Kudos

Hadieh Shafie ’04 Wins Baker Artist Award
Hadieh Shafie, visual arts ’04, is one of three recipients of the inaugural Baker Artist Award, an innovative, online honor from the William G. Baker, Jr. Memorial Fund. The Baker Artist Awards are designed to promote Baltimore-area artists on the Web and encourage other artists to relocate to the city to grow the arts community.
http://www.umbc.edu/research/photolink_Hadieh_Shafie.html
Brian Maguire Receives Fulbright Scholarship
Associate Professor Brian J. Maguire is a 2009 Fulbright Scholarship award recipient. Maguire will spend four months in Australia studying occupational risks among ambulance personnel, and he will also teach at three Australian universities: Edith Cowan, Charles Sturt and Flinders. His previous research projects were the first to document the occupational injury and fatality rates among emergency medical services personnel in the U.S.
Since 1999, Maguire has been a faculty member in the Department of Emergency Health Services, where he is a clinical associate professor, associate director of the emergency health services graduate program and director of the Center for Emergency Education and Disaster Research (CEEDR). He has been a consultant to the Department of Homeland Security and numerous health departments in the areas of bio-terrorism and disaster preparedness, an international consultant for systems development as well as a committee member for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the American Ambulance Association in the areas of ambulance and workforce safety. He is a former New York City paramedic, emergency services manager and healthcare administrator. His doctoral degree is from The George Washington University, School of Public Health.
Faculty, Alumni and Students to Participate in Transmodern Festival
Several faculty, alumni and students are scheduled to participate in the 2009 Transmodern Festival April 2-5 in Baltimore. The event promises “four days of avant performance, installation, sound, film, mayhem, ecstasy and radical culture.”
Among those performing are Assistant Professor of Visual Arts Kathryn Bell and Adjunct Professor of Visual Arts Jenny Graf, Kristen Elaine Anchor ’02, Shannon Young ’08 and MFA Candidates Kathryn Williamson, Jill Fannon and Marian April Glebes.