Catalyst Magazine

Body of Expertise: Graduate School Alumna Fahren Nipple Brings Experience from Office of Chief Medical Examiner to UMB Students

The autopsy assistant also is the assistant program director for the Master of Science in Forensic Medicine.

Championing LGBTQIA+ Community: UMSOM’s Novak Serving on Maryland Commission

She applied for the appointment because she is concerned about the rise in discrimination against members of the LGBTQ+ community.

Global Connections: School of Nursing Takes on Health Care Disparities with Global Learning for Health Equity Network

The network, housed at UMB, is built on the belief that interventions designed to eliminate health inequities in other countries may also work in U.S. communities.

Getting to Know Nadine Finigan-Carr

The executive director of the Center for Violence Prevention has focused her research on the social factors that lead communities into risky behaviors that lead to chronic disease, injury, and violence.

A Force for Jobs: CEC’s Initiatives Help Residents Build Skills and Find Work at UMB and UMMC

In addition to Workforce Wednesdays, the Community Engagement Center has teamed with nonprofit Humanim for its administrative assistants training.

YouthWorks Works: Program Put Young City Student on Career Path to UMB’s Web Development Team

UMB's departments and offices can offer these types of opportunities to the young people of Baltimore through the summer program.

Meet UMB’s Public Servant of the Year

Shantay McKinily has transformed the Positive Schools Center from a startup program into a nationally recognized educational innovation center.

Preventing Violence at Its Roots: UMB’s Center for Violence Prevention’s Pioneering Approach

The center will connect the numerous research and clinical programs at UMB that address violence and the social determinants of health related to trauma.

‘Beating Heart’ of Law School: Clinical Law Program Has Been Making a Difference for 50 Years

The program continues to address Baltimore’s severe lack of access to justice for disadvantaged and underrepresented communities.

Turning a Page: UMB’s Academy of Lifelong Learning Tutors Children in Reading

ALL found that the majority of students who participated in the fall made significant progress in their literacy skills during the program.

A Study in Outreach: UMSOP Offers Tutoring, Hands-On Learning To Youths

A Bridge to Academic Excellence offers free tutoring and mentoring for middle and high school students.

Building Blocks: UMSOD Works to Expand Children’s Access to Oral Health Care

The Oral Health for Underserved Uninsured Children program offers services including examinations, preventive care, and comprehensive restorative care.

Branching Out: UMSON Students Offer Health Services to Community at Pratt Library

The program helps to fill gaps in community health care made more evident during the pandemic and provides a hands-on clinical experience for nursing students.

A Strong Foundation: UMSOM Alumna Jennifer Gass, MD, FACS, Breaks New Ground as Breast Cancer Surgeon

As chief of surgery at Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island and director of the Breast Health Center there at Brown University, she typically does about 200 surgeries a year.

Paws on Patrol: Poe Joins UMBPD as Comfort K9

After three years of service, comfort K9 Lexi is retiring from the department.

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Lynne Henry, Laura Kozak, Larry Kushner, Jennifer Litchman, Thomas Sullivan, Kate Ostrowski

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