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IN THIS ISSUE

News From the Dean—School of Social Work . . . . . 2

Capital Campaign Chairs Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Employee of the Month . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Health Care Work Force Shortage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

MLK and Black History Month Celebration . . . . . . . 12

News for the Campus Community — March 2008

University Steps Up‘Green’ InitiativesUMB Continues to Improve Energy Efficiency

Hollywood Comes to UMBLaw School Film Takes a Balanced Look at Guantanamo Bay Tribunals

RONALD HUBE

While he was a School of Lawstudent, Sig Libowitz, JD ’07,studied the U.S. military’sCombatant Status ReviewTribunals of suspected terroristsat Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Hewas struck by the uniqueness ofthe proceedings—proceedingsthat do not have a jury, thatallow hearsay evidence, and inwhich defendants are deniedreview of evidence against themif it is classified.

Libowitz, who is also an actorand a former film studioexecutive, had another reactionto the tribunals: He realized thata story about them would make a great movie.

So he wrote a screenplay abouta fictional Guantanamo Baydetainee, gleaning stories fromtranscripts of military tribunalsto create a composite courtroomdrama. Two fellow Baltimorenatives—film director Adam

Rodgers and Emmy Award-winning cinematographerRichard Chisolm—signed on tomake the short film, and a smallcast of accomplished actors wasassembled: Peter Riegert, whosecredits include The Sopranos andfilms such as Crossing Delancey;TV and movie actor AasifMandvi (CSI, The Daily ShowWith Jon Stewart, and Spider-Man 2 ); and Kate Mulgrew,probably best known for hertelevision role as Adm. KathrynJaneway on Star Trek Voyager.

The cast and crew—someworking for reduced rates, othersfor free—filmed the 30-minutemovie, The Response, at the lawschool over three days inFebruary. Several students workedon the project, including SandraGoldberg, who had previouslyvisited Guantanamo Bay and whohelped with research.

The law school’s Linking Law& the Arts program funded theproject, and partnered with

SUSIE FLAHERTY

“Going green”—a popular phrasefor implementing practices thatshow concern for the conservativeuse of natural resources—issomething that the University ofMaryland, Baltimore’s (UMB)Office of Facilities Managementhas been doing for some time.Reducing energy consumption,expanding recycling efforts, anddesigning buildings to have thehighest possible energy efficiencyare some of the long-terminitiatives undertaken by thefacilities team.

“UMB is in a unique position of leadership and influence toserve as a model promoter ofprogressive ideals in the areas of energy conservation, resourcemanagement, and green design,”notes Robert Rowan, MS, assistantvice president for facilitiesmanagement. “We implementedour ‘Green Philosophy’ in 2004to recognize our responsibility for‘careful and considered stewardshipof the built environment.’ We knowthat the practices we implementnow will affect students, faculty,and staff for years to come.”

Among the University’s mostdramatic achievements has been the reduction of energyconsumption per square foot,which has dropped by 17 percentfrom 1996 to 2007. The Officeof Facilities Management hasachieved this through a numberof measures, but mainly throughthe development and use of asophisticated building automationsystem that monitors and adjuststhe use of energy in the University’s46 buildings.

“We have one of the largestand most sophisticated buildingautomation systems in the country,”says Rowan. The conservationpractice has been under way sinceRowan came to the campus 20

years ago. Some 66,000 individualpoints are monitored through thesystem, which can be accessed byenergy and utility managers oncampus and from remote locations.

What makes the energyreduction statistics even moreimpressive is that the Universityhas so many buildings withresearch labs. For health and safetyconsiderations, those facilitiesmust be heated or cooled with100 percent outside air.

“That means, in February,we’re taking 25-degree air, heatingit up to 65 degrees and exhaustingit at 70 degrees. It’s a moreexpensive energy propositionthan our office buildings, wherewe recirculate air back into theunit,” says Rowan.

“Heat recovery systems allowus to recover energy from heatedor cooled exhaust air and pump itback into our incoming fresh airin 100 percent of our outside-airbuildings. This has reduced energycosts over a long period of time,”says Rowan. “We have also reducedwater consumption per square footby 13 percent over the last 10 yearsthrough the careful metering ofour cooling tower makeup andby periodically monitoring ourbuilding systems.”

Another factor that has reducedenergy consumption is buildingenergy efficiency into newbuildings as old buildings arereplaced. Energy recovery is afocus in the new campus center,along with lighting control—another energy saver employedby the facilities team. Sensorsdetermine when an area isunoccupied and then shut offlights and reduce air flowautomatically.

The campus center demolitionprocess highlighted the University’scommitment to recycling: 97percent of the materials demolished

Cinematographer Richard Chisolm (left) and screenwriter/actor Sig Libowitz chat on the School of Law set of The Response.

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Libowitz as the movie’s producers.“By making this film, the

School of Law is advancing oneof its missions as a public lawschool: to improve publicunderstanding of law and legalinstitutions,” says Karen H.Rothenberg, JD, MPA, dean ofthe School. Rothenberg says The Response takes “a fair andbalanced look at what many havecalled an unfair process.”

During a panel discussion in a nearly packed law schoolclassroom after filming wascomplete, Michael Greenberger,JD, School of Law professor,director of the Center for Healthand Homeland Security, and atechnical advisor on the film,commended the School formaking the movie.

“The law school is to becongratulated, because there are alot of schools which wouldn’ttake a project like this seriously,”Greenberger said.

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NEWS FROM THE DEAN SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORKMarch is National Professional SocialWork Month. The social work professionis just 110 years old, but its tradition ofproviding assistance to those in need is as old as humanity. School of SocialWork Professor Ralph Dolgoff’s bookUnderstanding Social Welfare summarizesfindings from a range of anthropologicalinvestigations that show, through skeletalevidence, that the disabled and infirmhave long been able to survive becausehealthier companions provided themprotection and support. In Egypt, mutualaid mechanisms reach back 5,000 years.Moreover, concern for altruism isfundamental to almost all major religions.

Social work’s central innovation is bringingscience to charity. The future of social workis tied to an even greater use of researchto light the way by which we provide foodto the hungry, housing to the homeless,protection to the vulnerable, and warmthto the cold.

Social workers now achieve their missionthrough hundreds of types of complicatedand urgent endeavors—especially as firstresponders who intervene to stop violenceby parents, partners, and children of theelderly, and against oneself. At the sametime, social work is the nation’s primaryprovider of mental health services—roughly 60 percent of all mental healthcare providers are social workers. Weprovide short-term interventions to thosein transitional need, as well as lifetimeinterventions for those with persistentillnesses.

A substantial area of growth in social workis behavioral health. With nearly half ofthe nation’s death rate resulting frombehavioral contributors such as poor diet, inactivity, firearms, unsafe sexualbehaviors, and tobacco, alcohol, and druguse, the field of social work increasinglyhelps develop and implement programsthat support healthy behavior.

Social workers’ knowledge of the home andcommunity context, and the advantage ofroutine contact with the most disadvantagedand troubled clientele, create a substantialopportunity to provide effective assistanceto people with disabilities, inabilities, anddisadvantages that keep them from fullyparticipating in the opportunities ofAmerican life.

