Media Advisory - Regents' External Relations Committee to Meet May 3

April 30, 2002

Regents' External Relations Committee to Meet May 3 at USM Office

The External Relations Committee of the University System of Maryland (USM) Board of Regents will meet in public session on Friday, May 3 in the Chancellor's Conference Room at the USM Office, 3300 Metzerott Road in Adelphi. MD. The meeting will begin at 9 a.m.

The Committee will consider several agenda items:

• Technology commercialization, with reports from James Poulos, executive director of the Office of Technology Commercialization at the University of Maryland, College Park, and James Hughes, vice president for research and development at the University of Maryland, Baltimore
  
  
• Fundraising results for the Langenberg Lecture and Award and the USM's ongoing capital campaign, reported by John K. Martin, vice chancellor for advancement
  
  
• Post-legislative session report and planning for interim session, from Maitland Dade, interim associate vice chancellor for state relations
  
  
• Review of USM communications by Francis Canavan, associate vice chancellor for communications
  

Full agenda (listed below) and background information will be available at the meeting. Sign language interpreters and/or other appropriate accommodations for eligible individuals with disabilities will be provided upon request.  Please call 301/445-2756 (voice) or 301/314-7683 (TTY/ITT) to make special arrangements.

Contact:

Chris Hart
Phone: 301/445-2739
E-mail: chart@usmd.edu