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E-NEWS FROM BSOS
MAJOR RESEARCH GRANTS/CONTRACTS Anthropology The Federal Highway Administration awarded the Center for Heritage Resource Studies $126,000 to develop curriculum for a course titled, A Beyond Compliance: Historic Preservation in Transportation Project Development. @ The Center = s director, professor Paul Shackel , also was awarded $100,000 from the National Park Service to do an archaeological study of a 240-acre historic farmstead at the Monocacy National Battlefield near Frederick, Md. http://www.heritage.umd.edu/ Center for Substance Abuse Research (CESAR) The Center for Substance Abuse Research (CESAR ) is collaborating with John Hopkins University on a $5.9 million study funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse to test the effectiveness of the medication buprenorphine in treating heroin dependence in pregnant women. http://www.cesar.umd.edu/ Criminology and Criminal Justice Professor Denise Gottfredson was awarded $300,000 from the Maryland Governor = s Office of Crime Control and Prevention to evaluate services provided through the Consolidated Youth Strategies Grant Program. http://www.bsos.umd.edu/ccjs/faculty/gottfredson/index.html Democracy Collaborative Associate Director James Riker was awarded $140,000 from the Ford Foundation to provide a state-of-the-art synthesis of promising democratic approaches to global governance that draws on the perspectives and experiences of civil society activists and scholars around the world, especially from the Global South. http://www.democracycollaborative.org/ Economics The Center for Institutional Reform in the Informal Sector (IRIS) was awarded more than $2.7 million for three projects from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and almost $850,000 from the Russian Federation for a financial institutions development project. The USAID work will include a justice sector development project in Bosnia and Herzegovina, an assessment of diagnostic tools and methodologies used to develop policy and foster institutional environments in which businesses thrive, and development of a framework for examining micro-enterprises and micro-enterprise programming through the lens of economic growth and poverty reduction objectives. http://www.iris.umd.edu/ Geography NASA-Goddard awarded the Department of Geography seven grants totaling more than $2.2 million: professor Ralph Dubayah = s project involves forest structure characterization ( http://www.geog.umd.edu/people/Dubayah.html) ; professor Christopher Justice will study the impact of catastrophic fires on the Siberian tiger and work on refinement and maintenance of the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectro-radiometer (MODIS) fire product suite ( http://www.geog.umd.edu/people/Justice.html) ; professor Shunlin Liang will work to improve land surface products from multiple Earth Observing System sensors by developing a prototype data assimilation system ( http://www.geog.umd.edu/people/Liang.html ) ; department chair John Townshend = s project involves landcover dynamics ( http://www.geog.umd.edu/people/ Townshend. html ); and professor Eric Vermote will look at fires as a disturbance in the earth-atmosphere system, work to refine the MODIS land surface reflectance and develop an interdisciplinary long-term dataset from Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) ( http://www.geog.umd.edu/people/EVermote.html) . Government and Politics The Center for International Development and Conflict Management (CIDCM) was awarded almost $140,000 from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to explore the connections between new information and communication tools and the conflicts in various regions in Africa. http://www.cidcm.umd.edu/projects/leland.htm Professor Wayne McIntosh was awarded $150,000 from the National Science Foundation to study and map the flow of precedent across the American court system during the 20th century on the issue of regulatory takings. http://www.bsos.umd.edu/gvpt/CITE-IT/ Public Safety Training and Technical Assistance Program (PSTTAP) [High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA)] HIDTA was awarded $400,000 from the Office of National Drug Control Policy to develop and implement a performance management system for the 28 regional HIDTAs and the national HIDTA program. http://www.wb.hidta.org PSTTAP = s work for the U.S. Department of State has been expanded to include providing intensive multi-week courses for law enforcement officials in developing and emerging countries. The courses are covering topics such as trends in terrorism, interview and interrogation skills, crime scene photography, surveillance operations and community relations. The amount of the grant from the U.S. Department of State to PSSTAP is now at about $1 million. PSTTAP was awarded nearly $150,000 from the Governor = s Office of Crime Control and Prevention to create two databases B one for the public and one for law enforcement B to help eliminate gangs. http://www.wb.hidta.org Psychology Clinical psychology student Marina Bornolova , under the direction of professor Carl LeJuez , was awarded $100,000 from the National Institute of Drug Abuse to study impulsivity processes underlying drug choice and sexual risk. Ph.D. candidate Stacey B. Daughters under the direction of professor Carl LeJuez , was awarded $100,000 from the National Institute of Drug Abuse to study distress tolerance and drug treatment drop-out. http://www.bsos.umd.edu/psyc/ Professor Robert Dooling was awarded $284,000 from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders to study the functional significance of auditory hair cell regeneration in small birds. http://www.bsos.umd.edu/psyc/dooling/intro.htm Professor David Huber and colleague Rich Shiffrin from Indiana University were awarded $835,000 from the National Institute of Mental Health to study priming phenomena (presenting the word A doctor @ makes it easier to quickly read and identify the word A nurse @ ) and perception and decision processes. http://www.bsos.umd.edu/psyc/ Professor Arie Kruglanski was awarded $120,000 from the National Science Foundation for research that addresses the processes of goal activation, and how unconscious goals affect our choice of activities, and our feelings. http://www.bsos.umd.edu/psyc/ The department = s American Psychological Association/National Institute of General Medical Sciences Training Grant was renewed through 2007. Begun in 1997, the grant is worth more than $2.5 million over the 10-year span and is conducted in cooperation with Morgan State University and Prince George = s Community College. Its purpose is to increase the number of minorities focusing their studies on the biomedical aspects of psychology. http://www.bsos.umd.edu/psyc/ Sociology Professors Sonalde Desai and Reeve Vanneman were awarded $1.4 million from the National Institutes of Health to continue studying maternal and child health in India, and an additional $400,000 to examine the way in which parental education enhances human, social, political and cultural capital to enable parents to ensure better health and education for their children.
