In the News

Lee Boot, Imaging Research Center, on WYPR’s “The Signal”
“Euphoria,” a science-based, self-help art film written, directed and narrated by Lee Boot, associate director of UMBC’s Imaging Research Center, was featured on WYPR 88.1 FM’s “The Signal” Thursday, November 13. Boot and executive producer Stacy Arnold discussed the film’s unique take on the neuroscience of emotional, spiritual and physical happiness.
http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/wypr/.artsmain/article/14/347/1408502/The.Signal/Euphoria/
UMBC’s Joseph Beuys Sculpture Park on WETA TV
UMBC’s Joseph Beuys Sculpture Park was featured on WETA TV, channel 26 in Washington, DC. “Joseph Beuys’ is one of four Baltimore parks continuing 20th century artist Joseph Beuys’ ‘7,000 Oaks’ sculpture project, which spread internationally from Germany,” the description said.
The video was posted Wednesday, November 13.
http://www.weta.org/video/individual/Joseph+Beuys+Sculpture+Park
Dennis Coates, economics, in Press Box
Dennis Coates, professor of economics and an expert on the business of sports, was quoted in a Press Box story on the return of the Baltimore name to the Orioles’ Road Jerseys, a subject of long-running fan criticism of team management. “People derive happiness from it, and there’s no monetary exchange, so you don’t really have a way of putting a dollar figure to it,” Coates said. “It’s very much like going to see the Grand Canyon; you can’t put a dollar figure on that vista, but it’s a beautiful sight and most people agree that it does have value.”
The story ran Wednesday, November 12.
http://www.pressboxonline.com/story.cfm?id=4410
Christopher Corbett, English, in the Wall Street Journal
Christopher Corbett, professor of the practice in English, reviewed Death of a Gunfighter
by Dan Rottenberg for the Wall Street Journal. The book examines the life of wild west gunfighter Jack Slade, who was made famous in Mark Twain’s Roughing It. Corbett wrote, “Jack Slade belongs to that world of the 19th-century American West that Bernard DeVoto called ‘the borderland of fable,’ a territory where fact and fancy collide and where the storytellers don’t let the facts get in the way of a good story.” Corbett’s review, “A Desperado Rides Again,” ran Tuesday, November 11.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122636808284616069.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
UMBC College Democrats in the Arbutus Times
Several members of the UMBC College Democrats club were interviewed for an Arbutus Times article on young voters’ involvement with and excitement for the 2008 Presidential Election. The article, “UMBC students see efforts pay off in Obama’s victory,” showcased students’ work volunteering for the Obama campaign and celebrating at The Commons and on campus as election results were reported. The story ran Wednesday, November 12.
http://www.explorebaltimorecounty.com/news/4910/umbc-students-see-efforts-pay-off-obamas-victory/
Christine Ferrera ’11, on WYPR 88.1 FM’s “The Signal”
An audio story by Christine Ferrera, a second-year MFA candidate in the Imaging and Digital Arts program, was featured on WYPR 88.1 FM’s “The Signal” for the story she wrote, “National Great Blacks in Wax Museum.” It runs Friday, November 14, at noon and again at 7 p.m.
http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/wypr/arts.artsmain?action=sectionIndex&sid=14
Jen Morgan ‘01, in the Maryland Gazette
Jen Morgan ’01 was profiled in the Maryland Gazette for being named Educator of the Month by the Anne Arundel County School Board. Morgan, who majored in math as an undergraduate and continued to receive her master’s degree in education, teaches several levels of algebra at Old Mill Middle South School. The article, “That’s How We Learn,” included praise from Morgan’s supervisors, colleagues and students.
She doesn’t just do problems and say ‘memorize them.’ She uses a situation and takes the math out of that situation, and that’s how we learn,” said Chandler Parrish, age 12. “It’s not like test-test-test. It’s more fun.”
Among students, Morgan has a reputation for being strict but fair, Chandler said. Amber Lord, age 13, said Morgan explained complicated math in a way that’s clear and easy to understand.
The story ran Wednesday, November 12.
http://www.hometownglenburnie.com/news/mdgazette/2008/11/12-15/%27That%27s+how+we+learn%27.html
Tom Schaller, Political Science, in The New York Times
Associate Professor of Political Science Tom Schaller continues to be called upon by national media to analyze the sea change in the U.S. political map after Election Day. The central idea of Schaller’s book Whistling Past Dixie, which detailed how Democrats could win the presidency and other national elections without the south, was described as “prophetic.” “The Republicans, meanwhile, have become a Southernized party,” said Schaller. “They have completely marginalized themselves to a mostly regional party,”
The story, “For South, a Waning Hold on National Politics,” ran Monday, November 10.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/11/us/politics/11south.html?em
Bill Thomas, the Erickson School, in the Sarasota Herald-Tribune
Bill Thomas, professor of aging studies at the Erickson School, was profiled in the Sarasota, Florida Herald-Tribune. The article, “Speaker Aims to Redefine Caregiving,” focused on Thomas’s mission to change eldercare as we know it through initiatives like his Eden Alternative and Green House programs. Thomas is scheduled to be the keynote speaker at a Friday, November 14 forum on caregiving. “There’s a myth of independence out there…But that’s ridiculous. We’ve been relying on others since the first moment of our lives,” Thomas said. “What’s different about aging only is that the reliance changes.”
The story ran Wednesday, November 12.
http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20081112/ARTICLE/811120343/2055/NEWS?Title=Speaker_aims_to_redefine_caregiving