
seed money toward further grants
from other sources. Research Sup-
port Awards provide funding to
researchers for equipment
purchases.

The following faculty members
have been selected for awards:

Semester Research Awards

Art History: William L. Pressly,
"The Resurrection of History Paint-
ing in British Art;"

Chemistry: Glenn E. Gordon,
"Feasibility of Controlling Global
Climate by Addition of Sulfur to the
Atmosphere;"

Computer Science: Dianne P.
O'Leary, "Numerical Solution of Ill-
Posed Problems;"

Economics: Peter Murrell, "A
Comparative Economic Analysis of
Eastern European Economic
Reforms;"

English: Gladys Marie Fry,
"Black Faust in the Blue Ridge
Mountains;"

Germanic and Slavic Languages
and Literatures: John Glad, "His-
torv of Russian Literature in Exile;"

Government and Politics: Ted R.
Gurr, "Minorities at Risk: Dynamics
and Outcomes of Ethnopolitical
Conflicts Since 1945;"

History: Maureen Flynn, "Atti-
tudes Toward Pain and Suffering in
Early Modern Spain;"

Human Development: Stephen
W. Forges, "The Identification of
infants Born of Drug Abusing
Mothers who will Develop Behav-
ioral Problems;"

Mathematics: Michael Boyle,
"Symbolic Dynamics and its Appli-
cations;" and John Millson,
"Rational Homotopy Theory and
Deformation Problems from Alge-
braic Geometry;"

Meteorology: Robert G.
Ellingson, "Calibration of Clear-Sky
Longwave Radiative Transfer
Models;"

Music: Carol E. Robertson,
"Spirit, Gender and Musical Perfor-
mance;"

Philosophy: Jeffrey Bub, "Theory
and Evidence in Cognitive
Neuropsychology;" and Conrad D.
Johnson, "A Teleological Theory of
Liberal Justice;"

Physics: Leo Blitz, "The Bar at
the Center of the Milky Way;"
Nicholas J. Hadley, The DO
Detector at the Fermilab Collider;"
and Dennis Papadopoulos, "Novel
Diagnostic Instruction for Strato-
spheric Probing;"

Psychology: Robert Steinman,
"Coordinated Action in 3-D Space;"

Zoology: Sue C. Carter, "Oxyto-
cin and Social Bonds."

Summer Research Awards

Anthropology: Erve Chambers,
"Tourism and Cultural Conserva-
tion in Thailand;"

Architecture: Matthew J. Bell,

"The Roman Palace in the Plan of
Rome;"

Art History: Anthony
Colantuono, "Guido Reni and The
Abduction of Helen': Art, Rhetoric
and Politics in Seventeenth-Century
Italy;" jason C. Kuo, "Chinese
Painting in Taiwan Since 1949 and
its Historical Contexts: The Case of
Chen Chikwan;" and Marie Spiro,
"Text and Context: Mosaic Inscrip-
tions in their Architectural, Rhetor-
ical, and Cultural Contexts, 3rd
through 6th Centuries;"

Botany; Michele R. Dudash,
"The Genetic Basis of Inbreeding
Depression: Application for Crop
Management;" and Charles B.
Fenster, "Genetic Basis of Seed Size
Variation: Agronomic and Ecologi-
cal Consequences;"

Chemistry: Cary J. Miller, "Elec-
tron Transfer Measurements at
Insulated Electrodes;" and Sarah
Woodson, "The Influence of rRN A
Structure on Splicing of the Tetra-
hymena Intron;"

Computer Science: James H.
Anderson, "Wait-Free Algorithms
for Realistic Memory Models;"

Criminology: Sally S. Simpson,
"Women Drug Traffickers: Histories
of Drug Abuse and Crime;"

Economics: Karla Hoff, "The
Costs of Tax-Policy Induced Uncer-
tainty in Tax Incentives;"

Education: Donelda R. Cook,
'Stress and Resiliency Among
Urban Black Adolescents: Strategies
for Church Interventions;" Joan
Lieber, "Symbolic Play Strategies in
Young Children with Handicaps;"
John F. O'Flahavan, "Toward a
Comprehensive Theory of Literacy
Development in Group Discussions
about Literary Texts;" and Kathryn
Wentzel, "Gender and Ethnic Group
Differences in Peer Relationships
and Academic Achievement;"

