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THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND FACULTY AND STAFF WEEKLY NEWSPAPER Volume )S • Number 7 * Offolifr J <j , i i

Tropical Forests:

The Good,
The Bad and
The Data

A University of Maryland-led
team of researchers has dis-
covered good and bad news
about the world's tropical
forests. The good news, accord-
ing to Jead researcher Ruth
DeFries, is that less tropical for-
est was destroyed over the past
two decades dian United
Nations estimates had indicated.
This means less carbon dioxide,
a major greenhouse gas, entered
the atmosphere from burning
and decaying vegetation.

The study's bad news is that
the rate of tropical deforestation
increased from the 1980s to the
1990s rather than decreasing as
shown by U.N. numbers. Car-
bon dioxide (C0 2 ) emissions
from tropical deforestation
increased between the two
decades as a result. The study is
scheduled for publication this
week in the Proceedings of die
National Academy of Sciences.

DeFries and co-authors
Richard Houghton of Woods
Hole Research Center, Christo-
pher Field of the Carnegie Insti-
tution of Washington, Matthew
Hansen and John Townshend of
Maryland and David Skole of
Michigan State University are
the first to provide measures of
how much tropical deforesta-
tion occurred during the past

See STUDY, page 3

New Sports Arena Ready for Duty

PHOTO 9¥ CYMTH1A MITCH6L

The eight-sided scoreboard is one of many state-of-the-art features of the new Comcast Center, where
the Terps will play basketball beginning this season.

It features three times the concession
stands and eight times the rest-
rooms— with more man half of the
units for women — as Cole Field
House. An additional one hundred and
fifty seats are for the disabled and a Terp
merchandise store is conveniendy located
inside. It is the Comcast Center.

Designed to give fans a full experi-
ence, the center also boasts a Heritage

Hall that features an Athletic Hall of
Fame, parking for 6,000 and 20 suites
each with its own restroom. Concession
stands are positioned so that lines don't
interfere with the flow of traffic through
the venue and concession carte will offer
other opportunities to buy food and
drink. Also, Dining Services can now

See COMCAST CENTER, page 6

Considering the
World's Financial

Systems

With the collapse of Argenti-
na's financial system as a
hackdrop. a forum featuring some
- of die university's top economists
gathered recently to discuss ques-
tions also pondered in the nadon's
capital by World Bank and Interna-
tional Monetary Fund officials.

Sponsored by the Center for
International Economics and the
School of Public Affairs, "Financial
Globalization, Currency Crises, and
the Financial System Collapse in
Argentina: What's Next and What
Can the Leading Global Institu-
tions Do About it?" attempted to
put some of the critical questions
out for discussion and stimulate
thinking about what may be
learned from Argentina, once held
up as a model for emerging coun-
tries.

"Questions about the nature of
our trade laws, the WTO [World
Trade Organization J, short- and
long-term capital flows, the bene-
fits of global financial markets, the
role of the international financial
institutions in promoting growth
and fighting poverty fuel heated
and very divergent views," said
Edward Montgomery, senior associ-
ate dean of the College of Behav-
ioral and Social Sciences, during an
introduction.

Guillermo Calvo, on leave from
the university to serve as chief
economist of the Inter American
Development Bank; Enrique Men-
doza, with the Department of Eco-

See ARGENTINA, page 7

Education, Hard
Work, Courage

Treasurer Encourages Students

U.S. Treasurer Rosario Marin spoke on Tuesday,
Oct. 8 in the Art -Sociology building as part of the
Latino Student Union (LSU)'s activities honoring
the theme of this year's Hispanic Heritage Month;
"Strength in Unity, Faith and Diversity."

Marin, who has served since August 2001 and is
the first foreign-born treasurer, spoke about emi-
grating as a teen from Mexico knowing no English
and working to get an education. She reflected on
the challenges of caring for her son with Down
syndrome and voiced her concerns and hopes for
the Latino community's future in the United States.

Hispanic Heritage month grew from a joint con-
gressional resolution in 1968 authorizing the pres-
ident to annually declare the week including Sept.
15 and 16 "National Hispanic Heritage Week," In
1988, Congress authorized expanding the obser-
vance to a 31 -day period beginning Sept. 15 and
labeling it "Hispanic Heritage Month."

Tuesday's event was co-sponsored by the SEE
Review Board, OMSE and the Office of Academic
Affairs in addition to the Department of Spanish

See MARIN, page 4

New Class of Lilly Fellows
Focuses on Student Interaction

The research interests of the
2002-03 class of LMy-CTE
Teaching Fellows reflect the
university's academic diversi-
ty. As fellows, 10 full-time
tenured and tenure-track facul-
ty members receive a $3,000
award to be applied toward
their professional develop-
ment needs. Typically, these
fellows choose a project to
work on as a group. The pro-
gram is sponsored by the Cen-
ter for Teaching Excellence
under the guidance of Assis-
tant Director Sue Gdovin.

A project of the Office of
the Associate Provost and
Dean for Undergraduate Stud-
ies, the center hosts a variety
of workshops and conversa-
tions that relate to teaching
and learning issues across
departments. It also facilitates
a number of professional
development programs, a list-

serv and offers a library of
resources.

Summaries of fellows' work
and fellowship pursuits are
below.

Linda Aldoory

Department of
Commu nication

Aldoory is an assistant pro-
fessor and teaches communi-
cation, public relations and
research methods courses. She
has created and taught cours-
es in media criticism and on
women and media for the
department. She focuses her
teaching and pedagogical
research on two Issues: 1)
service learning and the con-
nection between the class-
room and community service,
and 2) diversity both in curric-
ula and in the classroom.

See LILLY FELLOWS, page 5

Technical Training,
Development
Critical to Success

Competition in the business world is
global and information-based. As a
result, knowledge of computer tech-
nologies is critical for anyone wishing to suc-
ceed in the workplace. Few jobs at the Univer-
sity do not require at least some degree of
technical proficiency; and, for many, technolo-
gy has changed the scope and complexity of
the job.

With the personnel review and perform-
ance (PRD) mid-term evaluations coming up,
both employees and supervisors need to meas-
ure skills and knowledge quickly and easily. In
order for a department to have a successful
training and development program, the follow-
ing points must be kept in mind:

a) Identify the needs of the department and
then identify the training needs of the employ-
ees to meet those needs.

b) Carefully select your employees for train-
ing.

c) Have clear and realistic training goals.

See TECHNOLOGIES, page 7

OCTOBER 15, 2002

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YOUR GUIDE TO UNIVERSITY EVENTS: OCTOBER 15-21

October 15

12:30-1:45 p.m., Works-in-
Progress Presentation:
Hamlet and Me 01 35 Taliafer-
ro HaU.With Marshall Gross-
man of the English depart-
ment. For more information,
contact Karen Nelson at (301)
405-6830 or knl5@umail.umd
cdu, or visit the Center for
Renaissance and Baroque Stud-
ies Web site at http://inform.
umd . edu/c rbs/prograrns.

2-3:30 p.m.. Center for
Teaching Excellence: TA
Development Grants Work-
shop See For Your Interest,
page 8.

