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Supreme statements at opening of UB’s new law center (access required)

BY: Kristi Tousignant
POSTED: April 30, 2013
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Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan speaks with Ronald Weich, dean of the University of Baltimore School of Law (center) and Brit Kirwan, chancellor of the University System of Maryland, at the opening of the new law school building.

While U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan acknowledges the precarious state of legal education today, she believes there are law schools that will make it through these times even stronger.


Weich, new UB Law dean, talks curriculum, tuition and slow pace of academia (access required)

BY: Kristi Tousignant
POSTED: April 16, 2013
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As the University of Baltimore School of Law’s new building opens this month, its dean, Ronald Weich, sat down with The Daily Record editors and reporters to discuss long-term goals, the future of legal education and what, exactly, he does during those long car rides between Baltimore and his home near Washington, D.C.


Hopkins’ provost named dean of Stanford’s medical school (access required)

BY: Daily Record Staff
POSTED: July 18, 2012
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Dr. Lloyd B. Minor, provost of the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, has been named dean of the Stanford University School of Medicine, according to announcements by the two universities. Minor, a physician, has spent nearly two decades at Hopkins, and has been provost and senior vice president for academic affairs for the past three [...]


Ferrari new dean at Carey Business School (access required)

BY: Melody Simmons
POSTED: May 29, 2012
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Bernard T. Ferrari, a former director at the management consulting firm McKinsey & Co., has been named dean of The Johns Hopkins University’s Carey Business School, effective July 1. Ferrari, 63, will succeed Yash P. Gupta, who stepped down in June 2011. A former surgeon and administrator at the Ochsner Clinic in New Orleans, he [...]


Black woman to lead Baltimore Polytechnic Institute

BY: Associated Press
POSTED: May 24, 2012
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WBAL-TV reports that Jacqueline Williams has become the first woman and the first African-American to take over the high school. Williams had been serving as interim director and was officially named to the position of director on Tuesday. Williams is also is a graduate, former teacher and dean of students at the school. She has [...]


Weich named new dean of UB Law (access required)

BY: Kristi Tousignant
POSTED: April 25, 2012
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Ronald Weich will go from lobbying legislators on Capitol Hill to navigating the political inroads of the university system after the University of Baltimore School of Law named him as its new dean this week. Weich, who comes from a political and government background, is being heralded by school officials as a non-traditional choice that [...]


UB Law names five finalists for dean (access required)

BY: Kristi Tousignant
POSTED: March 23, 2012
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The University of Baltimore School of Law has named five finalists in its search for a new dean, including a big-firm lawyer, an assistant attorney general at the Justice Department, and three academic candidates. None of the finalists is currently at the school. Interim Dean F. Michael Higginbotham, who has served since the controversial resignation [...]


Week in review – 12/23/11 (access required)

BY: Daily Record Staff
POSTED: December 22, 2011
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Marchers demand jobs from EBDI Chanting “We want jobs!” and “If we don’t work, nobody works,” city residents marched on East Baltimore Development Inc. headquarters Tuesday, demanding more employment opportunities at the redevelopment site. EBDI CEO Christopher Shea told them his organization has a process for evaluating and recommending residents to employers, and he urged the [...]


Week in review: 8/19/11 (access required)

BY: Daily Record Staff
POSTED: August 18, 2011
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Ft. McHenry added to free bus route Expansion of the 21-bus Charm City Circulator to include the Fort McHenry Monument and National Shrine will take place soon — in time for the War of 1812 bicentennial celebration in Baltimore. A $1.5 million federal transportation grant will cover 65 percent of the costs of the “Star Spangled [...]


Closius offers UB a financial plan (access required)

BY: Danny Jacobs
POSTED: August 14, 2011
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At the suggestion of his successor, former University of Baltimore School of Law Dean Phillip J. Closius has proposed a way to resolve the financial issues between the law school and university that led to his resignation last month. Closius would like the law school, not the university, to make any recommendation about a tuition [...]


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A “Field of Flags” was installed by residents of the Charlestown retirement community in Catonsville in preparation for Memorial Day. Each of the 500 flags was sponsored by a local business for $35, with proceeds going to the Wounded Warrior Project and the Charlestown Benevolent Care Fund. Photo submitted by Mel Tansill.

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