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THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND FACULTY AND STAFF WEEKLY NEWSPAPER Volume 18 * Number 2 * September to, zoo 2

Director Feels

Students Deserve
Credit for New
Grant

Undergraduate students
in life sciences may be
thanking Kaci Thomp-
son for helping secure an
unprecedented third Howard
Hughes Medical Institute grant
for their research projects, but
Thompson feels that it's the stu-
dents who should be thanked.

Thompson, associate director
of the institute (HHMI) in the

PHOTO BY CYNTHIA MITCHEL

Kaci Thompson would like a new
NIH grant to allow undergraduate
students more opportunities for
research integrated with graduate
and post-graduate work.

College of Life Sciences, said
that to win the award three out
of four award periods since

See GRANT, page 7

Remembrance
and Healing

Campus Scholars Offer
Thoughts on a Post-
Sept. 11 Nation

Editor's note: It is impossible to
capture verbally all of the emo-
tions surrounding the events on
Sept. 1 1, 2001 .What follows, in
various forms, are thoughts
from campus scholars as they
reflect on the state of racial/eth-
nic harmony in America. We
attempted to represent several
viewpoints, but time and sched-
ule constraints prevented many
from contributing.

A poem by Suheil BushruJ,
Baha'i Chair for World Peace

This poem was written in
J 996 after my wife and I were
awarded the greatest honor
that America can bestow.the

See REMEMBRANCE, page 4

Candidates Bring Campaign to Campus

PHOTO BV MONETTE AUSTIN BAILEY

Democratic candidates for the Prince George 's County Executive seat came to
campus last week for a debate moderated by Gazette newspaper political
columnist Josh Kurtz, far right. The debate was filmed in UMTV's studio and
will be rebroadcast today, Sept. 10, at 3 p.m. Seated from left: County Councilman Jim
Estepp, Major Riddick, Del. Rushern Baker and Anthony Muse. State s attorney and
executive candidate Jack Jackson did not attend. Primary elections are being held today.

University
Leads
Security
Conference

The university will tackle
the national issue of
homeland security in a
conference it is co-sponsoring
widi the National Defense Uni-
versity, scheduled a week after
the one-year anniversary of ter-
rorist attacks in New York and
Washington, D.C.

High-ranking government
officials including a director of
the Office of National Prepared-
ness at the Federal Emergency
Management Agency, officials
from the Office of the Secretary
of Defense, local government
officials and university admin-
stration and faculty will gather
at Fort Lesley J. McNair in Wash-
ington, D.C, to discuss topical
issues on domestic security,
according to the conference
agenda.

Thomas Ridge, the director of
the Office of Homeland Securi-

See SECURITY, page 6

Moving Emotion Aside
to Learn a Lesson

Fire Engineers Examine WTC Towers Failures

In all the analysis of why the
World Trade Center buildings
collapsed, there seems to be
missing a theory for why Tow-
ers 1 and 2 fell how and when
they did, according to two
campus fire protection engi-
neers.

Professors James Quintiere
and Marino diMarzo, who is
also chair of the fire protec-
tion engineering department,
wrote a short paper published
in the current Fire Safety Jour-
nal that asks questions both
feel aren't being answered.
They worked with structural
specialist Rachel Becker, from
Technion-Israel Institute of
Technology, who had been
here on sabbatical.

"We wanted to get some-
thing out as a challenge to
people who were saying
things about what happened,"
said Quintiere. "The insulation
around the trusses, 1" thick
steel rods, in the towers was
different. In the south tower it
was 3/4" thick and in the
north it was 11/2" thick. One
fell in half the time as the
other. The strength of the
building was not compro-
mised by the hit because there

was so much external struc-
tural fabric. It looks like the
fire did the damage."

Office furnishings ignited
by jet fuel did help create
long-burning fires with tem-
peratures reaching more than
900 degrees Celsius, the schol-
ars agree, but improperly insu-
lated steel failed. Precious min-
utes were lost with that fail-
ure. "The reality may be more
complex, but this is one of the
strongest factors," said diMar-
zo.

He and Quintiere know that
it is hard to move past the
human toll and emotion of the
Sept. 1 1 attacks in order to get
to what could be learned from
an engineering standpoint.
However, they feel it is impor-
tant to take a careful look at
whether or not there were
deficiencies in the buildings.

"So far, no one has formulat-
ed a framework for a theory
that would explain why [the
towers] fell at these times,"
said diMarzo. "If one tower
lasted one hour longer, you
can start speculating."

Most of the structural data

See FIRE SAFETY, page 7

University Addresses West Nile Virus

Cases of West Nile Virus
infection, a mosquito-
borne illness that gen-
erally produces only mild flu-
like symptoms in a healthy
person, have been reported
this summer in a number of
states, including the District of
Columbia. The university has
reinforced standard mosquito
control prac-
tices to reduce
mosquito pop-
ulations on
campus. Here
are some
answers to
questions you
might have
about West Nile
virus, the university's preven-
tion measures and what you
can do to reduce your risk of
being bitten by a mosquito.

What is West Nile Virus?

West Nile Virus (WNV) is a
virus spread by the bite of an
infected mosquito. A mosqui-
to can pick up the virus by
biting an infected animal,
then transmit it by biting
other animals or humans.
WNV usually infects horses
and birds. Crows and blue jays
are frequent carriers of WNV
in this area.

What are the symptoms of
West Nile Virus In humans?

Most people who are
exposed to WNV show no
symptoms. In some people,
WNV can cause a very mild
infection along with fever,
muscle aches, rash, swollen
lymph nodes and a "sick feel-
ing." In a very small percentage
of people.WNV may cause
inflammation of the brain or
the tissue
around it, in
the form of
encephali-
tis or

meningitis.
Victims of
WNV who
have died
have been
the elderly and those with
conditions such as AIDS, dia-
betes or other chronic health
conditions that have compro-
mised their immune systems.

What is the university
doing to reduce the risk of
exposure to West Nile
Virus?

A critical step in reducing
exposure to mosquito-borne
disease is controlling areas of
standing water to prevent
mosquitoes from breeding.
University Facilities Manage-
ment routinely patrols stand-
ing water, such as campus

See WEST NILE, page 6

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YOUR GUIDE TO UNIVERSITY EVENTS: SEPTEMBER 10-18

September 10

1-1:45 p.m.. Free Individual
Smoking Cessation Educa-
tion 2102 Health Center. For
those planning to quit who
would like more information
or those ready to quit now, a
health educator is available to
meet on an individual basis.
Smokers can learn more about
their smoking habits and the
best strategies for quitting.
Available by appointment only.
For more information, contact
Kelly Dolan at 4-8123 or
dolan@health.umd.edu, or visit
www. umd. edu/health .

4:30-6 p.m., Turkish Belly
Dance Fitness Training Art
and Learning Center (B0107
Stamp Student Union). See For
Your Interest, page 8,

6-7:30 p.m., Turkish Belly
Dance Technique Art and

Learning Center (B0107 Stamp
Student Union). See For Your
Interest, page 8.

6-9 p.m., Microsoft Excel I:
Cresting & Using Spread-
sheets 4404 Computer &
Space Science. Introduces
basics such as how to enter
values and text, create formu-
las, use pre-built functions, link
between data and more. Prere-
quisite: Windows 98 or equiva-
lent. The fee is $10 students,
$20 faculty/staff and $25 alum-
ni. For more information, con-
tact Carol Warrington at 5-2938
or cwpost@umd5.umd.edu, or
visit www,oit.umd,edu/pt.

EONESDAV

September 11

7:30-9:30 a.m., Good Mor-
ing, Commuters) North Atri-
um Stamp Student Union. Free
Starbucks Coffee & Krispy
Kreme donuts will be served.
Sponsored by Commuter Af-
fairs and Community Service.
For more information, contact
Leslie Perkins at 4-7250 or
lperkins@accmail.umd.edu.

