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Highlighted News Items, August 15
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Maryland Moments, September, 2001
Towards Being Best:
Rankings, Numbers, New Programs, Events
The annual undergraduate rankings are released, and the university moves up three places in the ratings of public universities, from No. 24 to No. 21. The Robert H. Smith School of Business records eight Top 25 mentions. The Clark School of Engineering places one program in the Top 25.
(In 1991, Maryland had one program on U.S. News's Top 25 lists. The rankings released this month raise the total to 61�undergraduate and graduate.)
The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education focuses on the 50 flagship state universities. Maryland is among the top five in highest percentage of black students (13.8) and most black faculty members (194). Also, among Southern flagship universities, Maryland is No. 4 in highest percentage of black enrollment, No. 3 in highest percentage of black faculty, and No. 1 in number of black faculty.
The university launched another high-tech landmark with its Center for Scientific Computation and Mathematical Modeling, a high performance computing partnership with the Deep Computing Institute of IBM. The Institute will work with an applied mathematics and scientific computation graduate program.
Maryland's September Song
of Grief and Community
In the wake of terrorist bombings
In the wake of the terroist bombings in New York City and in near-by Washington, D.C., the university held a mourning service on Sept. 12 that drew 8,000 students, faculty and staff. Hosted by a diverse community of university chaplains, flowers were distributed to all who attended. The flowers were then placed on McKeldin Mall's centerpiece, the Omnicron Delta Kappa fountain. Two days later on Friday, Sept. 14, another ceremony drew a large crowd when the flowers were buried at the east end of McKeldin Mall in front of Main Adminstration as a permanent memorial.
At the urging of two students, David Amdur and Jodie Campbell, the University of Maryland College Park Foundation has established the September 11 Memorial Scholarship to provide assistance to university students, faculty and staff who face financial challenges as a result of the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington. Contributions to the fund may be sent to Terry Miller, Director of Gift Acceptance, 2105B Pocomoke Building, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742. Checks should be made out to University of Maryland College Park Foundation, with "September 11 Memorial Scholarship" in the memo line.
In the wake of a tornado
The outpouring of support following the tornado of Sept. 24 from the university faculty, staff and students, the city and people of College Park and Prince George's County and other colleges and universities serves as a lasting tribute to community. One of the most difficult months in university history ended in a rush of people volunteering to clean up the damage, standing beside tired but unwavering university workers. Free food came from area restaurants, and offers of lodging for students shut out of their dorms came from area residents and colleges near and far.
A Clarksville church overflowed, and 1,000 listened outside to the tributes for students Colleen and Erin Marlatt, killed in the storm. Their parents, Patrick and Patricia, talked to ABC's Good Morning America about their inseparable, loved daughters. Patrick was the last to see his children as he asked them to leave his campus office, which was flattened, before the storm hit.
The dedication week for the opening of the Clarice Smith Center for the Performing Arts did not go off without a hitch. Instead, it served as another example of the university community responding to heartbreaking disaster. Following Monday's tornado that damaged the Smith Center, festivities continued, ending with a grand weekend of glittering performances and pageantry to open the $130 million dollar Center, one of the crown jewels of the arts on U.S. campuses.
Faculty, Staff Achievement
Mark Leone, professor and chair of the department of anthropology, received a special recognition award from the Historic Annapolis Foundation for his work in the Archaeology in Annapolis program.
James Milke, associate professor of fire protection engineering, was surprised when the Trade Towers collapsed due to the failure of steel to resist the intense heat. He leads an industry committee looking into structural designs for fire conditions and is among the experts reviewing the World Trade Center's crumbing.
Frederick Mowrer, associate professor of fire protection engineering, is one of eight researchers to receive grants from the National Science Foundation "to collect data on structural engineering and damage assessment at the terrorist attack sites in New York City and Washington."
President Bush carried Jay Winik's bestselling book, April 1865: The Month That Saved America, to Camp David for weekend reading. Winik is an adjunct lecturer and Center for International and Security Studies senior fellow.
Pervez Hoodbhoy, visiting scientist at the Theory Group for Quarks, Hadrons and Nuceli, wrote the book "Islam and Science."
McGraw Hill publishers took the unusual step of offering Glenn Schiraldi's book on dealing with stress free over the Internet. Schiraldi is assistant professor in the department of public and community health.
Outreach: Campus People Aiding The Community
The College of Life Sciences is responding to the needs of the region's biotechnology companies by expanding its programs to the Shady Grove University System of Maryland campus.
President C. D. Mote's Baltimore Incentive Award Scholars program for nine deserving graduates of Baltimore City schools celebrated its first class of achievers at the Marriott Waterfront Hotel. Actor Danny Glover was the evening's keynote speaker.
After graduating from the University of Maryland last December, the young transplant recipient (Yoav Gilad) founded the We've Been There National Transplant Organization to counsel people who are ages 10 to 35 and on transplant waiting lists.
Newsmakers: University People Earning Media Attention
Jody Olsen, who received her master's degree and doctorate (Human Development, Gerontology) from the university, is President Bush's selection to run the Peace Corps. Olsen served the Peace Corps as Chief of Staff, Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific, Country Director in Togo and as a volunteer in Tunisia. She is founder and former director of the Center on Aging at the University of Maryland and past president of the Alumni Association Board of Directors.
Alumnus Robert Jordan is the new U.S. ambassador to a critical world domain, Saudi Arabia. Jordan holds a master's degree in international relations from the university, and he served as corporate lawyer.
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