WEDNESDAY

October 16

11:30 a.m. -6 p.m., Farmer's
Market Courtyard Patio, Ross-
borough Inn. Drop by for some
fall favorites! For more infor-
mation, call 4-8013-

12-1 p.m.. Weight Manage-
ment Series Center for
Health & Wellbeing, Campus
Recreation Center. This series
offers a non-diet approach to
managing your weight for a
lifetime. Learn how to address
the circumstances that cause
you to overeat and under exer-
cise and create strategies that
change these habits forever.
There is a $20 charge for this
4-session class. For more infor-
mation, contact Jennifer Treger
at 4-1492 or treger® health.
umd.edu.

4:15-6 p.m.. Stimulating
High Achievement Among
Minority Learners 1315 Ben-
jamin Building (College of Edu-
cation). The Maryland Institue
for Minority Achievement and
Urban Education (MTMAUE)
will host a colloquium/Focus
on School Reform; Improving
Academic Achievement
Among Poor and Minority Stu-
dents." Director of Academic
Reform Jacqueline Brown of
Howard County Public Schools
will be among the panelists.
For more information, contact
Martin L.Johnson at mjl3@
umail.umd.edu or visit www.
education.umd.edu/MIMAUE.

4:30 p.m.. Journeys in
Healthcare Workshop
Series: Pharmacy 1112
Southwing Hornbake Library.

Sushi at the Rossborough Inn

On Tuesday, Oct. 15 from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., sushi
chef Michael Kang will demonstrate techniques for
making sushi, as well as prepare your lunch to order
and prepare sushi trays to take home. The event will take place
in the Tap Room. Reservations are recommended. For more
information or to make reservations, contact Pamela Whitlow at
4-8013 or pwhitlow@dinrng.umd.edu.

Robert S. Beardsley of the
School of Pharmacy will be
speaking. For more informa-
tion, call 5-2793 or e-mail pre-
prof® de ans . umd . edu .

5-7 p.m., Identity and Imag-
ined Communities in Lan-
guage Learning: A Research
Trajectory See For Your Inter-
est, page 8.

THURSDAY

October 17

4:30-7:30 p.m., HTML III:
Manage Web Design with
Stylesheets 4404 Computer

6 Space Science. This class
introduces Style Sheets and
Image Mapping as useful and
attractive interfaces for the
user. It also touches on java-
scripting. Prerequisite: HTML
II. For more information, con-
tact Carol Warrington at 5-2938
or cwpost@umd5.umd.edu, or
visit www,oit.umd.edu/pt.

7 p.m.. Author Lecture

Dorchester House. The
Jimenez-Porter Series at the
Writers' House presents a free
lecture by Margot Livesey enti-
tled "Writing Character"
Livesey is the award-winning
author of the story collection
"Learning by Heart," and the
novels "Homework," "Crimi-
nals; and "The Missing World."
"Eva Moves the Furniture," her
newest novel, has received crit-
ical accolades nationwide. For
more information, contact
Jonnna Schmidt at 5-0675.

October 18

RSVP for the Rossborough
Inn Afternoon Tea by today
Enjoy afternoon tea and freshly
baked scones at the historic
Rossborough Inn on Tuesday,
Oct. 22 from 4 to 5 p.m. in the
Tap Room and Parlor.Tour the
Inn and enjoy a relaxing after-
noon. Admission is $7 per per-
son. To RSVP and for more
information , call 4-80 1 3 .

8:45 a.m.-4 p.m., OIT Short-
course Training: Intermedi-
ate MS Access 4404 Com-
puter Si Space Science. Partici-
pants will learn how to: nor-
malize sample tables by identi-
fying design problems; estab-
lish relationships between
tables by analyzing table rela-
tionships and enforcing refer-
ential integrity; customize table
designs by setting field proper-
ties to maintain data integrity
and creating indexes; design
select queries by using multi-
ple tables to calculate, group,
average and concatenate val-
ues and to show top values;
customize form designs by cre-
ating calculated fields, combo
boxes, and unbound controls;
customize report designs by
grouping, sorting and summa-
rizing data, and by adding sub-
reports. The class fee is $90.
For more information, contact
Jane S.WieboIdt at 5-0443 or
oit-training@umail.umd.edu, or
register at www.oit.umd.edu/sc.

12-1:30 p.m.. Spear Lanca-
ster: Libertarian Candidate
for Governor of Maryland
0200 Skinner. Lancaster will
speak at a Recovering Democ-
racy Forum. The Department
of Communication's. Center for
Political Communication and
Civic Leadership conducts its
Recovering Democracy Forum
program to bring citizens
together with candidates seek-
ing public office. For more
information, contact Shawn J.
Parry-Giles at 5-6527 or
spl72@umail.umd.edu, or visit
www. center, comm . umd . edu .

8-10 p.m., Teatro Hugo &
Ines: Short Stories Kogod
Theatre, Clarice Smith Perform-
ing Arts Center. Hugo and Ines
create a riot of characters com-
posed of knees, feet, hands
and elbows and a handful of
props that mirror moments in
dally life. Beloved the world
over, Teatro Hugo and Ines
offers a performance of magic
and wonder that will delight
audiences of all ages. Tickets
are $5 students, $15 all others.

For more information, contact
Amy Harbison at 5-8169 or
harbison@wam.umd.edu, or
visit www.claricesmlthcenter.
umd.edu.

8-10 p.m.. You Can't Take
ft with You Ina & Jack Kay
Theatre, Clarice Smith Perform-
ing Arts Center. In this classic
American comedy, Grandpa
reigns over a delightful mad-
house filled by bis children
and grandchildren and their
spouses. All are artists, writers
and inventors, and none of
them has let a lack of talent
interfere with having a good
time. Tickets are $5 students,
$20 all others. For more infor-
mation, contact Amy Harbison
at 5-8169 or harbison@wam.
umd.edu, or visit www.
claricesmithcenter. umd . edu .

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October 19

noon- 10 p.m., Oktoberfest

Reckford Armory. The German-
ic Department and the City of
College Park present "Oktober-
fest" with Polka, food, refresh-
ments, vendors and Kidz
Korner. For more information,
visit www.inform.umd.edu/
oktoberfest.

8 p.m., Teatro Hugo & Ines:
Short Stories Kogod Theatre,

Clarice Smith Performing Arts
Center. See Friday, Oct. 18.

8 p.m.. You Can't Take ft
with You Ina &Jack Kay The-
atre, Clarice Smith Performing
Arts Center. See Friday, Oct. 18.

October 20

3 p.m., Teatro Hugo & Ines:
Short Stories Kogod Theatre,
Clarice Smith Performing Arts
Center. See Friday, Oct. 18.

7:30 p.m.. You Can't Take ft
with You Ina & Jack Kay The-
atre, Clarice Smith Performing
Arts Center. See Friday, Oct. 18,

October 21

8:45 a.m.-4 p.m., OIT Short-
course Training: Intermedi-
ate MS Excel 4404 Computer
& Space Science. This course
covers creating charts to ana-
lyze data, as well as enhancing
worksheets and charts using
drawing tools to add graphic
objects and modify charts to
be used in presentations.
Prerequisite: Introduction to
MS Excel or similar experi-
ence. The class fee is $90. For
more information and to regis-
ter for the class, visit www.oit.
umd. edu/sc, or contact Jane
S.WieboIdt at 5-0443 or
oit-training@umaiI.umd.edu.

