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Number 15 'May 13, 2003

Awards for
''Practical/'
Engrossing Work

The John Simon Guggenheim
Memorial Foundation awarded
fellowships to two University' of
Maryland professors last month.

Ira Berlin, Distinguished Univer-
sity Professor of history, and math-
ematics professor Richard
Schwartz were two of 1 84 artists,
scholars and scientists selected
from more than 3.200 applicants
from the United States and Cana-

PHOTO av CVNTHIA MITCHEL

Richard Schwartz

FILE PHOTO av JOHN T CONSOLI

Ira Berlin

da. Awards are based on the appli-
cant's research budget. This is the
contest's 79th year.

Berlin said he was delighted to
win the Guggenheim to study
movement and place in African-
American life between 1650 and
2000. The amount of his award is
still being negotiated. His research
surrounds the three great migra-
tions of African Americans, from
the transatlantic slave trade to the
internal slave trade to the great
north migration, whicli Berlin labels
"from the plantation to the ghetto."

Berlin said now that he has won
the Guggenheim he will be
engrossed in his research. "I'll head
off to the library and won't emerge
for a year," he said.

Schwartz said he applied to the
foundation to study the connec-
tions between real and complex
hyperbolic groups, tw^o patterns in
space, last October. He said he dis-

See AWARDS, page 2

Now It's Time to Say Goodbye

fltE PHOTO QV JOHM I CONSOLI

While tlie traditional pomp and circumstance of spring commencement
can be expected, organizers decided to change the order of events to
allow families more time to enjoy the main ceremony and the individual
programs. For specific ceremony information, visit wTATv.commencement.imid.edu.

Comtnencetnent Ceremonies

Building

May 22

Main Ceremony

6:30 p.m., Comcast Center

May 23

A. Jamas Clark School of
Engineering

9 a.m.. Cote Student Activities

Afro- American Studies,
Anthropology and Geography

9 a.m.. Memorial Chapel

American Studies and

Women's Studies

Noon, 0200 Skinner Building

Art History

9 a.m., Clarice Smith Center,
Glldeniiofn Recital Hall

Art Studio

Noon, Stamp Student Union,
Grand Ballroom

COMMENCEMENT, pa^ 4

Campus Faculty^ Staff Help Keep City Green

Early wet weather can-
celed recess and the
skies stUI looked a bit dark,
but just as the third graders
from Hollywood Elementary
School marched out to set
up their chairs for the Arbor
Day tree planting ceremo-
ny—out came the sun.

The schoolchildren were
joined in a celebration of
the holiday by state and
local parks personnel, Col-
lege Park Mayor Stephen
Brayman and faculty' and
staff from the university
who volunteer on the city's
Tree and Landscape Board.
The nine-member group
helps businesses and home-
owners plan landscaping
efibrts through education,
encouraging the use of
foliage known to do well in
the area They are currently
updating a publication list-
ing recommended plants.
Two members are cit)'
employees and seven are
citizen volimteers. Created
by the Committee for a Bet-
ter Environment in 1991,
the board works with Bren-
da Alexander, horticulturist
for the city, to review and
approve landscaping plans

PHOTOS BY MONETTE AUSTIN BAILEV

College Park Mayor Stephen Brayman, from left, joins professor
Dennis Herschbach, professor John Lea-CoK (behind tree) and
College Park Horticulturist Brenda Alexander to plant one of two
maples the city bought for Hollywood Elementary School.

on city property. Among the
plans board members have
approved are those submit-
ted by Route 1 businesses as
part of a city matching grant

program. Some of the busi-
nesses that have benefitted
ft'om this program include

See ARBOR, page 2

Dingman Center
Partners with
Venture Fund

The New Markets Growth
Fund (NMGF) has clo.sed a
$20 million venture capital
fund to invest in early and expan-
sion stage companies, primarily
located in economically distressed
sections of Maryland, Vii^nia and
Washington, D.C.

Investors in the NMGF include
public entities, private institutions
and high net worth individuals. It
was initiated through the Dingman
Center for Entreprcneurship at the
university's Robert H. Smith School
of Business, and will greatly benefit
from this relationship.

"We bring to this fund access to
the region's top scientific, invest-
ment and business professionals,"
said Don Spero, NMGF partner and
director of the Dingman Center. "In
addition, the Dingman Center will
provide a team of exceptional
Smith School MBA students, who
will support the fund's profession-
al managers."

