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• Langue: Français
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UMASS

DARTMOUTH

UMass Dartmouth Professor Brian Glyn Williams travels to Afghanistan to interview a Northern Alliance warlord.

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M E S S A G E F R O M Jean F. MacCormack Dear friends, O ver th survived and chosen a path that will sustain quality in our academic and research enterprises to best serve our students and faculty. Our role as a university requires that we prepare students to become the next generation of educated citizens, and to use our intellectual capi- tal to enhance the quality of life and advance the economic future of our region and our society. In moving forward, we are increasing our enrollment, in numbers, diversity, and in the balance of graduate and undergraduate students, while we expand our research in ways that are important to the region yet make global impacts. Recently, the campus was selected by the National Institutes of Health as the national research center dedicated to discovering detec- tion tools and treatments for botulism poisoning, one of the most dan- gerous bio-terrorism threats facing the U.S. and the world. We created the Advanced Technology and Manufacturing Center to link our intellectual resources with business entrepreneurship. An outstanding example is the decision by AVANT Immunotherapeutics, Inc. to build a pilot-manufacturing facility at the ATMC to support the clinical development of its por tfolio of bacterial vaccines. This summer Kevin Stokesbur y’s team at the School for Marine Sciences and Technology conducted the most comprehensive survey of the Atlantic sea scallop r esource ever undertaken. This research will provide decision-makers with information about the sea floor habitat from Georges Bank to Virginia that will further the conservation of the valuable scallop resource. The College of Visual and Performing Arts continues to play a piv- otal role in the region’s cultural life. A unique exhibit, “Craft Transformed – Program in Artisanry,” featured works by artisans from the Swain School of Design, SMU, and UMass Dar tmouth. UMD was one of 20 universities chosen to participate in the 2005 Solar Decathlon, in which students and faculty from around the world compete to design and build the best solar -powered house. Our selec- tion by the DOE demonstrates the impor tance of Janine Wong’s and Gerald Lemay’s innovative teaching and research which exemplifies the educational experience at UMass Dar tmouth. The National Endowment for the Humanities selected Dr. Lewis Kamm and Dr. Gerard Koot to receive national awards for superior teaching and scholarship in their respective fields. As you can see, we have drawn on all our creative reserves to ensure that we meet our mission with a level of quality in which we can take pride. UMass Dartmouth remains a vibrant center of higher education that supports, and is accessible to, those seeking intellectual quality. Sustained by a foundation of academic and research excellence, the campus is a center for innovation, quality, and intellectual expertise. While we continue to lobby for more resources, we must ensure that UMass Dartmouth retain its dynamism as an institution. We are counting on your continued generosity and resilient determination to ensure that we do not just survive, but that ultimately we flourish as a significant institution of higher education. Sincerely,

Passionate about BASEBALL Bob Giordani ‘03graphic design was inspired by a ticket to Game 6 of the 1948 World Series given to him by his grandfather. He turned to the Red Sox— and how to get to that 1948 ticket seat in Fenway Park from the Kenmore Square MBTA stop — for Jan Fairbairn’s three-part Graphic Design V project in “semiotics,” the theory and study of signs and symbols. The assignment involved giving directions, in word and pictures, so that someone could nav- igate a one-kilometer path. For the first phase, students could work with typography only, and, in the second stage, exclusively with images. In Part 3, students combined type and image.

Jean F. MacCormack,Chancellor

UMASSDARTMOUTH this issue of theUMass Dartmouth I n Alumni Magazine, you’ll find, among other articles, a feature on a professor’s trip to Afghanistan and the helping hand given by two students to a community in Honduras. We also have a photo feature on the Fall Festival, which brought many of you back to campus. UMass Dartmouth Alumni Magazine is published twice annually by the Division of University Relations, Donald H. Ramsbottom, vice chancellor. We welcome your letters. Please write to us with comments about the magazine, or on any topic concerning the university. You can mail your letters to us at 285 Old Westport Rd., North Dartmouth MA 02747 , or email them to us at umassd.edu/alumni. Executive Editor Donald Berube ‘84 Director, Alumni Relations Designer Rachel Cocroft Writer/Editor Diane Hartnett Production Editor Michael Mahoney Contributors Jim Mullins ’81 (Amherst) Bob Lovinger Photographers Kindra Clineff D. Confar Alumni Administrative Assistant/Class Notes Nancy Tooley ’99

University of Massachusetts Dartmouth (USPS #015-139) Volume7, Number8, December2003 University of Massachusetts Dartmouth is published twice in March, once in May, twice in June, once in July, once in August, once in September, once in December by the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, 285Old Westport Road, North Dartmouth,ma 02747-2300 Periodicals postage paid at New Bedford, Massachusetts02740. postmaster: Send address corrections to the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, 285Old Westport Road, North Dartmouth,ma 02747-2300

Feature STORIES Traveling beyond the blackboard 2 The business of enlightening 7 Losing Jonathan 10 University NEWS Around the Colleges 12 A break with tradition 16 Retirement for coaching veterans Dowd & Wheeler 18 Fall Festival 2003 20 Alumni NEWS & NOTES Class notes 22 Frida Kahlo film spotlights the talent of ’81 grad Bette Car ney 23 Woods Hole Institution gives prestigious award to UMD alumnus 25 Letters 27 From Michael Rodrigues 28 From Don Berube inside back cover Cover photo:History Professor Brian Glyn Williams arms himself to trek through Afghanistan this summer for his meeting with warlord General Dostum. His stor y begins on Page 2. Map courtesy Globalsecurity.org. A l u m n i M a g a z i n e| 2 0 0 3W i n t e r

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