4 p.m.. Seven Parts a Man:
Alfred Kinsey's Sexual Be-
haviorism 3121 Symons Hall.
See For Your Interest, page 8.

6-9 p.m.. Adobe Illustrator:
Vector-Based Graphics 3332

Computer & Space Science.
This class will explain a vector
software vs. a bitmapped one.
Participants will learn the tool
palette and how to use the
tools using both existing
images and objects and those
they create. Prerequisite: a
WAM account. For more infor-
mation, contact Carol War-
rington at 5-2938 or cwpost®
umd5.umd.edu, or visit
www.oit.umd.edu/pt.

7:30-9:30 p.m.. Film and
Presentation: Journey To-
ward a Hate-Free Millenium

Ritchie Colliseum. A documen-
tary film and presentation
about the struggle to combat
hate and violence in America
presented by filmmaker Brent
Scarpo. After the film and pres-
entation, there will be a forum
for discussion of these issues
and their impact on the Mary-
land campus. Program spon-
sors include the Panhellenic
Association, the Interfraternity
Council, the Graduate Lambda
Coalition and the University of
Maryland Pride Alliance. For
more information, contact
Suzanne McLaughlin at (301)
779-3828 or sraclaugh@wam.
umd.edu.

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OUTLOOK

Divide and Serve

Benefits Office Reorganizes for
Better Accountability

Anew geographic
service model
should make a
positive difference
in how university employ-
ees' benefits concerns are
handled, according to the
Personnel Services Depart-
ment.

By reorganizing the cam-
pus into three large divi-
sions, the Employee Benefits
Office hopes to give the
campus community better
service and provide greater
accountability. Three coun-
selors, Jeff Ash, Stacy Sims
and LidiaVogler, are each
responsible for eight col-
leges and/or units averaging
3, 100 employees. Previously,
employees' concerns were
handled by whomever
answered the phone.

"We're very excited about
it," says Dick Bosstick, assis-
tant director for benefits,
Personnel Services. "We're
better able to manage the
workflow and the depart-
ments are very excited, I
think because we're doing
what they asked us to do,"

Two years ago, the univer-
sity contracted with the
consulting firm Watson
Wyatt Worldwide to perform
an employee survey of
health benefits programs
and services. One of the
areas people wanted
improved was service; being
able to talk to one person,
the same person, about their
benefits and health pro-
grams concerns. Bosstick's
staff met with payroll and
human resources managers
in each department to work

out how to coordinate their
work with the three benefits
counselors.

"This will also allow me
to get out from under some
of the day to day calls to do
more communication," says
Bosstick. Another of the
needs highlighted by the
survey was "improved avail-
ability and dissemination of
more effective and focused
communication."

Bosstick says he will be
able to take on more teach-
ing opportunities, such as an
Oct. 28 pre-retirement semi-
nar for those in the state
pension and retirement pro-
gram. The state previously
sent a representative to
cover this topic. A separate
seminar will be held for
those in optional retirement
programs.

The reorganization gives
benefits personnel a chance
to be more proactive in gen-
eral. Because of their heavy
workloads, they often just
had enough time to handle
individual issues, as opposed
to working on ways to
streamline overall opera-
tions.

Benefits counselors will
function much like account
representatives in that they'll
make site visits and perform
training and retirement coun-
seling. Additional staff were
hired to handle routine
administrative work, so that
counselors could focus on
service. Bosstick acknowl-
edges that some may still
think more people should be
hired, but he's pleased with
how far the office has come.

Here are the areas for which
each Benefits Service

Counselor is responsible:

Jeff Ash

• College of Health and

* College of Agriculture

Human Performance

and Natural Resources

• President' Jffice

• College of Arts and

■ Office of Research and

Humanities

Graduate Studies

■ Robert H. Smith School

• SVPAAP

* Office of

of Business

• College of Information

Undergraduate Studies

Services

■ College of Life

Lidta Vogler

Sciences

■ College of Behavioral

■ Office of Information

and Social Sciences

Technology

* College of Education

• Universities at Shady

• James A. Clark School

Grove College Park cam-

of Engineering

pus

* Philip Merrill College

of Journalism

Stacy Sims

■ Office of Continuing

* Division of

and Extended Education

Administrative Affairs

• School of Public Affairs

• School of Architecture

* Division of Student

• College of Computer,

Affairs

Mathematical and

♦ Division of University

Physical Sciences

Relations

Transportation Survey Results Available

PARKIN!
AND

TRANSPORTATION
SURVEY REPORT

The Department of Environmental
Safety (DES) has placed the results of
the Parking and Transportation Survey
conducted in May 2001 on the DES Web site:
www.umd.edu/des/ general/ greening/
survey.pdf The report tabulates the results of
the 3,300 survey forms returned ftom faculty,
staff and paid student employees of the univer-
sity to 35 questions developed to assess moti-
vations to utilize a variety of transportation
modes to the campus.

Additionally, incentives to motivate transit
behavior changes were also explored. Typical
incentives include workweek compression,
telecommuting, subsidized mass transit fares
and the development of vanpools, shuttles, etc.
Survey responses indicated that 83 percent of
staff and faculty commuted to campus via sin-
gle occupancy vehicles (SOV). Nearly 70 per-
cent of the survey respondents reported being
on campus for five days per week.

The report was tabulated and written by Wilbur Smith Associates, transportation con-
sultants. The report has been provided to the new Department of Transportation Services
for their use in developing programs. Questions about the report should be addressed to
Leon Igras, (301) 405-3099.

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New Community Opens its Doors

"It is not possible to be an
educated person without having
international experience," said
President Dan Mote during a
recent inauguration of the new
Global Communities Program.
"Global Communities gives you
this international experience."

Located in Dorchester Hall,
Global Communities is a new
living-learning experience,
where students from more than
30 countries and the United
States, representing a variety of
cultural backgrounds, come

together to form an international
community.

US News & World Report
recently ranked the University of
Maryland tiiird in the country for
living-learning programs. Global
Communities is the first living-
learning program of its kind in
the nation. Students in the pro-
gram share a common desire to
huild bridges of cooperation and
understanding between cultures.
Robert Hampton, dean of Under-
graduate Studies, who also spoke
at the event, said, "We have to be

multilateral in a world where
some people are trying to be
very unilateral — something that
you can experience here first-
hand and take it out to the
world."

Global Communities Director
Kirsten la (.'our Dabelko closed
by welcoming the first Global
Communities class. "This is your
living-learning program; you will
be partners in shaping it. You
will be the ambassadors who
show our campus the power of
international knowledge.™

Study: Trying to Balance Carbon Budget

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20 years based on remotely
sensed data covering all the
world's tropical forests. The
team, whose research was sup-
ported by NASA, accomplished
their analysis by evaluating
weather satellite data using com-
puter models they developed for
the study.

