UMB Center for Global Engagement

01/23/2023

Celebrate the Chinese Lunar New Year at a gala event this Friday! Register at http://ow.ly/4XwI50Myjqf

12/19/2022

The UMB Center for Global Engagement has selected 11 fellows for the inaugural UMB/Costa Rica Faculty Development Institute, an immersive faculty development program in Costa Rica for a select cohort of UMB faculty members to globalize their courses, modules, tracks, or clinical electives.

Read more: http://ow.ly/RITa50M77yp

11/08/2022

Join the Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH) for "The Impacts of War on Health and Human Rights: What Can Universities Do to Address These Adverse Outcomes?" webinar Nov. 16 at 1 pm.

The four speakers in this webinar will review the impacts of war on health and human rights and how universities can address these adverse outcomes.

Register at http://ow.ly/TS0j50LxKKZ.

10/24/2022

This Friday, join UMB's Indian Association for a Diwali celebration!

https://forms.gle/pbqo3owP8Hrxves27

06/13/2022

Check out the special collect on Decolonizing Global Health Education, which stemmed from CGE's 2021 Global Health Summit.

The Elm is a publication of the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB).

05/19/2022

Let's celebrate the 2022 UMB graduates of the schools of dentistry, law, medicine, nursing, pharmacy, social work, and the Graduate School! 🎉🎓

Commencement begin at 9 a.m. with a keynote speech from one of the most distinguished scientists of our time, Anthony Fauci, MD, the longtime director of the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and chief medical advisor to President Biden.

This year’s Universitywide event will be start at 9 am. and be held at Chesapeake Employers Insurance Arena on the campus of the University of Maryland, Balt...

05/17/2022

UMB, Costa Rica Join Together to Expand Aging Research

After overcoming more than two years of pandemic-related delays, the UMB Graduate School and the University of Costa Rica have joined forces to create the Alicia and YaYa Global Fellowship in Aging Research, supporting students to conduct aging research abroad. The program is the result of a generous $300,000 donation by biotech entrepreneurs Marco A. Chacón, PhD, and his wife, Debbie.

Read the full story:

Alicia and YaYa Global Fellowship in Aging Research Launches After Pandemic Pause

04/07/2022

On World Health Day 2022, CGE is honoring the life of Dr. Paul Farmer with a documentary film screening of "Bending the Arc," a documentary about a team of young people whose charitable medical work 30 years ago ignited a global health movement.

Join us at 4 p.m. in the SMC Campus Center's Elm Ballroom. Register at http://ow.ly/7vIJ50ICZ6T.

04/07/2022

World Health Day is celebrated on April 7 each year to mark the anniversary of the found of the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1948.

In the midst of a pandemic, a polluted planet, increasing diseases like cancer, asthma, heart disease, this year's World Health Day focus is on urgent actions needed to keep humans and the planet healthy and foster a movement to create societies focused on well-being.

Learn more at http://ow.ly/sTKU50ICYHu.

03/16/2022

The Center for Global Engagement is wrapping up our Global Leadership specialization in the President's Student Leadership Institute (PSLI) with a session on working with interpreters. The session is open to all.

Working with interpreters is something every professional needs to understand and feel comfortable with given the increasingly diverse population of the U.S.

Sandra Quezada, MD, MS, Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, at the UM School of Medicine, will share her wisdom in this session.

Register at https://cglink.me/2nF/r1195126.

03/07/2022

Help UMB welcome a new Comfort K9 by voting for your favorite name!

🎉Exciting news!🎉
The UMBPD is welcoming a new Comfort K9 🐶 in the coming weeks and we need YOUR help! Vote today for your favorite K9 name (or you can even suggest your own).
Share this post to help us spread the word and then go vote: https://bit.ly/umbpdk9name