As his Food Network show “Ace of Cakes” comes to an end, celebrity chef Duff Goldman ’97 is expanding his immensely successful Charm City Cakes business to Los Angeles, says the Baltimore Sun. Read the Sun story here. Dave Giegerich ’88, a well known Baltimore-Washington area musician, has passed away. Giegerich founded the Hula Monsters, and had played at the White House and the Kennedy Center. Read the full story in the Washington Post. UMBC President Freeman A. Hrabowski, III takes your questions. Q. Innovation is something that you talk about in many venues across the country, and you’ve been acknowledged as an innovator in higher education. How do you view the overall importance of innovation in the university and the nation as a whole? How does UMBC instill a desire to innovate in students, faculty and staff? — Richard Byrne ’86, English Editor, UMBC Magazine A. I talk a lot about Daniel Pink’s book A Whole New Mind and the need to have a balanced approach to solving problems. His new book is… Continue Reading Up on the Roof – Winter 2011 A modern university such as UMBC thrives on excellence in teaching and innovation in research. We all know good teaching when it touches our lives and the lives of those close to us. But research poses difficulties in definition and assessment. The work done in UMBC’s laboratories and libraries often takes years to touch the lives of everyday citizens. How do we approach it? As the UMBC Magazine team applied the finishing touches to this issue, I noticed that all three of our main features in the Winter 2011 edition touch on the role of research in the university. Our… Continue Reading To You – Winter 2011 SUPER CAMPAIGN The high achievement and affordability of UMBC makes the university an attractive option for high school students. But a university built on innovation is always looking to do the job better. Enter a creative team led by UMBC associate director of marketing Erika Ferrin, Creative Services designer Erin Ouslander ’03 and marketing director Ed Neenan. Together, they created a new advertising campaign depicting high-flying UMBC students in the humanities and social sciences as superheroes using both their brainpower and their desire to enact positive changes in their own lives and the lives of others. The campaign used images… Continue Reading The News – Winter 2011 In 1999, Giuliano Celenza ’03, sociology, led the UMBC men’s soccer team to its first NCAA tournament. Eleven years later, Levi Houapeu ’11 has done the same thing (and more), leading the 2010 men’s soccer squad to UMBC’s first tourney win at Princeton before suffering a shootout loss at William & Mary. The professional soccer world beckoned Celenza – who is now in his 11th year with the Baltimore Blast – and Houapeu was drafted by the Philadelphia Union of Major League Soccer. These two Retriever soccer standouts recently sat down to talk UMBC and the beautiful game. What’s it… Continue Reading Over Coffee — Winter 2011 INVESTIGATING ICE Doing science in the polar regions is not for the timid – even at 39,000 feet. But Michael Studinger, an associate research scientist in UMBC’s Goddard Earth Sciences and Technology Center (GEST) and in NASA’S Operation IceBridge, have been flying over Antarctica’s polar ice and glaciers on missions to measure the thickness of the sea ice surrounding the continent. Operation IceBridge is in the second year of a six-year mission, working out of Punta Arenas, Chile, at the southernmost tip of South America. Among the project’s goals is to get closer measurements of changes in the ice sheets… Continue Reading Discovery – Winter 2011 GETTING THEIR KICKS In 2009, UMBC men’s soccer players Levi Houapeu ’11 and Andrew Bulls ’12 led the nation in scoring. In 2010, the duo led the Retrievers to the NCAA Tournament for the first time in 11 years – and notched UMBC’s first tourney win on November 18 with a thrilling comeback win against Princeton University. Early on in the season, the 2010 Retrievers squad fought hard but achieved middling results, with only four wins in their first seven games. But bolstered by goalkeeper Dan Louisignau ’12 and freshman forward Pete Caringi, Jr. (son of men’s soccer coach Pete… Continue Reading At Play – Winter 2011 Tom Venable M.A. ’95, instructional systems development, principal of Carl Cozier Elementary School, will be the new deputy superintendent of the Bellingham School District in Washington state. Venable, who has been the principal at Carl Cozier since 2004, will move into his new role as soon as an interim principal is selected for the elementary school. Read more: http://www.thenewstribune.com/2011/01/14/1502509/carl-cozier-principal-to-be-new.html#ixzz1BQGG33oq State Delegate Adrienne Jones ’76, psychology, has been named Baltimore County’s new deputy director of the Office of Human Resources, according to a release from the office of County Executive Kevin Kamenetz. Jones will be responsible for focusing on the county’s minority recruitment. Read the full story here. Bruce Goldfarb ’85, Emergency Health Services, intends to challenge the newly-copyrighted word “Hon,” according to the Baltimore Sun. The Catonsville writer, who runs WelcometoBaltimoreHon.Com, plans to start selling coffee mugs featurning the word. Read the full story here. Bruce Goldfarb ’85, Emergency Health Services, intends to challenge the newly-copyrighted word “Hon,” according to the Baltimore Sun. The Catonsville writer, who runs WelcometoBaltimoreHon.Com, plans to start selling coffee mugs featurning the word. Read the full story here.
Goldman '97 Expanding Cake Biz to LA
Dave Giegerich '88, Founder of the Hula Monsters, Passes Away
Up on the Roof – Winter 2011
To You – Winter 2011
The News – Winter 2011
Over Coffee — Winter 2011
Discovery – Winter 2011
At Play – Winter 2011
Principal Promotion: Tom Venable M.A. '95
County Appointment for Alum: Del. Adrienne Jones '76
UMBC Alum Challenges “Hon” Trademark
UMBC Alum Challenges “Hon” Trademark