10 a.m-3 p.m.. Red Terrap-
ins Blood Drive Baltimore
Room, Stamp Student Union.
For more information, contact
Benjamin Ruder at (856) 795-
7654.

6-9 p.m.. Introduction to
MATLAB 3330 Computer &

Non-Credit Instruction:

New Golfer
Series

Learn the fundamentals
of the full swing, put-
ting, and chipping in
this five-lesson series. The
course will also teach how to
book a tee time and how to
buy your first set of clubs,
and cover basic rules and eti-
quette.

Campus Recreation Ser-
vices will offer two courses
this fall at the University Golf
Course: (1) Tuesday and
Thursday, Sept, 12 to 26, OR
(2) Monday and Wednesday,
Sept. 16 to 30. Class time for
both courses is 5:30 to 6:30
p.m.

The registration fee is
$125. Space is limited and
classes fill quickly. Registra-
tion begins Sept. 3 and con-
tinues until one week prior to
the first day of class. Partici-
pants may register at
www.crs.umd.edu and pay
by credit card.

For more information,
contact Laura Sutter, 5- PLAY
or is220@umail.umd.edu, or
visit www.crs.umd.edu.

Space Science. Introduces the
basic principles of mathemati-
cal tools for complex opera-
tions such as integration and
differentiation in symbolic
mathematical notation. Includes
rendering in 2D or 3D plots.
Prerequisite: a WAM account.
The fee is $ 10 students, $20
faculty/staff and $25 alumni.
For more information, contact
Carol Warrington at 5-2938 or
cwpost@umd5.umd.edu, or
visit www.oit.umd.edu/pt.

September 12

10 a.m. -3 p.m., University
of Maryland 2002 Part-Time
Job Fair Stamp Student Union.
For more information, call Jan
Cotton at 5-2779.

3-5 p.m., 20th Century
Japanese Prints from The
Art Gallery's Permanent
Collection Art Gallery, Art-
Sociology Building. The Art
Gallery opens its first exhibi-
tion of the 2002-2003 season.
Refreshments will be served.
For more information, contact
the Art Gallery at 5-2763 or

ag2 10@umail.umd.edu, or visit
www.artgallery.umd.edu.

4:30-7:30 p.m., Basic Com-
puting Technologies at MD

3330 Computer & Space Sci-
ence. Introduces network tech-
nologies such as FTP, how to
read and post on Usenet news-
groups, subscribe to public
newsgroups and send attach-
ments using an e-mail program
such as Netscape. Prerequisite:
a WAM account.The fee is $10
students, $20 faculty/staff. For
more information, contact
Carol Warrington at 5-2938 or
cwpost® umd 5 . umd . edu , or
visit www.oit.umd.edu/pt.

7:30 p.m.. Hypnotist Tom
DeLuca Grand Ballroom,
Stamp Student Union. Doors
open at 7 p.m. Free. For more
information, call SEE at 4-8496.

8 p.m., Doug Varone and
Dancers Clarice Smith Perfor-
ming Arts Center. See page 3-

September 13

11 a.m.-10 p.m., Hispanic
Heritage Festival Hombake
Plaza. "Come, Learn, Enjoy, Eat,
Celebrate Culture!"For more
information, send an e-mail to
hhc_um@hotmail.com.

12 p.m.. Political Commu-
nication in Campaigns 0200
Skinner. The Department of
Communication's Center for
Political Communication and
Civic Leadership lecture by
former Congressman John B.
Anderson. For additional infor-
mation, contact Shawn J. Parry-
Giles, director, at 5-6527 or

sp 1 72@umail.umd,edu.

5:30 p.m., From Vision to
Reality: The Life and Career
of Harry Clifton Byrd Horn-
bake Library (reception from
5:30-7:30 p.m.; program at
6:30 p.m.). An exhibit docu-
menting the life and accom-
plishments of Byrd, considered
by many to be the father and
builder of the modern Universi-
ty of Maryland. The exhibit will
run through Dec. 20. For the
reception and program, RSVP
to Friends of the Libraries at 4-
5674. For more information,
visit www.Iib.umd.edu/HBK/
showcase.

8 p.m., Doug Varone and
Dancers Clarice Smith Perfor-
ming Arts Center. See page 3.

September 16

6:30-7 p.m., Terrapin Trail
Club Meeting Campus Recre-
ation Center, Outdoor Recre-
ation Center. The Terrapin Trail
Club is a student organization
that sponsors various outdoor
recreational activities, such as
hiking, backpacking, camping,
mountain biking, caving,
canoeing, rock climbing and
kayaking. Activities are open to
all registered students, faculty
and staff. The club's primary
goal is to help outdoor enthusi-
asts on campus find each other
and share their love for the
outdoors. For more informa-
tion, contact club officers at
(301) 2264453 or
officers@ttc.umd.edu, or visit
www. ttc . umd . edu .

September 17

3:30-5:30 p.m., Numerical
Analysis Seminar 3206 Math
Building. The featured speaker
will be Valeria Simoneini from
the Universita di Bologna. For
more information, contact
Tobias von Petersdorff at
tvp@math.umd.edu or visit
www. math.umd.edu/dept/
seminars/nas.

5:30-7:30 p.m.. Take Five:
Prism Brass Quintet Dance
Theatre, Clarice Smith Perform-
ing Arts Center. The "Take Five
on Tuesdays" series presents
world and new music from the
award winning University of
Maryland ensemble. Take Five
is a free, informal series offer-
ing an opportunity to experi-
ence a wide range of artistic
areas. For more information,
contact Amy Harbison 5-8169
or harbison@wam.umd.edu, or
visit www.claricesmithcenter.
umd.edu.

8-8 p.m., Netscape Page
Composer: Making Web
Pages the Easy Way 4404
Computer & Space Science.
This class introduces Net-
scape's Web page editing and
development tool. Students
will learn to create hyperlinks,
colors, font styles, bullets and
tables — without typing a sin-
gle line of HTML code. Prereq-
uisite: basic Web browsing abil-
ity. Registration fees are $10 for
students, $20 for faculty and
staff, and $25 for alumni. For
more information, contact
Carol Warrington at 5-2938 or
cwpost@umd5.umd.edu, or
visit www.oit.umd.edu/pt.

EDNESDAY

September 18

9:30-11 a.m.. Safety Train-
ing 3104 Chesapeake Building.
The Department of Environ-
mental Safety (DES) hosts a lab-
oratory safety orientation train-

Correction

In the Sept. 3 issue of Out-
look, under the Sept. 6
dateline listing for 9 p.m.,
it should have read "Democ-
ratic Primary Candidates for
Prince George's County
Debate* airing on UMTV.

ing session each month. The
training is offered to assure
regulatory compliance. Space
is limited. For more informa-
tion or to reserve a seat, con-
tact Jeanette Cartron at (301)
405-2131 or j cartron @acc-
mail.umd.edu.

10 a.m. -12 p.m.. Introduc-
tion to Arc View 3.2 (GIS)
6101 McKeluin Library. The
workshop is free but advance
registration at www.lib.umd.
edu/UES/gis.html is required.
For more information, contact
User Education Services at 5-
9070 or ue6@umail.umd.edu.

8-9 p.m.. Intermediate
MATLAB 3330 Computer &
Space Science. Continues cov-
ering important skills in solv-
ing matrix and vector opera-
tions, multiple integrals, differ-
ential equations, 2D and 3D
plots and much more. Prerequi-
site: Introduction to MATLAB.
Registration is $10 students,
$20 faculty and staff, $25 alum-
ni. For more information, con-
tact Carol Warrington at 5-2938
or cwpost@umd5.umd.edu, or
visit www.oit.umd.edu/pt.

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OUTLOOK

Chu Shan Chinese Opera Institute
Presents Exciting Folktale

NEWS FROM THE CLARICE SMITH

PERFORMING ARTS CENTER

Extravagant costumes, music and acrobatics will be part of the classic folktale "Monkey
King."