The researchers estimate that
C0 2 emissions from tropical
deforestation were actually less
than half of previous estimates
based on deforestation reports
from the U.N. Food and Agricul-
ture Organization. However,
De Fries and her colleagues
found that C0 2 emissions from
tropical deforestation increased
about 30 percent from the 1980s
to the 1990s, most notably in
Southeast Asia where forest loss
increased by 68 percent.

"These findings give us impor-
tant information for determining
the amount of greenhouse gases
emitted to the atmosphere from
the destruction of forests and
the amount that is taken up by
re-growing 1 rests in tropical
areas," said DeFries,an associate
professor in the Department of
Geography and the university's
Earth System Science Interdisci-
plinary Center.

"It is gratifying to find that
more forest remains than we had
once thought," DeFries said. "But
tropical forest continues to dis-
appear at an alarming rate with
enormous implications, not only
for greenhouse gas emissions,
but for diversity of plant and ani-
mal species found there."

The new findings are impor-
tant because scientists have not
been able to "balance" the car-
bon budget. There is less carbon
dioxide stored in the atmosphere
than emitted from fossil fuel
burning or tropical deforestation
or absorbed by the ocean. Scien-
tists have been working to unrav-
el whether this "missing" carbon
is being absorbed by re-growing
forests in the northern hemi-
sphere, by increased plant activi-
ty, or by some other mecha-
nisms. Based on die DeFries
study, less carbon enters the
atmosphere from tropical defor-
estation than previously estimat-
ed, so that "missing" carbon
needs to be accounted for.

DeFries and her co-authors are
not the first to suggest that U.N.
estimates have overestimated the
amount of deforestation. In Aug-
ust, researchers from the Euro-
pean Joint Research Center in

Ispra, Italy issued similar findings
for the 1990s. This group's work
was based on high-resolution
satellite data from selected "hot
spots" of tropical deforestation.

"Our study used data from the
National Oceanic and Atmos-
pheric Administration weather
satellite," DeFries said. "This satel-
lite has low resolution, but it is
the only one that can give 20
years of data and broad coverage
of tropical areas."

She said the two different
approaches were akin to looking
for a dropped contact lens either
by standing up and scanning the
whole floor with blurred vision
or getting down on hands and
knees where one could see bet-
ter but could only look at small
selected portions of the floor,

"Both studies show that the
way to more useful estimates of
forest cover lies with the use of
remotely sensed satellite data,
rather dun by combining esti-
mates provided by individual
countries," DeFries said. "Remote
sensing offers a globally repeat-
able and verifiable methodology,
without the problems of bias
inherent when estimates are pro-
vided by various agencies or
institutions within each country."

OCTOBER If, 2 O 2

Smith School of Business Takes
MBA Program to China

T

he University of Maryland's Robert H.
Smith School of Business plans to
introduce an executive MBA (EMBA)
program in China in January. The
Smith School recently entered into an agree-
ment with China's University of International
Business and Economics (UIBE) to deliver the
EMBA program in Beijing. The EMBA will be
delivered under a new entity called the "SUMO-
US School of International Management (SIM),"
and will take place over 17 months. China's
Ministry of Education and the Degree Granting
Committee of the State Council rccenUy
approved the alliance between the two
schools.

"As one of just a handful of U.S. business
schools authorized to deliver an executive MBA
program in China, we are both excited and hon-
ored to make this announcement," said Scott
Koerwer, associate dean and director of execu-
tive education at the Robert H. Smith School of
Business. "By bringing together the Smith
School's world-renowned business management
program with the strengths of UTBE, we will
help China meet its growing demand for profes-
sionally trained executives with a global per-
spective," said Koerwer who traveled to China in
late September to announce the alliance.

Twelve Smith School faculty members will
travel to China over the 17-month period to par-
ticipate in the EMBA program. Smith faculty will
teach the majority of the courses, with the
remainder taught by UIBE faculty. The degree
awarded will be an EMBA from the University of
Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business.

UIBE will award a certificate of completion.

"This initiative is part of the Smith School's
strategy to build innovative global alliances
designed to meet the rapidly changing needs of
the world's business education marketplace,"
said Howard Frank, dean of the Smith School.
"We look forward to working with our distin-
guished colleagues at UIBE, as well as with
members of the Beijing business community, to
help China's entrepreneurs and other future
business leaders succeed in a global, network-
driven economy"

Like the Smith School's domestic EMBA,
which also begins in January 2003, the China
program consists of three integrated modules:
foundation, project and mastery.The program
begins with the Smith School's strong MBA core
as the foundation, and integrates four critical
mastery skills courses throughout the curricu-
lum.The mastery skills courses focus on the
areas of technology, communications, ethics and
corporate citizenship and leadership and cre-
ativity.The program also incorporates an action-
learning engagement project for the company
sponsoring the participating executive. This por-
tion of the program, taught by UIBE faculty,
enables the sponsoring company to tie the par-
tici pant's learning to specific company needs,
and to benefit directly from the work the partic-
ipant does during die program.

AnU Gupta, Ralph J.Tyser Professor of Strategy
and Organization at the Smith School of Busi-
ness, and John Hobbs, EMBA program provost at
UD3E, have been appointed co-academic direc-
tors of the EMBA program in China.

Marin: Diversity as a Mosaic, Not Melting Pot

Continued from page t

and Portuguese, Department of
Government and Politics and the
Department of Student Affairs.

"As proud as I am to be His-
panic, I am so profoundly grate-
ful to be an American," said
Marin, introducing a major
theme of her speech. "But when
my parents brought me to this
great country — I didn't want to
come "she said, explaining that
she was 14 and didn't want to
miss her coming of age party.

Marin went on to describe the
difficulty she had as a non-native
English speaker in her California
high school. She told the story of
how the 27 score she got on an
IQ test (100 is considered aver-
age) inspired her to redouble her
efforts to master English. Three
years later she graduated near
the top of her class.

Citing the absence of informa-
tion about scholarships and her
family's financial needs, Marin
said she went to work directly
after high school, starting as an
assistant to a receptionist at a
bank. She said she later began
taking night classes, eventually
graduating from California State
University in Los Angeles with a
business degree. Emphasizing
her belief in the value of an edu-
cation, Marin said she was as
proud of her "little diploma" as if
it had come from the most pres-
tigious university.

Marin said she was working
hard at the bank, getting regular
promotions and earning her mas-
ter's degree when her life
changed dramatically.

"I was expecting my beautiful
first child, but God had different
plans for me," she said."He gave
me this great, wonderful child
with Down syndrome."

Marin spoke about her disap-
pointment and having to sell her
house to pay the medical costs
of caring for her son, Eric. She
credited her faith and her educa-
tion with helping her cope and
leading her down the path to
where she is today.

She said her experience with
her son led her to public advoca-
cy work on behalf of the dis-
abled, work that ultimately led
her to the United Nations where
she received the Rose Fitzgerald
Kennedy Prize in 1995.

