Kudos

Louise Schlegel ‘09 Featured on TLC’s “Countdown to the Crown”
Winner of the Miss Maryland 2008 title, Louise Schlegel ’09, theatre, will be featured on TLC’s “Countdown to the Crown,” a four-part reality series that began Friday, January 2. In this program, all 52 state title holders live together and face a series of competitions to win gold sashes, which could possibly advance them into the top 15 at the Miss America pageant. The pageant airs live from Las Vegas on Saturday, January 24, at 8 p.m. on TLC.
Shriver Peaceworker Fellows to Walk in Inaugural Parade
The National Peace Corps Association will have a group of 200 returned Peace Corps volunteers marching in the Inaugural Parade. Among those 200 will be Shriver Peaceworker Fellows Amy Panoni ’11, a master’s student studying public policy, and Phil Stafford ’11, a master’s student studying geography and environmental systems. Panoni served in Peace Corps Costa Rica, and Stafford served in Peace Corps Belize.
Works by Eric Dyer, Visual Arts, Gain Recognition
Works by Eric Dyer, assistant professor in the Department of Visual Arts, have gained recent international recognition. His film “Copenhagen Cycles” was shown at the 11th International Cairo Biennale (Cairo, Egypt) in December 2008 and will be shown at the 6th Biennial Tehran International Animation Festival (Tehran, Iran) in March 2009. From January 2009 through January 2010, his work “Bellows,” an installation using painted 3-D prints and live video, will be on display at the Neue Bilder vom Menschen (New Images from Humans) exhibition at ARS ELECTRONICA in Linz, Austria. For more information, visit his website at http://userpages.umbc.edu/~dyer/Eric_Dyer/Home.html.
Swedish Biotech Firm Licenses HIV-drug Technology from UMBC
The Swedish biotech firm Vironova has reached an agreement with UMBC to license patented technology developed in the laboratory of Michael Summers, professor of chemistry and biochemistry and Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Investigator at UMBC, which could lead to new anti-HIV drugs. Summers, one of only two HHMI Investigators at Maryland public universities, is a world authority in HIV research. To read more about his research, visit http://www.umbc.edu/blogs/umbcnews/2008/12/post_1.html.