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The College of Behavioral and Social Sciences
Spring 2005 (covering news from November 2004--March 2005)

The College of Behavioral and Social Sciences is providing the leadership for the new National Center for the Study of Terrorism and the Response to Terrorism, established through a $12 million grant from the Office of Homeland Security.
www.bsos.umd.edu/dean/HomelandSecurityGrant.htm

The Center for Institutional Reform in the Informal Sector (IRIS) was awarded $1,394,680 from USAID for an 18-month project in which IRIS will work with members of the Southern Sudan ministry of Justice to help in the development and establishment of the basic management and administrative systems in the judicial sector.
www.iris.umd.edu/

IRIS received $100,000 from the Federated States of Micronesia to carry out secured transactions legislation amendments and to explain, both at the state and national level, the purpose and benefits of secured transactions legislation.
www.iris.umd.edu/

The Center for International Development and Conflict Management was awarded $100,000 from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation to strengthen its interdisciplinary program of applied research, public engagement and training in international conflict, development, information technology and human rights.
www.cidcm.umd.edu/

Geography professor Ruth DeFries was awarded $569,090 from NASA-Goddard for a project titled “Reducing Uncertainties of Carbon Emissions from Land Use-Related Fires with MODIS Data: From Local to Global Scale.” Co-investigators are Simon Trigg and Douglas Morton from Maryland and George Collatz from NASA-Goddard.
www.geog.umd.edu/
www.geog.umd.edu/people/DeFries.html

Geography professor Sam Goward was recently selected by NASA to head a 5-year, $1.6 million study of U.S. forests titled “North American Forest Disturbance and Regrowth since 1972: Empirical Assessment with Field Measurements and Satellite Remotely Sensed Observations.” www.geog.umd.edu/
www.geog.umd.edu/people/Goward.html

Geography professor Eric Kasischke received $231,971 from NASA-Goddard for a project titled "Mapping High-Resolution Incident Photosynthetically Active Radiation Product for the North American Carbon Program."
www.geog.umd.edu/
www.geog.umd.edu/people/Kasischke.html

Geography professor Shunlin Liang was awarded $154,463 for year 1 of a 3-year grant from NASA-Goddard for a project titled "Mapping High-Resolution Incident Photosynthetically Active Radiation Product for the North American Carbon Program." Co-investigators include John Townshend, Maryland; Steven Running, University of Montana; and Si-Chee Tsay, NASA-Goddard.
www.glue.umd.edu/~sliang/PAR2.htm
www.geog.umd.edu/
www.geog.umd.edu/people/Liang.html

Hearing and Speech Sciences professor Sandra Gordon-Salant was awarded $311,000 from the National Institute on Aging to continue her work on speech perception problems in the elderly.
www.bsos.umd.edu/hesp/
www.bsos.umd.edu/hesp/facultyStaff/salants.htm

Psychology professor Carl LeJuez was awarded a 5-year, $1.6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study “Behavioral Technologies for Predicting HIV Risk.”
http://www.bsos.umd.edu/psyc/

The Public Safety, Training and Technology Assistance Program was awarded more than $300,000 from the state of Maryland to assist Maryland's Coordination and Analysis Center and to provide the Governor's Office of Crime Control and Prevention with crime mapping and analytical services.
www.hidta.org/
www.hidta.org/crimemapping/index.asp

Sociology professor Leonard Pearlin is conducting research through a 4-year, $624,000 subcontract awarded to the Maryland Population Research Center from the University of Toronto for a project titled “The Origins and Impact of Relational Conflict at Work." www.bsos.umd.edu/socy/faculty/lpearlin.html
www.popcenter.umd.edu/

Sociology professor Harriet Presser was awarded $100,000 from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation through which graduate students receiving fellowship support will focus their research on the interrelationships among population, gender, and social inequality in developing countries.
www.bsos.umd.edu/socy/faculty/hpresser.html
www.bsos.umd.edu/socy/index.htm

Sociology professor David Segal was awarded a 4-year, $1.1 million grant from the Army Research Institute to support research on the structure of the military, how it intersects with civilian society, and how the social network perspective helps us understand military organization, civil-military relations, and the organization of both coalitions in which we participate and potential adversaries. Mady Segal and Meyer Kestnbaum are co-principal investigators.
www.bsos.umd.edu/socy/grad/specialty_military.html www.bsos.umd.edu/socy/faculty/dsegal.html
www.bsos.umd.edu/socy/index.htm

