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Outlook

The University of Maryland Faculty and Staff Weekly Newspaper

Volume 15 'Number 31 'July 17,2001

A First

FOR THE

Maryland

Municipal

League,

Page 5

University- wide Efforts Welcome
Larger Freshman Class

This mock dorm room in Queen Anne Hat) Is designed to show Incoming freshman how
triple rooms can be handled. Resident Life has worked to develop some creative ways to
use space to accommodate this fall's larger freshman class.

"Rush to say yes cramps campus"

-The Baltimore Sun

"In Md., No More Rooms At the U. " -The Washington Post

The headlines say it all. The university
is a popular place with freshmen
these days.
So what does this mean for a campus
already bustling with 24,500 undergradu-
ates? It means some adjustments. Most cam-
pus administrators and faculty describe this
as "the best kind of problem." It is the result,
many agree, of the dedication to excellence
demonstrated campus wide over the last
decade.

Admissions begins tracking acceptances
in mid-February. In December 2000, it was
clear numbers were up.

"By mid-March when I began looking at
the numbers, we were still up, but I thought
it was Just the early responses," says Robert
Hampton, associate provost of academic
affairs and dean of undergraduate studies. By
mid-April when the number of acceptances

continued on page 7

UM Libraries Sign Agreement to Distribute
1,000 Titles Via Video-on-Demand

The University of
Maryland and Films for
the Humanities &
Sciences, Inc., (FFH&S) of
Princeton, N.j., signed a far-
reaching agreement today
enabling the campus libraries
to distribute approximately
1,000 selected titles from the
FFH&S collection of educa-
tional videos over the univer-
sity's state-of-the-art digital
video-on-demand system.
Charles Lowry, dean of
libraries, and Betsy Sherer,
president and CEO of FFH&S,

signed the agreement at a cer-
emony held last month in the
Performing Arts Library of the
Clarice Smith Performing Arts
Center.

"With die opportunity pre-
sented by our partnership
with FFH&S, we take a giant
step in multi-mediation and
the use of digitized audio and
full-motion video which is an
integral part of teaching and
research," Lowry said.

The agreement means that
students and faculty will soon
be able to access a wide vari-

ety of video programming,
much of it in the performing
arts area, from almost any
location on campus. This
includes libraries, classrooms,
offices and dormitory rooms.

FFH&S 's Sherer added:
"This is an age in which edu-
cation's needs are increasingly
diverse and specialized. Films
for the Humanities & Sciences
will continue to seek ways to
provide quality programs in
formats that are compatible

continued on page 5

Gill Named New
Admissions Director

Barbara Gill, associate direc-
tor of Undergraduate Admis-
sions for more than eight
years, will be the new director
of admissions, succeeding
Linda Clement. Robert
Hampton, associate
provost and dean for
Undergraduate Studies,
announced the appoint-
ment after a lengthy
national search.

"I am confident that
Barbara will continue to
provide leadership to
the Office of Under-
graduate Admissions,"
Hampton said in his
announcement to the
search committee.

As an admissions
counselor in Under-
graduate Admissions
from 1986 to 1989, Gill
worked closely with
guidance counselors and
high school staff, while
also interviewing students
and evaluating applications.

In 1989, Gill was named
assistant director of freshman
admissions, joining an office
management team that made
decisions on campus-wide
recruitment and enrollment
management.

In 1993 she was named
associate director, and she has
served as a member of the sen

ior management team and
coordinated admission of tal-
ented students to University
Honors, College Park Scholars,

Barbara GUI

Honors Humanities and
Gemstone programs. Her
responsibilities also have
included identify ing new tar-
get recruitment markets and
monitoring enrollment out-
comes; student-athlete admis-
sions; coordinating with key
academic units and student

continued on page 5

Professorship Named After
Influential Economists

At a ceremony held at
the Rossborough Inn
in May, Louisa Dillard
celebrated die establish-
ment of a professorship of
economics named after her
and her late husband
Dudley. He is credited with
giving the department
national standing during his
25 years as chair. Louisa
Dillard also taught courses
in economics. Dudley
Dillard died in 1991.

The professorship sup-
ports the appointment of an
outstanding tenured faculty
member who combines a
nationally recognized pro-
gram of research, teaching
excellence and a commit-
ment to building the profes-
sional standing of the
department.

The Dillards long ago
established a fund to sup-
port the Dillard Prize, which
is a $1,000 award given to
the outstanding junior and
senior.

As the fund grew, "the
family was interested in
something more permanent
and larger," said John Wallis,
director of the undergradu-
ate program. The chair was
created to provide the per-
son endowed with greater
resources to assist their
teaching and research.

The Dillards are known
for their fierce, long-held
commitment to the universi-
ty and Its potential. "I hope,
that we, with today's excel-j
lence, do not lose the sense

continued on page 6

July 17, 2001

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marylan

W e dn e s da

12 noon-1 p.m., Health Work-
shop:"Carbs vs. Proteins: The
Debate Continues." Low carb,
low fat, high protein.. .What to
believe? Come and hear the
latest research on the various
fad diets. Center for Health &
Wellbeing, room 0121 Campus
Rec Center. You do not have to
be a CRC member to attend.
Call 4-1493 or e-mail
treger® heal th . umd . edu .

6-9 p.m„ OIT Workshop: "Basic
Computing Technologies at
MD." Introduces network tech-
nologies, such as using FTP to
transfer files between local
and host machines, reading
and posting on Usenet news-
groups, subscribing to public
newsgroups, and sending
attachments using an e-mail
program such as Netscape.
3330 Computer & Space
Science. Contact Carol
Warrington at 5-2938 or
cwpost@umd5.umd.edu, or
visit www.oit.umd.edu/pt.*

T r i da

6-9 p.m., Event: "Summer Crab
Feast," Rossborough Inn.
(Details in For Your
Interest, page 8.)*

( Monda

12 noon, Lecture/Book
Signing: "Andrew Jackson and
His Indian Wars," with Robert
V Remini. National Archives,
College Park. (Details in For
Your Interest, page S.)

