1999

> Edna Mora Szymanski is appointed the 20th Dean of the College of Education.

> The College of Education garners $12.7 million in externally funded research and grants for fiscal year 1999.

> The Maryland Assessment Resource Center is renamed as MARCES (Maryland Assessment Research Center for Education Success) within the Department of Measurement, Statistics and Evaluation, providing support to assessment activities at the local, state, and national level.

> On November 8, a National Center on Education, Disability, and Juvenile Justice (EDJJ), headed by Peter E. Leone, Special Education, is founded as a collaborative project between the University of Maryland, Arizona State University, the University of Kentucky, the PACER Center, and the American Institutes for Research. The program is funded by a five-year, $2.75 million grant from the U.S. Departments of Education and Justice. Its purpose is to assist practitioners, policymakers, and researchers in helping incarcerated youth with disabilities.

> Faculty from the Department of Curriculum and Instruction are principal investigators for two prestigious grants from the National Science Foundation: a six million dollar grant to develop elementary/middle school teaching training programs in mathematics and science, and a five million dollar grant to improve mathematics teaching in the city of Baltimore.

> Steven E. Graham, Special Education, is honored with the University Distinguished Scholar-Teacher Award.