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70-469: At least 95 percent of the Baltimore Gneiss can be described as quartzo-feldspathic gneiss of granodioritic to granitic composition, with the remaining 5 percent consisting of amphibolite . The age of the Baltimore Gneiss has been constrained to 1.0-1.1 Ga. The Gneiss is homogeneous overall, but is recognized as having four subdivisions. These are the layered gneiss member , the augen gneiss member ,

140-549: A Methodist Episcopal seminary , to train young men in the ministry. At the time of his death, Thomas Kelso , co-founder and president of the board of directors, endowed the Male Free School and Colored Institute through a legacy of his estate . It later broadened its mission to educate both men and women as teachers. The school was renamed as Morgan College in 1890 in honor of the Reverend Lyttleton Morgan ,

210-543: A public historically black research university in Baltimore, Maryland . It is the largest of Maryland's historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs). In 1890, the university, then known as the Centenary Biblical Institute , changed its name to honor Lyttleton Morgan , the first chairman of its board of trustees and a donor. It became a university in 1975. Although a public institution, Morgan State

280-545: A banded texture characterized by alternating darker and lighter colored bands and without a distinct cleavage . Gneisses are common in the ancient crust of continental shields . Some of the oldest rocks on Earth are gneisses, such as the Acasta Gneiss . In traditional English and North American usage, a gneiss is a coarse-grained metamorphic rock showing compositional banding ( gneissic banding ) but poorly developed schistosity and indistinct cleavage . In other words, it

350-572: A broad textural category for medium- to coarse-grained metamorphic rock that shows poorly developed schistosity, with compositional layering over 5 millimeters (0.20 in) thick and tending to split into plates over 1 centimeter (0.39 in) thick. Neither definition depends on composition or origin, though rocks poor in platy minerals are more likely to produce gneissose texture. Gneissose rocks thus are largely recrystallized but do not carry large quantities of micas, chlorite or other platy minerals. Metamorphic rock showing stronger schistosity

420-453: A centimeter to decimeter scale. The augen gneiss member consists of two belts of fine to medium grained gneiss bearing biotite, microcline, quartz, and plagioclase, with abundant large ovoids ( augen ) consisting of microcline and/or quartz. The streaked-augen gneiss member consists of uniform, medium-grained biotite-microcline-quartz-plagioclase gneiss, with augen that have a "stretched" or "streaked" appearance. The hornblende gneiss member

490-625: A refolded nappe system beneath the Towson anticline. The cores of these nappes consist of the Baltimore Gneiss. The Baltimore Gneiss has been affected by three deformation periods: the Grenvillian , known from radiometric age data, for which nearly all resulting structural features where destroyed or obstructed by later tectonic deformation; the Taconic - Acadian , which involved three phases of folding, amphibolite facies metamorphism, local migmatization , and

560-782: A university by state legislature. In the 21st century, the university has seen the construction of a new student union, two dedicated parking garages, the Earl S. Richardson Library, the Dixon Research Center, the Communications Building, and the Center for the Built Environment and Infrastructure Studies. The Carl J. Murphy Fine Arts Center is also the home of the James E. Lewis Museum of Art. In September 2012, Morgan State opened

630-511: Is Morgan State University’s TV network offering regular programming in local and campus news and sports among other featured productions. Alumni of Morgan State University have achieved notability in the fields of athletics, science, government, law, the arts, and the military including four members of the NFL Football Hall of Fame (Willie Lanier, Roosevelt Brown, Leroy Kelly, and Len Ford), Black Enterprise Magazine publisher Earl Graves ,

700-475: Is a gneiss resulting from metamorphism of granite, which contains characteristic elliptic or lenticular shear-bound grains ( porphyroclasts ), normally feldspar , surrounded by finer grained material. The finer grained material deforms around the more resistant feldspar grains to produce this texture. Migmatite is a gneiss consisting of two or more distinct rock types, one of which has the appearance of an ordinary gneiss (the mesosome ), and another of which has

770-479: Is a metamorphic rock composed of mineral grains easily seen with the unaided eye, which form obvious compositional layers, but which has only a weak tendency to fracture along these layers. In Europe, the term has been more widely applied to any coarse, mica -poor, high-grade metamorphic rock. The British Geological Survey (BGS) and the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) both use gneiss as