U.S. News & World Report rankings released in April 2005 put the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice first in the country. The Department of Economics moved up from 24 th to 21 st , its public finance program is ranked 10 th and its international economics program is ranked 14 th . The Department of Sociology is ranked 25 th and has three programs in the top 20: sex and gender studies at 8 th , sociology of population at 13 th , and social psychology at 16 th . The industrial/organizational psychology program is ranked 9 th in the country.
www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/rankindex_brief.php

Barbara Bergmann , Professor Emerita of economics, is the 2004 recipient of the Carolyn Shaw Bell Award, presented by the American Economics Association's Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession to an individual who has furthered the status of women in the economics profession.
www.bsos.umd.edu/econ/

Criminology professor Denise Gottfredson won the 2005 Prevention Science Award from the Society for Prevention Research for a significant body of research that applied scientific methods to test one or more preventive interventions or policies.
www.ccjs.umd.edu/Faculty/faculty.asp?p=25

The university's Mock Trial team, led by government and politics Professor Mark Graber , placed 1 st , 2 nd and 4 th overall in the Eastern Regional Mock Trial Championship and advanced two teams to the national championship.
www.bsos.umd.edu/dean/bullets/MockTrialChampionship.htm
www.bsos.umd.edu/gvpt/graber/

Government and politics professor Paul Herrnson was selected as a Distinguished Scholar-Teacher.
www.bsos.umd.edu/gvpt/herrnson/
www.faculty.umd.edu/FacAwards/dstlist.html

Criminology professor John Laub is the recipient of the University of Albany Alumni Association's first-ever Excellence in Arts & Letter Award.
www.ccjs.umd.edu/Faculty/faculty.asp?p=27
www.ccjs.umd.edu/

Psychology professor Karen O'Brien won an Early Career Award from the American Psychological Association and has been appointed associate editor of the Journal of Counseling Psychology .
www.bsos.umd.edu/psyc/
www.bsos.umd.edu/psyc/O'Brien.htm

Criminology professor John Laub's book, Shared Beginnings, Divergent Lives: Delinquent Boys to Age 70 , won the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences' Outstanding Book Award for 2005.
www.ccjs.umd.edu/Faculty/faculty.asp?p=27
www.ccjs.umd.edu/

The journal Demography is now being edited by Suzanne Bianchi of our Maryland Population Research Center and Ken Hill, director of the Hopkins Population Center at Johns Hopkins University.
www.popcenter.umd.edu/people/bianchi_suzanne/
www.popcenter.umd.edu/

Criminology professor David Weisburd is the founding editor of the journal Experimental Criminology . The first issue was published in January.
www.ccjs.umd.edu/Faculty/faculty.asp?p=38

Edward Montgomery , Dean, accepted an invitation to join the Board of Trustees of the Council for Excellence in Government.
www.bsos.umd.edu/dean/staff_bios/montgomery.html
www.excelgov.org/

Professor Ernie Wilson has been confirmed by the U.S. Senate for a second term on the Corporation for Public Broadcasting's Board of Directors.
www.bsos.umd.edu/gvpt/wilson/

Economics professor Ingmar Prucha accepted a three-year appointment as associate editor of the Journal of Econometrics .
www.bsos.umd.edu/econ/efaculty/profiles/prucha.html

Psychology professor Andrea Chronis was elected president of the Association for the Advancement of Behavior Therapy's (AABT) Parenting & Families Special Interest Group and incoming associate editor for the Behavior Therapist , a publication of AABT.
www.bsos.umd.edu/psyc/

Psychology professor Tom Wallsten was elected president of the Federation of Behavioral, Psychological and Cognitive Sciences.
www.bsos.umd.edu/psyc/wallsten/
www.thefederationonline.org/

Anthropology professor Fatimah Jackson was appointed a member of the Scientific Advisory Board for the Gynecological Cancer Center of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Services.
www.bsos.umd.edu/anth/faculty/fjackson/index.htm

Government and politics student Melissa Boteach won a George Mitchell Scholarship.
http://www.newsdesk.umd.edu/undergradexp/release.cfm?ArticleID=1016

Amalia Pleake-Tamm , a double major in Environmental Science & Policy and English Literature, has won a Morris K. Udall Scholarship.
www.agnr.umd.edu/users/ensp/
www.honorscollege.pitt.edu/academics/scholarships/morrisudallscholarship.html

Six College of Behavioral and Social Science students were named Philip Merrill Presidential Scholars.
www.ugst.umd.edu/merrill/

Government and politics student Andrew Publicover was selected by the U.S. Department of State as a Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellow.
www.bsos.umd.edu/gvpt/

The College said its final good-byes to the following professors who passed away recently: psychology professor Tom Nelson , criminology professor Doug Smith and psychology professor Sam Turner , who was co-director of the Center for Anxiety Disorders.