Outlook / the University of Maryland, College Park (2001)

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Outlook

The University of Maryland Faculty and Staff W^eekly Newspaper

Volume 15 • Number 17 'February 13, 2001

Excellence
Across Two

Generations,

PAGE 4

\Terps to Swarm
Legislature for
Terrapin Pride Day

P^^mes Boiut already knows how he will
decorate hte Terrapin red van for a trip to
Annapoils Feb. 2 1 .The van wUJ boast red,
black, white and gold streamers, signs and
posters that show Bond's loyalty to the
University of Maryland, "It has to be just
righi," Bond, a senior and Student Govern-
nieni Association president, said. "Terrapin Pride
Day has always been a fantastic way of doing two
tilings I love; showing nry love for the university and

I sharing that love with others'

Hundreds of University of Maryland students, staff
and faculty vrfll visit state legislators for Terrapin

, Pride Day. Feb. 21 , to thaajt the pots Ux their contin-
ued support of the institution and to remind them of
tlie vital role the university plays in the state. More

(than 1 50 Tetps descended on the state capital last

f^year for Terrapin Pride Day. More than 200 are

iexpected to nieet at Governor Calvert House for the

levent this year.

c bvi

Event organizers want to showcase Maryland's bur-

continued on page 3

Search for New
Provost Begins

The university's deans
and vice presidents arc
at the top of the list as
the search for Senior
Vice President and Provost Greg
Geoffroy's replacement begins.

Twenty-three members of the
campus conuuimiiy sliarc respon-
sibility for selecting the new
Senior Vice President for
Academic Affeirs and Provost.
Heading the committee is
Charles Wellfortl, Professor and
Chair of the Department of
Criminal Justice and Criminology.
"The time line for recruitment
calls for the new appointee to be
selected by die end of this semes-
ter," said President CD. Mote Jr "1
wish to thank the search commit-
tee in advance for taking on this
challenging and key campus
responsibility,"

The vacancy was created by
Gregory L. Geoffroy's acceptance
of the presidency of Iowa State

University, effective July 1 , 2(K) 1 .

The Senior Vice President for
Academic Affairs and Provost, as
second to the President, is tlie
chief academic officer of the uni-
versit)' with responsibility for
guiding ttie academic develop-
ment and direction of the institu-
tion in accordance witli the uni-
versitj's mission; ensuring that
programs and facult)' are of the
higliest caliber; building the
diversity of our students, faculty
and staff; and building academic
excellence acmss the university.

The deans of the 1 i colleges
and schools at the university
report to the Senior Vice
President/Provost as do the deans
for undergraduate studies, gradu-
ate studies, and continuing edu-
cation, the dean of the libraries,
ajid the director of international
programs.

continued on page 3

College of Journalism
to be Named in Honor
of New Major Donor

Philip Merrill, puUlsher
and owner of The
Capital daily newspa-
per in Annapolis and
Washingtonian magazine, made
a gift of $ 10 million to the
University of Maryland College
of Journalism, University
President CD. Mote Jr.
announced today. In recognition
of the gift, the school will be
renamed the Philip Merrill
College of Journalism.

Mote said the gift will take
the college to a new level of
excellence. "Phil Merrill has a
passion for excellent higher
education and, most fortunately
for us, he Is truly excited about
assisting our College of
Journalism to achieve the high-
est national distinction amoii^
imtversity journalism programs.
"For many years Phil and his
wife Ellie have worked with us
to improve the stature and qtjal-
Ity of our coUege.Through this
magnificent gift om- achieve-
ments in ^aduate programs and
professional contributions will
lift the Philip Merrill College of
Journalism to the ultimate eche-
lon of journalism schools in this
country."

Merrill, 66, said he is proud
to be a part of the college's suc-
cess. "In a world that's dominat-

ed in large measure by the com-
munications revolution, sound
journalistic values and capabili-
ties are more important than
ever. The purpose of this gift is
to help the College of Journal-
ism achieve its goal of being the
very best in the imdon."

Because Merrill wants the
$10 million gift to have immedi-
ate impact, the multtyear gift is
not an endowment but calls for
the money to be spent over the
next 15 to 18 years. It will go
toward four major areas;

• three new chairs in journal-
ism and other faculty enhance-
ments;

• graduate-level fellowships,
assistantships and scholarships
and undergraduate scholar-
ships, all to be named for
Eleanor Merrill, and general
student recruitment;

• upgrading the college's
equipment and technology
resources;

• marketing and outreach pro-
grams at the college.

"The main purpose of this
fimding is to assist the college
in achieving national preemi-
nence in the field of journalism,
as quickly and with as much dis-

continued on page 4

*^The Writer^s Tale'': Airing the Stor^
of the Creative Process jk

Between lighting checks
and the clipping on of micro-
phones and quick run-
throughs with theTelePromp-
ter, Maryland journalism pro-
fessor Judith Paterson and
author
Richiu^
McCann
speak quiedy.

"How do
you like doing
TV?" asks
McCann, an
American
University
English pro-
fessor and
author who is
a guest on
Paterson 's
talk show.

"Reading
the books is
fun," says
Rjtcrson.
"Finding the
-waiters is
fun. And this
part," she says,
indicating the
set, the cam-
eras, the people behind the
cameras and the television
monitor, "is fim."

And endlessly Oscillating
for Paterson, whose newest
project, "The Writer's Tale,"
melds her professional goals

with her writeriy aspirations.
The show, produced at the
university's Richard Eaton
Broadcast Center, begins with
an evocative introduction
Paterson wrote with the

wiU end until 1 am there. It's
both the same and different
for every writer 1 know. With
every word, every scntehft!^
ei^erj' paragraph, we write our
own story. Our own tale, nie

Writer and professor Richard McCann, television studio floor manager William
Moore and journalism professor and host Judith Paterson preiiare for the taping
of "The Writer's Tale."

show's co-producer, Sharon
Merkel:

"Writing is a process. For
me, it's as intriguing and mys-
terious as life itself. 1 don't
know where I'm going until I
start. I don't know where it

Writer's Tale."

And with that, Paterson
describes Ixjth her current
professioital project and her
ongoing creative quest. "The
Writer's Tale," which airs on

continued on page 5

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I .M.-.1 -i.t ifi .^'ii'

February 13,2001

ddteline

maryiand

Your Guide to University Events
February 13-21

T'w es day
february 13 ^hi

9 a.m.-4 p.m., OIT Shortcourse
Training: "Intermediate MS
Word." Learn to format text in
columns, use tables and sort
table data, create and use text
styles, templates, fxx. templates,
macros. Merge documents
with dau to create multiple
variations. Discuss Internet and
Web features; create and edit a
Web document, and preview
in a browser. 0I21Main Admin.
Contact the OIT Training
Services Coordinator at W)443
or visit www.oit. umd/sc,*

6-9 p.m., OIT Workshop: "Intro-
duction to Mathematica." Intro-
duces basic principles of math-
ematical tools that can per-
form complex mathematical
operations; rendering data in
2D or 3D plots. Prerequisite: a
WAM account. 4404 Computer
& Space Science. Call 5-2938,
or cwpost@umd5.umd.edu, or
visit www.oit. umd.edu/PT-

8 p.m.. Performance: "Sister
Mar}' Ignatius Explains It All
For You" and " 'dentity Crisis,"
two pla)'5 by Christopher
Durang. Studio Theatre, Clarice
Smith Performing Arts Center.
Call 5-7847.

W e dn e s da y
february 14

4:30-7:30 p.m., OITWorkshop:
"Introduction to MATLAB."
Introduces the basic principles
of mathematical tools that can
perform complex mathemati-
cal operations such as integra-
tion and diiferentiation in sym-
bolic mathematical notations.
Also, rendering data in 2D or
3D plots. Used in colleges and
universities worldwide. Prere-
quisite: a WAM account. 3330
Computer & Space Science.
Call 5-2938 or e-mail cwpost®
umd5.umd.edu, or visit
www. oit. umd . edu/PT.

7-8:30 p.m.,Yc^ Class. Parents'
Gallery, Stamp Student Union.
Contact AUcia Simon, 4-8492.

8 p.m.. Performance: "Clarinet
Music of Lawrence Moss."
Contemporary works by facul-
ty composer Lawrence Moss,
performed by faculty clarinet-
ist Edward Walters and other
artists. Gildenhom Recital Hall,
Qarice Smith Performing Arts
Center. For more information,
call 5-7847.

8 p.m.. Performance: "Sister
Mary Ignatius Explains It All
For You "and" 'dentity Crisis,"
two plays by Christopher
Durang. Studio Theatre, Clarice

Smith Performing Arts Center.
Call 5-7847-

T'durs day
february 15

8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m., Confer-
ence: "Preventing School
Violence and Delinquency." Inn
and Conference Center. Con-
tact Sheri MeiscI at sml06®
umail.umd. edu for registration
materials and information.

Karenni QM, June 1997, part of th« exhibi-
tion of works by Chan Chao which will pro-
vide the context for the panel discussion at
the Art Gallery (see Feb. 15).

II a.m., Lecture: "Italy's Contri-
bution to Neuroscience in the
Decade of the Brain," with
Paolo Maria Rossini, Depart-
ment of Neurology, Fatebene-
fratelli Hospital, Rome; faculty
of Medicine and Surgery, Uni-
versity of Rome; researcher in
the neurophysiological diagno-
sis of Parkinson's Disease and
Multiple .Sclerosis. St. Mary's
Hall. Part of the Department of
French and Italian's Lecture
Series "Modem Italy: Aspects
of the Future." CaU 5-4024.

1:30-4:30 p.m., Panel Discus-
sion: "Burma: Something Went
Wrong," in conjunction with
the eponymous photographic
exhibit of Chan Chao's work.
Featuring Philip Brookman,
Corcoran Museum of Art's
Curator of Photography and
Media Arts, and photographer
John Gossage. The focus is on

portraiture in the context of
the exhibit. Art Gallery (Art &
Sociology Building). For more
information, call the Art
Gallery at 5-2763 or visit
www. inform , umd . edu/EdRes/
CoUeges/ ARHU/Depts/ArtGaV.

4:30-7:30p.m., OFT Woricshop:
"Basic Computing Technolo-
gies at Mar>'land." Introduces
network technologies such as
asing FTP to transfer files be-
tween local and
host machines,
reading and post-
ing on Usenet
newsgroups, sub-
scribing to pub-
lic newsgroups,
and sending
attachments
using an e-mail
program . Walking
encouraged. Pre-
requisite: a WAM
account. 3330
Computer &
Space Science.
Call 5-2938 or e-
mail cwpost®
umd5.umd.edu,
or visit www.oit.
umd.edu/PT.*

8 p.m..
Performance:
"Sister Mary
Ignatius Explains
It All For You"
and" 'dentity
Crisis," two plays
by Christopher
EHirang. Studio Theatre, Clarice
Smith Performing Arts Center.
Call 5-7847.

Tri da y
february IG^^bm

8:30 a.m.-4;30 p.m., Confer-
ence: "Preventing School
Violence and Delinquency." Inn
and Conference Center. Con-
tact Sheri Meisel at sml06@
umail.umd. edu for registration
materials and information.

12:30-2 p.m., Luncheon Lecture:
"Microflnance in Asia." Kate
Lauer, of the Women's World
Bank, will discuss her work
and findings on policy matters
related to microfinance and
the legal/regulatory framework
in several Asian countries. Lunch
will be served. 1101 MorriL
Hall. Call 5-0117 or e-mail
melinda@iris.econ.umd.edu.

calendar guide:

Calendar phone numbers listed as A-nax or 5-xjcxx stand for the prefix 314 or 405.

Calendar informalJon for Outlook is compiled from a combination of inforM's

master calendar and submissions to the Outlook office.

Submissions are due two weelts prior to the date of publication.

To reach the calendar editor, call 405-761 5 or e-mail to outlook@accmail.umd.edu.

'Events are free and open to the public unless noted by an asterisk (*),

8 p.m.. Performance: "Ordinary
Festivals " by Sara Pearson/
Patrik Wldrig and Company.
Dance Theatre, Clarice Smith
Performing Arts Center. For
more information, call 5-7847,*

8 p.m.. Performance: "Sister
Mary Ignatius Explains It AU
For You "and" 'dentity Crisis,"
two plays by Christopher
Durang, Studio Theatre, Clarice
Smith Performing Arts Center.
Call 5-7847.

Satu r da y
february 17

8-10 p.m.. Qmcert: "Benefit
Concert In Memory of Robert
McCoy." With acclaimed sopra-
no Linda Mabbs, and graduate
students from McCoy's former
piano studio. Gildenhom Re-
cital Hall, Clarice Smith Perfor-
ming Arts Center. Contact
Shawn Eigenbrode at 5-7283 or
at seigenbr@deans.umd.edu.

8 p.m.. Performance: "Ordinary
Festivals," by Sara Pearson/
Patrik Widrig and Company.
Dance Theatre, Clarice Smith
Performing Arts Center. Call 5-
7847.*

8 p.m.. Performance: "Sister
Mary Ignatius Explains It All
For You" and " dcntit)' Crisis,"
two plays by Christopher
Durang. Studio Theatre, Clarice
Smith Performing Arts Center
CaU 5-7847.

S u n da y
february 18^^

2 p . m . , Pc rtbrma nee : " S ister
Mary Ignatius Explains It All
For You" and " 'dentity Crisis,"
two plays by Christopher
Durang. Studio Theatre, Clarice
Smith Performing Arts Center.
Call 5-7847.

3 p.m.. Concert: "Maryland
Chamber Orchestra.''With Deb-
bie Chien, violin, and Kichung
Bae, cellist. Works by Mozart,
Haydn, Sarasate and Beetho-
ven. First United Methodist
Church, 6201 Belcrest Road,
Hyattsville (adjacent to Prince
George's Plaza Metro). For
tickets, call (301) 434-1424.
For information, visit www.
mdchainl3crorchestra.org.*

'M n da y
february 19

11 a.m.-I p.m., Workshop:
"Introduction to GIS (UM
Libraries)." A two-hour hands-
on workshop that teaches the
basic operations of ArcView
GIS (Geographic Information
Systems) software. 2109
McKeldin. Free, but registration
is required. Contact User
Education Services at 5-9070
or ue6@umail.umd.edu, or
register at www.lib.umd.edu/
UMCP/UES/gLs.htmL

4 p.m.. Entomology Colloqui-
um: "Spatial and Temporal Het-
erogeneity; Implications for
the Ecology of Low-Gradient
Streams." With Leonard Smock,
Department of Biolbgy, Virginia

Commonwealth University 1 140
Plant Sciences. Call 5-39 H.

T'u e 5 da y
february 20 |

6-9 p.m., OIT Workshop:"Inter^
mediate MATLAB," Continues
covering critically important
skills in solving matrix and
vector operations, multiple
integrals, differential equations,
2D & 3D plots in parametric,
polar, spherical, cylindrical,
implicit, contour, and mesh
views, and much more. Prere-
quisites: Introduction to MAT-
LAB and a WAM account. 3330
Computer & Space Science.
Call 5-2938 or e-mail
cwpost@umd5.umd.edu, or
visit www.oit. iund.edu/PT.*

W e dn e s da y
february 21

3:30 p.m., Ixrcture: 'A French
Writer in America ."With Cath-
erine Cusset, novelist — author
of "La blouse roumaine,""En
toute innocence" and "Le
Probleme avec Jane." Scholarly
woite include "Les romanciers
du plaisir" and "No Tomorrow:
The Ethics of Pleasure in the
French Enlightenment." Part of
the Department of French and
Italian's Lecture Series "Modern
France: Aspects of the Future."
St. Mary's Hall. CaU 54024.

7 p.m., Ixcture: "Racism and
the Black Community," with
Andre Perry, Himian Relations,
Sponsored by the Office of
Campus Programs, Student
Involvement and Community
Advocacy and Kappa Alpha
Psi.Call 4-8341.

7-8:30 p.m., Yoga Class. Parents'
Gallery, Stamp Student Union.
Call Alicia Simon, 4-8492.

Outlook

Ottliwk is the weekly faculty-staff
newspaper serving the University of
Maryland campus conununity.

Brodie Remington 'Vice President
for University Relations

Teresa Flannery • Executive Director
of University CommuiiicaDons and
Director of Marketing

George Cathcart * Executive Editor

Monette Austin Bailey • Editor

Cyntfaia Mitchel * Assistant Editor

Patty Henetz • Clisduate Assistant

Letters to the editor, story suggiescions
and campus inibrniation are welcome.
Pie.ise submit all material two weeks
before the Tuesday of publication.

Send micertat to £ditor, Otilisok, 2101
■nmicr Hall College Pait, MD 20742

Telephone • (3()1) 405-7615

Fax ■ (301) 314-9344

E-mail ■ outlook@acaiiail.umd.cdu

Outlook

Black History Month Events

F ebruary 1"28.

8 a.m,-6 p.m. .African American
Heriiage Book Fair. All African
American Heritage related titles in
stock at the University Book
Center will be discounted 20%.
University Book Center. Contact
Ron Jett at 4-7846.

February 13, 20, 27 ,

6:30 p.m., "SANKOFA Film
Festival." Black film festival held
every "Hjcsday at 6:30 p.m. Films
and location TBA. Contact Belinda
Wallace or Tanya Shields at 5-
9253.

February

Black Student Union presents
"Colored and White Museum."
Stamp Student Union, Tbituga
Room.

F^ruary I^hhhhihhh

9:45-10:45 a.m.,Lecture:"The
Unlevel Playing Field: A
Documentary History of the
African American Experience in
Sport," with professor and author
David Wiggins, George Mxson
University. Sponsored by die
Kinesiology Department. 1312
Health and Human Performance
Bui [ding. Contact Dr. Jane Clark at
5-2410.

2-3:.^0 p.m., lecture: "Blue Notes
and Butterflies; A Meditation on
'the' Black Female Voice." With
Farah Jasmine Griffin, author of
"Who Set You Flowin'; The
African American Migration
Narrative" and a forthcoming
book on Billie Holiday. Maryland
Room, Marie Mount Hall. Contact
iMaiy Corbin Sies at 5-1355 or at
rasl28®umail.umd,edu.

