Outlook / the University of Maryland, College Park (1993)

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OUTLOOK

A WEEKLy NEWSPAPER FOR FACULTY AND STAFF AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND AT COOEGE PARK

JULY 19, 1993
VOLUME 7, NUMBER 32

University Breaks Ground for Plant Sciences Building

Last week, university officials
broke ground for the new $26.3 mil-
lion, seven-story Plant Sciences Build-
ing that will provide sophisticated
research and instructional facilities
and house the Departments of Ento-
mology and Horticulture and the
Center for Agricultural Biotechnology,

Slated for completion in March
1995, the new Plant Sciences Building
will be located on the corner of
Regents and Field House Drives, and
will become the newest building on
! lonibake Plaza in the center of the
College Park campus.

In welcoming several dignitaries,
faculty, staff, alumni and industry
friends in attendance. President
William Kirwan noted "it is reward-
ing to see the land-grant mission of
instruction, research and service
being fulfilled in this new structure,
and by the units it will house. Agri-
culture and the life sciences are the
foundation upon which this universi-
ty was founded and the commitment
to the land-grant mission and these
on its has never been stronger at Col-
lege Park."

The seven-story building will have
185,000 square feet of which 102,3t)0
st]uare feet is dedicated to specialized
research space, as well as contempo-
rary classroom.s, electronic studios,
lecture halls, and interactive student-
oriented areas.

The first floor of the building will
be dedicated to instruction and
includes two satellite uplink, telecon-
ferencing rooms with work stations
for state-of-the-art technology -aided
teaching. There wiE also be two large

lecture hails, four
teaching laboratories,
18 classrooms and a
student lounge.

The second floor
will house the
Department of Horti-
culture Vi'ith approxi-
mately 23,000 net
square footage (n.s.f)
for research and
administrative offices.
In the adjoining
Landscape Architec-
ture Wing there will
be four electronic
design studios, a con-
struction laboratory
and a computer visu-
alization laboratory.
Each student will
have 24-hour access
to a RISC-based (reduced instruction
set computing) computer work sta-
tion. Each student drawing table will
be connected to the campus main-
frame, with access to the Internet. The
recommended platform will either be
the Silicon Graphics Elan work sta-
tion or the new IBM /Motorola/
Apple Power PC. High level output
devices, including a large format
color plotter and the new Nikon color
printer will be made available. Many
universities have brought the elec-
tronic connection to every student
drawing table. The university's pro-
gram will be the first design-oriented
program to supply work stations.
Horticulture has additional facilities
on the groimd level inckiding a bank
of state-of-the-art growth chambers

Architectural rendering of the new Plant Sciences Building

for experimental purposes.

Entomology research laboratories
and faculty offices take up the entire
1 5,000 n.s.f. on the 3rd floor with
additional research space and admin-
istration of 16,000 n.s.f. on the 4th
floor.

The fifth and sixth floors, totaling
22,000 n.s.f. will be home to the Cen-
ter for Agricultural Biotechnology of
the Maryland Biotechnology Insti-
tute. The floors are composed of
research modules, each with a labora-
tory', lab support room, and office for
the use of CAB facultv, as well as sev-
eral members of the Agronomy
Department. The two floors are con-
nected with an open interior stair, a

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Alumnus Leo Van Munching Jr. Gives
$5 Million To Name Building

College of Business and Manage-
Juggling Act ment alumnus Leo Van Munching Jr.

Kiiiplnyi-v GraduLiiw Work Where / has pledged to give the university

Thev' Learn t: $5 million over the next three years to

help defray the construction cost of
Development Overview the new building — -now called Van

I l(A\ Ii \\ork>, \Miu Dues \Vli;u r Munching Hall — that houses the

;md Gimpign Hijihlighis J business school and the School of

Public Affairs, The gift is the largest
Research /^ ^^^^ received by the university from

1 ti ,„ ,„ 1 1) . ■ VI n a single donor.

km [kninis and Praine Voles \J , , . . , . , ^

Van Munching is the president of

T IL- ^''" Munching & Co., Inc., the sole

laiKJ* importer of Heine ken and Amstel

Imversiiv (imup Guc.s tnjeru.salem -j ^^^^1 beers, which are brewed and

for Conference / bottled in the Netherlands. He gradu-
ated from the business school in 1950
and went to work in the company
that was started by Leo Van Munch-
ing Sr. in 1946. Today Heineken is the
nation's leading imported beer.

"This gift is my way of repaying
the University of Maryland for the
warm welcome and fine education it
provided me and many other veter-
ans immediately following the end of
World War II," Van Munching said.
"1 like what the University of Mary-
land stands for and 1 think anyone in
position to help higher education
should do so,"

Leo and Peggy Van Munching vis-
ited College Park for the first time in
over 30 years last May. After a lun-
cheon at the president's home, the
couple were given the grand tour of
campus by business school Dean
William Mayer and President Kirwan.
Afterwards, the Van Munchings
expressed their desire to make a $5

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Health Center Sponsors Free Health Fair on August 11

Faculty and staff can receive free health evaluations from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at
tho University Health Center on August 11. Services offered during the Faculty
and Staff Health Fair include cholesterol, blood pressure, glaucoma and colon
cancer screenings, vision and hearing testing, breast and testicular exams, head
[ind neck massages, stress reduction workshops and information booths. There
will also be prizes and refreshments. Call 314-8091 for more information.

University Breaks Ground for New
Computer and Space Sciences Building

Golden shovels have been in
demand on campus. In addition to
the Plant Sciences ceremony on July
1 2, ground was broken for the new
Computer and Space Sciences Build-
ing tm July 2.

