UB By the Numbers
Category: Noteworthy
photo courtesy of UB Campus Recreation and Wellness
was the winning score of UB’s intramural 4-on-4 flag football championship game last fall, clinched by the 404 Squad—one of four competing teams—with a 2-point win
was UB’s MBA program ranking in CEO Magazine’s 2016 Global online MBA Rankings, published Feb. 8
cities, including Baltimore, are serving as pilot locations for the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network’s USA Sustainable Cities Initiative; UB, the College of Public Affairs and the Jacob France Institute in the Merrick School of Business are serving as lead university partners
College of Public Affairs graduate students attended the Amnesty International USA Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference in Baltimore in November, thanks in part to the Global Affairs and Human Security Student Association, which served as a host committee
days a month, the Baltimore City Eastside District Court’s veterans treatment docket helps rehabilitate (rather than incarcerate) veterans involved in the criminal justice system; UB School of Law student-attorneys conduct intake interviews and train mentors to assist the justice-involved veterans
alumni work at the state’s newly created Department of Commerce with a focus on improving Maryland’s economic and business climate:
- Harry Carroll, B.S. ’73
- Victor H. Clark, B.S. ’74
- Joel McCrea, B.S. ’75
- Stacey Harvey-Reid, B.S. ’90
- Gregory Derwart, M.A. ’96
- Celester Hall, MBA ’98
- Brian Castleberry, B.A. ’00
- Rahel Kidane, B.S. ’00
- Signe Pringle, M.P.A. ’05
- Brady Walker, J.D. ’11
- Darla Garrett, B.A. ’99, M.P.A. ’12
UB By the … Books
photo courtesy of UB’s BeMore
100 students, faculty, staff, alumni and community members—and their families and guests—built and stocked “book boxes” (free mini libraries) in four Southwest Baltimore neighborhoods during Make a Difference Day, Oct. 24
174 students in UB’s required First-Year and Sophomore Seminar classes received free textbooks through a partnership with Barnes & Noble at the University of Baltimore
6,000 volumes of poetry-related books and other materials compose the Baltimore Poetry Library—the largest collection in the mid-Atlantic region—which opened this spring as part of UB’s Klein Family School of Communications Design