Feliruary 1%

i-4 p.m.. Discussion: "Health,
Wellness, and Research Issues
Facing African Americans in the
New Millennium." Cutting-edge
research on hypertension, exer-
cise, and genetics in African
American Hypertensives.
Sponsored by the Kinesiology
Department. Health & Human
Performance Building Lounge.
Contact Dr. Jane Clark at 5-2450.

3:304:30 p.m., "National
Scholarship and Research
Opportunities for African
American Undei^raduate
Students." This workshop will
highlight national scholarship and
research opportunides for African
American students. Sponsored by
Undergraduate Studies/National
Scholarships Office. Multipurpose
Room, Nyumburu Cultural Center.
Contact Camillee Stillwell at 4-
1289.

4-6 p.m.. Reception: Opening of
Dreads Exhibit. Parents Associa-
tion Galleiy, Stamp Student
Union.

February 19^2^

6-8p.m.,'" Quilting Workshop."
Learn to quilt, limited to 20 per-

sons. Nyumburu Cultural Center,
Contact Aime Carsewell at 4-7759.

3-5 p.m. , "Fourth Aimual
Celebration of African Americans
in the Information Professions."
Designed to publicize the leader-
sliip roles of African American
information professionals. Dr.
Carla Hayden, Executive Director
of the Enoch Pratt Free Library
and University of Maryland
Professor is the guest speaker.
Sfronsored by the College of iofor-
mation Studies. Nyumburu
Cultural Center, Multipurpose
Room. For more information con-
tact Bill Wilson at 5-2048.

FebruaoL^jL^^^^^H

3-5 p.m. ,"Black Histor>*:A
Celebration of Cultural Diversity."
Students, fiiculty and staff will
share artifacts, fotid, music and
anecdotes from their culture.
Sponsored by the Office of Multi-
Ethnic Education. 1 101 Hombake
Library. Contact Dr. Pat Thomas at
5-5616.

5:30-7 p.m., "Tribute to Blacks in
Business and Engineering." A
panel discussion featuring profes-
sional businesspersons and engi-
neers. Sponsored by Black
Engineers Societ)' and Black
Business Association. Location
TBA. Contact Veronica Davis at
(301)233-0011.

7^ p.m.. Office of Campus
Programs presents -ISMS Series:
"Racism's effect on die Black
Community." Location TBD.

February ^^

4 p.m., Lecturei'Do Women :ind
Minorities Learn Physics Different-
ly?" Dr. April Hodari presents a
lecture and discussion on her re-
search. Sponsored by the Depart-
ment of Physics. 1304 Physics.
Contact Hannah Wong at 5-5945.

4-6 p.ra.,"Armual Black Cultural
Dinner." South Campus Dining
Hall. Contact tlie Nyumbtiru
Cultural Center at 4-7759.

Time TBA, "Chickenhead
Convention,"presented by lota Phi
Theta. Nyiunburu Cultural Center.

4:30-7 p.m., "Black History Month
Dinner" A celebration featuring
food and entertainment from the
African Diaspora. Sponsored by
Dining Services. South Campus
Dining Hall & the Diner. Contact
Patricia Higgins at 4-8054.

6-7 p.m., Quilting Display and
Reception, Nyumburu Cultural
Center. Contact Anne Carswell at
4-7759. *■

7:30 p.m., "The Debt: What Ameri-
ca Owes Blacks." Lecture featuring
writer and political activist R;md-
aL Robinson. Sponsored by Africa
and the Americas Committee.
Multipurpose Room, Nyumburu
Cultural Center. Contact Antliony
Blasingame at 5-6835.

Continued front page 1

The Senior Vice
President/Provost also
aversees die development,
srview, and implcmenta-
ion of all academic poli-
ties and regulations; con-
jlls closely with the
Jniversit>' Senate and
>ther faculty.' advisory

>ups on academic pro-
rams and policies; and
L'rvcs as Uaisou witli other
plniveraity divisions in
(Strategic and long-range
|planning.

r The Senior Vice Presi-
Jjtlent/Provost also repre-
^nts the campus on a
ibcr of Universit)'
fstem of Maryland bodies
id other external oi^ani-
iitions.

The Senior Vice Prcsl-
jent/Provost has budget
:spons!billty for campits
academic programs and
resources, and is responsi-
ble for ensuring I he quality
, of all academic activities
tthrough the coordination
'iy{ academic progrsmi
review, providing advisorj'
itecommendations to the
'5'residenl on all tenure and
priimotion matters, review-
ing all academic appoint-
ments, and promo dng orga-
nized research on campus.
Candidates should have
a record of schohirly
achievement and qualifica-
tions for appointment at
jthe professor rank. Substan-
Hdal acadctnic, managerial
and administrative experi-
ences, and qualifEcations
Biai demonstrate excep-
tional capacity for acadcm-
iic leadersliip also are re-
^quired. Candidates should
have a record of fostering
and achieving academic
excellence and achieving
diversity goals.

In oi'der to be assured
full consideration, applica-
tions and nominations
^ould be received by
^arch 15,2(X>i.CoiTes^
'ptmdencc should be
^addressed to:

;pr. Charles RWeIlft)rd
jChair, Senior Vice
p*resident/Provost Search

Office of die President

1101 Main Administration

Building

University of Maryland

College Park, MD 20742

Review of applications and
interviews of candidates
are expected to beg^i dur-
ing tile spring.

Senior Vice President for

Academic Affairs and

Provost

Searcli Committee

Dr. Charles F. Wctlford, Chair
of Committee
Professor and Chair,
Department of Criminology
and Criminal Justice

Dr. Pedro Barbosa
Professor, Department of
Entoraolog}'

Dr.Adele Berlin
Robert H. Smith Chair and
Professor, Departments of
English, Compaiiitive
Literatuie and Jewish
Studies Program

Mr. James E. Bond
President, Student
Government Association

Dr. Inderjit Chopia
Alfred Gessow Roiorcraft
Professor, Department of
Aero-space Engineering

Dr. Linda M. Clement
Vice President for Student
Affairs

Ms. Kimberly L. Davis
Executive Administrative
Assistant, Office of Student
Financial Aid

Dr. Bonnie Tliornton Dill
Professor, Department of

Women's Studies

Dr. Bruce L. Gardner
Distinguished University
Professor and Chair,
Department of Agricultural
and Resource Economics

Dr. Irwin L Goldstein
Professor and Dean, College

of Behavioral and Social
Sciences

Dr. Chuan Sheng Liu

mmmrn

Hiy^tes

paruuCIKii

Mr. William E McLean
Assistant Vice l*resident for
Acatlctnjc (Budget) Aftairs

Dr.Jolin E.Osbom
Professor, Department of
Mathematics

■4

Dr. Edward Ott
Distinguished University
Professor, IX-parimeni of
Electrical and Computer
Engineering and
Department of Physics

Dr, Harriet B. Presser
Distinguislied Universit>'
Professor, Department of
Sociology

Dr. Thomas C. Schetling
Distinguished University
Professor, School of Public
jVffiiirs

Dr. Lemma W. Scnbet
WlUiam E. Mayer Chiur of
Finance, Robert H. Smith
School of Business

Dr. Martlia Nell Smith
Professor and Director,
Marj'land Institute for
TeclinoIog>' in tJie
Humanities QVUTiD

Dr. Kenneth A. Strike
JProfessor and Chair,
Departtnent (jf Education
Policy Leitdership

Dr. Charles ESturtz
Vice President for
Administrative fVffairs

i

Ms. Marie ETing
Graduate Student, Office of
the Associate Provost for
Equity and Divt"rsity

Dr.WUliam B.Walters
Professor, Department of
Chemistrj' and
Biochemislry

Dr. Robert E. Waters
Cliicf of Staff, Office of Uie
President

Staff to tlie Committee

Ms. Sapicnxa Barone
Assistant to the President
(301)405^5790
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Terrapin Pride Day

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geonii^ reputation as a leading research
uni-rersity, the rising quality of the student
body and the university's stellar academic
standing. "Terrapin Pride Day is a great
opportunity to highlight the university's
great accomplishments to the Maryland
legislature," said Ross Stern, assistant to the
president for legislative and community
relations. "Once a year we get the chance
to impress the general assembly with the
great things diat are happening here at
Mar)'land."

Senior Hillary Zouck said she plans to
participate in Terrapin Pride Day because
building a solid relationship with legisla-
tors is the strongest way to ensure the uni-
versity's success. "It is absolutely essential

that the voices of students be heard by
our state leaders, because my education
and iiiture are largely in their hands,"
Zouck said.

A lunch buffet will be served from
noon to 2 p.m. and wiU feature remarks
from Gov. Parris Glendening, University
President CD. Mote Jr., Senate President
Michael Miller and House Speaker Casper
Taylor. After the ceremony, supporters are
encouraged to participate in informal vis-
its to legislators in dteir offices,

llie universitj' will provide free trans-
portation. Buses leave (^iole Field House at
1 1 a.m. Feb, 21 and depart from Annapolis
at 2 p.m. and 3 p.m.