New partnerships continue to emerge.Collaborative research and developmentefforts with the School of Medicine’sDepartment of Psychiatry; the Marylanddepartments of human resources, juvenileservices, and health and mental hygiene;and the U.S. Department of Health andHuman Services’ Substance Abuse &Mental Health Services Administrationare resulting in additional investments in the School. As a result, we continue to expand our capacity, which allows usto develop more efficient and evidence-based interventions and extend the traditionof scientific charity to new endeavors.

At the same time that we are makingprogress in those areas, we struggle witha quiet work force shortage as do many of

our partner schools on campus. We lackthe number of trained staff required tomanage the massive demands of being firstresponders in some of the most difficultand dangerous situations imaginable. Wealso have shortages in gerontology, healthcare, and hospice areas in which growthis explosive but care is curtailed by ourlimited resources.

This year, the School of Social Workcelebrates the 15th anniversary of ourSocial Work Community OutreachService (SWCOS), a campus-basedagency that delivers services in BaltimoreCity neighborhoods and schools.SWCOS is now well-established in itsrole of developing and delivering socialwork interventions, neighborhoodorganizing, nonprofit financial counseling,violence mediation, and design of safepassages to and through schools.SWCOS graduates are leaders incommunity organizations and creators ofinnovative programs that strengthen thefabric of our society. I commend Jesse J.Harris, PhD, MSW, MA, the father ofSWCOS and former School of SocialWork dean; Dick Cook, MSW, the directorof SWCOS; and the dedicated facultyinvolved with SWCOS who have helpedmake the School of Social Work what isarguably the nation’s premier school ofsocial work in the area of communitypractice.

Richard P. Barth, PhD, MSWDean and Professor, School of Social Work

School of Social Work Honors Former Dean, SWCOS

JEFFREY RAYMOND

There’s a cautious optimism amongfaculty, staff, and administrators at theSchool of Pharmacy these days. Gov.Martin O’Malley has placed $62 millionin his capital budget to build a seven-flooraddition to Pharmacy Hall. But the GeneralAssembly has yet to review the budget.

The money represents the entire remainingcost of the long-sought addition. TheUniversity System of Maryland, whileplacing the addition atop its priority listfor supplemental funding, had sought onlymoney for planning and $25 million towardconstruction in Fiscal Year 2009, with therest of the funding to come in subsequentannual appropriations. The governor’sDepartment of Budget and Managementrecognized the need for the building andmoved forward with the entire $62million. That level of funding also wouldallow the School to build seven floorsinstead of a lesser five-story addition thatwould have been overcapacity virtuallyfrom the moment it opened.

If the funding is approved by the GeneralAssembly before the session ends in April,it will help the School fulfill its mission totrain more pharmacists to fill a growingshortage. Last fall the School opened aprogram at the Universities at Shady Grove,adding 40 students to the 120 who enrollannually at the Baltimore campus. Butwith plans to continue the enrollmentexpansion, the School needs more spacefor classrooms, labs, and faculty offices.

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Jesse J. Harris, PhD, MSW, MA, formerdean of the School of Social Work, washonored as the founder of the School’s 15-year-old outreach program, Social WorkCommunity Outreach Service (SWCOS),on Thursday, March 6. The event took placeat The Jim Rouse Center for VisionaryThought at the American Visionary ArtMuseum in Baltimore.

“Jesse Harris’ vision 15 years ago igniteda firestorm of new energy, enthusiasm, andresources from Baltimore’s neighborhoods,community-based organizations, and thephilanthropic community, all directed toconnecting the knowledge and talent inthe School of Social Work with theopportunities, needs, and talents in thelocal community,” says SWCOS DirectorDick Cook, MSW.

SWCOS—an agency within theSchool—demonstrates the criticalinterrelationships among practice,education, and training for social workprofessionals. Its mission is to createinnovative models of education and servicethat strengthen underserved individuals,families, and communities in Baltimoreand across the state, while providinggraduate-level social work studentsopportunities for hands-on fieldexperience.

“When SWCOS began, community-university partnerships were seen assomething new and innovative,” Cooksays. “Today, most universities have someform of community-university partnership.In some cases, it is service-learning. In

some cases, it is participatory researchinvited by the community.”

During its 15 years, SWCOS has helpedto educate more than 800 students—including a growing cadre of returningPeace Corps volunteers—for careers thataim to identify and build the capacities ofindividuals, families, communities, andcommunity-based organizations to solveproblems and devise inclusive, creative,and socially just solutions.

“But here we are not just exposingstudents to community issues. And we arenot just involving faculty in communityresearch. We are bringing the best that theUniversity has to offer to the struggles thatcommunities engage in to solve criticalproblems. And in the process we areproducing highly competent professionalswho will continue that struggle for decadesto come,” adds Cook.

Through SWCOS, volunteers havedonated nearly half a million hours inservice to various agencies in the city andstate, including (but not limited to) thepublic school system and numerous non-profit and community-based organizations.Cook notes that much of the funding forSWCOS comes from sources external tothe University in the form of grants,contracts, and contributions.

Harris, a graduate of the School, isrecognized as a pioneer in military socialwork. After his highly decorated militarycareer, he returned to the School in 1990,first as a faculty member and then as dean.He led the School to national prominenceand launched a number of innovativeefforts, including SWCOS, the nation’s

first outreach effort of its kind to fosterclinical experience and support communityorganizing activities among graduate socialwork students.

Harris spearheaded an overhaul of thecurriculum and technology at the School,now ranked in the top 20 by U.S.News &World Report. During Harris’ tenure asdean from 1991 to 2006, more than 5,000students were awarded master’s anddoctoral degrees in social work.

The March 6 event was sponsored byThe Annie E. Casey Foundation; LeggMason; P.W. Feats; Geoffrey Greif, DSW,MSW, professor at the School of SocialWork, and Maureen Lefton-Greif, PhD,assistant professor at Johns HopkinsUniversity; the Baltimore CommunityFoundation; the National Association of Social Workers (NASW); NASW,Maryland chapter; and Joan Dolina and friends.

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UMB IN THE NEWS

The Washington Post highlighted theshortage of pediatric dentists willingto deal with Medicaid paperwork andreimbursement rates. The articlefeatured Ilaya Rajagopal, DDS, MS,a pediatric dental fellow at the DentalSchool, who reported that she isnearly alone in serving children onMedicaid in Washington County.

In two letters to the editor in The(Baltimore) Sun, Douglas Colbert,JD, professor at the School of Law,and Anne Deady, a third-year student,commented on a story about BaltimoreCounty’s move to video bail hearingsbroadcast from jail. “Are video bailhearings conducted without a lawyera step toward guaranteeing equaljustice for the poor, or [a step] towardsilencing the accused in the name ofefficiency?” asked Colbert, who alsowrote an Op-Ed on the subject thatappeared in The Sun.

Baltimore television station WJZ profiledJon Glik, one of the country’s topbluegrass fiddlers, who—thanks to theteam at the University of MarylandMedical Center—is finally able to playagain after almost dying from liverfailure. Musician friends playedbenefit concerts to raise funds for aliver transplant. “Without the new liver,I doubt if Jon would have lived till thenew year,” said Glik’s transplantsurgeon, Luis Campos, MD, assistantprofessor at the School of Medicine.

