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E-News from BSOS Fall 2003 Sponsored Research | Faculty News | Students | Other News Edward Montgomery became dean of the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences on July 1, 2003. http://www.bsos.umd.edu/dean/staff_bios/montgomery.html See his "State of the College" report at http://www.bsos.umd.edu/dean/college_intro.html
The Center for Substance Abuse Research was recently awarded a $2.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to conduct the "College Life Study." The study will measure the impact of health-related behaviors on the lives of first-time freshmen aged 18 or 19. www.cesar.umd.edu/ Sociology professors Sonalde Desai and Reeve Vanneman were recently
awarded $1.9 million from the National Institutes of Health to study maternal
and child health in India. Brian Wiersema, of the Department of Criminology and Criminal
Justice and the Maryland Population Research Center, was awarded a $1.3 million
grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to establish a comprehensive
statewide violent death reporting system located within the Maryland Department
of Health and Mental Hygiene. Psychology professor Thomas Nelson was recently awarded $1 million
from the Cognition and Student Learning Research Grant Program of the Federal
Office of Education. He will study computer-assisted instruction for learning
and long-term retention of second-language vocabulary, based on recent cognitive
and metacognitive findings. Economics professor Judith Hellerstein was recently awarded
$1 million from the National Institutes of Health to study the economics of
residential and workplace segregation. Psychology professor Carl Lejeuz was recently awarded $900,000
from the National Institute on Drug Abuse to study why cigarette smokers relapse
and why very few are able to quit entirely. Department of African American Studies receives Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Conference Center grant for "Meaning and Representations of Work in the Lives of Women of Color" faculty research seminar. http://www.bsos.umd.edu/dean/bellagio_grant.html
Psychology professor Charles E. Sternheim joined the dean's
office as acting senior associate Erve Chambers is the new chair of the Department of Anthropology. Lynn Bolles is acting chair of the Department of African American
Studies. The College welcomes six new professors. www.bsos.umd.edu/dean/new_faculty-03-04.html
Shibley Telhami, the Anwar Sadat Chair for Peace and Development, was recently appointed to the Advisory Group on Public Diplomacy in the Arab and Muslim World. The advisory group was assembled at the request of Congress. www.bsos.umd.edu/dean/shibley.html Psychology professor Arie Kruglanski was named Distinguished
University Professor. Government and politics professor Wayne McIntosh was named Faculty
Mentor of the Year. Economics professor Wallace Oates won the National Tax Association's
Holland Medal for distinguished lifetime contributions to the study and practice
of public finance. Hearing and Speech Sciences professor Froma Roth was recently elected a fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. www.bsos.umd.edu/hesp/Roth.html Harriet Presser, distinguished university professor of sociology,
was recently elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement
of Science. Sociology professor Mady Segal won the American Sociological
Association's Robin Williams Award for a Career of Distinguished Contributions
to Research, Teaching and Service. Sociology professor Meyer Kestnbaum was elected chair of the
American Sociological Association's Section on Peace, War and Social Conflict. Confronting Consumption, a book by government and politics professor
Ken Conca, is the winner of the International Studies Association's Harold
and Margaret Sprout Award, given
CIVICUS student Allison Bigelow was awarded the 2003 University
Medal. Rebecca Ariel Hoffberg, a government and politics major, was chosen to give the student speech at the university commencement last May. www.bsos.umd.edu/dean/hoffberg.html BSOS student Gregory Tindale was elected student liaison to the College Park City Council. He will serve a one-year term. As student liaison, Tindale will be expected to attend council work sessions and meetings. He will not be able to vote.
The Center for Comparative and Evolutionary Biology of Hearing, co-directed by psychology professor Bob Dooling and biology professor Art Popper, held the 1st International Conference on Acoustic Communication by Animals on campus in August. The conference drew more than 200 researchers from North America, Europe and Asia and was the subject of a segment on National Public Radio's "All Things Considered" program. http://128.8.90.214:80/cebh/ and www.bsos.umd.edu/dean/talk_animals.html and www.bsos.umd.edu/psyc/dooling/homebo%7E1.html The International Communication and Negotiations Simulations (ICONS) Project has won the Award for Technology as a Tool for Internationalization from the American Council on Education and AT&T. www.acenet.edu/news/press_release/2003/05may/ATT.html and www.icons.umd.edu/ The College kicked off its new mentor program on October 3, as more than 50 alumni came to campus to meet with approximately 125 juniors and seniors that they will mentor over the next year. The college's alumni board developed the program. http://www.bsos.umd.edu/Mentoring/mentorship.html
E-News from BSOS is sent to friends and alumni of the College
of Behavioral and Social Sciences in the spring and fall. Comments can be
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