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News and Stories

UBalt has announced its new Center for AI Learning and Community-Engaged Innovation

University of Baltimore Opens Center for AI Learning and Community-Engaged Innovation

July 31, 2025
UBalt News

The University of Baltimore has established a public-facing hub for creating knowledge, awareness and opportunity for artificial intelligennce technology—a growing area of interest in education, business, public service, and beyond. UBalt’s new Center for AI Learning and Community-Engaged Innovat...

A graduate in cap, gown, stoles and cords stands on a road median with the campus in the background.

Connections, opportunities propel graduate’s ambition

June 5, 2025
Student Stories

Rebekah Opher's journey to an undergraduate degree started more than two decades ago. While she faced different challenges on the way to this moment, she never wavered in her goals and this May, she graduated with honors.

Baltimore skyline

Vital Signs 23: 'Unequivocal Signs' of a Recovering City

June 5, 2025
UBalt News

Vital Signs 23 offers a deep dive into trends in every neighborhood in Baltimore.

A student poses inside a building

Unexpected opportunities transform tech major’s college experience

June 4, 2025
Student Stories

For Divinevictory Amayo, choosing the University of Baltimore wasn't just a decision, it was a launchpad. He's found scholarships and internships that have propelled his education.

AI and law center

UBalt's AI Summit Explores the Technology's Transformative Impact, June 3

May 1, 2025
UBalt News

The University of Baltimore's AI Summit, taking placed on Tuesday, June 3, from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the John and Frances Angelos Law Center (home of UBalt's School of Law), 1401 N. Charles St., will offer an in-depth exploration of artificial intelligence's transformative impact.

Former U.S. Sen. Barbara Mikulski

Retired U.S. Senator Mikulski to Receive UBalt's Schaefer Award During May 5 Conference

April 28, 2025
UBalt News

The Schaefer Center for Public Policy at The University of Baltimore will host its annual William Donald Schaefer Conference and Award Ceremony on Monday, May 5, in Annapolis, Md. The topic for this year's conference is "Addressing Grand Challenges: State and Local Innovation." The conference and...

Students help a client with their taxes.

Accounting students gain life lessons in tax clinics

February 19, 2025
UBalt Stories

A new service-learning component is giving students an opportunity to apply their knowledge by helping real clients with their income tax filings.

Students prepare for a group walk on a ropes course.

NextGen Program fosters community connections

October 9, 2024
UBalt Stories

A retreat with the Chesapeake Bay Outward Bound School helped the newest members of the Schaefer Center for Public Policy’s NextGen Leaders Program get acquainted while practicing lessons in leadership.

Dr. Stanley Kemp picks up trash along the Jones Falls urban stream in Baltimore.

Service Learning Benefits Students, Baltimore's Jones Falls

January 24, 2023
UBalt Stories

Dr. Stanley Kemp, who serves as director of the B.A. in Environmental Sustainability program, helped to create service-learning opportunities where he could help more members of the UBalt community understand the connections between Jones Falls and the city built around it.