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BALTIMORE (Map, News) - Nothing says West Baltimore skyline quite like the towering halls of the University of Maryland, Baltimore.
With new Biopark incubator buildings as well as teaching and student towers going up or in planning stages, university leadership is quite conscious of its impact on the communities surrounding Maryland’s oldest public university.
“We really want to promote involvement in our communities,” UMB President Dr. David Ramsay said.
Student-led programs, like Project Jump Start, reach out to the homeless in West Baltimore, providing food and toiletries while students use their training to try to identify medical needs, as well as sources of care.
Dental school doctoral candidate Leila Liberman started a program with the Maryland Dental Hygienists Association to provide free tooth seals for elementary schoolchildren.
“Sealants are a protective coating you put on teeth to protect them from tooth decay,” she said.
“It’s a way to help underserved children. Decaying teeth in the younger population is very prevalent.”
This year, during the one-day sealing workshop, the program screened 30 children and sealed teeth for 29 of them. They also referred children for treatment of tooth decay.
U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Baltimore City, recently announced an agreement between the dental school and United Health Group’s AmeriChoice dental insurance company to improve pediatric dental services in Maryland, particularly for low-income families.
Cummings was moved by the death of Alyce Driver’s son, Deamonte, of Prince George’s County, earlier this year after a tooth infection spread to his brain.
AmeriChoice agreed to provide the dental school more than $170,000 a year for new services and programs to help low-income children receive dental care.
khille@baltimoreexaminer.com
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frogseayouye said:
look water glass german are deliver
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Examiner Reader said:
Thier are two other companies in N.Y. harbor that offer school and a job.
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These schools do not educate folks with degrees adequate for many BRAC jobs
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Please note that Judge Clifton Gordy is a Associte Judge in the Circuit Court for BALTIMORE CITY not Baltimore County.
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Answer: Mudd, Mikulsi, and O'Malley. Question: Name three rteasons not to attend the U of Md.
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Julie Evans, University of Maryland, Baltimore said:
In your facts about UMB, you left out the majority of the students (4,837) on campus which are in graduate and professional degree programs: Physicians 621 Pharmacists 480 Dentists 456 Social Workers 840 Lawyers 830 Nurses 788 Physical therapists 194 Other graduate (PhDs) 628
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Examiner Reader said:
i think it is great hoping for nothing but success
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Ori Shabazz said:
If not solved in primary or secondary, Black males (Black people) must settle the identity question during post secondary work. Black male and female students in Baltimore must be INSPIRED to learn through innovative means. Black male students have to be taught the very basics of education and SOCIAL skills.
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Examiner Reader said:
I believe the problem with low attendence of black males in college is a cultural issue not a fairness issue.
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You mean all it takes to get black males to go to college is have black professors? Wow, I wish it was that easy. There is a nation-wide trend for more women than men in post-high school education; right now the gap is about 55% women and 45% men and getting wider. How does the issue of the race require different tactics than simply being a male?
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As a retired teacher, I am happy to see black young men with a continued positive influence post- high school. I do hope that the program developes with enormous success and extend itself to young black adolences prior to exiting High School. We need to give them a little motivation during the middle school experience. If that is not an option, well, I guess those wilth the inner drive will continue graduating for some institude beyond High School will do so! But, statistics are evidence, the we are losing them before High School! Grades 6th - 8th have been the points of deciding whether to lead or to follow. Our black youth need you, as a group positive black role models to implement some incentives to motivate their self-esteem and ethnocentric pride! May God bless you in this endeavor that may enlighten others to join your cause that can make difference in our city and others!
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