The story of the "Monkey King"
has been a long-time favorite in
Chinese literature. The
renowned folktale will be presented
by the Washington Chu Shan Chinese
Institute, a Silver Spring-based non-
profit arts organization, on Friday and
SaturdaySept. 20and 21 at 8 p.m. in
the Ina and Jack KayTheatre of the
Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center.

Complete with dazzling costumes,
live music and edge-of-your-seat acro-
batics, Chu Shan's full length produc-
tion of the "Monkey King" will be per-
formed in Chinese with English subti-
tles.

Born out of rock, the Monkey King
can transform himself into 72 different
things, from a fly to a temple. With
one somersault over the clouds, he
can travel 18,000 miles. His golden rod
can stretch to heaven or collapse to
the size of a toothpick to be easily hid-
den behind his ear.

The tale follows the Monkey King,
masterful in martial arts, who has
crowned himself the monarch of a
band of superhuman monkeys. To
keep the Monkey King in check and

to win his allegiance, the Jade

Emperor, Supreme Ruler of
the Universe, lures him to
heaven with the promise of
an "important" position.

The Monkey King learns
that the Jade Emperor is host-
ing a Peach Festival, to which
everyone has been invited,
except him. Consumed with
rage, the Monkey King sneaks

into the Peach Festival and wreaks
havoc. Intent on retaliation, the Jade
Emperor sends his generals and their
troops after him. Following a series of
furious battles, the Monkey King and
his monkey soldiers defeat the troops.
They declare victory and celebrate
their triumph at Mount Huaguo.

Actor, executive director and fourth
generation family member of opera
artists, Chu Shan Zhu is devoted to the
continuation of traditional Chinese
opera acting and performance. As a co-
founder of the Washington Chu Shan
Chinese Opera Institute, Zhu has intro-
duced Chinese art forms unfamiliar to
most American school children by per-
forming at more than 1 50 local
schools before 60,000 school children.

Appropriate for audiences ages 10
and up, "The Monkey King" is a mod-
ern day superhero. In addition to the
performance, audience members will
have an opportunity to see Chinese
opera costumes before, during and
after the performance on display in
the Robert and Ariene Kogod Theatre.
Tickets for Chu Shan's "Monkey King"
are $30, $5 for students.

Area Premiere Kicks Off New
Clarice Smith Center Season

Dancers are usually accus-
tomed to performing on
a flat stage, in an audi-
torium that main-
tains a comfortable tempera-
ture. However, during die
creating of DougVarone and
Dancers' latest work, the condi-
tions were anything but ideal.
Deep in Mammoth Cave Nation-
al Park in Kentucky, Varone
and Dancers struggled
against freezing temper-
atures and uneven sur-
faces to create their
newest work, "The Bottom-
land," co-commissioned by
the Clarice Smith Performing
Arts Center and the Wolf
Trap Foundation
for the Per-
forming Arts.

Excerpts
from the
dances
created at
Mammoth
Cave will be
seen on giant
screen projectors while
simultaneous live per-
formances take place on
stage as part of Doug
Varone and Dancers
upcoming visit to the
Clarice Smith Center
on Sept. 12 and 13
at 8 p.m. Far from
the depths of the
underground, the
dancers will per-
form in the
optimal conditions
of the Ina and Jack
KayTheatre.

In addition to their new
work, which will be performed
indoors for the first time,Varone will
also be performing the area premiere
of "Approaching something Higher."
Premiering in 2001 at the Joyce The-

Iatre in New York City,
the work is set to
Brahms "Piano Trio in
B Major, Opus 8."
Varone sends his
company of nine
dancers through,
according to The
Village Voice: "pul-
sating patterns of
movement. Their
formations coa-
lesce and dissolve
in an almost con-
stant flow of
twining and
springing,
falling and
rebounding. Big
trajectories are
blocked or
defused by little
evasions, shrugs,
staggers and
dodges. As they
spill across the
stage, the dancers
paint a picture of
human existence Ml of
truth and warmth."

Known by The New
YorkTlmes as "a company
of daredevils . . . who dance
on a dime — wheeling,
darting and slicing the air
at lethal looking speeds,"
the company was founded
by Varone in 1986. Singled
out for its extraordinary
physical daring, vivid
musicali ty and genius
for capturing true human
interaction In dance, Varone and his
company will bring a rare perform-
ance of skill and creativity to the
Clarice Smith Center.

Tickets for the performance are
$30, $5 for students. For more infor-
mation, contact the Ticket Office at
(301) 405-ARTS or go to www.
claricesmlthcenter.umd.edu .

Leonard Rose Winner Returns for Recital

For ticket information or to
request a season brochure,
contact the Ticket Office at
301.405.ARTS or visit www.
claricesmithcenter. um d . edu.

Clarice Smith
PerfobmngAkts

CeNTERatMaRYIAND

The Leonard Rose Cello Com-
petition first prize winner,
IMiklas Eppinger, will be per-
forming a cello recital in the Joseph
and Alma Glldenhorn Recital Hall of
the Clarice Smith Performing Arts
Center on Sunday, Sepl, 15 at 3
p.m. Accompanying Eppinger on
the piano wilt be Hae-Seting Shin,
in a program featuring Schubert,
"Arpeggione Sonata in A Minor,"
Debussy, "Sonata in D Minor,"
Ligeti. "Solo sonata" and
Shostakovich, "Sonata in D Minor,
Op. 40." Eppinger will be playing a
Francesco Ruggieri cello made in
1696.
Born in Bad Oldesloe, Schleswig-

Hoistein (Germany) In 1972,
Eppinger began studying the cello
at age 7, In 1988 he was a guest
student of Julius Berger at the
Music College Saarbruecken, fol-
lowed by two years in London,
where he was a pupil of William
Pleeth and Christopher Bunting. In
1991 Eppinger attended the Music
College Luebeck. He then moved on
to the Music College of Hamburg,
where he graduated with distinction
in 1999.

Eppinger received his honors here
in 2001 when the Leonard Rose
competition was held at the Clarice
Smith Center. He has given recitals
and concerts at the NDR-Hamburg,

the SWR -Stuttgart, the Concertge-
bow Amsterdam, the Bergen Festi-
val, Norway, Interart Festival,
Budapest, International Musiktage
Liestal, Switzerland, Schleswig hoL
stein Musikfestival, the Alte Oper
Frankfurt and the Santa Barbara
Music Festival.

As a chamber musician, Eppinger
has performed with artists such as
Gidon Kremer, Yuri Bashmet,
Chrrstoph Eschenbach and Eugen
Istomin. He was also invited to mas-
ter classes with William Pleeth,
Robert Cohen, David Geringas, Arto
Noras, Sigried Palm and Harvey
Shapiero. Single tickets to Niklas
Eppinger are $25. S5 for students.

SEPTEMBER 10

2002

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Remembrance: Hopes for Harmony

Continued from page 1

Spreading Love and Comfort

Annette Duffy uses
warmth and love to
turn fabric into quilts.
She then gives these colorful,
labor-intensive gifts to family,
friends and strangers.

Since October 2001 , Duffy
estimates she's created 1 1
quilts, only three of which
she's kept. One has become
part of Betty's Freedom Quilt
project. "The goal
is to get as many
handmade quilts
as possible for
families" who lost
a loved one on
Sept. 1 1 , says
Duffy, who is
assistant director
of gifts accept-
ance within Uni-
versity Relations.

Created by a
woman in Iowa
named Betty
Nielsen, the proj-
ect (www.free-
domquilts.net)
has delivered
more than 3,000
quilts. Nielsen and
other volunteers
drive to New York
to deliver them to
spots where fami-
lies come and
select one to take
home. Contact
information is
available should
recipients want to
get in touch with
a quilt's creator.
Once Duffy heard
of the effort from
her cousin in Man-
hattan, she knew
she had to get
involved, especial-
ly after watching a
co-worker's moving reaction
to receiving one of Duffy's
quilts.