6-9 p.m., OIT Workshop: "Unix:
Your WAM Account is More
Than Just E-Mail." Introduces
the Unix operating system.
Concepts covered include file
and directory manipulation
commands, navigational skills,
Pico editor. It does not teach
programming skills. 4404
Computer & Space Science.
For more information, contact
Carol Warrington at 5-2938 or
cwpost@umd5.umd.edu, or
visit www.oit.umd.edu/pt.*

6:30-10 p.m., Workshop: "A+
Certification Training" begins
(continues Mon. & Wed. eves,
through Oct. 1). Prepare your-
self for a job as a computer
technician. Learn to assemble
and repair computer systems;
become familiar with comput-
er components and their func-
tions; perform installation and
testing of integral hardware
and software. $995 for UM
alumni, staff, faculty, students

Your Guide to University Events
July 17- August 20

and immediate family; $ 1 500
for general public. Prices
include book. 0221 LeFrak
Hall. Contact the Training Co-
ordinator at 5-1670 or
leamIT@oacs.umd.edu, or visit
www.LearnTT.umd.edu.* ■

T'ue s day

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6:30-10 p.m., Workshop:
"Network + Certification
Training" (course NO 107)
begins (continues Tue. &Thu.
eves, through Aug. 21). Get
ready to become a Network
Technician in six weeks:
Attain the skills needed to
maintain and support a
network. Learn network
administration, security,
troubleshooting, and TCP/ LP
fundamentals and utilities.
$350 for UM alumni, staff, fac-
ulty, students, and immediate
family; Non-UM price $600;
prices include book. 0221
LeFrak Hall. Contact the
Training Coordinator at 5-1670
or learnrT@oacs.umd.edu, or
visit www.LearnIT.umd.edu.*

W e dn e s da y

J

J 2 noon-I p.m.. Health Work-
shop:"Let Your Spirits Soar!"
Learn to expand your
resources for emotional well-
being by identifying barriers
and learning useful strategies
for overcoming them. Center
for Health & Wellbeing, room
0121 Campus Rec Center. You
do not have to be a CRC mem-
ber to attend. Call 4-1493 or e-
mail treger@hcalth.umd.edu.

6-9 p.m., OIT Workshop:
"HTML I: Learn to Create a
Basic Web Page with HTML."
Introduces the HyperText
Markup Language used to cre-
ate Web pages on the World
Wide Web. Concepts covered
include how to: format text;
create lists, links and anchors;
upload pages and add in-line
images. 4404 Computer &
Space Science. Contact Carol
Warrington at 5-2938 or
cwpost@umd5umd.edu, or
visit www,oit,umd.edu/pt.*

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6-9 p.m., OIT Workshop:
"Adobe Photoshop I: Design-

ing Graphics and Editing
Photos for the Web." Intro-
duces the industry benchmark
graphic manipulation package
for creating professional quali-
ty graphics. Concepts covered:
palettes, layers, image filters
and screen/image resolution.
Digital image concepts with
emphasis on Web-based graph-
ics are also discussed. 4404
Computer & Space Science.
For more information, contact
Carol Warrington at 5-2938 or
cwpost@umd5.umd.edu, or
visit www.oit.umd.edu/pt.*

10 a.m.- 12 noon,"GIS
Workshops (UM Libraries)."
McKeldin Library, Details in
For Your Interest, page 8.)

W e dn e s da y

12 noon- 1 p.m.. Health Work-
shop: "Dealing with Change."
Ideas on how to prepare for
change rather than fight it.
Presented by Tom Ruggieri.
coordinator of the Faculty
Staff Assistance Program.
Center for Health & Wellbeing,
room 0121 Campus Rec
Center. You do not have to be
a CRC member to attend. For
more information, call 4-1493
or e-mail treger@health.
umd.edu.

6-9 p.m., OIT Workshop:
"HTML II: Using Tables and
Formatting for Web Page
Layout." Introduces more fea-
tures of HTML. Concepts cov-
ered include: enhanced tag
attributes, tables, internal doc-
ument links, custom back-
grounds, and the use of text
colors. Some current tags in
the new HTML standards will
also be discussed. 4404
Computer & Space Science.
For more information, contact
Carol Warrington at 5-2938 or
cwpost@umd5.umd.edu, or
visit www.oit.umd.edu/pt.*

Thursday

6:30-10 p.m.,Workshap:"Web
Design & Development"
(course WO 108) begins (con-
tinues Tue. & Thu. evenings
through Aug. 30). Use Standard
HTML, FrontPage, JavaScript,

calendar guide:

Calendar phone numbers listed as 4-xxxx or 5-xxxx stand for the prefix 314 or 405,

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

master calendar and submissions to the Outlook office.

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

To re~ach the calendar editor, call 405-761 5 or e-mail outlook@accmail.umd.edu.

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

Clarification

In the June 19 issue of Outlook, the first part of a para-
graph in the story "Recognizing Excellence All Over
Campus" should have read: "Gia Harewood, a graduate stu-
dent studying English language and literature, serves as
the graduate assistant for the Office of Human Relations
Programs. As such, she is the coordinator for the Diversity
Training Circle and handles all requests for diversity train-
ing. She used to serve as the liaison to the After School
Homework Club, a pre-college initiative coordinated by
the campus' Education Talent Search Program."

Rossborough Inn
Summer Availabilil

The Rossborough Inn will be open Monday through
Friday for lunch through July 25, For reservations, call
(301) 314-8013. The Inn will be closed beginning July
26 and will reopen Aug. 27.

Also, the Inn has the following dates available to
book afternoon receptions or evening dinners: July 17,
18, 21, 22, 23, and 24. To book a private catered
event, cal! (301) 314-8012.

For more information, contact Christopher Cantore
at (301) 314-8012 or ccantore@dining.umd.edu.

and PhotoShop to: produce
and manipulate graphics; craft
Web pages through coding'
user-interactive pages; build an
effective design for each Web
page and the whole Web site.
0221 LeFrak Hall. Cost is $295,
which includes book. For
more information, contact the
Training Coordinator at 5-1670
or learnlT@oacs.umd.edu, or
visit www.LearnIT.umd.edu.*

cwpost@umd5.umd.edu, or
visit www.oit.umd.edu/pt.*

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1 2 noon, Lecture/Book
Signing: "Propaganda Postcards
of World War II," with Ron
Menchinc. National Archives,
College Park. (Details in For
Your Interest, page 8.)

'Mon da

6-9 p.m., OIT Workshop:
"Adobe Photoshop H: Design-
ing Buttons and More Photo
Editing for the Web." Contin-
ues coverage of the graphic
manipulation package, includ-
ing how to create buttons
using paths and existing
macros. More is done widi
photographs; all work is
geared towards placing graph-
ics on the Web. 4404
Computer & Space Science,
For more information, contact
Carol Warrington at 5-2938 or
cwpost@umd5.umd.edu, or
visit www.oit.umd.edu/pt.*

W e dn e sdav

6-9 p.m., OIT Workshop:
"HTML ID: Manage Web
Design with Stylesheets." Intro-
duces Style Sheets and Image
Mapping as useful and attrac-
tive interfaces for the user.
Additional advanced topics
covered will be constructing
grapliic animation with ban-
ners and images to enhance
web page presentations. 4404
Computer & Space Science.
For more information, contact
Carol Warrington at 5-2938 or

Outlook

Outlook is the weekly faculty-staff
newspaper serving the University of
Marylan a campus community.

Brodie Remington 'Vice ['resident
for University Relations

Teresa Flannery * Executive Director
of University Communications and
Director of Marketing

George Cathcart • Executive Editor

Monette Austin Bailey • Editor

Cynthia Mitchel * Assistant Editor

Letters to the editor, story- suggestions
and campus information are welcome.
Please submit all material two svecks
before the Tuesday of publication.

Send material to Editor, Outlook, 2101
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Outlook

Finding the Truth
for Healthy Eating

M

ark the following
statements with
M for myth or F

for faet.

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1 . If I eat a low-fat diet, I
will lose weight.

