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April 2007 Medical Students Take a Day Off to Give Back to Baltimore More than 600 students from the School of Medicine fanned out across Baltimore to help others in the first Student Service Day. View Full Article Posting Date: 04/30/2007 Contact Name: Larry Roberts Contact Phone: (410) 706-4939 Contact Email: lroberts@som.umaryland.edu Top School of Medicine Professor Wins Regents' Faculty Award Winner is a pioneer in understanding neurodegenerative and seizure disorders. View Full Article Posting Date: 04/27/2007 Contact Name: Rebecca Ceraul Contact Phone: 410/706-4939 Contact Email: rceraul@som.umaryland.edu Top A Prescription for Quitting UMB Student Group Enlists Physician's Help to Raise Awareness of Tobacco Cessation. View Full Article Posting Date: 04/26/2007 Contact Name: Jeffrey Raymond Contact Phone: 410-706-3803 Contact Email: jraym001@umaryland.edu Top UMB Bicentennial Fundraiser Cookbook Unveiled Radio Beltway Gourmet personalities host the kickoff celebration in Westminster Hall as hundreds sample the food. View Full Article Posting Date: 04/24/2007 Contact Name: Ed Fishel Contact Phone: 410-706-3801 Contact Email: efishel@umaryland.edu Top UMB Observes One Minute of Silence in Recognition of Virginia Tech Tragedy Governor Martin O'Malley joined Virginia Governor Kaine in declaring Friday, April 20, 2007 as a Day of Mourning. UMB observed a minute of silence at 11:59 AM. View Full Article Posting Date: 04/20/2007 Contact Name: Ed Fishel Contact Phone: 410-706-3801 Contact Email: efishel@umaryland.edu Top Getting the Most out of the Medical Evidence Symposium Explores Challenges, Opportunities in Evidence-Based Medicine. View Full Article Posting Date: 04/19/2007 Contact Name: Jeffrey Raymond Contact Phone: 410-706-3803 Contact Email: jraym001@umaryland.edu Top School of Social Work Annual Makofsky Lecture Addressed Issues of Older Children in Foster Care Alumnus Curtis McMillen, PhD, talked about how to improve service and outcomes for older youth in foster care. Also, Edward Bloom, MSW, former director of the Anne Arundel Department of Social Services, received the Makofsky Award in Child Welfare. View Full Article Posting Date: 04/19/2007 Contact Name: Rosalia Scalia Contact Phone: 410-796-7946 Contact Email: rscalia@umaryland.edu Top Ramsay Responds to VA Tech Tragedy UMB President Reassures Campus View Full Article Posting Date: 04/17/2007 Contact Name: Ed Fishel Contact Phone: 410-706-3801 Contact Email: efishel@umaryland.edu Top UMB Faculty and Staff Mentor High School Students Launched in 1998, the Job Shadow Day program encourages high school students with an interest in science and medicine to explore health and human service professions. View Full Article Posting Date: 04/09/2007 Contact Name: Rosalia Scalia Contact Phone: 410-706-7946 Contact Email: rscalia@umaryland.edu Top Internationally Known Scientist to Head Institute of Genome Sciences at School of Medicine Claire M. Fraser-Liggett, PhD, will head the new research enterprise to be located in the UMB BioPark. View Full Article Posting Date: 04/06/2007 Contact Name: Larry Roberts Contact Phone: 410-706-4939 Contact Email: lroberts@som.umaryland.edu Top UMB Schweitzer Fellowship Program to Host Concert Reverence for Life Concert at UMB is part of a global wave of music to raise awareness for unmet medical needs. View Full Article Posting Date: 04/05/2007 Contact Name: Rosalia Scalia Contact Phone: 410-706-7946 Contact Email: rscalia@umaryland.edu Top UMB Medical and Law Professors Help Organize Conference on Mid-Atlantic Disaster Preparedness Public safety officials and academic experts met to discuss how the mid-Atlantic region would respond to an outbreak of pandemic influenza or anthrax. View Full Article Posting Date: 04/04/2007 Contact Name: Judy Heiger Contact Phone: 410-706-0914 Contact Email: jheig001@umaryland.edu Top School of Social Work Holds Empowerment Conference for Young Women Baltimore mayor talks to hundreds of attendees about how to make healthier decisions. View Full Article Posting Date: 04/03/2007 Contact Name: Rosalia Scalia Contact Phone: 410-706-7946 Contact Email: rscalia@umaryland.edu Top