The plans of Stephen Bartlett, MD,chair of the School of Medicine’sDepartment of Surgery, to performthe first facial transplant sometimewithin the next two years—thanks to a $3 million federal tissue transplantgrant to aid soldiers—was coveredby The Associated Press, The(Baltimore) Sun, The (Baltimore)Examiner and The Daily Record.

School of Nursing biologist ErikaFriedmann, PhD, was featured in aNewsweek story on research thatshows pets can help reduce stress inowners, increase longevity in heartattack victims, and help Alzheimer’sdisease patients. The (Baltimore)Examiner also interviewed Friedmann.

The School of Pharmacy’s LindaSimoni-Wastila, PhD, BSPharm,was quoted in an Associated Pressstory that ran in 127 newspapers andon 133 Web sites about a study thatfound emergency room doctorsprescribe fewer narcotics to minoritypatients who complain of pain than to white patients.

In an Op-Ed in The (Baltimore)Examiner, Richard P. Barth, PhD,MSW, dean of the School of SocialWork, said the public and the statelegislature are right to be deeplytroubled about the death of 2-year-oldBryanna Harris and to seek changes inhow vulnerable children are monitored.Also in The Examiner, the School’sSteven Soifer, PhD, MSW, andJohanna Neumann, a policy analyst atthe Maryland Public Interest ResearchGroup who has worked with the Schoolof Nursing’s Environmental HealthEducation Center on toxic threats, wrotean Op-Ed about the dangers of replacingoil-based energy with nuclear energy.

University Establishes Outreach Council

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Outreach to the community is as much apart of the University’s heritage as DavidgeHall. University of Maryland, Baltimore(UMB) students, faculty, and staff providemore than 2 million hours of uncompensatedservice annually to residents throughoutMaryland.

Now the University is taking that missionone step further by establishing the UMBOutreach Council. The council is made up,in part, of 34 faculty, staff, and students,and will initially partner with three schoolsin West Baltimore—Vivien T. ThomasMedical Arts Academy, Diggs-JohnsonMiddle School, and George WashingtonElementary School—to help meet theneeds of children and their families. Officialsfrom those schools are also council members.

“We were very pleased,” Brian Sturdivant,MSW, UMB’s community affairs coordinator,

said after the first of the council’s bimonthlymeetings on Jan. 10. “President Ramsaycame and spoke about the importance ofthe council’s work, and the faculty werevery supportive and very eager. I havespoken to all three school principals and theyare very excited and very much onboard.”

Each of the three schools conducted aneeds assessment based on a survey, a focusgroup, and interviews with staff, teachers,parents, and students. Then an action planwas created to address the needs. “As wereview those action plans, we can see wherewe can fit in the best,” says Sturdivant,who was instrumental in promoting a paidsummer internship program for VivienThomas students run by the School ofMedicine, and mental health interventionsat George Washington through the Schoolof Social Work.

Other projects under considerationinclude a job shadow day, a career

exploration day, a youth scienceenrichment program, a “Give Kids a Smile Day” through the Dental School, a financial planning workshop for parents,a conflict resolution course through theSchool of Law, a Mini-Med Schoolthrough the School of Medicine, andinformation from the Health Sciences andHuman Services Library staff on how topursue a career as a medical librarian.

Not all the programs are new.Sturdivant has been working with schoolsnear the University for years. “But thiseffort is more focused,” he says.

The Office of External Affairs willpublish a newsletter to inform the WestBaltimore community of UMB events and services open to the public. For more information on the University’s local outreach programs, visitwww.oea.umaryland.edu/gov/community.

RONALD HUBE

As the University embarks upon a$650 million capital campaign, theVOICE is profiling the campaignchairs who are leading the efforts toraise money for each school.

Barbara and Ed Brody have beeninvolved with strengtheningBaltimore communities and schoolsfor their entire adult lives.

In the early 1990s, for instance,they created a support group forparents of service members in thePersian Gulf War—two of theBaltimore couple’s three sons servedin the gulf during the war. Jesse J.Harris, then a professor and soon tobe the dean of the School of SocialWork, was told about the group, andhe and other faculty members lenttheir support. Harris had a militarycareer as a social worker andsubstantial expertise with militaryfamilies.

“We got to know Jesse,” Ed Brodysays, “and we became friends.”

So began the Brodys’ longaffiliation with the School of SocialWork—Barbara Brody as an adjunctclinical instructor (she had been a socialworker for Baltimore public schools), andEd Brody as chair of the School of SocialWork’s Board of Advisors (he had earlierbeen vice chair of the Baltimore CityBoard of School Commissioners). In 2003,Ed received the Dean’s Medal from theSchool of Social Work for his service on theBoard of Advisors.

Now the Brodys are co-chairs of the Schoolof Social Work’s $10 million capital campaign.

CAPITAL CAMPAIGN CHAIRS SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK

So far their accomplishments as co-chairshave included holding a thank-you partyat their home for supporters of the School,scholarship students, and mentoring faculty,and expanding a scholarship they earlierestablished to attract new students whootherwise would not be able to attend the School.

Leading a $10 million capital campaignis a challenge, but the Brodys have a historyof making things work.

“The Brodys are the perfect choice to

Making the World a Better Place Is Important to Barbara and Ed Brody

head the School of Social Work’scapital campaign,” says RichardP. Barth, dean of the School.

“They exemplify the School’sintention and history of a deepcommitment to Baltimore andthe advancement of the pro-fession,” Barth says. “They havelived the School’s campaigntheme: ‘Strengthening the fabricof society—one thread at a time.’”

Along with actively serving ascapital campaign co-chairs, theBrodys have many other currentcommunity responsibilities.

Ed serves on the University ofMaryland Baltimore Foundation,Inc.’s Board of Trustees, chairsthe Lyric Opera House’s boardof directors, and is vice chair of MedStar Health, a nonprofitcommunity-based health careorganization. Barbara is anadvisory board member for theHouse of Ruth and the KeswickMulti-Care Center. They haveboth assisted in the developmentof the SEED School of Marylandfor disadvantaged students, dueto open this fall.

The Brodys say they are happy to take on the task of being capital campaignchairs for the School of Social Work.

“The School, with its innovative dean, astrong faculty, and perhaps most importantly,students who care deeply about the missionof social work, is an institution well worththe time and effort,” Barbara says.

“The students want to make this a betterworld,” she adds. “They are very devotedto that cause.”

The same is certainly true of the Brodys.

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LAURELS

DENTAL SCHOOLThe Dental School has been honored as an Outstanding Vision-Academic DentalInstitution by the American DentalEducation Association (ADEA) in theADEA’s inaugural presentation of theWilliam J. Gies Awards for Vision,Innovation, and Achievement. The Schoolwas recognized by the philanthropic armof the ADEA for addressing the challengeof global oral health care and education.

SCHOOL OF LAWThe January issue of National Juristmagazine recognized the School of Law’sleadership in public service with a profileof Dean Karen H. Rothenberg, JD,Marjorie Cook Professor of Law.