Marin entered politics in 1994
in her predominandy Latino
hometown of Huntington Park,
Calif., serving two terms on the
city council and as mayor. She
also held several posts within
then-Gov. Pete Wilson's adminis-
tration. In June 2001 President
Bush nominated her to become
the 41st treasurer and the high-
est-ranking Latin a in the federal
government.

As treasurer she has oversight
responsibility of the U.S. Mint,
the Bureau of Engraving and
Printing and the Savings Bond
Marketing Office widiin the
Bureau of Public Debt. She
reports indirectly to Secretary of
the Treasury Paul O'Neill,

Marin said she was grateful to
Bush for her appointment,
adding that he has appointed
more Latinos, women and

minorities to government posi-
tions in Ills administration than
any other president.

"But I could not have been
treasurer or have helped my son
without my diploma " she added.

Addressing the Latino students
in the audience, Marin said dieir
presence was confirmation of
the potential of the Hispanic
community. Saying the high
school dropout rate for Hispan-
ics was about 40 percent, she
called on them on them to help
their fellow students reach their
potential.

Marin ended her speech by
calling on Hispanics to honor
their tradition of hard work and
courage in dealing with the chal-
lenges facing them as a fast
growing minority group in the
country. She also called on all
Americans to appreciate the
country's cultural diversity, sug-
gesting a mosaic, with each
piece retaining its individuality
while helping make up the
whole, as a replacement for the
traditional melting pot paradigm.

After a brief question and
answer period, LSU President
Rlkali Grijalva and Treasurer Rosa
Fuentes presented Marin with a
Movado clock on glass with the
inscription "Rosario Marin. Thank
You. From the Latino Student
Union at the University of Mary-
land. October 8, 2002." Marin
thanked the pair and smiling, said
she looked forward to the time
when she could address them as
Madame President and Madame
Treasurer of the United States.

A Man and His Dream

Exhibit Showcases Byrd's Commitment

It is an understatement to
say that the University of
Maryland was Harry Clifton
Byrd's life. From buildings to
athletics to pou'tics/Curley"
Byrd's touch can be felt in
several ways on this campus
and others.

As a salute to the man con-
sidered by many to be the
builder of the university, Uni-
versity Archivist Anne Turkos
created "From Vision to Reali-
ty:The Life and Career of
Harry Clifton Byrd," an exhib
it in the Maryland Room
Gallery at Hornbake Library.
In a series of cases, she cap-
tures Byrd's life in themes; as
a child and family man, as a
civil engineering student and
athlete, as a football coach
and university president, as a

the legislature."

She pulled the exhibit
together from several collec-
tions; his son Sterling's, from
Intercollegiate Athletics,
Adele Stamp's coUection,
general university archives
and other sources. Turkos
found it interesting to trace
Byrd's life and, in turn, a
noteworthy part of the uni-
versity's history. Significant
changes occurred under his
watch, such as the creation
of the American Studies
department in 1945 and the
integration in spring 1951 of
black students, despite what
many feel were Byrd's segre-
gationist views.

"I think there is a lot of in-
depth research that needs to
be done before his actual

builder of buildings. In all,
Byrd spent nearly 50 years in
and around Maryland The
exhibit also looks at his post-
Maryland life as a politician
and community leader.

"He is responsible for
more than 60 buildings," says
Turkos, adding that he built
Princess Anne Academy,
which is the Eastern Shore
campus, and the Baltimore
campus. "On this campus,
he's responsible for 18
dorms and 23 major build-
ings " which include the
Memorial Chapel, Main
Administration, Cole Field
House, the wind tunnel, the
Glen L. Martin math and
engineering complex and, of
course, what is now called
Byrd Stadium.

When asked how he was
able to raise so much capital
for his pet project.Turkos
says, "He was always up at
Annapolis, talking to legisla-
tors. He was extremely per-
suasive. One time, tiiough, he
was thrown off the floor of

COURTESY OF UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES

position on the introduction
of African Americans to the
campus can be clarified," says
TAirkos.

Byrd can be linked to
many forward-thinking ideas,
such as the formation of the
Adantic Coast Conference
and University College,
Though he could be difficult,
he loved the university. When
he had to resign, Turkos says,
it was hard. "I don't diink he
really let go."

She says people either
loved or couldn't stand Byrd.
An obituary written in the
Baltimore Sun, a publication
known not to like the man,
captured both feelings. "...he
didn't mind breaking an egg
or two for the glittering
omelet he had in mind
and. . .how to strike die shells
at their softest point."

The exhibit will run through
Dec. 20. Contact Anne
Turkos for more informa-
tion at (301) 405-9060 or
atl 7@umail. tttnd. edu.

OUTLOOK

Lilly Fellows: Want to Better Engage Students in Learning

Continued from page 1

PHOTO BY CYNTHIA MITCHEL

Jim Green berg (left), director of the Center for Teaching Excellence, with CTE-Ltlly Fellows (I to r) Jeff Jensen, Sue Gdovin (CTE associate director).
Donna Howard, Evan Golub, Linda Aldoory, Ahmet Aydilek, Judith Hallett and Ray Strickltn. Missing from the group photo are Martin Heisler, Ruth
Fassinger and Lois Vietri {see page 7).

Ahmet Aydilek
Department of Civil and Envi-
ronmental Engineering

Aydilek believes that inter-
ventions of teachers at the right
stages of students' academic
careers can make a significant
impact. Aydilek also believes
that the Lilly-CTE fellowship
will help him reach his teach-
ing goals by allowing him to
discuss teaching techniques
and strategies with other col-
leagues who have similar inter-
ests. Aydilek is interested in
encouraging more undergradu-
ate students into laboratory
research as well as encouraging
an interactive component in his
courses. An interactive environ-
ment will not only encourage
active learning but will also
help build a positive environ-
ment for students in which
they can voice their questions
and concerns.

Ruth Fassiiiger

Department of Counseling and

Personnel Services

Fassinger is a faculty member
in the Counseling Psychology
Program of the College of Edu-
cation and an affiliate faculty
member in Women's Studies.
Her scholarly and teaching
interests are in the areas of
diversity, advocacy, social Justice
and human services. She is par-
ticularly interested in experien-
tial and field-based learning for
students, die development of
students' interpersonal compe-
tencies in a pluralistic society,
and the effective strategies for

faculty integration of scholar-
sliip and teaching. She plans to
spend her Lilly-CTE Teaching
Fellowship year on the develop-
ment and implementation of a
new undergraduate citation and
learning community for her
department.

Evan Golub

Department of Computer
Science

As a member of the comput-
er science department, Golub
has had the opportunity to
interact with skilled, intelligent
and interesting students. He
finds it rewarding to discuss
current trends in technology
with them, as well as to share
with them his research. When a
student comes by and asks if
he's up to anything interesting,
Golub grabs the opportunity to
have a quick discussion about
something he is looking at that
he thinks they might find inter-
esting or new. This type of
interaction is an important part
of showing students by exam-
ple that exploring ideas can be
fun.

Judith Hallett
Department of Classics

Hallett, professor and chair of
the department, specializes in
the teaching of Latin language
and literature from the elemen-
tary to the advanced level, and
in placing both Latin language
and literature in the larger cul-
tural contexts of ancient Rome
and the classical tradition. A Dis-
tinguished Scholar-Teacher, she

teaches her department's
course on Latin pedagogy and is
particularly interested in collab-
orative learning.