The new building will house much
of the Computer Science Center and
part of the Department of Meteorolo-
gy — one of the most intensive users
of computing technologv on campus.

"This new building will be a nerve
center for electronic information for
the campus and for the state of Mary-
land," explains Computer Science
Center Director Glen Ricart. "We are
creating a rich information environ-

ment for the College Park campus
with electronic access to the library,
our technical reports, and thousands
of pages of informatitm about the
campus and the state."

Once completed in 1 995, electronic
information will be accessible to uni-
versity scholars, Maryland businesses
and citizens over a new Maryland
information superhighway through
dial-up mLvdems and public library
access terminals, says Ricart.

On hand to help celebrate the
groimdbreaking were President
William Kirwan, Ricart, and Richard
Herman, Dean of the College of
Mathematical and Physical Sciences.

Engineering Courses on Air

The university's Instructional Tele-
vision System (ITV) has begun broad-
casting engineering courses to hvo
sites in Southern Maryland — the St.
Charles Center in Waldorf and the
Naval Air Station at Patuxent.

U si n g soph i s t i c a t ed m i c ro vva ve
technology, the imiversity is able to
broadcast courses as they are being
taught on campus. Students at the
two remote locations not only see and
hear the instructors at the university,
but each has a microphone so that
they may talk to the instructors in
real time.

The ITV system offers more than
100 academic courses per year, most-

ly upper level undergraduate and
graduate courses in engineering and
computer science. A remote ITV stu-
dent can, without coming to College
Park, earn a master's degree in elec-
trical engineering, mechanical engi-
neering, reliability engineering,
computer science, or engineering
management.

Extending the broadcast courses to
the two ScHithern Maryland sites
required extending the range of the
four channel microwave system of
the university to reach the two loca-
tions. The project took about nine
months to plan and two months to
implement.

Plant Sciences Groundbreaking

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(L-R) J, Landoit Reeve, Paul Manochi, Rita ColweH, Louis Goldstein, William
Kirwan, Arthur Dorman, Steriy Hoyer. Donald Langettberg and Robert
Walker, participated In the Plant Sciences Building ground breaking.

modern architectural feature to
encourage ct)m muni cat ion among
researchers.

The Plant Sciences Building was
designed as a joint venture between
Baliinger of Philadelphia and Richter,
Cornbrooks and Gribble, Inc. of Balti-

more. The $26.3 million contract was
awarded to Chas. H. Tompkins Com-
pany of Washington, D.C.

Joining President Kirwan at the
groundbreaking ceremony were
Donald Langenberg, chancellor of the
University of Maryland System; Rita
Col well, president of the Maryland
Biotechnology Institute; Robert Walk-
er, secretary of the Maryland Depart-
ment of Agriculture; J. Land on Reeve
IV, a member of the College of Agri-
culture Dean's Advisory Bt)ard and
the Horticulture Advisory Council.

Paul Mazzocchi, dean of the Col-
lege of Life Sciences and interim dean
for the College of Agriculture, served
as master of ceremonies for the day.
He noted that "this new, state-tif-the-
art, facility will allow the three units
housed in it to serve the many- fold
needs of tair students and the citizens
of Maryland. The support of Gover-
nor Schaefer and the Maryland legis-
lature i]i the project is greatly
appreciated."

- — GnU Yeiscr

Letter to the Editor

I am writing to make a correction
to the article "Business Faculty Make
Teaching Ev^aluations Available to
Students" (OUTLOOK, June 21, 1993,
p. 7). The writer states that student
evaluations of courses "have always
been privileged information, avail-
able only to department chairs, the
dean and individual faculty mem-
bers."

While this may have been the case
in the College of Business and
Management, it isn't true at the
College of Library and Information
Services. Course evaluations have
been made readily available to CLIS
students for more than ten years.
Copies of evaluations are on file in
the CLIS Library. The evaluation
form elicits information about course
components, such as text, readings,
class sessions, assignments; strong
points and areas that need improve-
ment; and the student's overall reac-
tion to the course. Students are
encouraged to consult the evalua-
tions as well as other sources of
information in planning their pro-
grams of study.

Another practice at CLIS is to
send copies of the evaluations to
adjunct lecturers, who otherwise
might not have an opportunity to
read the evaluations while the expe-
rience of teaching the course is still
fresh. Comments from the adjuncts
indicate that they appreciate this
service.

Student evaluations are \'aiuable
in the ongoing process of improving
the educational program at CLIS, a
task thai involves the entire commu-
nity — administration, faculty, and
students.

— Oitinc Bnrtim\
assistant dean, CLIS

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Alfresco Dining Witii Ants

The Third Annual Faculty, Staff and Student Picnic will be held on Friday,
Septembers, frum 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on McKeldin Mall. There will be
games, activities, prizes and food. For more information, call 405-4402.

Infants Put On "Thinking Caps"

Are children born with personali-
ties? Does extreme inhibition in
infants predict emotional problems in
adulthood? These are just a few of the
questions that Nathan Fox, a pioneer
in the field of infant studies, is trying
to answer.

Fox, a professor of human devel-
opment in the College of Fducation,
measures the brain -activity and
development of infants as young as
two days old with an electroen-
cephalogram (Ff:C) cap designed
especially fur his biological research
i n t o c h i 1 d d e ve i op m en t .

U s i n g b ra i n wa \- e pa 1 1 e rn s reco rd -
cd through the EEC cap. Fox current-
ly is studying brain maturation of

children under one year of age to
determine if certain parts of the brain
change in synchronic! ty with the abil-
ity to complete certain developmental
tasks.

He also is using these brainwave
patterns to prove that innate predis-
positions seen in infants have a phys-
iological basis in the brain.

"What this means is that parents
are not solely responsible for their
infant's behavior," says Fox.