"I used to work in the vice
president of University Rela-
tions' office. I gave one to Jody
Campbell's family who lost a
cousin in the Worid Trade Cen-
ter," says Duffy.

Though Duffy sews regular-
ly and fondly remembers
quilts made by her grand-
mother, she didn't pick up the
quilting hobby until after tak-
ing a class at Capital Quilts in
Gaithcrsburg. ""They're great.
It's small and friendlv" She
jokes that when her husband
hears her say she's going to
the quilting store, he knows
that he won't see her for
hours.

As the first recipient of a
Duffy quilt, though, he under-
stands. It took three months,
but when she presented a

richly colored, queen-sized
quilt to husband Kevin on his
50th birthday — complete
with a screen-printed photo
of him as a smiling one-year-
old in one corner — "Well,
you know, men don't cry, but
he cried."

She is now working on a
quilt for one of her three 20-
something children and think-

PHOTQ BY CYNTHIA MITCMEl

Annette Duffy models the quilt she made as a
gift for her husband on his 50th birthday. It is
one of few to stay in the family; most quilts
she makes become gifts for sick children or for
families who lost a loved one on Sept. 11, 2001.

ing about her next Freedom
Quilt. Duffy never repeats a
pattern and churns out
approximately one quilt a
month. She admits that it is a
lot of work, but "it's a hobby I
can't stop doing "Her giving
has expanded to include ter-
minally ill padents at NIH's
Children's Inn.

"A girlfriend and I are mak-
ing baby quilts, we have eight
done. We started before Sept.
1 1 and I'm looking forward to
delivering (them]," she says.

Duffy, who says she likes to
quilt when it's raining, knows
how wonderful it can feel to
be wrapped in something
made with such care. It is why
she'll keep coming home
from work, heading for her
sewing machine and shipping
quilts to Iowa and New York.
Til keep going until they say
everybody has a quilt."

Editor's note: Outlook's feature, extracurricular, will take occasion-
al glimpses into university employees' Hues outside of their day
jobs. We welcome story suggest Ions; call Monette Austin Bailey at
O01) 405-4629 or send tbem to outtook@accmatl.umd.edu.

gift of citizenship. The poem
was first published in April
1999 and was dedicated at
that time to C. D. Mote in
honor of his inauguration as
the 27th president of the Uni-
versity of Maryland. I hope the
poem is as meaningful today
as it was before, for it is meant
to express the sentiments of all
immigrants, Including Arab-
Americans such as myself, who
have gratefully received the
bounty of America.

The Bounty of America

dedicated to CD. Mote Jr.

Mother of brave men and beau-
tiful women,

Accept the love of your new-
born babe,

Whose first days sing your glo-
ries and your power.

In you Time's contradictions

have been reconciled:

Young yet so wise; I see your

pride in your great Rockies;

Your humility in your prairie

lands;

In your great forests I hear the

drums of ancient wars

But on the shores of your lakes

my ears capture the symphony

of universal peace.

i feel your gentleness in your
sweet streams.

Your slender birches and ever-
green leaves.

And I feel your strength in your
mighty waterfalls,
The great expanses of land, of
snow and of wood.

Humble and proud I come to you:

Humble to receive your gift of a

new life;

Proud because I do not come

empty of hand

But bring my own gifts of noble

blood

And of the fairest fruits of my

ancient land.

My heart rejoices in the thought
That I have been chosen to
receive the gift of this new life
In the magnificence of your two
hundred and twentieth year,
When you have been most fer-
tile and productive
And when you have become
the center of adoration of
All the worlds of both East and
West.

I make my pledge:

I have come to serve you well;

I have come to till your great

land

And beautify your fifty fertile

fields

And fill your sky with song and

laughter;

I have come to give but never

to ask —

To sacrifice in your love, but

never to expect anything in

return.

I have come to erect the edifice
of your glory

With my other brothers, the
Indian, the Eskimo, the European,
theAsian and theAfrican;

And in your love be united with

the Red, the White, the Yellow

and the Black

1 have come to embrace every

one of your religions,

So diat I become one with the

Indian and the Hindu, the Jew

and the Christian,

the Muslim and the Baha't.

How rich you are in your many

sons,

In your many faiths, and in your

thousand tongues.

First time bom I was one —
Today I come to you two in one
and one in two
Enriched a million times
By my beautiful wife, my life.

Let them who have many

doubts hear in my voice

All men's faith in you;

Let them who cannot recognize

your light

See in my dawn the glories of

your resplendent sunshine;

Let the whole earth hear my

joyous song

For I have found in you the love

of my ancient land;

The seat of majesty, the happy

land, and the shape of the world

yet to come.

Let those who are a hundred
years old

See in the new-born babe
The dream of their yesterdays.
The strength of their today, and
The hope of their future years.

A conversation with Gary
Gerstle, professor of history

I continue to be impressed by
the refusal to stigmatize all
Muslim Americans as a danger-
ous group. Of course there is
plenty of racial profiling going
on, and the civil liberties of some
Muslim Americans have been
violated. But if we compare the
treatment of Muslim Americans
today with German Americans
in Worid War I and Japanese
Americans in World War II, we
can discern a difference, a move
toward greater tolerance, espe-
cially on the part of the country's
official leaders. In this respect,
President George Bush's visit to
a mosque shortly after 9/1 1 to
declare his opposition to stig-
matizing all Muslims as terror-
ists or as evil or as un-American
was very significant. No Ameri-
can president tried something
similar with regard to the Ger-
mans and the Japanese.

This tolerance, in my eyes,
testifies to the triumph of what
I call "soft multicultural ism." a
multiculturalism that recognizes
that the strength of America lies
in the diversity of its religions,
races, and peoples. It declares
the possibility of being strongly
allied both to a particular group
and to the nation as whole. in
contrast to "hard multicultural-
ism," which sees little possibility
of reconciliation between one's
racial group and one's nation.
Soft multiculturalism did not tri-
umph as a result of 9/1 1 ; that
triumph has been in the works

for about a decade.

The harder question to
answer is how deeply Ameri-
cans feel this new patriotism —
how much does it mean to
them? What and how much are
they willing to give to their
nation or sacrifice for it? Since
so few of us have been asked to
give much since the emergency
of 9/11 subsided, it is hard to
know. Relatively few Americans
have been asked to serve in the
military or to make economic
sacrifices for the sake of securi-
ty. We do endure longer lines at
airports, but I wouldn't count
that as a big sacrifice.

It would be foolish to suggest
that racism has ended or that
racial exclusion has ceased to
be a factor on the American
scene. One has only to look at
the faces of the firemen who
died in New York to realize diat
the fire department remains a
profoundly raciaUzed institu-
tion. In a New York Times pic-
ture of them all, virtually all
were white, very few were
black or Hispanic. And, to the
extent that we have made the
New York fireman into a new
kind of American hero, we have
once again suggested that our
heroes, the people who are
thought to embody the best
American values, are white.

So, even in this hopeful time
of community and nation-build-
ing that transcends racial lines,
we can see the possibility of
older racial divisions being re in-
vigorated.

Reflections from Miranda

Schreurs, associate profes-
sor of comparative politics

There were a couple of inci-
dents [against Muslim Amer-
icans) diat showed how it is all
too easy for ethnic groups to
get targeted. Some people, who
are non-Americans, have men-
tioned to me that neighbors
asked them why they were not
hanging the American flag.

If we look at the way Asians
were treated even pre-World
War II, the media may have
been as responsible as the pub-
lic. The images: calling them
Japs and the yellows. But the
media has gotten a whole lot
more progressive in dealing
with racial issues. It boldly
raised the question of the treat-
ment of Afghan prisoners at
Guantanamo Bay.The media is
championing their rights.