Martin Heisler

Department of Government
and Politics

In the last few years Heisler
has used an active learning
approach to harness students'
interests in their own identity,
roots, group loyalties and value
orientations to thinking in theo-
retical terms about more gener-
al concerns regarding pluralist
societies, diverse political orien-
tations and the importance of
balance between personal and
social perspectives. Students
build on their readings and class
discussions to produce a variety
of papers on a topic within the
framework of the course on
which they work during the
entire semester. The final prod-
uct is a serious paper, reflecting
the depth permitted by such
cumulative work; and each
paper is brought together in the
class, permitting students to
gain insights into each other's
research and thought. The aim
is not to encourage students to
change their views but, rather,
to explore them in systematic
fashion.

Heisler has only had opportu-
nities to try this interactive
method in relative small (15-25
students) classes or undergradu-
ate seminars. His goal in the
Lilly-CTE Fellowship year is to
think about ways this approach
might be extended to larger, but

still medium-size 00-75 stu-
dents) classes. More generally,
he will explore the possibilities
(and difficulties) of engaging
students' personal interests
regarding issues with public
import — social class, nutrition,
health care and education, as
well as ethnicity, race, religion
and migration as points of
departure.

Donna Howard
Departtnent of Public and
Community Health

Howard endeavors to make
the classroom environment one
that supports critical analysis,
as well as sensitivity to the
complex interplay of forces
that affect health and well
being. The work of visionary
thinkers such as Paolo Freire,
particularly his notion of criti-
cal consciousness, has had a
strong influence on her
research and teaching. She
urges students to think beyond
individualistic explanations for
illness and disease and examine
broad social and cultural influ-
ences, which shape and often
constrain personal health
behavior. Howard's goals are to
find strategies in the classroom
that spark students to see the
connection between personal
behavior and social context;
that is, the interlocking social
spheres that integrate and give
meaning to their experiences.
If done effectively, students
become active participants in

See FEULOWS, page 7

Notable

Brian VUiersema. of the
Department of Criminology
and Criminal Justice and the
Maryland Population Research
Center, was awarded a $ 1 3
million grant from the Cen-
ters for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) to estab-
lish a comprehensive state-
wide violent death reporting
system located within the
Maryland Department of
Health and Mental Hygiene.
The project, with an initial
five years of funding, links
violence-related data from
death certificates, medical
examiner reports, police
departments and crime labo-
ratories. Maryland is one of
the first six states in the
country to receive National
Violent Death Reporting Sys-
tem funds from CDC.

Elisabeth Gantt of Cell Biolo-
gy and Molecular Genetics
was presented with the
American Society of Plant
Biologists' (ASPB) Stephen
Hales Prize during the 2002
Awards Ceremony at the
ASPB Annual Meeting. This
year's meeting was held at
the Adam's Mark Hotel, in
Denver, Colo, in August.

The prize honors the Rev.
Stephen Hales for his pio-
neering work in plant biolo-
gy published in his 1727
book "Vegetable Staticks." The
honor includes a monetary
award established in 1927 for
a resident of North America,
whether or not a member of
the society, who has served
the science of plant biology
in a noteworthy manner.

Isher Judge Ahluwalia has
joined the Maryland School
of Public Affairs faculty as a
visiting professor. She will
teach courses in macroeco-
nomics, international eco-
nomic policy and internation-
al economic development.
She is director and chief
executive of the Indian Coun-
cil for Research on Internati-
nal Economic Relations in
New Delhi.

The school also welcomes
two scientists from the Joint
Global Change Research
Institute, a collaboration
between the university and
the Pacific Northwest Nation-
al Laboratory, as adjunct pro-
fessors. Jae Edmonds a senior
staff scientist and technical
leader of economic pro-
grams, and Richard Moss,
executive director of the
United States Global Change
Research Program office, will
conduct research on the sci-
ence and policy of global
energy and environment
issues.

OCTOBER 15, 2002

Comcast Center: Athletics, Fans Help Christen New Sports Venue

Continued from page 1

prepare food on site, which could
not be done in Cole Field House.

Last week's Midnight Madness
practice was the first public event
held in the new arena. It is the tra-
ditional opening of basketball season
and both the men's and women's
teams were on hand.

The facility was finished "right
on time," says Dave Haglund, assis-
tant associate director for media
relations, with only minor details
needing to be handled.

The 17,950-seat venue will host

a women's exhibition game on
Nov. 9 against the Houston Jaguars,
a tour team through Basketball
Travelers. The men's exhibition
game will be Nov. 12 against the
Harlem Globetrotters. Both games
begin at 7 p.m., with the mens
being broadcast on ESPN2.Terp
women's first regular season game
will be Nov. 22 at 7 p.m. against
Loyola and the men will play
Miami (Ohio) on Nov 24 at 5 p.m.
For ticket information, go to
www. umterps.com.

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Clockwise from left: Maryland's name
and logo figure prominently on the
court. The Comcast Center's capacity is
17,950, with 170 seats for the disabled.
The center's impressive facade features
50 steps leading up to the main entrance.
The arena houses Maryland's Athletic
Hall of Fame. Joe Katay of Katay
Productions, executive producer of the
Maryland Video Scoreboard Show, mon-
itors the many screens in the video con-
trol room. Images of legendary Terp ath-
letes and coaches adorn the walls in the
main hall. Joe Hull, senior associate ath-
letics director for external operations,
leads a media tour through the Comcast
Center; here he explains the layout of
the Terps' new practice court.

PHOTOS BY CYNTHIA MITCHEL

OUTLOOK

Argentina: Learning from Economic Crisis

Continued from page 1

nomics; and Carmen Reinhart,
on leave to serve as deputy
director of the Research
Department of the Internation-
al Monetary Fund, began the
late afternoon program with a
panel tided "Where are We
Coming From, and Where Do
We Stand? The Broad Picture."
I.M. Destler, professor with the
School of Public Affairs, moder-
ated. Each panelist took turns
presenting what, from their
research, were key points when
considering what should be
done, domestically and interna-
tionally, Calvo cautioned against
a large bailout package, citing
the 1 995 depression that Mexi-
co fell into after $50 billion in
assistance.

"What is the moral ha2ard
view?" he asked. "In this con-
text, large bailouts led to irre-
sponsible behavior. Capital
flows to emerging markets
started to fall after the tequila.
The tequila was a strong signal
that there was free money for
everybody."

The "tequila" effect lowered
Mexican wages and prices of
exported goods, which con-
tributed to job losses in die
United States. Stock markets
around the world were affected
in what financial analysts call
contagion.

However, Calvo continued,
bailout packages are justified
when using the globalization
hazard view, because in the mid-
1990s capital flows increased to
emerging markets after some
countries received bailouts, only
to slow again. In the long term,
packages may shield the finan-
cial but not the real sector, and
recession could be large and
long-lasting."

