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Just a little bit of bragging about our faculty, staff, students and alumni.

  • The University of Baltimore has been selected as one of 75 institutions nationwide to participate in the Association of College and Research Libraries’ Assessment in Action program. This opportunity is funded in large part by a grant that ACRL received from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. The grant will support the design, implementation and evaluation of a program to strengthen the competencies of librarians in campus leadership and data-informed advocacy. UB will be engaged in planning for, collecting and analyzing assessment data for 14-months. The UB team includes several College of Arts and Sciences faculty, including Natalie Burclaff, Mike Kiel, Beverly Schneller (associate provost), Paul Walsh (director of instructional technology), John Goshert and Catherine Johnson. Learn more about the program.
  • Bridget Blodgett (Division of Science, Information Arts and Technologies), assistant professor, has written two papers with Anastasia Salter , assistant professor, accepted for presentation. One is “#1ReasonWhy Gamers <3 Dickwolves: Understanding Sexism in the Gaming Community,” accepted for presentation at Computers and Writing at Frostburg State University, June 6-9. The other is “ Being Effie: The Hunger Games and War as a Form of Entertainment Media Consumption,” accepted for presentation at Media in Transition 8 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, May 3-5.
  • Kristen Eyssell (Division of Applied Behavioral Sciences), assistant professor, with co-authors Dresden Lackey, graduate student, and Sharesse Williams, undergraduate student, has had a poster accepted for presentation at the annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science. The poster, “‘I’m So into You’: Interest Imbalance as a Function of Partner Type and Relationship Status,” is part of an ongoing program of research focusing on friendship processes.
  • Sally Farley  (Division of Applied Behavioral Sciences), assistant professor, has been awarded a grant to attend the Lorentz Center’s Gossip and the Management of Reputation: The Intersection between the Social, the Natural and the Computational Sciences, which will take place in the Netherlands, Aug. 26-30. The Lorentz Center, an international center for workshops in the sciences, fosters interdisciplinary collaboration between scientists with an eye toward advancing research.
  • Abby Ferretti, M.F.A. ’ 12 (School of Communications Design), alumna of the Integrated Design program, was named to The Daily Record’s list of 20 In Their Twenties. According to the website, the list honors Maryland’s up-and-comers under 30 chosen on the basis of professional accomplishment, civic involvement and impact of achievement. The program celebrates those whose creativity and spirit are already contributing to a new energy in Maryland.
  • Catherine Johnson (Division of Science, Information Arts and Technologies), librarian faculty, presented a paper co-authored with Natalie Burclaff, librarian faculty, “Making Social Media Meaningful: Connecting missions and policies,” at the Association of College and Research Libraries conference in Indianapolis, Ind., April 13.
  • Kendra Kopelke (School of Communications Design), associate professor, was asked to write a poem that she will read May 3 for President William Durden’s retirement from Dickinson College, in Carlysle, Pa.
  • Steven Leyva (School of Communications Design), adjunct faculty, had his poem, “Highlandtown After the Zappa Statue,” recently selected as runner-up in the Enoch Pratt Free Library’s poetry contest, and it will be published in the June issue of the Little Patuxent Review. The contest finalists have been invited to read with the judges May 1 in the Poe Room of the Enoch Pratt Free Library.
  • Anastasia Salter, D.C.D. ’ 10 (Division of Science, Information Arts and Technologies), assistant professor, gave an invited talk, “Gaming for a Classroom (R)evolution: Transforming Learning through Play,” as part of the Revolution! series at the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities, April 18. The talk also served as the opening event of THATCamp Games 2013, where she was invited to lead a workshop on Designing Board Games with a Purpose. She also facilitated a session during the unconference on Making Interactive Texts in the Classroom.