{"id":115,"date":"2016-05-05T16:47:20","date_gmt":"2016-05-05T16:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/casblog\/?p=115"},"modified":"2016-05-05T17:28:45","modified_gmt":"2016-05-05T17:28:45","slug":"cas-kudos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/casblog\/2016\/05\/05\/cas-kudos\/","title":{"rendered":"CAS kudos!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The College of Arts and Sciences has been busy! Check out some of the latest accomplishments from\u00a0our students and faculty:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In a piece for elle.com, Digital Communication major <strong>Laurise McMillian<\/strong> shares her personal story of how her identity has evolved. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elle.com\/culture\/news\/a35246\/beyonce-white-people-comfort\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read Laurise\u2019s story.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Psychology student <strong>Jefferson Huggins <\/strong>and psychology grad <strong>Humama Khan<\/strong>, M.S. \u201914 presented at Morgan State University&#8217;s 23rd Annual Undergraduate and Graduate\u00a0Research Symposium held on April 14, winning the award for outstanding oral presentation in psychology.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>English major <strong>Mariame Dangnokho <\/strong>won the Alumni Association-International Scholarship at the 2016 Eubie Awards Ceremony.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Division of Legal, Ethical and Historical Studies Associate Professor <strong>Elizabeth Nix<\/strong> was named the recipient of the 2016 President\u2019s Faculty Award. The award is given each year to a UB faculty member who has made significant contributions to the University and its educational mission. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubalt.edu\/news\/news-releases.cfm?id=2512\" target=\"_blank\">Learn more about Prof. Nix\u2019s honor.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Freshman <strong>Evelyn Atieno<\/strong> recounts the year that has gone by since the death of Freddie Gray and Baltimore&#8217;s subsequent civil unrest in a piece for the Huffington Post blog, \u201cBlack Voices.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/evelyn-atieno\/freddie-gray-made-me-prou_b_9674660.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read Evelyn\u2019s story.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Faculty members\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubalt.edu\/cas\/faculty\/alphabetical-directory\/michele-cotton.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">Michele<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubalt.edu\/cas\/faculty\/alphabetical-directory\/michele-cotton.cfm\" target=\"_blank\"> Cotton<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubalt.edu\/cas\/faculty\/alphabetical-directory\/jane-d-delury.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">Jane Delury<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubalt.edu\/cas\/faculty\/alphabetical-directory\/elizabeth-m-nix.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">Elizabeth Nix<\/a><\/strong> were all promoted to associate professor with tenure, and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubalt.edu\/cas\/faculty\/alphabetical-directory\/kathryn-summers.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">Kathryn Summers<\/a><\/strong> was promoted to full professor.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Way to go everyone!!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/casblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/381\/2016\/05\/thumsb-up.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-116\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-116\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/casblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/381\/2016\/05\/thumsb-up.jpg\" alt=\"thumsb up\" width=\"279\" height=\"234\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The College of Arts and Sciences has been busy! Check out some of the latest accomplishments from\u00a0our students and faculty: In a piece for elle.com, Digital Communication major Laurise McMillian shares her personal story of how her identity has evolved. Read Laurise\u2019s story. Psychology student Jefferson Huggins and psychology grad Humama Khan, M.S. \u201914 presented [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":530,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/casblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/casblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/casblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/casblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/530"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/casblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/casblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/casblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions\/123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/casblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/casblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/casblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}