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840-540: Is accredited by the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP). The Earl S. Richardson Library's is the main academic information resource center on the campus. Constructed in 2008, the building covers approximately 222,517 square feet. The library's holding constitutes over 500,000 volumes, and access to over 1 million e-books and 5,000 periodical titles. There are 167 online databases that are subscribed to

910-1168: Is accredited by the National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB) and National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB). The Earl G. Graves School of Business and Management (GSBM) is named in honor of alumnus Earl G. Graves, Sr. and is housed in the Graves School of Business and Management building, which was opened for the Fall Semester 2015 at the western edge of the campus. It contains classrooms, laboratories, and office buildings with rooms for hospitality management students to operate. The GSBM offers Bachelor of Science, Master of Science, Master of Business Administration , and PhD degree programs. These programs are accredited by The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB). The School of Community Health and Policy offers an American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) accredited program in nursing, degree programs in nutritional sciences and health education, and graduate programs leading to

980-667: Is approved by the American Chemical Society (ACS). The medical laboratory science program is accredited by the National Accrediting Agency for Clinical Laboratory Sciences ( NAACLS ) and the American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP). It hosts the university's environmental and aquatic research laboratory. The School of Engineering admitted its first class starting in 1984. The first graduates received degrees in 1988. Eugene M. DeLoatch (retired 2016)

1050-518: Is called gneissic banding. The darker bands have relatively more mafic minerals (those containing more magnesium and iron ). The lighter bands contain relatively more felsic minerals (minerals such as feldspar or quartz , which contain more of the lighter elements, such as aluminium , sodium , and potassium ). The banding is developed at high temperature when the rock is more strongly compressed in one direction than in other directions ( nonhydrostatic stress ). The bands develop perpendicular to

1120-449: Is classified as schist, while metamorphic rock devoid of schistosity is called a granofels . Gneisses that are metamorphosed igneous rocks or their equivalent are termed granite gneisses, diorite gneisses, and so forth. Gneiss rocks may also be named after a characteristic component such as garnet gneiss, biotite gneiss, albite gneiss, and so forth. Orthogneiss designates a gneiss derived from an igneous rock , and paragneiss

1190-728: Is not a part of the University System of Maryland . It is a member of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund . It is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education . and classified among "R2: Doctoral Universities – High research activity". Morgan State University (MSU) is a historically black college in Baltimore, Maryland. It was founded in 1867 as the Centenary Biblical Institute,

1260-510: Is one from a sedimentary rock . Both the BGS and the IUGS use gneissose to describe rocks with the texture of gneiss, though gneissic also remains in common use. For example, a gneissose metagranite or a gneissic metagranite both mean a granite that has been metamorphosed and thereby acquired gneissose texture. The minerals in gneiss are arranged into layers that appear as bands in cross section. This

1330-556: Is probably derived from the Middle High German noun gneist "spark" (so called because the rock glitters). Gneiss is used as a building material, such as the Facoidal gneiss. It's used extensively in Rio de Janeiro . Gneiss has also been used as construction aggregate for asphalt pavement . Morgan State University Morgan State University ( Morgan State or MSU ) is

1400-432: Is similar to the layered gneiss member, but with hornblende -bearing dark gneiss accounting for about half of the outcrop area. The Slaughterhouse Gneiss weathers to a pinkish to orange color, and consists of relatively uniform, medium-grained microcline-quartz-plagioclase gneiss with muscovite, biotite, or both. The Phoenix, Texas, Chattalolanee, and Towson gneiss anticlines in the Baltimore, Maryland area are all part of

1470-506: Is subjected to extreme temperature and pressure and is composed of alternating layers of sandstone (lighter) and shale (darker), which is metamorphosed into bands of quartzite and mica. Another cause of banding is "metamorphic differentiation", which separates different materials into different layers through chemical reactions, a process not fully understood. Augen gneiss , from the German : Augen [ˈaʊɡən] , meaning "eyes",

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1540-470: Is the cultural extension of Morgan State University's Fine Arts academic program. The Lillie Carroll Jackson Civil Rights Museum illustrates the last recorded lynching in Maryland. The School of Computer, Mathematical, & Natural Sciences offers undergraduate majors and minors as well as graduate degree programs in the natural and physical sciences, mathematics, and computing disciplines. The chemistry program

