A 10 percent solution

Top graduates of Baltimore's public high schools all too often bypass TU. But a new pilot program hopes to put this campus back on their proverbial radar screens. [more...]

Power trips

Student electricity-usage audit finds waste, calls for conservation

The members of Jane Wolfson's Environmental Science and Studies senior seminar stand firm in their belief that small, conscientious acts can save the university thousands of dollars a year in electricity costs.[more...]

So they said...

Quotes worth noting from contemporary and historic sources

"Our true nationality is humankind."

Herbert George Wells, 1866-1946

University Store = bargains galore

Shop early  for special gifts at extra-special discounts

What?    University Store's Holiday Sale

When?  continuing through Tuesday, December 21

Where? University Store, University Union's first floor

Why?     Get 20 percent off all regularly priced apparel, plus up to

               50 percent off selected seasonal and everyday gifts.

For more information go to http://store.towson.edu                                                   

Recent media highlights

Global View

History Channel International, December 9

Steven Phillips, Department of History, was one of three scholars who discussed Taiwan's relationship with China for the television program Global View. Hosted by historian Alberto Coll, Global View provides "views and opinions from around the globe on current events and the history that has shaped our world."  Phillips traveled to New York to tape the segment for the new cable network, which is an offshoot of the History Channel.

IRIS swells into Ode to Joy

Memphis Commerical-Appeal, December 6

Jon W. Sparks' review of a performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony included kudos for another work on the December 4-5 program at the Germantown (Tenn.) Performing Arts Centre: Forgotten Chants and Refrains: Symphony No. 1 by Jonathan Leshnoff, Department of Music, which received its world premiere by the ISIS Orchestra under the baton of Maestro Michael Stern. Sparks described Leshnoff's symphony as "fluid, thoughtful ... superbly textured and unafraid to be intellectual." Brown Burnett also applauded the work in a Memphis Mojo review.

Thompson leaves, Rumsfeld stays and Kerik comes on board

Cox News Service, December 6

After Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson resigned from the Bush cabinet, Martha Joynt Kumar, Department of Political Science, told writer Bob Deans the unusually high turnover doesn't mean the administration is in turmoil. "It doesn't look like disarray," she said. "It does look like they've used this period, which is a natural point to look at the future and decide what they want to accomplish, and they've done it cleanly. It's not like everybody's jumping off the ship--or that they're all being pushed off."