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Senior Economics Lecturer Marcia Croteau Retires
Marcia Croteau departs her students and classes to retire with her family and enjoy their cabin in the woods. Croteau has taught for 21 years in the economics department, administrative and managerial sciences program. She headed the program from 1998 to 2006 and has been coordinator of the program since 2006. Over the years, she was active with the Interdisciplinary Studies Committee, the Accounting Club and in mentoring numerous students. UMBC was a second career after reaching a senior accountant position with Price Waterhouse and serving as vice president and controller of a public company. The economics department and UMBC community salute her teaching and leadership accomplishments and wish her well on her retirement.
Ellen Hemmerly, bwtech@UMBC, Receives SmartCEO Magazine’s Brava! Award
Ellen Hemmerly, executive director of bwtech@UMBC, has been selected as one of 25 winners of SmartCEO magazine’s Brava! Women Business Achievement awards. Winners were selected for their career accomplishments and contributions to their companies and communities. Hemmerly is being recognized for her achievements at bwtech@UMBC as well as with the ACTiVATE program, which has trained 92 women over the past four years to be technology entrepreneurs.
Hemmerly and the other winners will be recognized at an awards breakfast on Friday, July 24, and will be featured in SmartCEO’s July issue.
CADVC Receives Awards for Design, Exhibition
Congratulations to visual arts professor Franc Nunoo-Quarcoo, and Emily Wilson ‘99 for winning Honorable Mention for their design of CADVC’s latest publication, Visual Culture and Bioscience: An Online Symposium. The recognition from the American Association of Museums is in the category of “scholarly journals for institutions with a budget of less than $750,000.” This is Franc Nunoo-Quarcoo’s 24th award for the design of a CADVC publication. For more information, visit http://www.artbook.com/9781890761127.html.
Note: Bioscience explores the timely and relevant subject of the enlocked relationship between the biosciences and the domain of art. It is the 12th volume in CADVC’s Issues in Cultural Theory Book Series. Bioscience, and the online conference on which it is based, represent the start of a new collaborative effort between CADVC and the Cultural Programs of the National Academy of Sciences (CPNAS) in Washington, D.C.
Congratulations also go to CADVC’s Senior Research Scholar Maurice Berger who won the prestigious Exhibition of the Year award from the Association of Art Museum Curators for the exhibition he co-curated at The Jewish Museum in New York. This is the second award that Berger’s exhibition won this year. The award ceremony will take place at the Museum of Modern Art on Monday, May 18. For more information, visit CADVC News/Events at http://www.umbc.edu/cadvc/news/news.php or read The New York Times review at http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/02/arts/design/02acti.html?ref=design.
Softball Players Selected for America East Team
Second baseman Lauren Brummell ‘11 and third baseman Krista Kearns ‘09 were selected to the America East All-Championship Team on Saturday, May 9.
Marina Adler, Sociology and Anthropology, Receives Mentor Award
Sociology and anthropology professor Marina Adler received the 2009 Donald Creighton Award for Outstanding Faculty Mentor from the Graduate Students Association. She received the award at a presentation on Monday, May 4.