A number of people of Japan-
ese origin mentioned that they
found it a little uncomfortable,
especially in the few weeks
after the attacks, because a lot
of comparisons were being
made between the terrorist
attacks and Pearl Harbor.

However, the crisis did bring
us together more than it sepa-
rated us. The world was largely
united and that was remarkable.
Where is some of that unity
going? We have to be careful
about where we are going with
international relations.

OUTLOOK

The Division of Student Affairs
and the Department of
Resident Life would like to
thank the following people for their
participation in the Faculty/ Staff
Move-In Program. They made
Move-In Day for Fall 2002 one of
the best ever!

Amelia Simmons, administrative assis-
tant, Office of Campus Programs

Andrea Goodwin, assistant director,
Office of Judicial Programs

Barbara Gill, director, Office of Under-
graduate Admissions

Barbara Goldberg, co-coordinator.
Returning Students Programs

Barbara Jacoby, director. Commuter
Affairs and Community Service

Beverly Greenf eig, co-coordinator.
Returning Students Program

Britt Skjonsbv, graduate assistant,
Transfer Admissions

Brooke Supple, chief of staff, Office of
the Vice President of Student Affairs

Douglas Boykins, medical assistant,
University Health Center

Elizabeth Zapata, administrative assis-
tant. University Health Center

Gene Logan, assistant director, Financial
Aid

Huan-Chung Scott Liu, counselor.
Counseling Center

Jackie Geter-Hunter, assistant director,
Undergraduate Admissions

Jane Wieboldt, coordinator of Faculty
and Staff Training, Office of Information
Technology

Janet Alessandrin, administrative assis-
tant, Campus Recreation Center

Jim Osteen, director. Union and Campus
Programs

John Zacker, director, Student Discipline

Julie Luce, Coordinator, Memorial
Chapel

Julie Parsons, coordinator, Eating Disor-
ders Program

Kate Innes, limited enrollment program
coordinator, Office of Undergraduate Admis-
sions

Kathleen Maroney, assistant director,
University Golf Course

Katy Casserly, coordinator, Student
Involvement Programs

Larry Evans, special assistant to the vice
president. Office of the Vice President for
Student Affairs

Linda Clement, vice president, Student
Affairs

Linn T. Nghe, counselor. Counseling
Center

Marilyn Kauffman, assistant to the vice
president. Office of the Vice President for
Student Affairs

Marsha Guenzler-Stevens, director of
activities, Union and Campus Programs

Mary Pattricia Teller, account clerk.
Stamp Student Union

Neruh Ramirez, admissions counselor,
Office of Undergraduate Admissions

Pat Johnston, coordinator, Health and
Education Services

Rebecca Shepherd, manager, Golf Shop
Operations

Reshanda Grace-Bridges, housing man-
ager, Conference and Visitor Services

Robin Weeks, business manager, Stamp
Student Union

Samantha Jones, coordinator for special
admissions programs and scholarships,
Office of Undergraduate Admissions

Shirley Browner, academic skills coun-
selor. Learning Assistance Service

Susan Warren, associate director, Con-
ference and Visitor Services

Thomas Pitchf ord, fraternity advisor.
Union and Campus Programs

Tracey Jamison, assistant director,
Undergraduate Admissions

Tracy Lee, counselor, Financial Aid

Smith School to Introduce
Executive MBA Program

The university's Robert H.
Smith School of Business will
launch its first executive
MBA (EMBA) program in Jan-
uary 2003. The program will run over
the course of 18 months, with 35 posi-
tions available in the first class. It is
designed to not only provide a quality
executive education to managers, but
also to focus on the educational and
developmental needs of the compa-
nies that sponsor the participants.

"At a time when corpora-
tions are focused on man-
aging costs more effec-
tively, it is critical that
EMBA programs deliv-
er exceptional and
immediate value to
sponsoring firms.
The Smith School
program will do that,"
said Dean Howard
Frank. "Our EMBA is based
on a systematic approach to
management, and will be relevant,
practical and applicable from the
moment participating executives walk
out the door."

The Smith School program consists
of three integrated modules: founda-
tion, project and mastery. The program
begins with the school's strong MBA
core as the foundation, and integrates
four critical mastery skills courses
throughout the curriculum. The mas-
tery skills courses focus on the areas
of technology, communications, ethics

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and corporate citizenship and leader-
ship and creativity.

The program also incorporates an
action-learning engagement project for
die sponsoring company. This project
enables the firm to tie the participant's
learning to specific company needs
and to benefit direcdy from the work
the participant does during the pro-
gram.The projects account for nearly
20 percent of the curriculum or

approximately 10 of the 54 credits
required for the degree.

"The action project
allows enrolled execu-
tives to not only gain
valuable skills and
knowledge, but to
tackle real issues cur-
rendy facing their
particular compa-
nies," said Scott Koer-
wer, associate dean and
director of the Smith
School's Office of Executive
Education. "Whatever issue is
selected, whether it's the introduction
of a new product, or even developing
a merger strategy, executives will carry
out projects that provide real benefit
to their organizations."

Anil Gupta, Ralph J.Tyser Professor
of Strategy and Organization at the
Smith School, will lead as the academic
director. The application deadline for
the 2003 class is Dec. 1 . More informa-
tion about the program is available at
http ://ee . rhsmith. umd.edu/emba.

Training Employees to Lead

Dingman Center Helps Small Businesses

PHOTO B¥ JEFF HEEBNER

Deborah Uttz of CPAMoneyWatch.com offers instruction to a participant during the
Oracle program. Her company has a partnership with the center.

Representatives from a number of small- to mid-sized
Maryland businesses stopped by the Smith School's
Netrentric Financial Markets Laboratory recendy for a
full day of training on a new e-business application. The businesses
were selected to take part in the Dingman Center for
Entrepreneurship/Oracle Small Business Assistance Program, spon-
sored by the Dingman Center. The program provides selected busi-
nesses with free access to the Oracle Small Business Suite, a new
Web-based platform for managing various small business functions.
The businesses also get free training through the Dingman Center's
partnership with CPAMoneyWatch.com. The Oracle program is
part of the "eMaryland" initiative, passed by the legislature in 2000
to speed technology growth and adoption throughout the state.
For more information, visit www.rhsmith.umd.edu/dingman/
oracle.htm.

Notable

Tom Wilson recently assumed the
position of director, information
technology, for the University
Libraries. He was the head of sys-
tems at the University of Houston
(UH) Libraries where he managed
the information technology needs
Of the main library and its branch-
es and oversaw an integrated
library system shared by Uiree
campuses of the UH System.

Fays S. Taxman, associate research
professor in the Department of
Criminology and Criminal Justice
and director of the Bureau of Gov-
ernmental Research of the Univer-
sity of Maryland Center for Applied
Policy Studies (UMCAPS) was
awarded the University of Cincin-
nati Award by the American Proba-
tion and Parole Association, The
award is given to a researcher or
non-practitioner that has made sig-
nificant contributions to the field
of supervision. Taxman is known
for her work in the nexus between
the treatment and criminal justice
system and systemic approaches
Most recently she has been work-
ing with the Maryland Division of
Parole and Probation in a series of
studies and technical assistance to
reframe supervision services to
incorporate evidenccd-based sci-
entific practices.

Bob Stumpff , coordinator of Gener-
al Services in the Department of
Building and Landscape Services,
was elected chair of the Maryland
Recycling Coalition board of direc-
tors for the 2002-2003 academic
year. Stumpff has been coordinat-
ing the university recycling effort
since Facilities Management
became involved in 1993.

Helen Hull, graduate assistant in the
Office of English Undergraduate
Studies, received the Provost Acad-
emic Advisor Award for being "a
fantastic resource" and for "improv-
ing colleagues' and students' lives."

Margaret M. Pearson, professor
with the Department of Govern-
ment and Politics, has been award-
ed a Fulbright Scholar grant to do
research this semester at Beijing
University. She will study the emer-
gence of China's regulatory state.