"The closing of this fund in a
challenging venture capital envi-
ronment is a testament to our
compelling formtda and sound
venture team, which has over 60
years of investment and manage-
ment experience," said Mark
Grovic, NMGF founding parmer.

See DINGMAN, page 4

Libraries to
House NPR
News Tape
Collection

The University of Maryland
Libraries have become the insti-
tutional curator and depository
for the National Public Radio
(NPR) News Tape Collection
This valuable collection of some
21,500 audiotape reels chroni-
cles, in depth, all the major
world news events occurring
from 1971 to 1983. An addition-
al 8,000 reels will provide the
universit>' with NPR News pro-
gramming through 1988.

The tapes, to be located in
the National Public Broadcast-
ing Archives (NPBA) in Horn-
bake Library, became accessible
at the beginning of the month.
As part of the agreement, NPR
will iransfcr to the Libraries
each year some 4,000 additional
tapes spatming events beyond
1988.

"The NPR News Tape Collec-
tion is the most significant non-
commercial radio news archive
in the country," said Dean of

See NPR, page 3

MAY 13, 2003

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maryland

YOUR GUIDE TO UNIVERSITY EVENTS : MAY 13 - 19

may 13

12:30-2:30 p.m., Universitv
of Marvland Opera Work-
shop GitJenhurn RecitaJ Hall,
Clarice Smith Performing Arts
Center. Music by Barab, Bern-
stein and Barber Eugene Galvin
directs. Free. For more informa-
tion, call (301) 405-ARTS or see
www. music . umd . edu/c alendar.

2-3 p.m., Web of Science
and Journal Citation
Reports Seminar See For

Your Interest, page 4.

3:30-4:30 p.m.. Numerical
Analysts Seminar: Phase-
Field Models: A Parameter
Hell 3206 Math Building. With
Daniel Kessler. For more infor-
mation, contact Tobias von
Petersdoiff at tvp® math, umd,
edu or visit www.math.timd.
edu/dpet/seminars/nas.

4 p.m.. String Theory

Physics Lecture Hall. With
Shamit Kachru of Stanford Uni-
versity. Refresh ments will be
served prior to the colloquiimi
for a small fee. For more infor-
mation, call 5-340 1 .

5-7 p.m.. Next Chapters
Retirement Program See For
Your Interest, page 4.

8-10 p.m.. The Philharmonia
Ensemble Dekelboum Con-
cert Hall, Clarice Smith Perfor-
ming Arts Center. Maryland's
student-run chamber orchestra
closes the current artistic sea-
son with its finale concert.
Free. For more information, c^
(301) 405-AJlTS or visit
www.music.umd.edu/calendar.

WE0NE5OAV

may 14

2-5:30 p.m., U.S.-lslamic
Relations Workshop Lan-
guage House Room, St. Mary's
Hall. The workshop will seek
to address whether effective
means of ineraction exist for
the United States in facing the
development challenges and
the political gulf with the
Islamic world. For more infor-
mation, contact Jennifer Munro
at 5-3721 or jennilierm@iris.
econ.urad.edu, or visit
www: iris.econ.umd.edu,

1 1 a.m.-noon, Web of Sci-
ence and Journal CKation
Reports Seminar See For

Your Interest, page 4.

3:30-5 p.m.. President's
Commission on Ethnic Min-
ority Issues Awards Recep-
tion Maryland Room, Marie
Moimt Hall. For more informa-
tion, contact Ntchole Maiman
at mr cello@hotmail.com.

THURSDOY

may 15

9 a.m.-4 p.m.. Managing
When There's Too Much to
Do and Not Enough Staff
to Do It 1 101 U Chesapeake,
Learn to challenge old work
processes and motivate staff
who are working at capacity.
Strategies for handling
burnout, communicating with
management regarding expec-
tations and keeping individual
management styles positive
will be offered. Cost is $120.
For more information, contact
Natalie Torres, 5-565 lor train-
dev@accmail.umd.edu, or visit
http ://pe rsonnel , umd . edu .

may 16

9:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m.. Spring
Sale Greenhouses, Harrison
Laboratory. Flowers will be on
sale. For more information, call
Catherine at 5-4376.

may 18

10:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m., 4th
Annual Sunday Brunch
Cruise Odyssey Cruise, Wash-
ington, D.C. With journalist
De Wayne Wickham '74 and
music by Spur of the Moment.
A silent auction will be held
for the Parren Mitchell Scholar-
ship Fund. Tickets are $45 for
alumni association members, jllllG 7
$55 for non-members. For
more information, call (301 )
403-4278 exi. 11 or e-mail Llate-
tra@ terpalum.umd.edu, or visit
www.alumni.umd.edu.

