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October 23, 2008

 
 
PEOPLE & PROGRAMS: FACULTY

Faculty will be available to share insights about their research, whether a new video game that trains firefighters how to respond to calls, how they're advancing Maryland's wine industry, and their discoveries in the "Archaeology in Annapolis" program and much more.

Ira Berlin
Distinguished University Professor of History
"Freedmen and Southern Society Project"

Inderjit Chopra
Alfred Gessow Professor and Director
Alfred Gessow Rotorcraft Center

Christopher Davis
Professor, Maryland Optics Group
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Prof. Davis's team created the world's first invisibility cloak

I. M. (Mac) Destler
Saul Stern Professor of Civil Engagement
Director, Program on International Security and Economic Policy
Maryland School of Public Affairs

Allison Druin
Associate Professor and Director, Human Computer Interaction Laboratory

S. James Gates
John S. Toll Professor and Director, Center for String and Particle Theory

Jordan Goodman
Professor of Physics
Ice Cube Research Project, Antarctica

Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak
Professor and Founding Director
Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute Center for Persian Studies

Hayim Lapin
Director, Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies and The Joseph and Alma Gildenhorn Institute for Israel Studies

Jack A. Meyer
Visiting Professor, School of Public Policy and School of Public Health
Expert on Health Care Reform Plans

Christopher Monroe
Professor of Physics and Joint Quantum Institute
Quantum Science for Tomorrow's Technology

Daniel Perez
Associate Professor, Virologist, expert in avian influenza

Stanley Plumly
Distinguished University Professor of English; Director, Creative Writing Award winning poet and author

Michael Raupp
Professor, Department of Entomology, Expert on cicadas and other insects

Steven Salzberg
Horvitz Professor of Computer Science
Director, Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Genome sequencing and analysis, influenza virus, anthrax bacterium

Foon Sham
Professor of Art, Sculptor

Shibley Telhami
Anwar Sadat Professor for Peace and Development

Jonathan Wilkenfeld
Professor and Director, Center for International Development and Conflict Management ICONS (International Communications and Negotiation Simulations) Project
Audrey Tetteh, Program Director, ICONS

James A. Yorke
Distinguished University Professor of Mathematics and Physics Best known for coining the mathematical term "CHAOS"

COLLEGE OF EDUCATION

James Greenberg
Founding Director, Center for Teaching Excellence
Director, College of Education K-16 Partnership Development Center

Dennis Kivlighan
Professor and Chair
Department of Counseling and Personnel Services—ranked #1 in the nation nine years in a row!

Stephanie Timmons Brown
Executive Director, Maryland Institute for Minority and Urban Education

Linda Valli
David & Jeffrey Mullan Professorship in Teacher
Education & Professional Development
Department of Curriculum and Instruction

Patricia Alexander's Students
Jean Mullan Professorship in Literacy
Fielding Winters and Soo Eun Chae (5:00—6:00 p.m.)
Meghan Parkinson, Emily Grossnickle, Dan Dinsmore (6:00—7:00 p.m.)
Showcasing projects on Disciplined Reading—Disciplined Learning

ROBERT H. SMITH SCHOOL OF BUSINESS

Meet faculty and students who can tell you everything there is to know about the current financial situation in the world.

Anil Gupta, Ralph J. Tyser Professor of Strategy and Organization (5:00—6:30 p.m.

Martin Loeb, Professor and Chair, Accounting and Information Assurance

Haluk Unal, Professor of Finance, expert on the banking industry

Keith Campo, undergraduate, Finance Fellows student (5:45—7:30 p.m.)
Emily Chan, MBA '09, President, Net Impact (student organization involved in social entrepreneurship)
Abhi Chandrasekhara, undergraduate, Finance Fellows student
John Closs, undergraduate, Finance Fellows (after 5:30 p.m.)
Ben Hatten, MBA '09, Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship
Cherry Kwunyen, MBA '09, student entrepreneur and former Dingman Fellow
Adam Rubinsztaj, undergraduate, Senbet Fund Portfolio manager
Adam Weiner, MBA '09, Mayer Fund Portfolio manager

 
 


DISCOVER FACULTY

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S. James Gates
John S. Toll Professor and Director
Center for String and Particle Theory
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Allison Druin
Associate Professor and Director
Human Computer Interaction Laboratory
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