A Harvard -trained cievelopmental
psychologist. Fox's child develop-
ment expertise is well docimiented in
the more than 50 book chapters and
journal articles he has authored. He
has addressed numerous audiences.

University Hosts National Summer
Science Institute

The university is one of four sites
nationwide hosting this year's Sum-
mer institute for Middle School Sci-
ence Teachers from July H to 31.

Part of a three-year National Sci-
ence Foundation (NSF) grant to the
National Science Teachers Associa-
tion (NSTA), the summer institutes
aresponsored by NSTA and the
Association of Presidential Award ees
in Science Teaching ( APAST), which
includes teachers who have been
selected by their states as being exem-
plary in working with shjdents in
science.

The summer institutes, which are
tTlsu being simultaneously hosted at
other sites in Oregon, Indiana, and
Massachusetts, involve a university
science educator who serves as the
institute director, with the actual
teaching being done by four presi-
dential award-winning teachers.

While these teachers are selected
bv their individual states, the award
is given to them personally bv the
President of the United States at a
ceremony held annually in Washing-
ton, D.C, With such fine teaching
leadership, the institutes have
become very popular; only 10 percent
of 300 applicants receive admission to
each three- week institute.

"These are the years that young
people begin to make decisions about
pursuing science as a career," says
David Lockard, the summer institute
director who also directs the universi-
ty's International Clearinghouse on
Science and Mathematics Curriculur
Developments. "I am pleased to see
the National Science Foundation rec-
ognize this crucial period by helping
to produce well-trained middle
school science teachers."

University-State Effort Provides Mental
Health Services for Elderly

The findings of a state survey on
mental health services for elderlv
people were presented Friday, June
18, during "Where We Are: Where
We Need To Be. Coordinating Mental
Health Services for Older Persons,"
an interagency state conference held
in Crownsville, Md.

The survey, which was conducted
by College Park's Center on Aging,
found that understaffing, along with
a lack of staff knowledge of and clear
responsibility for mental health ser-
vices to senior citizens, are major bar-
riers to providing these services. One
hundred health, mental health, aging
and social service professionals
across the state completed the survey.

Sponsored by the Maryland Office
on Aging the Mental Hygiene

Administration of the Department of
I lealth and Mentai f tygiene and the
university's Center on Aging, the
working conference reviewed survey
findings and discussed models of
excellence in interagency coordina-
tion. It also joined together for work-
ing sessions participants from the
state's five regions to discuss ways
agencies can better coordinate efforts
and resources to effectively provide
mental health services to Maryland's
senior citizens.

"Our hope is that bv bringing local
agency directors together to discuss
the survey findings and the models of
coordination we have identified as
being most effective, we will see
coordination enhanced within each
region and each jurisdiction of the

including the National histitute of
Mental Health and the National Insti-
tute of Child Health and Develop-
ment, and has served as a consultant
to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety
Commission on the safety of infant
and child toys and furniture.

— Beth Workman

AT&T Donates
Networked Language
Instruction Lab

University students and faculty
will benefit from an AT&T donation
of more than $100,000 for a net-
worked computer lab to enhance the
teaching of foreign languages.

Designed for use as an interactive
classroom as well as an individual
study facility, the networked, com-
puter-controlled audio /video lan-
guage lab will be u.scd for process-
t»riented writing instruction, such as
electronic dialogue journals and
anonymous peer editing. It will also
provide students with the ability to
become involved in long-distance
collaborative projects via electronic
mail.

The university was one of 61 insti-
tutions in the U.S. and overseas to
receive computer gifts through the
AT&T Equipment Donation Program.
AT&T is scheduled to install the facil-
ity in Jimenez Hall on October 15,
and it will likely be ready for use in
November.

The lab's pilot project will involve
Japanese and French language classes
taught by (im Unger, chair of Hebrew
and East Asian Languages, and
Celeste Kinginger, assistant professor
in French and Italian, both of whom
authored the original grant proposal.

"The AT&T lab is being integrated
into a comprehensive technology
plan for language instruction on cam-
pus," says Donna Hamilton, associate
dean in Arts & Humanities and chair
of the college's Language Technology
Task Force. "It's a wonderful facility."

state," said Laura Wilson, director of
the Center on Aging.

Only 34 percent of the survey
respondents indicated that their
agency had a staff person specifically
responsible for coordination of men-
tal health .services for older persons,
and 63 percent said there were no
plans to develop such a position.
Finances were cited as the most
important factor in correcting the sit-
uation.

Conference findings and recom-
mendations, including legislative
action, will be presented to the state's
Interagency Committee on Aging
Services in September, 1993.

— Beth Workman

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Employee Graduates Work Where They Learn

Kathteen Maroney
with her children
Brian, Chariene and
Emily (far right).

Besides being proud of these grad-
uation pictures, Kathleen Maroney
and Laura Nichols have a Sot in
common.
_^^^ About 25 years ago,

^^^^^B \ both women stopped
""^^B their education to get
^8 married, begin families
and go to work.
Though they always
if \ ,ii^B intended to finish
their degrees, they
found the demands
J ^^B cif work and eventu-

« B^* ents were too

V 'H^ril ^^ii^fi^-'utt tt) over-

H ,, . " i^^l come. Until, that is,
H «' ''^''' they began work-

ing where they learned .
"It was a conscious decision for
me," says Maroney, administrative
assistant to University Health Center
Director Margaret Bridwell. After
several attempts at juggling work and
school, "1 knew I had to simplify my
life by working closer to my educa-
tion," she says.