SCHOOL OF MEDICINEEugene Albrecht, PhD, professor,Department of Obstetrics, Gynecologyand Reproductive Sciences, and director ofthe Center for Studies in Reproduction,received a five-year, $3 million award fromthe National Institutes of Health for thestudy of estrogen’s role in placental vasculardevelopment and fetal growth duringnonhuman primate pregnancy.

Meredith Bond, PhD, professor and chair,Department of Physiology, was namedpresident-elect of the Association of Chairsof Departments of Physiology.

Igor Lukashevich, PhD, associateprofessor, Department of Medicine andInstitute of Human Virology, received athree-year, $1.4 million grant from theNational Institute of Allergy and Infectious

Diseases. The grant will further Lukashevich’sresearch at the Institute of Human Virologyon a recombinant yellow fever and Lassavaccine.

Thomas Scalea, MD, Francis X. KellyProfessor of Trauma Surgery, Departmentof Surgery, and director, Program inTrauma, presented “Optimal Timing ofFracture Fixation: Have We LearnedAnything in the Last 20 Years?” as the 33rdWilliam T. Fitts Lecture at the 66th annualmeeting of the American Association forthe Surgery of Trauma in Las Vegas lastSeptember.

Loren Thompson, PhD, associate professor,Department of Obstetrics, Gynecologyand Reproductive Sciences, received afour-year, $1.33 million grant from theNational Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.The award will support study of the effectof intrauterine hypoxia on fetal organs.

SCHOOL OF NURSINGRobin Newhouse, PhD, RN, CNAA, BC,CNOR, associate professor and assistantdean of the Doctor of Nursing Practiceprogram, published the book JohnsHopkins Nursing Evidence-Based PracticeModel and Guidelines.

Rebecca Wiseman, PhD, RN, director ofthe Governor’s Wellmobile Program, hasbeen appointed to a two-year term on theboard of directors of the National NursingCenters Consortium. The organizationrepresents nurse-managed health carecenters serving vulnerable populationsacross the country.

SCHOOL OF PHARMACYThe Hospice & Palliative Care Network of Maryland has named Mary LynnMcPherson, PharmD, BCPS, CDE,professor in the Department of PharmacyPractice and Science, the 2007 HospiceChampion. McPherson was honoredduring the organization’s awards dinnerin November.

SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORKJohn Belcher, PhD, professor, has receiveda two-year grant totaling $40,702 from theUniversity of Baltimore, given by the LilyFoundation, to explore how faithcommunities understand their theologywith regard to their work and thestewardship of their organizations.

Bethany Lee, PhD, assistant professor, hasbeen awarded a $25,000 grant from TheWoodbourne Center to evaluate itsprograms and services. The WoodbourneCenter, one of the oldest child welfareorganizations in the country, provides a

variety of services including treatment forchildren in foster care, residential treatmentsfor adolescents and juvenile sex offenders,and diagnostic and assessment services, aswell as short-term respite care for youth in crisis.

Michael Lindsey, PhD, MSW, MPH,assistant professor, has been named ascholar mentee with the 2008 AfricanAmerican Mental Health ResearchScientist Consortium. Lindsey will work with a mentor on grant writing for National Institute of Mental Healthfunding and will attend workshopsregarding funding opportunities.

Pam Love, MSW, program manager forthe Family Welfare Research and TrainingGroup, was recently elected to serve on the Board of Directors of the UniversitySystem of Maryland’s Foundation Board.Love has been appointed for an initialterm of one year and will serve as one ofmore than 40 directors.

Friday, May 16, 3 p.m.

1st Mariner Arena

Keynote Speaker: Francis S. Collins, MD, PhD Director of the National Human Genome Research Institute

UMB’s most important day of the year —

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EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH

Trudy Robinson, program management specialist I, Department of PharmaceuticalSciences, School of Pharmacy, was chosen as the University’s Employee ofthe Month for January. Robinson was nominated by her department administratorand a co-worker.

Robinson has worked for the University for 10 years in a variety of capacities,including payroll and procurement. She has managed a host of administrativeduties such as pre-award tasks for grant applications and visa applications fornonresident employees.

Robinson’s administrator, Olcan Cetinkaya, MBA, says that she consistentlymaintains an exceptionally positive attitude and that she is resourceful, reliable,and always a team player. “When the School of Pharmacy lost both of its payrollstaff in the same month, Trudy agreed to temporarily leave the Department ofPharmaceutical Sciences and proficiently covered the essential payroll dutiesfor the entire School for over seven months,” Cetinkaya says.

Pam Crowe, facilities and laboratory services manager, who also nominatedRobinson, says she “never sours. Trudy is gracious, considerate, patient, and cheerful.”

“This was a nice surprise,” Robinson says of the award. And she says thepeople she works with, and for, are nice, too: “The faculty, staff, and studentshere are an extraordinary group, and I’m just glad to be a part of this team.”

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BioPark Shuttle Hours and Route

The BioPark is now incorporated into the Ride UMB/BioPark route. Shuttle hours

of operation are now 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday through Friday.

Ride UMB/BioPark is free with University identification. More information is

available at www.parking.umaryland.edu or by calling 6-6603.

HS/HSL UPGRADES LEISURE COLLECTION

The next time you visit the Health Sciences and Human Services Library(HS/HSL), you may be surprised to find the Kinnard Leisure Collection,located on the first floor near the digital display. The collection offers lighterliterary fare to University faculty, staff, and students.

The HS/HSL allows leisure books to be renewed up to three times for a totalof three months. Patrons also can request a book that’s currently checkedout, and the library will notify them when it becomes available. Renewals andrequests can be completed online at catalog.umd.edu.

The leisure collection, made possible through a gift from William and DoloresKinnard, has a rotating selection of recent fiction, biography, and history, aswell as more than 30 popular magazine subscriptions. If you don’t see whatyou’re looking for, drop a note in the HS/HSL suggestion box—www.hshsl.umaryland.edu/suggest.asp.

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Maryland Medical Spa Opens on CampusROSALIA SCALIA

The new Maryland Medical Spa on thethird floor of the Redwood Street ProfessionalBuilding offers state-of-the art rejuvenativetreatments for faculty, staff, and students.At the 4-month-old facility, clients canrelax and treat themselves to an array ofservices all under the guidance of two plasticsurgeon faculty members from the Schoolof Medicine.

The medispa is the brainchild ofThomas Le, MD, and Bryan Ambro, MD,MS, both facial plastic surgeons and assistantprofessors in the School of Medicine’sDepartment of Otorhinolaryngology-Headand Neck Surgery. The medispa team alsoincludes Cynthia Jenkins, MA, seniormedical aesthetician.

“The Maryland Medical Spa is run jointlywith our surgical practice, Maryland FacialPlastic Surgery,” says Le. “We combineaesthetic clinical services, education, andresearch while offering a range of medispatreatment services.”

Le and Ambro specialize in aesthetic andreconstructive surgery of the face, head, andneck, and each is involved in clinical researchon aesthetic techniques. School of Medicineresidents and medical students can rotatethrough the practice and learn, among otherthings, how clinical research can improveaesthetic techniques.

