University of Maryland, Baltimore
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| Established | 1807 |
| Type | Public |
| President | Dr. Jay A. Perman, MD |
| Faculty | 2,321 (many part-time)1 |
| Undergraduates | 8101 |
| Postgraduates | 5,0741 |
| Location | Baltimore, Maryland, United States |
| Campus | Urban, 60 acreage (242,811 m²) |
| Website | http://www.umaryland.edu |
University of Maryland, Baltimore, (also accepted as UMB) was founded in 1807. It comprises some of the oldest professional schools in the nation and world. It is the aboriginal campus of the University Arrangement of Maryland. Amid on 60 acreage (242,811 m²) in city Baltimore, Maryland, it is allotment of the University Arrangement of Maryland. Effective July 1, 2010, Dr. Jay A Perman, M.D., was appointed admiral by Dr. William English Kirwan, adjudicator of the University of Maryland System.
UMB comprises seven able schools:
- Dental School [1], aboriginal in the world, (founded 1840)
- Graduate School (founded 1917)
- School of Law (founded 1816)
- School of Medicine (founded 1807)
- School of Nursing (founded 1889)
- School of Pharmacy (founded 1841)
- School of Accessible Health (founded 2006)
- School of Amusing Work (founded 1961)
Professional schools
University of Maryland Dental School
The University of Maryland Dental School was the aboriginal dental academy in the world. Founded in 1840 as the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery (BCDS), it was accountant by an act of the Maryland General Assembly. Its arch founders were Drs. Horace H. Hayden and Chapin A. Harris. It was the aboriginal academy in the apple to action a science-based class in dentistry.[2] It currently ranks a allotment of top 10 in the nation to accept NIH analysis funding. The academy confused to a new architecture in October 2006. The new building, amid adjoining to the old one in Baltimore Street, offers some of the newest accessories and technologies in the apple for apprenticeship and accommodating care. The amount of architecture and equipments was over $140 actor USD, the accomplished spent by the accompaniment of Maryland on an bookish building.
University of Maryland Academy of Law
The University of Maryland Academy of Law opened in 1823 as the "Maryland Law Institute" "in a ample and ample architecture on South street, abreast Market street." [3]. The law academy confused to a new architecture in 2002, adjoining to the website of Westminster Presbyterian Burying Ground the cemetery area the artist and biographer Edgar Allan Poe is buried. It is the alone law academy in the United States with a acclaimed columnist active on its campus. Westminster Hall is acclimated for campus contest and is generally requested for marriage ceremonies.
The University of Maryland Academy of Law was ranked 36th a allotment of law schools according to the 2008 copy of U.S. News and Apple Report law academy rankings and was aswell ranked a allotment of the top 10 programs for bloom law, analytic law and ecology law. The Academy of Law's students' undergraduate average GPA is a 3.65 and average Law Academy Admissions Test (LSAT) account is a 162. It admits 16.1% of applicants, authoritative it one of the a lot of careful law schools in the country. [4].
University of Maryland Academy of Medicine
Established in 1807, the University of Maryland Academy of Medicine is the aboriginal accessible and the fifth oldest medical school in the United States and the aboriginal to convention a abode training program. The medical academy includes Davidge Hall, which was congenital in 1812 and is the oldest architecture in the Northern Hemisphere in connected use for medical education. [5] It is listed on the Civic Register of Historic Places. In the 1950s, it was called afterwards architect and aboriginal Dean John Beale Davidge. The Medical Academy offers a collective MD/Master of Accessible Health (MPH) degree. [6] In July 2005, the majority of the Ph.D. acceding programs that were ahead administering based were reorganized to for the Alum Affairs in Life Science [7].
The Medical Academy was ranked 30th for primary affliction and 41st for medical analysis in the 2008 copy of U.S. News and Apple Report medical academy rankings. It admits 8.4% of applicants. [8]. This academy afresh acclaimed its bicentennial culminating with the 2007 commencement. The accepted Dean is Dr. E. Albert Reece, M.D., Ph.D., M.B.A., F.A.C.O.G., but he is now confined as Acting Admiral of the University of Maryland, Baltimore.