University
Coilege

Graduation May
Affect Paricing

As in past years, the
spring commence-
ment ceremonies for
UMUC wtlJ talce place on the
ColSege Park campus. This
year, they have been sched-
uled for the morning of Sat-
urday, May 17 in the Corn-
cast Center. Accordingly, the
following advice is offered to
faculty and students whose
examinations have been
scheduled for that morning:

1. Arrive early. Though the
ceremonies start at 9 a.m.,
guests may begin to arrive
on campus as early as 7:30
a.m. Traffic is likely to taper
off around 9:15 a.m.; cere-
monies end around noon.

2. Enter campus from the
west (University Blvd. at Sta-
dium Drive) or from the
south (at the entrance locat-
ed at the intersection of Bal-
timore Avenue and Regents
Drive, or the entrance locat-
ed at the intersection of
Knox Road and Prinkert
Drive). Guests are most likely
to enter campus at the main
gate on the east side of cam-
pus (Baltimore Avenue at
Campus Drive) or rrortheast
gate (University Blvd. at
Paint Branch Drive).

3. Plan ahead to identify
the route to the parking lot
you intend to access. All lots
will be open. For a detailed
description of the parking
lots situated on campus,
consult the campus map at
wwfw.inform.umd.edu/Cam-
puslnfo/About_UMCP/Maps/.

SATURDAY

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may 22

10 a.m.-2 p.m.. Farmer's
Market Rossborough Inn.
Fresh garden vegetables and
fruits. For more information,
contact Pam Whitlow at 4^012
or pwhitlow® dining.umd.edu,
or visit www.dining umd.edu/
locations/ rossborough/.

8 p.m.. National Orchestral
Institute Concert Dekelboum

Concert Hall, Clarice Smith Per-
formingArts Center Talented
young musicians from across
the country will perform with
conductor Michael Stern. Tick-
ets are $20. For more informa-
tion, visit www.claricesmith-
ccnter.umd.edu.

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Continued from page 1

Pam Townsend, marketing and
media relations coordinator for
the College of Agriculture and
Natural Resources, introduces
the artistic part of the Arbor
Day celebration.

the Hillcrest Hotel, Koons
Ford and Madam Flora, the
palmreader

"We meet once a month,"
said Pam Townsend, market-
ing and media relations coor-
dinator for the College of
Agriculture and Natural
Resources and chair of the
board. "People serve a three-
year term, but can be reap-
pointed." Her fellow volun-
teers include campus col-
leagues Dennis Herschbach,
as,sociate professor and asso-
ciate chair of the College of
Education's Department of
Education Policy and Leader-
ship; John Lea-Cox, associate
professor in the Department
of Natural Resource Science
& Landscape Architecture
and volunteer city forester;
and John Krouse,turfgrass
research assistant in the
same department.

The two Johns have a
great deal of knowledge
between them," said Towns-
end, who is no slouch herself,
having won a coimty beautifi-
cation award for her garden.

"We have a very good
board," said Mary Cook, a
member of the environment
committee, speaking to the
group's varied and valuable
areas of expertise.

During the ceremony, Beth
Bader from the state's Forest
Service presented Mayor
Brayman with another Tree
City USA barmer for College
Park's ecological efforts. The
National Arbor Day Founda-
tion sponsors the award pro-
gram, along with the United
States Department of Agricul-
ture Forest Service and the
National Association of State
Foresters.

Then the students, dressed
in paper-bag vests decorated
to look like tree trunlcs, read
poetry, performed a skit and
sang The two Amur Maples
planted w^ere gifts from the
state in honor of the award.
Townsend said the students,
under the guidance of their
teachers Emily D'Elia and
Kascy Duff, chose the trees.

Awards

Continued Jrom page i

covered the first connection
of this kind through comput-
er experimentation six years
ago, and has discovered sev-
eral more since then. He said
he initiated the research to
surprise some colleagues.

The professor said he
thought his proposal was a
long shot, but it was definite-
ly not his first, Schwartz
applied for the Guggenheim
years ago to fund his virtual
reality art installation idea.

