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June 25, 2008	Doctoral student of clinical psychology, Marina Bornovalova, is the recipient of the 2008 Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT) Virginia A. Roswell Dissertation Award. During her time at the university, Marina worked in the Center for Addictions, Personality, and Emotion Research (CAPER). Her dissertation is titled Distress Tolerance Treatment for Inner-City Drug Users: A Preliminary Trial.
June 9, 2008	Sociology professors Suzanne Bianchi, Melissa Milkie and John Robinson will receive the 2008 William Goode Book Award from the Family Section of the American Sociological Association for their book titled Changing Rhythms of American Family Life.
June 9, 2008	Criminology professor Peter Reuter has been named a Fellow of the American Society of Criminology.
May 22, 2008	Economics professor Maureen Cropper elected into the National Academy of Sciences.
May 22, 2008	Anthropology professor Judith Freidenberg has been awarded the Minority Achievement Award from the President's Commission on Ethnic Minority Issues.
May 15, 2008	Professor Suheil Bushrui attends a small gathering with the Pope.
May 15, 2008	The University of Maryland Center for Substance Abuse Research (CESAR) has launched a free public website to help Maryland residents, including students, find community services for a variety of needs. Called the Maryland Community Services Locator, it can be found at www.mdcsl.org. More info.
May 8, 2008	The April issue of the university's IMPACT publication features the Neuroscience and Cognitive Science program and a profile of psychology professor Amanda Woodward.
May 8, 2008	Mock Trial team, led by BSOS students, wins national championship.
May 6, 2008	Norman B. Anderson, Ph.D., CEO of the American Psychological Association, will speak on "The Role of Transdisciplinary Research in Eliminating Health Disparities" on May 5 from 2-3:30 p.m. in the Crist Boardroom of the Samuel Riggs Alumni Center. More info.
April 30, 2008	Psychology professor Michele Gelfand and collaborators received a $4.27 million grant from the Department of Defense for work on "Dynamic Models of Culture and Negotiation and Collaboration in the Middle East." The multidisciplinary research team includes Paul Hanges and Arie Kruglanski from psychology, Jonathon Wilkenfeld from government and politics, Sarit Kraus from computer science, Deborah Cai from communication, along with colleagues from Harvard, Columbia and the University of Central Florida. More info.
April 18, 2008	The National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) will present "Disengagement and Deradicalization from Terrorism" on April 15. More info.
April 18, 2008	Darlene M. Iskra, deputy director of the Leadership Education and Development program, has been inducted into the Women Divers Hall of Fame.
April 18, 2008	At the annual meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology, master’s student K.J. Doneby Smith won first place in the student poster competition for her poster, “First Five Merced: Uses and Limitations of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in Evaluation of Health and Social Service Programs. Master’s student Melissa Stevens received an honorable mention for her paper, "Power Disparities in Community-Based Tourism Partnerships: A Vietnamese Case Study" and an honorable mention for her poster, "Community-Based Tourism in Vietnam: Working within Countervailing Systems of Hierarchy and Egalitarianism to Promote Inclusion."
April 18, 2008	The Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences' Speech-Language Pathology program was ranked 18th in the latest U.S. News & World Report graduate school rankings; this represents a climb into the top 20 from a previous ranking of 22. The Department's Audiology program also improved its standing, moving from 27 to 24.
April 8, 2008	Professor Ronald Walters will speak about his new book, The Price of Racial Reconciliation, on Tuesday, April 8 from 3-4:30 p.m. in 0200 Symons Hall.
April 8, 2008	Sociology department chair Suzanne Bianchi is the recipient of this year's Stuart A. Rice Award for Career Achievement from the District of Columbia Sociological Society.
April 8, 2008	Criminology professor David Weisburd has been awarded the Academy of Experimental Criminology's Joan McCord Award.
April 4, 2008	Paul Herrnson, director of the Center for American Politics and Citizenship and professor of government and politics, will speak about his book Voting Technology: The Not So Simple Act of Casting a Ballot on Tuesday, April 1 at 4:30 p.m. in McKeldin 6137 as part of the Libraries’ Series “Speaking of Books…Conversations with Campus Authors.”
April 4, 2008	Sociology Professor John Pease has won the Board of Regents’ Excellence in Mentoring Award.
March 28, 2008	The College of Behavioral and Social Sciences and the School of Public Health present a lecture by Stephen B. Thomas, Ph.D., director of the Center for Minority Health at the University of Pittsburgh, Friday, March 28 from 10-11:30 a.m. in room 1312 of the Health & Human Performance Bldg.
March 27, 2008	Assistant Dean Katherine Beardsley has been named Woman of the Year.
March 27, 2008	Edward Montgomery, dean of the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences, was an invited participant in an economic forum on Capitol Hill on March 5 that advised the Democratic leadership where the economy is headed and what economic policies should be enacted in 2008.