AWARDS Jonathan Alevy , an economist with the Center for Institutional Reform and the Informal Sector (IRIS), was awarded the 2004 Competitive Paper Award from the Financial Management Association. http://www.iris.umd.edu/ Assistant Dean Katherine Pedro Beardsley was presented with the President's Distinguished Service Award in recognition of the many contributions she has made to the university. Professor Suheil Bushrui , the incumbent of the Baha'i Chair for World Peace, was awarded an honorary degree, Doctor of Humane Letters, by Franklin and Marshall College. Government and politics professor James Glass won the Outstanding Faculty Award, given by the Maryland Association for Higher Education. Psychology professor Paul Hanges and his colleagues won the M. Scott Myers Award for Applied Research in the Workplace from the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology for their Global Leader and Organizational Behavior Effectiveness (GLOBE) research project. Psychology professor Bill Hodos was named a Distinguished University Professor. Psychology professor Cynthia Moss and graduate student Kaushik Ghose won first place in the National Science Foundation's Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge. Sociology Professor Leonard Pearlin received a doctorate Honoris Causa from the University of Ghent in Belgium. http://www.bsos.umd.edu/socy/faculty/lpearlin.html Government and politics professor George Quester was named a Distinguished Scholar-Teacher. Distinguished University Professor George Ritzer received an honorary Doctor of Letters from Australia = s University of New South Wales. The Clinical Psychology Program was accepted into the Academy of Psychological Clinical Science, where it joins 42 other highly selective clinical science graduate programs.
PUBLICATIONS Psychology professor Michele Gelfand won the International Association for Conflict Management's 2002 Best Article of the Year Award for the paper "Culture and Egocentric Perceptions of Fairness in Conflict and Negotiation," which appeared in the Journal of Applied Psychology and was selected from more than 80 articles. Psychology professor Paul Hanges , along with Maryland colleague Benjamin Schneider and others, won two awards for a paper titled, A Which Comes First: Employee Attitudes or Organizational Financial and Market Performance? @ The paper was published in the Journal of Applied Psychology and won the Academy of Management = s Organizational Behavior Division's Best Paper Award and the Human Resources Division's Scholarly Achievement Award. Criminology professor John Laub won the American Society of Criminology = s Michael J. Hindelang Book Award for 2004 for his book, Shared Beginnings, Divergent Lives: Delinquent Boys to Age 70 . Government and politics professor Linda Williams = book, Constraint of Race: Legacies of White Skin Privilege in America , won two national awards: the National Conference of Black Political Scientists' W. E. B. DuBois Award for best book of the year and the Michael Harrington Best Book Award from the Caucus for a New Political Science.
MENTOR PROGRAM The Alumni Mentor Program had its kickoff for the 2004-2005 academic year on October 13. Applications for mentors are still being accepted. http://www.bsos.umd.edu/Mentoring/mentorship.html
SERVICE Sociology professor Sonalde Desai was appointed co-chair of the Scientific Panel on Gender and Population for the International Union for Scientific Study of the Population. Assistant Dean Cynthia Hale accepted the position of chair of the university's President's Commission on Women's Issues. Gary LaFree , a founding principal of the Democracy Collaborative and a professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, has been elected incoming president of the American Society of Criminology. Fellow Maryland professor Denise Gottfredson is incoming vice president. Dennis Pirages, government and politics professor and Horace Harrison Professor of International Environmental Politics, and Kenneth Hunter , director of professional programs at the Institute for Global Chinese Affairs, were appointed co-directors of the board of the World Future Society. Economics professor Plutarchos Sakellaris was named chair of Greece = s Council of Economic Advisors. http://www.bsos.umd.edu/econ/efaculty/profiles/sakellaris.html Anthropology professor Bill Stuart coached the USA Biology Olympiad Team to four gold medals in international competition.
STUDENTS Daniel Aromi, a graduate student in the Department of Economics, was selected by the National Science Foundation to be one of 35 U.S. graduate students to participate in a meeting with Nobel Laureates in economics in Lindau, Germany in September. http://www.bsos.umd.edu/econ/ Government and politics student Melissa Boteach won a Truman Scholarship. Government and politics graduate Celeste Hern á ndez-Gerety won a Jack Kent Cooke scholarship. http://www.jackkentcookefoundation.org/
FACULTY POSITIONS Robert Schwab was named associate dean. http://www.bsos.umd.edu/dean/staff_bios/robert_schwab.html Sharon Harley moved from interim chair of the African American Studies Department to chair. http://www.bsos.umd.edu/aasp/harley.htm Sally Simpson is the new chair of the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice. http://www.bsos.umd.edu/ccjs/faculty/simpson/index.html Psychology professor Cynthia Moss is the new director of the Program in Neuroscience and Cognitive Science. Economics professor Seth Sanders was appointed director of the Maryland Population Research Center and sociology research associate Rebeca Wong was appointed associate director. http://www.bsos.umd.edu/econ/efaculty/profiles/sanders.html http://www.bsos.umd.edu/socy/faculty/rwong.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 sent to bworkman@bsos.umd.edu . This email was approved for distribution by Edward Montgomery, dean of the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences.
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