In the last three and a half years,
Ma rone V
has taken
two or three
classes a
semester at
University
College until
she earned
her bachelor's
degree in psy-
chology this
spring. She
also became
involved in
* ••'" clerical staff

issues, quit smoking, and often had
lunch with her daughter, Emily, one
of her three children and a senior
marketing major here at College
Park.

Last semester, she even survived a
dreaded course in statistics, though
the "B" .she earned kept her from
graduating with a perfect 4.0 grade
point average.

Nichols, too, had difficulty finish-
ing a degree until she came to work
at the universitv, first in the microbi-
ology department and tlien in the
Women's Studies Program, where
she's been the department secretary
since 1987.

"Getting my degree was a real
challenge," says Nichols, who recalls
competing with her kids for the home
computer when they all had papers
to write. "But mv family was very
supportive and helped a lot."

In raising four children — the old-
est, Shellev, is a junior English major
in the Honors Program here — Nichols
was naturally attracted to the family
studies department where she earned
a bachelor's of science degree last
spring and was honored as the
department's outstanding senior. Her
only regret was that in fhiishing the
53 credits she needed to graduate, her
3.6 grade point average was just
seven credits shv of the required 60 to
graduate with academic recognition.

Maroney and Nichols are just two
of the 109 classified employees who
earned degrees from College Park or
University College last year. Overall,
136 classified staff, 82 associate staff
and 103 faculty took classes at Col-
lege Park in the spring, according to
Rita Rtick, coordinator of the Tuition

Remission Program. Rock also esti-
mates that approximately 440
employees use their remission bene-
fits to take classes at University Col-
lege and other University of
Maryland institutions each semester.

For employees thinking about
going back to school or starting up,
the Counseiing Center's Returning
Students Program offers a one credit
orientation course each semester and
sponsors a weekly "Coffee and Con-
versation" support group on Mon-
days from 12 to 2 p.m. There's also a
special panel discussion at the spring
Personnel Practices Conference that
features employees who have gone
back to school and graduated.

While Maroney and Nichols both
acknowledge the supportive environ-
ment created by their supervisors and
departments, they also know of many
cla.ssified staff who would return to
school if their education were encour-
aged more.

"Little things like telling employ-
ees they can only take classes at
lunch time or shouldn't talk about
their classes at work can make the
remission benefit difficult to use,"
says Nichtils. "With no pay raise in
three years and a longer work week,
encouraging someone's education
helps morale."

With their own morale sky-high
after reaching a long-sought-after
goal, both Maroney and Nichols
admit they're not exactly sure what's
next. Graduate school is a possibility,
but now they're enjoying work and
the break from classes.

"1 feel as if I can do anything
now," says Maroney. "1 like that."

— loh)i Fritz

Laura fjichols with her
chitctren(l-r) Shelley,
Catherine, John and
James,

IMS Conference Will Address Faculty Roles and Rewards

Faculty and staff from University
of Maryland System (UMS) institu-
tions, together with representatives
from area community colleges and
private institutions, will meet on
Thursday, September 2, to discuss
faculty roles and rewards — how
teaching, research, and community
service should be weighed in consid-
erations of promotion and tenure.

The conference, "Faculty Roles
and Rewards: Research, Teaching,
Service Redefined," to be held at
Towson State Universitv Union, will
inaugurate in Maryland an important
debate that could determine the
direction of higher education in the
twenty-first century.

The terms of this debate were
highlighted in Carnegie Foundation
President Ernest Boyer's best-selling
1990 report, Schotnri^tuf' Recoiifihlen'd:
Priorities of the Professoriate, which
questioned the practice of promoting
faculty primarily on the basis of

research and publication and advo-
cated more emphasis on teaching and
service. It also revealed that a sub-
stantial number of faculty, even those
at research universities, favored a
more equal balance between research
and tither priorities.

These issues were also the subject
of the 1993 annual ccmference of the
American Association for Higher
Education (AAHE), underscoring
their priority on the nation's higher
education agenda. The AAHE is co-
sponsoring the Towson Conference
with UMS.

The Towson conference aims to
offer maximum opportunity for fac-
ulty involvement. A keynote speaker
(to be announced) will place the
issues in historical perspective; then a
panel will attempt to lay out the
issues of research, teaching, and
scholarship at different insdtutions.
Group discussion of these topics will
follow, arranged so every participant

will encounter every topic. The con-
ference event will conclude with a
wrap-up session which sets goals and
recommends an action agenda.

Registration for the conference is
S25, which includes a light breakfast
and lunch. A member of the UMS
Board of Regents will speak at lunch.

UMS institutions have agreed to
sponsor a limited niunber of repre-
sentatives from each campus.
According to College Park's Associ-
ate Provost Bruce Fretz, Academic
Affairs has agreed to pay the registra-
tion fee for one representative from
each department or college. Faculty
wishing to attend should contact
their department chairs.

Those with expertise on research,
teaching, and service issues are need-
ed to serve as panelists, facilitators,
recorders, and restmrce people. To
offer your services, please call Jcihn
Brain at (410) 830-346S.

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Who's Who In Development

Reporting to Kathryii Costello, vice president for Institutional Advancennent, Bill Lynerd, assis-
tant vice president for Development tias overall management responsibility. Senior development
officers inckide Kim Borsavage (Engineering), Nancy Hiles {Public Affairs, Architecture and
Behavioral and Social Sciences) and Yolanda Pruitt (Arts and Humanities and Computer, Mathe-
matical and Physical Sciences), Development officers who carry other duties in their respective
units are Suzanne Beicken (Music), Rose Ann Fraistat (Concert Society), Mary Holland
(Libraries), Frank Quine (Journalism) and Jo Schram (Business and Management). Development
directors include Jan George (Annual Giving) Deborah Read (Planned Giving), Tom Hiies, with
Assistant Director Fritz Schroeder (Corporate and Foundation Relations), Marc Jaffe (Resource
Development), Patty Wang (Stewardship and Donor Relations) and Tim Pula {Annual Fund).

