{"id":439,"date":"2021-12-13T21:02:20","date_gmt":"2021-12-13T21:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/annualreport-2021\/?p=439"},"modified":"2023-02-23T13:05:39","modified_gmt":"2023-02-23T13:05:39","slug":"your-impact-on-research-and-scholarship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/annualreport\/2021\/12\/13\/your-impact-on-research-and-scholarship\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Impact on Research and Scholarship"},"content":{"rendered":"

Foundation funding allows our students, faculty and staff to<\/em>
\nACHIEVE EXCELLENCE IN RESEARCH,
\nSCHOLARSHIP AND CREATIVE ACTIVITY.<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n
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\"CrateA TEAM EFFORT<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Congratulations to Merrick School of Business student\u2014and first-year Ratcliffe Entrepreneurship Fellow\u2014Rebecca Thompson for tying for the top vote in the category of \u201cExisting Business Ventures\u201d and earning the \u201cHustle Award\u201d in the 9th Annual Rise to the Challenge Pitch Competition<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Coincidentally, her winning company, Crate Craft & Co.\u2014which turns easy-to-follow DIY projects into fun, online events\u2014also secured a win for a team of students in the College of Arts and Sciences Integrated Design program. Jasmine Loyal, Richard Neal and Nett Smith were awarded the Erin Kvedar Memorial Seminar Award for their work on this cross-school collaboration for their capstone course.<\/p>\n

Read the full story in the latest issue of The University of Baltimore Magazine<\/em>>><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Hear more from Rebecca Thompson on her business and the Capstone collaboration>><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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\"Infographic<\/p>\n

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TIMELY TOPICS\"\"<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

Merrick School Professorships are awarded annually to recognize excellence in research. In 2020-21:<\/p>\n

\u2022 Regina Bento<\/strong>, BG&E Chair and professor of management, and Lourdes White<\/strong>, Lockheed Martin Chair in accounting, pursued research on managerial decision-making during a pandemic, and the ethics and risks associated with it.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Mikhail Pevzner<\/strong>, the Ernst & Young Chair in Accounting, pursued research on the reliance on part-time labor and operating efficiencies.<\/p>\n

\u2022 J. William Middendorf Distinguished Professor Praneet Randhawa<\/strong>, associate professor of marketing, studied how service employees\u2019 burnout and engagement occurs in B2B (Business-to-Business) and the impact of manager supervision.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Harry Y. Wright Chair Ting Zhang<\/strong>, associate professor of economics, and winner of the T. Rowe Price Excellence in Teaching award, Dan Gerlowski<\/strong>, professor of economics, delved into the topic of COVID-19 and how teleworking may be a new normal. Zhang spoke about her research during a recent panel discussion hosted by President Schmoke about communication in a time of rapid social evolution. Click here to watch their conversation>><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"CONGRATULATIONS<\/strong><\/span>
\nto Sharon Glazer<\/strong><\/span>, professor and chair in the Yale Gordon College of Arts and Sciences’ Division of Applied Behavioral Sciences, for being named the winner of the 2021 President’s Faculty Award. Read the full news release>><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

This meritorious award is the highest that The University of Baltimore’s president may bestow upon a member of the faculty and is based on letters of nomination from the deans to a selection committee in the Office of the Provost. It is made annually to an individual who reflects the faculty’s highest standards, and who has made significant contributions to the University and its educational mission, through teaching; research; scholarly or creative activity; and service.<\/p>\n

A UBalt alumna, Prof. Glazer, M.S. ’95, also received a University of Baltimore Foundation-funded Distinguished Scholarly and Creative Activities Award for her work.<\/p>\n

Read Dr. Glazer’s full bio here>><\/strong><\/a>
\nSee a list of her research and publications here>><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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\"ImagePRESERVING LEGACIES<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

A large collection of vintage video materials from Baltimore television station WMAR will be preserved and made accessible, thanks to an extremely prestigious Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) grant to the Robert L. Bogomolny Library through The University of Baltimore Foundation.<\/p>\n

The CLIR announced several awards, totaling $553,000, to fund 17 \u201cRecordings at Risk\u201d projects. The Bogomolny Library received $49,225 for their effort\u2014a 12-month project titled \u201cPreserving and Providing Access to Baltimore Television News Station (WMAR), 1980-1985\u201d\u2014which will be led by the Special Collections and Archives department.<\/p>\n

Special Collections and Archives maintains a rich collection of WMAR-TV news recordings, which includes unique footage depicting significant historical events, cultural and racial issues, and political and social changes in the Baltimore region.<\/p>\n

Read the full announcement here>><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

WMAR-TV News in Baltimore, Maryland was the first television station in Baltimore and the eleventh in the United States. Its first broadcast aired on October 30, 1947. The station was initially owned by the A. S. Abell Company, which also owned the Baltimore Sun newspapers. WMAR was the first television station in Baltimore and the second in the United States to join the CBS network. In 1981, the station\u2019s affiliation changed, and it<\/span>\u00a0joined the NBC network. In 1986, the A. S. Abell Company was purchased by the Times Mirror Company, who kept the Baltimore Sun newspapers but sold WMAR-TV to Gillet Communications. The E. W. Scripps Company purchased WMAR-TV in 1990. WMAR-TV (channel 2) has been an ABC-affiliated television station owned by the E.W. Scripps Company in Baltimore, Maryland since 1995.<\/span><\/p>\n

Throughout its history, WMAR-TV news and television programs covered the Baltimore region news in addition to providing local and syndicated television programs and documentary style stories.<\/p>\n

Dig deeper into the WMAR archives here>><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Foundation funding allows our students, faculty and staff to ACHIEVE EXCELLENCE IN RESEARCH, SCHOLARSHIP AND CREATIVE ACTIVITY. A TEAM EFFORT\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Congratulations to Merrick School of Business student\u2014and first-year Ratcliffe Entrepreneurship Fellow\u2014Rebecca Thompson for tying for the top vote in the category of \u201cExisting Business Ventures\u201d and earning the \u201cHustle Award\u201d in the 9th…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4729,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2021-annual-report"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/annualreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/annualreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/annualreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/annualreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4729"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/annualreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/annualreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":732,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/annualreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions\/732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/annualreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/annualreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/annualreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}