For more information, call Tara Brown
at (301> 314-2763, or visit www.umd.edu/
SupportUM.

February 13,2001

^Good People" Give Decades of Good Work

nncOc Sattlelll remera-
bers when the univer-
sity' was lieated hy coal
unloaded from trucks
that backed tip lo
building loading docks Stic rcmcin*
bcrs her office's first computer, a
tone Apple, She has outlasted scvcf-
al directors,

Sardelli started working in the
itniverslfy's physical plant payroll
office nearly 40 years ago, but what
she didn't see was the beginning of

Stfe Hall and Annette Sardelli say It's the people who keep
them here.

' a &mily tradition. Her daughter. Sue
Hall, will celebrate 25 years with
the university later this year. Hall's
brother, David, worked here as a
mail carrier in 1979. "But he went
to American University on a base-
ball scholarship." sa^-s Sardelli,

Wien asked what's kept them
here so long, both women grin and
say almost simultaneously, "The
people."

"In all the time Fve been here,"
^ys Hall, who is employed with the
w^rk control office."! haven't met
someone who wasn't polite."
Adds Sardelli, 'People go work

I somewhere else, but want to come

i back here."

She was not thinking of tongcvi-
t) when she came to the univcrsttj',
"1 onl)' plajined on working a few-
years to help out my husband. 1
don't remember what day of the
week it was, but when they asked
me when I could start, 1 sa^d
Monday," Sardelli says.

At the time, she was mother to 2
1/2-ycar-old Sue and 2-month-oId
David. Her husband, from whom
she is divorced, was stationed at
Fort Meade. Compared to the

process for
getting a
job now,
says

Sardelli, her
search was
simple.
"Back
then, you
\^'alkedln
off the
street and
got a job.
You didn't
have all the
interviews,
search com-
mittees,
EEtX: get-
ting

involved
like you do
now," she
said. "I wcnl
througli an
employ-
ment serv-
ice in
Laurel,

"I can't
imagine
going our there and looking for a
job. The competition is so great.
People are getting degrees and all."

Her daughter started out at
Mary'tand pursuing a degree in inte-
rior design. She already had taken a
few courses at Prince George's
County Community College. 'But
then I got in a car accident and had
to work to pay bills," she says with
a bit of resignation in her voice. As
a single mom -with twin 1 2-year-old
boys, Hall says it's been difficult to
finish her studies.

However, both women seem to
enjoy where their lives have led
them. Sardelli, with eight other
employees, handles all aspects of

I

payroll for what is now called (acilJr
ties management, nearly 800 work-
ers stri>ng. Both women's offices
are housed In the Services Building
on Route I . On the basement level.
Hall handles work control calls, dis-
patching Acuities employees who
work in three shifts, aroimd the
clock,

"1 was here Christmas Eve," she
says."'Wlien you're hired, you have
to sign a paper saying that jxiu will
work when needed."

Her supervisor for 1 1 yeare,
Barb^ia Roberts, sings Hall's praises. •
"She's wonderful, TTierc's no other j
word that describes her. She's coop-
erative, caring, hard working. She
just makes for a really pleasant
atmosphere in tiic workplace." ,

Roberts also knows and has '\
worked with Sardelli."! worked in J
payroll. She was my supervisor. ]
The>''re good people."

HaU's work ethic comes natural-
ly. Sardelli gives her aU, especially
during payroll week. A portion of
l^cilities' payroll is stiL done mnnl^
ally, diough a computerized sj'Stem
Is scheduled to arrive this summer.

The changes aren't just with
equipment, cither. Sardelli talks
about tlie people. Of those that
were here when she st;irted, most
have retired. "A few people here, I
knew dieir grandfathers."

She makes note of die commit-
ment of facilities employees.

"There are people who drive
from St. iMary's County. They leave
at 3 a.m. to get here. People drive
from West Virginia. Pennsylvania,
because it's cheaper housing and
this is a good job."

Siirdeilt has always lived in
GreenbcK, and because the two are
emotionally close. Hall has always
lived nearby "We used to live next
door to each other. Now she lives j
across the street from me," says 'i
Hall, whose mom still calls her j

-Susie Bell," ^i

When Sardclli's not sqimrc dan* I
cing or at the ice rink, she helps {
Hall keep track of her sons, who
plaj' a sport everj' season. Hall also
serves as a board member and pub-
licity chairperson for the Greenbclt
Boys & Girls Club. The rest of Hall's
time is spent with her fiance, the
supervisor of a carpentry unit.
Where? At the university.

When it conies to long service records,
the employees of the facilities manage-
ment office lead the way. More than
two dozen men and women have worked for the
division for three decades or more. Only two
people can top Annette Sardelll's 39 years: house-
keeper John A. Jackson (41 years) and mechanic
i Leroy Blackwell (40 years).
I Considering that most facilities staffers are not
in climate-controlled offices, some may wonder
why workers stay so long.

"Maybe that's why, it's not sitting behind a
desk. You jice some immediate really good results
j to your work," says Chuck Bagley, human
I resources manager"! don't want to sound like an
' advertisement, but this is a great department."
I Unlike trade workers in the private sector
I who often work seasonally, university employees
are guaranteed a yearly salary - even though
I many could make more "on the outside," says
Bagley, who adds that many of his workers pos-

sess a broad range of liighly marketable skills.

Other impressive service records:

36 YEARS

John C. Benjamin, Multitiade Supervisor m,
Carpentry

WiUiam A- Jones, Housekeeping Supervisor

35 YEARS

Frank J. Adams Sr., Multitrade Chief U,
Grounds

30 YEARS

Joseph S. Robinson, Housekeeper

Helen L. Nogar, Admin. Assistant

WlllJam D. McCartan, Electrician

Craig E. Newman, Landscape Technician

Irving C- Neetlle, Multitrade Supervisor HI, Area
Maintenance

On Your Honor

"Essential to the fundamental purpose of
the University is the commitment to the prin-
ciples of truth and academic honesty." (Code of
Academic Integrity)

The university's Student Honor Council is
seeking faculty members to serve on Honor
Boards convened to resolve allegations of aca-
demic dishonest>'. A board consists of a stu-
dent presiding officer who guides the process,
three students and two faculty members. Board
members are expected to consider the evi-
dence and testimony presented, determine if
the student committed the alleged act of aca-
demic dishonesty and impose an appropriate
penalty, if necessary. Honor boards conduct
hearings Monday through rhursday after 4
p.m., and faculty are encouraged to volunteer
for one or more hearings.

For more information or to volunteer con-
tact Andrea Goodwin, assistant director for
student discipline, at (301) 314^206 or
agood win® accraail .umd.edu.

Donor Gives J-School a New Name

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tinction as possible," said Dean Thomas Kunkel,
who was appointed to that position last July. He
succeeded Reese Cleghorn, who over 19 years as
dean revamped the curriculum and built the col-
lege's national reputation.

Hie fiinding commitment is also the leadoff
gift in what the College of Journalism intends to
be a major capital campaign. A primary aim of
the S30 million cimipaign is to spur construction
of a new, state-tjf-the-art journalism building spa-
cious enough to house all its print, broadcast
news, online and professional development oper-
ations under one roof.

Founded as a department in 1945, the journal-
ism program was elevated to a college in 19T2.
Eleanor Merrill, vice president of Capital-Gazette
Communications, Inc., parent company of the
48,O0OK:irerulation Capital and Washingtonian,
was named to the college's Board of Visitors
when it was created by Dean Cleghorn in 1983.
She has chaired the board since 1995.

The company also publishes four weeklies: the
Maryland Gazette, Bowie Blade-News, Crofton
News-Crier and West County News.

An entrepreneur and investor, Merrill has com-
bined publishing and public service throughout
his career Stints include serving as an assistant
secretary-general of NATO in Brussels, as special
assistant to the deputy secretary of state and as a
member of the Department of Defense I^licy
Board. He has represented the United States in
negotiations on the Law of the Sea Conference,
the International Telecommunications Union and
various disarmament and exchange agreements
with the former Soviet Union.

The college, with 512 imdergraduate and 65
master's and Ph.D. candidates, also publishes the
national monthly magazine American Journalism
Review. The 22-member feculty includes Prof
David Broder, Pulitzer-winning syndicated col-
umnist with the Washington Post; Prof. Haynes
Johnson, former Pulitzer-winning Washir^on Post
political reporter; I>rof. Gene Roberts, former man-
aging editor of the New York Times; and Prof Lee
Thornton, former CBS White House correspon-
dent and CNN producer.

