UB’s partnership with NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center is a match made in, well, the heavens. This spring, M.B.A. and law students got to enhance their business chops by figuring out ways to make big bucks off of intriguing, unusual NASA inventions. In return, NASA got the UB students’ imaginative ideas for commercialization—and may actually be able to make those big dreams a reality.

Betsy Diamant-Cohen, D.C.D. ’05, has taken the science of being a librarian and turned it on its head. She’s developed her Mother Goose on the Loose program, steeped in the arts of storytelling and music, to teach and engage children who can’t yet read. Laughing and singing—without any shhhh-ing—are encouraged.

Some pictures may be worth more than 1,000 words; just ask Charles Tumosa, forensic studies lecturer, who is teaching University of Baltimore students to unravel the stories those paintings tell, brushstroke by brushstroke. With state-of-the-art scientific tools and detailed analytical processes, students learn to read between those artfully created lines—a skill that’s particularly valuable in the $25 billion global art market.