Electrical Engineering: Neil
Goldsman, "A Physics-Based Model
for Optimizing Solar Cell Design;"

English: Linda Kaufman,
"Masked Passions: Pornography,
Politics, Feminism, 1965-1990;""

Entomology: David A.
O'Brochta, "Genetic Markers for
Insect Gene Vectors;"

Finance: Pegaret Pichler: "Price
Dynamics in an Oligopolistic Deal-
ership Market with Information
Asymmetries;"

Geography: W. Andrew Marcus,
"Soil Erosion in the Maryland
Coastal Plain Since European Set-
tlement;"

Geology: Eirik J. Krogstad,
"Studies of Crustal Evolution in the
Central and Northern Appalachians
Based on Pb Isotopic Characteristics
of Sediments;" and Richard J.
Walker, "An Examination of the
Rhenium-Osmium Isotope System-
atics of Platinum-Group-Element
Deposits;"

Government and Politics: Paul S.
Herrnson, "The Congressional
Campaign Study;"

History: Ira Berlin, "African-
American Slavery, 1619-1865;" and
Roger R. Thompson, "Statecraft and
Self-Governtnent; Competing
Visions of Community and State in
Late Imperial China;"

Human Nutrition and Food Sys-

tems: Carol Karahadian, "Commer-
cial Quality of Wild-Captured and
Aquacultured Striped Bass {Morcme
saxatiiis) Native to the Chesapeake
Bay;"

Management and Organization:
Susan M. Taylor, "Creating More
Effective Feedback Environments:
The Effects of Appraisal Format on
the Reactions of Employees and
Their Supervisors;"

Management Science and Statis-
tics: Bruce L. Golden, "Managing
Fish, Forests, Wildlife, and Water:
Successful Applications of Opera-
tions Research Models to Natural
Resource Decision Problems," and
Bharat K. Kaku, "Flexibility Con-
siderations in Layout of Flexible
Manufacturing Systems;"

Mathematics: Michael
Laskowski, "Model-Theoretic Con-
sequences of the Non-Independence
Property;"

Mechanical Engineering:
Guangming Zhang, "Control of the
Surface Quality During Machining;"

Meteorology: Russell R.
Dickerson, "Analysis and Modeling
of Tropospheric Ozone;"

Music: Marie F, McCarthy,
"Cultural Ideologies, Folk Music,
and Music Education: Insights from
Selected Historical Contexts;"

Sociology; Alan Neustadtl, "Bus-
iness Political Mobilization and
Realignment: 1976-1986;"

Textiles and Consumer Econom-
ics: Girish Grover, "A New Method
to Evaluate Comfort Properties of
Textiles Under Sweating
Conditions;"

Transportation, Business and
Public Policy: Donald K. Stockdale,
"A Legal and Economic Analysis of
Trade Policy in Internationalized
Industries;"

Zoology: James M. Dietz, "The
Role of Kinship in the Behavior and
Social Organization of Communal
Breeding Primates," and Dennis
Goode, "Regulation of Insulin
Secretion by Kinesin Binding to and
Transport of Secretory Granules."

Research Support Awards

English: John D. Russell, "Series
of Four Lectures on Commonwealth
Literature;"

Health and Human Performance:
Kenneth H. Beck, "Investigating
Flispanic Adolescent Involvement
with Alcohol: A Focus Group
Interview Approach;"

History: Benedict J. Warren:
"Diccionario Grande de la Lengua
de Michoacan;"

Music: T. Clark Saunders, "An
Investigation of a Computerized
Response Procedure to Assess
Latencies of Student Judgments of
Sameness and Difference Among
Paired Tonal Patterns," and Thomas
DeLio, "Music Recording;"

Physics: Nicholas J. Hadley,
"The DO Detector at the Fermilab
Collider;"

Psychology: Clara E. Hill, "Case
Studies of Therapist Techniques and
Client Outcomes," and David Yager,
"Bar-Mantis Interactions: A
Behavioral Role for Hearing in the
Praying Mantis;"

Zoology: Richard T. Highton,
"Patterns of Genetic Variation in
Species of Salamanders of the
Genus Plethodon."

