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THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND FACULTY AND STAFF WEEKLY NEWSPAPER IVImiif 17 * Number 10 • April 16, 2 3

Maryland Day
Offers Easy-
to-Find Fun

In order to offer Maryland
Day visitors opportunities
to enjoy even more of what
the university has to offer dur-
ing the annual one-day open
house, organizers divided the
campus into six themed learn-
ing zones, much like an educa-
tional amusement park.

On April 27 from 10 a.m. to 4
p.m., guests may visit Terp Town
Center, Ag Day Avenue, Arts
Alley, Biz & Society Hill, Sports
and Rec Row or Science and
Tech Way. Each area is color-

coded on maps so as to be easi-
ly identifiable, making naviga-
tion smoother.

"Out of approximately 145
evaluations we received last
year, the two most common
comments we received were,
'We love Maryland Day, but if
we would ask for anything, it
would be a way to help us scan
the 300-plus event selection for
activities that would make my
group happy' and a way to
more easily navigate the cam-
pus,' " said Melissa Sweeney,
assistant director of university
marketing.

There will also be two shuttie
routes, instead of the one large
loop tike last year, splitting the
campus into halves so people
can get from Biz & Society Hill,
say, to Cole Field House for the
Great Cole Shootout in a short-
er time. Information booths will
be placed in strategic spots so
people can ask questions.

Other highlights for Maryland
Day 2002 include:

The Mid-Atlantic Tree Climbing
Championships will be held in
the Biz & Society Hill zone, in
the area bordered by Morrill,
Ty dings, Taliaferro and Lefrak
Halls. Thirty professionals will
compete for a chance at nation-
al competition, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

Bob the Vid Tach and Brianna
from Maryland Public Television
return after a one-year hiatus.
They can be found in the Terp
Town Center at 1 p.m. The
town center will also feature a
wide variety of activities and
booths. Visitors can pick up

See MARYLAND DAY, page 6

Senior Legislative Interns Recognized

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PHOTO COURTESY OF THE MARYLAND GENERAL ASSEMBLV

Senior Leadership
Maryland was
recognized on
the floor of the
Maryland House of
Delegates and a resolution
was passed in the interns'
honor for their volunteer
efforts on behalf of the
state during the 2002

Legislative Session. The
university-based program
bridges the needs of gov-
ernment with the expert-
ise of Maryland residents
ages 50 and above seek-
ing volunteer service
careers.

Pictured, 1-r, are Del.
Mary Conroy, whose

office hosted the first
intern; Senior Intern
Coordinator Gloria
Kovnot; Speaker of the
House Del. Casper Taylor;
Director of the Center
on Aging Laura Wilson;
and Del. Rushern Baker,
chair of Prince George's
County delegation.

Graduate Students Showcase Their Work

If the graduate students who participated in
the recent 1 2th annual Graduate Research
Interaction Day are any indication, the univer-
sity is grooming a dizzying array of researchers
poised to be leaders on several fronts.

One of the day's goals was to celebrate the
diversity of graduate research programs. More
than 170 master's and doctoral students spent
1 5 minutes each in front of their peers and
panels of judges explaining what they've been
studying. Projects included relatively accessi-
ble subjects such as Susanna Gallor's explo-
ration of the "Role of Social Support in the

Lives of Lesbian and Gay People of Color" to
Xianying Wei's more complicated "Cloning
Nonribosomal Peptide Synthetases in the Bio-
control Fungus GhoeladiumVirens" presenta-
tion. In his midday remarks during a keynote
speech, physicist Bill Phillips addressed the
range and volume of projects.

"We're kids who have never grown out of
that childhood curiosity, that thirst for learn-
ing," he said, while sprinkling liquid nitrogen
around the stage to demonstrate how he tries

See GRID, page 4

Interdisciplinary Researcher Earns Prestigious

warns

In his enthusiasm, Victor
Munoz makes his research
sound so accessible to a lay
person, as if the folding of
proteins and that process'
relation to diseases such as
Alzheimer's and diabetes II
can be grasped by any non-
biophysiclst chemist.

But Munoz's work isn't
that simple and its impor-
tance has earned him three
prestigious foundation
grants that many scientists

snag only one of in their
careers. His 2002 Searle
Scholar award comes on the
heels of winning a Packard
Fellowship in 2001 and a
Camille and Henry Dreyfus
Scholar/Fellowship for
2000. Only 10 Dreyfus, 1 5
Searlcs and 24 Packards are
awarded annually.

"I feel lucky," says Munoz.
"They are giving me the
opportunity ... to buy the
specific equipment I need

and hire people to help
with research."

"The odds of anyone
becoming both a Packard
Fellow and a Searle Scholar
are very slim," says Norma
Allewell, dean of College of
Life Sciences. "We are
extremely proud of Victor's
accomplishments and look
forward to watching his
research program develop

See MUNOZ, page 4

Coming to
Togetherfor
Transportation
Solutions

Parking fees are going up.
Parking spaces are get-
ting harder to Find. As
part of its master plan, the
University of Maryland wants to
drastically reduce the number
of cars on campus in the com-
ing years. Everyone has felt the
crunch. But there are alterna-
tives, and a new ad hoc com-
mittee in the Department of
Student Affairs wants to tell you
about them.

Made up of eight members
from Shuttle-UM and the Depart-
ments of Campus Parking, Resi-
dent Life and Commuter Affairs,
the Commuting Alternatives
Brochure Committee has begun
gaUiering information on the
currently available alternatives
for publication in a single com-
prehensive brochure.

Committee chairwoman
Maria Longsbury, project spe-
cialist in student affairs, says
that the committee's goal is to
not only list as many commut-
ing alternatives as possible, but
to motivate people to try them,
"to see if they'll do something
other than single-occupancy
vehicle commuting."

Longsbury emphasizes that
the committee is not making
any programmatic or service
changes and that the informa-
tion is for the entire communi-
ty: faculty, staff and students,
both graduate and undergradu-
ate. The information the com-
mittee is gathering has been
available through student
affairs, but lacks cohesive ness
in its presentation.

"Shuttle-UM puts out their
information, and then there's
information about Metro and
the MARC trains from com-
muter affairs, and some people
know about the van pool initi-
ated by campus parking," she
says. "We try to be collabora-
tive, but we still end up being
isolated."

The idea of consolidating this
information is something she
has discussed informally with
committee members in the
past. Creating the committee is
the first formal effort toward
making information consolida-
tion a reality.

Longsbury would also like to
include testimonials in the
brochure from people already
using some of these alterna-
tivcs."Right now,people usually
only utilize alternatives when
their car breaks down, or it's icy

See TRANSPORTATION, page 5

APRIL I 6 , 2002

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YOUR GUIDE TO UNIVERSITY EVENTS: APRIL 16-23

april 16

12:30-1:45 p.m., Works-in-
Progress Series 0135 Talia-
ferro. "'Diverse Bookes of
Diverse Sortes'; A Gentry Fami-
ly and Its Reading in Early Sev-
enteenth-Century England."
The Center for Renaissance &
Baroque Studies hosts a round-
table discussion group with
Eric Lindquist. To facilitate dis-
cussion, participating faculty
circulate working drafts one
week before their colloquium.
For more information, contact
Karen Nelson at 5-6830 or
lcnl5@umail.umd.edu, or visit
www. info rm . umd . edu/crbs .

