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Abby Bardi's novel, The Book of Fred (Washington Square Press/Simon Schuster, 2002)—the story of a teenager raised in a fundamentalist commune who circumstance has thrown into an unfamiliar, but equally quirky, new community—was recently released in paperback. Bardi teaches English in UMUC's School of Undergraduate Studies; her novel was chosen by the American Booksellers' Association as a Booksense 76 pick for September/October 2002. (The hardcover edition was also a Booksense pick, in November/December 2001.) The book is available from major bookstores.

The picture above is from Robert Beauchamp's computer simulations of phytoremediation—the process of using plants to address environmental problems—that he and counterpart Kudjo Dzantor, of the University of Maryland, College Park, displayed during the University System of Maryland Society of Environmental Journalists (SEJ) conference October 10, 2002, in Baltimore, Maryland. The image shows a plant taking up contamination from the soil. Andy Joyce and Carrie Gahagan, Center for the Virtual University, prepared the computer simulation posters from Beauchamp and Dzantor's sketches of the phytoremediation process. Beauchamp, associate professor and program director, Environmental Management, says students in his environmental management program "think these simulations are just great" because they clearly demonstrate environmental processes.

Nora Carrol, adjunct associate professor of business and management, School of Undergraduate Studies, and owner of two businesses, CarroLearning and CarrolArt, is included in Who's Who in American Women for 2003. A show of her recent paintings will be held at the Creative Partners Gallery, Bethesda, Maryland, in July 2003. For more information, send an e-mail message to carrolart@laser.net.

Eric Dent, executive director of UMUC's Doctoral Programs, published "Developing Scholarly Practitioners: Doctoral Management Education in the 21st Century," as a chapter in Rethinking Management Education for the 21st Century (Information Age Publishers, 2002), edited by C. Wankel and R. DeFillippi. Dent was also named one of four runners up for the Organizational Behavior Teaching Society's New Educator Award, which is given to the faculty member in the country, under the age of 40, who is seen as having the most promise in making breakthrough contributions in the field.