Mendoza, in a short presenta-
tion he titled "Why Should

Emerging Economies Give Up
National Currencies: A Case for
Institutions Substitution'"
named "two key culprits behind
emerging markets crises: lack of
credibility of economic policy
and financial market frictions."

He contrasted dollarization -
the practice of countries adopt-
ing all or part of the U.S. dollar
as its official currency— with
other proposals for helping
emerging markets, saying that
dollarization is "a very touchy
issue that encompasses many
different areas which go beyond
economics."

Giving up national currencies
would remove exchange rate
uncertainty and simplify infor-
mational needs, said Mendoza.
Dollarization is unlikely, though,
because it cannot rule out all
financial crises and address
chronic fiscal and institutional
problems. Also, governments do
not want to lose a national sym-
bol and independent monetary
policy.

"So if dollarization is a great
but unrealistic idea, what else
can be done?"he asked. He
went on to list a few ideas he
favored: price guarantees for
emerging markets, international
banking systems with pre-com-
mitted credit lines or narrow
banking and enhanced surveil-
lance.

"My closing argument is that
those are very socially costly- —
means to try to do indirectly
what dollarization tries to do
direcdy: tie as tight as possible
the emerging markets policy-
makers' hands."

Carmen Reinhart closed out
the panel with an examination
of America's business cycle and
the role of U.S. monetary policy,
as well as brief remarks about
prospects and issues of Latin

America, emerging Europe and
Asia.

"Capital flows to emerging
markets are very much driven
by the U.S. business cycle "she
said. "They tend to increase dur-
ing periods of expansion and
tend to be less so during peri-
ods of recession. But this is real-
ly driven by foreign direct
investment."

Reinhart called capital flow
cycles a bank phenomenon that
is happening differently now.
"Banks are retrenching from
lending to emerging markets "
she said. "They're retrenching
for a variety of reasons. In
Europe, the banks that have
gone heavily into lending into
Argentina have been badly
burned.

"So the usual stimulus you
would get from bank lending
during a period like this, of his-
torically low interest rates, isn't
happening. If it's not going to
come from FDI [foreign direct
investment] and it's not going
to come from bank lending, one
may start to wonder where the
capital flows to emerging mar-
kets will come from, if it will
come at all."

In reflecting on contagion as
it relates to the effects of
emerging markets' crises on
other financial systems, Rein-
hart remarked, "major episodes
of contagion have taken place
against surges of capital
income"and the "real danger,
particularly for Latin America, is
the more gradual but persistent
types of spillover."

Later in the day, representa-
tives from the Institute for
International Economics, the
Federal Reserve and the IMF
spoke on other "hot spot" coun-
tries and resolving global econ-
omy imbalances.

Technologies: Enhance Job Performance

Continued from page 1

d) Review and pre-evaluate
different training methods.

c) Provide employees with
opportunities to practice skills
learned in training; evaluate the
effectiveness of training one to
three months after the training
event.

Supervisors need to assess
the status of the depart-
ment's core competencies. This
analysis provides benchmarks
against which the effectiveness
of a training program can be
evaluated. For example, the
department may want to see
the difference between the
work done before and after
training. Also, consider whether
the department is financially
committed to support the train-
ing efforts.

The question of who should
be trained, and when, is crucial.
Training an employee is an
expensive venture that is wast-
ed if he or she leaves the

department or the university for
a better job, or if knowledge
gained is not put to use.

The goals of the training pro-
gram should relate directly to
the needs determined by an
assessment process. These goals
must include milestones to help
the employee get from where
he or she is today to where the
department wants him or her to
be in the future.

There are several technical
training techniques available to
trainees. These include instruc-
tor-led coursework, online
(Web-delivered) tutorials, CD-
ROM-based tutorials and simula-
tions, "shadowing" and appren-
ticeships. Settling on a tech-
nique will depend on such
things as work to be done,
equipment available, employee
skill level and finances. Not
every one of these techniques is
suitable to every employee.

Employees should be evaluat-
ed by comparing their newly

acquired skills with the skills
defined by the goals of the
training program. Discrepancies
should be noted and adjust-
ments made for the next evalua-
tion period and training recom-
mendation.

The Office of Information
Technology (OIT) Short Course
Training has a comprehensive
technical training program to
assist you, including basic con-
cepts of information technolo-
gy, using the computer and man-
aging files, word processing,
spreadsheets, databases, presen-
tations and Web development.

These courses are reasonably
priced, with many taught by
outside vendors contracted by
the university. To enroll in any
of the Short Course classes, visit
th OITWeb site at www.oit.
umd.edu/sc, or call the Training
Coordinator at (301) 4054)443.

— Jane S.Wieboldt,
staff training services coordinator

PHOTOS BY GYNTHIA MITCHEL

Ruth Fassinger

Fellows: Involve Students

Continued from page 5

the learning process,
rather than passive
recipients of static
knowledge.

Jeff Jensen

Department of
Biology

Jensen's major
interests are in
teacher develop-
ment and the design
of integrated curric-
ula involving synthe-
sis of concepts.
Jensen wants stu-
dents to gain experi-
ence applying ideas,
for example through
experimental design
and problem solv-
ing, and to be able
to link ideas in a
way that develops
arguments rather
than relaying facts.
In training teachers,
he emphasizes the
importance of pro-
viding a context that
gives relevance to
the concepts the
students are master-
ing, and that gives
students the oppor-
tunity to apply their
skills to considering
problems in the
■world at large.

W. Ray Stricklin

Department of
Animal and Avian
Sciences

Stricklin is under-
graduate program

coordinator of the Martin Heisler

Department of Ani-
mal and Avian Sci-
ences. He teaches
the introductory ani-
mal science course,
as well as courses in
applied animal
behavior and animal
welfare. His research
activities have
focused primarily on
the social and spac-
ing behavior of ani-
mals in captive and
confinement situa-
tions using both ani-
mal observations
and computer simu-
lations. He has been
actively involved in
the writing of
national guidelines
for the use of ani-
mals in research and Lois Vietri
also the oversight of
these regulations. In
1985, he was selected as the
NE-ASAS Outstanding Young
Scientist. The University of
Maryland "Celebrating Teach-
ers" program recognized him in
1997 for (caching excellence.

Lois Vietri

Department of Government
and Politics

Vietri has been a facilitator
of a variety of learning com-
munities on the College Park
campus and overseas. A veter-

an of die large lecture classes,
she embarks on her Lilly voy-
age to rediscover the joys of
team collaborations in large
classes and to develop new
tools for enhancing the
research experience for every
student. She recently returned
to full-team teaching with the
Department of Government
and Politics after serving as
faculty director of College
Park Scholars International
Studies for seven years.

OCTOBER 15, 2002

Research Workshop

The Mini Center on the Teach-
ing and Learning of Foreign
Languages Distinguished Speak-
er Series is hosting a research
workshop ted by Bonny Nor-
ton, University of British
Columbia, entitled "Identity and
Imagined Communities in Lan-
guage Learning: A Research Tra-
jectory:

In her presentation, Norton
will follow the trajectory of
research arising from her study
of immigrant women in Cana-
da, The study was central in
helping to better understand
the relationship between iden-
tity, investment and language
learning. While Norton's earlier
work focused on the way
diverse power relations struc-
ture opportunities for language
learners to speak, her more
recent work has investigated
how language learners seek
access to communities that
offer possibilities for the future.
The presentation will conclude
with a discussion of the ways
in which such research leads to
a reconsideration of "good" lan-
guage learning in the field of
second language acquisition.