4-6 p.m., Ada Maria Isa si-
Diaz Multipurpose Room,
Nyumburu Cultural Center. As
part of the Diversity Initiative's
Diversity Showcase, liberation
theologist Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz
of Drew Theological Seminary
will give a talk focused on the
role of faith and faith commu-
nities in addressing issues of
social justice and equity with a
particular focus on Latina femi-
nist (mujerista) theology. For
more information, contact
Christine Clark at 5-2841 or
ceclark@deans . umd. edu .

4-9 p.m., Political Violence
Seminar Dean's Conference
Room, Francis Scott fey HaU,
The Center for Historical Stud-
ies presents Laszlo Konder,
Central European University,
speaking on "Monstrous Regi-
ments? Robertson and Burke
on Women and the Public
Scene." For more information,
call 5S759.

5:30 p.m.. Take Five; KiLA

Laboratory Theatre, Clarice
Smith Performing Arts Center.
An Irish band with a contem-
porary take on Celdc music.
For more information, see arti-
cle on page $,

8 p.m., Symphonic Wind
Ensemble Concert Hall,
Clarice Smith Performing Arts
Center. The university's pre-
miere woodwind, brass and
percussion ensemble performs.
For more information, see arti-
cle on page 3.

EDNESDBV

april 17

9:30-11:00 a.m., Laboratory
Safety Training 3104 Chesa-
peake Building. The Depart-

Can We Re-engage the Disengaged?

Curtis Gans, Committee for the Study of the American Elec-
torate (CSAE), will give a lecture on Tuesday, April 16 from 7
to 9 p.m. in 0200 Skinner. As part of his work with the CSAE,
Gans will discuss his research related to the 2000 election cycle and
share his growing concern over the disengagement of the U.S. elec-
torate. For the last 25 years, Gans has examined data related to
voter turnout and participation, which has appeared in national
newspapers, magazines and wire services (e.g., McNeil-Lehcer
Report, The New Republic, The Washington Monthly).

The lecture is sponsored by the Center for Political Communica-
tion and Civic Leadership (housed in the Department of Communi-
cation). For more information, contact Shawn J. Parry-Giles at 5-
6527 or cpccl@accmail.umd.edu, or visit www.comm.umd.edu.

ment of Environmental Safety
(DES) hosts a laboratory safety
orientation training session
held each month. The training
is offered to assure regulatory
compliance. Contact Jeanette
Cartron at 5-2131 or jcartron®
accmail.umd.edu as soon as
possible to reserve a seat.

12-1 p.m.. Manage Your
Time 0121 Campus Recreation
Center. So much to do and so
little time! Not to fear, there are
ways to manage the little time
you do have. Come to this ses-
sion and discover how you can
make better use of your time.
For more information, contact
Jennifer Treger at 4-1493 or
treger@health.umd.edu.

HURSDAV

april 18

10 a.m.- 12 p.m.. Textual to
Spatial Analysis Using
ArcView 2109 McKeldin
Library. A hands-on workshop
on the conversion of text infor-
mation to geographic informa-
tion. Geocoding and conver-
sion of latitude and longitude
will be covered. Prerequisite:
familiarity with ArcView. The
workshop is free; advance reg-
istration is required at www.
lib.umd.edu/UES/gis.html. For
more information, contact User
Education Services at 5-9070
or ue6@umail.umd.edu, or visit
the above-mentioned Web site.

12-1:30 p.m.. Center for
Teaching Excellence: Mak-
ing the Grade 0100 Marie
Mount. Managing the grading
process is a challenge to all
teachers. Despite its complexi-
ty, grading can be used as a
powerful tool in the class-
room. RSVP is requested. For
more information, contact
Mary Wesley at 5-9356 or
mwesley@deans.umd,edu, or

visit www.umd.edu/cte.

4 p.m.. Distinguished Lec-
turer Series: Kwame Antho-
ny Appiah 2203 Art Sociology
Building. Kwame Anthony
Appiah, professor of Afro- Amer-
ican studies and philosophy at
Harvard University, is the guest
lecturer at this year's final Uni-
versity of Maryland Graduate
School Distinguished Lecturer
Series. Appiah s lecture is en ti-
ded "Making a life fThe' Ethics
and Politics of Individuality."
Appiah was raised in Ghana
and educated at Cambridge.
His teaching interests include
African and African-American
intellectual history and literary
studies, ethics, and philosophy
of mind and language. He has
published three novels and a
variety of widely discussed
papers and books.

4 p.m., Shorb Lecture:
Mar go Denke 0408 Animal
Sciences. With Margo Denke,
M.D., of the Center for Human
Nutrition, University of Texas
Southwestern Medical Center
at Dallas. Denke's lecture is
tided "The Wisdom and Whims
of Nutrients: Is it Possible to
Get Too Much of a Good
Thing?*' There will be a recep-
tion at 3:15 p.m. in the Animal
Sciences Concourse, Sponsored
by the Graduate Program in
Nutrition. For more informa-
tion, contact Rose Santellano-
Milem, rs282@umail.umd.edu.

april 19

12-12:50 p.m.. Entomology
Colloquium 1140 Plant Sci-
ences Building. With George
Kennedy, North Carolina State
University, Topic:"Pest Life Sys-
tems in Temporarily Unstable
Cropping Systems." For more
information, call 5-391 1 or visit

www.entm.umd.edu.

3-6 p.m.. Staging Slavery:
The Collision of Fact and
Fiction Laboratory Theatre,
Clarice Smith Performing Arts
Center. For information, call
(301) 405-ARTS or visit www.
claricesmi thcenter. umd .edu .

8 p.m.. Scholarship Benefit
Series: Gusrneri String

Quartet Concert HaU, Clarice
Smith Performing Arts Center.
An evening of world-class
chamber music with the
Guarneri String Quartet, resi-
dent ensemble at the universi-
ty since 1982. Proceeds from
the performance provide
tuition support for music stu-
dents. The single ticket price is
$20. For more information, call
(301) 405-ARTS or visit www.
claricesmithcenter.umd ,edu.

SATURDAY

april 20

1-6 p.m.. Preliminaries,
UMSO 2002-03 Concerto
Competition Gildenhorn
Recital Hall, Clarice Smith Per-
forming Arts Center. Students
of the School of Music com-
pete to perform next season as
soloists with the University of
Maryland Symphony Orches-
tra. For more information, call
(301) 405-ARTS or visit www.
claricesmithcenter.umd.edu.

8 p.m., Istanbul Oriental
Ensemble Concert Hall,'
Clarice Snuf^'TCrrorming'Arts
Center. See page 3.

april 21

3 p.m.. University Chorale
and University Chamber
Singers Concert Hall, Clarice
Smith Performing Arts Center.
With guest Chris Gekker on
trumpet and Edward Maclary
and Colin Durrant, conductors.
For more information, call
(301) 405-ARTS or visit www.
cl a ricesmithcenter. umd .edu .

april 23

8:45 a.m. -4 p.m., OIT Short-
course: Introduction to MS

Excel 4404 Computer & Space
Science. The class fee is $90.
For more information, contact
the OIT Training Services Coor-
dinator at 5-0443 or oit-training
@ umail.umd.edu, or visit
www, oit . umd . cdu/sc . *

4 p.m., Shih-I Pai Lecture:
Grigory Barenblatt 1410
Physics Bldg. The Institute for
Physical Science and Technolo-
gy presents its annual Shih-I
Pai lecture titled "Turbulence:
The Last Problem of Classical
Physics — New Approach and
Perspectives." Grigory Baren-
blatt of UC at Berkeley and
Lawrence Berkeley National

Laboratory is the scheduled
speaker. A reception will be
held before the lecture from
3:15 to 3:55 p.m. in the Toll
Lounge, 1204 Physics. Call 5-
4877 for more information.

