Summer Archaeological Field School
Students excavate Douglass’ former home
As part of the university’s Summer Archaeological Field School, students are working on their second year of excavating an area of the Eastern Shore where former slave Frederick Douglass spent part of his childhood.
Mark Leone, the university archaeologist leading the excavation, called the project a “priceless opportunity.” Located at the Wye House estate near Easton, the area was the Lloyd plantation and has stayed in the family since the 17th century.
Students hope to find the “long green,” the center of activity in the slave village, which Douglass described in Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. The third and final year of the excavation is scheduled for next summer.
College of Chemical and Life Sciences
University to receive $2 mil. from HHMI
The university will receive $2 million from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute to further undergraduate education in biology and other related sciences.
This is the fourth HHMI grant the university has received, bringing its HHMI funding total to $6.7 million. The funding will be used to improve and expand existing programs for faculty development and outreach to community colleges and historically black universities.
Institute for Advanced Computer Studies
University receives Horizon Award
Computerworld magazine named the university one of the winners of its annual Horizon Awards for innovative technology Aug. 21. The university received the Horizon Award for OSYSA, a system for online opinion analysis developed by researchers in the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies.
Digital fingerprinting technology developed by faculty in the A. James Clark School of Engineering also received an honorable mention from Computerworld.
Compiled by senior staff writers Roxana Hadadi.