MARCH

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University to Host Literacy Conference

The university is hosting the Maryland Conference on Literacy in
the 90s: Perspectives on Theory, Research, and Practice March 14
and 15 in the auditorium at the Center for Adult Education. The
conference, which is being supported by grants from the university's
College of Education, the Graduate School, and the Department of
Curriculum and Instruction, will address such topics as "Teachers,
Materials, and Group Composition in Literacy Instruction" and
"Cognitive Research and Its Implications for Reading/ Language
Arts Instruction." For more information call 405-3128,

Opinion:

For the Defense: College Park at Midstream

By Carl Bode, professor emeritus,
English

It's not only the 36,000 students
who are being formally educated
(more or !ess) on the College Park
campus. It's also the thousands of
people from the Washington area
who inch their way along the
crowded roads to take night-school
courses on the College Park campus
offering them everything from a
B.A. to an M.B.A. to a Ph.D.

The fact that the university is
being forced to surrender $14.5 mil-
lion out of its current budget can
damage many of us. Budget cuts are
always painful, but having to give
back money already received is
more painful still.

This is a time of trial for the total
university, with every part being
currently tested. Students, faculty,
staff, and administration are all en-
dangered.

In the past two years the univer-
sity acquired momentum, thanks to
a generous budget, such as it had
not known before. But today the
recession has reached Maryland. It
has created anguish in the office of
Governor William Donald Schaefer
and distress in many other parts of
the state.

So it's been hard lines for College
Park, Right now every part of the
university is being tested to see not
only if it can survive, but also
whether it can survive with a cer-
tain amount of grace.

Though the reaction of the student
body has been less positive and less
clear than that of other parts of the
university, there has been no dying
at the barricades. The students
obviously want to be well taught.
But it has been obvious that by and
large they do not expect miracles,
though the student newspaper, The
Diamottdback, has loudly
editorialized that the university is
engaged in "Screwing Students."

So far, on the esthetic side the
students rate a clear A. Let me ex-
plain. McKeldin Mall is the biggest
open space on the campus. Up to
this September, it had nothing to
recommend it but its acres of grass.
This fall returning students found
there several graceful rectangular
pools with water flowing down
gently from one to the other. The
aprons of the pools are paved so
that people can sit or lounge and
sun themselves. From the day that
school started, the students have
enjoyed the linked ponds. The test
has been whether they would keep
from tossing garbage in them. They
are earning an A.

The faculty has not been so clearly
tested. The usual way for a faculty
to respond to any danger to its pay
or perks is through angry reso-
lutions or even demonstrations. But
what has been happening in College
Park amounts to a modest academic
miracle. The university Senate,
under the leadership last year of
political scientist Don Piper and this
year of psychologist Bruce Fretz,
has shown exceptional good sense
and restraint. The Senate has

devoted its time to setting up pri-
orities; it has properly put people
ahead of programs or projects.
Travel money, for instance, has
sunk without a trace, though it can
be highly useful. The faculty has
showed political sophistication,
recognizing that the governor is
powerful as well as willful and that
the legislature has its own set of
priorities.
The administration has shown
equal good sense. One of its leaders
is Robert Griffith, dean of Arts and
Humanities, the most vulnerable of
the campus colleges, who says that
everyone is naturally concerned but
other universities in our region are
struggling with similar problems
and we are all determined to do out
best for our
students.

The president of the campus, W.
E. Kirwan, has been doing his best
to persuade the whole state, not
only Annapolis, that although the
university's momentum has not
been lost, it will surely be endan-
gered if future cuts or give-backs
are mandated. Meanwhile, thanks
to the enhancement of the recent
past, he has attracted such stars as
Thomas Schelling, Harvard profes- '
sor and current president of the
American Economics Association.
Other gains for the campus that
President Kirwan has noted include
the siting of the second National
Archives building on the College
Park campus. He also points with
pride to the election of history pro-
fessor Louis Harlan to head three
national historical societies and to
the recent recruitment to the faculty
of black social critic Mary Helen
Washington. The variety of the uni-
versity's achievements is exempli-
fied in the wetlands research being
carried on to help preserve the
Chesapeake.

