(58:13) On the Jan. 19, 2023, edition of Virtual Face to Face with President Bruce Jarrell, University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) President Bruce E. Jarrell, MD, FACS, discussed community engagement efforts of the UMB Police Department (UMBPD) with Outreach Liaison Officer Cpl. Yale Partlow.Without a doubt, the UMB campus is one of the safest places in the city. Rumor and casual perception may say otherwise, but as students and employees of an institution of higher education, members of the UMB community know there is no substitute for the facts. UMBPD releases those facts every year in the annual Clery Report.The latest Clery Report showed just one robbery and two aggravated assaults reported on campus over a 12-month period — and no other violent crimes.Learn more at https://www.umaryland.edu/news/archived-news/january-2023/face-to-face-community-policing-at-umb.php#Baltimore #BaltimorePolicing

(2:21) On Dec. 2, the culminating event of a social experiment came together at the University of Maryland, Baltimore’s (UMB) Community Engagement Center (CEC). In front of a small audience of West Baltimore neighbors, three Baltimore-based visual and performing artists shared their work as part of the Sowebo Story Swap. The Sowebo Story Swap is a workshop conceived and developed by University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) graduate student Kristin Putchinski in a partnership program with UMBC, UMB, and the CEC, telling stories of Southwest Baltimore, better known as Sowebo.Read more: https://www.umaryland.edu/news/archived-news/december-2022/west-baltimore-neighbors-swap-stories.php#baltimore #spokenwordpoetry

(1:26) On Dec. 19, children and families from West Baltimore were given tickets to ride the Polar Express Experience, an immersive holiday-themed train ride at the B&O Railroad Museum (@BORRM) that’s based on the best-selling novel and animated movie “The Polar Express.” The tickets were provided by a sponsorship from the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB).

(1:18) West Baltimore residents shop for Christmas gifts at a deep discount at the 2022 Christmas Store in partnership with the University of Maryland, Baltimore Community Engagement Center and Foundry Church. Most gifts cost between $1-$5. For 2022, UMB and Foundry partnered with @WJZ13TV collecting inventory for the store, which totaled more than 1,000 toys. In addition to the toys for sale, the Maryland Book Bank set up shop in the store. Every shopper who passed through could pick out a book for each of their children and a holiday-themed book to read as a family at no charge.Read more: https://www.umaryland.edu/news/archived-news/december-2022/community-christmas-store-returns.php#christmasshopping #ChristmasinBaltimore #baltimore

(58:14) On Dec. 15, 2022, the University of Maryland, Baltimore program Virtual Face to Face with President Bruce Jarrell examined the two cases before the U.S. Supreme Court regarding racial preferences in college admissions. The guest host was Roger J. Ward, JD, EdD, MSL, MPA, provost, executive vice president, and Graduate School dean. The guests were University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law Dean and Professor Renée McDonald Hutchins, JD, University System of Maryland Regents Scholar, Professor Mark Graber, JD, PhD, MA, and Chief Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Officer and Vice President Diane Forbes Berthoud, PhD, MA.

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(1:04:36) On Dec. 6, 2022, the Univesity of Maryland, Baltimore Roundtable on Empowerment in Leadeship and Leveraging Aspirations (UMBRELLA) presented a panel discussion hosted by University of Maryland Francis King Kelly School of Law Dean Renée McDonald Hutchins. The guests were University of Maryland Baltimore County President Valerie Sheares Ashby and Salisbury University President Carolyn Ringer Lepre;

(2:13) University of Maryland Baltimore President Bruce E. Jarrell, MD, FACS, and wife Leslie Robinson, MD, and their grandchildren wish you and your family a warm and happy holiday season.

(1:44) With the combined efforts of the University of Maryland, Baltimore, University of Maryland Medical Center, and @WJZ13TV, donors raised a total of $54,769 that provided Thanksgiving meal baskets to 1,484 families in West Baltimore for the 2022 Thanksgiving Food Drive.Read more: https://www.umaryland.edu/news/archived-news/november-2022/nearly-1500-families-served-in-annual-thanksgiving-drive.php#Thanskgiving #WestBaltimore #fooddrive

(2:17) From using paper records and operating out of a basement of a building that is no longer on the University of Maryland, Baltimore campus, to becoming a thriving solution-providing center serving the entire state, the Maryland Poison Center’s 50th anniversary was celebrated in 2022 with a reception and reflections on its storied history and influence. The Maryland Poison Center is part of the @UMBSchoolofPharmacy and has been open since 1972.Read more here: https://www.umaryland.edu/news/archived-news/november-2022/md-poison-center-celebrates-50-years-of-service.php

(1:38) The second phase of the Pearl Street Gallery at the Pearl Street Underpass at the University of Maryland Baltimore features works from the second edition of 1807, which was released in August 2020. 1807 is the Art and Literary Journal of the University of Maryland, Baltimore. The new exhibit features 27 pieces from among the journal’s four categories (writing, visual arts, photography, and varied media) and, similar to the east side of the underpass, LED spotlights are mounted above for illuminationRead more here: https://www.umaryland.edu/news/archived-news/november-2022/second-phase-adds-more-1807-color-to-pearl-street.php#PublicArt #baltimoreartist #murals

(1:16:04) On Nov. 17, 2022 the University of Maryland, Baltimore hosted journalists Mara Liasson of @NPR and @FoxNews, and Jonah Goldberg, syndicated political columnist, author, and founder of The Dispatch for a wide ranging discussion of the outcome of the 2022 election. Hosted by UMB President Bruce Jarrell, the program included examination of likely policy proposals that may impact higher education.#politics #midtermelections #midtermelections2022

(1:01:01) Forbes Berthoud joined UMB Provost, Executive Vice President, and Graduate School Dean Roger J. Ward, EdD, JD, MPA, MSL, on Nov. 17 on Virtual Face to Face with President Bruce Jarrell. Following a fact-filled discussion of the EDI dashboard and other OEDI projects, Ward and Forbes Berthoud engaged the virtual audience in a wide-ranging discussion of the state of EDI and the progress of efforts to improve hiring, retention, the inclusiveness of the environment, and much more.