The presentation will take
place Wednesday, Oct. 16 from
5 to 7 p.m. in die Language
House Multi-purpose Room. A
reception will follow. For more
information, contact Alene
Mover at (501) 405-4101 or
moyera@wam.umd.edu.

TA Development Grants
Workshop

In academic year 2002-03 the
Center for Teaching Excellence
(CTE) and the Graduate School
will award a number of small
grants to departments and col-
leges working to improve the
support, development and
recognition of graduate teach-
ing assistants. The purpose of
theTA Development Grants is
to maximize the impact of the
university resources that are
dedicated to these purposes.

The workshop, to take place
Tuesday, Oct. 15 from 2 to 3:30
p.m. in room 0100 Marie
Mount Hall, will include a
description of the criteria for
proposals, followed by an infor-
mal panel presentation given
by pastTA Development Grant
recipients.

For more information, con-
tact Mary Wesley at (301) 405-
9356 or mwesley@deans.umd.
edu,or visit www.umd.edu/cte.

Masculinity, Historically

James Gilbert of die History
Department will give a seminar,
"Seven Parts a Man: Alfred Kin-
sey's Sexual Behaviorism," on
Oct. 21 at 4 p.m. in 3121
Symons Hall. The author of
nine books, including ones on
literary radicalism, juvenile
delinquency and science and
religion, Gilbert is one of Ameri-
ca's leading cultural historians.
The paper is drawn from his
current project on masculinity

in 1 950s America. Discussion
will be based on a pre-cireulat-
ed paper, which can be
obtained in the Department of
History, 2108 Taliaferro Hall, or
online.

For an electronic copy of the
paper and more information,
call (301) 40S-H739 or e-mail
historycenter@umail. umd.edu .

Women, Domestic
violence and Career
Counseling

Krista Griggs, a psychology
intern, will be the speaker for
this Counseling Center
Research and Development
presentation on Wednesday,
Oct. 16 from noon-1 p.m. in
room 0114 Shoemaker Build-
ing. Brown bag lunches are wel-
come and speakers are asked to
allow time for discussion by
completing their presentations
by 12:30.

For more information, contact
Vivian Boyd at (301) 314-7675
or vbl4@umail.umd.edu.

Lecture Series at
Riversdale House

Riversdale House Museum pres-
ents the first lecture in their fall
series entitled "Domesticity and
Vanity," on Oct. 23 at 7 p.m.
Costume historian Ann Wass
will speak in conjunction with
the current exhibit "A Woman's
Place is in the Senate" on the
fashions of Sen, Hattie Car-
away's era. From her marriage
in 1902, through the roaring
20s, the great Depression and
World War n, to her death in
1 950, Caraway saw a half centu-
ry of radical fashion change.
This will be highlighted in a
slide lecture.

All series lectures begin at 7
p.m. and the fee is $5 per per-
son. Riversdale House is located
at 481 1 Riverdale Rd. in River-
dale Park, about 1,5 miles south
of the university. For more in-
formation, call (301) 864-0420
or visit www.pgparks.com.

Globalization in Transition
Economies: Ukraine

As part of the IRIS Brown Bag
Lunch series,Volodymyr Dubo-
vyk of the Ukraine will discuss
the country's transition and the
influences of globalization in
the process on Oct. 23 from
12:30 to 2 p.m. in 1 101 Morrill
Hall. He will address questions
including: Is globalization a
powerful vehicle carrying dem-
ocratic values throughout the
world or rather a suppressive
force destined to take away the
rights of ordinary people? Does
it lead to new conflicts or help
to promote stability on a global
scale and in particular regions?
Dubovyk is a fellow with a
State Department exchange
program at the Center for Inter-
national and Security Studies at
Maryland. He is also an associ-
ate professor at Odessa Univer-
sity, Ukraine.

For more information, con-
tact Jennifer Munro at (301)

What is it— Where is it?

PHOTO BY CYNTHIA MITCHEL

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 outlook@accmail.
umd.edu. All correct entries will be placed in a drawing.
Deadline for entries is 5 p.m.Tuesday, Oct. 22; the win-
ner will be announced in the Oct. 29 issue of Outlook.

405-3721 or jenniferm@iris.
econ.umd.edu, or visit www.
iris.umd.edu.

Shakespeare in
P e r fo r m ance Symposium

The Center for Renaissance &
Baroque Studies hosts the sec-
ond annual Shakespeare in Per-
formance Symposium on Satur-
day, Oct. 26, beginning at 9 a.m.
at the Clarice Smith Performing
Arts Center. The day-long event
features lectures and work-
shops presented by gifted
artists from a variety of disci-
plines. Participants may also
take a tour of the Clarice Smith
Center. Scheduled presenters
include:

Maynard Mack, Jr. of the Eng-
lish Department, keynote
speaker. He will present "An
October Morning's Dream: Sta-
sis, Metamorphosis, and Mar-
riage in Shakespeare'sA Mid-
summer Night's Dream."

Aaron Posner, resident direc-
tor at the Arden Theatre Co. in
Philadelphia. Posner will use
professional actors from local
theater companies to demon-
strate how an understanding of
the text's internal stage direc-
tions can help one gain crucial
Insights into developing a
Shakespearean role.

Dawn McAndrews, director of
education at the Shakespeare
Theatre in Washington,
D.C.,will present "Teaching
Shakespeare through Perfor-
mance," an interactive work-
shop in which teachers can
expand their Shakespearean
vocabulary and acquire new
strategies to improve their stu-
dents' literacy, listening, com-

prehension and creative skills.

Carey Upton, director, teacher,
stage manager and writer. His
workshop is endded,"Clown-
ingAround with Shakespeare."

Frank Hildy . a specialist in
theatre architecture, theatre
archeology and the history of
stage technology. He will pres-
ent "Authentic Shakespeare?
Lessons from the Reconstruct-
ed Globe, London," a slide-illus-
trated lecture tracing the deci-
sions and research underpin-
ning the Globe Theatre project.

Lewis Shaw, member of the
Society of American Fight
Directors. He will demonstrate
and teach stage combat.

Admission is free for all stu-
dents; a registration fee of $ 16
covers a delicious buffet lunch-
eon for all others. For more
information, contact the Center
for Renaissance & Baroque
Studies at (301) 405-6830 or
crbs@umail.umd.edu, or visit
www.inform.umd.edu/crbs/
programs.

Lifelong Learning

The university's Center on
Aging's Legacy College starts
its second fall term on Oct. 28.
The six-week session offers
study groups on several topics:
terrorism, advanced beginning
Chinese, creative travel, Greek
tragedies, computers and more.
There are special events and
volunteer service leadership
opportunities. A college back-
ground is not required.

For more information, call
(301) 4034467 or visit www.
inform.umd.edu/HLHP/
AGING/SRU.