The MSU Department of World Languages and International Studies in the College of Liberal Arts, working in collaboration with the University’s Division of International Affairs, is spending much of the Winter Break this year on an educational mission in Oaxaca, Mexico. The mission, led by Dr. Elizabeth Gunn, associate professor of Spanish, who brokered a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between ... Read More »
The School of Community Health and Policy is honored to have been the academic host of the events that took place on Morgan’s campus on December 1st in observance of World AIDS Day. With leadership from Dr. Lorece Edwards, Associate Professor in the Public Health Program Department of Behavioral Health Science and Tom Bonderenko of the non-profit organization Moveable Feast, ... Read More »
The MSU Chapter of Psi Chi was recently featured in “Eye on Psi Chi” a publication of Psi Chi, The International Honor Society in Psychology. The article highlights the history of the MSU Psi Chi chapter, including the distinction of being the second Psi Chi chapter to be established at an HBCU. Dr. Carrol Perrino and Ms. Natasha Otto are ... Read More »
The great divide between Town and Gown, the academic ivory tower and the real world of practicing design professional seems to be shrinking all the time. Just last month, a group of architectural educators for across the state including the School of Architecture and Planning’s (SA+P) own Sanjit Roy, Pavlina Ilieva, Jeremy Kargon, and Gabriel Kroiz spent the evening ... Read More »
Architecture Professor and Master of Architecture Program Director, Jeremy Kargon recently returned from Fayetteville, Arkansas, where he attended the annual conference of the South East chapter of the Society for Architectural Historians (SESAH). He presented the talk “Art-in-Architecture and Regional Modernism,” which documented the work of Baltimore artist Amalie Rothschild in six local buildings built between 1951 and 1981. For more information about ... Read More »
Architecture Professor Mohammad Gharipour, Ph.D. will be traveling to Malaysia for a conference of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments, at which he will be chairing the session “Religious Traditions, Religious Spaces” and delivering a talk titled “Challenges of Contemporary Urban Conservation in Isfahan, Iran.” Earlier this semester, Professor Gharipour traveled to Montreal where he gave a talk titled “Continuity and Symbiosis: The Architecture of Iranian Synagogues” at ... Read More »
Morgan State University President David Wilson today announced the appointment of Gloria J. Gibson, Ph.D. as provost and senior vice president for Academic Affairs. “I commend the selection committee for its diligent and exhaustive work to find just the right candidate to fill this vital position, and they did a fine job. Dr. Gibson impressed us as an extraordinary leader,” ... Read More »
New York City is blessed with magnificent open spaces that accommodate many different types of traditional recreation: you can fly a kite, play ball, picnic, stroll. But the best way to determine what kinds of uses should go where, to design and plan our landscapes of play, might not always be from the top down. After all, the wide-ranging interests ... Read More »
Morgan Graduate student Jonathan Midgett (M.Arch. ’16, expected) won the top student prize for AIA Baltimore’s annual photography context, announced last Tuesday at an evening event held to celebrate the photography of Baltimore’s built environment. Jonthan’s photograph “Snow Alley” was submitted under the category “Entryways: The Big Picture,” and was captioned as follows: This shot shows an entryway not really appreciated by many who ... Read More »
Gabriel Kroiz, Chair of Undergraduate Design and Construction and B.S. in Architecture & Environmental Design student, Adrian James, traveled to Seoul, South Korea where they worked on the light installation “Will You Marry Me?’. The piece utilizes off the shelf lighting fixtures combined with an armature of wood and digitally fabricated steel connectors. Click here for time lapse video of ... Read More »
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