The University of Maryland Academy of Medicine has launched two analysis institutes, the Convention of Human Virology (IHV) and the Convention for Genome Sciences (IGS).
- The Convention of Human Virology (IHV)
- Formed in 1996 as a affiliation amid the Accompaniment of Maryland, the City of Baltimore, the University Arrangement of Maryland and the University of Maryland Medical System, IHV is an convention of the University of Maryland Academy of Medicine and is a centermost of virology research. Robert C. Gallo, M.D. is Director of IHV.
- The Convention for Genome Sciences (IGS)
- Launched in 2007, the Convention for Genome Sciences (IGS) is an internationally accustomed genomics analysis centermost at the University of Maryland Academy of Medicine. IGS board use genomic and bioinformatic accoutrement to analysis genome action in bloom and diseases and plan in interdisciplinary collaborations with biomedical investigators. IGS is led by Dr. Claire M. Fraser-Liggett.
- Research areas include: Bioinformatics, Cancer Genomics, Functional Genomics, Human Genetic Variation, Infectious Diseases, Organismal Diversity and Evolution, Human Microbiome Project, Plant Genomics, and Microbial Association Ecology.
- Investigators at IGS plan on Disease Ontology research, the Data Analysis and Coordination Centermost (DACC) for HMP, and added grants. IGS is one of the Genome Sequencing Centermost for Infectious Diseases (GSCID) centers appointed by NIAID.
University of Maryland Academy of Nursing
The University of Maryland Academy of Nursing, founded in 1889 by Nightingale Fund alum Louisa Parsons, is one of the oldest and one of the better nursing schools in the nation.citation needed The Academy is accepted for avant-garde educational programs that abode burning healthcare needs nationally and internationally.citation needed The academy pioneered the aboriginal nursing informatics affairs in the apple and the nation's aboriginal nursing bloom action program.citation needed According to the a lot of contempo nursing academy rankings, The University of Maryland Academy of Nursing was ranked the 7th best nursing academy in the 2008 copy of U.S. News & Apple Report.
The Academy of Nursing building, which opened in November 1998, shares a 32-acre (130,000 m2) campus in city Baltimore with 5 able schools — Dentistry, Law, Medicine, Pharmacy and Amusing Plan — as able-bodied as the University of Maryland Medical Arrangement and the Veterans Affairs Medical Center. The campus is a civic baton in bloom sciences research, with $256 actor in grants and affairs in budgetary year 2001.
The Academy of Nursing has pioneered a array of avant-garde educational programs, including the aboriginal nursing informatics affairs in the apple and the nation’s aboriginal nursing bloom action program.citation needed Added than 20 specialties are offered at the alum level, including trauma/critical-care, oncology, gerontology, psychiatric/mental bloom nursing, and nursing administration. In 1999, the Academy of Nursing became the alone academy in Maryland to action a midwifery program, pre-accredited by the American College of Nurse Midwives.citation needed Nurse practitioner options are aswell offered in pediatrics, women’s health, neonatal accelerated care, developed primary care, astute affliction and geriatrics.
A array of adjustable and accumulated programs are offered to advance amount completion. These cover the additional bachelor's amount option, the RN to BSN online program, the RN to MS program, the post-baccalaureate access advantage into the PhD program, and the MS/MBA and PhD/MBA programs offered in affiliation with the University of Baltimore; Frostburg Accompaniment University; and the Robert H. Smith Academy of Business, University of Maryland College Park. Affiliation programs for BSN achievement accompany the Academy of Nursing with the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, the University of Maryland College Park, Washington College in Chestertown, MD, as able-bodied as all of Maryland's association colleges.
To accommodate analytic programs for students, the Academy of Nursing maintains affiliations with added than 300 hospitals and bloom affliction agencies throughout Maryland. In addition, aural the 154,000-square-foot (14,300 m2) Academy of Nursing architecture are analytic simulation laboratories, which aswell allow acceptance hands-on training in a real-life setting.
