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University of Maryland, Baltimore: Introduction

Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Photo credit Own work, CC BY 3.0. Edgar Allan Poe is buried on the law school's doorstep. The cemetery at Westminster Hall, on West Fayette Street, was first laid out in 1787, and the Presbyterian church above it was built on brick arched piers in 1852 - which means the dead arrived before the church did. The University of Maryland School of Law sits next door, on the northwest corner of West Baltimore and North Paca Streets, making it the only law school in the United States with a famous author buried on campus. The students walk past Poe on their way to torts.

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University of Maryland, Baltimore: Two Centuries on Greene Street

Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Photo credit en:User:Steelplug, Public domain. UMB began in 1807 as the College of Medicine of Maryland, which makes it the second-oldest college in Maryland. Five years later the legislature rechartered it as a university with the authority to add faculties of law, divinity, and arts and sciences. The law school followed in ...

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University of Maryland, Baltimore: The First Dental School in the World

Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Photo credit AndrewHorne, Public domain. When the University of Maryland School of Dentistry opened, no such school existed anywhere else. The world's first dentists trained themselves; UMB taught them. The school has spent the two centuries since defending that claim, and it still ranks among the top ten dental program...

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University of Maryland, Baltimore: The Dean's Sermon Across the Wall

Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Photo credit friend, Public domain. The law school is the third-oldest in the nation, founded by David Hoffman, whose course of legal study influenced programs across the country and helped invent the field of legal ethics. In 2002 it moved into a building of English Tudor Revival architecture next to Westminster H...

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University of Maryland, Baltimore: Alumni You Already Know

Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Photo credit Maryland GovPics, CC BY 2.0. Maryland politics flows through this campus. Six governors of Maryland came through UMB, including Martin O'Malley, who became mayor of Baltimore in 1999 and governor in 2007. Senators Ben Cardin and Barbara Mikulski both took degrees here. So did Elijah Cummings, the congressman...

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University of Maryland, Baltimore: The Campus and the City

Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Photo credit User:Jfruh, Public domain. The 32-acre campus packs 58 buildings into the western edge of downtown, near Camden Yards, the Convention Center, and the famous Lexington Market. There is no football team, no marching band, no fraternity row - UMB does not field NCAA sports. What it has instead is the BioPark,...

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