POLYNOMIAL Event Coming November 1

Announcing POLYNOMIAL, a Parent and Alumni Social! This event is a Pep Rally Open House to shop the Poly School Store for t-shirts, hoodies, bumper stickers and more. Need Poly City Football game tickets? Purchase them at POLYNOMIAL. Enjoy music and lite fare food and beverages while meeting other Poly supporters and learn how you can help your Poly Scholar! Information will be available about the Poly Parent Faculty Association (PPFA) and The Baltimore Polytechnic Institute Foundation & Alumni Association.

Please join us Thursday, November 1, from 5-9pm in the Poly main lobby. For more information, check out the Facebook Event.

Student Social Justice Quilts on National Tour

Last year, with the help of the class of 1963, a new partnership was established between SJSA, the Social Justice Sewing Academy, and Poly. SJSA traveled from California and Boston to work with 180 Poly students to construct multiple Social Justice Quilts. Afterwards, three of our AP Studio artists were flown to California over the summer for an all expenses paid trip to make quilts and tour California with the SJSA.

These quilts, and the quilts from our AP students, empowered student voice through the arts about issues pertinent to their lives as young people in Baltimore. All of the quilts are on a national tour and have been and will continue to be displayed in multiple venues, galleries, and museums across the country. They currently are on display Santa Clara California. Check out more photos here!

JROTC Maintains Special Campus Legacy

The cadets of the Poly JROTC program, led by Colonel Gina Humble and Senior Master Sergeant Randy Letschin '72, perform many acts of service for Polytechnic and the community. Pictured here they are seen performing their weekly maintenance of the landscaped area in the Veterans Walk in the front of the Poly campus. This project, which the cadets volunteered to take on, has them performing weekly weeding and cleaning in this extensively landscaped space. The JROTC program performs many of it's exercises here and their respect for both the area and the funding by the Class of 1953, which made this landscaping possible, led them to volunteer for this much needed and very time-consuming job.

Everyone coming to campus sees this area and it presents a very welcoming scene for our faculty, staff, students, and visitors. Thank you to the JROTC program leaders and cadets for taking on this and many other challenges!

Poly/City Football Tickets on Sale

Get ready, Poly family - the 130th Football Rivalry contest between Poly and City will take place on Friday, November 2nd at Morgan State University, Hughes Memorial Stadium. Kickoff is at 6:00pm, with gates opening at 5:00pm.

Tickets are available for purchase daily leading up to the game in the Poly gymnasium and in the Foundation & Alumni Office (Room 106). Tickets are $10 in advance/$15 at Morgan (cash only). Parking will be a flat rate of $5, in designated lots at Morgan. Tickets may also be purchased at the Polynomial Event on November 1 at Poly. See you there! 

Alumni Corner: Bria Macklin '11

A fourth-year PhD candidate at The Johns Hopkins University, Bria Macklin '11 recently earned a NIH fellowship for work with stem-cell derived vascular cells. Today, when someone experiences heart disease, surgeons often use stents and grafts to bypass the diseased blood vessels. While helpful, this approach is a temporary solution; not one that allows the vasculature to recover its function. Macklin's research is laying the groundwork toward a long-term goal of deriving vascular cells from stem cells, growing the vessels in vitro, and then implanting or injecting them into patients to replace the diseased vasculature. Heart disease is the No. 1 killer in the U.S., making this research monumental in scope.

Recalling her days at BPI, Macklin notes "I started my research career in the research practicum program at Poly, which I am forever grateful for." Congratulations, Bria! Your contribution to this ground breaking field makes Poly so very proud. To read more about Bria's incredible work, click here.

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