2. Eating most of your calo-
ries at night makes you
more likely to gain weight,

3. Free-range chickens are
better for your health.

4. Carbohydrates are fatten-
ing.

□

5. Snacking is bad.

□ 6. If you are in a healthy
weight range, you are

healthy.

nl. If I exercise and don't
lose weight, there's no

point.

The answers: all of the above
are myths. Jane Jakubczak, nutri-
tionist with the campus Health
Center, and Jennifer Treger,
director of the Center for Health
and Wellbeing, spend a good part
of their days debunking state-
ments such as these. The women
try to help the campus commu-
nity understand that being
healthy is more than a physical
consideration, and combining
healthy eating with exercise
works better than any fad diet.

To debunk in detail:

1 . If I eat a low-fat diet, I will
lose weight.

The truth: "Low fat doesn't
mean low calorie," says
Jakubczak. "Losing weight
means taking in fewer calories
than you expend."

"It's that simple," adds Treger.
"Really. A low-fat cookie can
have the same amount of calo-
ries as a regular cookie. It's the
calories you have to think
about."

Snack foods are the biggest
culprits, and portions also play a
large part in a healthy diet.

2. Eating most of your calo-
ries at night makes you more

likely to gain weight.

The truth: "This is really a
myth. Well, sort of. You're not
going to gain weight if you're
taking in, over the course of the
day, fewer calories than you've
expended," says Jakubczak. "But
we don't recommend doing
this. It's like filling up your gas
tank after you go on the trip.
You're dumping in all the fuel
your body needs at the end.
Your metabolism is slower
because you're resting. So, yes,
you could gain weight."

3- Free-range chickens are
better for your health.

The truth: "Chickens don't
need exercise," says Treger. "This
is another marketing thing. Free*
range chickens are fed the same
kind of feed as other chickens."
Paraphrasing an article from
the University of California,
Berkeley's "Wellness Letter,"
Treger notes that free-range
chickens may
have access to
some yard
space, but that
does not guar-
antee that they
are healthier or
protected from
disease.

4. Carbohy-
drates are fat-
tening.

The truth:

"Our diet is
made up of so
many processed
carbohydrates,
cookies, can-
dies, cakes,
white bread,
and we tend to
eat way too
much," says jakubczak. "The no-
carbohydrate diets have you eat-
ing less of these things, so
you're going to lose weight any-
way because most of those
foods are high in calories."

Carbohydrates are the body's
source of energy. Eating whole
grain breads, brown rice and
pasta is good. Again, portion
control is key, as is what is
served with those foods.
Jakubczak says that carbohy-
drates contain only four calories
per gram. Our bodies burn 25
percent of a food's calories
breaking down carbohydrates,
compared to the only 3 percent
of calories burned to process
the 9 calories contained in a
gram of fat.

5. Snacking is bad.

The truth: Nutritionists rec-
ommend eating every three or
four hours, so that our bodies
have a consistent fuel source
and our metabolism stays up.
So eating a piece of fruit, a
handful or two of pretzels, or a
cup of yogurt is fine between
meals. Eating a donut, candy
bar or other highly processed,

continued on page 6

Center Celebrates New Program and Facilities

On Monday, July 9, a celebration was held at the Avrum Gudelsky Veterinary Center
for the program and new facilities of the university's new Aquatic Pathobiology Center.
The center consists of more than 4,000 square feet of state-of-the-art aquatic animal
holding and research facilities. The center's research program focuses on environmental
toxicology, pathology and husbandry of aquatic and marine organisms, with emphasis on
Chesapeake Bay fauna and aquacultured species.

Andrew S. Kane, center director, led a tour of the wet lab facilities for participants
including (I to r): J. Glenn Morris, Chair, Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, UM
Baltimore; Gerhardt Schurlg, Associate Dean for Research, Virginia-Maryland Regional
College of Veterinary Medicine; Renate Relmschuessel, US Food and Drug
Administration, Center for Veterinary Medicine; James Wade, Associate Dean, UM
College of Agriculture and Natural Resources; UM President Dan Mote; Robert
Summers, Director of Water Management Administration, Maryland Department of the
Environment; and Thomas Fretz, Dean, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources. At
right Is Kane with son Collin, age 2. The center's partnerships with the Food and Drug
Administration, the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine and the
Maryland Department of the Environment support ongoing research In the center as
well as in the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources.

Above, Kane discusses some of the finer points of one of the center's ongoing
research projects with an Inquisitive Mote.

Forum Eases Challenge of Making Contacts

Sylvia Stewart, associate vice president for administrative affairs, speaks with (I to r)
Robert Block and Curtis Jeffries of Washington, D.C, -based Curtis Equipment Inc. during
the Challenge 2001 Minority Business Enterprise Forum. Held at the Inn and Conference
Center last week, the event sought to foster business relationships.

More than 230 participants attended and 36 companies sent representatives. Those
attending received a list of exhibitors with contact information, a list of contracting
osportuntles with the university and information about current university projects and
their value.

Challenge 2001 was sponsored by the vice president for Administrative Affairs'
office, the Department of Facilities Management and the Department of Procurement
and Supply.

July 17,2001

MIPS: Matchmaking of
a Corporate Nature

"Security would be quite different. The
[International Olympic Committee]
requires very tight security in all of its
Olympic Villages. Only credentialed visi-
tors, athletes and other officials would
be allowed in the village." — Campus
ivill have a different aura if the
Olympics do in fact come to the
Chesapeake Bay region in 2012,
according to Brian Darmody assistant
tice president of academic affairs.
United States Olympic Committee offi-
cials toured the campus, site of the
projected Olympic Village, in June as
part of an official assessment of poten-
tial Olympic venues from Baltimore to
Northern Virginia. (Maryland Daffy
Record, June 13)

"In feet, that's one of the things we doc-
ument in our series that I think a lot of
people even in the business didn't real-
ize, that two of the biggest newspaper
chains dial exist today— five years ago
did not exist. These were sort of instant
chains, as you will; business interests
that decided they wanted to go into
newspapers and started buying proper-
ties around the country. Now there's
nothing wrong with that, but these are
interests that really have no experience
or expertise in newspapers, and so it
sort of makes you wonder what their
motivations are." —Tom Kunkei, dean
of the College of Journalism, appears
on National Public Radio's "FresbAir"
along with faculty member Gene
Roberts. The two have written
"Leaving Readers Behind: The Age of
Corporate Newspapering." (June 14)

"The military is very interested in this
because on the battlefield, you're going
to have a lot of wireless interconnects
between all sorts of devices, and they
want to make sure that nobody can
upset a mission by targeting electronics
at a level where they don't get destroyed,
but where the computational processes
get upset by high frequencies."
— Institute for Plasma Research direc-
tor Patrick O'Shea describes the work
to be done under a $3.3 million proj-
ect assigned to bis lab by the Air
Force. That is news in itself But the
bigger news is that the institute now
goes into other disciplines, away from
its primary mission: the study of
nuclear fusion. (New Technology Week,
fune 18)

"Anybody who had that litde edge, that
genetic edge, so to speak, and had this
naturally occurring defense mechanism
was more likely to survive and to pass
that variant on to their offspring."
— Sarah Tishkoff assistant professor of
biology, earned notice around the
world for her research on malaria,
which produced evidence that a genet-
ic mutation exists that protects
humans from the disease. Owners of
this mutation survived the disease,
and passed it along to ancestors.
(National Public Radio's "All Things
Considered," June 21)

"We need to make an abundant amount
of these enzymes, (and) the most scala-
ble way, currendy, is agriculture." — An
obstruction to making one form of
ethanolfuel cheaper to produce is the
production of cellulose enzymes.