In facing with equanimity the
prospect of more work for the same
pay, the staff has shown the same
good sense that the faculty and
administration have shown.

Finally we come to the important
matter of the university's dealing
with minorities and women. Here
we find that its record is increas-
ingly good as the records of state
universities go. Its most striking
accomplishment was the recruiting
of Dr, John Slaughter to preside
over the campus. A black engineer-

scientist, he had been director of the
National Science Foundation.
During his five years as chancellor
he made only one notable mistake.
He chose the wrong basketball
coach.

All parts of the university seem to
be doing well at damage control. At
this point there is even some risk of
viewing College Park's future with
unwonted optimism; but it is
equally possible to be too pes-
simistic. Maryland may still grow
into a great state university. In fact,
it may already be half-way there.
And the water in those McKeldin
pools may stay clear.

Geography Graduate Student Leader
Called for Persian Gulf Duty

Jay Thomas, a Ph.D. candidate in
historical geography and a
Lieutenant Commander in the
Naval Reserves, worked his last day
as a teaching assistant and
undergraduate advisor in the
Department of Geography on Feb.
19 before leaving for active duty in
the Persian Gulf. Thomas, a
Charleston, S,C, native and Gaith-
ersburg, Md. resident, was vice
president of the Graduate Student

Government and a member of the
executive committee for the Cam-
pus Senate. After a brief training
period at a naval facility near
Williamsburg, Va„ Thomas, a spe-
cialist in shore surveillance, will be
assigned to the Naval Inshore
Undersea Warfare Group Number
Two, somewhere in the Persian
Gulf. The campus wishes him well
and a speedy return to College Park.

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CALENDAR

MARCH 11 -20

MONDAY

Quality improvement
Conference; "Quality Irnprove-
ment for Higher Education,"
including luncheon address by
Oavid Kearns, chair. Xerox Corp..
8:30 a.m. -4 p.m., Stamp Union.
Participant registration is $20. Call
the president's office, 405-5803
for info.*

Mental Health Lunch 'n Learn:
"Co -Morbidity and Differential
Diagnoses of Anxiety Disorders."
Bruce Black, National Institutes of
Mental Health, Bethesda. 1-2
p.m., 3100E Health Center. Call
4-81 06 for info.

Women Faculty Writers Fiction
Reading, Joyce Komblatt, Susan
Leonard!. Sibbie O'Sullivan and
Kim Roberts. 3 p.m.. 0124 Talia-
ferro. Call 4-3873 for info.

Campus Senate Meeting, 3:30-
6:30 p.m.. 1026 Reckord Armory.
Call 5-5805 for info.

Computer Science Colloquium:
"Why All the Fuss about Random
Walks on Graphs?," Peter
Winkler, Emory U. and Bellcore. 4
p.m.. 0111 Classroom Bldg. Call
5-2661 for info.

Space Science Seminar: Richard

Goldberg, NASA'Goddard, 4:30
p.m.. 1113 Computer and Space
Sciences. Call 5-4829 for info.

TUESDAY

UMIACS Distinguished Lecture:
"The Future of Artificial Intelli-
gence." Marvin Minsky, MIT.
10:30 a.m.. audilorium. Adult Ed-
ucation Center. Call 5-6730 for
into.

Seminar in Ecology, Evolution,
and Behavior: "Influence ol Excn
Structures on Splicing of Tefrarty-
mena Intron," Sarah Woodson.
Chemistry and Biochemistry,
noon. 1208 Zoo/ Psych, Call 5-
6884 for info.

College of Engineering Lecture:

"Impacl of Women on the Stability
of the Engineering Profession in
the U.S.." Lilia Abron. PEER Con-
sultants. 2 p.m., Judith Resnik
Lecture Hall [EGR- 12(H). Call 5-
3871 for info.

Offices of Undergraduate and
Graduate Studies introduction
to Graduate School: 'Opportun-
ities for Graduate and Profes-
sional Education," for sopho-
mores, juniors, and seniors, small
group discussion and refresh-
ments to follow, 3:30 p.m.. 2203
Art/Soc. Call 5-9355 for info.

