Nine UMBC HAPP Public Health Track students attended the 2015 Fall Symposium at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (JHSPH) on October 13, 2015. Hosted by the Wendy Klag Center for Autism & Developmental Disabilities, the event’s topic was One Size Doesn’t Fit All: Learning about Autism from Studies Big and Small. 

At the reception following the symposium, UMBC students had the opportunity to meet and talk with the speakers as well as graduate students of JHSPH who showcased their autism research at the concurrent poster session. 

Dr. Marie Diener-West, Chair of the MPH program at JHSPH, took time to meet with our UMBC students at the reception and provided invaluable information on their Master’s and Doctoral studies. Through this networking event, two students have secured internship opportunities! 

Way to represent, HAPP Public Health Track students! You make UMBC proud!

Hello Poli Students,

Here is another volunteer opportunity.

Mark Edelson is running for Baltimore City Council's First District, which includes popular waterfront areas such as Canton and Fells Point. The campaign is looking for volunteers to help canvass, phone bank, input data, and other tasks.

You can also learn more by visiting www.electedelson.com or www.facebook.com/electedelson.  

If you are interested, please contact Christian@electedelson.com. 

Best!

Hi fellow students,

My name is Rafay Qureshi and I’m working on an independent research project on health and nutrition among undergraduate students, and I'm looking for participants. Incentives include being entered into a drawing to win one of twenty Starbucks gift cards! Your participation is crucial to the success of this study and may help influence future policy decisions regarding nutrition on college campuses.

Follow this link to the survey here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/happhealthsurvey

The exhibit is called “Revolution of the Eye: Modern Art and the birth of American Television” and it’s a first of its kind. It’s truly a riveting exploration of how television in its formative years adopted modernism as a source of inspiration.  

Research Professor and Chief Curator at the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, University of Maryland, Baltimore County  Maurice Berger curated this eye-opening event.

“This exhibition is really about the early years of television and how young producers, writers, and network executives were in search of inspiration. I mean the medium had no models,” Berger told Miami CBS4’s Lisa Petrillo.

As several NFL franchises are competing to relocate to the Los Angeles area, Dennis Coates, a professor of economics, argues that facts do not support the claim that professional football would be an economic goldmine for Southern California. Coates wrote an op-ed published in The Orange County Register in which he argued public subsidies for professional sports franchises do not always provide the economic boom that officials hope for.

In the column, Coates referenced a study he did with a colleague that was recently updated to examine the economic impact of professional sports teams in major cities across the country: “Our findings were clear: Professional sports had no positive impact on an area’s economy, and actually harmed residents’ per capita incomes,” Coates wrote.

Coates argued that the public should closely examine whether a stadium and professional franchise investment will produce a real return for citizens.

“Now, as then, the data disprove the claim that a city can use stadium and arena construction, or the attraction or retention of a professional sports franchise, to enhance the income of its citizens,” he explained. “In the economics of both sports and public policy, resources are scarce and must be put to their best use. Not all subsidies will make the cut.”

Read “Pro sports great, just not for local economy” in the Orange County Register.

The 4th Annual Screening Scholarship Media Festival

April 1st and 2nd, 2016

Highlighted theme on: Race Media, and Social Justice