Stepping in to make the process more
affordable is molectdar biologist
Jonathan Arias, who wants to create
genetically engineered tobacco which
wilt produce the enzymes.
(Washington Techway June 25)

"I think it's a pretty serious situation.
The law would put diem (Democrats)
at an immediate disadvantage." — Paul
Hermson, professor of government
and politics, underlines the political
quandary of the Democrats who
u)ould likely be hurting themselves by
passing campaign finance laws.
(Washington Post, July 11)

"This has been a tremendous year. We
want to be able to capitalize at a time
when people are already feeling good
about die university." — Following the
good-news year of 2000-2001, Terry
Flannery, executive director of market-
ing and communications, will oversee
the most intensive marketing cam-
paign the university has undertaken.
For four months beginning in Mid-
October, Maryland will invest
$650,000 (of private funds) to estab-
lish the relevance and value of a
world-class public research university
in the region. (Maryland Daily Record,
July 5)

"Trying to stop spending this year is
like standing in front of a speeding
locomotive." — Allen Schick, professor
in the School of Public Affairs, thinks
holding the reins on federal spending
will be a fight. A tightly contested
Congress and momentum from last
year's spending that exceeded the
budget by $94 billion will make it a
tougbjob, indeed, for tbe Bush
Administration. (Christian Science
Monitor, July 6)

"Some college students don't go
through (quarter-life crisis) because
they're having to pay for school and be
responsible for themselves and maybe
other people, too." — Counseling Center
psychologist Linda Tipton is inter-
viewed about the latest Pop Culture
phobia: Quarter-life crisis. Susceptible
are twentysometbings who have grad-
uated from college and face a stagger-
ing choice of career decisions while
trying to compete with their ambi-
tious peers. Working one's way
through college seems to discourage
the problem. (Baltimore Sun, fuly 8)

"If you've gone below the critical mass,
it means you've pretty much lost your
support sector, you are farming next to
non-farmers, you're having problems
getting your equipment across the road,
you have trespassing and vandalism.
people complain about the noise, the
dust and the time that you farm. All of
those things contribute either to raising
your cost, or decreasing the price you
receive back. That is the sort of thing
we are trying to get at." — Lori Lynch,
assistant professor of agricultural and
resource economics, Is conducting a
study for the Maryland Center for
Agro-Ecology. The critical mass con-
cept suggests that a region needs
enough farmland to support an agri-
cultural infrastructure. (Bayfournal,
fune 2001)

The president of a local "green"
pharmaceutical company
needed to figure out the science
behind why a topical ointment
based on herbal Chinese medicine
worked. Yuan tin knew that the
antimicrobial agents showed
potential in treating several derma-
tological conditions.

Through a program run out of
the Engineering Research Center,
Lin received not only the valuable
expertise of a university microbi-
ologist doing research in the same
field, but some financial support
for her project as well.

It is these kinds of mutually
beneficial matches that make Judy
Mays happy. As project manager
for the Maryland Industrial
Partnerships (MIPS) program, it is,
Mays' job to help connect busi-
nesses with resources throughout
the University System of Maryland,
diough most partnerships occur
with College Park campus faculty.
MIPS staff includes Director Lou
Robinson and Associate Director
Peter Hudson.

"We're like a venture capital
firm, but much more restrictive,"
says Mays. "The company has to
chip in some money and the proj-
ect has to be in the university sys-
tem."

The most recent round of 10
award recipients includes propos-
als for a smart fly fishing rod that,
widi the push of a button can cast
with as much or as little slack as
the fisherman determines is neces-
sary. It is made possible by tech-
nology developed in the engineer-
ing department. Another company
is working on a hybrid fuel system
for trucks that combines gas and
electricity.

"The program covers a pretty
big swath of campus disciplines,"
says Mays.

To apply for a partnership, com-
panies must first come into the
MIPS office and meet with MIPS
staff If the company has not
already identified a faculty mem-
ber, Mays works with them to fill
out a matchmaker form outlining
the kind of expertise they need.

Then a proposal needs to be
written that introduces the proj-
ect. Before it is submitted with a

business plan before a review
committee, the company's propos-
al is evaluated, "Many companies
may not be oriented toward our
process," said Robinson. "They may
not be used to doing proposals."

Twice a year, in May and
October, MIPS sends the proposals
to business and technology
reviewers. "Then the final board
meets to prioritize and make rec-
ommendations," says Mays.
Companies not receiving awards
may come in for a debriefing to
learn how to make tiieir submis-
sion stronger.

MIPS awards projects to start
up, small, medium and large com-
panies. At each level, companies
must meet a set of requirements.
Start up companies, for example,
must be in product development
mode, have no more than 12 em-
ployees, be no more dian four
years old and have no professional
capital support. They also can't
have held an initial public offering.

"And they all have to make sure
they can commercialize the
research," said Mays.

Going into larger commercial
markets is exactly what David
Lankford and Harry Swartz hope
will happen with their small fruits
growing project. Swartz, an associ-
ate professor of pomology, and
Lankford, owner of Da von Crest
Farm in Hurlock, Md., met through
a cooperative extension agent.
Their shared dream of selling
Maryland-grown, biologically
stronger raspberries and strawber-
ries around the world received a
boost from MIPS funding.

"The small fruits breeding pro-
gram [at Maryland] has been going
on for 20 years," said Swartz."It's
about time to privatize it, take a
free trade type of oudook Without
MIPS, it'd be a real tough thing."

Because the program has fields
from Miami to Lake Erie, it is get-
ting harder to manage, said
Swartz. Lankford's staff grew from
four to nearly 20 people to handle
the planting of more than 30,000
seedlings.

"I transferred the technology
and they [Davon Crest] improved
on it" Swartz said. "If this works
out, itll help my career."

Lost & Found

Still looking for a checkbook
you left on the bench next
to the Stamp Student Union?
How about the bike you swear
you locked up just outside of the
Campus Recreation Center? Well, if
it's been less than a year, and a
good Samaritan came upon them,
the University Police department
may well have your property.

Items turned in are logged by
date turned in and type of item. A
general list on the department's
Web site, www.umpd.umd.edu,
shows more than two dozen bicy-
cles, several items of clothing, a

small store's worth of electronic
equipment, checkbooks,
credit/ATM cards, identification
cards, jewelry and more. If a name
is found, it also is listed.

"We update the site almost
every day," says Jason Petraha, pr
gram managment specialist I. He
added that after a year, all items
are either given to charity or
destroyed.

