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UMBC's chess team earned second place at one of the most competitive Pan American Intercollegiate Chess Championships to date. UMBC's first team was edged by its rival team from the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD), which has shared the title with UMBC in the past but never won the championship outright. UMBC team captain Eugene Perelshteyn earned top player honors for his performance on board three.

In December, the Shriver Center celebrated ten years of service to the UMBC community and beyond. Founded on December 14, 1993, in honor of Sargent and Eunice Kennedy Shriver, the Shriver Center was created to engage the strengths and resources of higher education to find creative solutions to the most pressing of social problems. It has since become a national leader in promoting service-learning, civic engagement, and community-based service delivery.

UMBC's InterArts series and the Department of Dance present the Troika Ranch dance company on February 3 and 4, 2003, at 8 p.m. in the UMBC Theatre.

UMBC's Center for Art and Visual Culture presents Paradise Now: Picturing the Genetic Revolution, organized by Exit Art and co-curated by Marvin Heiferman and Carol Kismaric, from January 29 through March 13, 2004. Paradise Now scrutinizes and questions the profound shifts in our basic understanding and acceptance of nature’s (formerly) incontrovertible truths regarding genetic engineering.

The UMBC Department of Music presents its spring 2004 season, featuring an array of contemporary classical music concerts by world renowned artists, including composer Christian Wolff, pianist Stephen Drury, flutist Jane Rigler and the Ruckus ensemble.

The UMBC Department of Music presents its spring 2004 season, featuring an array of contemporary classical music concerts by world renowned artists, including the composer Christian Wolff, pianist Stephen Drury, flutist Jane Rigler and the Ruckus ensemble.

The UMBC Department of Music's Contemporary Concerts Series and the InterArts program present pianist Stephen Drury in concert on Wednesday, February 18th at 8:00 p.m. in the Fine Arts Recital Hall. Mr. Drury will present a program of the three piano sonatas by Charles Ives (Sonata No. 1, Sonata No. 2 (�Concord, Mass., 1840�60�), and the Three Page Sonata) the commemorate the 50th anniversary of the composer's death. Admission is free.

The UMBC Department of Music's Contemporary Concerts Series presents the ConText Performers Collective in concert on Thursday, February 9th at 8:00 p.m. in the Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free. The ConText Performers Collective, which features Sylvia Smith and Carrie Rose, will perform Robert Erickson's Pacific Sirens, Stuart Saunders Smith's Transitions and Leaps, and works by Will Ogdon and Herbert Brün.

UMBC's Department of Dance presents the Phoenix Dance Company in concert on February 11, 12, 13 and 14, 2004. All performances will be held at 8 p.m. in the UMBC Theatre. Tickets are $15 general admission and $7 for students and seniors, available through the box office at 410-455-6240.

The UMBC Department of Music's Faculty Recital Series presents flutist Lisa Cella in concert on Sunday, February 15th at 3:00 p.m. in the Fine Arts Recital Hall. Tickets are $7 general admission, $3 for senior citizens, free for students and free with a UMBC ID. Lisa Cella's program will include Chronopolis by Franklin Cox, Flutter by Robert Rowe, Landmines by Anna Rubin, the premiere of a new work by Stuart Saunders Smith and other compositions.

The UMBC Department of Music's Faculty Recital Series presents clarinetist E. Michael Richards in concert on Sunday, February 22nd at 3:00 p.m. in the Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is $7 general admission, $3 seniors, free for students and free with a UMBC ID. E. Michael Richards's program will include the Fantasia da Concerto su motivi de La Traviata di G. Verdi by Donato Lovreglio, Altre Tracce by Fabio Cifariello Ciardi, the American premiere of magnificat 2: Still by Linda Dusman, Undercurrents by Eve de Castro-Robinson, and Dal Niente (Interieur III) by Helmut Lachenmann.

UMBC's Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery presents Havana: The Revolutionary Moment, on display from February 9 through April 4, 2004. The exhibition, featuring the photography of Burt Glinn, is organized by Umbrage Editions, which publishes a companion book with the same title. Havana: The Revolutionary Moment presents a unique collection of never-before seen photographs recording Castro's historic entry into Havana in January 1959.