The Academy of Nursing offers a avant-garde ambit of courses at off-campus locations. Acceptance can accept at abundant beat sites throughout the state, allowing association in remote, educationally under-served areas to complete undergraduate and alum degrees in nursing. Linking regional, civic and all-embracing audiences, the Academy incorporates the a lot of avant-garde classroom and class design, as able-bodied as avant-garde ambit acquirements communications technology, to accommodate a advanced apprenticeship experience.
The School of Nursing Living History Museum, clearly opened in October, 1999, examines the history of the Academy of Nursing from its founding in 1889 to present day.
University of Maryland Academy of Pharmacy
The University of Maryland Academy of Pharmacy, founded in 1841, is the fourth oldest academy of pharmacy in the nation and was the aboriginal pharmacy academy accustomed in Maryland. The Academy of Pharmacy comprises three departments, Pharmacy Practice and Science, Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Pharmaceutical Bloom Casework Research. The academy accepted 11.4% of applicants for the 2006-2007 academy year.[9] According to the a lot of contempo pharmacy academy rankings, The University of Maryland Academy of Pharmacy was ranked 9th a allotment of pharmacy schools in the 2008 copy of U.S. News and Apple Report.
University of Maryland Academy of Amusing Work
The University of Maryland Academy of Amusing Work is a top affairs in amusing plan education. Graduates of the Academy of Amusing Plan accept become policymakers at all levels of government, from the U.S. Senate to the accompaniment and federal courts, to the Accompaniment Administering and departments of amusing services. Graduates aswell plan as educators and advisers at universities beyond the country and accept become therapists, association organizers, and managers. According to the a lot of contempo rankings, The University of Maryland Academy of Amusing Plan was ranked 18th a allotment of schools of amusing plan in the 2008 copy of U.S. News and Apple Report.
University of Maryland, Baltimore Bloom Sciences & Human Casework Library
UMB's Health Sciences & Human Casework Library was founded in 1813 from the accumulating of Doctor John Crawford, a above British argosy surgeon, and is the agent of the absolute University of Maryland Library System.[10] The aboriginal area of the library was beyond from the medical academy (now accepted as Davidge Hall), in a church. The abbey was after razed for architecture of a new library that opened in 1960. The library has back confused into a ample avant-garde architecture in 1998.
UMB Alum School
The Graduate School was founded in 1918. UMB alum academy offers 43 amount programs in total.
Name of the Institution
The able schools housed at the University of Maryland, Baltimore may aswell artlessly use the name "University of Maryland" if anecdotic themselves even admitting the University of Maryland, College Park aswell refers to itself artlessly as the University of Maryland. There is almost little abashing consistent from the aggregate name because the University of Maryland, College Park offers abundantly research-oriented alum programs and houses beneath able schools. The University of Maryland, Baltimore does not action NCAA sports. Although this university mainly action alum and able study, it offers several undergraduate courses, which cover nursing, concrete therapy, dental hygiene and medical technology. By law and attitude anniversary academy is advantaged to use the "University of Maryland" name in acceptance of their aggregate history. While both schools are University Arrangement of Maryland institutions, neither is a allotment of the other.
The University of Maryland, Baltimore is aswell generally mistaken for the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), which is a abstracted University Arrangement of Maryland academy amid in the boondocks of Catonsville, alfresco the City of Baltimore.
Notable alumni
Governors
- Austin Lane Crothers, 46th Governor of Maryland, from 1908 - 1912.
- Theodore R. McKeldin, 53rd Governor of Maryland from 1951–1959
- Herbert O'Conor, 51st Governor of Maryland from 1939–1947, U.S. Senate 1947 - 1953
- Martin O'Malley, (1988), Mayor of Baltimore, 1999–2006, and Governor of Maryland, 2007–present.
- Albert Ritchie, 49th Governor of Maryland from 1920–1935
U.S. Senators
- Daniel B. Brewster, U.S. Senator for Maryland, 1963–1969; Congressman for Maryland's 2nd District, 1959–1963
- William Cabell Bruce, (1882), U.S. Senator from Maryland from 1923-1929.
- Ben Cardin, (1967), U.S. Congressman for United States House of Representatives, 1987–2006, and U.S. Senator from Maryland, 2007–present.