For more information, call
Petraha at (301) 405-5730, or die
on the Lost and Found link on the
left site of the Web site's home
page.

Outlook

David Harrington Elected President
of Maryland Municipal League

Staff Member First African American to Hold Post

David Harrington, a senior
fellow at the University of
Maryland's James MacGregor
Burns Academy of Leadership
and the mayor of Bladensburg,
was elected president of the
Maryland Municipal League at
its June convention, the first
African American to ever hold
the post.

In his one-year term,
Harrington plans to develop a
strategic plan for the league,
bring issues of inclusion and
diversity to the forefront, and
use technology to build greater
community awareness and
action.

"I feel very honored and
humbled to have this wonder-
ful opportunity," says
Harrington."! plan to use the
leadership lessons I've learned
at the University of Maryland's
Academy of Leadership to build
a stronger state."

Over the past few years, the
academy has expanded its list
of senior fellows."

These established leadership
scholars and practitioners are
sought out, invited to apply,
then carefully reviewed before
being approved as unpaid sen-
ior fellows by the dean of the
College of Behavioral and Social
Sciences. Once on board, the
senior fellows help the acade-
my widen its range of expert-

Bladensburg Mayor David Harrington

ise, establish networks and find
strategic partners, assist in pro-
gram development and teach
courses.

"We're fortunate to have a
public leader of David
Harrington's caliber in this posi-
tion," says Academy Director
Nance Lucas. "With his leader-
ship, I'm confident that we'll
see positive changes happening
throughout the state of

Maryland."

Founded in 1936, the
Maryland Municipal League rep-
resents 1 54 municipal govern-
ments and two special taxing
districts throughout the state.
Its goal: to strengthen the role
and capacity of city and town
government "through research,
legislation, technical assistance,
training and the dissemination
of information for its members."

A Retirement of a Different Kind

Academic Mainframe Environment to Shut Down

Efforts are currendy
underway to retire the
UMDD academic
mainframe environ-
ment, and are expected to be
complete by the beginning of
the fall semester. UMDD is the
fourth in a series of IBM-based
computing architectures used
by the academic (instructional
and research) statistical com-
munity, the first of which
became available in 1982 with
the acquisition of two IBM
4341 systems known as UMDA
and UMDB that were managed
by the IBMVM (Virtual
Machine") operating system.
UMDD is now hosted as one of
several "environments" running
on a mainframe that is shared
with other operating systems.
The Office of Information
Technology's (OIT) decision to
retire this mainframe system
was prompted by a combina-
tion of factors. These included
a significant change in IBM's
pricing, dwindling usage by
the university community and
the continuing increase in
desktop workstation process-
ing po^er Current users have
been contacted in order to
facilitate any necessary migra-

tion to other services.

"The factor that has made
this decision unavoidable is
the imminent end of the IBM
software licensing program
that has, until now, made
UMDD economically feasible,"
said OIT's Terry Moore, direc-
tor of distributed computing
services. "But the large cost
increase is only the last in a
long progression of changes in
the context of UMDD usage at
the university. Over the past
five years, the power of desk-
top workstations — Windows,
Unix and Apple machines — has
increased enormously, while
the power of UMDD has
remained essentially
unchanged."

Once IBM's special software
program terminates, the new
costs will be prohibitively
expensive, especially given the
low usage on this system. Most
of the software available on
UMDD has become available in
more modern, powerful forms
on desktop platforms.

In order to determine the
impact of retiring UMDD, OIT
formed a committee in
January to review the current
usage and identify the most

effective and least intrusive
alternatives. After completing a
survey of user needs, a retire-
ment plan was created.The
plan addresses the need for
migration of the limited servic-
es remaining on UMDD,
including language compilers,
statistical software, access to
open reel and cartridge tape
drives, Listserv lists, email . FTP
and non-PostScript printing
services.

The committee is keeping
in touch with all current users
and has developed tools to
monitor the progress of file,
tape, and function migration
to other platforms. Accounts
are being deleted as their
owners indicate they are fin-
ished using them. It is expect-
ed that all accounts will be
disabled or eliminated by
September 1.

Users who need assistance
with migrating applications
and/or data to other platforms
should contact Dick Atlee at
data03@umd5.umd.edu. Chip
Denman is the main contact
for issues related to SAS, SPSS
and other statistical routines,
and he can be reached by
email at dd47@umail.umd.edu.

Libraries

continued from page /

with new learning en-
vironments. We are pleased
and proud to participate
with the University of
Maryland in this pioneer-
ing and exciting effort."

"Digital video-on-
demand systems have been
a reality for a number of
years, but copyright and

producers around the
world, including the BBC,
ABC News, the Discovery
Channel and many others.
The agreement with the
University of Maryland
Libraries marks their first
collaboration with a higher
education institution.

A sampling of the col-
lection includes the follow-
ing: "Shakespeare's Plays"
performed by the Royal

Signing the agreement at a ceremony held In the new
Performing Arts Library at the Clarice Smith Center for
the Performing Arts were Dean of Libraries Charles
Lowry and Betsy Sherer, President and CEO of Rims for
the Humanities & Sciences, Inc.

intellectual property con-
straints have made most
academic institutions
reluctant to purchase
expensive video server
technologies," said Allan C.
Rough, manager of the uni-
versity's Nonprint Media
Services Department.
"Universities were faced
with a classic dilemma:
If we purchase a server,
will we be able to find
video programming we
can legally put on the sys-
tem? This agreement
answers that question with
a resounding 'yes!' "

A Primedia company,
Films for the Humanities &
Sciences is the leader in
distributing high quality
video and multimedia pro-
grams to colleges, schools
and libraries. Their collec-
tion of more than 9,000
tides represents the best
from the most prestigious

Shakespeare Company;
"Glenn Gould on Gould";
"Georg Solti: Making of a
Maestro"; "Edward Elgan
Hope & Glory"; "Art of
Conducting" series;
"Empire of Dreams:
Bolshoi Ballet"; and "Great
Arias" series.

"Thanks to this agree-
ment, we now have access
to some of the most rele-
vant and exciting program-
ming to go with one of the
most technologically
advanced performing arts
libraries in the country,"
said Bruce Wilson, head of
the Performing Arts
Library.

The FFH&S collection
of documentaries secured
by the UM Libraries also
contains a number of tides
related to world history, lit-
erature, education, comput-
er science, art, communica-
tions, science and business.

Barbara Gill

continued from page 1

services departments; and
managing the selection of
merit scholarship
awardees.

She is excited about her
new position for several
reasons. "I get to help
shape the character of the
university through the new
classes of students. The
university has accom-
plished a great deal and 1
get to build on that
momentum and I'm really
proud to work with the
admissions staff. They're
great. They're a really tal-
ented group."

GUI has also served as a
tutor, a freshman orienta-
tion instructor and a sup-

plemental instructor in the
athletic department. She is
active in national and
regional professional
organizations, including
the College Board and the
National Association for
College Admission
Counseling, and in univer-
sity service, particularly in
scholarship policy.

Gil) earned her bache-
lor's in sociology from
Maryland in 1985 and her
master's in counseling and
personnel services in
1991- Her enthusiasm for
her alma mater, and her
employer, is evident.

"I'm pure adrenaline
here. I think the university
has created an amazing
position for me," she said.
"I can't wait."

6

July 17,2001

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NOTABLE

Francena Phillips Jackson has been
appointed interim director of alumni
affairs at the Robert H. Smith School of
Business. Jackson is a 1986 alumna of the
Philip Merrill College of Journalism and
also holds a master's degree in publica-
tions and design from the University of
Baltimore. Her expertise is in program
design, event planning and management.
She will serve until a permanent director
is appointed.A national search will begin
immediately.

Carrie Coney will serve as the inter-
im director of membership and market-
ing at the Smith School. Coney earned an
undergraduate degree from Vanderbilt
University and earned an MBA in market-
ing from the Smith School last year. She
most recently worked in market analysis
for a dot com organization. She will
work with the Alumni Association to
advance and expand its membership and
marketing initiatives. The search to
appoint a new director of membership
and marketing is underway.

Patricia A. Richardson, a former
development officer and fundraiser
for the law schools at Duke University
and Loyola University Chicago, has been
named director of development at the
university's Philip Merrill College of
Journalism. She will hold the position
occupied since 1988 by Frank Quine,
who recently became the college's assis-
tant dean for external relations.

The College of Computer,
Mathematical and Physical Sciences
held its 1 3th Annual Spring Academic
Festival in May to recognize outstanding
students, faculty, staff and alumni. Here
are the faculty and staff awards:

Dean's Award for Excellence In
Teaching

Duane A. Cooper, Mathematics

Department
Outstanding Instructor

Mr. Charles C. H. Lin, Computer

Science Department

Justin O.Wyss-Gallifent, Mathematics

Department
Outstanding Teaching Assistant

Allegra M. Small, Geology Department
Thelnia M. William Outstanding
Advisor of the Year

Gwen G. Kaye, Computer Science

Department
Non-exempt Employee

Thelma G. Bublitz, Astronomy

Department

There are two new employees in the
College of Arts and Humanities
Development Office. Yolanda Alston is
an administrative assistant. Since 1994
she worked at Holy Cross Hospital
where she provided administrative sup-
port in Nursing Administration until
1997, and worked for the
Maternal/Child/Lactation Services
Department during the past four years.

Laura Brown, the new associate
director, earned her bachelor's In journal-
ism at the University of Maryland,
College Park, but came as a theatre major

and Maryland Distinguished Scholar of
the Performing Arts. She brings extensive
marketing and fundraising experience
from her work with the Round House
Theatre, the International Sculpture
Center and the Nature Conservancy. She
also served as the director of alumni giv-
ing at University College for four years.

Edwin Remsberg, an extension assis-
tant with the Distance and
Continued Learning office, won a gold
award from Agricultural Communicators
in Education for Maryland State Fair cov-
erage. Remsburg's work won the black
and white photo series honor. Awards
will be distributed at the annual confer-
ence in Toronto later this month.

The University of Maryland Libraries'
External Relations Office also gained
two new employees: Barbara Hair,
assistant dean and director for external
relations; and Michelle Wellens. associ-
ate director of external relations and
director of Friends of the Libraries

Hair, who starts August 1st. is a librari-
an by training and alumna of the univer-
sity. She has gained 30 years of experi-
ence in local library systems. As a part of
University Libraries, she will help
increase private sector support for
library priorities and special collections
initiatives.

Wellens has also gained education and
experience locally. She has a bachelor's
from Columbia Union College in busi-
ness administration. Since 1 998, she has
been membership services manager for
Downtown Partnership of Baltimore, Inc.

Four new faces joined BUS offices.
Edimon Glnting provides assistance
to the Indonesian Parliament's
Commission LX, its Budget and Finance
Committee and their supporting staff.
Ginting has previously worked as a
research economist with the
Productivity Commission and the
National Institute of Economic and
Industry Research.

Susan Grieve is involved in finance
and administration for the IRIS project in
Indonesia. Her experiences prior to join-
ing IRIS include four years of external
audit, three years as a regional financial
controller based in Singapore and one
and half years of internal audit.

Stephanie Lowy is the program asso-
ciate for IRIS in Indonesia. She is the pro-
grams communications facilitator and is
responsible for all activity reporting. She
has been living in Jakarta for the past
year, shooting photographs primarily for
the Singapore Straits Times and traveling
throughout the region. Prior to that, she
spent a number of years working in New
York in the advertising and magazine
publishing industries in an executive
support capacity.

Kathryn Uphaus is the newest addi-
tion to the IRIS/Bangladesh office. In
addition to editing the JOBS Newsletter
in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Uphaus edits the
US Embassy newsletter there. She has a
bachelor's in journalism from the
University of Wisconsin.

Dillard Economics Professorship

continued from page 1

Dudley and Louisa Dillard

of campus community that
[Louisal and Dudley nurtured
as necessary for excellence,"
said George Callcott, history
professor emeritus, during the
ceremony.

Dudley Dillard's contribu-
tions as an economist reached
far beyond the university. As a
leading scholar on the history
of economic thought, he pub-
lished the influential "The
Economics of John Maynard
Keynes" (Prentice Hall, 1948)
and his "Economic Develop

ment of the North Atlantic
Economy: Historical
Introductions to Modern
Economics" (Tfentice Hall,
1967) was the standard refer-
ence in the field for many
years.

"Dillard was one of the
most diligent and useful econ-
omists of our time, and cer-
tainly, one with the most wide-
ranging knowledge and com-
mitment," wrote John Kenneth
Galbraith in remembrance
notes in 1991.

Truths About Healthy Eating

continued from page 3

sugary food is not a good habit
to form.

Also, eating many smaller
meals keeps the body from going
into starvation mode, "where you
haven't eaten anything all day. It
slows down your metabolism
because your body holds onto
fat when it thinks you're not
going to eat," says Jakubczak.

6. If you are in a healthy
weight range, you are healthy.

The truth: "There are so
many other indicators of health
than weight," says Treger.

Because Jakubczak feels the
same way, she doesn't weigh any
of her clients and doesn't post
weight-height charts in her
office. Both women give exam-
ples of clients they've seen or
stories they've heard about peo-
ple falling into appropriate
ranges on some scales, but hav-
ing high cholesterol, high blood
pressure or poor self image.

It is important to be physical-
ly fit, but Treger stresses that
people need to look at the
other areas of their lives as well,
such as spirituality and mental
wellness.

7. If I exercise and don't lose
weight, there's no point.

The truth: Again, Treger
shakes her head:"You need to
think about all of the other rea-

sons to exercise," such as better
cardiovascular health and stress
reduction.

"If you are exercising solely to
lose weight, chances are you're
not going to succeed," says
Jakubczak.

Treger tells the story of a pre-
senter at a wellness conference
she attended. He said that he
used to be short, fat and bald
Then he started eating better
and exercising. He stepped from
behind the podium and he was
obviously still short, fat and
bald, but, he told the audience,
"I ran six miles this morning
and I didn't see any of you out
there."