"Most of my ideas are
crazy," Schwartz said. "When
1 applied then, I was really
just taking a shot in the
dark. Needless to say, 1 didn't
get it." He said when he
applied this time he wanted
the grant for a more practi-
cal purpose and wrote out a
more conservative and care-
ful proposal.

Schwartz said he called
femily and friends and then
bought an expensive botde
of champagne when he
foimd out he won, and plans
to use the $35,000 to
finance the second semester
of his sabbatical next year.
Schwartz said President Dan
Mote wrote him a personal
note but for the most part,
things are back to normal,

"My department has some
world-class mathematicians
in it, so they're somewhat
used to periodic honors like
this," he said.

— Desair Brown,

graduate journalism student

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Sculptor Shares Space, Talents

Art professor Foon
Sham said he does
not object to being
on the same level
as his students.

"Inside the classroom 1 am
your professor," Sham said to
them/But once you're out-
side, you are equally consider-
ed an artist, but younger."

Sham has made good on
that statement by inviting
some of his students to pres-
ent their art alongside his
own at Washington Square in
Washington, D.C. The display,
called "Three Generations,"
began May 5 and ends in
August, It also showcases art
by Sham's past professors at
Virginia Commonwealth Uni-
versity and individuals with
whom he attended school.

The art professor said he
did not want the viewing to
just be about htm. Sham's stu-
dents "were ver)' honored"
when he asked them to join
him, he said.

The title "Three Generations"
is symbolic. Sham said he
learned the art of sculpture
from his professors. Sham's stu-
dents have learned the art of
sculpture from him, Together,
they display their art.

Washington Square's display
is not the only one in which
Sham is featured. From June to

PHOTO BY FOON SHAM

One of Foon Sham's wood sculptures in
ttie exhlbttion "Three Generations" at
Washington Square at Connecticut
Avenue in Northwest Washington, D.C.
This piece is called 'Joint ft7. Scissors."

July, the Manningham Gallery in
Melbourne, Australia will be
showing some of his sculptures.
He must travel to Melbourne to
build one of the featured sculp-
tures because it would be too
large to send overseas.

Sham said his art has changed
during his career. "1 was more
into color. My new works are
more natural," Sham said.

He sculpts with wood, a
substance he thinks is like no
other. "Steel, to me, is great
material for what it does, but
it does not have that individ-
ual characteristic," he said.

Wood is such that "you can-
not match two grains," he said.
He compared it to humans.

"You and me are people but
we look different," he said.

Sham arrived in the United
States as a student from Hong
Kong. He attended California
College of Arts and Crafts in
Oakland, Ca. "to study design"
so he "could get a job." He
took one sculpting class that
hooked him, he said.

"I really wanted to do
sculpture but 1 knew 1 had to
make a living," Sham said.
He was able to work in
design but he said he still
wanted to sculpt, so he
attended graduate school. He
framed pictures and worked
in restaurants "to survive," he
said, and beginning in 1984, he
taught at the end of the week.
Sham displayed his art later that
year and said he has been
sculpting "for the last 1 5 years."
"I also enjoy teaching while I
can share my ideas and my work
with my students who are study-
ing art," Sham said.

— -Janiie Wellington,
graduate journalism student

Historic Tapes Find Maryland Home

Continued Jrom page i

Libraries Charles B. Lowry.
"Covering the first 1 5 years of
NPR news programming, the
initial transfer contains in-
depth reportage of the main
news events of the 1970s and
'80s. Stories dealing with the
release of the Pentagon
Papers, the end of the Vietnam
War, the resignation of Presi-
dent Richard Nixon and the
rise of Reagan conservatism
are just a sampling of the rich
materials contained in the col-
lection.

"Besides providing ^fPR
news programmers access to
the tapes," Lowry said,"we
also plan to promote the col-
lection to students of joumal-
tsm, political and diplomatic
history, political science and
other disciplines. We look for-
ward to working with NPR to
make its news tape legacy
available to researchers here
and around the world."

Commenting on the agree-
ment, Rob Robinson, senior
librarian at NPR, pointed out
that "this is an exciting new
relationship with the Universi-
ty of Maryland, The imiversi-
ty's feculty and students will
now have easy access to years
of the best news and cultural
Stories on radio. In addition,
the NPR tapes are a collection
of dozens of different award-
winning programs that can
teach the art of radio produc-
tion." Robinson is a 1973 mas-

ter's graduate of the universi-
ty, having received a degree in
library science.

