Athletics
Although baseball, softball, lacrosse, track, tennis and golf started their spring season with soggy fields and several injuries, two teams made appearances at the national level. The golf team qualified for the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) Division III Championship and our track team just returned from the NJCAA Division III National Championship.

Art
Professor Tendai Johnson was part of an exhibit of twenty international artists at the Nolias Gallery in London, UK, through the month of May, 2009. Entitled "The Dark Show," this exhibit was by invitation and curated by Carl Roare. Professor Orest S. Poliszczuk had a one- person show in Chicago at the Ukrainian National Museum also during the month of May 2009. Professor Komelia Okim organized “Five Different Expressions,” the Asian Pacific Heritage Month gala exhibition for the Korus House, the cultural center of the Korean Embassy. Adjunct professor Michael Harrington will be in a spring exhibition and sale at Art House Gallery, May 30-July 12th, in Sandy Spring, Md. Dr. Percy North will be a discussant to the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute America engages Russia on June 22 in Manhattan. Adjunct Professor Wanjin Kim is having a solo exhibition at the Sungbo Gallery in Seoul Korea. The show runs from June 10 to June 16.

Chemistry
Congratulations to Dr. Sripriya Seetharaman's CH204 (Organic Chemistry II) class for obtaining an average score of 56/70 on the American Chemical Society full-year organic chemistry exam. This year’s national average on this exam, taken by students at two- and four-year schools, was 43.08.

Health Enhancement, Exercise Science, and Physical Education Department
This spring, the Health Enhancement, Exercise Science, and Physical Education Department sponsored two very successful service learning projects. The first was the Wellness Fair/ Blood Drive which featured both outside vendors and ten booths developed and run by health and physical education students. The booths included information on a variety of current health issues as well as health assessments. Five hundred students, faculty, and staff attend. The second event was a health fair for all students at Beall Elementary School. This fair was sponsored by Mr. Keith McKelphin’s HE 201, Health and Fitness for Teachers.

Macklin Business Institute
Throughout the year Macklin Business Institute (MBI) and other business students worked on community outreach projects designed to teach people in their community about various aspects of business. At the end of each year, they prepare an annual report detailing their overall impact in their community, and enter the Students In Free Enterprise (SIFE) competition where they make a presentation detailing their year’s work. After being named a regional champion at a SIFE regional competition held in Philadelphia in early April, the MBI SIFE team was invited to participate in the SIFE National Exposition in May, held again in Philadelphia. The SIFE Team won its opening round division, beating out the two-year college two-time defending national champion in the process. This moved them into the final round, held the following day, and after another fantastic presentation the team was named the National 1st Runner-up, placing them second in the country among two-year colleges. Three MBI students (Dearborne Allen, Shahin Shahrivar, and Dan Koutzoumis) were awarded the competitive Maryland Transfer Academic Excellence Scholarship (TAES), a merit scholarship which covers two years of full in-state tuition at the University of Maryland. Only 12 of these scholarships are awarded in the entire state of Maryland, and our program had three recipients!

Paul Peck Humanities Institute
The PPHI Internship Program has had a successful spring 2009 semester and is heading into the summer on a strong footing. A total of nine (9) interns, representing all three campuses, completed spring internships at the Library of Congress (LOC), Smithsonian Institution (SI), and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM). There were fifteen (15) applications for summer 2009 consideration. Thanks to a generous donation of $5,500 from Mr. Paul Peck, we were able to place a total of six summer interns: three at the LOC and three at the USHMM. We are proud to report that the success of MC's formal partnership with the USHMM -- the first of its kind between the museum and a college -- has become a model for the USHMM to work with other educational institutions nationwide.

Science, Engineering, and Math
Dr. Sanjay Rai, instructional dean of Science, Engineering, and Math, co-authored with Dr. Terrance Quinn a newly released mathematics book for college students and college teachers in science, technology and mathematical sciences (STEM) entitled Pathways to Real Analysis. The book could serve as a supplement to a calculus sequence such as differential, integral and multi-variable calculus (Calculus I, II and III), or as a textbook for an introduction to real analysis. The authors provide pathways of discovery that are mathematically natural, starting with basic algebra to the inverse function theorem and the implicit function theorem for multi-variable calculus. Their approach is a special case of Discovery Based Learning where the reader is invited to think about strategically organized clues and examples to gain insights on real analysis.

The Engineering Department presented several student awards during their first-ever end-of-year banquet event last month. Among the recipients were four students who were cohort members of Project Portal to Success in Engineering, a U. S. Department of Education Fund for the Improvement of Post Secondary Education (FIPSE) grant funded project. The student leadership award, outstanding female student award, and the departmental Frank L. Verwiebe Award went to Ms. Estefany Carrillo; student activity award recipients were Ms. Doblade Elliott and Mr. Khalifa Traore, and the academic award (best student in mechanics of materials) went to Mr. David Compres.

Women’s Studies
The Women's Studies Program, with the Center for Teaching and Learning, The Office of Equity and Diversity, Rockville Humanities Instructional Dean Carolyn Terry, and the Global Peace and Social Justice Committee, is sponsoring a Summer Colloquium on the theme of Social Justice, Social Responsibility, to be held on Friday, June 19th, in the Faculty/Staff Dining Room, on the Rockville Campus, from 9:30 to 2:30 PM. The day's program includes a keynote address by Patricia Smith Melton, founder, first executive director, and board chair of Peace X Peace, an international, nonprofit organization. Morning breakout sessions will be led by local and College speakers on topics related to creating a more just and peaceful society through service and responsibility. There will be a working lunch with representatives from local peace-, justice-, and social responsibility-promoting organizations. An afternoon panel of faculty and students will discuss successfully addressing these themes in the classroom and infusing related concepts into the curriculum. Bibliographies of suggested readings and other teaching materials will be distributed. Professional development credit and certificates of completion will be awarded to faculty and student attendees. Throughout the program, there will be an exhibit of student designed and created bandanas in support and encouragement of women migrant workers, as part of the national initiative, The Bandana Project.