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Join the UMB student, faculty, & staff group for @baltimoreLGBTQpride parade tomorrow. Open to all students and faculty. Look for group "University of Maryland." Be there for staging by 11:30am Saturday @ 29th St and Art Street Dr. The parade starts at 1 pm. #UMBDiversity

#UMBaltimore community: Join UMB President Jay A. Perman, MD, on Tuesday, June 19 in the University of Maryland School of Nursing Auditorium as he answers questions from students, staff, and faculty.Can't make it in person? Visit youtube.com/UnivMdBaltimore on June 19 from 10-11 a.m. to watch live on YouTube.

UMB’s Community Engagement Center (CEC) hosts an early voting site for the 2018 primary election. Baltimore residents are able to vote and to register to vote at the center from June 14-21. Before turning over the premises to the Baltimore City Board of Elections for that period, the CEC involved children and their mentors in making decorations with a get-out-the-vote theme. “I think it’s terrific that UMB can provide our neighbors a convenient place to vote, a place where they can show their children the importance of this civic right and civic responsibility,” says President Jay. A. Perman, MD, who cast his own ballot on June 14 at the CEC. There he was able to admire a window adorned with cut-outs of VOTE, decorated by children and mentors in UMB’s Police Athletics/Activities League (PAL) program. Their art project opened up a discussion about voting, said Kelly Quinn, PhD, CEC coordinator. Quinn said the CEC has taken several steps to raise civic awareness; Volunteers canvassed neighborhoods in the Southwest Partnership and recruited 11 people to register to vote and obtained commitment cards signed by more than 100 people who vowed to go to the polls during the primary. The CEC is holding a cookout and poll party on Saturday, June 16 on the adjacent lawn. Attendees will receive a specially designed “Vote” button, crafted by volunteers and members of the CEC staff using the Innovation Space at the UMB Health Sciences and Human Services Library. Located at 1 N. Poppleton Street in the UM BioPark complex, the CEC will be open during the early-voting period from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. every day including Saturday, June 16 and Sunday, June 17. A space at 870 W. Baltimore St. has been designated for handicapped parking. The CEC reopens June 22.

TRAFFIC ALERT: UMB community members please be advised to avoid the area of North Greene Street at West Saratoga Street due to a construction accident. No injuries reported. Saratoga eastbound is blocked. Will provide updates.

Who is going to VOTE! with us at this early voting center? We open June 14 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. and every day 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. until June 21.This sign is brought to us by our National PAL chapter children.Neighborhoods who vote are neighborhoods who matter!

In collaboration with experts across disciplines at #UMBaltimore, the University of Maryland School of Dentistry’s Abraham Schneider, DDS, PhD, is developing novel research that aims to help prevent the progression of oral cancer.Learn more about Dr. Schneider and all of our 2018 #UMBChampions at umaryland.edu/champions. #WeAreUMB

ICYMI: A recent piece on University of Maryland School of Social Work's Social Worker in the Library program.

A four-year grant from the National Quality Improvement Center at University of Maryland School of Social Work aims to develop programs, standards, and practices that will improve the lives of LGBTQ youth in the foster care system, including those in Cuyahoga County, Ohio.

#UMBaltimore’s Diversity Advisory Council (DAC) works to promote diversity, inclusion, and equity at UMB. This week’s featured quote from #UMBDAC comes from best-selling author Anne Wilson Schaef.Learn more about DAC at umaryland.edu/diversity. #UMBDiversity

There were some mighty interesting things going on in the Technology Test Kitchen at UMB's first Teaching with Technology Day, including seeing the insides of this guy. For full story, video: https://bit.ly/2HHYts4

Due to major medical advances in the 1970s & 80s, there’s now a group of young women with histories of heart disease who don’t realize that getting pregnant could endanger their lives, observes Kristen Holland's cardiologist, Dr. Stacy Fisher of University of Maryland Medical Center & University of Maryland School of Medicine Official Page

As chair of Industrial Pharmacy and Pharmaceutics at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy, James Polli, PhD, has devoted his career to ensuring the quality of the complex prescription drug products that billions of people rely on every day. As co-director of the Maryland Center of Excellence In Regulatory Science & Innovation (M-CERSI), Dr. Polli trains the next generation of regulatory scientists. Together, they are revolutionizing the way that drugs and medical devices are evaluated.Learn more about Dr. Polli and all of our 2018 #UMBChampions at umaryland.edu/champions. #WeAreUMB

Who knew? Scott D. Swank, DDS, MS, that's who. The curator of the National Museum of Dentistry explains to Ksenia Turkova and photographer Aleksander Bergan how toothbrushes were once made of bone and boar's hair until circumstances of World War II hastened use of the nylon and plastic brushes in use today. The museum, a Smithsonian affiliate, is part of the University of Maryland School of Dentistry , the world's first college of dentistry. Turkova and Bergan of Voice of America - VOA were in Baltimore preparing a documentary about the city and its history to air next fall for Russian language audiences. Listen for the Russian connection in Dr. Swank's remarks.

The University of Maryland, Baltimore CURE Scholars Program is the nation’s 1st CURE (Continuing Umbrella of Research Experiences) program to begin its pipeline to science careers as early as middle school. This spring all 80 students from West Baltimore were honored for their accomplishments as the eighth-graders were hailed for their selective high school placements Baltimore City Public Schools

“It’s never too late to live your dream. It’s never too late to dream it and do it.”That was the inspiring advice of Doreen Montalvo, longtime actor and current cast member in the touring production of ON YOUR FEET! The Musical, who joined nearly 15 #UMBaltimore students, faculty, and staff at the Hippodrome Theatre on June 7 for a Broadway 101 lunchtime event organized by the University’s Council for the Arts & Culture.Thursday's event was the latest in an enlightening series that takes you behind the scenes of the Hippodrome Theatre and the shows that perform there. Thank you to Doreen Montalvo for sharing your story, insights, and advice with us! On Your Feet! is playing at the Hippodrome Theatre at the France-Merrick Performing Arts Center through Sunday, June 10.To learn more about the UMB Council for the Arts & Culture's events and programs, visit umaryland.edu/arts/.