Corporate and Foundation Rela-
tions welcomes two new mem-
bers: Sandra Waldrop as administra-
tive assistant and Koli Banik as
graduate assistant. For the last
three years, Waldrop has been
with the Career Center, where she
organized career fairs and sched-
uled on<ampus interviews. Banik
will be assisting with research and
proposal development. She is
entering the doctorate program in
education policy and leadership
after four years coordinating the
Vietnam Fellowship Program at
the Population Council in New
York City.

SEPTEMBER 10, 2002

In Memoriam

Comptroller's
Office Loses
Friend,
Family Man

The Office of Contract
and Grant Accounting is
heartbroken to announce
the sudden death of Den-
nis M.Trimble, a 25-year
employee of the universi-
ty. Trimble spent his entire
career within the Comp-
troller's Office working in
various aspects of spon-
sored project administra-
tion. Most recently he
acted as the university's
representative to the fed-
eral government for prop-
erty reporting.

Colleagues knewTrim-
ble as a man who took
care of his family, especial-
ly his nieces and
nephews. He was an avid
gardener with a passion
for azaleas. He was well
known around campus for
his zeal for exercise and
would be seen dairy work-
ing out at one of the cam-
pus facilities Trimble, 53,
died after collapsing dur-
ing a workout two weeks
ago.

He is survived by his
long-time companion,
Maria Perrotta, his mother
Eileen Trimble, 12 broth-
ers and sisters and his
nieces and nephews.
Funeral services were
held Thursday, Aug. 29 at
St Mary's Catholic Church
in Landover Hills, Md.

Maryland Leadership Institute
Students Desire to Change the World

This summer marked the seventh
year that the Maryland School of
Public Affairs has hosted the
Maryland Leadership Institute in Public
Policy and International Affairs.The
seven- week, residential program brings
together 3 1 academically talented under-
graduate students from across the coun-
try to learn about the world of public
policy and international affairs.

Some of the students in this year's
program were born to be public ser-
vants. Crystal Frierson knew at age 1 5
that she could "change the world."

"I attended a summer foreign policy
program at Georgetown University after
my freshman year in high school and
knew instandy that I wanted to live in
D.C. and pursue a degree in political sci-
ence," she said.

Mark Lopez, an instructor with the
institute and a research assistant profes-
sor with the School of Public Affairs, said
students come into the program with
clear goals such as Crystal's. They know
what they want to do, and just need
some help to get there.

"Most of my discussions with students
are about what graduate school they
should go to to achieve this. I advise
them on schools based on their skills
and what they want to do. r

Crystal is now at Howard University
pursuing a career in the Foreign Service.
She was president of the Howard Col-
lege Democrats and coordinated student
panic! pat ion forAl Gore's visit to
Howard during the Gore/Lieberman
2000 campaign. Crystal was selected to
introduce Gore at the nationally tele-
vised event. She also worked with the
African Office of the United States Trade
Representative (USTR) where she
helped with office preparations for Pres-
ident Clinton's trip to Nigeria in 2001.

"I worked extensively on the imple-
mentation of the African Growth and
Opportunity Act, a legislative effort to
create sustainable trade relationships
with sub-Saharan Africa."

Crystal hopes that the Maryland Lead-
ership Institute will prepare her for grad-
uate-level quantitative courses and pro-
vide her with a chance to learn from
peers with similar interests.

Karlo Marcelo, a University of Mary-
land student, says he also became inter-
ested in public service in high school.

"Participating in the National Youth
Leadership Conference and my high
school government classes were the fun-
damental drivers behind my newfound
ambition to create change."

A visit to the Philippines helped Karlo
focus on environmental policy issues. "I
realized that the poor air and water qual-
ity were not indigenous to Manila and
could be better managed."

Karlo plans to pursue a master's in
public policy and expects the Maryland
program to broaden his growing interest
in international security policy research
and analysis.

Students participated in a series of
policy-related activities, including a two-
day symposium on current issues in pub-
lic policy and international affairs hosted
by Howard University. Senior Diplomat
in Residence June Carter Perry
addressed the group, along with George
Dalley, counsel to Congressman Charles
B . Rangel, who spoke on "The Role of
Congress in U.S. Foreign Pohcy." Patricia
Norman of the Department of State
addressed the issue of "Bilateral Rela-
tions:Trade & Border Challenges for the
21st Century."

Brown bag luncheons were held on
the subject of "Homeland Security in
the Era of Terrorism," conducted by John
Steinbruner of the Center for Interna-
tional and Security Studies at Maryland
(CISSM). Lauri Fitz-Pegado, former assis-
tant secretary and director general of the
U.S. and Foreign Commercial Service at
the Department of Commerce gave a
talk on careers in international affairs.

— Makeba Clay, director,
Maryland Leadership Institute

West Nile: Campus
Takes Precautions

Continued from page 1

storm management
ponds and wetiands,
and works with the
state of Maryland mos-
quito control unit to
coordinate application
of environmentally safe
larvicide to kill mosqui-
to larvae. This summer,
the state applied larvi-
cide to areas of stand-
ing water on the uni-
versity campus on June
2 and 25, July 17 and
Aug. 2. Because of the
possible toxic effects
of chemical insecticide
on humans, the univer-
sity does not spray to
control adult mosqui-
toes-
University Facilities
Management personnel
also look for and report
standing water on
rooftops and other
areas where rainwater
could collect. Because
of the dry summer, hi-
de or no water has
accumulated. Standing
water must be present
for at least a week for
the cycle of mosquito
egg-laying and hatching
to take place. Interior
standing water, such as
that occasionally found
in mechanical areas, is
reported and attended

to immediately. Mosqui-
toes that breed indoors
and have not lived out-
side have no way of
being exposed to the
virus.

While dead birds and
other animals are not
necessarily a problem,
they may be an indica-
tion of WNV The uni-
versity immediately
removes animal car-
casses found on cam-
pus and takes them to
the Central Animal
Resources Faculty. The
animals are reported to
the state department of
public health.

What can I do to
reduce my risk of
being bitten by a
mosquito?

• When outdoors, use
insect repellant that
contains DEET. A DEET
content of 10 to 50
percent is sufficient.

• Wear light colored,
long-sleeved shirts and
long pants outdoors.

• Avoid outdoor activi-
ties from dusk to
dawn.

• Avoid mosquito-
infested areas such as
marshes and wetlands.

eport standing water and
dead animals to Work Control
at (301) 405-2222.

Security: University Hosts Forum for a Variety of Views

Continued from page 1

ty and Sen. Paul Sarbanes were
also invited to participate in
the Sept. 19-20 conference.

"This conference has a broad
spectrum of speakers that [rep
resent] many of the different
aspects of what homeland
security is," said Dennis O'Con-
nor, dean of the graduate
school and vice president for

■

Conference attendance will
be limited to the first 400
paid registrants.

Registration fee is $90 and
can be paid with Visa,
Master Card or American
Express credit cards. However,
electronic credit card payments
cannot be made. To pay with a
credit card, prim out the com-
pleted payment form (available
at www.ndu.edu/inss/symposia/
jointops02/regist.html) and fax
it to (202) 685-3866. To pay by
check, please make it payable
to "NDU Symposia Committee"
and mail the registration form

research.

The conference will look
back at Sept. 1 1 and examine
progress made in the past year,
faculty member Timothy Coffey
said. "The fact that it's being
held roughly a year later is not
accidental."

Called "Homeland Security:
The Cml-Miiitary Dimensions,"

and check to:

National Defense University
Insititue for National Strate-
gic Studies (symposia)
300 5th Ave., Marshall Hall
Fort McNair
Washington, D.C. 20319-5066

Vouchers <DD Form 1556 or
Standard Form 182) can-
not be accepted for this fee.
Registrations must be received
by Sept. 12, after that date
requests for refunds will not be
accepted. For more informa-
tion, call (202) 685-3857 or visit
www.ndu.edu/inss/symposia/
jaintops02/agenda.himl.

the event will provide a forum
to discuss civil as well as mili-
tary issues relating to homeland
security, said Marine Corps Col.
Steven Tomisek, a National Def-
ense University (NDU) home-
land security research fellow.