DEVELOPMENT

What Does Development Develop?

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Recently, The Chronicle of Higher
Ediicntiai! cited a study by the Nation-
al Association of State Budget Offi-
cers which reported that since
1989-90, higher education's share of
total state expenditures has dropped
from 12.2 percent to 11.5 percent.

Amidst this national decline in
support for public higher education,
many state colleges. and universities
have become more sophisticated in
their attempts to develop non-gov-
ernmental support.

While the overall levels of giving
to major private colleges and univer-
sities still exceed that of publics, the
Council for Financial Aid to Educa-
tion recently indicated that donors'
views are changing. Among a core
group of 1 14 public and 66 private
research universities (termed
Research 1 institutions), CFAE
reported an increase of more than 10
percent in support for public univer-
sities, compared to just three percent
among private universities from FY
'91 to FY '92. Twenty years ago, pri-
vate Rl universities raised $9 (per
student) for every SI raised at a pub-
lic Rl university. In FY'92, privates
raised less than $5.

Here at College Park, total private
support in FY '92 was SI 8,1 40,842.
Final figures are not available for FY
'93, but that total will be surpassed,
according to Bill Lynerd, assistant
vice president for development,

FY '93 Highlights

• University awarded SI. 3 million
by the Howard Hughes Medical
Institute to become part of the
nation's largest privately-funded
effort to support and revitalize
undergraduate science education.

• College Park becomes one of
nine colleges and universities select-
ed to receive an award in IBM's Total
Quality Management University
Competition. The $1.3 million award
will be used to accelerate the teach-
ing, research and use of TQM princi-
ples.

• College of Journalism awarded a
start-up grant of $200,000 from the
Annie F. Casey Foundation to estab-
lish the Casey Journalism Center for
Children and Families, which will
help improve journalistic coverage of
issues and public policy related to
children.

• A $400,000 commitment from
Jeffrey and Lily Chen, president and
vice president, respectively, of Gener-
al Sciences Corporation, establishes a
scholarship fund for outstanding stu-
dents in physics, earth and space sci-
ences.

• Former Terrapin and current
NBA basketball star Walt Williams
gives university $125,000 to establish
minority scholarship in the name of
his father, Waiter Williams, Sr.

"Total private giving has
remained fairly constant during the
past four years, despite a very tough
economy and numerous budget cuts
resulting in a considerable reduction
in funds available for fund raising
purposes," says Lynerd,

With the chief responsibility for
generating non-governmental sup-
port for the university, the Office of
Development works with the presi-
dent, vice-presidents, deans, faculty
and others on campus, to help raise
support to meet priorities established
by the president and deans.

Lynerd stresses that, as part of the
Office of Institutional Advancement
(OlA), his office's success is tieti to a
synergistic relationship with OIA's
other units: alumni affairs, public
information, university publications
and special events.

Within the Office of Development,
the staff consists of major gift officers
who focus on specific colleges within
College Park's campus as well as
annual fimd, corporate/ foundation
and planned giving officers wht)
assist with gifts across all college
lines. The office also has staff who
work on identifying and researching
major gift prospects, and who handle
the stewardship of gifts and donor
relations.

Private gifts to the university are
used for many purpo.ses, says Lyn-
erd. In FY '92, for example, of the
total cash and "in- kind" gifts made,
15 percent came in for scholarships,
10 percent for restricted endowments,
34 percent for research, 5 percent "in-
kind" (such as equipment, art work,
books, etc.) and 36 percent for other
restricted purposes.

— John Fritz

Campaigns at College Park

• For the overall University of
Maryland System Campaign which
concludes in December c)f this vear.
College Park was asked to raise $100
million. Currently, the amount raised
in pledges and in cash exceeds more
than $120 million.

• The College of Engineering will
kick off its Centennial Campaign in
September; to date more than $8 mil-
lion has been raised.

• Still in the planning stages is a
campaign to raise support in connec-
tion with the new Center for the
Performing Arts which has been
approved for construction on College
Park's campus. Although parts of the

Center w'ill be named for generous
contributors, funds raised will be
programmatic since the building
costs will be met through other
sources.

• Each year. College Park faculty
and staff are asked to contribute,
financially, to programs here.
Although final figures are not yet
available, these contributions were
running more than 15 percent ahead
of last year, despite some challenging
economic times. Gifts are made for a
wide range of purposes, and are an
important demonstration of care and
concern for the quality of programs
available to our students.

Van Munching Hall

coiitiiuicii from pa^e 1

million contribution to the university,
"This is a remarkable gift from an
alumnus who has achieved great suc-
cess since leaving College Park," says
President William Kirwan. "It is
extremely gratifying to know that
Leo Van Munching holds the univer-
sity in such high regard for the edu-
cation he received here. The naming
of this facility and the munificence of
the gift serves as a reminder to all of
us in education of the enormous posi-
tive impact we can have on young
people in the formative stages of
their lives."

"Leo Van Munching is a very
straightforward man," Mayer said.
"After the campus tour he got right
to the point: 'We both know why I'm
here. Bill. I want to help the school.'
He wanted to do something that
would have a long-term benefit for
the business school, and agreed with
me that the naming gift would cer-

tainly accomplish that objective. He is
obviously proud of Maryland, and
we are proud to be associated with
the Van Munching name."