NPR has also provided the
Libraries with a copy of its
News Tape database in elec-
tronic format and, according
to Tom Connors, curator of
the NPBA, this will eventually
be loaded into catalogusmai,
the online catalog serving the
16 University System of Mary-
land and affiliated institution
libraries, to provide a conven-
ient reference tool for the col-
lection. Plans are also in the
works to digitize the collec-
tion and provide online
access in the near future.

For the past 25 years the
federal National Archives and
Records Administration
<TJARA), wrhich in the past
year, decided to relinquish
control; has managed the NPR
News Tape Collection. Follow-
ing an Intensive evaluation
process involvuig several edu-
cational institutions, NPR
selected the Libraries as the
depository primarily because
the NPBA were already locat-
ed in Hombake Library and
housed a substantia] number
of NPR adnvinistrathfc
records.

To acconmiodatc NPR's
ongoing need for background
material, the agreement pro-
vides NPR news programmers
with access to the collection
on a regular basis for their var-

ious news shows. More than
1 50 series tides are contained
in the collection including
such NPR program stalwarts
as "Morning Edition," "All
Things Considered," "Hori-
zons," "About Books & Writ-
ers," as well as various Con-
gressional hearings held prior
to the advent of C-SPAN
including the Watei^te pro-
ceedings. "Morning Edition"
and "All Things Considered"
have the second and third
largest weekly radio audi-
ences in the coimtry respec-
tively. ,

National Public Badtd was
founded on February 24, 1 970,
with 90 public radio stations
as charter members.Tbday,
NPR serves a growing audi-
ence of nearly 21 million
Americans each week via 732
public radio stations and the
Internet and in Europe, Asia,
Australia and Africa via NPR
Worldwide, to military installa-
tions overseas via American
Forces Netwoik, and through-
out Japan via cable. In its more
than 30 years, NPR has won
every major award in journal-
ism for news and cultural pro-
gramming in America

Persons interested in listen-
ing to materials in the collec-
tion can gain access by visit-
ing the NPBA on the third
floor of Hombake Library,
Monday through Friday from
10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

BSLC^

^ X t racu r r i c If la r

Giving Her All in Love

The saying "love con-
quers air for some is a
lovely idea in theory,
but absent in practice — sappy
stuff most people find best
reserved for romantic come-
dies and made-for-TV movies.
Unless, that is, they've met
Diana White, whose whole
basis for life is about loving
others. Her version doesn't

College of Journalism administrative assistant
Diana whrte lets her faith guide her in pursuits
on and off campus.

come from a Hollywood
script, though, and her passion
about it is anything but sappy.

White, a Christian, says
everything she does in life —
from opening her home as a
safe haven for abused women
to advising new-to-the-area
graduate students — stems
from her belief in her love for
God and the love she receives
from him.

White works on campus as
an administrative assistant in
the PhUip Merrill College of
Journalism. Off campu,s. White
sows her love through Agape
Love Ministries, a ministry she
created in 2000 as part of her
on-going crusade to serve oth-
ers with unconditional love
and support. At Agape 's crux
are themed annual prayer
breakfasts and workshops,
seminars and conferences
White runs for abiLSed and
troubled women.

The women who come to
her workshops are insecure
and have very low self-esteem,
and it is her goal to teach such
women they can have healthy
and full lives through commu-
nication with God, White said.

"You don't give up on any-
body and you don't discourage
anybody," she said.

Need a ride to church? She's

there to offer a lift. Something
on your mind? She'll take
prayer requests. Want help
interpreting a Bible passage?
She'll do that, too. She gives
away her old clothes to i>eople
in need. Or she takes them out
to buy new clothes.

On campus, she loves
attending student-run events
like plays and dance perform-
ances to show
support. At the
college, she is
there for the
graduate stih
dents "from the
first phone call
until tlicy walk
across the
stage," as she
likes to say.

She strives to
get to know the
students so they
trust that she is
there for them.

"The best
way to learn a
person is to talk
with them, and
to really listen to
what they're say-
ing," she said.
White, whose
three children
are Maryland
graduate stu-
dents in other
departments, said she treats
the joiuTialism graduate stih
dents just as she treats her
own children.

"You just concentrate on
love and patience," she said.

Despite her conviction.
White still comes across as
very down to earth, chatting
about her dogs or politics and,
althou^ she is an ordained
minister, straying away from
titles she feels some people
use pretentiously.