Physics Colloquium: "Matter/
Antimatter Symmetry. Beauty, and
Quantum Mechanics." Boris Kay-
ser. National Science Foundation.
4 p.m., 1410 Physics, tea recep-
tion. 3:30 p.m. Call 5-5953 for
info.

Classics Department Lecture:
"Postures and Gestures Expres-
sive of Respect and Disrespect in
Homer's Odyssey" Donald
Lateiner. Ohio Wesleyan U.: re-
sponse. Joseph O'Connor,
Georgetown U.. 4 p.m.. 2309
Art/Soc. Call 5-201 3 for info.

WEDNESDAY

Campus Recreation Services
Team Tennis and Softball, sign
up today. 1104 Reckord Armory.
Call 4-721 8 for info.

Women's Center Film and Dis-
cussion: "Miss Universe in Peru,"
noon-1 p.m. (bring lunch). 0109
Hornbake Library. Call 4-8462 for
into.

Counseling Center Research
and Development Meeting:
"McKeldin Library: 1991 and

1993." H. Joanne Harrar, Director
of Libraries, noon-1 p.m., 0106-
0114 Shoemaker. Call 4-7691 for
info.

Noontime Seminar on Comput-
ers in the Arts and Humanities:

"Scholarship, Computers, and the
International Community," H.
Robert Cohen. Center for Studies
in 19th-century Music. noon-1:30
p.m.. 4321 Hartwick Road, Suite
220. Call 5-4337 for info.

Center for Teaching Excellence
Faculty Discussion, keynote ad-
dress followed by active dialogue.
noon-1 :30 p.m. [bring lunch),
Maryland Room. Marie Mount
Call 5-31 54 for info.

SUPC Issues and Answers
Committee Luncheon/Lecture:
"Diversity and the Individual."
Roberta Coates, Office of Cam-
pus Activities, noon. 21 1 1 Stamp
Student Union, reservations re-
quired. Call 4-8495 lor info.

Molecular and Cell Biology
Seminar: "Molecular Population
Genetics of Orosophita." Wolfgang
Stephan, Zoology. 12:05 p.m.,
1208 Zoo/Psych. Call 5-6991 for
info.

Art Department Minorities and
Women Lecture, Yuriko Yamagu-
chi, wall sculptor, 12:30 p.m.,
1309 Art/Soc. Call 5-1442 for info.

Foreign Policy Fellows Semi-
nar: "Economic Reform in Latin
America," Donald O'Connell. Eco-
nomics, 3:30 p.m.. student
lounge, Morrill Hall, Call 5-6353
for into.

Distinguished Scholar-Teacher
Lecture: "Socrates' Islamic Con-
version." Charles Butte rworth,
Government and Politics, 4 p.m..
2203 Art/Soc, reception to follow.
Call 5-9353 for info.

Theatre Performance: "Domestic
Snakes." by Karin Abromaitis.
today and tomorrow, 8 p.m.,
Pugliese Theatre Call 5-2201 for
tickets and into.*

THURSDAY

Maryland Conlerence on Liter-
acy in the 90s: "Perspectives on
Theory. Research, and Practice,"
today 8 a.m. -4:30 p.m , tomorrow
B a.m.-12:30 p.m., Adult Educa-
tion Center. Call 5-3128 for info.

College of Business and Man-
agement Reception for Campus
Office Support Staff, 9:30-11:30
a.m.. Carriage House,
Rossborough Inn. Call 5-2308 for
info

Systems Research Center Lec-
ture: "Mathematica 2.0' and the
New Paradigm for Technical
Computing." Stephen Wolfram.
Wolfram Research. Inc., 10:30
a.m.. Computer and Space Sci-
ences, Call 5-6634 far info.

Graduate Student Government
Meeting, 3 p.m., 1143 Stamp
Student Union, Call 5-5788 for
into,

Comparative Literature Lecture:
"Compared to What' Rethinking
the Comparative Program,"
Angel ika Bam me r, Emory U.;
Daniel Moshenberg, George
Washington U., and Carla
Peterson. English, 3 p.m., Mary-
land Room, Marie Mount, recep-
tion to follow. Call S-3796 for info.