(2:41) The University of Maryland Strategic Partnership: MPowering the State (MPower) announced a transformative partnership to establish the University of Maryland 3 - Institute for Health Computing (UM-3-IHC). The new era in data-driven biomedical innovation is being led by the @UMBaltimore and University of Maryland College Park collaboration with the @universityofmarylandmedica3585 and @montgomerycountymd.The transformative partnership will establish North Bethesda as a national epicenter of computationally enabled biomedical research, population health, and precision medicine. Big data combined with state-of-the-art analytical approaches have the potential to greatly improve medical outcomes and population health.The institute will leverage recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and computing to create a premier learning health care system that evaluates both de-identified and secure digitized medical health data to diagnose, prevent, and treat diseases in patients across Maryland.The institute is expected to open in leased space in early 2023, with final completion of laboratory and office space at the North Bethesda Metro location in 2028. Initial funding of $25 million is provided by MPower. The Montgomery County government will provide an additional $40 million to develop the North Bethesda site.Read more: https://www.umaryland.edu/news/archived-news/november-2022/ai-center-looks-to-the-future-of-health-care-in-maryland.php#artificialintelligence #AI #healthcaretechnology #healthcarereform #moco #bethesda #UMD #UMD3 #datascience #bigdata

(2:06) Aishwarya Iyer, a MD/PhD student at the @schoolofmedicine and University of Maryland Baltimore Graduate School has been named the 2022 UMB Student of the Year.Iyer has certainly made her mark on the UMB community since arriving on campus in 2018 after earning a bachelor’s degree in biochemistry and molecular biology from the @umbc University of Maryland, Baltimore County, where she received numerous honors including the Meyerhoff and Creighton Memorial scholarships and an NCAA Division I Intercollegiate Tennis Association Scholar-Athlete Award.Now a fifth-year MD/PhD student in the Medical Scientist Training Program, on track to earn her PhD in 2024 and medical degree in 2026, she carries a 4.0 graduate school grade-point average and is a trainee of a National Institutes of Health T32 research training program in gastroenterology and hepatology.Read more: https://www.umaryland.edu/founders/founders-week-award-winners/student-of-the-year/

(2:31) Richard Boldt , JD,, the T. Carroll Brown Professor of Law at @Maryland_Carey_Law, who has been selected the Student Bar Association Teacher of the Year multiple times, can add another title to his accomplishments: UMB’s 2022 Educator of the Year.Read more: https://www.umaryland.edu/founders/founders-week-award-winners/educator-of-the-year/

(2:17) The contributions and efforts of Man-Kyo Chung, DMD, PhD in the field of pain research have led him to be named the University of Maryland, Baltimore’s (UMB) 2022 Founders Week Researcher of the Year.Chung, DMD, PhD, professor, Department of Neural and Pain Sciences, and assistant dean of research and graduate studies, University of Maryland School of Dentistry (UMSOD), studies how we feel pain at both the molecular and body levels, especially conditions arising from oral and craniofacial areas, with the objective of developing and promoting non-opioidergic pain treatments.He is an expert in the electrophysiological, biophysical, and genetic analysis of nociceptors and nociceptive ion channels, including transient receptor potential vanilloid 1 (TRPV1), a receptor for capsaicin. Much of his research has been on capsaicin and how capsaicin receptors produce and alleviate craniofacial pain.Chung serves as a @universityofmarylandschool9225 Professor, Department of Neural and Pain Sciences; Assistant Dean of Research and Graduate Studies; Co-Director, UMB Center to Advance Chronic Pain Research.Read more: https://www.umaryland.edu/founders/founders-week-award-winners/researcher-of-the-year/

(1:54) For his work with KaloCyte, Allan Doctor, MD was named the University of Maryland, Baltimore’s (UMB) 2022 Founders Week David J. Ramsay Entrepreneur of the Year. The award name recognizes the late Ramsay, DM, DPhil, who was UMB’s president from 1994 to 2010 and boosted the University’s research profile and collaboration among academic and industry partners during his tenure.Doctor is a @schoolofmedicine Professor, Department of Pediatrics Director, Center for Blood Oxygen Transport and Hemostasis.Read more: https://www.umaryland.edu/founders/founders-week-award-winners/david-j-ramsay-entrepreneur-of-the-year/

(2:13) For her extensive teaching, research, community service, and advocacy in addressing health disparities, Yolanda Ogbolu, PhD, CRNP-Neonatal, FNAP, FAAN, was named the University of Maryland, Baltimore’s (UMB) 2022 Founders Week Public Servant of the Year.Ogbolu is a @UMSONVideos Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Partnerships, Professional Education, and Practice Co-Director, Center for Health Equity and Outcomes Research.Read more: https://www.umaryland.edu/founders/founders-week-award-winners/public-servant-of-the-year/

(1:18:30) Please join UMB President Bruce E. Jarrell, MD, FACS, as he delivers his 2022 State of the University Address, recapping UMB’s accomplishments and looking forward to its exciting future.This event includes recognition of UMB’s 2022 Founders Week award winners, Catalyst for Excellence honorees, and the UMB Foundation’s Distinguished Service Award recipients.Read more: https://www.umaryland.edu/news/archived-news/november-2022/state-of-university-challenges-met-challenges-ahead.php #UMB