"Some people call me 'min-
ister,' some people call me
Rev,' some people call me
'evangelist,' " she said. "It does-
n't matter."

Tlie word "Agape" in the
name of White's ministry is
from ancient Greek New Testa-
ment texts. She uses it based
on translations of the word to
mean an "unselfish, uncondi-
tional and sacriBcial love" from
God. The meaning of the word
to White best sums up what
she is all about:

"It is the greatest expression
of love, and to express that
love there has to be a demon-
stration of action in word and
deed, seeking the betterment
of another regardless of your
own feelings."

— -Justyn Kopack,
senior journalism smdcnt

Edit9r'm moimi Outlook's feature. extmcurricukiT, takes occasional
glimpses into unlfersity employees' lives beyond tbeir day Jobs. Wfe iiief-
come story suggestions; colt Monette Austin Bailey at (30 1} 405-4629 or
send them to outlook@accmailumd.edu.

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Outstanding Adniinistratiws
Professional Award
Deadline Extended

The deadline to submit nominations
for the 2003 Outstanding Adminis-
trative Professional Award has been
extehded to May 16. The President's
Commission on Women's Issues
(PCWT) encourages supervisors and
co-workers to nominate three peo-
ple deserving of this award.

For more information, contact
Carol Cron at (301) 405-2333 or
ccron®rhsmith. iimd.edu, or visit
www. inform . umd . edu/pcwi/pccc .

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from work to retirement? Join col-
leagues from the university and the
community to discover how to
make the "Next Chapters" of your
life productive and satisfjing.The
Legacy College for Lifelong Learn-
ing of the Center on Aging, at 432 1
Hartwick Road, will hold this event
on Tuesday, May 13 from 5 to 7 p.m.

Topics include health, financial
and legal affairs, lifelong learning
and volunteerism. Sessions encour-
age creative, interactive participa-
tion and discussion under the guid-
ance of experts. Enrollment fee
(includes material and parking) is
$75. For more information, call 5-
2469 or e-mail benas@umd.edu.

Wab off Science and Journal
Citation Reports Seminar

UM Libraries welcomes the campus
to a demonstration and hands-on
workshop of [Si's Web of Science. It
is a multidisciplinary database, cov-
ering the journal literature of the
sciences from 1945 to the present.
Web of Science indexes more than
5,700 major journals across 164 sci-

Black Arts Extravaganza Held at Nyumburu Center

PHOTO BV KATE BAFtNES

Art in various media and its creators took over the Nyumburu Cultural Center recendy as
part of the Black Arts Extravaganza featuring works by on- and off^canipus artists. From left,
MBA student Nigel D, Greaves, art history graduate student Tamara De Silva, education pol-
icy and leadership graduate student Andre Perry, counseling and personnel services graduate student
Rashida Govan and American studies graduate student Johonna McCants take a moment to smile
for the camera. To -view some of their work, visit http://oudook.coIlegepubUsher.com.

entiflc disciplines, covering approx-
imately 2,100 more joiunals than its
SCI print and CD-ROM. Participants
will be able to conduct their own
handson searches and receive help
from experienced users. ISI's "Jour-
nal Citation Reports" will be
demonstrated, where journal rank-
ings and impact fectors will be dis-
cussed. The workshop is free, but
advance registration is required.

This seminar is offered in 6103
McKeldln Library on:

• Tuesday, May 13, 2-3 p.m.

• Wednesday, May 14, 11 a.m. -noon

Seating is limited to 16 people in
both sessions. For more informa-
tion, contact User Education Ser-
vices at (301) 405-9070 or ue6®

umail.umd.edu, or visit www. lib.
umd . cdu/U ES/se min ar. h tml .

BFSA Conference: Unity
Among Our Differencas

Members of the Black Faculty &
Staff Association (BFSA) invite the
university community and affiliates
to the 16th Annual Conference for
African Americans in Higher Educa-
tion, being held May 28-29 at the
Greenbelt Marriott, 6400 Ivy Lane
in Greenbelt.

This year's conference theme is
"Unity Among Oiu- Differences:
Understand, Support, and Progress."
Keynote speakers are Maryland
adjunct professor of leadership Kmt
Gerald ShockleyAlkcbulan, publbh-

er and motivational speaker Mar-
garet Dureke, and Swarthmore asso-
ciate professor of sociology Sarah
Susannah Willie.