Van Munching Hall will be dedi-
cated on October 16, 1993 as part of
the university's Homecoming Cele-
bration. Many members of the Van
Munching clan — which includes
eight children and their spouses and
children, and Leo's sister Anne Van
Munching Wilsey and her family —
plan to attend the ceremony. Anne
Wilsey graduated from College Park
in 1947 with a degree in education,

"I'm a very private person, just
ask Peggy," Van Munching said. "I'm
not looking for all kinds of applause
for making this gift to the university's
business school. 1 admit I'm pleased
that the new building will bear the
family name, but more for the sake of
my children and my sister's children
than for me."

— Mercy Coogati

Bill Lynerd

Leo Van Munching Jr.

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National Ion Beam Lithography Center Established

On June 30, Hu- state of Mnrv-
land's Board of Public Works
announced it was allocating $250,01)0
tt) the universitv to help establish a
new national center ot excellence for
ion beam lithography research.

[on beam lithc>graphy, an
advanced high- technology method of
manufacturing electronic microchips,
has significant potential advantages
over current optical lithography chip-
making techniques. It could become
the technology used to manufacture
the next generation of high density
microchips for high-speed computer
and communications s^■stems.
Accordingly, the technology holds
great promise for economic develop-
ment in the state of Maryland, build-
ing on capabilities already existing at
the university in engineering and
information technologies.

Development of the ion beam

lithograph V program at College Park
is the result of efforts by the universi-
ty, the Governor's office, the Mary-
land Congressional delegation, the
Maryland Department of Economic
and Employment Development, and
a consortium of high-technology
businesses headquartered in the state
of Maryland.

U.S. Senator Barbara Mikulski and
U.S. Congressional Representatives
Helen Bentley (District 2) and Steny
Hover (District 5)
were instrumental in
helping the university
to obtain a $7.5 million
grant from the U.S.
Department of
Defense last year to
help establish the ion
beam lithography pro-
gram.

"We are delighted

to acknowledge the support of the
Board of Public V-Vorks for this excit-
ing new program," said President
William Kirwan, in response to the
announcement of state support for
the program. "With the initiation of
this center and tiie related efforts of
industry, the state of Maryland will
become the national focal point of ion
beam lithography research and
development."

— Ganf Sfepheusoii

Do Hormones Influence Monogamy?

The prairie vole, a mouse-like pest
common throughout the mid western
U.S., mav hold a key to understand-
ing monogamy.

In an article published in the June
1943 issue of Sciottific Ameiicnii, C.
Sue Carter, professor of zoology at
College Park and Lowell Getz, chair
of the department of ecology, etholo-
gy, and evolution at the University of
Illinois, describe their results based
on 15 years of studying the behavior
of prairie voles.

Unlike most rodents, prairie voies
form long-lasting pair bonds, and
both parents share in raising their
young — rare behavior in the animal
kingdom where only about three per-
cent of mammals are monogamous.

Carter's studies have focused on
the roles of two hormones — oxytocin
and vasopressin — in monogamy.

"Many chemicals could affect
social beha\'ior," she notes. "Our
results from work with voles suggest
that oxytocin and vasopressin are
part of a complex biochemical cock-
tail that may alter social interactions,
including behaviors such as social
preferences and aggression."

Prairie voles engage in prolonged
periods of mating — 30 to 40 hours —
long past the time needed to ensure
pregnancy. These extended periods
may, according to Carter, help to
facilitate the formation of monoga-
mous social bonds between the ani-
mais. And, unlike other voles, prairie
voles remain highly social toward
their mates, even during nonrepro-
ductive periods. Carter has shown
that prairie voles often touch and
remain near their sexual partner.

"It has been shown that oxytocin is
released during birth, lactation and
sexual interactions," says Carter, "In

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sheep there is evi-
dence that oxytocin
promotes maternal
bonding. Work in my
laboratory by Jessie R.
Williams has shown
that prairie voles form
d istinct pair bonds
which are facilitated
by sexual interactions."

But this friendli-
ness does not extend
to strangers. After
mating, both males
and females become
exceptionally aggres-
sive to Vizard unfamil-
iar members of their
own sex.

"In addition to
developing a strong
attachment to their
sexual partner, males
that have mated

become capable of lethal aggression,"
Carter says. She hypothesizes that
vasopressin, which increases this ter-
ritoriality in other rodents and which
is structurally similar to oxytocin,
increases post-coital, territorial
aggression in prairie voles as well,
This hypothesis has now been experi-
mentallv confirmed by James
Winslovv and Thomas Insel at the
National Institute of Mental Health.

But Carter cautions that the results
of her research are too preliminary to
draw anv conclusions regarding
human monogamy,

"Our work on the behavioral
effects of oxytocin and vasopressin is
new and it is certainly too early to
assume that monogamy in voles will
tell us anything about human
monogamy," she points out. "I low-
ever, this research could have imme-

Kirwan Receives Award

president William Kirwan received the first Maryland
University Club Award, established to recogrrlze individuals
who have made a significant and sustained contribution to
ihe Maryland University Club.

As the official occupant of the historic Rossborough
Inn, the club's primary purpose is to stimulate community
spirit among university faculty, staff, and alumni through
programs of an Intellectual and social nature.

In presenting the award to Kirwan, club president
Lawrence Gordon noted that KIrwan's long-standing sup-
port has been essential for the club to not only survive, but
flourish, during the past several years. Current membership
is approximately 500, roughly twice the 1986 membership.

For more information concerning the Maryland
University Club, contact either Randi Dutch, the clut)'s
manager (at 314-8013) or Vonnie Franda, executive coordi-
nator to the club's Board of Governors (at 314-8015),

diate value if it increases our aware-
ness of the potential behavioral
effects t>f hormones like vasopressin
and oxytocin which are widely used
in medicine. For example, vaso-
pressin is prescribed to treat bed wot-
ting children and oxytocin is often
used to induce childbirth or facilitate
breast feeding. Because oxytocin is
normally released durnig lactation,
even the apparently benign decision
by a new mother to feed an infant
with a bottle, versus breast feeding,
creates a different neuroendocrine
state in the mother, and possibly, in
the infant as well. Animal research
could provide vital clues to those
chemicals that are particularly pow-
erful in affecting behavior."