March 12, 2008	Criminology professors Gary LaFree and David Weisburd are newly appointed members to the Committee on Law and Justice at the National Research Council of the National Academies.
March 12, 2008	Paul Herrnson, government and politics professor and director of the Center for American Politics and Citizenship, has been elected president of the Southern Political Science Association.
March 12, 2008	The University of Maryland Mock Trial Team qualified for the national championships this weekend by tying for first place at the Noel Myricks Regional Mock Trial Tournament. The winning team was captained by government and politics major Emily Fetter and criminology and criminal justice major Ayo Otukoya, who was the highest ranked attorney in the tournament. Government and politics majors Kara Wilcox and Kaitlyn Murphy were named all-tournament attorneys.
February 27, 2008	David Segal, sociology professor and director of the Center for Research on Military Organization, is the 2008 recipient of the American Sociological Association's Award for Public Understanding of Sociology for his work to enhance public understanding of issues surrounding the military and peacekeeping.
February 19, 2008	Professor Suheil Bushrui will read from his new book, "The World's Favorite Love Poems," on February 14th at noon in the University Book Center in the Stamp Student Union. A book signing will follow.
February 13, 2008	Economics professor John Haltiwanger has been named a Distinguished Scholar-Teacher for 2008-2009.
February 13, 2008	Government and politics professor Stephen Elkin has been named a Distinguished Scholar-Teacher for 2008-2009.
February 13, 2008	Geography professor Ruth DeFries and criminology professor John Laub have been named Distinguished University Professors.
February 13, 2008	David R. Segal and Mady Wechsler Segal, professors of sociology and director and associate director of the Center for Research on Military Organization, are the United States' Military Academy's 2007-2008 Department of Behavioral Sciences and Leadership Distinguished Former Faculty co-awardees.
February 13, 2008	Criminology professor Charles Wellford has been tapped to chair a 15-person committee for the National Research Council that will assess the research program of the National Institute of Justice. This 27-month project with a grant of $1.2 million dollars will conduct an evaluation of the central national criminal justice science and technology research program and recommend a 10-year research agenda.
February 6, 2008	Economics professor Carmen Reinhart has been named the top-ranked female economist by the University of Chicago, which measured the number of times each of 2,137 female economists were cited in economics and finance literature. Professor Katharine Abraham of the Joint Program in Survey Methodology is ranked 38th.
January 26, 2008	Criminology professors Denise Gottfredson and Doris MacKenzie have been elected Fellows of the American Society of Criminology.
January 26, 2008	Department of Economics professor Larry Ausubel and Distinguished University Professor of Economics Tom Schelling have been elected Fellows of the Econometric Society.
January 26, 2008	Psychology professor Michele Gelfand was elected president of the International Association of Conflict Management.
January 2, 2008	Twenty-six faculty and staff from the college are among the university's FY '06 research leaders, bringing in $500,000 or more in research funding.
January 2, 2008	Geography professor Ruth DeFries has been elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
January 2, 2008	Geography department lauded for its role in managing California wild fires.
January 2, 2008	David Segal, director of the Center for Research on Military Organization in the Department of Sociology, was awarded the Morris Janowitz Award for Career Achievement in Military Sociology from the Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces & Society.
January 2, 2008	The Archaeology of Liberty in an American Capital: Excavations in Annapolis, by Department of Anthropology professor Mark Leone, has been awarded The Society for Historical Archaeology's James Deetz Book Award for 2008.
January 2, 2008	Criminology professor David Weisburd received a $350,500 grant from the National Institute of Justice for a project titled "“Broken Windows Policing: A Randomized Experimental Evaluation of its Impacts on Disorder, Fear and Crime in Three Cities.”
January 2, 2008	Geography Professor Ruth DeFries Wins the MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Award.
December 3, 2007	The Baha'i' Chair for World Peace's First Annual Dialogue will be held Thursday, November 29. The topic is "Integrating People and Diplomacy: A Necessity for Peace in the 21st Century?"
November 12, 2007	Psychology Professor Ty Tashiro has won the Parents Association's 2007 Outstanding Faculty Educator Award.
November 12, 2007	James Glass, professor of government and politics, has won the Kirwan Undergraduate Education Award.
November 12, 2007	Psychology Professor Michele Gelfand has been elected a Fellow of the American Psychological Association.
October 29, 2007	Women's Labor in the Global Economy: Speaking in Multiple Voices (Rutgers University Press, 2007), edited by Sharon Harley, chair of the African American Studies Department, won the 2007 Association of Black Women Historians award for best anthology.
October 29, 2007	Fran Wilson, professor in the African American Studies Department, won the 2007 Association of Black Women Historians award for best monograph for The Segregated Scholars: Black Social Scientists and the Creation of Black Labor Studies, 1890-1950 (University of Virginia).
October 29, 2007	Partha Lahiri, a professor in the Joint Program in Survey Methodology, was named a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.
October 29, 2007	Patricia Hill Collins, Distinguished University Professor of sociology, has been elected president of the American Sociological Association.
