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Maryland Moments, May, 2001
Towards Being Best:
Rankings, Numbers, New Programs, Events
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Destler (Engineer, Administrator, Dean, Vice President) Named Provost
William Destler, who came to campus from Cornell University almost three decades ago, was named Provost and vice president for academic affairs by President C.D. Mote Jr. At College Park, Destler has been engineering research associate, engineering faculty member, dean of engineering, interim vice president for university relations, vice president for research and graduate studies.
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Governor Addresses Students at Graduation
Gov. Parris N. Glendening delivers the commencement address at the university on May 24.
Lt. Gov. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend was the featured speaker for Maryland's department of communication commencement. The university will award an honorary Doctor of Science to Professor Charles H. Townes, 1964 Nobel Prize winner in physics and the "father of the laser and maser."
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University A Leader In Graduating Black Males
Black Issues In Higher Education ranked the university 12th in graduating black males with baccalaureate degrees in all disciplines (224). (Maryland is second among non-historically black schools.) Maryland is 23rd in black male undergraduate enrollment figures (1,463).
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Nine Baltimore Students Nucleus of Incentive Awards Program
The inaugural class of Baltimore Incentive Award Scholars was announced. One student was selected from each of nine high schools for their demonstrated academic promise and personal persistence to achieve in spite of adverse life circumstances. The program was conceived by President C.D. Mote Jr. as part of an effort to encourage more city students to view enrollment at the state's premier public university as a conceivable aspiration.
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Rush To Say Yes Cramps Campus
A higher percentage of students said "Yes" to enrolling at Maryland in 2001 than was forecasted, another sign of the rising popularity of the university. Without sacrificing admissions standards, 500 more freshmen will enter as members of the Class of 2005.
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University Provides Building Blocks for St. Petersburg Rebuilding
Twenty young Russian urban planners learned techniques that may help them revitalize cities like St. Petersburg, where little now gets built. They graduated from the joint University of Maryland/Russian program, based in St. Petersburg, that teaches the way building projects are planned, financed and approved in the United States.
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Pulitzer Prize Winner 6th On Journalism Faculty
Ira Chinoy, a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist at The Washington Post, will join the university this fall as a visiting journalism professor and a doctoral fellow. Chinoy, The Post's director of computer-assisted reporting, will teach computer-assisted reporting and another course each semester for three years at the Philip Merrill College of Journalism. He also will be the College's first Scripps Howard Foundation Doctoral Fellow.
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Maryland Renames Physics Building For Toll
The university renamed its physics bulding in honor of John Toll, a former chancellor of the state's public university system. Toll was chair of the physics department, guiding it to national recognition.
Faculty, Staff, Student Achievement
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Faculty Member's Environmental Report Heard Around The World
Sara Scherr, an adjunct professor in the department of agricultural and resource economics, co-authored "Common Future, Common Ground" for the World Conservation Union and the group Future Harvest. The report challenged the conservation credentials of the environmental movement by recommending limited use of pesticides and chemical fertilizers while "faintly praising" organic farming as a solution for feeding the world.
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Morici Named To Guide Study Concerning Environment and WTO
Peter Morici, professor of business, logistics and public policy, directs an Economic Strategy Institute project that will examine how to integrate multilateral environmental agreements with the World Trade Organization.
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UM Student Wins Prestigious Voice Competition
Ukraine-born Stefania Dovhan won the 2000 Rosa Ponselle "Young Classical Singers" Competition on the 20th anniversary of the death of the legendary American dramatic soprano.
Dovhan joins the ranks of two previous Ponselle Gold Medalists, in the Rosa Ponselle "International Competition," who now enjoy major international careers: Russian mezzo-soprano, Olga Borodina and American soprano, Deborah Voight.
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Moglen Awarded Geographic Information Services Award
Glenn Moglen, assistant professor in civil and environmental engineering, received the Outstanding Contribution to GIS in Maryland Award, during the 14th Annual Geographic Information Sciences Conference, hosted by Towson State University.
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Chellappa Selected Vice President of IEEE Signal Processing Society
Rama Chellappa, professor of electrical and computer engineering, was elected as vice president of the IEEE Signal Processing Society for a three year term, beginning January 2002. He will work with the Awards Board to supervise the selection of recipients of various awards given by the society.
Research: Significant Discoveries,Grants
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NASA Gives Go Ahead to Build 'Deep Impact' Spacecraft
University astronomer Michael A'Hearn leads a $279 million NASA mission that will launch a 771-pound projectile into Comet's Tempel 1 on July 4, 2005. The Deep Impact mission is designed to give the first look inside the pristine nucleus of a comet and is a partnership between the University of Maryland, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp.
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Team Makes First Quantum Computer Chip
A ten member team of physicists and material scientists from the University of New South Wales, Los Alamos National Laboratory and Maryland placed a single phosophous atom on a silicon surface to fabricate the world's first quantum computer. Bruce Kane, visiting associate research scientist at the Laboratory for Physical Sciences, invented the technique which allowed construction. Kane said an array of only 30 phosphourous atoms could act as the heart of a quantum computer more powerful than today's supercomputers.
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Research Points the Way to Better Monitoring of National and Global Deforestation
Better estimates of deforestation than those currently used by the United Nations can be developed using data from NASA's new Earth Observing System Terra satellite and a University of Maryland-developed method for mapping tree cover, say researchers in the department of geography. The researchers discussed images and quantitative measures they have of forests in North America and other areas of the world on Wednesday, May 30, at the American Geophysical Union's spring meeting in Boston.
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Maryland Picked To Analyze Air Over Pittsburgh, Philadelphia
The department of meteorology was given a contract by the U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory to measure air quality above the two Pennsylvania cities. Maryland already measures for ozone levels and pollutants above the state of Maryland and the National Capital region.
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Hinman Honors Oustanding Start-Up Tech Concerns
The Hinman Campus Entrepreneurship Opportunities (CEOs) program, held its first-ever business plan competiton. Three companies--Onsyss Mobile Computing, Chesapeake PERL and Blue Wave Semiconductor--won $50,000 in awards for their potential in the technology sector. To be eligible, a high-ranking "team member has to attend or to have graduated from Maryland.
Outreach: Campus People Aiding The Community
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Latest and Greatest Free State Info a Featured Website
American Demographics featured the Maryland State Data Center Website (www.op.state.md.us/MSDC) in its May issue. The Maryland Department of Planning, State Library Resource Center and the Office of Information Technology collaborated in creating the Web site which lists and explores 2000 Maryland Census data.
Newsmakers: University People Earning Media Attention
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NeuralStem Honored As Best Incubator Company In Maryland
Technology Advancement tenant NeuralStem Biopharmaceuticals was selected to receive the first Maryland Technology Development Co. award for incubator company of the year. Five other companies won in specific categories, including TAP start-up Claragen, for outstanding biotech company.
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Dean's Visit an Entrepreneurial Epiphany
Nariman Farvardin, dean of the Clark School of Engineering, visited Silicon Valley last year and had an entrepreneurial epiphany. Intending to foster the same kind of entrepreneurial community around the university he experienced in Silicon Valley, Farvardin and three Ph.D. students have now founded Zagros Networks and attracted venture capital backing.
Building for the Future
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The list of construction jobs on campus is lengthy, heralding a continuation of university growth and quality of academic life.
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