“Many medispas are associated with adoctor or a medical director but often thatperson is not on the premises. Here, we areboth on the premises and oversee allprocedures,” says Ambro.

The medispa offers a wide range ofadvanced noninvasive treatments includingfacials, peels, microdermabrasions, hairremoval, laser and light services, radio-frequency soft tissue tightening, and facialcontouring and wrinkle treatments such asBotox and Restylane.

Discounts are available to UMB andUniversity of Maryland Medical Centerfaculty, students, and employees. For more information, call 8-7546 or visitwww.marylandmedicalspa.net.A variety of treatments are offered at the Maryland Medical Spa.

UMB Alerts

Sign up for UMB Alerts—the University’s free, Web-based system that notifies

users, through e-mail or text message, of emergency situations on campus,

provides directions on how to obtain more information, and announces

weather-related campus closings. To register, visit www.alert.umaryland.edu.

The University’s Women’s Health Research Group has announced the selection ofthe 2008 Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women’s Health (BIRCWH)Scholars, funded by a K12 award from the National Institutes of Health. The BIRCWHprogram, under the direction of Principal Investigator Patricia Langenberg, PhD,provides support for mentoring of junior faculty members with research interests inwomen's health. Applicants to the program submit research proposals to a selectioncommittee and undergo a rigorous interview process.

This year’s awardees from the School of Medicine are Niharika Khanna, MD,associate professor, Department of Family Medicine; Michelle Shardell, PhD,assistant professor, Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine; PeixinYang, PhD, assistant professor, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology andReproductive Sciences; and Jian-Min Zhang, MD, PhD, assistant professor,Department of Psychiatry.

During their two-year appointments, they will investigate various women’s healthissues including therapy for the human papillomavirus and gynecological cancers,gender bias in research methodology, mechanisms of embryopathology, andhormonal influences on mood disorders.

Women’s Health Scholars Announced

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7March 2008

Maryland Faces Growing Physician ShortageREBECCA CERAUL

A new comprehensive study ofMaryland’s physician work force showsthat the state has a growing shortage ofdoctors in clinical practice—a shortagethat could become dire for patients. Thestudy, led by Robert Barish, MD, vicedean for clinical affairs at the School ofMedicine, found that Maryland is 16percent below the national average for thenumber of physicians in clinical practice.The most severe shortages are in rural partsof the state and will worsen by 2015,according to the study’s findings.

Spurred by reports of projectednational shortages in physician numbers,the Maryland Hospital Association invitedMedChi—the Maryland State MedicalSociety—to join it in undertaking acomprehensive examination of the physicianwork force. A steering committee, led byBarish, was formed and included physician,hospital, and state agency representation.

According to the study, the widest gapsare in primary care, emergency medicine,anesthesiology, hematology/oncology,thoracic and vascular surgery, psychiatry,and dermatology. The study also finds thatMaryland has only a borderline supply oforthopedic surgeons.

Hospitals throughout the state reportdifficulty in finding medical specialists.Because of the shortage, “More patientswill have to rely on already crowdedemergency departments for even minor

ailments,” says Cal Pierson, president ofthe Maryland Hospital Association. “ERswill need to divert patients to other—often more distant—hospitals in order toassure the patient is seen by the appropriatespecialist, often at a cost to the patient’scare.”

Barish points out that one reason forthese shortages is an aging physician workforce. “In Maryland,” he says, “9.9 percentof clinical physicians are 65 years or olderand 33.4 percent of them are 55 years orolder. By 2015, 32 percent of the currentwork force is expected to retire. Thecurrent supply of general surgeons statewidenow only meets 90 percent of what isneeded; by 2015, the supply of surgeonsis expected to shrink even further to 80percent of what is needed statewide.”

According to Barish, the number ofresidents trained at Maryland hospitalswho opt to practice in-state is insufficientto make up for this wave of retirements.“It is crucial that we act now to increasethe number of residents who stay inMaryland to practice medicine at theconclusion of their training,” he says.

“On the national level, we need toeducate more physicians, and concurrentlyincrease the number of federally fundedresidency positions,” Barish adds.

The study calls for legislative remedies,including higher physician fees, so Marylandis competitive nationally, and a state loan-forgiveness program that would draw youngphysicians to regions most in need.

ROSALIA SCALIA

Rep. Elijah Cummings addressed dental,law, medical, nursing, pharmacy, andsocial work students in January during atwo-day minimester course at theUniversity that focused on oral healthcare. Held annually at the School of SocialWork, which pioneered the course as partof its Maternal and Child Health SocialWork (MCHSW) program, the minimestercourse is designed to tackle major healthcare issues from a variety of professionalperspectives and to develop solutions.

This year, students concentrated on theoral health care crisis, considered a silentepidemic among impoverished children andtheir families due to barriers in accessingdental care. Students are developing aninterdisciplinary community service projectthis spring to address oral health disparitiesand respond to the needs of a specificBaltimore community.

During his presentation, Cummingschallenged the students to take action anddiscussed his own lack of dental care whenhe was a child: “I thought toothaches werenormal. It wasn’t until I was a student atthe law school that I was able to get myteeth fixed.”

The congressman praised the DentalSchool’s efforts to alleviate the barriers tocare for low-income children and urged allstudents in the room to use their knowledgeto make the world a better place.

Faculty members from the DentalSchool and the School of Pharmacy alsoaddressed the students. Mark Macek, DDS,

Cummings UrgesAction on Silent Epidemic

The Maryland P3 Program allows patientsto take control of their illness and not let itruin their lives.”

The School of Pharmacy, working withprivate employers in other parts of the state,plans to roll out more P3 collaborations inthe first quarter of this year.

For more information about the MarylandP3 Program, including how to enroll as apatient or as an employer, contact ChristineLee, PharmD, Maryland P3 network co-ordinator, at 6-6067 or clee@rx.umaryland.edu.

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An innovative, effective program that helpspeople manage chronic disease—organizedin cooperation with the School ofPharmacy—is expanding into HarfordCounty, offering patients better overallhealth care and reduced costs.

The Maryland P3 (Patients, Pharmacists,Partnerships) Program was launched inAllegany County in 2006 and providesparticipating employers and their employeeswith links to pharmacists who are trainedto help manage diabetes through regularcounseling sessions. These sessionscomplement, but do not replace, regularvisits to the physician and other health care providers. The P3 model, based on asuccessful program in Asheville, N.C.,encourages patients to better manage theirchronic diseases.

Diabetes is a growing problem in theUnited States and in Maryland. Withouteffective treatment, it can lead to heartdisease, blindness, kidney failure, andamputations. Figures from the MarylandDepartment of Health and Mental Hygieneshow that, in 2005, emergency room visitsin Maryland caused by complications ofdiabetes cost $10 million and hospitalizationsfor a primary diagnosis of diabetes exceeded$78 million.

According to the most recent statefigures, more than 300,000 Marylandresidents had the disease in 2006. Statefigures also show that more than 12,650people, or about 7.3 percent of thepopulation in Harford County, have beendiagnosed with diabetes.