The Merrill College of Journalism operates
several professional outreach programs, including
the Knight Center for Specialized Journalism, the
Casey Journalism Center for Children and
Families and the Hubert H. Humphrey Journalism
Fellows Program, and Is home to the National
Association of Black Journalists and the American
Association of Sunday and Feature Editors. The
college operates Capital News Service, a daily
news wire staffed by students at bureaus in
Aimapolis and Washington, D.C. that provides
himdreds of news stories each year to newspa-
pers across the region. The school also runs
UMTV,the university's cable TV station that
reaches more than 400,00 households in sub-
urban Washington,

Outlook

Calvo Takes Key International Economic Posf^

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•fc-WT-Tith Latin American eco
%lt/ noniics at a critical )unc-

▼ ▼ ture, Guillermo Calvo
wanted to "speak with a strong
voice." So starting in June he will
take a year off ftoin liis teaching
duties as distinguished university
professor and director of the
University of Maryland's Center
for International Economics to
serve as chief economist at the
Inter-American Development Bank
(lADB), Though less well known
than the World Bank, in Latin
America the lADB is a major eco-
nomic force.

"Low growth, low income, high
poverty is a bad combinadon and
could lead some coimtries back-
ward along the road of economic
populism," Calvo says. "It is an old
story in Latin America — govern-
ments clinging to power by run-
ning up deficits they can't hope to
pay off. The bank plays a big role
in fighting this."
li "Die member nations tliat own

the LADB — including most Latin
American coimtries, the United
States and European nations —
guarantee the loans made to other
countries. This enables the hank
to borrow money on the bond
market at excellent rates. The
bank has a portfolio of about $50
billion. Most recently, it put up
$2.5 billion to help bailotit
Argentina's economy.

This level of involvement gives
the bank its powerful voice. In
turn, as chief economist, Calvo can
play an important role raising
issues. "I and my staff of 20 econo-
mists help create an intellectual
climate," Calvo says. He has been a
strong advocate of "dollarization,"
a policy designed to create ao
international currency and take
global economics to its logical
conclusion. -ru now have a new
platform from which to make the
case."

But his top priority next year
will be to argue for "regional inte-

gration," an effort to extend
NAFTA-like agreements to the rest
of I.atin America. Still, liis priorities
will have to reflect economic con-
ditions in the United States.

"If the U.S. economy weakens
further," he says, "it will have a big
effect on tlie rest of the hemi-
sphere." Mexico could be badly
hurt, since it seUs so much to the
United States, but big debtors like
Ai^entina would benefit from
shrinking interest rates.

Calvo has had an eventful six
months. Last foil he won the pres-
tigious King Juan Carlos Inter-
national Economics Prize, an
award he received from the hands
of the king at ceremonies in
Madrid. He used that occasion to
make the case for dollarization of
some Latin American countries.
Now liis voice will be amplified.

"The president of the bank
wants us to have a strong pres-
ence and I promised him not to
be shy. You can bet on that."

I Accessible ^

The University of Mary-
land libraries, in coopera-
tion with 1 6 Universirj'
System of Maryland and
Affiliated institutions
(USiVLVf) libraries,
amiounced the award of a
five-year, approximately
$2.9 million contract to
Ex Ubris USA, of Chicago,
for an advanced "next
generation" sfiared librar>'
information management
system (LIMS).

The changeover to full
operation is expected to
occur as early as January
2002.

TheALEPH 500 system
will provide students, fac-
ulty, researchers and other
users a state-of-the-art,
Intcmet-ba.sed catalog of
both electronic and
librarj'-houscd resources,
;and direct access to pub-

lished tnatcriat on a scale
for greater than has ever
been available. The sy^
lem will also integrate '
well with other automat-
ed services currently
available or under devel-
opment, including servic-
es developed as part of
die various libraries' digi-
tal initiatives.

"Ex Libris' capability to
accommodate die resource,
sliaring that USMAl cur-
rently lias in place and to
advance die stiteof the
art for our users With re- j
spect to access to Hbrary
housed resources, exter-
nal electronic resources, ;
and locally hosted digital
library content represent-
ed a powerful basis frji
our selecUon of Ali^'I;

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Judith Paterson Project

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UMTV at 6:30 p.m. Monday
dirough Tliursday, will spotlight
the region's writers and their
most recent works. The series
of interviews will not only
showcase the finished product
but delve into the mystery of
the creative process.

The idea for the show came
out of a foil mal ism department
committee that met weekly all
last year to develop new pro-
gramming for the cable station
newly under the department's
control.

"I don't know whose idea it
was. " says journalism professor
Lee Thornton, who holds the
university's Richard Eaton Chair
in Broadcast Journalism. "But I
was the person who called
Judith to do a book show. She
immediately said, You'll show
me how?' I said, "Yes.'"

Paterson says she is not
much of a television watcher,
and has litde experience with
broadcast."!! never would have
crossed my mind. I have been a
print person since the fourth
grade"she says,"But I thought,
Hmmm.Why not try it?"

Thornton and Paterson role-
played as part of her training.
"Being a moderator is harder
than it looks," Thornton says.
"She is a fost learner. Very, very
last. She is Southern and has a
lot of charm, and I've been rug-
gijig at her to go vrith what she
has."

Paterson says she finishes
reading her guest's work at
least a week early, then makes
up a long list of questions. She
always wants to hear about the
writer's source of inspiration,
and wiU ask her guests if they
believe writing can be taught.

Finding on-air talent has
been easy, she says. Over the
years, she has made connec-
tions with many of the writers
who live in the Washington,

Richard McCann anil Jutlith Paterson on the set of "The Writer's Tale."

D.C, area. Sometimes she will
see a book review in the
Washington Post and get in
touch with the reviewer And
she knows writers on the
Maryland campus; poet Michael
Collier, novelist Joyce Kornblatt
and poet-novelist Merle Collins,
Et^sh professors who teach
creative writing, will be guests
on her show.

She contacted McCann after
reading his essay, "Tlie
Resurrecdonist," in the 2000
edition of the aimual collec-
tion, "Best American Essays." The
piece opens:

Here is what happened:
I was cut apart.
The liver of a dead person
was placed inside me so I

might lii>e again. This took
twelve hours and thirty-three
units of blood.

But who was I afterward?

"] was so struck by that
essay," says Paterson, who
checked the bio at the back of
the volume and saw McCarm
taught at AU. Booking him for
the show was easy. "Unlike
movie stars, writers are always
in the phone book," she says.
"Waiting for someone to call so
they can stop writing."

She's joking, sort of. Much
has been said about the loneli-
ness of the writing life, the ten-
sion inherent in expressing
one's desire to connect deeply
with the world but having to
lock oneself away in order to

do it. Paterson lived
that diificulty while
writing "Sweet
Mystery: A Book of
Remembering," her
1996 memoir.

Scheduled for
paperback reissue in
March by the
University of Alabama
Press Deep South
scries,"Sweet Mystery"
tells the story of her
troubled family in
Montgomery, Ala., dur-
ing World War n.

With her journal-
ist's instincts and back-
groimd, Paterson start-
ed writing her book
objecdvely. But with
material so intensely
personal, that
approach simply could
not w^ork. In her pref-
ace, she writes, work-
ing at that distance,"!
began suffering
epistxles of writer's
block, insomnia, and
migraine headaches
like nothing 1 had ever
experienced before.
And when the attacks
were over, i would find
on the page, not social history
and analysis, but vivid— stime-
timcs strange, almost surrealis-
tic — accounts of those trouble-
some, long-ignored memories
of my childhood."

She realized she could not
ignore what was happening to
her."It was very hard," she says.
"It was emotionally hard. It was
intellectually hard, because 1
had to learn to write a different
way."

In short, she had to learn to
write fiiom pain. "Robert Frost
said, 'No tears in the writer, no
tears in the reader,'" she says.
"Teaching yourself a new style,
if you pull it off, is incredibly
gratifying."

Paterson says she will make
a point in each of her oo-afr

interviews to ask her guests
about the mysteries of their
own creative processes.
"Writing is an urmatiiral activi-
ty," she says. "It's so different
from the rest of the activities
we all do. Wlien you tell some-
one you're a writer, they don't
know what you do. They usual-
ly say something troubling, like,
'Have you written anything I've
seen?'

"It's so solitary and Internal
that it separates writers not
only from other people but also
from other parts of their own
lives," she says, "When I wrote
'Sweet Mystery,' I literally had
no life other than teaching and
writing that book. When I fin-
ished. I was so glad to get back
in the world."

Paterson started her academ-
ic life intending to be a sociolo-
gist. Literature, she says, w^s at
that time a hobby But by the
time she decided to go to grad-
uate school, she was married
with a femily.Aubum University
was nearby, but didn't have a
sociology department; so, she
switched to English. She
secured a tenured position at a
branch of the university, but by
then wanted to leave Alabama.

She also became interested
in writing for a larger audience,
finding literary scholarship too
rarefied. JournaUsm beckoned.
"And it was such an interesting
journalistic time, the '70s and
'80s," she says.

By 1 984, she was teaching
journalism at Maryland, where
she created the campus' first lit-
erary nonRction course. "'What I
was interested in was extreme-
ly well-written, stylish nonfic-
lion," she says. Around that
time, the new approach got its
name: literary journalism.