For more information and regis-
tration details, visit www, inform,
umd . edu/bfsa/confe rence.

Moonlight Meeting

The Department of Astronomy will
host a lunar eclipse viewing on the
steps of the Memorial Chapel, May
15 beginning at 10 p.m. Telescopes
will be set up until at least mid-
night, though the full eclipse could
continue until 3 am.

For more information, contact
Elizabeth Warner, observatory direc-
tor, at (301) 405-6555.

Dingman: Investment in the Region

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"By focusing on the strategic use of capi-
tal to identify and support a new class of
investments, the fund can achieve superi-
or financial returns for investors while
fueling economic growth."

The NMGF will leverage its investment
dollars with ftinds available through the
Small Business Admimstration's New Mar-
kets Venture Capital program. The pro-
gram, authorized by Congress in 2000,
provides venture groups with matching
fimds through federally backed loans and
grants. The fund expects that it will invest
in approximately 20 companies with indi-
vidual investment amounts ranging from
$200,000 to $2 miUion-The NMGF tar-
gets both existing small businesses seek-
ing growth capital and early stage compa-
nies with developed products based
upon break-through technologies.Thc
investment profile will include compa-
nies with strong management teams and
superior products in growing maritets.

"The New Markets Growth Fund
demonstrates what can be achieved
when the public and private sectors
work together," said Sen, Paul S, Sarbanes,
the ranking member on the Senate Bank-
ing, Hotising and Urban Affoirs Commit-
tee. "With the support and leadership of
the University of Maryland's Dingman

Center, this program will give an impor-
tant boost to small business development
and job creation in economically dis-
tressed areas of our state."

The fund's investors include: CapCity
Ventures (that includes National Capital
Revitalization Corporation, BB&T Bank
and Southern Financial Bank). M&T Bank,
Capital One, Chev>' Chase Bank, MBNA,
Farmers & Mechanics Banks, Sandy Spring
Bank. Empower Baltimore, the Calvert
Group, National Cooperative Bank, Balti-
more Development Corporation, the state
of Maryland, the University of Maryland's
Smith School of Business and several of
the region's top angel investors and the
fund management company,

"The New Markets Grovrth Fund is
well-positioned to carve out an attractive
niche in an alternative asset class that
plays to its competitive advantages," said
Jack Biddle, co-founder of Novak Biddle
Venture Partners and a NMGF investment
committee member "By focusing on
often overlooked oppommities, the fiind
will help fill a funding gap in the region
while creating strong opportunities for
returns to the fund's investors."

More information about the New Mar-
kets Growth Fund can be found at
www,newmarketsftind.cora.

Classics

9 a.m., Marie Mount Hall,
Maryland Room

College of Agriculture &
Natural Resources

Noon, Memorial Chapel

College of Computer,
Mathematical and
Physical Sciences

Noon, Reckord Armory

College of Education

Noon, Cole Student
Activities Building

College of Health and
Human Performance

Noon, Ritchie Coliseum

College of Information

Studies

3 p.m., Clarice Smith

Center, Gildenhorn Hall

College of Life Sciences

9 a.m., Ritchie Coliseum

Communication

9 a.m., Reckord Armory

Criminologv and
Criminal Justice
3 p.m., Comcast Center

Dance/Theatre

Noon, Clarice Smith Cen-
ter, Kay Theatre

Economics

9 a.m., Tawes Theatre

English

Noon, Tawes Theatre

Foreign Languages

Noon, Tydings Hall,
Room 013D

Government and Politics

Noon, Comcast Center

Hearing and Speech

Sciences

3 p.m.. Memorial Chapel

History/ Jewish Studies

Noon, Toll Physics Build-
ing, Room 1410

Individual Studies

3 p.m., Nyumburu Cult-
ural Center

Linguistics

Noon, Marie Mount Hall,
Maryland Room

Music

9 a.m., Clarice Smith
Center, Dekel bourn Hall

Philip Merrill School of
Journalism

3 p.m., Clarice Smith
Center, Dekelboum Hall

Psychology

Noon, Clarice Smith Cen-
ter, Dekelboum Hall

Robert H. Smith School
of Business

9 a.m., Comcast Center

School of Architecture

10 a.m.. Architecture
Building, Great Space

School of Public Affairs
9 a.m.. Stamp Student
Union, Hoff Theater

Sociology

9 a.m., Clarice Smith
Center, Kay Theatre