The Maryland P3 Program is apartnership between the AmericanPharmacists Association Foundation(HealthmapRx), the Maryland PharmacistsAssociation (MPhA), the University ofMaryland School of Pharmacy, theMaryland Department of Health andMental Hygiene, and the MarylandGeneral Assembly. Upper ChesapeakeHealth System is the first employer inHarford County to join the program.

“Trained pharmacists are teachingpatients to correctly use blood glucosemonitors and counseling patients on waysto help them better control their disease,”says Butch Henderson, a pharmacist withKlein’s Family Markets who is participatingin the Maryland P3 Program.

Upper Chesapeake Health—and otheremployers who choose to participate—willpay for the costs of the visits and waive co-payments for diabetes medications andsupplies. The hope is that their employees inthe P3 program will keep themselveshealthier.

The School of Pharmacy providessupplemental training to the pharmacists.Magaly Rodriguez de Bittner, PharmD,BCPS, CDE, chair of the School’sDepartment of Pharmacy Practice andScience, has counseled Baltimore-areapatients with diabetes for years, and isconvinced of the program’s value andeffectiveness.

“We know that pharmacist counselinghelps patients stick to their prescribedmedication regimen,” she says, “and betteradherence makes for healthier patients.

Disease Management Program Expands

DrPh, associate professor at the DentalSchool, presented an oral health overviewand discussed disparities; Mark Wagner,DDS, professor emeritus at the DentalSchool, who works with Special Olympicsathletes, talked about his experiences; andDonald Fedder, DrPh, professor at theSchool of Pharmacy, discussed the role of public health promotion and diseaseprevention in oral health.

Megan Booth, MPH, director ofgovernmental affairs for the Children’sDental Health Project, a federal project;Jane Casper, RDH, of the Maryland DentalAction Committee; and Laurie Norris, JD,from the Public Justice Center, a charitableorganization providing legal services in themid-Atlantic region, served as panelists in adiscussion about advocacy and policy workin the area of oral health.

The second day of the minimester focusedon knowledge building and fostered inter-action among students. Also on day two,Faculty members from all the schoolsdiscussed primary care and the importanceof community-based interventions.

The MCHSW program educates socialworkers who are concerned with psychosocialand societal factors that affect the health ofchildren and their families.

School of Social Work professor and theprogram’s director, Edward Pecukonis, PhD,MSW said that the program is one of onlythree nationally funded programs dedicatedto the promotion of social work leadership.It is supported by a grant from the HealthResources and Services AdministrationMaternal Health Bureau.

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Pharmacist Butch Henderson (right) counsels patient Mickey Christian as part ofthe Maryland P3 Program in Harford County.

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Grandparents Graduate From a Life Skills ClassROSALIA SCALIA

For Sandra Smith, who is 55 and raising sixgrandchildren ranging in age from 4 to 15;for Pauline Squirrel, 53, who is taking care ofher 10-year-old granddaughter; and forCarrie Johnson, 60, raising four grandchildrenages 8 to 16, becoming grandparents simplyextended their roles as parents.

They were among the 14 grandparentsfrom West Baltimore who donned caps andgowns and graduated Jan. 22 from theSchool of Social Work’s Grandparents FamilyConnections’ GrandPOWER program.

More than 60 people watched thegraduates march into the School of Nursingauditorium to Sir Edward Elgar’s “Pompand Circumstance” and collect frameddiplomas recognizing their completion of a15-week parenting skills course.

Developed by Qiana Cryer, a second-yearsocial work student and an Albert SchweitzerFellow, the course aimed to improvecommunication and parenting skills as away to bridge the generation gap betweenthe grandparents and their grandchildren.The graduates range in age from 46 to 72.

During the course, they explored issuesthat affect urban parents in general andurban grandparents raising grandchildren.Topics included family empowerment;discipline and behavioral problems;effective communication; advocacy for thegrandchildren; and communicating aboutdrugs, alcohol, and sex, as well as holdingfrank discussions about sexually transmitteddiseases (STDs) such as HIV/AIDS.Misconceptions about how STDs aretransferred and how they affect the infectedwere addressed. As part of the coursedevelopment, Cryer and first-year socialwork student Sarah Ross developed STDfact sheets for the grandparents.

The grandparents also discussed past andcurrent slang terms, noting how they havechanged throughout three generations.“We gave them a list of slang words,” saidCryer. Some of the grandparents had neverheard the words and didn’t know what theymeant. Knowing what the terms mean can go a long way toward understandingwhat the children are doing and createopportunities for better communication,noted Cryer.

The course also addressed issues such asloss and grief, guardianship and legalissues, and health topics pertaining to thegrandparents as well as to the children.

“The grandparents are dealing with theloss and grief of their dead or incarceratedchildren. They learned how to work throughtheir own feelings and then to help theirgrandchildren do the same thing,” saidCryer, who developed the course with theaid of an Albert Schweitzer grant that

enabled her to provide the grandparentswith transportation and food.

The 14 grandparents also explored legalissues, learned to navigate the social servicessystem for kinship care or subsidizedguardianship, and learned how to writeadvocacy letters to their legislativerepresentatives.

The School plans to continue theGrandPOWER program and will form the next class in the near future.

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Sarah Ross (left), Carrie Johnson (center), and Qiana Cryer

from the old Student Union Building onLombard Street were recycled, says Rowan.“On a daily basis, the University recycles 25percent of what comes into campus—paper, metal, cardboard, computers,fluorescent light bulbs, lamps, and pallets.As soon as the containers arrive, we’ll startrecycling plastic and glass—and we hopeto add batteries to the list soon,” he says.

To keep the University moving towardits green future, Rowan and his team haveproposed the creation of a sustainabilitysteering committee made up of a broadcross section of the campus community.The committee, with its focus on strategicissues and direction, would provideleadership for the campus on environmentalissues.

Says Rowan: “It is only by engaging andinvolving the broader community ofinterest in the whole process—fromestablishing strategic priorities toencouraging everyone to turn off lightsthat are not needed—that we will find thebest way to an environmentally sustainablefuture and to maintain UMB’s position asa leader in environmental stewardship.”

Green from page 1

The filmmakers stress that the moviedoes not take a one-sided look at thecontroversial military tribunals.

“We didn’t want to be melodramatic oreditorialize,” Rodgers, the director, saidduring the panel discussion. “We justwanted to tell the story.”

Libowitz said The Response is a“provocative” examination of the question,“What is the proper balance betweenconstitutional rights and national security?”But he added, “There is no easy answer.”

“The dispassion that we brought to thispiece really works in its favor,” said Mulgrew,who plays the tribunal judge. Riegertdescribed the filming process as “a mightythree days” during which he learned a greatdeal about law. “I realized how much Itake for granted—what the law is, what itsfunction is,” he said.

The film, which has attracted widespreadlocal and national media attention, andsome international press, is expected to beready for a premiere showing in Baltimorelater this year. It will be submitted to filmfestivals and TV networks and availablefor viewing at schools.

Hollywood from page 1 Inclement Weather InformationThe fastest way to obtain accurate information regarding the status of the University during

inclement weather is to call 410-706-8622 or visit the Campus Alerts page of the University’s

Web site (www.umaryland.edu/alerts). Radio and television stations in the Baltimore and

Washington, D.C., areas are also notified when the University is closed or is opening late.

