On October 5, 2017, Rear Admiral Trent-Adams was recognized at the UMBC 2017 Alumni Awards ceremony as the Outstanding Alumni in the Social and Behavioral Sciences. She is a 2006 graduate of the UMBC Public Policy doctoral program in the health policy concentration.
http://www.redcross.org/news/article/Red-Cross-Nursing-Medal-Awarded-to-Acting-US-Surgeon-General
Chris Haffer, PhD '93 (Public Policy)
After 25 years with CMS, Dr. Haffer will be moving in November 2017 into the Senior Executive Service and to become the first Chief Data Officer and Director of the Office of Research, Information and Planning of the U.S. Equal Opportunity Commission. "The EEOC is a bi-partisan Commission whose mission is to enforce the laws prohibiting employment discrimination and promote equal opportunity in the workplace."
On September 6, 2017, Danrui Lu (PhD student of Public Policy, UMBC), received the award “Award for Outstanding Charitable Action” in the first Yangzhou Charity Award ceremony as announced by Yangzhou City Government (Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province, China) and Yangzhou News (newspaper) for her continuing contributions to local child equity, particularly in child education. Ms. Lu created the Danrui Educational Grant which supports more than 80 children to return to school, and the charity also influences local charity awareness. (Her father attended the ceremony and accepted the award on her behalf in Yangzhou.)
Yangzhou City Government announcement: http://cs.yangzhou.gov.cn/yzcsw/tzgg/201709/6e6b148474dc42d3bb56f7c5b6d178c4.shtml
Yangzhou News digital page: http://www.yznews.com.cn/yzsbs/html/2017-09/06/content_887571.htm
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In Memoriam: Julia Blanche Anderson, 1951-2017
Filed in In Memoriam on July 14, 2017
(Journal of Blacks in Higher Education)
Julia B. Anderson, the founding director of the Institute for Racial and Ethnic Health Studies at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, died late last month at her home in Pikesville, Maryland. She was 66 years old and suffered from lymphedema.
Dr. Anderson was a native of Baltimore and served as student body president at Edmondson High School. She earned a bachelor’s degree at what is now Coppin State University and taught briefly in the Baltimore public schools.
After earning a master’s degree in education community development and planning and a master of social work degree at the University of Michigan, Dr. Anderson was appointed associate director of development at Talladega College in Alabama. She returned to Baltimore in the early 1980s and held several positions in health care. Dr. Anderson earned a Ph.D. in policy studies (now public policy) at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County in 1995.
Upon receiving her Ph.D., Dr. Anderson became research director for the university’s Center for Health Program Development and Management (The Hilltop Institute) and later became the first director of the Institute for Racial and Ethnic Health Studies. In 2009, Dr. Anderson was appointed special assistant to the deputy director of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. She retired from that post in 2011.
David B. Muhlhausen, PhD 2004, UMBC, to be Director of the National Institute of Justice, Department of Justice.
Dr. Muhlhausen, a research fellow in empirical policy analysis at the Heritage Foundation, has championed using rigorous, empirical research to formulate and evaluate government policies. Dr. Muhlhausen has testified frequently before Congress on the efficiency and effectiveness of various Federal programs. He has been called most often by the House and Senate Committees on the Judiciary to discuss how to improve policing strategies, prisoner reentry programs, and other important criminal justice programs. He holds a doctorate in public policy from the University of Maryland Baltimore County (evaluation and analytical methods track) and a bachelor’s degree in political science and justice studies from Frostburg State University. As an adjunct professor at George Mason University’s Schar School of Policy and Government, Dr. Muhlhausen has taught program evaluation and statistical methods to graduate students for 11 years.
Steve Sharkey, MPP 2006
Director, Baltimore City Department of General Services
has been named a winner of the Daily Record 2017 VIP List -
Very Important Professionals Successful by 40 awards
The Daily Record created the VIP List in 2011 to recognize professionals 40 years of age and younger who have been successful in Maryland. Winners, chosen by a panel of previous VIP List honorees and business leaders, were selected on the basis of professional accomplishments, community service and commitment to inspiring change. The winners will honored Sept. 13th at a reception at Gertrude's at the Baltimore Museum of Art. and profiled in a special section of the Daily Record in the September 14, 2017 issue of The Daily Record. (www.TheDailyRecord.com)
Outstanding 2017 Alumnus of the Year -- Social and Behavioral Sciences*
Rear Admiral Sylvia Trent-Adams, Ph.D. '06, Public Policy
The award ceremony will be October 5 , 2017.
On April 21, 2017, Dr. Trent-Adams, PhD 2006, UMBC, was appointed as Acting Surgeon General. In this capacity, she serves as the nation’s Doctor, providing Americans with the best scientific evidence available on how to improve their health and reduce the risk of illness and injury. Dr. Trent-Adams oversees the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, an elite group of more than 6,700 uniformed officer public health professionals working throughout the federal government whose mission is to protect, promote and advance the health of the U.S. Prior to this new appointment, Dr. Trent-Adams was appointed Deputy Surgeon General in 2015.
Past Public Policy recipients of an Alumnus of the Year Award:
Sherece West, PhD, 2007 (2013 awardee)
Jon Cardin, MPS 1996 (2009 awardee)
Renato DiPentima, PhD '84 (2005 awardee)