"Even when it had a name, I
didn't expect it was going to
blossom the way it has," she
says. 'In a way, nonfiction now
has taken the place of the novel.
People seem hungry for it,"

February 13,2001

The Communications Department's Larissa Gnmig,
along with co-authore Elizabeth Lance Toth of Syra-
cuse Universit)' and Linda Childers Hon of the Uni-
versity of Florida, have written a book entitled
"Wometi in Public Relations ' The work, which is
being published by Guilford Publications, Inc. of New
York, presents a comprehensive examination of the
status of women in public relations and proposes
concrete ways to achieve greater parity in education
and practice.

The Physics Department congratulates Jim Gates,
who has been chosen as one of five "leading voices"
participating in the American Museum of Natural
History's "First Aimual Isaac Asimov Memorial Panel
Debate: The Theory of Everything." The debate scries,
which kicks off Feb. 13, will bring the finest minds in
the world to the museum each year to discuss some
of the most important questions at the edge of sci-
entific discovery. For more information, visit
www. amnh . oi^education/hayden. html#series.

President Bill Clinton awarded a National Humanities
Medal to I>avld C. Driskell, art professor emeritus, at
a ceremony at D.A.R. Constitution Hall that was ftil-
lowed by a White House diimer for recipients. The
National Humanities Medal recognizes those who
expand, support ;md contribute to the countr)''s
understanding of the himnanities. Tliere are 12
Humanities Medal recipients, including writers Toni
Morrison and Virginia Driving Hawk Sncve.

A leading authority on African American art,
Driskell taught at Maryland for more than 20 years
and has been instrumental in creating the David C.
Driskell Center for the stud}- of the African Diaspora
to be housed at the university. He is curator of Bill
and Camtlie Cosby's extensive art collection, and has
amassed an impressive collection of his own. One
hundred of hLs acquisitions are currently in a travel-
ing exhibit, "Narrative of African American Art and
Identity: The Da%1d C. Driskell Collection," at die
Museum of Art in Newark, N.J., through Februaiy. It
will continue its run at the Vit^sinia Museum of Fine
Arts in Richmond and the Naples Museum in Naples,
Fla.When it ends, the exhibit will have toured the
nation for three years since opening at Marj'land's Art
Gallery in Dec. 1998.

Middle East expert Shibley Telliaml, Anwar Sadat
Chair for Peace and Development at Maryland, offi-
cially joined the board of the U.S. Institute of Peace,
swoni in by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen
Brcyer on Jan. 18. The Institute is the nation's peace
academy, sponsoring research and projects designed
to enhance the roster of peacemakers. As a member
of the board, Telhami will help decide what research
gets funded and shape the Institute's direction.
Telhami has written extensively on international
peace negotiations and ethnic conflicts, and serves on
the American delegation of the Trilateral American/
Israelj/I^estinian Anti-Incitement Committee.

Associate Professor of Mathematics SIfue Wu has
been awarded the 2001 Ruth Lyttle Sattcr Prize by the
American Mathematical Society, Wu is the sbrth win-
ner of the prize, which honors outstanding contribu-
tions to mathematics research by a woman in the pre-
vious five years. Wu is receiving the award in recogtii-
tion of her breakthrough woric on a longstanding
problem in the water wave equation. The prize was
awarded at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in New
Orleans in January

Millard Alexander, IPST OnsUtute for Physical
Science andTechnology)/Chemistry and
Biochemistry, has established a fiilly endowed gradu-

NOTABLE

ate fellowship in Chemical Physics. The Alexaiider
Family Fellowship will be awarded to an outstanding
new Ph.D. candidate in Chemical Physics. The first
award will be made in Spring 2001 for a fall admit.
Alexander is a distinguished university professor
whose tesearch interests include the theoretical study
of inelastic and reactive molecular collisions.

Several Maryland researchei^ are proud recipients of
some of the $45 million in awards recendy aimounced
by the Department of Defense, which has distributed
the fiinds among researchers at 99 academic institu-
tions for the purchase of research equipment. Four
offices are awarding the grants: the Army Research
Office, the Office of Naval Research, the Air Force
Office of Scientific Research and the Research and
Engineering Directorate of the Ballistic MLssile
Defense Ot^anization. Maryland recipients (and the
awarding offices) include: Balakumar
Balachandran, Mechanical Engineering (Nav>0; Don
DeVoc, Mechanical Engineering (Navj); Ashwanl
Gupta, Mechanical Engineering (Navy); Wolfgang
Lc»sert. Physics (Nav)); John Rodgers, Institute for
Plasma Research (Air Force); and Norman Werely,
Aerospace Engineering (Army).

Dr. Vivian S. Boyd. Director of the University
Counseling Center, has been elected President of the
International Association of Accredited Counseling
Services (lACS). In this role, she chairs the accredita-
tion board that has oversight responsibilities for coun-
seling services in colleges and universities, as well as
agencies in the private sector, throughout the country'
and abroad.

The American Library Association's division on
Academic and Research Libraries has chosen the
book "Civic Education Across Countries; Twenty-four
National Case Studies From the lEA Civic Hducadon
Study" as one of its "Outstanding Academic Books of
2000." Edited by Judith Tomey-Purta and Jo-Ann
Amadeo of Maryland's Education and Human
Development Department, along with John Schwille
of Michigan State University, the book received this
honor from Choice Magazine. A companion volimoe,
"Citizenship and Education in Twenty-eight Coimtries:
Civic Knowledge and Engagement atJ^e Fourteen,"
reporting a smrey of 90,(X)0 students, will appear in
March.

A strong commitment to undergraduate education
has led James Yorke, IPST/Mathematics and Scott
Woi{>ert, Mathematics, to establish an imde [graduate
scholarship hmd, called the Professor's Fund, for CMPS
undergiaduates with demonstrated financial need.
Yorke is a member of the university's Chaos Research
Group and a distinguished university professor; Wol-
pert, a distinguished scholar-teacher whose research
interests include the intricacy of Riemann surfaces, is
also associate dean of undergraduate education.

In receiving sabbatical leave to pursue woric on the
architectural firm of Allison & Allist^n, Sally Stokes,
Curator of the National Trust Library Collection, has
become the first library staff member to receive sab-

batical leave since campus librarians were granted
non-tenured faculty status this past July. Stokes, who
has been collecting information for neariy two decades
on the firm that originated in Pittsburgh and flour-
ished in Los Angeles from 1910 to 1940, will be a con-
sulting scholar to a traveling exhibit and write a mono-
graph on the Allison brothers during her sabbatical.

From the History Etepartment: Distinguished universi-
ty professor and award-winning author Ira Berlin has
been elected president of the Organization of
American Historians for 2002-2003. His colleague
Jim Gilbert, also a distinguished professor, has
received a distinguished faculty research award for
20(X)-2001. And professor Keith Olson became the
first U.S. scholar to receive an honorary doctoral
degree from the Humanities faculty of Finland's
University of Tampere.

Gloria Gihson, demographer and lecturer in the
Department of Sociology since Ml 1999, recently
received a three-year grant from the National Institute
on Aging (NIA) to study health disparities among
older African Americans. A faculty research assocLite,
Gibson Is the first University of Maryland scientist in
the last decade to receive NIA fiinding from a pro-
gram specifically designed to create mentoring rela-
tionships for promising minority researchers. Gibson's
mentor, Leonard Pearlin, is a senior social scientist
in the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences. He
recently received $2.5 million from the National
Institute on Aging to study stress and health among
older adults and has agreed to supervise Ciibson's
development of im independent research career
In addition to working with the eight-member
Peariin research te:im, Gibson will also ctjnduct sepa-
rate analyses of data gathered from older adults in the
District of Columbia, and Prince George's and
Montgomery Counties, Before coming to die imiversi-
ty, Gibson completed a two-year post-doctoral fellow-
ship in the demography of aging at Johns Hopkins
University'. In addition to being a support group
leader for the Alzheimer's A'wociation, Gibson is a
member of die Community Care Partnership
Committee for the Department of Aging in Anne
Arundel County.

Thomas M. Downs, a senior executive with exten-
sive experience in transportation, home building and
government, has t>een selected by the University of
Maryland to head the new National Center tor Smart
Growth Education and Research at the state's flagship
university.

During a diverse career in top management,
Downs has served as Chairman and CEO forAmtrak,
CEO of the National Association of Home Builders,
Commissioner of Transportation for the State of New
Jersey, President of theTriborough Bridge &Tunnel
Authority in New York City, and City Administrator for
Washington, D.C.

launched last year, the National Center for Smart
Gro'wah will examine the fiscal, environmental and
social impact of alternative development patterns,
conduct researcli and evaluate land-use programs, and
develop educational materials for decision-makers to
enhance "smart growth" efforts in Maryland and
nationwide. The center is a collaborative effort initial-
ly involving the Maryland's School of Architecture,
School of Public Affairs, A.James Clark School of
Engineering, and College of Agriculture and Natural
Resources, with plans to expand to other schools and
other institutions in the University System of
Maryland.

The center is already conducting a national Smart
Growth Leadership Course and this spring will offer
a Maryland-specific Smart Growth Leadership Course.

Libraries

continued from page 5

tmd Ex IJbris, " said Charles B. Lowr)',
Dean of libraries at the tfniversity of
Mar)'fand and Chair of the USMAl
Council of Librar)' Directors.

