Kudos

The latest achievements by members of the UMBC community.

Tim Brennan, Public Policy, Speaks at American Enterprise Institute Conference
Tim Brennan, professor of public policy and economics, participated in the American Enterprise Institute’s conference Electricity Deregulation Texas Style on Friday, January 25 in Washington, D.C. Appearing with other nationally recognized energy industry experts, he discussed competition in the electricity industry and how well markets are performing.
Track and Field’s Alex Hyland Picks Up Third Straight Weekly Award
Junior Alex Hyland was named the America East Women’s Track Performer of the Week for the week ending Jan. 28, the conference announced Tuesday. Hyland has won the weekly women’s track award for the past three weeks, the most times a Retriever has been honored since Mike Zyvoloski garnered four weekly awards during the 2004-05 indoor season.
www.umbcretrievers.com/sports/track/release.asp?RELEASE_ID=3828
Swimming and Diving Sweeps Weekly Swimming Awards for Third Week; Kutt, Kaplanova Honored
The swimming and diving teams have swept the weekly conference swimming awards for the third time this season as sophomores Rasmus Kutt and Tereza Kaplanova earned the respective Men’s and Women’s Swimming Performer of the Week awards for the week ending Jan. 28, the conference announced Tuesday.
www.umbcretrievers.com/sports/swimming/release.asp?RELEASE_ID=3830
Men’s Soccer’s Moffa, Bissohong Selected in Major Indoor Soccer League Amateur Draft
Men’s soccer players Bryan Moffa and Philippe Bissohong were selected in yesterday’s Major Indoor Soccer League amateur draft. Moffa was selected in the first round (fifth pick) by the hometown Baltimore Blast, while Bissohong was picked in the third round by the first-year New Jersey Ironmen. Since 1990, 21 Retrievers have been selected or signed as free agents with the MISL or NPSL (National Professional Soccer League).
www.umbcretrievers.com/sports/msoccer/release.asp?RELEASE_ID=3831
Brad Simpson, History, Edits Suharto: A Declassified Documentary Obit
As Indonesia buries the ex-dictator Suharto, who died Sunday at the age of 86, the National Security Archive posted a selection of declassified U.S. documents detailing his record of repression and corruption, and the long-standing U.S. support for his regime. Suharto: A Declassified Documentary Obit is edited by Brad Simpson, assistant professor of history. For more information, visit www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB242/index.htm.
In March, Stanford University Press will publish Simpson’s Economists with Guns: Authoritarian Development and U.S.-Indonesian Relations, 1960-1968. For more information, visit www.sup.org/book.cgi?book_id=5634%20%20.