Jakubczak and Treger recom-
mend subscribing to a few rep-
utable health and nutrition
newsletters for regular, reliable
information. They name the
UC-Berkeley "Wellness Letter"
(www. wellnessletter.com)and
the Center for Science in the
Public Interest's "Nutrition
Act ion " n e wsle tter
(www.cspinet.org) as examples.

Also, free diet analyses are
available through the center.
Clients will receive a nutritional
breakdown based on a day-long
diary of their eating habits,
though Treger recommends
looking at three days' worth. To
make an appointment, call (301)
314-1493-

Outlook

Freshman Class

continued from page t

kept rising, Hampton knew
that It was more than just a
fluke.

"Our overall application
pool may be down, but our
acceptance is up " he says.
"Why? Because we're good.
We're doing a lot of things
right and the public is
responding. We've come a
long way to meet students'
needs."

Many acceptances came in
just before the May 1 dead-
line.'We're attracting very
bright students who have all
sorts of choices," says Pat
Mielke, director of Resident
life. "They take their time,
play their options."

Even with what Hampton
calls "the summer melt," the
natural drop in numbers that
occurs after prospective stu-
dents make final decisions,
the university expects an

increase of approximately 440
freshmen.

Each of the major divisions
on campus has developed
plans to handle the influx.
"It's a challenge for the whole
campus," says Mielke, "We're
adding sections to courses,
adding staff. There will be
extended dining services
hours; they're going to beef
up carry-out service"

Making room for
education

More students means
creating more times
and places for them
to attend classes. The regis-
trar's office, under its new
leader Dave Robb, met with
several departments to help
project just how many new
sections may be needed.
"Through Bob Hampton's

Stephen Schatz (left), assis-
tant director of administrative
services with Residential
Facilities, poses In a mock
triple dorm room in Queen
Anne Hall. The room is being
shown to groups of freshman
touring campus this summer
during orientation. Above, a
view of the right side of the
room, similar to many which
will be home away from home
for three freshman this fall.

office, we've been able to pro-
vide additional funding to
make sure every freshman
will have the same selection
of courses," says Robb. "Now,
the additional classes may not
always be at the most conven-
ient times. Students may have
to go to bed at a reasonable
hour." This means a few more
8 a.m. classes. However, since
Robb's undergraduate experi-
ence at another university
included a socially limiting
7:30 a.m. Saturday Latin class,
he can guarantee Maryland
students won't be inconve-
nienced to that degree,

"We're [also] trying not to
do evening classes, just late
afternoons, maybe a few more
Tuesday and Thursdays. We're
extra sensitive to what consti-
tutes a reasonable schedule."

The office is also trying to
keep die number of students
per class around 20, especially
in English composition and
math.

"We want entering fresh-
men and those who entered
two years ago to have the
same positive experience ," he
says.

Putting a roof over their
heads

It is no secret that many
dormitories will now
house more triple and
quadruple rooms. Loft beds
and bunk beds will allow
space for additional desks,
chests and shelves. Residents
of larger rooms will be asked
to either pull in a third friend

or give up their digs for a
smaller room.

"We're distributing the
triples across campus," says
Mielke, to balance utility and
workforce loads. North
Campus, though, will be most
affected simply because it is
where freshmen traditionally
live. The campus already lias
300 triples and quads.

"As we get vacancies, the
triples and quads will be the
first we back out of. That's
not to say that some won't
last all semester, though," she
cautions. "And those on the
waiting list will not get hous-
ing."

Mielke adds that because
more people will live on
many floors, resident assis-
tants may feel the greatest
impact. Resident Life will
stress the importance of
roommate agreements to ease
tension. The documents,
drawn up by the residents,
prove to be effective in
quelling many arguments.
Resident Life also is mailing
information to new and
returning students and their
parents to explain its "extend-
ed housing capacity" as well
as pamphlets on coping with
full living quarters.

Mielke's department has
been asked why the university
didn't just put freshmen in
nearby hotels, as was done
before, until rooms became
available.

"It was difficult, even with
shuttles, for students to get to
campus. They felt disconnect-
ed from the university," she
says. "We asked parents would
they rather have their chil-
dren up on Route 1 or in a
triple. They said put them on
campus.''

However, before anyone's
mother unloads the minivan
at tile end of August, Steve
Schatz's staff has work to do.
"We're at our busiest in the
summer anyway. This is an
additional task," says Schatz,
assistant director of adminis-
trative services with
Residential Facilities. "The
nice thing about this depart-
ment is that we all pull
together."

They will need to, in a big
way. More than 20 tractor
trailer loads of furniture
should arrive within the first
week of August. Off-campus
warehouses will hold the cus-
tom-made pieces until moving
companies contracted by
Residential Facilities move the
beds, desks, dressers and
chairs into the halls. The
Office of Loformarion
Technology will have wired
every room so that each stu-
dent has a phone and data
jack.

This year, orientation^ad*fc_
sors added a special stop to
their campus tour. A room in
Queen Anne Hail features a
fully set up and decorated
triple to give visitors an idea

of how this room arrange-
ment might work.

All of the high-rise lounges
will be air conditioned to give
snidents other places to go
for some space or peace. Also,
campus community centers
will be open longer.

Parents get a break, too.
Students housed in triples or
quads will get a 1 5 percent
rebate on room costs.

Feeding Uie masses

Dining Services is creat-
ing new places to
dine, offering more
hours of service and hiring
new staff.

"We're concerned with
lines at peak times," says Joe
Pesce, associate director of
Dining Services. "At the begin-
ning of the semester, students
tend to come at traditional
meal times. With a lot of new
students, it takes longer to
make a decision.

"We just have to work
extra hard in the first few
weeks to provide service"

To ease the crunch, the
North Woods Diner will now
be open on Sunday, A new
cafe, North Woods Cafe, will
give residents greater carry-
out options weekdays from 5
p.m. to 8 p.m. and late-night
diners can start filling their
plates at 8 p.m., an hour earli-
er than before.

"We're opening the new
Jalepefio Grill in the Somh
Campus Dining Hall from 1 1
a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday
through Friday and a new
convenience store called The
Commons Shop at South
Campus that will be open 24
hours a day* Pesce said, A
new vegeterian eatery,
Sprouts, will also be in the
North Woods Diner.

"We're also providing study
space in the diner Sunday
through Thursday from 9 p.m.
until 1 a.m,,"he sakt

Not going it alone

Other universities,
some local, face the
same wonderful
dilemma. George Washington
University will need to make
some adjustments. The
University of California,
Berkeley has been tripling and
doubling students for a while
now. Tulane University will
add 1,233 new snidents and
the University of
Massachusetts at Amherst will
use temporary housing for the
second year in a row.

For his colleagues on the
College Park campus,
Hampton offers these words:
"We're here to meet chal-
lenges and solve problems.
Whatjnatters most is creating
an environment that enables
students to be successful."

July 17, 2001

or Your Int^r^ct

The hot weather may be daunting, but the spirit of summer Is undiminished on campus.

The Libraries invite students, faculty
and staff to attend the summer 2001
program of GIS (Geographic
Information Systems) workshops:

"Introduction to GIS (Using
ArcView) "is a two-hour hands-on
workshop that introduces the basic
operations of the GIS ArcView soft-
ware.

"Spacial Analysis Using ArcView" is a
two-hour and 30-minute workshop that
explores the more complex query and
analytical functions of ArcView.
Experience or familiarity with ArcView
is recommended.

The free workshops will take place
Tuesday, July 31 beginning at 10 a.m. in
2109 McKeldin. Seating is limited to 16
people, so registration is required. For
information and registration, contact
User Education Services at (301) 405-
9070 or ue6@umail.umd.edu, or visit
www.lib.umd,edu/UMCP/UES/gi5,htmJ .

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The UM Libraries are offering a
training seminar for faculty, graduate
students and staff on using the latest
version of EndNote. EndNote is a per-
sonal bibliographic software program
designed to assist in collecting refer-
ences, typing entries or downloading

Textbook Time

Textbooks for the fall
semester may be purchased
at the University Book Center
beginning on Aug. 13. Call
(301) 314-B00K or visit
www.ubc.umd.edu for hours,
promotions and special
events. For more informa-
tion, contact Francis
Rodriguez at (301) 405-0825
or rodrigue@info.umd.edu.

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citations directly from online databas-
es, the World Wide Web or library cata-
logs, and generating properly formatted
bibliographies in any style. The seminar
is designed to help participants use the
software to bring order to the chaos of
managing large bibliographies associat-
ed with writing projects such as
books, dissertations, proposals and
journals articles.

The seminar will take place on
Friday, July 27 from 1 :30-3:30 p.m. in
2109 McKeldin Library. There is no
charge, but advance registration is
required at www.lib.umd.edu/LfMCP/
UES/seminar-f.html.

For more information, contact User
Education Services at (301) 314-5889
or ue6@umail.umd.edu, or visit
www.lib.umd.edu/UMCP/UES/
home.html.

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The Department of Environmental
safety is offering monthly laboratory
safety training for all new laboratory
personnel. The orientation is required
for all new employees who work in
laboratory settings and with hazardous
materials.

Training is offered 9:30-11 a,m, on
Wednesday, July 18 in room 4103
Chesapeake Building. Contact Jeanette
Cartron at (301) 405-2131 or
jcartron@accmail.umd.edu to register.

Fulbright Application

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Faculty interested in applying for
the Fulbright Scholar Program should
be aware that the competition dead-
line is Aug. 1 . Applications and awards
catalogs can be downloaded from the
Council for International Exchange of
Scholars (CIES) Web site at
www.cies.org, or requested by tele-
phone at (202) 686-7877 or by e-mail
to apprequest@cies.org.

Each year, more than 800 U.S. faculty
and professionals are named Fulbright
Scholars, traveling to more than 140
countries across the globe to lecture or
conduct research in a wide variety of
academic and professional fields.

Awards range from two months to an
academic year.

For more information, contact
Vanessa Schulz at (301) 405-0456 or
vs68@umail.umd.edu, or visit
www.cies.org.

Learn the basic skills necessary to
play tennis this summer. Skills taught
include forehand groundstroke, serve
and volley, and backhand groundstroke.
Build confidence and knowledge to
begin playing tennis.

Classes will be held beginning July
23 on a Monday/Wednesday or a
Tuesday/Thursday schedule from 5*
6:30 p.m. at the Cole Tennis Courts.
Those interested may register at the
Member Services desk located in the
Campus Recreation Center.

For more information, contact Laura
Sutter at (301) 405-PLAY (7529) or
ls220@umail.umd.edu, or visit
www. c rs . umd. edu .

The Trail of Tears

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History buffs should take note of a
series of upcoming lectures and book
signings at the National Archives in
College Park (aka Archives 2). It begins
next week with Robert V Remini's
provocative analysis of the single most
controversial aspect in Andrew
Jackson's career, and one of the most
highly debated events in U.S. history, as
explored in his book "Andrew Jackson
and His Indian Wars." Remini examines
Jackson's lifelong antagonistic relation-
ship with the American Indian tribes
east of the Mississippi, which culminat-
ed in their wholesale removal west on
the Trail of Tears. The lecture and sign-
ing will take place Monday, July 23 at
noon in Lecture Room D.

On Monday, August 20, Ron
Menchine will discuss his book
"Propaganda Postcards of Wo rid War
II." The Second World War produced
numerous posters and postcards, and
this guide offers a first-time directory
of the postcards designed to shift the
tide of public support during the sec-

ond World War. Menchme's book
shows the not-so-subtle postcard mes-
sages issued by propaganda ministries
of 20 nations — including those of the
United States, Britain, France, Germany
and Italy. The lecture and signing will
take place at noon in Lecture Room B.
The series, which will continue into
the fall, is free and open to the public.
Reservations are recommended; call
(202) 208-7345 for reservations and
more information. Lectures include a
question and answer session with the
audience, and conclude after one hour.
A book signing follows. Books are tor
sale at the lecture or patrons may bring
their own copy. Parking is available but
limited; arrive early to ensure a space.

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The Taipei Women's Artist
Association group exhibit, which
opened on June 25, will hang through
this Friday, July 20 in the Stamp
Student Union Parent's Association
Gallery. The varied, colorful paintings
represent the work of 25 artists.

Gallery hours are Monday -Saturday
from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. All events are free
and open to the public. For more infor-
mation, caU (301) 314-8493.

Time to Go Electronic

The Division of Administrative
Affairs Is offering a course designed to
prepare campus staff for the electronic
workplace. The class is led by industry
professionals and will focus on devel-
oping the basic Windows and Netscape
browsing skills that are essential for
the electronic workplace. The Payroll
& Human Resources system is current-
ly being implemented across campus,
and most employees will soon com-
plete their time record using the Web.
This course is designed to provide the
basic computer skills necessary to
enable employees to complete the
Web-based time record.

The next class is being offered on
Thursday.July 19 from 8:15 a.m.-4:45
p.m. in the Patapsco Training lab (room
2107). The cost is $50, payable to the
Office of Information Technology via
an ISR, which can be brought to the
class.

For more information, contact
Laura Davison at (301) 405-4603 or
ldavtson@accmall.umd.edu, or visit
www.bpr.umd.edu.

Class catalogues for the fall 2001
terms of Senior University are avail-
able. The first term begin Sept. 10 and
the second term begins Oct. 29.

Adults over 50 years old may join
study groups to explore literature, his-
tory, science, foreign language, comput-
ers, social sciences and many other
areas. Run as a parternship between
the university's Center on Aging, the
Division of Lifelong Learning and
Engagement and the Alumni Associa-
tion, Senior University is open to every-
one. Students do not need to hkve col-
lege backgrounds and they can' sign up
at one of three membership levels.

There are also events, volunteer
opportunities and university privileges
to enjoy. For more information, call
(301) 403-4467 or visit www.infbrm.
umd.edu/HLHP/AGrNG/SRU.