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University Group Travels to Jerusalem for Peace Conference

Last month while Arab and Israeli
negotiators worked to hammer out
official peace agreements in Washing-
ton, a dozen College Park students,
faculty and staff members journeyed
to Jerusalem to help broker greater
understanding between a group of
Palestinian and Israeli students.

The Jerusalem conference, which
focused on religion and peace in the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict, was part
of the "Religion and Peace Project"
being sponsored by the uni\'ersity's
Center for International Development
and Conflict Management (CIDCM).

Students and faculty from three of
the region's universities — Hebrew,
Bir Zeit and Bethlehem — also partici-
pated in the meeting and represented
the three faiths involved in the con-
flict. Jerusalem's Hebrew University
has a predominantly Israeli Jewish
population, while Bir Zeit and Bethle-
hem universities, located on the West
Bank, serve mostly Muslim and
Christian Palestinians, respectively.
The College Park group visited all
three universities before the start of
the official conference, held
June 16-17.

The Maryland delegation included
university chaplain Holly Ulmer, a
Presbvterian minister, and Gloria
Bouis, program director in the Office
of Human Relations, in addition to
CIDCM staff members and Jewish,
Muslim and Christian students.

Members of the group intend to
put their Jerusalem experience to
good use when they return to College
Park. CIDCM Director Edy Kaufman
will highlight the project as part t>f

Diversity Week in October and Bouis
hopes to use her experience in
Jerusalem in dealing with sometimes
bitter disputes between Jewish and
Arab students. Three of the Maryland
students — I Joda Atia, Brian Hardy
and Amir Jahansir — will write aca-
demic papers connected with their
visit.

The meeting followed the first
Religion and Peace Project retreat
held last February in Port Deposit,
Maryland, This April, CIDCM plans
to hold another conference in College
Park, hosting academics from the
three Middle Eastern universities.

Organizers said they are elated by
their success in getting Israeli and
Palestinian students together under a
single roof, communicating non-
antagonistically.

Meetings between Israeli Jewish
students and Palestinian students
from the Occupied Territories are
quite rare, often being jeopardized by
the area's volatile politics. The confer-
ence's focus on religion and the par-
ticipation by American students may
have helped dilute the antipathy
potentially surrounding such an
event, says CIDCM Director Edy
Kaufman.

"[Religionl was a good cover for
the Arab students to come," says
Kaufman. "If I had called it "Confer-
ence on the Two-State Solution,' it
v\'ould have been too politicized."
As it stood, representation from the
Palestinian universities, over 20 stu-
dents, far outstripped that from
Hebrew University.

hi addition to contending with

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From time to ti»H', OUTLOOK run? this
fii'ction catling attention to the nccom-
plishnicnt?, rtitvirrfs imd achieiK'mciits of
College Park jacuHy , staff, and sfmientfl.
Kudos to. ..is compiled fiviii memos, let-
ters, phone calls, luid departmental
ueiosk'tters. We'd like to hear from ifoti.
Se>id information, and a black and ivhitc
photo, if possible, to OUTLOOK, attu:
Kudos, Ziid floor, Turner Building.

Matthew Bell, School of Architec-
ture, who has received a 1W3 Nation-
al Endowment for the Arts grant to
host the Mayors' Institute on City
Design for the next three years,

Harold McWhinnie, College of Edu-
cation, who will be spending the
month of August as a resident fellow
at the Virginia Center for the Arts in
Sweet Briar, working on developing a
series of paintings and drawings
based on images of Spanish artist
Joan Miro, which have been entered
into a computer over this past year.
The work will be exhibited in a show
in March 1994.

Ian Mather, Department of Animal
Sciences, who was presented with the
1993 American Cyanamid Award on
June 15, at the 88th Annual Meeting
of the American Dairy Science Asso-
ciation awards ceremony. The award
recognized his contributions in lacta-
tional physiology and molecular biol-
ogy,

Cyril Ponnamperuma, Laboratory
of Chemical Evolution, who has been
awarded the 199.3 Harold Urey Prize
and the Academy Medal, from The
Academy of Creative Endeavors in
Moscow, for his outstanding contri-
bution to the study of the origin of
life.

Natasha Saje, Ph.D. candidate, who
is the author of two poems, "Game"
and "Eating Crab with Bob and Jim"
wliich are included in the current
issue of Shenandoah, The Washington
and Lee University Review.

general tension between the Pales-
tinians and Israelis, the project was
constantly challenged by specific
political conditions of the moment.
Kaufman calls dealing with such
difficulties, "working in real time."

Due to fears of terrorist attacks
against Western tourists, for exam-
pie, organizers at the last minute
scrapped a planned second phase
of the conference to be held in
Cairo immediately after the
Jerusalem meeting. Universities in
the Egyptian capital which were
due to host the project faxed warn-
ings to Kaufman saying they could
not vouch for the safety of the
group following the Egyptian gov-
ernment's June 13 hanging of the first
of 22 alleged Muslim terrorists who
have been sentenced to death.

Conference organizers also had to
deal with Israel's closure of the West
Bank and Gaza, which since March
has prohibited Palestinian residents
of the territories from entering Israel
and East Jerusalem, the site of the
meeting. Up until the first day of the
conference, it was unclear whether
the Israeli military authorities on the
West Bank would issue permits to Bir
Zeit students to attend the meeting.

