Inspired Discoveries: Spring Symposium

What will you think of next?

With the arrival of spring comes Inspired Discoveries after all, Spring is the season of new beginnings. Inspired Discoveries is the annual Spring Symposium, showcasing undergraduate students’ original research and creative work The program is six years strong, awarding various students for innovative presentations. (Presentations should be in the form of posters, exhibits, presentations, or presented papers.) That means if there is any work/ project, you (the student) are especially proud of submit it! Of course, there is a reward for all the hard work presented at the symposium- a $500 prize and being featured in an online campus publications. However, Application are due soon- very soon, April 10, 2015. To learn more and download an application visit:

http://langsdale.ubalt.edu/inspired-discoveries

Roots in the Road Fights

Photo credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/Bill Hrybyk

"Mikulski's legacy starts with the 'battle of the road.'" That's the Baltimore Sun headline that caught my eye on the iPad this morning. Columnist Dan Rodricks highlights the roots of Senator Barbara Mikulski's political career in Baltimore's expressway fights of the 1960s and 1970s.

According to Rodricks, "There are a lot of parts to the Mikulski legacy. But the one Baltimore long-timers remember -- and newcomers should know and appreciate -- was the fight against the highways, way back when."

Want to know more about the road fights? You're in luck, because Langsdale Library contains the archival records of two of the grassroots organizations that fought expressway construction through their neighborhoods: Southeast Council Against the Road (SCAR) and Movement Against Destruction (MAD).

Check out our digital exhibit, which highlights selected material, or browse the collections as they've been scanned in their entirety: MAD and SCAR.

Want to learn more? Contact Special Collections or make an appointment to view the collections in person.

Reading: Black Lives Matter

Photo Credit: Kaitlyn Veto

Left Bank Books, an independent bookstore in Saint Louis, Missouri responded to the Ferguson protests with “a community curated list of books that explore race” in the United States. That project, known as Black Lives Matter:A Reading List is available for download in PDF format.

Interested in checking out a few books from the list? Here are some of the titles available at UB: