TU in the News
Tuvan Throat Singing
"Maryland Morning with Sheilah Kast," WYPR-FM, March 3
Culture editor Tom Hall spoke with N. Scott Robinson, Department of Music, and Suewhei Shieh, director of the Asian Arts & Culture Center, about Huun-Huur-Tu, a group of Tuvan throat singers, and the overtone singing technique used throughout the world. Huun-Huur-Tu will perform on Sunday, March 9, at 2 p.m. at the Center for the Arts, Harold J. Kaplan Concert Hall.
In search of lost music
The Sun, March 2
Music critic Tim Smith interviewed Michael Decker, Department of Music, about Decker's painstaking excavation and reconstruction of British composer Paul Hart's 1986 Concerto for Classical Guitar and Jazz Orchestra. Decker tracked down the remaining skeleton of the unpublished score and fleshed it out fully, producing a full score. The concerto made its American premiere at TU on March 5.
Republicans for Obama?
The Sun, March 2
Metro news columnist Laura Vozzella spoke with Antonio Campbell, Department of Political Science, who is charge of press for a group called Republicans for Obama. "I believe Senator Obama has several policy initiatives that are conservative," Campbell said, mentioning tax cuts for the middle class and a tax credit for business research and development. Keep departure professional
Washington (D.C.) Business Journal, February 19
Nhung Nguyen, Department of Management spoke with writer Daniel Sernovitz about the importance of departing from a job on good terms. "The most professional thing to do is keep you marketable," Nguyen said, "so it will be in the best interest of the employee not to create tension between the employer and the employee."
Clearing hurdles
The Sun, February 19
Sports reporter Ken Murray profiled TU junior Alea Murphy, a track hurdler with a duel major in early childhood education and elementary education. Murphy is self-publishing Learning with Lilly, a children's book resulting from a TU course assignment. Murray wrote, "When it came time to find a college, Alea Murphy chose Towson because it offered the mix of elementary education and track she wanted."
MSU Old, New Libraries Closed To Students
Austin American-Statesman, June 2
Education reporter Tim Tooten reported on how TU is helping Morgan State University students, whose old library is closed but who cannot use its new facility "until Morgan can resolve its book-moving blunder." University librarian Deborah Nolan told Tooten that Morgan students will "have access to all the materials within [Cook Library] ... to the assistance of our librarians ... and to all of our electronic resources."
Funding for Bomb Analysis Education
WMAR-ABC2 News, February 4
Sabrina Agostini reported that TU will receive federal funding for a Forensic Chemistry Institute to help train scientists in bomb analysis. She noted that 10,000 new forensic scientists wil be needed over the next decade to meet homeland-security and law-enforcement needs. TU is one of only four U.S. schools to offer a professional master's degree in forensic science.
Marc Steiner ponders what's next
The Sun, February 4
Reporter Jill Rosen asked Richard Vatz, Department of Mass Communication and Communication Studies, to comment on the firing of WYPR talk-show host Marc Steiner. "Marc and I agreed on little," Vatz said, "yet of all the progressive moderators in the media—and by that I mean the national media as well—-I have have found him to be the fairest and most knowledgable."
Up in Smoke
The Sun, January 30
John Woestendiek's homage to the vanishing smoke-filled bar included observations from nonsmoker Michael Downs, Department of English. Downs said he appreciates "a now-and-then stop in a place where people can smoke." He added, "Maybe it's the writer in me looking for stories. Are smokers better storytellers? ... Inhale. Exhale. Reveal the next detail."
A look at 'green' businesses in Maryland
Daily Record, January 24
Caryn Tamber and Danielle Ulman spoke to five Maryland businesses that have touted their enviornmentally friendly polices and then ran them by a panel of three environmental experts, including Jane Wolfson, director of TU's environmental science and studies
program. Regarding retail bakery CakeLove's effort to curtail excessive plastic bag use by customers, Wolfson said, "It's using that purchasing moment as a teaching moment."
Study: Bisexuality Not Just an Experimental Phase
LiveScience, January 23
Staff writer Jeanna Bryner spoke with M. Paz Galupo, Department of Psychology and TU's director of LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender) Studies at TU, about a new study that suggests bisexuality in women could be a lifelong orientation, not a phase. Galupo noted that a more accurate understanding of bisexuality could have implications for the scientific field. Bryner's article was picked up by news outlets including msnbc.com and Yahoo! News.
NPR, Harris Corp. and TU launch global effort to make radio accessible to hearing and sight impaired
Various outlets, January 8–25
More than 30 media outlets, including BBC News, Barron's, PC Magazine, Gizmodo, Reuters, the Associated Press and the Baltimore Sun, reported on the International Center for Accessible Radio Technology (ICART) press conference held at the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. TU is a founding member of ICART, along with NPR and Harris Corporation. Ellyn Sheffield, Department of Psychology, is co-director of ICART.
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