Meteorology Seminar: "Some
Skill Characteristics oi CAC Long- .
range Forecasts." Robert
Livezey." Climate Analysis Center,

Malcolm Bilson, the world's leading performer on forte piano— the historical predecessor to the
modern piano— performs music by Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven, Wednesday, March 20 at 8 p.m.,
Adult Education Center. Ticket prices are $17 slandard admission, $14.50 students and seniors.
Students are reminded that tickets are $5 at the door on an as available basis. Call 4034239 for Info.

NMC. 3:30 p.m.. 21 1 4 Computer
and Space Sciences, reception. 3
p.m. Call 5-5392 for info.

OMSE Reception and Student
Presentation; "Celebrating Aca-
demic Excellence Among Cultur-
ally Diverse Students: African-
Americans, Asian -Americans, His-
panics, and Native -Americans." 3-
6 p.m., Art/Soc Atrium. Call 5-
5620 or 5-5616 for info.

Dance Department Ceremony
and Dinner, to Honor Dorothy
Madden, reception, 4 p.m.: cere-
mony. 4:45 p.m., 1136 Dance
Bldg.: Improvisations Unlimited
workshop. 7:30 p.m,; dinner al
Calvert Inn, 5:30 p.m. tomorrow.
Call 5-3189 lor info.'

Reliability Engineering Seminar:
"Systems Engineering Approach
for Reliable Computer Hardware
and Software." Edmund Westcott,
Air Force Systems Command,
5:15-6:l5pm..2l15Chem.and
Nuclear Engineering Bldg, Call 5-
3887 for info.

Guarneri String Quartet Open
Rehearsal, 7 p.m., Tawes Recital
Hall Call 5-554B for info.

University Theatre: "Major
Barbara." today- March 16, 8 p.m.,
Tawes Theatre. Call 5-2201 for
info."

FRIDAY

Speech Communication Col-
loquium: "Rethinking the Fear' in
Fear Appeals." James Diltard, U,
of Wisconsin, noon. 0147 Tawes.
Call 5-6524 for info.

Business and Management
Research Colloquium: "Optimal
Trading Policies and the Pricing of
Securities with Personal Taxes,"
Robert Dammon. Carnegie- Me I Ion
U, 1-2 p.m.. 2102 Tydings. Call
5-2256 for info.

University Honors Program
Lecture: "How to Study Abroad,"
Richard Weaver, Study Abroad
Program. 2 p.m.. Honors Lounge,
0110 Hornbake Library Call 4-
0643 for info.

Maryland University Club Din-
ner Lecture Presentation: "Out
of Africa." Richard Ahrens, Ful-
bright lecturer in Kenya, 1987-88.
7 p.m., Rossborough Inn. reser-
vations required. Call 4-801 5 for
info.*

Artist Scholarship Benefit Con-
cert: Bradford Gowen, piano and
David Soyer, cello, 8 p.m., Tawes
Recital Hall. $10 standard admis-
sion: $7 students and seniors.
Call 5-5548 for info.'

University Theatre: "Major
Barbara," B p.m.. Tawes Theatre.
See March 14 for details.*

Theatre Performance: "Domestic
Snakes," by Karin Abromaitis,
today and tomorrow, 9 p.m.,
Pugliese Theatre. Call 5-2201 for
tickets and info.*

odist Church Call 422-1400 for
info.'

University Community Concert:
Katherine Hay, Flute, and Jeffrey
Meyer riecks, guitar, 8 p.m.,

Tawes Recital Hall, $12 standard
admission, $9.50 students and
Seniors. Call 80-4239 for info.'

University Theatre: "Major
Barbara." 8 p.m.. Tawes Thealre.
See March 14 for details '

Music Department Concert:
"Happy Birthday Mozart." 8 p.m.,
Wallers Gallery (Baltimore). $10
standard admission; $7 students
and seniors. Call 5-5548 for inlo '

SUNDAY

Music Department Concert:
Sigma Alpha lota and Mu Phi
Epsilon Musicale, 3 p.m., Tawes
Recital Hall. Call 5-5548 for info.

University of Maryland Chorale
Concert, Roger Folstrum. con-
ductor, 4 p.m., University
Methodist Church. Call 5-5548 lor
info,

MONDAY

SATURDAY

St. Patrick's Eve Church Dinner,
4-7 p.m., University United Math-

Horticulture Seminar; "Managing
Crown Gall in Grape Vineyards,"
T.J. Burr, Cornell U. and NY Slate
Agricultural Experiment Station. 4
p.m„ 0128 Holzapfel. Call 5-4336
lor info.

