Collaborative excellence

The University System of Maryland Board of Regents will award David Schaefer, Elkins Professor of Physics, its highest honor for exemplary faculty achievement. [more]

5 questions for ... Det. Cpl. George Morgan Jr.

TUPD teams with faculty, staff and students for a safer campus

Nine members of the campus community are working with the university's police department to share information, raise safety-specific concerns and increase awareness as part of ongoing crime-prevention efforts.[more]

So they said...

"[Science is] a great game. It is inspiring and refreshing. The playing field is the universe itself."

Isidor Isaac Rabi, U.S. physicist, 1898-1988

Securing the nation's capital

Congressman to share insights on national security

Who? C.A. "Dutch" Ruppersberger is in his third term in the U.S. House of Representatives representing Maryland's 2nd District.The first Democratic freshman ever appointed to the powerful House Select Committee on Intelligence, he chairs the Technical and Tactical Intelligence Subcommittee and serves on the Terrorism, Human Intelligence, Analysis and Counterintelligence Subcommittee and the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee.

What? The Edward V. Badolato Distinguished Speaker Series on Homeland Security, founded in 2004 by TU alumnus Col. Edward Badolato, USMC (Ret.). The lecture is co-sponsored by TU's Center for Homeland Security and the

Division of Economic and Community Outreach (DECO).

When? Tuesday, April 3, at 7:30 p.m.

Where? Robinwood Room, Burkshire Marriott Hotel at Towson University

How? Admission is free, but space is limited. Call x4DECO (3326) to reserve a seat.

TU in the news

Tom Moore: Allow Towson MBA Program

Baltimore Examiner, March 27

Moore, who hosts a show on WCBM-AM, argued that the UB/Towson MBA program should continue in spite of efforts led by Morgan State University to dismantle it. Moore cited MSU President Earl Richardson's claims of unnecessary duplication and lack of demand, then quoted TU President Robert Caret as saying that Richardson "has had 30 years to get his program to work; it has been a failure, and now he wants to oppose ours."

Singing the blues?

The Diamondback, March 26

Stephen Yasko, WTMD-FM, discussed the future of student-operated campus radio stations with reporter Owen Praskievicz. "The romantic notion of college radio is an antiquated dream that needs to be brought up to date," Yasko said. "The very model that everyone plays what they want to play is unreliable. That's not something attractive for people to listen to." WMUC-FM, which is based at UMCP, is the last station of its kind in the Washington, D.C., area.

Jazz gets a lighter touch

The Sun, March 25

Pop music critic Rashod D. Ollison spoke to Jim McFalls, Department of Music, who is promoting a new kind of trombone. McFalls, a jazz trombonist for 27 years, partnered with a French company to produce the instrument, with modifications culled from his own expertise. McFalls showed off the prototype—about which he was said to be "ecstatic"—in a TU faculty recital. The modified instrument will be marketed to musicians this summer in North America.