In the News

Members of the UMBC community in print and digital communications.

bwtech@UMBC Research and Technology Park in the Baltimore Business Journal
Leaders of bwtech@UMBC Research and Technology Park have developed a plan to create office space suited for small but growing bioscience incubator enterprises that can’t afford the higher rents typically charged at new research parks. Enhanced marketing efforts at the research park are led by Associate Director of Business Development Alex Euler and Marketing Manager Deborah Shapiro, both of whom are pictured in a Baltimore Business Journal story. The article, “UMBC Targeting Emerging Tech Firms with New Space,” ran on Jan. 18.
http://baltimore.bizjournals.com/baltimore/stories/2008/01/21/story6.html
Kafui Dzirasa ’01, Chemical Engineering, in Ebony Magazine
Ebony magazine featured Kafui Dzirasa ’01, Chemical Engineering, in its “30 on the Rise” collection of 2008 Young Leaders of the Future. Dzirasa earned his Ph.D. in neurobiology from Duke, where he is a fourth-year medical student and postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Neurobiology at the Duke Medical Center. The magazine cited several of his UMBC achievements, including his studies as a Meyerhoff Scholar and a conference championship in the long jump. Ebony also noted that Dzirasa received Duke’s Somjen Award for Outstanding Dissertation Thesis. The “30 on the Rise” section, in the February 2008 issue, is available to registered Ebony subscribers at www.ebonyjet.com/ebony/.
Leslie Morgan, Sociology, in the Baltimore Sun
Senior citizens in the Baltimore region believe that the presidential candidates are paying scant attention to issues that concern not only themselves but their children and grandchildren. “There is an assumption out there that older people vote differently than young people and that somehow older people only will vote in self-interested ways,” Leslie Morgan, professor of sociology and former associate dean of the Erickson School, told the Baltimore Sun. The story, “Seniors Tell Candidates: Listen Here,” ran on Jan. 24.
www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-te.md.oldervoters24jan24,0,6694168.story?page=1
Tom Schaller, Political Science, in the News
Associate Professor of Political Science Tom Schaller’s latest column in the Baltimore Sun noted that, for Bill Clinton, “more is at stake in 2008 than Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s political future. Obama is also a threat to Clinton’s presidential legacy and to the Clinton machine’s lording over the national Democratic Party.” The column, “Obama Victory Would Damage Clinton Legacy,” appeared on Jan. 23.
www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bal-op.schaller23jan23033219,0,7221669.column
The New York Times Magazine cited Schaller’s book Whistling Past Dixie and recognized Schaller as the “political scientist and liberal blogger (who) won over a lot of his fellow progressives with an entire book devoted to the premise that Democrats should ignore the South and instead focus their finite resources … on the West and Southwest.” The article, “South Poll,” ran on Jan. 20.
www.nytimes.com/2008/01/20/magazine/20wwln-lede-t.html?_r=3&ref=magazine&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
In the days after Hillary Clinton’s primary victory in Nevada, Schaller told the Christian Science Monitor that Clinton “has an advantage in California and Obama will have a better chance in the Northeast and the Southeast.” The story, “Clinton Wins a Polarized Nevada Vote,” appeared on Jan. 19.
www.csmonitor.com/2008/0120/p25s04-uspo.html?page=1
Before the Nevada presidential primary, the Las Vegas Sun reported that the Democratic candidates were using every available tactic to leave the state victorious. “The Clintons understand cutthroat politics from A to Z, and they’re willing to use the whole alphabet,” Schaller told the newspaper, adding that the Obama campaign has “its own roster of up-and-coming jugular hunters.” The story, “Democrats Toughen Up,” ran on Jan. 24.
www.lasvegassun.com/news/2008/jan/18/democrats-toughen/