It will take users no time to learn to
use the new system, said Cad Grant,
president of Ex Ubris (IfSA), The new
1ai,EPH 500 system will "grcatlj' improve

the qualit)- of education, research, and
economic developmeflt in Maryland by
connecting people, libraries, and infor-
mation in a network of unparalleled
sophistication and efficiency," he said.

ALEPII ^(K) will replace a shared and
rapidly aging librarj' sjstcm in u,sc by a
number of USMAl libraries as well as
library systems ai the Universit)- of
Maryland Healdi Sciences ami Himian
Services Library, and the Library of St,

Mary's College of Maryland.

Ex IJbris is a leading worldwide
developer of high performance applica-
tions for libraries and information cen-
ters. <:urrently 5 million clients use the
ALI-PH system in more ihsm 530 installa-
tions in 41 c«>untries. Some of Ex libris's
clients include Notre Dame Universit)',
University of Iowa, McGitl Uni\'ersity. tlie
State University of New York, Hamirtl
University, Ma-ssachusetts Institute of

Icchnology, Minnesota Library Informa^d
tion Networii, Max-Planck Society for il
ihc Advancement of Science, Mississippi
Department of Archives and History, Uie
Art and Museum Ubrarj' in Cologne,
C»erniany and Brandon University in
Manitoba, (Canada.

For more information, call Howard
Harris, Director for Informadon
Technology' at University of Maryland
Libraries at (301) 405-9194.

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Outlook

H

ere is a list of faculty Semester General Research Board awardees for 2001-2002. Grants will
allow instructors to devote full time to a research project of their choice during a semes-
ter. The competition is run by the Division of Research and Graduate Studies.

COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE AND
NATURAL RESOURCES

Animal & Avian Sciences

Ottinger, Mary: Comparative Studies on
the Biology of Aging

COLLEGE OF ARTS & HUMANTTrES

English

Auerfaach, Jonathan: The Dream of a
Century: Earfy Cinema's Special Effects
Berlin, Adele: Biblical Allusions in the
Dead Sea Scrolls

Sherman, William: Used Books: Essays
on English Renaissance Readers

French & Italian

Brami, Joseph: Marcel Proust's
Discourse on Jewish Identity

Hlstoiy

David-Fox, Michael: Western
Intellectual Visitors to the Soviet
Union, 1922-1939
Eckstein, Arthur: Monograph: Pome

Enters the Greek East: frotn Anarchy
to Hierarchy in the Hellenistic Medi-
terranean, ca. 23O-I88 B.C.
Weinstein, Barbara; Region vs. Nation:
Sao Paulo and the Formation of
Brazilian National Identities

Philosophy

hub,)cffTcy: Quantum Information
Levinson.Jerrold: The Parmenidean
Eye: Metaphysics in Cinenm
Slote, Michael: The Ethics of Empathy
Beck, Evelyn: Wounds of Gender:The
Life and Works of Franz Kafka and
Frida Kahlo — The Intersection of
Their Works

COLLEGE OF COMPUTER. MATHE-
MATICAL,AND PHYSICAL SCIENCES

Mathematics

Benedetto, John: Wavelet Theoretic
Harmonic Analysis and Signal
Processing AppUcations

Physics

Jawahery,Abolhassan: Study of Violation
of CP Symmetry in Decays of Particles
Containing the Bottom Quark

COLLEGE OF BEHAVIORAL AND
SOCIAL SCIENCES

Sociology

Neustadtl.Alan: UnderstaneUng the
Social Impact of the Internet: A Mtdti-
faceted, Multidisciplinary Approach

A.JAMES CLARK SCHOOL OF
ENGINEERING

Materials & Nuclear Engineering

Kidder, John: .(4 tom^c Layer Chemical
Vapor Deposition

COLLEGE OF LIFE SCIENCES

Biology

Boi^ia, Gerald: The Role of light in
Shaping Sexual Display in Bowerbirds
Inouye, David: Ecological
Cotisequences of Spring and Fall

Frosts pr High-Altitude Plants
Chemistry & Blochranlstry

Helz, George: Cooperative Mobilization
of Hazardous Elements in the
Environment

CREATIVE AND PERFORMING ARTS
AWARD

COLLEGE OF ARTS & HUMANITIES

Art

Sham, Foon; Solo Exhibition at Stiftel-
sen Kulturhuset, USE, Bergen, Norway

Dance

Rosen, Meriam: Interruption

Music

Gibson, Robert: Through the Ear of a
Raindrop for Large Orchestra
Rodriguez, Santiago: Danzas and Other
Compositions by Ren€e Totd^t

Theatre

C^bot, Adele: Simone at See Level

These are the winners of the summer awards for general research, and creative and performing arts.

COIXEGE OF AGRICULTURE AND NAT-
URAL RESOURCES

Agricultuiral and Resource
Economics

Olson, Lars: The Economics of
Controlling a Biological Invasion

Nutrition and Food Science

TYittle, Cynthia Reeves: Identification
and Assessment of Food Insecurity in
High-Risk Maryland Populations

COLLEGE OF ARTS & HUMANITIES

Art History & Archaeology

Venit, Marjorie: The "Main Tomb" at
Kom el'Sbogafa: Multiculturalism in
Roman-period Alexandria

Asian & East Eiuopean Languages
and Cultures

Branner, David: Database of Chinese

Historical Phonology

Gor, Kira: The Processing of Complex

Verbal Morphology in Second

Language Acquisition

Papazian, Elizabeth: Life with the Yellow

Star: Karel Polacek in the HS^Os,

Communlcatlon/Wom^en's Studies

Parry-Giles, Shawn: Mediating HiUaty
Rodham Clinton: Image-Making,
Ideology, and the First Lady

French & Italian

Letzter, Jacqueline: La Montansier in
Brussels: Theatre as French Revo-
lutionary Propaganda
Wells, Brett: The French-Canadian
Shield: Language Planning in Quebec

History

Como, David; Radical Religion and

Political Change in Revolutionary

England

Gao, James: The "Outsiders" of the

Revolution: Yang Siyi's Diary and the

Inner World of Revolutionary

Intellectuals

Music

King, Richard: A Catalogue of the
Ponds Schoelcher

Spanish & Portuguese

Bouvier, Virginia: Visions of Justice In
Colonial Mexico: The Works ofSor
Juana Ines de La Cruz

Theatre

Burbank, Carol; Ladies Against Women:
Activist Theatre, Satire and the
De/Construction of Citizenship at the
End of the 20th Century

Nathans, Heather: Into the Hands of the
People: The Early National Theatres of
Boston, New York and Philadelphia

COLLEGE OF BEHAVIORAL AND '
SOCIAL SCIENCES

Afro- American Studies

Wilson, Francille Rusan; "Mamma didn't
come thatfastj enjoyed working":
Race, Class, Work, and Getuter in the
Life of Dr. Sadie T. M.Alexander,
Esquire, 1898-1989 / ^^

Anthropology , ^^^/

Chambers, Brvc: Delmarva: Tourism,
Heritage, and the Recreation of Place

^ r - K/V

Hearing and Speech Sciences

Hoarmann, Henk ; .Synchronization of
BraiTi Activity During Sentence
Comprehension

COLLEGE OF COMPUTER,
MATHEMATICAL, AND
PHYSICAL SCIENCES

Mathematics

Greenberg, Leon; Spectral
Problems for Block
Operators: Numerics and
Applications

COLLEGE OF EDUCATION

Human Devektpment

Wentzel, Y^thryn: Relations of
School Climate to School
Adjustmetit

Special Education

Malmgren, Kimber

Assessing and Improving Social Skills
of Students with Emotional or
Behavioral Disorders: An Examination
of the Hostile Attribution Bias
Speece, Deborah: The Early
Identification of Reading Disabilities

A.JAMES CLARK SCHOOL OF
ENGINEERING

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Gabriel, Steven; Methods for Risk
Management in the Electrical Power

Industry

Materials & Nuclear En^neerlng

Martinez-Miranda, Luz: Transitions in
Al/FeOOH: A Way to Understand Bone
Reconstruction

COLLEGE OF LIFE SCIENCES

Biology

Hare, Matthew; A Genetic Test for
Vulnerability to Inbreeding Depression
in Right Whales and Elephant Seals
Quinlan, Elizabeth: Experience-depend-
ent Regulation of Synaptic Com-
position in the Developing Visual Cortex

Shaw, Kerry: The Genetics ofSpeciation

Cell Biology & Molecular Genetics

Mount, Stephen: CoH.rfr(itr«OM of an
Exon Database for the Fruit Fly
Drosophiiia melanogaster

Chemistry & Biochemistry

Munoz, Victor; A Building Blocks
Appfxtacb to Study the Mechanisms of
Protein folding

ROBERT H. SMITH SCHOOL OF
BUSINESS

Decision and Information
Technologies

Souza, Gilvan: Production Planning
and Control for Remanufacturing
Stewart, Katherine: Trust Transfer on
the World Wide Web

Finance

Avramov, Doron: Stock-Return
Predictability and Rational Investors
Wermers, Russell: The Behavior attd
Characteristics of Mutual Fund
Managers

Chen, Mark: Corporate Payout Policy,
Internal Governance, and Boards of
Directors

Logistics, Business & Public PoUcy

Newbetg, Joshua: The Microsoft Case
and the Future of Antitrust

Management & Organization

Katila, Riitta: New Product Search:
flxploratton in Space and Time

Marketing

Balachander, Subramanian; Implications
of Internet Marketing for Distribution
Channel Structure
Hamilton, Rebecca: Why Do People
Suggest What They Don 't Want? Using
Menus to Strategically Influence
Others ' Choices

SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE

Historic Preservation Pro-am

Mason, Randall: Roots of American
Historic PresertJation

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February 13, 2001

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Choreographing Community

Sara Pcarson/Pvitrik Witlrig and Company's
"Ordinary Festivals" will be the first 2001 perform-
ance in the Clarice Smith Performir^ Arts Center
Dance Theatre. The work, performed by 16 dancers to
Italian folk music, is a ptayful exploration of the rituals
we use to express community.

