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UMBC Receives State Award for Achieving 46% Reduction in Injury Claims
The State Employee Risk Management Administration recently recognized UMBC at their annual conference with a certificate for the significant 46% reduction of workplace injury claims reported in calendar year 2008. UMBC’s Environmental Safety and Health department attributes this success largely to the heightened awareness and importance of workplace safety on campus. Congratulations to the entire campus community for this important achievement.
Maryland Morning Receives Awards for UMBC Interviews
Maryland Morning won five awards from the Maryland Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, two of which included interviews featuring UMBC faculty. Ed Orser, American studies professor, spoke with NPR’s Nathan Sterner about the Gwynns Falls Trail while Jason Loviglio, director of the Media and Communication Studies program, discussed media with NPR’s David Folkenflik.
http://www.wypr.org/MD_MORNING.html
Ellen Hemmerly Receives Business Achievement Award
Congratulations to Ellen Hemmerly, executive director of the UMBC Research Park Corporation, on being named one of 25 winners of the 2009 SmartCEO Brava! Women in Business Achievement Awards. The program recognizes 25 female CEOs who have been able grow successful companies and actively give back to the community through philanthropic acts. The winners are selected by an independent panel of business leaders.
The winners will be celebrated at SmartCEO‘s Brava! Awards breakfast on Friday, July 24, at the Crowne Plaza in Timonium. Each winner is also profiled in the July issue of SmartCEO, which also features Hemmerly and with two other winners, on the cover.
To view the July issue, visit http://www.smartceo.com/issues/baltimore/2009/july.
Two other winners have ties to bwtech@UMBC: Mollie Spilman, president and CEO of BDMetrics, and Kerrie Brady, CEO of Traxion Therapeutics. Brady is a 2005 graduate of the ACTiVATE program and her company is a bwtech@UMBC affiliate.
Jessica Berman Gives Plenary Lecture at Conference
English department chair Jessica Berman gave the closing plenary lecture at the 19th Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf, “Woolf and the City,” at Fordham University. The title of her talk was “You Then: Three Guineas, The Spanish Civil War and the Challenge of Total War.”