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Category: Noteworthy

Tibet Monks

photo courtesy of the Hoffberger Center for Professional Ethics

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days was the duration of a Baltimore visit in May from the monks of Tibet’s Drepung Gomang Monastery; at UB, they presented lectures on chanting and kindness as well as a “Tibetan cultural pageant”



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outgoing UB students and young alumni made new friends at the June debut of UB’s newest alumni volunteer program, Dinner With 12 Strangers, hosted by Phaedra Stewart, MBA ʼ96



Mayor Kurt Schmoke

then-Baltimore Mayor Schmoke at the B&O Railroad Museum in August 1991 during his “Stay on Board With Schmoke”-themed campaign for re-election

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images (and counting) are being digitized by Langsdale Library’s Special Collections archivists to form the Kurt L. Schmoke Photograph Collection, which covers 1990-97 and documents much of Schmoke’s tenure as Baltimore mayor; look for a curated online exhibit in the spring


Sandtown kids

photography: Sarah Davis

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students from Baltimore’s Sandtown-Winchester neighborhood visited campus in July to work on crafting their mural design presentations through a partnership among UB, the Baltimore Office of Promotion & the Arts and Jubilee Arts’ Art @ Work: Sandtown, part of a summer-employment program for city teens



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members of the UB School of Law’s Black Law Students Association chapter contributed to earning the title of runner-up for best chapter in the nation, behind Harvard’s, in March

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Far-Flung Faculty

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Building Naming Etches Turner’s Place in UB History

Building Naming Etches Turner’s Place in UB History

The newly renamed H. Mebane Turner Learning Commons pays tribute to a UB legend.

On the Spot

On the Spot

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