October 29, 2007	The 36th Annual Conference of the Association of Muslim Social Scientists (AMSS), "Perils of Empire: Islamophobia, Religious Extremism and the New Imperialism," is being held October 26-28 at the Nyumburu Cultural Center. For more information, go to http://www.amss.net.
October 29, 2007	The African American Studies department will hold a book launch and mini-conference for Women’s Labor in the Global Economy on October 4 & 5. For more information, go to http://www.bsos.umd.edu/aasp/.
September 16, 2007	Psychology professor Charlie Gelso has won the Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for Counseling Psychology’s Section for the Promotion of Psychotherapy Science.
September 16, 2007	Psychology professor Clara Hill received the Distinguished Research Career Award from the Society for Psychotherapy Research.
September 16, 2007	Government and politics Professor Jillian Schwedler’s book, Faith in Moderation, has won the Best Book Award from the American Political Science Association’s Democratization Section.
September 16, 2007	Sally Simpson, chair of the Department of the Criminology and Criminal Justice, has been elected chair of the American Sociological Association’s Section on Crime, Law and Deviance.
September 16, 2007	Thomas S. Wallsten, professor in the Department of Psychology and an area research director in the university's Center for Advanced Study of Language (CASL), has accepted the position of chair of the Department of Psychology effective July 1, 2007.
May 22, 2007	NIH Director to speak on “Healthier Lives Through Behavioral and Social Sciences Research: A Transdisciplinary Integration Across Systems” on Tuesday, May 15.
May 14, 2007	One of the most prominent leaders in the Arab world will speak on “The Role of Women in Progress and Peace in the Arab World” on Tuesday, May 8.
May 3, 2007	Suheil Bushrui, director of the Kahlil Gibran Chair for Values and Peace Project, has won a Bridge Builder Award from the Third Interfaith Conference for his decades-long work in the field of interfaith dialogue and understanding.
May 3, 2007	Summer Research Initiative to increase diversity.
May 3, 2007	University ranks 10th in the country in the social sciences.
March 29, 2007	"Changing Political Currents and Prospects for the African American Community" is the topic of a March 27 panel discussion with Glenn Loury, economist from Brown University.
March 27, 2007	Economics professor Bill Evans has been appointed editor-in-chief of the Journal of Human Resources.
March 27, 2007	Economics professor Ingmar Prucha has been named a Journal of Econometrics fellow and is a founding member of the Spatial Econometrics Association.
March 27, 2007	Sociology professor Annette Lareau has been awarded $500,000 from the Spencer Foundation for "Choosing Homes, Choosing Schools," a study of intergenerational transmission of advantage from grandparents to parents to children.
January 16, 2007	Dean Edward Montgomery announces leadership changes at IRIS.
January 16, 2007	HIDTA presents Congressman Steny Hoyer with Legislator of the Year Award.
January 2, 2007	Hearing and Speech Sciences professor Dr. Froma P. Roth and colleagues were awarded a three-year $2.5 million Early Reading First Grant from the U.S. Department of Education. The goal of the project, "Partnering for Literacy: A Multi-Disciplinary Program for Emergent Literacy and Early Reading Success", is to promote emergent literacy and oral language skills of 3- and 4-year-old preschool children who are at risk for learning to read when they enter first grade.
November 27, 2006	The University of Maryland will host a memorial service for Professor Linda Williams on Friday, November 17 at 1:30 p.m. in Memorial Chapel.
November 19, 2006	START and The Project on Religion, Culture and Globalization to present "The Global Rise of Religious Violence" on Thursday, November 16.
November 13, 2006	Psychology professor Michele Gelfand's work was featured at the Coalition for National Science Funding's 12th Annual Capitol Hill Exhibition and Reception.
November 13, 2006	Dr. Kim Nickerson has joined the college as an assistant dean and director of the college's diversity initiative.
November 1, 2006	Mohamed El Baradei will deliver the Sadat Lecture for Peace on October 24.
October 12, 2006	Geography professor Sam Goward has won the John Wesley Powell Award, the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) on non-USGS employees.
October 12, 2006	Criminology professor David Weisburd has been elected to the executive board of the American Society of Criminology as an executive counselor.
October 12, 2006	Criminology professor Doris MacKenzie has been elected president of the Academy of Experimental Criminology.
October 12, 2006	Psychology professor Amanda Woodward has been named a member of the National Institutes of Health's Cognition and Perception Study Section, Center for Scientific Review.
October 12, 2006	Hearing and Speech Sciences Chair Nan Ratner has been awarded a Visiting Fellowship at the University of Sydney, Faculty of Health Sciences.
October 12, 2006	Economics professor Rodrigo Soares has won the Kenneth J. Arrow Award for Best Paper in Health Economics for his paper "The Quantity and Quality of Life and the Evolution of World Inequality."
