Kudos

The latest achievements by members of the UMBC community.

Men’s Basketball Post-Season Notes: Retrievers Are Nation’s Best in Assist-to-Turnover Ratio
The men’s basketball program was honored by the Maryland state legislature on Wednesday, March 26. Director of Athletics Dr. Charles Brown, Head Coach Randy Monroe and student-athletes Brian Hodges, Cavell Johnson, Darryl Proctor and Jay Greene visited the Maryland Senate chamber and received a standing ovation in the House of Delegates.
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Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture and Franc Nunoo-Qarcoo, Visual Arts, Receives AAM Awards
Two of publications produced by the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture received awards in the 2008 American Association of Museums Publications Design Competition.
The 1980s: A Virtual Discussion won Second Prize in the Scholarly Journals category. Andrea Robbins and Max Becher: Portraits won Honorable Mention in the Exhibition Catalogs category. Both books were submitted in the category of institutions with budgets less than $750,000. Franc Nunoo Quarcoo, professor and chair, visual arts, is the credited designer for both publications.
Robert H. Deluty, Psychology, Publishes a New Book
Robert H. Deluty, associate professor of psychology, has published his 16th book of poetry, Hour/Minute/Second Helpings. In his review, Ronald M. Pies, professor of psychiatry at SUNY Upstate Medical University, writes: “Dr. Robert Deluty’s miraculously compressed verse has always dealt with time and mortality. But this latest collection is especially concerned with time as existential paradox: as both a prison of lost opportunity and a cathedral of revealed possibility. . . . We can swim against the current of time, or be borne up by its force, as with the man ‘at his wife’s grave/ remembering with a smile/ their first fight.’ Throughout these brief excursions into time, Deluty maintains his gentle but discerning humor, and his great love of this all-too-fleeting life.”
Hour/Minute/Second Helpings, as well as all of Deluty’s other books, may be purchased at the UMBC Bookstore.
Manil Suri, Mathematics, Speaks at City Lit This Weekend
Professor of Mathematics and acclaimed novelist Manil Suri will read from and discuss his new novel, The Age of Shiva, at the annual City Lit festival on Saturday, April 19 at 1 p.m. at the Enoch Pratt Library, 400 Cathedral Street in Baltimore City. Suri is joined by Baltimore authors Dan Fesperman and Laura Lippman, who also will read and discuss their work. For more information, visit www.citylitproject.org or www.prattlibrary.org.
Track and Field Earns Second Straight Performer of the Week as Fauntleroy Earns Women’s Field Award
Track and field senior Ashley Fauntleroy was named the America East Women’s Field Performer of the Week for the week ending April 14, the conference announced Tuesday.
Fauntleroy, a six-time America East champion and two-time Outstanding Field Performer award-winner, recorded three top-three finishes with three career-best marks at last weekend’s University of Virginia Lou Onesty/Milton G. Abramson Invitational.
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Ryan Smith Named America East Men’s Lacrosse Player of the Week; Retrievers Rise to No. 6 in National Rankings
For the second time in three weeks, junior attackman Ryan Smith has been named America East Conference men’s lacrosse Player of the Week. Smith recorded a UMBC season high eight points with a career best five goals and three assists in UMBC’s 14-10 win over Albany on Saturday night. The win was UMBC’s seventh in a row and has propelled the 8-3 Retrievers to a school-record No. 6 ranking in the United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association poll.
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Voorman, Cette Named America East Tennis Performers of Week; Teams Continue Winning Ways With 5-2 Triumphs at FDU
UMBC has swept America East Tennis Performer of the Week honors for the week ending April 14. The Retrievers’ Fredi Voorman (Tallinn, Estonia) and Pascaline Cette (Menton, France/St. Joseph) were tabbed the week’s top players on the men’s and women’s side, respectively.
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