the PRESIDENT’SMESSAGE MAY 2015 In UMB’s new one-sentence mission statement, In an article last year he wrote, “Deep within the makeup of we lay our purpose on the line: “To improve this great nation is the belief that a person’s status at birth is not supposed to determine his or her status throughout life. It the human condition and serve the public has always been education that provided the most effective and good of Maryland and society at-large through reliable path to a person’s full potential, taking them as far as education, research, clinical care, and service.” their efforts and ambition will allow them to go ...” “Education” is first for a reason. And with commencement right Kirwan is absolutely right, of course, that education paves the path around the corner, it’s the mission that’s top of mind for me. to social mobility and success. But there are conditions that must be met before education can unlock potential. From the earliest UMB is a great research university. We are a great provider of care age, people have to be healthy to learn. They have to be safe and and service. Neither of those statements is in doubt. But it’s by secure. They have to be assured of those things foundational design that these missions serve our mission to educate, because to self-determination — equity, inclusion, opportunity. it’s education that sustains everything else. Creating these conditions is the invaluable work our graduates It’s education that continually replenishes the deep pool of people undertake. It’s the trade we make with every degree we confer. curious enough to ask the questions that test the limitations of our knowledge; capable enough to provide the care and counsel In that same article, Kirwan wrote, “We have the ability — and that secure health, well-being, and justice; compassionate enough the obligation — to help protect and strengthen the American to apply their skill and scholarship to efforts that reaffirm our dream.” He was talking about the imperative of college access. common humanity. But every spring, I think of the American dream more broadly. On May 15, some 2,000 graduates will leave the University to do In their implicit commitment to improve the human condition, the work we’ve prepared them to do — to build communities of UMB’s graduates are uniquely bound to this dream. And their health and resilience; to solve the seemingly intractable problems work each day is the same: Pull it close enough that those they we confront as a state and a nation; to inspire the next generation serve might grasp on with both hands. of students to lives of research and care and service. It’s the most Congratulations to the Class of 2015! hopeful day of the year. As our graduates begin the next chapter of their careers, our commencement speaker, University System of Maryland Chancellor William “Brit” Kirwan, closes a chapter on his own. With nearly 50 years of service to Maryland higher education behind him, Kirwan leaves the chancellorship on June 30. Jay A. Perman, MD PRESIDENT Kirwan is one of the nation’s best known and most respected experts on the American academy. He’s spoken at length about the premise — and promise — of higher education. ACCOUNTABILITY | CIVILITY | COLLABORATION | DIVERSITY | EXCELLENCE | KNOWLEDGE | LEadERSHIP LAURELS MAY 2015 UNIVERSITYWIDE Paula Barkon (Center for Information the human body in seven volumes”) on Technology Services), Walter the fifth floor near the Administration Richard J. Behles, MLS, historical Christopher (Administration and Suite. The painting by Baltimore librarian and preservation officer, Finance), Regina Johnson (Academic artist Joseph Sheppard is a gift from Health Sciences and Human Services Affairs), and Carol Scruggs (School of Mr. and Mrs. Henry A. Rosenberg Library, co-authored “Eugene Dentistry). Read more. Jr. The painting depicts the Belgian Fauntleroy Cordell: Alumnus and Vesalius, recognized as the Father of Medical Historian for the Ages,” in Anatomy, performing a dissection in the spring University of Maryland the anatomical theater at Padua. Medicine Bulletin. The School of Medicine’s Vincent Conroy, PT, DScPT, Laundette Jones, PhD, and Wendy Lane, MD, MPH, the School of Nursing’s Kelly Flannery, PhD, RN, the Carey DR. PERMAN PRESENTS JING YIN WITH THE School of Law’s Leigh Goodmark, EMPLOYEE OF THE YEAR AWARD WITH ANTHONY LEHMAN, MD, AND NICHOLAS JD, the School of Social Work’s Tanya AMBULOS, PHD (RIGHT). Sharpe, PhD, MSW, the School of JOSEPH SHEppARD WITH HIS PAINTING. Pharmacy’s Deanna Tran, PharmD, and the School of Dentistry’s Clemencia Vargas, DDS, PhD, have Bohyun Kim, MA, MSLIS, associate been selected to participate in UMB’s director for library applications and 2015 Center for Community-Based knowledge systems, Health Sciences Engagement and Learning Faculty