Performances of the work will take place on Friday
and Satmtlay, Feb. 16 and 17 at 8 p.m. Excerpts from
the woik will also be performed, along with a new
section designed by Pearson and Widrig expressly for
the students, at the Kennedy Center's JWillenium Stage
on Thursday, Feb. 15 at 6 p.m.

For tickets to the Dance Theatre performance, call
(301) 405-7847. To reach the Kennedy Center ticket
sales office, call (202) 467-4600 or (800) 4441324.

weeks, begiiming Feb. 21, at The Art and Learning
Center. For more information, contact Alicia Simon at
(301) 314-8492 or at asimon@umon.umd.edu, or visit
www.union.umd.edu/artc:enter.

Sharing is Caring^

The Office of Campus Programs and Coitimuter
Affoirs and Commimity Service \^11 be collecting gra-
nola bars and juice b<jxes throught Febrtiary and
March for the CABJNG Project.

Donations will be accepted in the graduate office
of the Office of Campus Programs in 1 143B Stamp
Student Union.

Writers Here & Novb

Beatific Brush

Oriental art can foster a harmonious and spiritual
attitude toward life. The class "Oriental Brush
Painting" offers an introduction to the histor>', philoso-
phy and fundamental techniques of an ancient disci-
pline. Subjects will include bamboo, flowers and the
basics of Korean calligraphy. ln.structor Grace Psirk is
nationaUy renowned for her brush painting and callig-
raphy, and has exhibited at the Smithsonian, the

Poets Brigit Pegeen Kelly and Agha Shalid Ali will
read from their works on Feb. 14 at 7 p.m. in the Spe-
cial Events Room on the fourth floor of McKeldin Lil>
rar}'. The readings are part of the Writers Here & Now
series sponsored by the Creative Writing department.
Kelly teaches creative writing at the University of
Illinois Urbana-Chanipaign, She has published two vol-
umes of poetry, "To the Place of Trumpets" and "Scing."
The latter collection was awarded tlie Ijimont Poetry
Prize fixjm the Academy of American Poets.

Ali is on the
poetry faculty of
the MFA and PhD
creative writing
programs at the
University of Utah.
His seven collec-
tions of poetry
include "The
Beloved Witness:
Selected Poems"
and most recently,
"The Country
Without a Post
Office," a collection
on the the current
turmoil in
Kashmir. He is a
recipient of nimier-
ous awards, in-
cluding Guggen-
heim and Ingram-
MerriU fellowships.
A book signing
will follow the
reading. For infor-
mation, call (301)
405-3820.

Museum of Natural History and the Korean Embas,sy.

Class meets Tuesdays, beginning Feb. 13, for 4
weeks, from 5-7 p.m. at tlie Art & Learning Center,
0232 Stamp Student Union, For more information,
contact Alicia Simon at 4-8492 or at
asimon@union.umd.edu, or visit www.union.umd.edu.

Women & Weights

liling to Submit4

The President's Commission on Lesbian, Gay,
Bisexual and Tran.sgender Issues invites papers, panels,
posters and performances from students, faculty and
staff for its one-day symposium at the Nyumburu
Center on March 30, entitled "Sex and the University."

Submit proposals by Mar. 1 5 to Liora Moriel,
Comparative Literature Program, 2107 Susquehanna.
For more information, email tml42@umatl.umd.edu.

Campus Recreation Services is offering a Women &
Weights course. Learn to train with free weights and
selectorized equipment and put together your own
strength training program. Classes will be held
Mondays and Wednesdays, 5:30-7 p.m. beginning Feb.
26 and ending Apr. 1 1 . All classes will be held in the
HHP building. Participants must register at the
Member Services Desk in the Campus Recreation
Center by February 19 to avoid a late registration fee.
For more information, caU (301) 405-PLAY

Serious Fiddling

Art Class

The Art Center's Modernist and Impressionist
Painting Class will explore the ideas and methods of
late 19th- and early 20th-century European painting.
Guided by instructor Damon McArthur, students will
examine the work of painters including Cezanne, Van
Gogh, Monet, Pissaro and others. Focus will be
placed on color relationships, composition and self-
expression.

Classes meet Wednesdays from 6:30-8:30 p.m. for 8

As part of the Maryland Presents series, Hesperus
and Scottish fiddler Bonnie Rldeout collaborate on an
evening of Scottish-Irish traditional music from their
popular CD Celtic Roots. With an ensemble of fiddles,
hammered dulcimer, lute, recorders and vtola de
gambit, the musicians uncover the living roots of the
jigs, reels, hornpipes and airs so popular in the cur-
rent Celtic revival.

The concert will highlight dances from classic col-
lections by Bunting, O' Riley, Gow, Hume and Play ford;
specific works include Walsh's "Division Violin and
Division Flute," and "Variations on Favorite Airs" by
Thumoth. Special treasures from the Panmure, Skene,
Rogers, Ker and Manchester manuscripts will also be

performed.

The performance will be held on Saturday, Feb. 24
at 8 p.m. at the Inn and Conference Center. The artists
vrill also participate in a prec-concert discussion ftom
6:30-7:30 p.m. For ticket information, call the Clarice
Smith Performing Arts Center ticket office at (301)
405-7847 or visit www.claricesmithcenter.umd.edu.

Vine & Dine

The Golf Course wUl be hosting a dinner featurii^
the wines of the Beaulieu vineyards on Thursday, Feb.
22 at 6 p.m. A representative from the vineyard will
be in attendance to discuss each wine. The evening
begins with a cocktail reception foUow^cd by a four
course meal of fresh field greens; Chesapeake Bay
Crab "sandwich"; herb-crusted rack of lamb and the
grand dessert of chocolate mousse towers in gingered
creme. Each course will be paired with a wine from
the vinej'ard. A vegetarian entree of Polenta topped
with Wild Rice iWushroom Ragout may be substitied
for the rack of lamb. The cost is $50 per person plus
tax and gratuity. Advance reservations required.

For more information, contact Nancy Loomis at
(301) 403-4240 or nloomls®dining,umd,edu.

Swing into Spring

Learn the basic moves for your big day, or gain con-
fidence so you can get out on to the dance floor at
your next social event, with the class Basic Moves for
Weddings & Other Social Events. Patterns covered
include Waltz, Fox Trot, Swing, Husde, and Latin
dances. No partner or prior experience is required.

The class meets Wednesdays from 6-7 p.m. for 10
weeks, begiiming Feb. 21, in 2 1 1 i Stamp Student
Union. For more information, contact Alicia Simon at
(301) 314-8492 or at asimon@union.umd.edu, or visit
vrww.imion.umd.edu/artcenter.

Getting Committed

Commitment to seek change is often a difficult
path which takes its toll in time, enei^ and fiiistra-
tton. The Rebecca Williams Award for Coounitment to
Social Change is a tribute to Williams, who has main-
tained an active and responsible coitmiitment to
issues of conscience of concern to many. Her areas of
activity have Included world peace, women's rights,
nuclear power, environmental protection and equal
tqiportunlty.

This award is to be given to a University of
Maryland, College Park imdergraduate or graduate stu-
dent who has demonstrated by actions and beliels a
personal conunltment to advocating chai^ in issues
and values such as those which have concerned
Williams; change either on or off the university cam-
pus. This coimnltment may be demonstrated througb
individual or organizational leadership and may have
been shown across varying amounts of time. The indi-
vidual's efforts may or may not have brought about
change, but as a role model, the student will have had
positive impact on others.

Please submit nominations, including student name
and address and a rationale for the nomination, by
March 9 to Bill Sedlacefc,
Counseling Center, by
mail or by e-mail at
wsl2@ umail.umd.edu.

Clowning Around-^a

If you've got any clown art tying
aroimd, the Acme Clown Company
and the Greenbelt Arts Center want you!
Any artwork relating to clowns, the circus
or circus arts is eligible for inclusion in
their exhibit honoring Acme Clown Month,
a celebration featuring clown-related arts
and activities to be held at the center from
Apr. 1-May 13.

The deadline for submissions is Feb.
15. For details, contact the Acme
Clown Company at (401) 351-2596
or exhibit@acmeclown.com.