Chancellor William E. “Brit” Kirwan has been selected by Governor Martin O’Malley to serve on the newly created Maryland International Advisory Council. The council was formed to help attract foreign-owned companies to the state and assist Maryland companies doing overseas business. In addition, the state will establish a business incubator at the University of Maryland and create a Maryland international business center. The International Advisory Council will be chaired by Harold Adams, president of HLA, LLC, and co-founder of the World Trade Center Institute. Katie Gray, vice president of global sensor systems for Northrop Grumman, will serve as vice chair.

On May 11, the University of Maryland gathered Baltimore area business, community and alumni leaders at Hidden Waters as part of the university’s strategic planning process.

Frostburg State University has received a bronze award from the Council for Advancement and Support Education (CASE) for its campaign case statement. Frostburg kicked off, “Staking Our Claim: The Campaign for Frostburg,” last October.

Coppin State University Associate Professor and Toni Morrison Scholar K. Zauditu-Selassie has been awarded a Fulbright scholarship to teach literature in Cote d’Ivoire, West Africa. She also will serve as thesis advisor to the students at the University of Cocody-Abidjan and the University of Bouake.

The U.S. Defense Department has announced that the University of Maryland has won four primary University Research Initiative awards (all in physics) and four secondary awards. Stanford and the University of California, San Diego, followed with three primaries; and MIT, Duke, and UC Berkeley each received two.

On May 30, Chancellor Kirwan hosted a dinner in recognition of Jennie Hunter-Cevera’s service as president of the University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute.

Chancellor Kirwan and UMBC President Freeman Hrabowski co-hosted a Chautauqua program at Hidden Waters on May 5 entitled, “The First 100 Days: Obama as President,” featuring UMBC Associate Professor of Political Science Thomas F. Schaller.

Gwen Beegle, Joyce Wiencek, and Chin-Hsiu Chen – all faculty members in the Salisbury University Samuel W. and Marilyn C. Seidel School of Education and Professional Studies – recently received a $49,974 grant from the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy for the program, “Promoting Literacy at Home: Parents and Children Talking, Reading, Writing and Creating Brighter Futures.”

Tags: May 2009

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