and Human Services Library, was the Fellows Program. invited keynote speaker for the 2015 Library Technology Conference in St. Eighty-five employees representing DR. PERMAN WITH JAMES T. HILL SCHOLARSHIP AWARD WINNER LANIARA MCCOY CASSIE. Paul, Minn. She presented “Libraries 2,345 years of service were saluted at Meet the Second Machine Age.” the 2014/2015 Employee Recognition Awards Luncheon in April. Jing Yin, DDS, research supervisor at the Genomics Core Facility in the School SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY of Medicine, won the Cecil S. Kelly Guadalupe Garcia, DMD, clinical Memorial Employee of the Year Award. assistant professor, Department of Laniara McCoy Cassie, accounting Endodontics, Prosthodontics and clerk in the Office of Academic Affairs, Operative Dentistry, won second won the James T. Hill Scholarship FORTY-YEAR SERVICE AWARD RECIPIENTS, place in the International Association Award. Thomas Day (Academic FROM LEFT, CAROL SCRUGGS, CATHERINE BROWN, ELIZABETH ALTIERI, DR. PERMAN, for Dental Research’s Prosthodontic Affairs),Tony Green (Parking and PAULA BARKON, REGINA JOHNSON, RONN WADE, AND MABEL ZELLE. Research Group, Pre-Prosthetic Transportation Services), and Michele Regenerative Scientific Awards for Suit (School of Pharmacy) were named her abstract, “Accuracy of 3-Unit Board of Regents staff award nominees. The Health Sciences and Human Fixed Implant Prosthesis Impressions Forty-year service award recipients Services Library unveiled a large Conventional Versus Digital.” included Elizabeth Altieri, Catherine painting of Andreas Vesalius, 16th- Brown, Ronn Wade, and Mabel century author of De humani corporis Zelle of the School of Medicine, fabric libri septum (“On the fabric of LAURELS ARE SUBMITTED BY THE COMMUNICATIONS DEPARTMENTS OF THE SCHOOLS AS WEll AS BY REPRESENTATIVES IN VARIOUS UNIVERSITYWIDE OFFICES. THE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ERRORS IN THESE SELF-SUBMITTED LAURELS. UMARYLAND.EDU 2 LAURELS MAY 2015 Gary Hack, CAREY SCHOOL OF LAW Leigh Goodmark, JD, professor, DDS ’79, clinical presented a paper, “The Unintended associate professor “Perspectives on Outpatient Consequences of Governance and director Commitment,” by Richard Boldt, Feminism: The Criminalization of of simulation JD, professor, was published in the Domestic Violence,” at Governance research, and Eric New England Law Review. Boldt Feminism: A Writer’s Workshop at Levine, DDS ’91, also published “The ‘Voluntary’ Harvard Law School in January. clinical assistant Inpatient Treatment of Adults under GARY HACK professor, both in Guardianship” in the Villanova “The Virtues of the Department Law Review. Moderation,” of Endodontics, by James Douglas Colbert, Prosthodontics Grimmelmann, JD, professor, and Operative JD, professor, served as reporter Dentistry, was published in for a bipartisan presented a the Yale Journal committee of poster “Exciting of Law and criminal justice JAMES GRIMMELMANN Use of Current Technology. ERIC LEVINE experts that Technology to authored a new Michelle Harner, JD, professor and Help Students DOUGLAS COLBERT report from the director of the Business Law Program, Reach Their Clinical Potential,” at Constitution was inducted into the American the American Dental Education Project on pretrial representation. College of Bankruptcy, an honorary Association annual meeting in Boston. Colbert also moderated a panel association of bankruptcy and Patricia Tordik, discussing the report, which included insolvency professionals who provide DMD, clinical Senior Judge Andre Davis, JD ’78, of pro bono legal services in this area. professor and the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. “Respect and Dignity: A Conceptual director of Students Andrew Geltman, Sean Model for Patients in the Intensive postgraduate Gugerty, Phi Vi, and Michael Care Unit,” co-authored by Leslie endodontics, Vinlaun, MD, were named “Leaders Meltzer Henry, JD, MSc, associate received a two- of Tomorrow” and participated in a professor, was published in Narrative year, $4,000 Inquiry Bioethics: A Journal of PATRICIA TORDIK corresponding summit for graduate grant from students, postdocs, and young biotech Qualitative Research, a publication by the American researchers held in conjunction with Johns Hopkins University Press that Association of Endodontists the Maryland Regional Biotech Forum explores current issues in bioethics. Foundation to fund endodontics at MedImmune in Gaithersburg. resident research. “Are We There Shulman, Yet? Aligning Postdoctoral fellow Ping Wang, James, Gray & the Expectations DDS, PhD, received the International Gifford’s Cases and Realities of Association for Dental Research and Materials on Competency in (IADR) Frechette Prosthodontics the Law of Torts Legal Writing,” Research