- Charles Mathias, Jr., U.S. Senator from Maryland from 1969 - 1987.
- Barbara Mikulski, (1965), U.S. Senator from Maryland from 1987–present.
- George L. P. Radcliffe, (1903), U.S. Senator from Maryland from 1935–1947
- Isidor Rayner, U.S. Senator from Maryland from 1905-1912.
- Joseph Tydings, (1953), U.S. Senator from Maryland from 1965–1971
- Millard Tydings, U.S. Senator from Maryland from 1927 - 1951.
U.S. Congressmen
- William Purington Cole, Jr., U.S. Congressman from Maryland's 2nd District, 1927-1929 & 1931-1942.
- Elijah Cummings, (1976), U.S. Congressman for Maryland's 7th District, 1996–present.
- John Charles Linthicum, (1890), U.S. Congressman for Maryland's 4th District, 1911-1932.
- Hugh Meade, (1932), U.S. Congressman for Maryland 2nd District, 1947-1949.
State Senators
- Thomas V. Mike Miller, Jr., Admiral of Accompaniment Senate 1987–present.
State Delegates
- James W. Campbell, (1976), above affiliate of Maryland House of Delegates
- Adelaide C. Eckardt, (1978), (1981), affiliate Maryland House of Delegates
- Donald B. Elliott, (1957), affiliate Maryland House of Delegates.
- Louise Virginia Snodgrass, above affiliate of Maryland House of Delegates
Judges
- Lynne A. Battaglia, (1974), Maryland Accompaniment Supreme Court Adjudicator (Maryland Court of Appeals), 2001–present
- Andre M. Davis (1978), judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, 1995-2009; adjudicator U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit 2009-present.
- Clayton Greene, Jr., (1976), Maryland Accompaniment Supreme Court Adjudicator (Maryland Court of Appeals), 2004–present
- Glenn T. Harrell, Jr., (1970), Maryland Accompaniment Supreme Court Adjudicator (Maryland Court of Appeals), 1999–present
- Lawrence F. Rodowsky, (1956), judge, Maryland Court of Appeals, 1980-2000.
- Alan M. Wilner, (1962), Maryland Accompaniment Supreme Court Adjudicator (Maryland Court of Appeals), 1996–present
Others
- Charles C. Byrne, U.S. Army general
- Dr. Antonio Fernós-Isern The aboriginal Puerto Rican cardiologist and its longest confined citizen commissioner.
- Louis L. Goldstein, (1938), Maryland Comptroller of the Treasury, 1959-1998.
- Archibald "Moonlight" Graham, (1908), Major League Baseball player, portrayed in the blur Field of Dreams
- Robert M. Parker Jr., (1973), advised world's arch wine critic.
- William C. Schmeisser, (1907), National Lacrosse Hall of Fame inductee.
- James T. Smith, (1968), Baltimore County Executive, 2002–present
- F. Mason Sones, (1943), Cardiologist, artist of coronary angiography.
- Enrique Pérez Santiago, aboriginal Puertorican hematologist
Notable faculty
- Dan K. Morhaim, now affiliate of Maryland House of Delegates.
Campus
The campus is composed of 58 barrio amid abreast Camden Yards and Baltimore's acclaimed Lexington Market. Architecture on a new 114,000-square-foot (10,600 m2) campus centermost began at the alpha of 2007 and opened in August 2009 as the Southern Management Corporation Campus Centermost (SMC Center).[11] The SMC Centermost contains dining facilities, affair locations and the campus's amphitheater and amusement facility, URecFit. UMB has aswell afresh undertaken a all-inclusive west campus expansion. This 10-acre (40,000 m2) project, accepted as BioPark, will actualize ten new barrio absolute a absolute of 1,200,000 square anxiety (111,000 m2) of classroom, lab, and appointment space.[12] In addition, University of Maryland Medical Arrangement has austere a city website for the architecture of a $329 actor ambulant affliction center.
The university is served by the University Center/Baltimore Artery base of the Baltimore Light Rail system, which is at the eastern bend of campus. The Orange Route of the chargeless Charm City Circulator provides account to both the BioPark and through the UMB campus to the close anchorage and credibility east.
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