September 27, 2006	Sociology doctoral student Emily Mann has been awarded the Dr. James W. Longest Memorial Award from the Graduate School. The award supports dissertation research that includes possible benefits for small or disadvantaged communities.
September 27, 2006	Government and politics student Michael C. Evans has been awarded the 2006 Phi Delta Gamma Graduate Fellowship from the Graduate School. The award is given to a student who best exemplifies interdisciplinary scholarship achievement, particularly in research.
September 27, 2006	Four graduate students have been awarded Dean's Dissertation Fellowships from the Graduate School: Sungmoon Kim from the Department of Government and Politics, Emily Owens from the Department of Economics, Sara Beth Raley from the Department of Sociology, and Amber Sprenger from the Department of Psychology.
September 27, 2006	Distinguished University Professor Arie Kruglanski, Department of Psychology, has won the Society for Experimental Social Psychology's Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award.
September 27, 2006	Stacey Daughters, assistant research professor and director of the Addictions Research Division in the Center for Addictions, Personality and Emotion Research, was awarded the Early Career Investigator Award at the College on Problems of Drug Dependence conference.
September 27, 2006	Nan Bernstein Ratner, chair of the Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences, will receive the International Fluency Association's Award of Distinction for Outstanding Researcher on July 27th during the organization's Fifth World Congress meeting in Dublin, Ireland.
September 25, 2006	Iraq and Terrorism: How did we get here? What do we do next? Hear from Joseph Wilson and David Mack on September 21st at 4 p.m. in the Grand Ballroom.
August 31, 2006	Geography professor Ivan Csiszar has been awarded $450,000 from NASA for a project titled "The Analysis of Long-Term Fire Dynamics and Impacts in the Amazon."
August 31, 2006	Psychology professor Michael Dougherty has been awarded $350,000 from the National Science Foundation for a project titled "Attention, Memory and Judgment."
August 31, 2006	Three graduate students from the Department of Geography have been awarded 3-year NASA Earth System Science Fellowships.
August 31, 2006	Naval Academy taps college to provide specialized program.
August 31, 2006	Sociology professor Patricia Hill Collins has been named a Distinguished University Professor.
August 31, 2006	John Townshend has been reappointed chair of the Department of Geography; Christopher Justice will serve as acting chair July 1st to December 31st.
August 31, 2006	Harold Sigall has been appointed interim chair of the Department of Psychology, effective July 1.
August 31, 2006	Suzanne Bianchi to become chair of the Department of Sociology, effective July 1, 2006.
July 4, 2006	Behavioral and Social Sciences Students Take Top Honors: Jessica Sheer is the University Medal Winner and Michelle Karkowsky is the commencement speaker.
July 4, 2006	Geography professor Ruth DeFries has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
June 1, 2006	START Center is offering a summer course on terrorism.
June 1, 2006	Gary LaFree, START director and professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, has been named a fellow of the American Society of Criminology.
June 1, 2006	Jennifer Dumas has joined the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences as Assistant Dean for Development and Alumni Affairs.
May 8, 2006	Romanian President Traian Basescu appointed government and politics professor Vladimir Tismaneanu chair and coordinator of the Presidential Commission for the Analysis of the Communist Dictatorship in Romania.
May 8, 2006	Ken Conca, professor of government and politics and director of the Harrison Program on the Future Global Agenda, has received two awards from the International Studies Association for his latest book, Governing Water: Contentious Transnational Politics and Global Institution Building (MIT Press). The Chadwick F. Alger Prize is awarded annually for the best book on a topic related to international organization. The Harold and Margaret Sprout Award is presented annually for the best book on international environmental affairs.
May 8, 2006	Criminology professor Doris MacKenzie has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant through which she will travel to six different locations in China next year, conducting research on new community corrections programs.
April 11, 2006	Psychology professor Carl Lejuez has received a 4-year, $1.25 million grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse titled "Drug Choice, Impulsivity and Risky Sexual Behavior."
April 11, 2006	Nan Bernstein Ratner, chair of the Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences, is the first alumna of Temple University’s College of Health Professions to be inducted into its Gallery of Success.
April 11, 2006	Paul Shackel, director of the Center for Heritage Resource Studies, has been awarded the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution Historic Preservation Medal for his work in New Philadelphia, Ill.
April 11, 2006	Government and politics professor Jillian Schwedler has won the 2006 University System of Maryland Regents’ Faculty Award for Excellence in Mentoring.
April 11, 2006	Shibley Telhami, the Anwar Sadat Chair for Peace and Development and professor of government and politics, has won the 2006 University System of Maryland Regents’ Faculty Award for Excellence in Public Service.
March 27, 2006	Teams from the University of Maryland tied for first and fourth place at the Eastern Mock Trial Regionals. Suzanne McLeod (English) and Dan Routh (GVPT) were named all-tournament attorneys. Ayo Otukoya (GVPT, CRIM), Tom Rosso (Business) , and James Creegan (GVPT) were named all-tournament witnesses. Ms. McLeod and Mr. Creegan were the highest rated attorney and witness, respectively, in the tournament.