Entomology Colloquium: "Eco-
nomic Thresholds for the Fall
Armyworm in Silage." Carlos
Pereira. Entomology. 4 p.m.. 0200
Symons. Call 5-3912 for info.

Computer Science Colloquium:
"MACH: A Technology tor Open
Systems," Richard F. Rashid,
Carnegie- Mellon U., 4 p.m., 01 1 1
Classroom Bldg. Call 5-2661 for
info.

University Community Concerts
Gala Benefit Performance: Klez-

mer Conservatory Band, Yiddish
music, including supper party and
dance to celebrate UCC's 1 5th
season, 7:30 p.m.. Arena Stage
Kreeger Theatre Call 80-4240 for
info,*

TUESDAY

Seminar in Ecology, Evolution,
and Behavior: "Costs and Bene-
fits of Non-Offspring Nursing in
Evening Bats," Jerry Wilkinson.
Zoology, noon, 1208 Zoo/Psych.
Call 5-6884 for info.

Writers Here and Now Reading,
Margot Livesey, novelist, 3:30
p.m., Maryland Room. Marie
Mount. Call 5-3820 for info.

Physics Colloquium: "SAGE,
S NO, and Solar Neutrinos,"
Richard T. Kouzes, Princeton U.,
4 p.m., 1410 Physics, tea recep-
tion, 3:30 p.m. Call 5-5953 for
info.

University of Maryland Concert
Band Performance, Steven
Johnson, conductor, 8 p.m., Adull
Education Center. Call 5-5548 for
info.

WEDNESDAY

Department of Housing and
Design Discussion; "The Effect
of Political Change on Housing
Policy and Research in the Soviet
Union: The Estonian Perspective."
Toomas Niit, noon. 1 102 Francis
Scott Key. Call 5-4386 lor info.

Center for Global Change
Colloquium, Tom Schelling, Eco-
nomics and Public Affairs, noon-
1:30 p.m. (bring lunch), 1137
Stamp Student Union. Call 80-
4165 for info.

Molecular and Cell Biology
Seminar: "From Green Revolution
to Gene Revolution," Shain-dow

Kung, Maryland Biotechnology
Institute, 12:05 p.m., 1208
Zoo/Psych Call 5-6991 tor into.

Meteorology Seminar: "Sensitiv-
ity Analysis Using an Adjoin! ol
Ihe PSU/NCAR Mesoscale
Model." Ron Errico, NCAR. Boul-
der. CO. 2:30 p.m., coffee served,
2 p.m.. 2114 Computer and
Space Sciences. Call 5-5392 for
info.

Anthropology Lecture: "The
Internship Experience; Reflecting
on Our Practice," Michael Agar
and Mark Leone, Anthropology,
3:00-5 p.m., 1114 Woods Hall.
Call 5-1423 lor info.

Foreign Policy Fellows Semi-
nar: "A New Order in International
Relations," David Lalman, Gov-
ernment and Politics, 3:30 p.m.,
student lounge, Morrill Hall. Call
5-6353 lor info.

Distinguished Scholar-Teacher
Lecture: "An Exploration of Ihe
Creative Process Involved in
Designing Architectural
Masterpieces," Richard Etlin,
Architecture, 4 p.m., 2203 Art/Soc,
reception following. Call 5-9353
lor info.

Architecture Lecture; "Current
Urban Design Projects." Tom and
Marlene Davis, Syracuse U., 7:30
p.m., Architecture Auditorium. Call
5-6284 lor info.

Campus Club Women's History
Month Presentation: "Women
and Health." Colleen Farmer,
Wellness Research Laboratory,
7:30 p.m.. North Gym. Call 779-
2759 lor info.

University Community Con-
certs, Malcolm Bilson. fortepiano,
program TBA. 8 p.m.. pre-concert
seminar, 6:30 p.m,. Adult Edu-
cation Center, $1 7 standard
admission, $14.50 students and
seniors. Call BO-4239 for info.*

' Admission charge for this event
Atl others are tree.

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