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BioPark Neighbor Celebrates Irish History in Baltimore

CLARE BANKS

The Irish Railroad Workers Museum—A Shrine, neighbor to the UMB BioPark,is situated on Lemmon Street a few blockswest of the University and two blocksnorth of the Baltimore & Ohio (B&O)Railroad Museum. The museum officiallyopened June 17, 2002, as a project of theRailroad Historical District Corp. (RHDC),a nonprofit organization formed in 1997to save five “historic alley houses that the

city planned to demolish,” says ThomasWard, JD, museum tour guide and visitingjudge to the Circuit Court for BaltimoreCity. The RHDC bought the houses withits own money—the Maryland HistoricalTrust matched the RHDC’s funds andprovided loans, which were subsequentlyrepaid.

Ward and his colleagues in the RHDCare history buffs of Irish descent and are,not surprisingly, passionate about Irishhistory. Because the houses on Lemmon

Street were eligible for the national historicregister, they were able to be saved fromdemolition.

“The houses were eligible because therehad been no major changes to them sincetheir construction,” Ward says. Furthermotions to preserve the area came from the Maryland Historical Trust and the City of Baltimore, which named the areathe Railroad Historic District.

After restoring three of the homes andselling them, the RHDC turned theremaining two into the museum. Wardpoints out that “besides the monument at Antietam, the Irish Railroad WorkersMuseum—A Shrine, is the only permanentmemorial to Irish immigration in Maryland.”

The Irish immigrated to the UnitedStates in huge numbers during the 1840sas a result of the Great Famine in Ireland.In Baltimore, many Irish immigrantsworked for the B&O Railroad and madetheir homes in several working-classneighborhoods, including the WestBaltimore area around the B&O yards.Many of the houses; the railroad yard;Hollins Market, where the immigrantsshopped; and St. Peter the Apostle Church,where they worshipped, still exist. As theRHDC restored the houses, it found manyartifacts from the families who lived inthem, including letters to relatives still inIreland about the joys of their new livesand the homesickness they felt.

The West Baltimore neighborhood

where the Irish railroad workers settled haslong been connected to the University. TheUniversity hospital was the only source ofmedical care for the workers and theirfamilies. Also, the son of Davidge Hallarchitect Robert Carey Long Sr.—RobertCarey Long Jr.—built St. Peter the ApostleChurch. John Crawford, the foundingcontributor to the University library, andthus the founder of all University System ofMaryland libraries, was born in northernIreland and is buried in WestminsterCemetery.

Today, as a result of the BioParkdevelopment, the neighborhood is on the move. Ward points to a greater policepresence and expects more substantialchanges to come in the form of jobs at theBioPark that will attract new residents tothe neighborhood. “What helps change aneighborhood,” he says, is “people living init and renovating the houses. This increasesthe safety of the neighborhood.”

“The relationship between the Universityand the museum,” Ward says, “has beengood over the years, especially since theBioPark expanded the University’s facilitiesacross Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.”Ward is happy the University didn’t letthat “moat”—the invisible barrier betweenthe University and the West Baltimoreneighborhood—remain.

For more information about themuseum, or to view the tour schedule, visit www.irishshrine.org.

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Volunteers have recreated a typical 19th century bedroom in the Irish Railroad WorkersMuseum—A Shrine.

11March 2008

CAMPUS BRIEFS

Auction to Support Public Interest WorkThe School of Law’s Maryland Public InterestLaw Project, Inc. (MPILP), will present itsannual Goods and Services Auction onMarch 29 to raise money for law studentsperforming public interest work.

Money raised from the event will supportgrants to students interested in working withpublic interest agencies during the summerin areas such as assisting low-income personsin rent court, helping battered spouses fileprotection orders and secure social services,and helping low-income HIV patients applyfor disability and health benefits.

Along with a live auction and silentauctions, the event includes hors d’oeuvres,dessert, beer and wine, and music. DouglasColbert, JD, law school professor, and twostudents will be honored for their dedicationto public interest law.

The event takes place at 6 p.m. atWestminster Hall. Admission is $25 in advance, $35 at the door. For moreinformation or to buy tickets, visitwww.law.umaryland.edu/studentorg/mpilp/auction.asp; contact Mandy Wolfe, MPILP co-president, at 6-8393 ormwolf003@umaryland.edu; or contactClaire Pierson, MPILP co-publicity chair,at 6-8393, or cpier003@umaryland.edu.

New Fitness and Wellness Facility to Open in BioParkA new fitness and wellness center withstrength, fitness, and cardiovascularequipment is scheduled to open in BioParkBuilding Two in July.

The University’s current athletic centerin the Pratt Street Garage will closepermanently June 13, to become the topfloor of the University’s new recreation,wellness, and aquatic facilities. The lowerfloors will be housed in the adjacentcampus center that is under construction.A stairway and an elevator will connect thefacilities. The campus center is scheduledto open the summer of 2009. The BioParkfitness facility will continue to operate afterthe campus center opens.

“We are excited about the addition ofthe BioPark fitness and wellness facility,which will allow us to maintain services

while the campus center facilities are beingprepared, and will provide ongoing servicesto the western side of the campus,” saysBill Crockett, director of the Departmentof Recreation & Wellness Services.

Campus Community Members Talk With LegislatorsStudents, faculty, staff, and alumni fromthroughout the University met withmembers of the Maryland GeneralAssembly recently during an annual seriesof advocacy events.

The events included the Maryland StateDental Association Dental Day, a Schoolof Law alumni reception, the School ofMedicine Legislative Advocacy Day, aMaryland Nurses Association briefing andreception, the Maryland PharmacyCoalition Pharmacy Day, and the NationalAssociation of Social Workers Social WorkDay. Issues discussed includedestablishment of more graduate andprofessional scholarships, access to oralhealth care for underserved people,doubling the number of nurses to helpmeet work force demands, and an additionto Pharmacy Hall.

The state General Assembly meets for90 days each year, starting in January. The2008 session is slated to end April 7.

Construction at Library ContinuesConstruction to accommodate relocationof several student services offices to theHealth Sciences and Human ServicesLibrary is expected to continue on thebuilding’s second and third floorsthroughout the spring semester. Libraryofficials recommend the fourth and fifthfloors as quiet study areas duringconstruction periods.

Renovations to the library’s first floorwere recently completed, and the grandopening of a new reference desk wascelebrated in February.

Library hours until May 16 are 8 a.m.-midnight Monday through Thursday(reference closes 8 p.m.), 8 a.m.-8 p.m.Friday (reference closes 6 p.m.), 8 a.m.-5 p.m.Saturday, and 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Sunday(reference closes 8 p.m.). Entrance after 8 p.m.is limited to faculty, staff, and students.

Dental Hygiene

Noon April 3

Dental School, Room G-309

Dental School

1 p.m. April 14 and 21

Dental School, Room G-314

Genetic Counseling

10:30 a.m. April 24

Financial Aid Conference Room

Graduate School

9 and 11 a.m., 2, 3:30, and 5 p.m.