March 27, 2006	Sharon Harley, chair of the African American Studies Department, has received Morgan State University's Martin Luther King-Malcolm X Civil Rights Award for "outstanding achievements as educator and scholar and her fine example as historian."
March 27, 2006	Discovery Channel highlights new research on bats' echolocation and flight pattern by psychology professor Cynthia Moss and doctoral student Kaushik Ghose.
March 16, 2006	See video of U.S. Senator and Vietnam veteran Max Cleland's speech on "Restoring America's Positive Role in the World", delivered on campus Feb. 8.
March 16, 2006	Criminology professor John Laub and economics professor Wallace Oates have been named Distinguished Scholar-Teachers for 2006-2007.
February 16, 2006	Psychology professors Andrea Chronis and Carl LeJuez have been awarded $639,700 from the National Institute of Mental Health for a grant titled "Integrated Treatment for Depressed Mothers of Children with ADHD."
February 16, 2006	Criminology professor Charles Wellford has been reappointed by the Governor to a four-year term on the Maryland State Commission on Criminal Sentencing Policy, has been appointed co-chair of the International Association of Chiefs of Police's first Research Advisory Committee, received the American Football Foundation's Outstanding Faculty Athletics Representative Award, was elected treasurer of the Atlantic Coast Conference, and received $392,000 from the Governor's Office of Crime Prevention and Control to conduct a study on how crime measurement can be improved in the state.
February 16, 2006	Government and politics professor Marcus Franda has been named to the three-person Advisory Board for a large public television project titled "The Power: The Information Revolution in Our Lives," based on footage and research conducted throughout the world. The project will consist of several hours of television programming to be narrated by award-winning journalist Frank Sesno, as well as books, films and other educational materials.
January 4, 2006	Criminology professor Doris MacKenzie has received the Most Distinguished Scholar Award from the American Society of Criminology's Division on Corrections and Sentencing.
January 4, 2006	John Townshend, chair of the Department of Geography, is a recipient of the prestigious 2005 William T. Pecora award for "Outstanding Leadership in Advancing Global Land Remote Sensing."
January 4, 2006	Twenty-three faculty and staff from the college are among the FY '05 "rainmakers," bringing in $500,000 or more in research funding.
January 4, 2006	Economics professor William Evans reports no negative impact from smoke-free ordinance in Montgomery County.
January 4, 2006	Former Secretary of Defense and U.S. Senator William Cohen among panelists to consider "The State of U.S. Relations with the Muslim World" during a special Sadat Chair event on December 6.
January 4, 2006	Suheil Bushrui, Baha'i' Chair for World Peace, participates with His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales in a seminar, "Faith and Social Responsibility."
November 29, 2005	Psychology professor Paul Hanges has been elected a fellow of the American Psychological Association.
November 29, 2005	The Public Safety Training and Technical Assistance Program (PSTTAP) announces five new grants.
November 29, 2005	Carl Lejuez, an assistant professor of psychology, was just awarded $2.7 million from the National Institutes of Health for 2 projects: one to study behavioral treatment for depressed smokers, the other to study behavioral technologies for preventing HIV risk.
November 2, 2005	National Science Foundation awards college a diversity grant.
November 2, 2005	BSOS welcomes its new faculty!
October 28, 2005	Government and politics professor Paul Herrnson will give his Distinguished Scholar-Teacher lecture, titled "Beyond the Hanging Chad: The Promise and Performance of Electronic Voting Systems" on Wednesday, October 26 at 4:00 p.m. in Room 1400 of Marie Mount Hall.
October 28, 2005	The College and the Democracy Collaborative are co-hosting a symposium titled "The Land Grant Mission: Relevant or Relic," on Wednesday, October 26 at 2 p.m. in the Colony Ballroom of the Student Union.
October 21, 2005	Psychology chair Bill Hall has agreed to serve a second three-year term on the Advisory Committee for the Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences Directorate of the National Science Foundation.
October 21, 2005	Criminology professor Doris MacKenzie has been elected vice president of the American Society of Criminology.
October 10, 2005	Suheil Bushrui, Baha'i' Chair for World Peace, delivered the keynote address at the Portsmouth Peace Treaty 100th anniversary celebration.
October 10, 2005	Archaeology in Annapolis and its director, anthropology professor Mark Leone, have been honored with a resolution from the city of Annapolis recognizing their contributions to the city's past, present and future.
October 2, 2005	The Democracy Collaborative will present a dialogue on "The Iraq War & the Costs at Home" featuring "Peace Mom" Cindy Sheehan on September 27.
September 15, 2005	The Democracy Collaborative has launched a website on community economic development: http://www.community-wealth.org.
September 15, 2005	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."
September 15, 2005	The University of Maryland graduates more African American students in the social sciences than any other traditionally white college or university, according to Black Issues in Higher Education. The university also is ranked 7th overall in the number of minority students it graduates in the social sciences and 11th in the number of Asian American students it graduates in the social sciences.