Last-minute permits were issued,
however, and the students attending
the conference were treated to an
array of discussion groups, lively
role-play exercises and lectures. The
speakers, both ecclesiastic and aca-
demic, included CIDCM Fellows Jay
Rothman and Shukri Abed, and Bir
Zeit professor Sari Nusseibeh, who is
a member of the official Palestinian
negotiating team,

— Sail}/ Grattatstein

While in Washington to give a
sfKecti in memory of colleague
Andrei Sakharov, Askar Akaev,
president of the Republic of
Kirgizstan and a former physics
professor, visited the campus on
May 21 at the Invitation of Rosid
$agde«v, director of the universi-
ty's East-West Space Science
Center. During his visit, he met
with President KIrwan, explored
areas of cooperation with universi-
ty researchers and delivered a
morning lecture.

Edy Kaufman

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Faculty Will Incorporate Substance Abuse Prevention Into Courses

Studies have shown that faculty
members have a tremendous
amount of influence among stu-
dents regarding alcohol and other
drug issues. This is why the Caring
Coalition, College Park's alcohol
and other drug prevention project,
has awarded five curriculum infu-
sion mini-grants for the develop-
ment of academic modules
regarding substance abuse and pre-
vention.

Incorporated into existing cours-
es that will be offered in the Fall
1993 semester, the modules are an
excellent way to reach College
Park's more than 18,000 undergrad-
uates who do not live on campus
and often miss out on extracurricu-
lar prevention activities. The five
curriculum infusion mini-grant
awards are as follows:

• Lois Vietri, Government

and Politics, will have students in
her GVPT 170 class study the effects
of drug use on American society
and social institutions in general;
GVPT 479A students will receive a
general overview of the degenera-
tive effects that alcohol and other
drugs had on the U.S. war efforts in
Vietnam and the Persian Gulf.

• Albert Gardner, Human Devel-
opment, will have sbidents in
EDHD 413 develop alcohol and
other daig prevention materials
and make presentations for high
school and middle school adoles-
cents.

• April Hardison, Business and
Management, will integrate issues
relating to substance abuse into the
theme of traffic safety. Her BMGT
370 class discussions and debates

University's Masters Swimmers Cross the Bay

College Park Masters Swim Club memlwrs (l-r) are: Cheryl Wagner, Laudie Baer, Bob Lazzaro,
Bob Chambers, Bob Harper and Frank DeBernanlo.

Twelve members of t lie universi-
ty's Masters Swim Ciub were
among the 30.t people who complet-
ed the Great Chesapeake Bay Swim
on Sunday, June 13. The 4.4 mile
course began at Sandv Point State
Park and ended at Pier One Land-
ing on Kent Island.

Rolf Stottman, 19, of the univer-

sity's varsity swim team, finished
8th overall in a field of 521 competi-
tors, with a time of 1 hour, 38 min-
utes and 41 seconds. This time gave
Stottman first place in his age group
of 15-19 year old men.

Susan Altman, 30, placed 1 8th
with a time of 1:42;05, securing the
third place position for women; last

Nominations Souglit for PG's "Women of
Achievement"

Nominations of exemplary women
are being sought for inclusion in a
book entitled, Women of Achievement
in Prince Georges Couniy History.
The book will chronicle the lives of
generations of women who have
made significant contributions to
the quality of life in the county and
is scheduled to be published in
March 1994 in conjunction with
Women's History Month, The prp-

ject is being organized by the Prince
George's Planning Board, the Mary-
land-National Capital Park and
Planning Commission for Women
and the Prince George's County
Government. Nominatitm forms are
available at county libraries and
community centers. The deadline
for receipt of nominations is
September 1 5. For more informa-
tion, call 952-4813.

will focus on such issues as employ-
ee drug testing, sensationalism by
the media, employee assistance pro-
grams and less stringent foreign air-
line regulations.

• David Weinstein, American
Studies, will critique the media
image of drug and alcohol abuse as
an inner-city problem, analyze casu-
al suburban users who deny sub-
stance abuse problems, and study
the social, political, economic, and
cultural reasons for drug laws in
AMST 201 .

• Robert Perry, English, wit!
have students in his ENGL 494
business writing course prepare for-
mal letters of inquiry, research key
issues, and prepare collaborative
reports on a range of topics related
to substance abuse.

The Caring Coalition and the
mini-grants arc sponsored by a
Funds for the Improvement of Post-
Secondary Education (FIPSE) grant
from the U.S. Department of
Education

The coalition is an umbrella orga-
nii^ation of campus departments,
groups, and individuals committed
to strengthening substance abuse
prevention activities.

— /(i(/i/ Cunn

year she was the first woman to
cross the line.

Other members and their times
include l3ob Chambers (1:56:03),
Bob Lai'zaro (1 :5ft:35), Tom Horton
(2:12:02), Doug Wiley (2:14:.30),
Frank DeBernardo (2:21:25), Debbie
Morrin (2:35:59), Bob Harper
(2:37:28), Sarah Millham (2:41:24),
Jennifer Bildman (2:53:24) and
Cheryl Wagner (2:57:25).

The Masters Swim Club practices
five times each week on campus
and is open to all members of the
university community. Swimmers
vary in speed, age, and ability and
wo rkou t s a re g ea red ttn\' a rd each
person's level and goals. For more
information, call Jim Wenhold at
314-7031.

Next Issue is
September 7

This is the last summer issue
of OUTLOOK. The next issue
will be published on Tuesday,
September 7, after which OUT-
[.OOK will resume its weekly
Monday publication schedule
during the semester.

If you have story ideas or
issues you would like to see cov-
ered in OUT},OOK, please con-
tact John Fritz at 405-4629 or
jfritz@umdacc.umd.edu.

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