The agendaqtrovides for dis-
cussion on domestic prepared-
ness for the possibility of future
attacks, the role of the armed
forces, science and technology
and the protection of civil liber-
ties.

More importandy, the confer-
ence is a "nexus between civil-
ian views of homeland security
and the views of the depart-
ment of defense regarding their
roles in homeland security,"
Coffey said.

Also recognizing that defense
of the country involves more
than the military, the university
formed the Council for Security
and CounterTerrorism studies
in October 2001 to address its
contribution to assessing,
researching and resolving the
variety of homeland defense
issues stemming from last

year's attacks.

The council, made up of fac-
ulty from several colleges and
departments at the university,
coordinated with NDU adminis-
tration and faculty to organize
the conference, councU Chair-
man Coffey said.

But perhaps one of the most
significant and relevant discus-
sion topics for the conference
will be President Bush's pro-
posed Department of Home-
land Security, Tomisek said. The
creation of a new department
would be "the most extensive
reorganization of the federal
government since the 1 940s,"
the president said in a state-
ment when he submitted the
proposed legislation to Con-
gress.

Tomisek said the proposed
department addresses the ques-
tion of whether the federal gov-
ernment is organized in an
effective and efficient manner
to confront the new threat of
terrorism that the country
faces.

Unlike the university, which

only recently became involved
with homeland security, the
Defense University researches
and evaluates homeland
defense and other military
issues as part of the everyday
curriculum. In fact, the confer-
ence is this year's topic in one
of four major symposia organ-
ized and sponsored by the
NDU each year.

The university's participation
in the conference, however,
offers a wider audience with
diverse interests and expertise,
which reflect the contrasting
issues associated with home-
land security.

"Universities have historical-
ly been the marketplace for the
free exchange of ideas and I
think it's important to share
thoughts on these issues and to
examine the implications of
proposed actions " O'Connor
said.

— Christine Hines, courtesy of

The Diamondback

(original article appeared

Aug. 1,2002)

OUTLOOK

Winning an Award for
Educating the World

PHOTO COURTESY OF MIKE EWBBEV

Mike Embrey with one of his beekeeping Turkmenistan colleagues, who goes only by
the name Professor Narkuly.

Administrators and directors
received Board of Regents
staff awards this summer,
and so did a beekeeper
named Michael Embrey.

His official title is agricultural tech-
nician supervisor for the Department
of Entomology, but it is Embrey's
extensive extracurricular work to
educate schoolchildren and the pub-
lic about beekeeping that earned him
the Extraordinary Public Service-
Nonexempt award. According to a
nomination letter written by his
supervisor Galen Dively, a professor
from entomology, Embrey "has devel-
oped an outstanding educational pro-
gram for beekeepers and the general
public. Since 1996, Mike has been
very active in the Maryland State Bee-
keepers Association — serving on
committees, organizing meetings, giv-
ing presentations, and problem-shoot-
ing hive troubles via on-site visits to
member beekeepers,"

Embrey writes a quarterly
newsletter, Bee News, and speaks
frequendy locally and abroad.
Though he is not a Maryland Coop-
erative Extension agent, his outreach
apiculture work on the Eastern
Shore often has him functioning as
one. This outreach came to the atten-
tion of Winrock International's
Farmer-to-Farmer program. He
helped develop a tour for visiting
Bulgarian beekeepers to bee
colonies in Maryland, Pennsylvania
and North Carolina. Embrey was
then asked to work with a group of
beekeepers in Turkmenistan, which
is in Central Asia between Iran and
Afghanistan.

"I've been there three times. I will
be going for a fourth time on October
2," says Embrey "Since 1999,Ihave
had assignments for beekeeping proj-
ects all over the world. I've been to
Russia, Bulgaria and Bangladesh. Bee-
keeping is more economically impor-
tant over there than here in the states.
Beekeeping has a long tradition."

It is a full-time job for many in the
third world. Complicated mobile
honey-collecting businesses roam
through Russia with hives for pollina-
tion and honey Owners live in small
cabins attached to trucks or on trail-
ers and ask farmers to allow then

bees to pollinate crops, while they
produce honey that can be sold in
honey shops. "Beekeepers make more
than fanners," says Embrey.

Embrey co-launched a honey pro-
cessing cooperative managed by
women in Turkmenistan and is begin-
ning work on another. He is also
working to form a national beekeep-
ing association.

He began his beekeeping work as a
volunteer 14 years ago. Bob Rouse, a
small fruit and orchard extension spe-
cialist, needed someone to raise bees
at the university's Wye Research and
Education Center to pollinate crops.
The university's extension apiculturist
offered Embrey a crash course in the
field and the ag technician took it a
step further by looking for others on
the Eastern Shore interested in learn-
ing to keep bees.

In 1996 when the extension apicul-
turalist left to go to the USDA bee lab-
oratory in Tucson, Embrey didn't want
to leave those other people in the
lurch so he continued training others
on his own."I had a support system
already developed," says Embrey

One of his supporters is Dively,
with whom Embrey has worked for in
developing integrated pest manage-
ment systems. Embrey says that expe-
rience has easily integrated with his
work with honeybees. Bees, which
are critically needed for human food
supplies, have pests that threaten
their existence. Bees have mites that
drink their blood.The only chemicals
available to fight them have become
obsolete because the mites developed
a resistance to them. It lias become
important to develop some pest man-
agement strategies for beekeepers to
aid in contoliing these mites, says
Embrey.

He will continue to help others
develop their beekeeping skills, in
this country and elsewhere. He is rais-
ing funds to take back to Turk-
menistan so that the honey coopera-
tives can buy equipment and take
computer and English classes. He
especially wants to bolster the
women's cooperatives.

"There's a saying, 'If you teach a
man, a man learns. If you teach a
woman, a family learns,' says Embrey.
"It will be passed on."

Grant: Students, Faculty Benefit

Continued from page 1

1992 is exemplary. It
is also a testament to
the college's pro-
gram. It's not univer-
sal for undergraduates
to do die amount of
research being done
in her college, and
that is part of its
strength. "These
aren't just summer-
long or semester
internships," she said.
"These are amazing
students. They
accomplish so much
and this is not the
only thing they are

doing. We have one
student that is major-
ing in physics and
biotechnology,"

Between 70 and 75
students work under

HHMI fellowships, with Thompson coordi-
nating outside activities and recruitment.
Competitive on more than one level, the
program allows undergraduates to work
on research projects for up to one year
(with a one- to two-year renewable
option) under the supervision of a faculty
mentor. The university's $1 .8 million
award, said Thompson, will allow her to
strengthen undergraduate course offer-
ings, increase outreach efforts to pre-col-
lege students and biology teachers and
give faculty more release time to devote
to research. "And this gives them time to
be resources for students,"

Thompson, whose research interests
include play behavior in juvenile mam-
mals and chemical communication's role
in controlling reproductive physiology,
also wants to work on student develop-
ment and preparing them for teaching
careers. "What we've done for the last sev-
eral years is to take a careful look at the

it ■

PHOTO COURTESY OF KACI THOMPSON

Hojun Li works in organic chemistry, studying the self-assembly
properties of the guanosine DNA base and Its potential as art artificial
ion channel through cell membranes. He plans to graduate in Spring
2005, with departmental honors in both biochemistry and math.

students' needs and the undergraduate
curriculum to make sure it reflects mod-
ern biology," she said. "But it's a moving
target. Now this grant will let us take a
broad look at what we're doing."