September 1, 2005	Ernest Wilson, professor of African American Studies and government and politics, testified before a House of Representatives foreign affairs panel holding a hearing on "China's Influence in Africa" on Thursday, July 28.
August 22, 2005	National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism launches Web site.
August 22, 2005	Criminology professor John Laub's book, Shared Beginnings, Divergent Lives: Delinquent Boys to Age 70, has won the Distinguished Scholarly Publication award from the Crime, Law and Deviance section of the American Sociological Association.
August 22, 2005	Three graduate students from the Department of Geography have been awarded 3-year NASA Earth System Science Fellowships.
August 18, 2005	Fernando Balderrama, May graduate of Department of Economics, is awarded a Jack Kent Cooke Scholarship to attend graduate school.
August 18, 2005	Professor David Weisburd has been elected a Fellow of the American Society of Criminology.
August 18, 2005	Criminology professor John Laub has been awarded the prestigious Edwin H. Sutherland Award by the American Society of Criminology. The Sutherland Award recognizes outstanding contributions to theory or research in criminology on the etiology of criminal and deviant behavior, the criminal justice system, corrections, law or justice.
August 18, 2005	Brian Reed, a Fellow in the Center for Research on Military Organization in the sociology department, will serve as a panelist during a briefing on Capitol Hill on June 10.
July 20, 2005	BSOS seniors capture top honors: Melissa Boteach is University Medalist and Fernando Balderrama is commencement speaker.
July 20, 2005	Guillermo Calvo, Distinguished University Professor of Economics, was elected into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
June 22, 2005	Associate dean Bob Schwab testified before the President's Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform on how the tax code interacts with state and local tax systems.
June 22, 2005	Department of Criminology ranked #1 by U.S. News; College boasts three top-25 departments and six top-20 programs.
June 22, 2005	Criminology professor Peter Reuter has been made a National Associate of the National Academy of Sciences.
June 22, 2005	Government and politics professor Paul Herrnson has been named a Distinguished Scholar-Teacher for 2005-2006.
June 3, 2005	Mock trial teams tie for fifth at national championship.
June 3, 2005	Geography department wins AAG awards.
May 17, 2005	Amalia Pleake-Tamm, a double major in Environmental Science & Policy and English Literature, has won a Morris K. Udall Scholarship.
May 15, 2005	Sociology professor John Pease won the 2005 University System of Maryland Regents' Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching.
May 15, 2005	Government and politics professor Miranda Schreurs won the 2005 University System of Maryland Regents' Faculty Award for Collaboration in Teaching.
April 25, 2005	Criminology professor Denise Gottfredson has 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.
April 25, 2005	Criminology professor John Laub has won the 2005 Excellence in Arts & Letter Award from the University at Albany Alumni Association.
April 21, 2005	University's Mock Trial Team, led by government and politics Professor Mark Graber, advances two teams to national championship.
April 7, 2005	The Democracy Collaborative announces a research seminar series on "The Role of Youths and Universities in Mobilizing Social Movements."
April 7, 2005	Department of Economics Ranked 17th worldwide, 5th among public institutions.
April 7, 2005	Suheil Bushrui, Baha'i Chair for World Peace, has been invited to membership in the World Wisdom Council.
March 23, 2005	Anthropology professor Fatimah Jackson has been appointed a member of the Scientific Advisory Board for the Gynecological Cancer Center of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences.
March 23, 2005	The Department of Anthropology and its Cultural Systems Analysis Group present The Billingsley Dialogues: The African American Family - Then and Now.
March 1, 2005	Dean Edward Montgomery joined Baltimore Mayor Martin O'Malley and other government and business leaders on a panel during "American Jobs: A National Conversation," a town hall meeting in Baltimore on February 10th.
March 1, 2005	College Takes Lead in $12 Million Grant to Establish Homeland Security Research Center.
March 1, 2005	Government and politics student Melissa Boteach has won a George Mitchell Scholarship.
February 8, 2005	The 2005 edition of the Worldwatch Institute's annual State of the World report, which focuses on challenges to global human security, features prominently the work of the Harrison Program on the Future Global Agenda.
February 8, 2005	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.
February 8, 2005	Criminology professor John Laub's book, Shared Beginnings, Divergent Lives: Delinquent Boys to Age 70, has won the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences' Outstanding Book Award for 2005.
February 8, 2005	Government and politics professor Paul Herrnson has been selected a Distinguished Scholar-Teacher.
January 31, 2005	Psychology professor Karen O'Brien has won an Early Career Award from the American Psychological Association and has been appointed associate editor of the Journal of Counseling Psychology.
January 31, 2005	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.
January 31, 2005	Criminology professor David Weisburd is the founding editor of the journal Experimental Criminology. The first issue will be published in January 2005.
January 31, 2005	Psychology professor Andrea Chronis has been 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.
