Kudos

The latest achievements by members of the UMBC community.

Men’s Lacrosse is Narrow Preseason Choice to Defend America East Crown
The UMBC men’s lacrosse team, winners of two of the last three America East men’s lacrosse titles, is the preseason choice of the coaches to again claim the crown in 2009. The Retrievers received a total of 24 points and four first-place votes (coaches were not permitted to vote for their team), just ahead of University at Albany, the 2007 champion, which received 22 points and a pair of first-place votes.
www.umbcretrievers.com/sports/mlacrosse/release.asp?RELEASE_ID=4514
Lisa Moren, Visual Arts, Leslie Furlong ’93 Named Sondheim Finalists
Associate Professor of Visual Arts Lisa Moren and Leslie Furlong ’93, visual and performing arts – photography, have been named finalists for the 2009 Janet & Walter Sondheim Prize.
www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/arts/bal-sondheim-artscape-0211,0,1520261.story
Read more about Moren’s work at http://art.umbc.edu/varts/faculty/moren.php.
Read more about Furlong’s work at www.cgrimaldisgallery.com/furlong.html
Three Visual Arts Faculty Members Invited to Present at College Art Association Conference
Three members of the visual arts faculty have been invited to present papers at the annual College Art Association Conference, Feb. 24-28, in Los Angeles.
Preminda Jacob has been invited to present two talks. The first is titled “Theorizing Street Graphics in South Asia” and is part of the panel presentation “Art History in (South) Asia and (South) Asia in Art History.” Her second talk is titled “Spectres in Storage: The Colonial Legacy of Art Museums” and will be presented as part of the “New Thoughts on Teaching Museum Ethics” panel.
James Smalls will present a talk entitled “Racial Antics in Late Ninteenth-Century France” as part of the panel presentation “Blacks and Blackness in European Visual Culture of the Long Nineteenth Century”.
Peggy Re’s talk will be “The Political Symbolism of Contemporary American Textiles Shown in the Smithsonian’s 1951-1952 Traveling Exhibition Program,” as part of the Design Studies Forum.