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Highlighted News Items, August 7
Building a More Responsible B-School
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Maryland Moments, August, 2005
University Initiatives
(Ranking, Honors, New Programs)
The Institute of Higher Education at Shanghai's Jiao Tong University releases its annual ranking of the world's top universities based on research, which attracts more attention in Great Britain's media than in the U.S. The news is uniformly good: UM ranks No. 47 in the world, up from No. 57 a year ago. UM ranks No. 37 among North American & Latin American universities, up from No. 41 a year ago. UM ranks No. 35 among U.S. schools; a year ago it was No. 38.
The most visible U.S. rankings for undergraduate programs are released as well as a ranking for public research universities, where UM for the second consecutive year is ranked No. 18. Following the release of U.S. News's graduate school rankings last spring, UM now has more programs ranked than ever before. A comparison of the combined rankings: 2006 Top 10 programs (32) Top 15 (51) Top 20 (67) Top 25 (79)
2005 Top 10 programs (23) Top 15 (45) Top 20 (60) Top 25 (70)
The undergraduate rankings: The Smith School of Business ranked No. 22, down from No. 20 last year.
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Individual programs:
Entrepreneurship No. 13 (12 in '05)
Management Information Services No. 6, (7 in '05)
General Management No. 9 (13 in '05)
Supply Chain Mgt/Logistics No. 8 (same as '05)
Production/Operation Mgt. No. 16 (15 in '05)
Finance No. 22 (18 in '05)
Quantitative Analysis No. 13 (not ranked in '05)
Marketing No. 18 (not ranked in '05)
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Indiviudal Programs:
Aerospace engineering No. 10 (same as '05)
Mechanical engineering No. 23 (same as '05)
Electrical engineering No. 24 (not ranked in '05)
Computer engineering No. 21 (not ranked in '05)
The Joint Institute for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (JIFSAN), a partnership between UM and the Food and Drug Administration, launch a new global food safety training program aimed at seafood and meat exported to the U.S. The program will be implemented by a new JohnsonDiversey International Food Safety Initiative. (JohnsonDiversey is a global provider of commercial cleaning, sanitation and hygiene solutions.) Since 2000, JIFSAN's Good Agricultural Practices program has trained food producers, exporters and regulators, as well as academics and educators in 13 countries to teach food safety methods for fruits and vegetables to agriculture and aquaculture workers, food processors, exporters, regulators, and educators.
Doyle Wins Major American Chemical Society Award
The chair of the department of chemistry and biochemistry, Michael P. Doyle, is be the recipient of a 2006 Arthur C. Cope Senior Scholar Award from the American Chemical Society. He also was named recipient of the 2006 Harry and Carol Mosher Award by the Santa Clara Valley Section of the American Chemical Society. The Cope Scholar Awards recognize excellence in organic chemistry and are considered to be one of the most prestigious awards in the field of chemistry. Doyle receives an award of $5,000 and a $40,000 unrestricted research grants he can assign to any university or nonprofit institution. Doyle, who came to the University of Maryland in 2003, is the first Maryland faculty member to receive a Cope Scholar Award.
UM at the State Fair
The College of Agriculture & Natural Resources attends Timonium's State Fair. The Baltimore Sun
"Back by popular demand are the opening weekend 'Hot Air Balloon Glow,' the 'Swifty Swine Racing and Swimming Pig Show,' the University of Maryland Agricultural Fair Tours, the Birthing Center, the Cow Milking Clinic, the Antique Vehicle Display and more.... Each day of the fair, University of Maryland agriculture professors and students will don red coveralls and lead fairgoers on hourly tours around the fairgrounds and offer insight on the many animals and exhibits. Also, the Birthing Center will be open daily for visitors to witness the birth of calves and piglets, in the Cow Palace."
UM's role in elevating the site of New Philadelphia, a long forgotten town in Illionis, to the National Register of Historic Places is given much attention. The university's Paul Schackel oversaw reclamation of the earliest known town founded and registered in a state by an African American in the antebellum United States. The Chicago Tribune: "When 'Free' Frank McWorter started the town of New Philadelphia, Ill., in 1836, the former slave may have envisioned a multiracial city of brotherly love. Five generations later, his family hopes the town, designated as a National Historic Site on Thursday, will remind Americans what it means to embrace freedom--and each other.... Paul Shackel, an archeologist with University of Maryland's Center for Heritage Resource Studies, has spent the last two years digging for details about the town with a grant from the National Science Foundation."
Science & Technology
Michael Fisher, Distinguished University Professor at UM's Institute for Physical Sciences & Technology, ranks among the nation's leading scientists, according to a "new way of quantifying the scientific output of indiviudal scientists." PhysicsWeb: "Jorge Hirsch of the University of California at San Diego says that the 'h-index' -- which is derived from the number of times that papers by the scientist are cited -- gives an estimate of the 'importance, significance and broad impact of a scientist's cumulative contributions.' According to Hirsch the h-index 'should provide a useful yardstick to compare different individuals' when recruiting new staff, deciding promotions and awarding gr ants.' The top five h-index researchers: string theorist Edward Witten of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, who has an h-index of 110; Marvin Cohen (94), a condensed matter theorist at the University of California at Berkeley; Philip Anderson (91), a condensed matter theorist at Princeton University; Steven Weinberg (88), a particle theorist at the University of Texas at Austin; and Michael Fisher (88), a mathematical physicist... at the University of Maryland."
Innovative Biosensors, based at the university's business incubator, has been awarded a development grant to develop a Mad Cow detection test. The Daily Record: "A newly awarded federal grant is helping College Park-based Innovative Biosensors Inc. develop a faster and more sensitive diagnostic test for bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or mad cow disease. The 2-year-old firm, a resident of the University of Maryland, College Park's Technology Advancement Program incubator, announced its receipt of a $110,000 Phase I Small Business Innovation Research grant from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute."
Society & Culture
The Baltimore Sun: Teens funded by the city's YouthWorks program discover archaeology while unearthing fragments of clues about how the working class lived in Hampden during the 1800s. The University of Maryland, College Park's Center for Heritage Resource Studies is sponsoring the six-week project as part of an effort to see whether a longer dig in the area is worth pursuing."
The Center for American Politics and Citizenship at UM examines how adding a voter verification system would affect voters and the administration of elections. The Maryland Board of Elections seeks to help legislators decide whether there should be a paper trail that can be used to verify that votes are counted accurately.
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