NEWS AND UPDATES MAY 2023

Congratulations to the 2023 CAS Merit Awards Winners!

In April, the College of Arts and Sciences held its first in-person Merit Awards Ceremony since 2019. The annual event recognizes outstanding students from each undergraduate program who exhibit academic excellence and embody the spirit, energy and core values that are central to our mission.

NEWS

WYPR Highlights UBalt Class on Creating 'Escape Room' Play for Libraries

A UBalt class taught by Associate Professor Rachael Zeleny was featured in a WYPR radio piece about what libraries are doing to welcome young people who are coming back to the stacks after the pandemic. (photo credit: Emily Hofstaedter/WYPR)

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CAS Student Tolani Agbaje Named a 2023-24 Transform Mid-Atlantic Civic Fellow

Applied Information Technology major Tolani Agbaje has been nominated by UBalt President Kurt L. Schmoke to serve as a 2023-24 Transform Mid-Atlantic Civic Fellow. Agbaje is one of 16 students from TMA partner institutions throughout Maryland, Washington, D.C., and Delaware to be selected for the program.

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Profs. Kassner, Scalet Contribute to New Anthology on Human Rights and National Sovereignty

Professors Joshua Kassner and Steven Scalet are the sole American contributors to a new anthology, Can Human Rights and National Sovereignty Coexist? The book, part of a series on global perspectives on immigration and multiculturalism, considers the potential for reconciliation between human rights and national sovereignty in the post-Cold War era.

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Prof. Ian Power's New Orchestra Work Premiered by BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra at Tectonics Glasgow Festival

Ian Power, associate professor and composer, had a new major orchestra work premiered as part of the Tectonics Glasgow Festival in Scotland on April 30. Conductor Ilan Volkov lead the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in Power’s BYE BYE LOVE on the closing concert of the festival.

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MFA Alumna Jalynn Harris Featured in The Best American Poetry 2022

Jalynn Harris, MFA '20, was featured in The Best American Poetry 2022, an annual poetry anthology published by Simon & Schuster. Harris's poem, "The Life of a Writer," is one of 75 poems selected for the 2022 edition of the series.

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MORE NEWS

Congratulations to Michael Frederick, assistant professor of psychology, on being named a Fellow in The NorthEastern Evolutionary Psychology Society (NEEPS). The NEEPS Fellow Award program is designed to recognize outstanding work of scholars from within the NEEPS community with more than 10 years of post-doctoral experience and a record of achievement that is recognized as excellent on an international scale. Dr. Frederick was presented the award at the NEEPS annual meeting, which was held last month in New Paltz, NY.

Congratulations to Jacob DeGeal, lecturer and director of the Certificate in Digital Communication, on being accepted to the 2023 Design Writing Fellowship organized by Writing Space, a Chicago-based institute. The Design Writing Fellowship is a program that encourages and facilitates scholarly pursuits within the field of design. As a Fellow, Prof. DeGeal will participate in an intensive three-day workshop that will afford him the opportunity to share and develop ideas for an individual scholarly writing project while receiving constructive feedback from faculty mentors and peers in his field.

Congratulations to our newest doctoral degree recipients!

The Doctor of Science in Information and Interaction Design program congratulates its two most recent doctoral degree recipients who successfully defended their dissertations this spring.

David Byrd, D.Sc. '23

Dissertation: “Recovered Memories: Bringing the Air Force Archive into the Digital Age – Attributes Correlated with Improved Performance in Textually Digitizing Analog Documents”

Elka Cahn, D.Sc. '23

Dissertation: “Measurements of Presence and Multisensory Stimulation in Virtual Reality”

Spring 2023 Commencement

The University of Baltimore will hold its spring 2023 commencement ceremonies on Wednesday, May 24 at The Lyric Baltimore. The graduate ceremony begins at 10 a.m. and the undergraduate ceremony begins at 2 p.m.

Rebecca McAfee, a Legal Studies major who will receive her Bachelor of Arts degree, will address her fellow undergraduates at the 2 p.m. ceremony.

Acclaimed film director, author and social critic John Waters will receive an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters during the undergraduate ceremony. Baltimore Mayor Brandon M. Scott will deliver a keynote address during the graduate ceremony.

Learn more about spring 2023 Commencement.