CGIS’ Emergency Management Mapping Application is providing many of the mid-Atlantic’s emergency responders an effective way to commonly share mapping data. [more...]

5 questions for ... Joe Howze

Facilities support services office and Aramark promote recycling

The general manager for housekeeping services discusses the TU’s efforts to increase recycling on campus by participating in RecycleMania 2007. [more...]

So they said ...

"The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order … the continuous thread of revelation."

Eudora Welty, American author, 1909-2001

Planet or dwarf planet?

Planetarium show to focus on cosmic controversy

What? Should Pluto be a Planet?

Who? Jennifer Scott, Department of Physics, Astronomy and Geoscience

When? Friday, March 16, 7:00 p.m.

Where? Watson-King Planetarium, Smith 521

Why? This event is free and open to the public; all are welcome.

Telescope viewing, weather permitting. For more information, call Jennifer Scott, x43017.

TU in the news

Senate OKs bill aimed at ending Towson University MBA program

The Sun, March 14

State house reporter Jennifer Skalka and higher education reporter Gadi Dechter wrote about the Maryland Senate's 27-19 approval of a bill to overrule the 2005 Maryland Higher Education's vote approving the UB-Towson MBA program, a bill designed to end TU's participation in the program. Skalka and Dechter said Morgan State University, a historically black public school, targeted TU's course in citing federal guidelines to justify preventing other public schools from establishing potentially competitive degree programs.

Word Choices

The Sun, March 11

Patricia Alt, Department of Health Sciences, told biotechnology reporter Tricia Bishop that Maryland lawmakers cleverly and deliberately replaced the words "human embryo" with "certain material" to get the 2006 Stem Cell Research Act passed. Bishop wrote that Alt has published an article on the evolution of Maryland's stem cell legislation.

Cuban dancer's verve brings 'joyfulness' to Towson U.

Baltimore Messenger, March 7

Lauren Taylor reported that members of Omo Ache, a Cuban music and dance company based in San Diego, spent the week of February 19 teaching TU students and choreographing a piece for the university's dance company to perform in May. The idea for a Cuban residency came two years ago to TU dance company director Catherine Horta-Hayden, Department of Dance, who said she "was committed to bringing a piece of my culture, my roots, here."