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Just a little bit of bragging about our faculty, staff, students and alumni.

  • The 13 M.S. in Applied Psychology and graduate Certificate in Professional Counseling Studies students who took the National Counselor Exam in October as part of UB’s participation in an early-testing program once again have scored significantly above the national average for the exam as a whole and have also exceeded the national average on every sub-test. This contributes to UB’s impressive first-attempt passing rate of 98 percent on this exam, which is a requirement for becoming a licensed clinical professional counselor in Maryland and throughout the nation.

  • Justin Edgar, academic program coordinator at the Universities at Shady Grove, and Aaron Oldenburg (Division of Science, Information Arts and Technologies), assistant professor, coordinated the Global Game Jam site at the Universities at Shady Grove, Jan. 27-29. As the world’s largest game jam event, Global Game Jam—a project of the International Game Developers Association—brings together thousands of game enthusiasts worldwide for a 48-hour game design competition. The USG site invited students, alumni and area game enthusiasts to compete in teams during a highly caffeinated, 48-hour-straight, no-sleep design-off. Read more.

  • David Goode-Cross (Division of Applied Behavioral Sciences), assistant professor, has had a poster and a presentation accepted for the American Psychological Association’s annual conference in August in Orlando, Fla. The poster discusses “Therapists’ Experience of Race-Concordant Dyads,” and his presentation focuses on “Solidarity in Psychotherapy.”

  • Elliot Lasson (Division of Applied Behavioral Sciences), adjunct faculty, was invited to deliver lectures on employment interviewing at Netanya Academic College and Bar Ilan University in Israel. In his presentations, he addressed both the research and the practical components of interviewing in organizations.
  • Passager hosted its third Burning Bright Reading and Open Mic at the Village Learning Place at Saint Paul and 25th streets, featuring authors Norma Chapman and Shirley Brewer (M.F.A. in Creative Writing & Publishing Arts alumna) and more than 20 poets. These readings throughout Maryland are part of Passager's celebration of its 21 years of publishing; previous readings were in Hampden and in Annapolis.

  • Anastasia Salter (Division of Science, Information Arts and Technologies), assistant professor, along with Amanda Visconti, a University of Maryland, College Park, graduate student, co-organized THATCamp Games at College Park, Jan. 19-22. THATCamp Games is an unconference organized to bring together nearly 100 digital humanities theorists and practitioners, education and serious game designers, game enthusiasts and advocates, and humanities instructors and scholars interested in games and pedagogy. The event included 15 workshops on creating, analyzing and teaching with games, a full day of unconference sessions proposed and voted on by participants, and a game jam. The event has been written up on the MITH blog, Play the Past and ProfHacker . Oldenburg , assistant professor, and Bridget Blodgett , assistant professor, also taught workshops at the event on Unity and Inform 7, respectively.

  • Bert Smith (School of Communications Design), associate professor, and JJ Chrystal, student in the M.F.A. in Integrated Design, have completed the first portion of a Globe Poster Co. digital collection of antique images available for faculty and student use in the School of Communications Design's Digital Design Studio. Together, they hand-printed and digitized approximately 50 images from the vast collection of the renowned Globe Poster Co. that recently closed. The old woodblocks include well worn but lovingly restored images used on music and carnival posters in the first half of the last century. A streamlined bus, a propeller-driven airplane, stars, jack-o'-lanterns, pointing hands, musical notes, hearts, a line of rats and a skull are just some of the images waiting to be used in a retro-style poster, announcement or Web page. The second half of the collection, six complete antique typefaces, should be ready for use this summer.