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Arts & Culture | September 16, 2022

‘Do You Want to Be Great?’: Morgan’s Magnificent Marching Machine Gets First New Band Director in Almost 50 Years

On the second floor of the Morgan State University Murphy Fine Arts Center in late August, past the lockers and uniforms, the marching band’s version of Dua Lipa’s radio hit “Don’t Start Now” blared. Inside room 233, five rows of students played their instruments while four then-drum major candidates stood on the left pumping black batons in the air in tempo. A new director stood at the front of the room for the first time in nearly 50 years.

September 15, 2022

Morgan State Hosts 9th Annual STEM Day Extravaganza After 3-year Hiatus

Black Americans are grossly underrepresented in STEM fields, making up less than 10 percent of the professionals employed in those areas. Morgan State University professor Jonathan Wilson is one of the many academic leaders advocating to reverse that trend. He leads the Baltimore MUREP Aerospace Academy (BMAA) and is one of the key coordinators of the yearly STEM Day Extravaganza.

September 15, 2022

Devoted Educator, Morgan Alumnus, Starts Smoothie Stores, Hires Former Students

The bulk of Victorious Hall’s career was spent working at Oxon Hill Middle School. Mentoring was Hall’s college job in Baltimore City. Initially, he was studying business management at Morgan State University. Hall currently works as a consultant training teachers in schools across the nation. Spizzy has become his real-life classroom.

September 15, 2022

Pulitzer Prize Winner Feels Called to Morgan State University

Before being labeled as “one of New York’s most intelligent, unpredictable and interesting voices,” Etheleen Renee “E.R.” Shipp was a little girl growing up in the South, determined to go beyond the path her mother had mapped out for her. Her achievements and opportunities as a journalist continued to grow. The one opportunity that particularly drew her attention was teaching at Morgan State University, a historically Black university in Baltimore, Maryland.

September 15, 2022

AGB Elects Morgan State University’s President to its Board of Directors

Dr. David K. Wilson Becomes First HBCU President to Serve on AGB Board in its 101-Year History

September 14, 2022

MSW Online Goes One-on-One with Dr. Jordan White About Social Work Programs in Maryland

As a guide to the field of social work in Maryland, there is a special emphasis on MSW programs since the best opportunities in social work often require the job applicant to have a master’s degree. School of Social Work Assistant Professor Dr. Jordan White is interviewed.