4:15-6 p.m.. Parents and
Their Involvement in Edu-
cation 1121 Benjamin. As
part of the Minority Achieve-
ment and Urban Education
(MIMAUE) Colloquium Series
with Charles Flatter, Al Porter
and Steve Pyles. For a summary
of each speaker's presentation,
visit www.education.umd.edu/
MIMAUE. For more informa-
tion, contact Martin L. Johnson
at mjl3@umail.umd.edu.

5:30 p.m., Ralph Lee Smith,
Dulcimer Laboratory Theatre,
Clarice Smith Performing Arts
Center. This Take Five on Tues-
days series presents this dul-
cimer expert. For more infor-
mation, call (301) 405-ARTS or
visit www. claricesmi thcenter,
umd.edu.

8 p.m.. University of Mary-
land Brass Ensemble Con-
cert Hail, Clarice Smith Perfor-
ming Arts Center. Conducted
by Milton Stevens, university
faculty artist and principal
trombone of the National Sym-
phony Orchestra. For more in-
formation, call (301) 405-ARTS
or visit www.claricesmithcenter.
umd.edu.

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NEWS FROM THE CLARICE SMITH

PERFORMING ARTS CENTER

Dance Students, Guest Choreographer Debut Works

Spring offers a time for
the Department of
Dance to showcase its
talented student cho-
reographers. Nine will debut
new works at the Maryland
Dance Ensem-
ble's spring
concert being
held Thursday,
Friday and
Monday, April
25, 26 and 29
at 8 p.m., and
Sunday, April
28 at 7:30
p.m. in the
Dance The-
atre. In addi-
tion to the
student
works, New
York choreog-
rapher and
guest artist
DougVarone
will present
"Bench Music
Quartet" and
"Aperture."

An audition process to
select the works for the spring
concert began several months
ago. Both undergraduate and
graduate students presented
works to a panel of three fac-
ulty members for inclusion in
the program.

Opening the show will be
one of two works by Varone.
Created in 1986, "Bench
Music" is a lyric piece selected
because it adds choreography
for students that they are not
usually exposed to, "It is a very
melodic and classical work,"
says Alvin Mayes, director of
the program."It is also quite

different from the other
Varone piece, 'Aperture,' which
has a dramatic quality to it."

The additional works in the
program feature a combina-
don of graduate and under-

"Meeting Falling In," was selec-
ted for the National ACDFA
festival at the Kennedy Center
this May.

"The most important part
of this concert is that the stu-

PHOTOS COURTESY OF THE CLARICE SMITH PERFORMING ARTS CENTER

The Maryland Dance Ensemble will feature many student choreographers in its Spring
performance.

graduate dances by Eucrita
Darcia Willis, Connie Fink, Stef-
.faqy Hazz, Jennifer Katz, ' - ,
Zoltan Nagy and Linda Dultz.
A work by MFA candidate
Jennifer Martinez will con-
clude the showcase. Her
piece, "Tasks Inflnitate," fea-
tures a quartet of dancers in a
clever and humorous perform-
ance of traditional and mod-
ern dance with a melodic feel.
Martinez is no stranger to cho-
reography. Her works have
been presented at the Ameri-
can College Dance Festivals
for the past two years and her
most recent submission,

dents get to see and experi-
ence all levels of producing a
show," says Mayes. "Students
will work with professionals,
graduate students and up-and-
coming choreographers to
experience different levels of
expertise and creativity. Also,
our students will have an
opportunity to participate in
every aspect of the perform-
ance, from production and
costumes to make-up and
lighting."

Tickets for the Maryland
Dance Ensemble are available
by calling the Ticket Office at
(301) 405-ARTS.

Premier Program by Symphonic Wind Ensemble

The University of Maryland
Symphonic Wind Ensem-
ble, conducted by John E.
Wakefield, is the premier per-
formance unit of the School of
Music's Maryland Bands pro-
gram. A 40-piece band of
woodwinds, brass and percus-
sion, the ensemble will be per-
forming on Tuesday, April 16
at 8 p.m. in the Concert Hall.

For ticket information or to
request a season brochure,
contact the Ticket Office at
301.405.ARTS or visit www.
claricesmi thcente r. umd . edu .

Clarice Smith
Performing Arts

Onterat Maryland

The ensemble will perform
a program featuring Bergsma's
"March with Trumpets," Han-
son's"Suite from Merry Mount,"
Gershwin's "Prelude II" from
"Three Preludes," Granthum's
"Fantasy Variations on Gersh-
win's Prelude FT and Sousa's
"New York Hippodrome March."

Membership in the Sym-
phonic Wind Ensemble is by
audition only and earns its
musicians course credit. The
select group strives for the
highest standards in perform-
ance of the finest and most
challenging works written for
small wind and percussion
ensembles, as well as composi-
tions from the traditional band
repertoire. Participants in the
ensemble are given experi-
ence in performing 20th-cen-
tury works as well as master
wind works from the 18th and

19th centuries. According to
Wakefield, "The music of the
Symphonic Wind Ensemble is
of a quality that will appeal to
those who already enjoy or are
learning to enjoy fine music."

Recently the ensemble
appeared at the Maryland
Music Educators Association
convention. In April 1 993, their
compact disc recording from
Toshiba/EMI was released in
Japan. The ensemble has even
performed under the baton of
such famous conductors as
William D. Revelli, Frederick
Fennell and Vincent Persichetti.

In addition to tonight's free
performance, tickets are avail-
able to the Annual "Pops" Con-
cert on Saturday, May 1 1 fea-
turing the Ensemble and the
University Concert Band. For
more information, contact the
Ticket Office.

TAKE FIVE WITH CELTIC MUSIC

Take

Irish band KiLA will bring its contemporary take on
traditional Celtic music to the Clarice
Smith Performing Arts Center as part
of the "Take Five on Tuesdays" series
Tuesday, April 16 at 5:30 p.m. in the
Laboratory Tlieatre. The unique back-
grounds of the members of this seven-
piece band meld to create a powerful sound that mixes
not only traditional Irish music and rock, but also
influetices from jazz
and world
music.

Formed
in 1987, the

group uses traditional instruments yet manages to cre-
ate a modern, innovative sottnd that is largely instru-
mental, hut incorporates occasional Gaelic lyrics. With
their latest recording, "Monkey," the group continues to
carve out its own niche in the world of Irish music
with a vitality and style all its own.

TAKE FIVE events are every other Tuesday.
Performances are informal and free.

What? Ha vent you ever seen a "darbouka" before?
See the world's greatest darbouka (that's Turkish
for finger drum) player: Burhan Oca! and his gypsy
band the Istanbul Oriental Ensemble perform a dizzying array
of traditional Turkish tunes fit for a sultan at the Clarice
Smith Center Concert Hall on Saturday, April 20 at 8 p.m.