Maryland is one of 44 major research
universities chosen to share $80 million in
awards from the institute, which is a med-
ical research organization dedicated to
basic biomedical research and education.
Students receive stipends of $1 ,200 per
semester and $2,600 per summer, or up to
$5,000 per year after successfully submit-
ting a formal grant proposal. It is much
like the process Thompson went through
to secure the funding.

"We thought we had a really great pro-
posal, but nothing is guaranteed. It's getting
more competitive every year," she said.

"We're very lucky to have the students
we have. It's easy to make a case for con-
tinued funding because of what they have
accomplished."

Fire Safety: Raising Questions

Continued from page 1

illations as part of the
problem. He hopes
thatanew $l6mil-
lion study being con-
ducted by the Nation-
al Institute of Stan-
dards and Technology
will be thorough
enough to answer
some of the issues his
and diMarzo's ques-
tions raise.

"Ours is an
assumption, though
very substantive. It
needs to be looked at
further, refuted or val-
idated," said diMarzo.
"Then you have a les-
son learned. It doesn't
diminish the terrify-
ing event or the
responsibility of the
terrorists."

"If the buildings
fell down because of poor
fire safety, should we
attack Afghanistan?" asked
Quintiere. "Sure, you pun-
ish those who started this,
but there has to be some
attention to fire safety
issues as well"

PHOTO COURTESY OF JAMES OUINTIEHE

Professors James Quintiere, left, and Marino diMarzo at the seventh
meeting of the International Association for Fire Safety in Worcester,
Mass. in June.

for their paper's basis
came from a thick Federal
Emergency Management
Agency publication," World
Trade Center Building Per-
formance Study: data col-
lection, preliminary obser-
vations and recommenda-

tions," Quintiere said while
the publication offers little
analysis, it is an excellent
place to begin given its
wealth of structural specifi-
cations on each of the
buildings affected. Quin-
tiere points to building reg-

SEPTEMBER 10, 2002

Finding Ways to Give
Back

Interested in giving back
and making a difference in
the community? Then
drop by the Community
Service Corner at the First
Look Fair. More than 30
service organizations will
be recruiting volunteers
on bothwedncsday.Sept.

25 from 10 a.m. until 4
p.m., and Thursday, Sept.

26 from 10 a.m. until 2
p.m. Agencies such as So
Others May Eat,Ameri-
Corps, Greenbelt Cares
and many more will be on
hand to share information
on service opportunities.
Everyone is welcome, so
be sure to stop by Mc-
Kelclin Mall to see the
many service opportuni-
ties. The event is spon-
sored by Community Ser-
vice Programs.

For more information
about the Community Ser-
vice Corner or about serv-
ice in general, call (301)
314-CARE.

Leadership Society
Seeks Honorees

Omicron Delta Kappa
would like faculty and
staff to help them find and
reward student leaders in
five areas of community
life: scholarship; campus
or community service,
social, religious activities
and campus government;
athletics; journalism,
speech and the mass
media; and the creative
arts. A mini mini GPA of
320 for juniors, 3.25 for
seniors and 3.80 for gradu-
ate students is required to
be considered for mem-
bership. Applications can
be picked up in the office
of Stamp Student Union
and Campus Programs,
1136 Stamp Student
Union. For more informa-
tion, call (301) 314-7174
or 314*502.

World Energy Policy
Conference

An array of important
speakers and delegates
from government, industry
and academia will con-
verge on the university for
the World Energy Policy in
the 21st Century confer-
ence, Sept, 16 to 18.

The conference will fea-
ture discussions on issues
in three different dimen-
sions of energy policy:
technological, economic
and socio-political. Orga-
nizers aim to provide a
forum that will maximize
the fostering and exchange
of new ideas. The depart-
ments of Geology and
Meterology and the School
of Public Affairs are among
the many sponsoring
groups from industry, gov-

ernment and academia.
For more information,
contact Julio Friedmann at
juliof @geoI. umd.edu. For a
list of speakers and regis-
tration information, visit
www.geol.umd.edu/~juliof
/Energy PolicyWebsite/
Energy _Homepage . htm .

Turkish Belly Dance
Classes

Explore the world of Turk-
ish Belly Dance. Two class-
es will be offered this fall
at the Art and Learning
Center in B0 107 Stamp
Student Union. The first
class focuses on technique
(6 to 7:30 p.m.) and the
second on fitness training
through belly dance (4:30
to 6 p.m.). Both classes
begin Tuesday, Sept. 10 and
continue for six weeks.
The cost is $50 for stu-
dents and $55 for faculty
and staff.

For more information,
contact the Art and Learn-
ing Center at (301) 314-
ARTS or asimon@union.
umd.edu, or visit www.
union . umd .edu/artcen ter.

Library Copy Cards

Campus departments can
now purchase and add
value to library photocopy
cards with a university
purchasing card. Internal
Services Requests can no
longer be accepted. A
campus department form
to purchase a copy card is
available in the "Get a Pho-
tocopy Card" section of
the Web site.

For more information,
contact MarkWilkerson at
(301) 405-9057 or mwl06
©umail.umd.edu, or visit
www. lib. umd. edu/copy.

Talk About Teaching

Join the Center Alliance for
School Teachers (CAST)
for Talk About Teaching, a
series of informal school-
university conversations.
Students, classroom teach-
ers and administrators
from schools and commu-
nity colleges are welcome.
Bring a dozen copies of a
lesson plan to share with
colleagues. Sessions meet
from 4: 1 5 to 5:30 p.m. in
the Conference Room of
the Center for Renaissance
& Baroque Studies, 01 35
Taliaferro Hall. Examination
copies of new text materi-
als and refreshments will
be provided.

• September 12: Ancient
Greece: Interdisciplinary
Instruction

• October 10:Writing:
Rubric-Based Assessment

For more information,
contact Nancy Traubitz at
(301) 405-6833 or
nt32@umail.umd.edu, or
visit www.inform.umd.
edu/crbs/programs/cast/.

Chesapeake Champions: A Little
Softball on a Summer Day

PHOTO BV M0NETTE AUSTIN HAILEV

Cheering loudly, the team from the comptroller's office shows
who won the Chesapeake Building championship softball
tournament last week, with a score of 1 1 -3 against the per-
sonnel department. Co-ed teams from the Department of
Environmental Safety and Purchasing also participated.

Memorial Service Planned

FILE PHOTO BY CYNTHIA MITCHEL

Banners filled by thoughts written by members of our community on Sept. 12 last
year will be displayed around the Mall as part of the Sept. 11 memorial this week.

To commemorate the
events of Sept. 11, the
campus community is
invited to attend a memorial
service, "Remembrance of the
Past, Hope for the Future," to be
held on McKeldm Mall,
Wednesday, Sept. 1 1 . A group of
students, chaplains and staff have
been planning an event that
seeks to honor those lives lost
and build on the unity that grew
out of our collective pain.

The morning will begin
with a vigil from 8:30-10:30
a.m., during which time the
names of all of those who died
will be read and the moments
when the planes crashed and the
World Trade Towers fell will be
marked with the laying of
wreathes and banners. A brief
program held from 10:30-11:00
a.m. will feature music, a
moment of silence and com-
ments by President Dan Mote,
Student Government Association

President Brandon DeFrehn and
Graduate Student Government
President Alfredo Perez, In addi-
tion, the banners filled by
thoughts written by members of
our community throughout the
day on Sept. 12 last year will be
displayed around the Mall.

Recognizing that students,
faculty and staff will each deter-
mine the most appropriate man-
ner to remember Sept. 11, the
campus has elected to remain
open on a regular schedule. For
some, comfort and security can
be found in niaintaming routine
activities. Classes will be held
and offices will be open for the
regular workday. Everyone is
eneouraged to be sensitive to
the needs of members of our
community who may have spe-
cial needs on this day of remem-
brance and reflection.

With specific questions, con-
tact Pat Perfetto at
pperfett@accrnail.uind.edu .