January 5, 2005	Renee Sihvola, a criminology & criminal justice and government & politics major, has been chosen to give the student speech at the university's commencement.
January 5, 2005	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.
January 5, 2005	Psychology professor Tom Wallsten has been elected president of the Federation of Behavioral, Psychological and Cognitive Sciences.
January 5, 2005	The University of Maryland, which holds more national American Mock Trial Association championships (5) than any other school, took second place in the Great American Mock Trial Invitational held in Washington, D.C., November 6-7, 2004.
December 9, 2004	The Gershon and Carol Kekst Civil Society Lecture will be given December 7 by Dr. David Maurrasse, a nationally recognized authority on the "engaged university" movement in the U.S. The topic is "Beyond the Campus: Is Our University Relevant?" For more information, click here.
December 1, 2004	CESAR is collaborating with Johns Hopkins University on a $5.9 million study.
December 1, 2004	Edward Montgomery, Dean, has been invited to join the Board of Trustees of the Council for Excellence in Government.
November 30, 2004	Six College of Behavioral and Social Science students are named Philip Merrill Presidential Scholars.
November 10, 2004	Economics professor Ingmar Prucha has accepted a three-year appointment as associate editor of the Journal of Econometrics .
November 10, 2004	Government and politics student Andrew Publicover was selected by the U.S. Department of State as a Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellow.
November 10, 2004	The Psychology Department's American Psychological Association/National Institute of General Medical Sciences Training Grant has been renewed through 2007.
November 3, 2004	Psychology professor Paul Hanges and his colleagues have 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.
November 1, 2004	Jonathan Alevy, an economist with the Center for Institutional Reform and the Informal Sector (IRIS), has been awarded the 2004 Competitive Paper Award from the Financial Management Association.
November 1, 2004	Psychology professor Cynthia Moss and graduate student Kaushik Ghose have won first place in the National Science Foundation's Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge.
November 1, 2004	Seniors graduating in December are invited to apply for the honor of commencement speaker.
November 1, 2004	Assistant Dean Kathy Pedro Beardsley is the recipient of a President's Distinguished Service Award in recognition of the many contributions she has made to the university.
November 1, 2004	Assistant Dean Cindi Hale has accepted the position of chair of the university's President's Commission on Women's Issues.
October 2, 2004	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, are new co-directors of the board of the World Future Society.
October 2, 2004	Anthropology professor Bill Stuart coaches USA Biology Olympiad Team to four gold medals in international competition.
October 2, 2004	Government and politics professor George Quester has been named a Distinguished Scholar-Teacher.
October 2, 2004	Government and politics professor James Glass has won the Outstanding Faculty Award from the Maryland Association for Higher Education.
September 13, 2004	Government and politics professor Linda Williams has been awarded the Michael Harrington Best Book Award for The Constraint of Race: Legacies of White Skin Privilege in America. The award will be presented by the Caucus for a New Political Science during the American Political Science Association's annual meeting.
September 13, 2004	Daniel Aromi, a graduate student in the Department of Economics, is one of only 35 graduate students in the U.S.to be selected by the National Science Foundation to participate in a meeting with Nobel Laureates in economics in Lindau, Germany in September.
September 13, 2004	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. His colleague, professor of criminology and criminal justice Denise Gottfredson, was elected incoming vice president.
August 23, 2004	Government and politics graduate Celeste Hernández-Gerety is the recipient of a Jack Kent Cooke scholarship.
August 23, 2004	Rebeca Wong has been appointed associate director of the Maryland Population Research Center.
July 1, 2004	Robert Schwab is new associate dean.
July 1, 2004	Psychology professor Bill Hodos has been honored with the title Distinguished University Professor, effective July 1.
July 1, 2004	Psychology professor Cynthia Moss is the new director of the Program in Neuroscience and Cognitive Science, effective July 1.
June 29, 2004	Economics professor Seth Sanders has been appointed director of the Maryland Population Research Center after serving as associate director since 2001. He takes over from sociology professor Suzanne Bianchi, who has served as director since 2001.
May 25, 2004	Dean Montgomery makes the following personnel announcements: Sally Simpson is the new chair of the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Sharon Harley moves from interim chair of the African American Studies Department to chair, and Bill Falk extends his time as chair of the Department of Sociology for two more years.
May 23, 2004	Psychology professor Michele Gelfand has 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." The article appeared in the Journal of Applied Psychology and was selected from more than 80 articles.
May 22, 2004	The Clinical Psychology Program has been accepted into the Academy of Psychological Clinical Science, where it joins 42 other highly selective clinical science graduate programs, including the University of California-Berkeley, UCLA, Duke, Penn State and the University of Pennsylvania.
May 18, 2004	Economics professor Plutarchos Sakellaris has been named Chair of Greece's Council of Economic Advisors.
May 16, 2004	Professor Suheil Bushrui, the incumbent of the Baha'i Chair for World Peace, was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters by Franklin and Marshall College on May 16.
