Spring 2004 SSF Events

February 19 2004
Richard A. Settersten, Jr.
Associate Professor of Sociology and Co-Director of the Schubert Center for Child Development
Case Western Reserve University

Linking the Two Ends of Life: What Gerontology Can Learn from Childhood Studies


February 23, 2004

U.S. Senator Paul S. Sarbanes, Maryland

Accountability and Ethics in Government and Public Policy


March 3, 2004

Panel discussion in honor of Women’s History Month 

Facilitated by Kriste Lindenmeyer, Associate Professor, UMBC Department of History

Is There Such a Thing as Women’s Issues in Politics-or Is This Idea Out of Date?


March 18, 2004

David W. Berson, Vice President and Chief Economist, Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae

Is There a Housing Bubble?


April 5, 2004

Daniel W. Sutherland, Officer for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, Department of Homeland Security

Civil Liberties: Homeland Security Tradeoffs


April 14, 2004

Charles E. Metcalf, President, Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. 

The Role of Think Tanks in Policy Making


May 5, 2004

The Annual Low Lecture organized by the Department of History.

Freeman A. Hrabowski, III, President, UMBC. 

Fifty Years after Brown v. Board of Education