APRIL l6, 2002

National Rankings Not Just
for Athletics, Academics

When it comes to
rankings, the uni-
versity shows that
it has what it takes to make a
national mark. Academics, ath-
letics and, most recendy, com-
munications are celebrating
top honors. Now it's Dining
Services' turn.

Foodservice Director, a
national trade magazine,
ranked the campus dining
service 12th in a look at
increased sales by self-operat-
ed college and university
foodservice operations during
its 2000-01 Performance
Report. The magazine cites
greater efforts by all schools
in this listing to attract cus-
tomers as a reason for a
national jump in sales.

"We've increased sales by
changing our marketing strate-
gy, adding the convenience
shops and increased catering,"
said Jennifer Pfeiffcr, market-
ing and public reladons man-
ager. Since Pat Higgins became
director in 1995, sales have
jumped 113 percent, said
Pfeiffer.

Higgins attributes the uni-
versity's high sales, which
totaled $27,627,174 in 2001,
"to innovative strategy, quality
and performance. We are
opening new locations, for
example, the Commons Shop
in South Campus Dining Hall,

to be more accessible to all of
our guests, faculty, staff and
students"

The ranking "is an indicator
of gross sales, and shows how
we rate with our peers: Penn
State, Michigan State, Harvard,
Purdue, U Mass, Rutgers, Syra-
cuse, Brigham Young, Univer-
sity of Michigan, University of
Notre Dame," Higgins said.
"The top schools stay about
the same, and move up and
down on the scale a littie
each year. We are prominent
among our peers and have
consistentiy ranked among
the top 1 5 in terms of gross
sales." Last year, the university
ranked eighth.

The foodservice market is
experiencing an upswing in
several areas, according to the
trade publication. Overall food
purchases went from $421
million to $441.7 million. The
magazine also looks at airline
and airport foodservice. The
continuing success of grab-
and-go offerings in airports
didn't affect the numbers of
meals served on board air-
planes.

Also, the campus' revamped
Adele's caught the attention
of Nation's Restaurant News
recently. The article men-
tioned the restaurant's "cut-
ting edge menu" and "bright
and airy" dining room.

What is it — Where is it?

PHOTO SV CVNTHIA UITCHEL

Identify the image in this photo and get a chance
to win a prize! Send your guess to: Mystery
Photo, Outlook, 2101 Turner Hall or to
oudook@accmail, umd.edu. All correct entries
will be placed in a drawing. The deadline for entries is
5 p.m., April 18 and the winner will be announced in
next week's issue of Oudook.

Munoz: Many Discplines, Many Rewards

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HOTO BV Ci

IA MITCHEL

Victor Munoz (pictured above in his lab) was one of two 2001 Packard Faculty Fellowship winners, along
with Sarah Tishkoff, also from the College of Life Sciences. Maryland is one of only two institutions to
have morethanone winner for that year.

and mature at the University
of Maryland."

Munoz says he picked
Maryland as the base for his
research two years ago, in
part, because of its reputation
for interdisciplinary study. He
appreciates the ability to col-
laborate with researchers
from different departments.
"It helps to promote creativi-
ty in a way that triggers your
thinking," says Munoz. "You
think of new ways of doing
things."

What he does, in simple
terms, is explore why pro-
teins sometimes fold wrong,
or aggregate, which means
that they don't function prop-
erly. Aggregates can't be
cleaned out of the system
during the body's routine
cleansing, and they grow,
depleting cells of functional
proteins and often becoming
toxic. This abnormality is also
linked to Alzheimer's and
even "mad cow" diseases. In
normal conditions, protein
sequences fold into certain
structures, which in turn
determine specific functions.
Munoz's team is trying to
leaf die rules that dictate
this process of folding. With
such knowledge, they expect
to find ways of predicting
protein structure from

sequence and to discover
how proteins fold wrong
resulting in aggregation.

"It could take three to four
years to figure this out... there
are three groups interested in
this problem. People looking
at it at the cellular level, the
physical chemists and my
team, the biochemists, physi-
cists," says Munoz,. who
describes himself as a bio-
physicist.

When asked why he thinks
he was so generously award-
ed, Munoz again speaks to the
interdisciplinary nature of
what his team does,"Normal-
ly.if you get a Packard, you
don't get a Searie" because
the Packard award focuses
more on the harder sciences.
The Searie program, on the
other hand, was most interest-
ed in his basic protein work.
Munoz began melding all of
this together as a doctoral stu-
dent at the European Molecu-
lar Biology Laboratory in Hei-
delberg, Germany. He'd
already earned a bachelor's in
biology from the Universidad
de Aicala de Henares in Spain
and a master's in biochem-
istry from the Universidad
Autonoma de Madrid. It is not
the road on which he started,
though.

"When I was at high

school, I always liked the arts
better, literature. I paint. And I
always liked biology. When I
had to decide, 1 decided to go
for the sciences," says Munoz.
"I had a good chemistry pro-
fessor." The stimulating envi-
ronment in Germany piqued
his interest in protein folding
and he began to see how dif-
ferent disciplines could feed
into one another.

"Most biophysiclsts come
from a physics background.
I learned that if 1 want to
approach biochemistry in a
deeper way, I have to go into
physics. The basic ideas are
similar. I find it very enter-
taining."

Munoz, whose wife Eva de
Alba is a biochemist at NLH,
doesn't find time to work
with his oil paints as often as
he'd like, but he enjoys his
work. He teaches a graduate
course in biophysics and will
teach an undergraduate
course in biochemistry next
semester. Knowing how
much a professor can make a
difference in a student's
direction, Munoz takes his
position on campus seriously.

"Mentors are very impor-
tant, and it can work both
ways.A terrible instructor can
have an influence just like a
good one."

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to spark an interest in physics
in schoolchildren. He also froze
a flower "that I stole from the
garden out there" with the
supercooled liquid. Just as he
was paired with campus music
professor and opera singer Car-
men Balthrop for the midday
speech, Phillips said commonal-
ities may not be readily appar-

ent, but participants share a
love of things "deliciously inter-
esting."

Balthrop, who said hearing
opera singer Leontyne Price as
an 8-year-old inspired her career
choice, discussed the interdisci-
plinary nature of music. She
invited the" audience to partici-
pate in an exercise that demon-

strated how the body's compo-
sition affected sound.

Just as for the morning ses-
sions, judges evaluated after-
noon presentations and top
presenters received cash prizes
at an awards banquet later In
the day. The event was held as
part of Graduate Student Appre-
ciation Week. <

OUTLOOK

Spring 2002
Foreign Film
Screenings
on Campus

Aficionados of film, lan-
guage and culture have
numerous opportunities to
see foreign films at the university
this spring. Highlighted here are
series focusing on Italian, Chinese
and Korean cinemas. While many
of the series are already underway,
there are still several screenings to
come.

Italian Film Series

These film screenings take place
as part of Giuseppe Falvo's Italian
473/474 class: The Italian Cinema II:
The New Generation of Filmmak-
ers. Films are screened at 2 p.m. in
1164 Plant Sciences Building. For
more information, contact Faivo at
(301)405-4031 or
fatvoa@umd5.umd.edu.

Monday, April 22: Una Wertmul-
ler, Ciao, Professors ! (1993)

Monday, April 29: Gianni Ame-
No, Lamerica (19949

Monday, May 6: Roberto Benig-
ni, Life ts Beautiful ( 1997;

Chinese Film Series

Co-sponsored by the Institute
for Global Chinese Affairs (IGCA)
and the Chinese cluster of the Lan-
guage House. Films are screened
in the St. Mary's Hall basement at
7 p.m. For more information, visit
www.inform.umd.edu/igca or con-
tact Laura Reznick at (301) 405-1017
orLR116@umail.umd.edu.

Tuesday, April 23: Tian Zhuang-
zhuang, The Blue Kite (1993)

Tuesday, May 7: Chen Kaige,
Farewell My Concubine

{1993)

Korean Film Series

The third Korean Film Festival is
titled "Korean Nationhood and
Masculinity." Films are subject to
change. Films are screened in 2203
Art-Sociology Building at 6:30 p.m.,
with the exception of the event on
Friday, April 19, which begins at 12
p.m. For more information, contact
Seung-kyung Kim at (301) 405-7293
or sk66@umail.umd.edu.

Tuesday, April 16: Friends
(Chingu, 2001)

Wednesday, April 17: Last
Witness {Huksuseon, 2001)

Thursday, April 18; Fallen (2001}

Friday, April 19: Closing Recep-
tion and Waikiki Brothers
(2001)

Campus Offers Sushi Options

PHOTO BY CYNTHIA MITCHEL

Byung Moon Lee (I) and Ho Park are two of the SushiCo chefs who come to campus daily to prepare the
fresh sushi sold in campus convenience stores. Sushi, which began being sold regularly on campus this past
winter, can also be found in the Food Co-op.

Amy Ginther used to
"buzz over" to
Shoppers Food
Warehouse to pick
up sushi lunches for herself
and her Office of Information
Technology co-workers. That
was until she walked into a
campus convenience store a
few months ago and saw
sushi for sale.

"we quickly found it on the
shelf," Ginther said, "and
thought it was terrific."

Sushi made its way to cam-
pus this past winter, showing
up in both the Maryland Food
Co-op and Dining Services
campus convenience stores.
Both were approached by
SushiCo, a local sushi produc-
ing and distributing company,
and decided that it would be a
good idea to offer it to the
campus community.

"We have tried different
ways to bring sushi on cam-
pus," said Bart Hippie, conven-
ience store administrator. "It's
a very specialized art."

Dining Services started car-
rying sushi in its convenience
stores in February, but
because of distribution prob-
lems, had to suspend sales.
Sushi has since returned this

Where to Get
Sushi on Campus

Food Co-op
Applause Cafe
. Sneakers Cafe
North Campus Snack Shop
Union Shop
Commons Shop
Dairy
E&M Deli
Rudi's Cafe

month and Hippie said he
hopes the distribution issues
will be solved by having the
SushiCo chef in a Dining Ser-
vices kitchen, making die sushi
fresh, on-site, on a daily basis.

Currently five different
items are being offered in
campus convenience stores:
Philadelphia roll, California
roll, salmon roll, vegetarian roll
and eel roll.

"It's basic fish and vegeta-
bles or just vegetables put into
a case of sticky rice and sliced
into short tubes," Hippie said.
"They are served with slices of
fresh ginger and green mus-
tard sauce (wasabi)."

The co-op, which initially
sold SushiCo products in

December, switched to The
Vegetable Garden, a vegan
restaurant in Rockville, when
it moved to its location in the
new addition to the Stamp
Student Union. The co-op
carries a-vegan sushi with
cucumber, avocado, carrots,
tofu and either brown or
white rice. Shipments come
in every other day.

"We just wanted to expand
a littie bit," said Grace Lichaa, a
co-op worker. "People seem to
like it. It's a nice change from
the sandwich thing people
usually do for lunch."

Hippie said that he has got-
ten a lot of response from sat-
isfied customers.

"I'm getting die most posi-
tive feedback from the faculty
and staff ," Hippie said. "They're
the most outwardly apprecia-
tive."

Ginther, a coordinator for
the Project Methods Group,
said she was delighted to see
sushi on campus. "It's a good,
healthy food choice."

Ginther, who first discov-
ered sushi about five years
ago, prefers the standard Cali-
fornia roll. "My quality of life
just rose a lot because I love It
so much."

Transportation: Consolidating Information on Alternatives

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and they don't want to drive.
[Testimonials] will help show
that this is how many people
get to work and school every
day."

Longsbury 'would get an
enthusiastic testimonial on the
vanpool program from fellow
committee member Mary Gib-
son, executive administrative

assistant in resident life. Gibson
uses the program to come to
campus from Skaggsville. When
Longsbury asked each commit-
tee member at the first meeting
to gather information and ideas
on alternatives, Gibson chose
the vanpool "becauseit's my
passion; I really think it's a
great Idea."

Having worked at Maryland
for more than 30 years, Gibson
can remember 'when parking
was free. "I remember there
was quite an uproar at the first
parking fee. It was like $25
dollars a year," she says, laugh-
ing-

Looking ahead she says, "It's
my understanding that as time

goes on, parking is just going to
get tighter and more costly."
The continued expansion of
the university and the dictates
of the master plan virtually
guarantee this.

The committee looks to
publish the brochure in late
June or July for those consider-
ing leaving their cars at home.

Notable

Dziiba Shaw-Taylor has

Joined the Research & Data-
base Administration staff as a
research assistant for
prospect data. She will be the
point person for all assign-
ment requests, PEG board
postings and contact report
dissemination. Greg Johnson
is now on Barbara Humora's
Development Information
Systems staff. He is the pri-
mary contact for BSR train-
ing, new user accounts, desk-
top reporting and general
help-desk questions.

Martha Morris is die new
associate director of develop-
ment for the Clarice Smith
Performing Arts Center devel-
opment team. She comes
with many years of arts
fundraising and administra-
tion experience in the Wash-
ington area. Most recently, she
has worked with Olney The-
atre and the Cathedral Choral
Society where she dramatical-
ly increased their revenue in
a short period of time. With
her arrival, the fundraising
team for the center is com-
plete.

Entries by University Commu-
nications Media Relations
Associates Lee Tune and
Ellen Ternes earned them
the Silver Award for Research,
Medicine and Science News
Writing in a recent Council
for the Advancement and
Support of Education (CASE)
competition. They also had
entries in die General News
Writing Category, along with
Cassandra Robinson and
Nell Tlckner, to capture the
Silver Award there as well.
The Silver was the highest
honor accorded this year in
both categories.

The University of Maryland
Office of Continuing and
Extended Education
(OCEE) is the recipient of a
gold award of excellence in
marketing from the Universi-
ty Continuing Education
Association (UCEA). Taking
top honors In the publica-
tions category was the eth-
nomusicology program
brochure, created to pro-
mote Maryland's School of
Music online Master of Arts
in Ethnomusicology. The
competition, which annually
recognizes outstanding colle-
giate marketing and commu-
nications work, drew more
than 400 entries from col-
leges and universities
throughout the U.S. and
Canada. The award will be
presented at UCEA's 87th
annual conference in Toron-
to, Canada.

APRIL 16, 2002

"rofessors Win Black Saga Quiz

arcus Peanort, an academic advisor in the
College of Education, won the Black
Saga Outlook Online quiz, getting 13 out
)£ 15 answers correct. He will receive a copy of

Jlack Saga: The African American Experience: A
Chronology."

Francille R.Wilson, professor in Afro-American
Studies, was the first to identify a mistake in the
answers that ran for questions in the March 19 issue
of Outlook. The answer to the first question should
have been the Niger River Valley, not the Nile River
Valley. She also received a copy of the book.

The correct answers for the online quiz are:

1. North Star

2. Isaac Myers

3- Major General Benjamin F. Butler

4. Oscar Dunn

5. Norbert Rillieux

6. Shoe lasting machine

7. Dr. Daniel Hale Williams

8. Robert Abbott
9- General Electric

10. Sleeping Car Porters of the Railroad Industry

1 1 . George Washington Carver

12. Daniel "Chappie" James

13. Alice Walker and Toni Morrison

14. Percy Lavon Julian and George Washington Carver

15. August Wilson

ZOOM

Did you see us on...

The April 8 cover of Sports Illustrated proclaimed us
"Mighty Maryland." Congratulations to Coach Gary
Williams and his Terps for reaching the top of the basket-
ball world. For the first time in Maryland basketball histo-
ry, a National Championship banner will hang in storied
Cole Field House. Come fall, it will move to a place of
honor in the brand new 17,100-seat Comcast Center where
the Terps will start the 2002-03 season. It just goes to
show, we're ZOOMing on and off the field.

Did you hear that...

A University of Maryland journalism alumna and part-
time faculty member won the Pulitzer Prize for investiga-
tive reporting, less than 10 years after graduating from
Maryland's journalism program. Sarah Cohen, a May 1992
master's graduate of the Philip Merrill College of Journal-
ism and a frequent adjunct professor, was part of a three-
person team from The Washington Post that won the
Pulitzer for a series exploring the deaths of children in the
District of Columbia.

OIT Upgrades Telecorrtmunications
Systems with Emerging Technology

The Office of Infor-
mation Technology,
Networking and
Telecommunications
Services (OIT-NTS) recendy
completed the year-long
process of upgrading the uni-
versity voice communications
system. This improvement con-
tributes to the progress of the
university's initiative to

users.

The new system incorporates
recent technological advances
and operates on a state-of-the-
art digital platform that has
increased the capacity and reli-
ability of voice communication
at the university.

"The new system begins to
blur the line between network-
ing and telecommunicadons -

enabling users to customize
their own telecommunications
services online.

A more immediate improve-
ment that users notice is that
all display phones and voice
mailboxes can receive caller ID
on incoming calls. OIT-NTS also
has an increased ability to pro-
vide technologically advanced
call centers to university

PHOTO COURTESY OF OIT

Clay Gump, OIT telecommunications engineer; Tommy Mast, OIT telecommunications specialist; and Dave
Donoho, OIT telecommunications engineer, examine one of Avaya's switching machines.

"ensure an administrative,
operational and physical infra-
structure that fully supports a
first-class university," as stated
in the University Strategic
Plan.

According to Mark Hender-
son, assistant vice president and
chief operating officer for the
Office of Information Technolo-
gy, "This upgrade is a part of
OIT's continuing efforts to pro-
vide the best possible service
to the university, and to be
responsive to both the current
and future needs of the univer-
sity community."

The upgrade involved replac-
ing the central equipment con-
trolling the voice communica-
tion system; logistics were
arranged with departmental
telecommunications represen-
tatives in every university
department to ensure that
interruptions to service were
minimal. As a result, the transi-
tion was transparent for most

our challenge, now, is to ex-
plore the opportunities created
by that convergence" explained
John Romano, director of engi-
neering for OiT-NTS.

Much of that exploration will
take place as a part of OIT's
technological partnership with
Avaya. This partnership allows
OIT to collaborate on a multi-
tude of projects, participating
in research and development
in areas such as video tech-
nologies, unified messaging
and Web-enabled phone admin-
istration.

As a result, some possibilities
that could be realized in the
future include broadcasting uni-
versity news and important
announcements over Web-
enabled voiceover IP phones to
the university community, inte-
grating university telecommuni-
cations and cellular phone serv-
ices so that calls to an office
phone could also ring to a cor-
responding cell phone, and

departments. Some call center
features OIT-NTS will offer in
the near future are skill-based
call routing, service observing,
music on hold and custom
announcements that callers
hear while waiting to let them
know that the lines are busy
and inform them of an estimat-
ed wait time. These features
will allow departments to cus-
tomize their call centers and to
serve their customers more
efficiendy

Information about any new
telecommunications services
and features will be posted on
the OIT-NTS Web site and
announced to the university
community when they
become available. Answers
to frequently asked questions
about the upgrade are avail-
able at the OIT-NTS site,
http://www.oit. umd.edu/units/
nts/Voice_Upgrade.html.

— Megan Speakes, OIT

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information about Senior Uni-
versity or studying abroad, par-
ticipate in a scavenger hunt,
hear African drumming, finger-

print the kids or learn how to
finance a college education.

See how many 3-pointers or

or more information on Maryland Day, visit
http://www.marylandday.umd.edu.

layups you can do in 30 sec-
onds for prizes at The Groat
Cole Shootout in Cole Field
House, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

Visit the Insect Expo, a joint
project between the Colleges
of Life Sciences and Agriculture
and Natural Resources. Taste
honey, learn about pest man-

agement and more. The expo is
located in Science & Tech Way,
1 161 Plant Sciences Bldg., 10
a.m.-i p.m.

Join in a Celebration of Black
Visual Arts featuring a collec-
tion including works by the
university's own David Driskell.
Explore printmaking through a

hands-on workshop or enjoy a
guided tour of the gallery. In
Arts Alley, 2202 Art Gallery
(Art/Sociology Building), 10
a.m.-4 p.m.

Enjoy free samples of the uni-
versity's famous made-on-site
ice cream onAg Day Avenue,
Pilot Plant, 10 a.m.-3 p.m.

OUTLOOK

Directors, fundraisers and Fun Baked-Goods Makers

PHOTOS BY CYNTHIA MITCKEL.

University Relations employees celebrated spring with a semi-annual bake-off last week. An imagi-
native and detailed Homage to Cole created by Development Relations, pictured, won in the
Butcher, Baker, Candlestick Maker — Which One Made This? category. At right. University Rela-
tions Vice President Brody Remington, Director of Uni-
versity Relations Barbara Quinn and Exective Director
of Constituent Programs Valerie Broadie admire the m

the Homage's humorous details. Other winners:

* Mystery Ingredient: Bob Harrison's Snickerdoodle
Cake (made by his wife, Kate Harrison)

* World Tour International Sweets: Jessica Da vies'
Tiger Bark

* It's Monday — What did you expect?: Becky Wid-
man's Out of the Box Brownies

* Terp-a-llcious: Suzanne Beicken's Hoosier Blood
Torte

* Emeril's Prodigy: Brian Shook's Sticky Buns

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Recogniiing Efforts to Meld Teaching, Technology

PHOTO COURTESY OF OIT

Deans Bob Hampton and Norma Atlewell present awards to the winners.