April 28

Health Sciences Facility II Auditorium

School of Law

3:30 and 5 p.m. April 9 and 10

School of Law, Room 107

Medical and Research Technology

11 a.m. April 3

Allied Health Building, Room 319

UMB Celebrates ‘Women in Business’

The University will celebrate Women’s History Month on Thursday, March 27, in

the School of Nursing Auditorium and lobby. The theme this year is “Women in

Business.” Lynne Brick, owner of Lynne Brick’s/Brick Bodies health clubs and a

well-respected motivational speaker, author, and life coach, is the featured

speaker. She is perfect for the business-themed event, having made a career

change from nursing (at the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center) to owner

of seven fitness centers in the Baltimore area. Brick will appear at noon in

the auditorium.

Some of UMB’s own “women in business” will participate in a crafts bazaar

following the program until 3 p.m. Jewelry, framed pictures, photography,

chocolate, and other crafts handmade by renowned professors, devoted staff,

and busy students will be available. Please come out on March 27 to support our

talented women—it’s a great opportunity to do your Mother’s Day shopping—and

to hear Lynne Brick’s inspiring message. Light refreshments will be served

following the formal program. Free tickets are available in the deans’ and vice

presidents’ offices or by calling 6-8035.

Student Exit Interviews Scheduled

Admittance to the exit interviews requires a completed borrower information form.

To obtain the form, visit www.umaryland.edu, select either the Financial Aid or

Student Accounting link, then click on Exit Interviews for Graduating Students.

For more information, call 6-6574.

Exit interviews are mandatory for all UMB students graduating on May 16 who

received federal student loans. Students can only attend a session that is

scheduled for their School or program.

School of Medicine

10 a.m. and noon March 21

Health Sciences Facility II Auditorium

School of Nursing

Noon April 7

The Universities at Shady Grove

3 and 5 p.m. April 22

School of Nursing, Room 140

School of Pharmacy

2 p.m. April 15 and 1 p.m. April 17

Health Sciences Facility II, Room 600

Physical Therapy

9 a.m. May 12

Health Sciences Facility II Auditorium

School of Social Work

5 p.m. April 14, 12:15 p.m. April 18,

and 5 p.m. April 21

Health Sciences Facility II Auditorium

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UMB Observes Martin Luther King Jr. Dayand Black History Month

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1. USGA President Jessie O’Kane (left) raises awareness about carbon neutrality during Climate Awareness Week. 2. UMB Police participate in

Baltimore’s MLK Day parade. 3. School of Nursing doctoral student Peggy McNeill, a colonel in the U.S. Air Force, observes as Jeffrey Wells, a

master’s student at the nursing school, performs a patient-care scenario in a simulated military aircraft cabin. McNeill and Wells are part of a

research team studying the effects of altitude and noise on health care delivery. 4. Volunteers take a break from loading office equipment donated

by the Dental School to B-Spirit-A2Y Homework and Education Center, Inc., an after-school mentoring and tutoring program for at-risk adolescents.

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March 3-June 18: Maryland Women inMedicine Exhibit at the Health Sciencesand Human Services Library WeiseGallery. Display illustrates the work ofwomen physicians in Maryland over the past 100 years. Opening reception 4-6 p.m. March 12, free and open tothe public. For more information, visitwww.hshsl.umaryland.edu/gallery.

March 11: “Night and Day—ThePharmacist’s Increasing LegalResponsibility for Cognitive Errors,” theSchool of Pharmacy Paul A. PumpianLecture delivered by Judge John FaderII, JD. 11 a.m., room 120, PharmacyHall. Open to alumni, faculty, staff,and students. For more information,contact Karen Morales at kmorales@rx.umaryland.edu.

March 20: School of Pharmacy AlumniAssociation Meeting. 6:30 p.m., room714, Pharmacy Hall. For moreinformation, contact Peggy Funk atmfunk@rx.umaryland.edu.

March 27: “Women in Business,” aWomen’s History Month presentation by Lynne Brick, owner of LynneBrick’s/Brick Bodies, and craft bazaar.Noon-3 p.m.,School of NursingAuditorium and lobby, free, but ticketsare required. Tickets are available in thedeans’ and vice presidents’ offices, or bycontacting the University events officeat 6-8035 or events@umaryland.edu.

March 29: Maryland Public InterestLaw Project, Inc.’s annual Goods andServices Auction to celebrate more thantwo decades of public service. DouglasColbert, JD, professor of law, and twostudents, will be honored. 6 p.m.,Westminster Hall. For more information,or to donate an item for auction, visitwww.law.umaryland.edu/studentorg/mpilp/auction.asp.

March 31: UMB BioPark Building TwoGrand Opening and Building ThreeLaunch Ceremony. 11 a.m., 800 W.Baltimore St. For more information, call6-5035.

Ongoing: University System ofMaryland Display. 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.-Monday-Friday, second-floor gallery,Miller Senate Office Building, Annapolis.Display runs through Dec. 31.

To view more campus events, visithttp://cf.umaryland.edu/intranet/calendar.

ROSALIA SCALIA

At the University’s Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.birthday and Black History Monthobservance Feb. 5, Sheila Dixon, MS,Baltimore’s 48th mayor, delivered thekeynote address on fulfilling King’s dream.Dixon holds the distinction of beingBaltimore’s first female mayor and secondelected African-American mayor.

Two Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. DiversityRecognition Awards also were presented atthe event. The Outstanding UMB Faculty/Staff Award went to Hugh Mighty, MD,MBA, an associate professor at the Schoolof Medicine and chair of the Departmentof Obstetrics, Gynecology and ReproductiveSciences.

The Outstanding Student/StudentGroup Award was won by the School ofLaw’s Maryland Katrina and IndigentDefense Project.

In her address, Dixon, a former teacher,gave Baltimore a “C—a Catholic schoolC—for the state of our society” and itsefforts to implement King’s tenets of racial harmony.

“There are more opportunities now than there were in the past. But we stillhave a long way to go and a lot more toaccomplish,” said Dixon. “I will know wehave succeeded when we leave race out ofconversations and out of hiring.”

The Diversity Recognition Awards are given annually by the University forindividual and group achievements in theareas of inclusiveness and diversity.

Mighty has worked for more than 25years to improve the quality of and access tohealth care for pregnant women, especiallythose at high risk in West Baltimore. Hehas provided medical care for underservedwomen with prenatal complications, andhas pioneered efforts to allow a morenormal birthing environment for imprisonedmothers and to let them stay with theirinfants for the first year of their life.

Mighty’s commitment to diversity alsohas been demonstrated by his recruitmentand hiring practices, ensuring that his staff includes underrepresented minoritiesand women.

The Maryland Katrina and IndigentDefense Project traveled to the Gulf Coast

to aid the rebuilding process and toprovide legal assistance to overwhelmedpublic defenders and other lawyers. Theproject, led by Professor Douglas Colbert,JD, includes students, faculty, and alumni.It began in the spring of 2006 and hascontinued each year.

This year’s group, which raised morethan $37,000 to fund its efforts, was thebiggest contingent of law students tovolunteer in the storm-devastated areasfrom any of the nation’s law schools.

David J. Ramsay and Sheila Dixon

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