May 13, 2004	Sociology professor Sonalde Desai has been appointed co-chair of the Scientific Panel on Gender and Population for the International Union for Scientific Study of the the Population.
May 12, 2004	Sociology professors Sonalde Desai and Reeve Vanneman have been awarded $1.4 million from the National Institutes of Health to continue their work in India.
May 12, 2004	Shared Beginnings, Divergent Lives: Delinquent Boys to Age 70, (Harvard University Press, 2003), by criminology professor John Laub, is the 2004 winner of the Michael J. Hindelang Book Award from the American Society of Criminology.
May 10, 2004	Commencement ceremonies scheduled.
May 10, 2004	The Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences' audiology program rose in U.S. News & World Report rankings just released, up to 27 from 32. And its speech-language pathology program jumped to 22 from 30. Both programs are in the top 10%.
May 7, 2004	Melissa Boteach, government student, wins Truman Scholarship.
May 5, 2004	Sharon Baxter, associate advisor and lecturer for undergraduate studies in the Department of Sociology, died on Tuesday evening. Funeral services will be held Saturday, May 8, at 3 p.m. at Prince of Peace Presbyterian Church in Crofton, MD. A memorial service will be held on campus on Wednesday, May 12, at 3:00 p.m. in the Memorial Chapel.
April 8, 2004	CESAR is awarded grant to study drunk driving.
April 8, 2004	CESAR wins award for video.
March 25, 2004	Baha'i' Chair for World Peace annual lecture to be given by University System of Maryland Chancellor William Kirwan on April 14 at 8 p.m. in the Volunteer Firefighters Room in the Inn & Conference Center.
March 12, 2004	Economics professor Mark Duggan has been awarded a two-year Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship.
March 1, 2004	Mary Robinson to deliver Sadat Lecture for Peace on March 17.
February 24, 2004	"Civil Society: A Revolutionary Idea for the 21st Century?" is the topic of the Civil Society Lecture to be held on March 10th.
February 17, 2004	Geography department receives more than $13 million in 16 new research awards.
February 4, 2004	The Stakes: America and the Middle East, by Shibley Telhami, the Anwar Sadat Chair for Peace and Development, has been selected as the university's First Year Book for 2004-2005.
January 28, 2004	Sharon Harley accepts position as acting chair of the African American Studies Department.
January 28, 2004	Cadwell, Wilkenfeld receive awards for international work.
December 18, 2003	Anthropology professor Judith Freidenberg has been named president of the Washington Association of Professional Anthropologists.
December 15, 2003	Department of Anthropology Chair Erve Chambers wins the prestigious Sol Tax Award.
December 13, 2003	Dean Edward Montgomery named to serve on Committee of Visitors for the National Science Foundation.
December 10, 2003	Commencement to take place Sunday, December 21 at 1:00 p.m. in Cole Student Activities Building.
December 9, 2003	The Honorable Nancy Pelosi will hold a town meeting and accept the Millard E. Tydings Award for Courage and Leadership in American Politics.
December 8, 2003	Memorial service for sociology professor Richard Brown to be held December 12 at 3 p.m. in the West Chapel of Memorial Chapel.
November 22, 2003	College welcomes seven new Alumni Board members.
November 20, 2003	CESAR receives $2.5 million from NIH to study impact of health-related behaviors.
November 13, 2003	Psychology professor Bill Hodos patents patterns to minimize bird collisions with wind turbines.
October 24, 2003	Morris Rosenberg lecture to be held October 31.
October 22, 2003	Molly Hurley Moran to discuss her new book, Finding Susan.
October 11, 2003	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.
October 8, 2003	Seniors graduating in December are invited to apply to be the commencement speaker.
October 8, 2003	Psychology professor Thomas Nelson awarded a grant from the Federal Office of Education to study the use of computer-assisted instruction to facilitate multitrial learning and long-term retention.
October 3, 2003	Civil Society Lecture featuring Dr. Kumi Naidoo to be held Thursday, October 9th.
September 19, 2003	The College welcomes six new professors.
September 13, 2003	Suheil Bushrui, Baha'i' Chair for World Peace, has been awarded the 2003 Juliet Hollister Award "for exceptional service to interfaith understanding."
September 9, 2003	Democracy Collaborative will lead campus celebration of the first Interdependence Day this Friday, September 12th.
August 24, 2003	Psychology professor Carl Lejuez awarded $869,000 from the National Institute on Drug Abuse to study how smokers tolerate the physical and psychological distress that occurs when they attempt to stop smoking.
August 18, 2003	Economics professor Judith Hellerstein awarded $1 million from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to study the economics of residential and workplace segregation.
August 17, 2003	Center for Comparative and Evolutionary Biology of Hearing, co-directed by psychology professor Bob Dooling, holds 1st International Conference on Acoustic Communication by Animals.
August 13, 2003	A. Lynn Bolles is Acting Chair of the African American Studies Department.
August 1, 2003