The ninth annual Teaching With Technology Conference not only introduced faculty and staff to
new technology for the classroom, but afso congratulated faculty who have already begun using
innovative alternatives.
Donald Riley, vice president and CIO for OIT, and Robert Hampton, dean of undergraduate studies,
awarded faculty and staff for integrating technology into the classroom. The event is sponsored by the
Office of Information Technology along with the Center for Teaching Excellence.

Jennifer Sterling from the School of Music and Lida Tang from the Department of Computer Sciences
were awarded for developing an interactive Web-based program for music theory classes. Ann Smith,
Richard Stewart and Robert Yuan from the Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics were rec-
ognized for incorporating multi-media and Web-based technology into their large lecture lab course. With
approximately 600 students each year and an ever-increasing amount of material to cover, the three
turned to a Web-based program called WebCT to aid them in the classroom.

"The challenge is to overcome a kind of information overload, where students are bombarded with
concepts and ideas that they are not as familiar with," said Smith about her General Microbiology class.
"We turned to technology to reduce the difficulty students were having."

WebCT, an integrated Web-based software package, facilitates a wide range of classroom activities.
The system posts students' assignments and exam grades, allowing access to each individual student's
information any time and from anywhere. Smith used the online discussion tool to create private chat-
rooms where students discussed case studies. Lecture notes can be placed in Word format and posted in
the program for students to view. The wide range of possibilities for WebCT makes it a very attractive
tool for professors, but the usefulness of it depends on an instructor's vision.

"Not every task or every lesson can be facilitated by technology," said Roberta Lavine, acting
associate director for academic affairs in the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures. "The medi-
um is not the message. It is how you integrate the technology into your lesson plan."

— Bobby White, OIT graduate assistant

\ferbatim

O'Connor, 60, a biologist who has held iiis current position
for two years, said his reason for leaving was simple: "It's just
a great opportunity." O'Connor said he was not unhappy at
the Smithsonian but missed the intellectual rigor of campus
life. "It's an environment where I'm just more at home," he
said. "There's a comfort level." (J. Dennis O'Connor explains to
The Washington Post why he is leaving the Smithsonian,
where he was undersecretary for science and acting director
of the National Museum for Natural History, for his new post
at the University of Maryland. April 4)

The widow of slain Egyptian President Anwar Sadat believes a
lasting peace will eventually win out in the Middle East, and
that the United States could hasten that outcome by treating
the region's Arabs better. Jehan Sadat said Wednesday that the
U.S. government has sided too much with Israel in the esca-
lating violence between Israelis and Palestinians that has left
dozens dead in recent weeks. "You are too much biased to
Israel," she said, speaking about the Bush administration. "You
are the strongest country in the world — you have to be fair
with both." Sadat said terrorism should not be allowed to
derail Middle East peace efforts championed by her husband,
who was assassinated in 1981 by a group believed to have
close ties to Osama bin Laden. "I always feel what my husband
started will never ever go in vain," she said. "I still believe the
day will come when we see peace prevail.'* (Jehan Sadat is sen-
ior fellow at the Center for International Development and
Conflict Management. Associated Press, San Antonio, April 4)

The group has been meeting every few months for about two
years; another meeting is scheduled this month. University of
Maryland political scientist and committee member Ronald
Waiters said. "This group came together because they wanted
to bring the full force of the African- American leadership
behind this effort," Walters said. Last week, three slave descen-
dants filed suit against Aetna insurance company, FleetBoston
Financial Corp. and railroad giant CSX on behalf of them-
selves and millions of other blacks, claiming the companies or
their corporate predecessors unjustly profited from slavery.
(Walters is professor of government and politics, and a board
member of a group of black leaders who are pushing for
reparations against companies which benefitted by slavery.
Associated Press, April 5)

However, some analysts say it is not because of a deep con-
cern over the plight of either Palestinians or Israelis, but
because Mr. Bush wants to go after Saddam Hussein in Iraq
and knows that as long as the region is embroiled in deadly
violence, there is little chance of winning international, par-
ticularly Arab, support for such an operation."Previous presi-
dents, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, even Bush Sr., have seen
bringing peace to Jerusalem as almost a transcendental exer-
cise," says Jerome Segal, a Middle East specialist at the Univer-
sity of Maryland. "For this president and this administration, it
is something different. It is something that is defined by
America's national interests. Central to that is Iraq and terror-
ism and weapons of mass destruction." (Segal is a research
scholar in the School of Public Affairs and is Director of the
Jerusalem Project, which has tested the attitudes of Israeli
Jews and Palestinians about Jerusalem in order to identify
options for resolving the city's final status. Ottawa Gazette,
April 4)

While the Maryland School Assessment Program's change in
focus marks the end of an era, the testing program managed
to last a decade— longer than any other such test — and to
have a significant impact on instruction. Maryland hired
teachers to score the tests, giving them the opportunity to
see what kind of student work the state expected of stu-
dents. They often changed the way they taught to include
mote performance-driven tasks in their classrooms, as archi-
tects of the testing program had hoped. "It's easy to visualize
what Hugh performance looks like," said William D. Schafer, a
professor emeritus of measurement, statistics, and evaluation
at the University of Maryland College Park and the state's test-
ing director from 1 997 to 1999. "It's very difficult to visualize
what high performance looks like in a multiple-choice for-
mat." (Education Week, April 3)

APRIL I 6 , 2002

Africas of the Americas

The Committee on Africa and
the Americas, the David C.
Driskell Center for the Study of
the African Diaspora and the
Center for Historical Studies
announce an international sym-
posium, "Africas of the Americ-
as," which will take place on
the University of Maryland
campus April 18-20.

The symposium explores the
historical and contemporary
creation and use of representa-
tions of Africa in New World
societies. It will address the
question of whether Africa and
Africanness can be taken as
unproblema tic, self-evident and
historically invariable concepts,
or whether these terms carry
multiple and changing mean-
ings that are the products of
complicated and conflict-rid-
den histories.

Speakers include K.Anthony
Appiah, Herman Bennett, Vin-
cent Carretta, Christopher
Davis Jualynne Dodson, Alejan-
dro Frigerio, Katrin Hansing,
Robert A. Hill, Fatimah Jackson,
Eileen Julie n, David Chioni
Moore, Stephan Palmie,Jcan
Muteba Rahier, Livio Sansone
and Ibrahim K. Sundiata.

For a complete description,
program details, dates and loca-
tions, visit www.africaamericas.
umd.edu. The symposium is
free and open to the public.
Registration is not required.

Blues Performance

The Department of English
Bebe Koch Petrou Lecture will
feature John Cephas and Phil
Wiggins. Called by Living Blues
"today's premier Piedmont
blues guitar and harmonica
duo," Cephas and Wiggins are
distinguished performers, pre-
senters and students of tradi-
tional music; they have toured
the world under the auspices
of the U.S. State Department,
and they are highly active in
the national traditional arts
community.

For their lecture, Cephas and
Wiggins will both perform and
discuss their music. Cephas
serves on the Executive Com-
mittee of the National Council
for the Traditional Arts, and in
1989 received a national Heri-
tage Fellowship Award.

The event will be held on
Thursday, April 18 at 2 p.m. in
1 140 Susquehanna Hall, It is
free and open to the public.
For more information, contact
Betty Fern at (301) 405-3805.

Flower Arranging with

Learn the an of arranging flow-
ers for special occasions or to
beautify your home. Demon-
stration and hands-on training
will be provided by the Art and
Learning Center on three Tues-
days: April 23, April 30 and May
7, from 6 to 8 p.m. All materials
are included in the cost of the
class, which is $40. Fre-register.
Classes will be held in B0I07

Stamp Student Union. For more
information, contact Alicia
Simon at (301) 314-ARTS or

asimon@union.umd.edu.

Take Back the Night
Women's Music Festival

Join Women's Circle on April 21
for Take Back the Night, a
music festival, rally, march and
vigil that aims to end violence
against women. The event will
be held in the Nyumburu Cen-
ter amphitheater from 2 to 10
p.m. with performances from
Alix Olson, the Rhythm Work-
er's Union, Deirdre Flint, Lea,
Ren Rick and Kris Delmhorst.
Loung Ung, a Cambodian sur-
vivor of the Khmer Rouge, is
the keynote speaker at 7:30.
The show is free.

For more information, contact
Kim at (301) 226-2021 orkls®
wam.umd.edu, or visit www.
wam.umd.edu/~kls/tbtn2002.

Making the Grade

The Center for Teaching Excel-
lence presents a Teaching and
Learning Conversation: "Making
the Grade," on Thursday, April
18 from 12 to 1:30 p.m. in the
Maryland Room, 0100 Marie
Mount Hall.

Managing the grading
process is a challenge to all
teachers. Grade distributions
and curves, grade inflation and
+/- grading are just a few of the
issues to be faced in the com-
plicated process of evaluating
student work. Despite its com-
plexity, grading can be used as
a powerful tool in the class-
room. The workshop will fea-
ture a panel: Nora Bellows
(English), David Bigio (Mechan-
ical Engineering), Denny Gulick
(Mathematics) and Allen Stairs
(Philosophy).

All members of the universi-
ty community are invited. Light
refreshments will be served.
RSVP to Mary Wesley at (301)
405-9356 or mwesley® deans.
umd.edu, or online at www.
umd .edu/CTE/rsvp . h tml .

Terrapin Expeditions

Do you enjoy backpacking,
rock climbing or canoeing? Are
you looking for more informal
and meaningful opportunities
to relate to students? If so, con-
sider joining one of five three-
to six-day T.E.N.T.S. trips as a
faculty or staff member.

TENTS. (Terrapin Expedi-
tions for New andTransfer Stu-
dents) is a joint venture
between the Orientation Office
and Campus Recreation Ser-
vices. The program consists of
five separate wilderness expe-
ditions varying by length and
activity to take place this sum-
mer. All trips include food while
at the trip location, transporta-
tion from the university to the
trip site, outdoor equipment
required for the activity, and
experienced student trip lead-
ers. No wilderness experience
is necessary. Expeditions are
free for faculty team members.

Each expedition is designed
to allow participants to make
lasting friendships, ease the
transition to college life and
have fun while experiencing
new activities. Faculty members
form an integral part of the
experience. Students will have
opportunities to talk informally
with faculty and staff about
their questions and concerns as
they enter the university.

For more information, con-
tact student coordinator Elie
Teichman at (301) 314-5641 or
elict@wam.umd.edu.

Turkish Belly Dance
Classes

Experience the ancient art of
Middle Eastern dance while
enjoying a great low-impact
workout. Experiment with vie
work and finger cymbals in
addition to learning a range of
basic moves.

The class is offered by the
Art and Learning ('enter and
will be held for six weeks
beginning April 16. The class
will be 6 to 7:30 p.m. and will
be held in BO 107 Stamp Stu-
dent Union. The cost is $50 for
students, $55 for faculty and
staff and $60 for the general
public. For more information,
contact Alicia Simon at (301)
314-ARTS or
asimon @ union . umd . edu .

Suzuki violin Program
Seeks Beginners

The School of Music is now
accepting applicants age 3 to7
for its beginner's Suzuki Violin
program. The renowned Suzuki
Method operates on the princi-
ple that every child has the
capacity to develop musical
ability during their early years.
Suzuki seeks to nurture not just
musical ability, but also the
development of the whole
child.

Graduate-level instructors
lead individual and group les-
sons under the direction of
master teacher and faculty
member, Ronda Cole. Private
lessons are scheduled individu-
ally and group classes are held
on Thursdays from 5 to 6 p.m.
and 6 to 7 p.m.

Parental involvement is vital
in the Suzuki Method. A month-
ly parents' meeting Ls facilitated
by Suzuki trainer Martha Shack-
ford.

Monthly tuition is $152. For
more information or to apply,
contact the Suzuki Violin
Administrator at (301) 405-
8347 or kvandeman@juno.com,
or visit www.umd.edu/music.

Call for Teaching Theater
Proposals, Spring 2003

Proposals for use of the Teach-
ing Theaters, both full-semester
and partial-semester, for the
Spring 2003 semester are cur-
rently being accepted. Propos-
als are due by midnight on
April 18. To submit a proposal,
visit www.oit,umd.edu/tt//
sch_proposals. htm.

Sponsored by Technology
Enhanced Learning, the Office
of Information Technology and
the Center for Teaching Excel-
lence. For more information,
contact Chris Higgms at (301)
405-5190 or chiggins@deans.
umd.edu, or visit www.oit.umd.
edu/tt/.

Craft Fair

The Art and Learning Center
invites you to participate in the
craft fair at the 19th annual Art
Attack Craft Fair. The fair will
be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
on Friday, May 3 on McKeldin
Mall. Join in a full day of live
music, games, craft fair, and stu-
dent and community booths.
Interested vendors should con-
tact the Art and Learning Cen-
ter for application information.
For more information, contact
Wendy Wang at (301) 314-9814
or wwang@union.umd.edu.

Remembering Vietnam

Historian Lewis Sorley, drawing
on his book "A Better War: The
Unexamined Victories and Final
Tragedy of America's Last Years
in Vietnam" and on his biogra-
phies of Generals Creighton
Abrams and Harold K.Johnson,
will compare and contrast the
earlier and later years of Ameri-
can involvement in the war, dis-
cuss major U.S. and Vietnamese
personalities, evaluate the
impact of technology on the
conduct of the war, document
the true nature and accom-
plishments of the Vietnam vet-
eran, and appraise the contri-
butions of expatriate Viet-
namese to America's economy
and culture.

The lecture and book signing
will take place Tuesday, April 30
at 12 p.m. in Lecture Room Dat
the National Archives at College
Park, 8601 Adelphi Road, Col-
lege Park.

Copies of the books will be
available for sale, and there is
parking on site. Call (202) 208-
7345 for reservations or more
information.

Nominees Sought for
Outstanding
Administrative
Professional Award

Each year, the President's Com-
mission on Women's Issues
recognizes the outstanding
achievements of administrative
support professionals at the
University of Maryland. Any
member of the campus com-
munity may submit a nomina-
tion.

To obtain instructions and a
nomination form, contact Rita
Phelps at (301) 405-6694 or
rphclps@wam.umd.edu. Forms
may also be found at www.
inform .umd.edu/thet/Faculty/
RPhelps. Completed nomina-
tions must be received by April
30. Recipients will be honored
at the Professional Concepts
Exchange Conference Luncheon
oh June 3.