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WTMD has become primary radio parter to b, the Sun's new free daily,whose bright orange newspaper boxes have sprung up all across Baltimore earlier this month. [more]

Towson University Faculty/Staff News • April 23, 2008 View eTU on the Web: http://wwwnew.towson.edu/etu/020106
 

 

 
 
    

5 questions for … Joe Matthews

TU Women’s Basketball coach discusses record-breaking season

Women’s Basketball finished their 2007-2008 season with records in total wins, season attendance, single-game attendance and length of winning streak. [more]



missingProviding the missing pieces

DECO event showcases solutions for business and government

DECO and the College of Graduate Studies and Research are sponsoring the first Towson University Showcase of Services, which will include more than 20 exhibitors and five project presentations. [more]


Find answers to your Master Plan questions

TU Staff Council sponsors lunchtime talk on TU's future plans

What? TUSC Brown Bag: TU Master Plan, the Vision of Our Future

When? Monday, April 28, noon to 1 p.m.

Where? University Union's Chesapeake Room II.

Why? Kris Phillips, senior facilities planner for Facilities Management, will speak about the TU Master Plan, including where we are now and where we will be going in the future. Attendees will have an opportunity to ask questions about current and future construction projects. This event is open to faculty, staff and students.

How? R.S.V.P. to tusc@towson.edu by Friday, April 25, if you plan on attending.

TU in the news

Real-world scenarios, tough lessons; Treating the nursing shortage in the Tri-State; More nurses please; Nurses report differing levels of on-the-job stress

The Herald-Mail (Hagerstown, Md.), April 21, 20

Reporter Dan Dearth spoke with Judy Breitenbach, nursing program director at the TU campus of the USM at Hagerstown, for three articles in his four-part series on the national nursing shortage. Through TU's Grow Your Own program—designed to increase the number of qualified nursing instructors—the Hagerstown branch has grown from three teachers to seven, Breitenbach said.

Don to Earth

The Washington Post, April 16

KidsPost's Brenna Maloney reported on the question-and-answer session recently conducted at TU by former NASA astronaut Don Thomas, director of the Hackerman Academy. Thomas logged 44 days and more than 20 million miles in space on his four missions in the mid-1990s. "Statistically speaking, I shouldn't have made it" as an astronaut, said Thomas, who grew up in a lower-middle-class, single-parent household; but, he added, "I had the drive" to succeed.

Towson, Cherry Hill expand partnership to help schools amid poverty, crime spike

The Examiner, April 15

Kelsey Vokmann reported on the $310,479 in federal funds that U.S. Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger and Sen. Ben Cardin were directing toward the Cherry Hill Learning Zone, a partnership between TU and Baltimore City Public Schools. Ray Lorion, dean of the College of Education, said funds would go toward after-school art programs, summer camps, vaccines, prenatal care, financial literacy courses or whatever else the residents request.