{"id":348,"date":"2017-05-19T12:23:20","date_gmt":"2017-05-19T16:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/cpablog\/?p=348"},"modified":"2017-05-19T13:33:09","modified_gmt":"2017-05-19T17:33:09","slug":"cpa-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/cpablog\/?p=348","title":{"rendered":"CPA News!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Congratulations to M.S. in Nonprofit Management and Social Entrepreneurship student Brittany DeNovellis<\/strong> (second from right), who was part of the team that won “Best Aspiring Business Idea” and “Crowd Favorite” at UB’s recent RISE to the Challenge Pitch Competition. RISE is an annual competition that gives students and alumni an opportunity to show off new ideas and concepts for businesses before an audience of consumers and entrepreneurial experts.<\/p>\n

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Brittany DeNovellis (second from right)<\/p><\/div>\n

Brittany and her team members won $1,000 for their business idea, Project Kitchen X. The company would be Baltimore’s first and only community-driven, worker-owned kitchen cooperative focused on empowering refugee and immigrant women by tapping into their passion for cooking, self-expression, and creating community. Project Kitchen X also won the Crowd Favorite Award of $500. This award goes to any of the businesses pitching ideas that the audience believes in most.<\/p>\n

\u201cSince the competition, we’ve decided on a more permanent name than\u00a0Project Kitchen X,\u201d Brittany said. \u201cWe’re now working as the Mera Kitchen Collective.\u201d<\/p>\n

Learn more about the 2017 RISE to the Challenge competition winners:\u00a0http:\/\/www.ubalt.edu\/news\/news-releases.cfm?id=2790<\/a><\/p>\n

Learn more about Mera Kitchen Collective: www.mera.kitchen<\/a><\/p>\n

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Associate Professor Ivan Sascha Sheehan<\/p><\/div>\n

On May 16, School of Public and International Affairs Associate Professor Ivan Sascha\u00a0Sheehan<\/strong> offered remarks to Congress\u00a0as part of a panel on the 2017 Iranian presidential election, which is happening today. And in a new op-ed piece for the Independent Journal Review<\/em>, Prof. Sheehan explores\u00a0the impact of Iran’s national election on its people, especially from a human rights perspective. “As along as dissent is not tolerated and the regime is left without credible opposition, so-called elections give up any pretense of legitimacy,” writes\u00a0Prof. Sheehan.<\/p>\n

Read the op-ed in IJR<\/em>:\u00a0http:\/\/ijr.com\/opinion\/2017\/05\/265756-iran-votes-president-friday-referendum-future\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Learn more about Prof. Sheehan<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Congratulations to UB at The Universities at Shady Grove graduates\u00a0Lisette Engel<\/strong>, M.P.A. ’17 (center) and Carlie Ortiz<\/strong>, M.S. ’17 (second from right), who received academic and community excellence awards during USG’s inaugural graduation gala for graduate students held on May 12. Both Lisette and Carlie had the highest GPA’s in their respective graduate programs at USG.<\/p>\n

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On May 10, Government and Public Policy program alum Jaime Sigar\u00e1n<\/strong>, B.A. \u201914, led the Maryland delegation on Capitol Hill during Healthy Ocean Hill Day. Jaime, representing The Ocean Foundation where he works as Sponsorship Program Associate, and five other citizen activists representing a wide range of organizations from across the state, addressed the issues of offshore drilling, plastics, coastal resilience and appropriations. \u201cWe made steady progress in ensuring members of Congress do not drill in the Atlantic and strongly oppose cutting vital EPA and NOAA programs like the National Estuary Program and Marine Debris,\u201d Jaime said.<\/p>\n

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Jaime Sigar\u00e1n, B.A. ’14 (third from right) and his fellow Healthy Ocean Hill Day teammates<\/p><\/div>\n

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Jaime Sigar\u00e1n, B.A. ’14 (second from right) and his Health Ocean Hill Day teammates with U.S. Senator for Maryland Chris Van Hollen (third from left)<\/p><\/div>\n

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On May 17, Alan Lyles<\/strong>, who is a professor in both the School of Health and Human Services and the School of Public and International Affairs, as well as the\u00a0Henry A. Rosenberg Professor of Government, Business and Nonprofit Partnerships<\/a>, participated in a panel discussion on access to medicines held at\u00a0Universit\u00e0 degli Studi di Palermo in Palermo, Italy. Prof.\u00a0Lyles’ professional interests focus on pharmaceutical economics and health policy\u2014particularly on policies and practices to improve access to high cost, innovative medicines such as those for hepatitis C (HCV).<\/p>\n

Learn more about Prof. Lyles<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Professor Alan Lyles<\/p><\/div>\n

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To share your CPA news, email mqueen@ubalt.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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