1610-627: Is the student operated radio station of the School of Global Journalism and Communication and the university. WEAA 88.9 is the NPR affiliated public radio station of Morgan State University, and a service of the university’s School of Global Journalism and Communication. It began broadcasting on January 10, 1977, with call letters standing for "We Educate African Americans." Broadcasting since 1977, WEAA 88.9 operates independently and attracts support from public donors, underwriters, and grant-makers. BEAR-TV Network

1680-545: The 2010 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament , again as a 15 seed. Morgan State lost to West Virginia University in the first round by a score of 77–50. Morgan State began playing football in 1898, 31 years after the school was founded. The Bears have won three MEAC Championships (1976, 1979 and 2014). Their last Division I-AA/FCS playoffs appearance was in 2014. Fifty three former Morgan players have gone on to play professional football. Former Morgan Bears Len Ford, Leroy Kelly, Willie Lanier and Rosey Brown are members of

1750-466: The NFL and many of its track athletes competed internationally and received world-class status. By the late 1960s most white colleges and universities ended their segregation against black high school students and many top black high school students and athletes started matriculating to schools from which they had previously been barred. While achieving a national goal of desegregation , integration depleted

1820-757: The Quakers and slavery. The Martin D. Jenkins Collection was acquired in 1980. Morgan is a public research university that engages in active research with several national and international organizations and agencies including the National Science Foundation , National Institutes of Health , and United States Department of Defense . As of the spring of 2024, there were 9,808 students, being 8,300 undergraduates and 1,508 graduate students enrolled at Morgan, and 45% were non-Maryland residents. The largest sources of enrollment outside of Maryland are New York , New Jersey , and Pennsylvania . Almost 10% of

1890-517: The streaked-augen gneiss member , and the hornblende gneiss member . Additionally, the Baltimore Gneiss outcrops into three discrete masses of uniform, well-foliated to massive granitic gneiss referred to as the Slaughterhouse Gneiss . The layered gneiss member consists of dark and light layers of gneiss bearing biotite , microcline , quartz , and plagioclase , varying from biotite schist to quartzo-feldspathic granofels interlayered on

1960-459: The 1700s were constructed of gneiss quarried from Jones Falls. In addition to use in buildings, gneiss from Jones Falls and Gwynn Falls quarries was used for foundations, roads, and curbstones in Baltimore. Some quarrymen referred to the gneiss as "blue stone" due to the blue-gray color of its fresh surface. The last building stone quarry in Baltimore closed in 1958. The type locality of the Baltimore Gneiss as described by William Patrick Crowley of

2030-647: The 80th Anniversary and Commemoration of D-Day in Normandy, France on June 12, 2024. The Morgan State University Choir has performed for audiences throughout the United States and internationally. Robert Shaw has directed them, together with the Orchestra of St. Lukes and Jessye Norman and others in Carnegie Hall’s One Hundredth Birthday Tribute to Marian Anderson. In the 1996-1997 season,

2100-728: The Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications (ACEJMC), as recognized by the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC). The school is also the host of the student-run newspaper The Spokesman , the university's radio station WMUR Baltimore, and its television network BEAR-TV. The school of education and urban studies hosts the teacher education, family & consumer sciences, and administrative leadership programs. The teacher education program leads to Maryland Teaching Certification and

2170-634: The Baltimore Afro-American newspaper Adah Jenkins graduated from Morgan State as did scientist and inventor Valerie Thomas . Former faculty member Ernest Lyon was a United States Ambassador to Liberia and the founder of the Maryland Industrial and Agricultural Institute for Colored Youths . Noted African American historian and pioneering scholar Dr. Benjamin A. Quarles served on its faculty for many decades. Physician-Scientist Charles R. Drew , known for his work on blood transfusion,

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2240-550: The Bears, and they compete in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC). Between 1926 and 1928, a young Charles Drew served as Athletic Director. During this time he made great improvements in the school's teams' records. From the 1930s through 1960s, led by coach and then athletic director Edward P. Hurt , Morgan's athletic teams were legendary. More than thirty of its football players were drafted by and played in

2310-583: The Center for the Built Environment and Infrastructure Studies (CBEIS) which houses the School of Architecture and Planning, School of Transportation Studies, and the School of Engineering. In 2020, MacKenzie Scott donated $ 40 million, the largest in Morgan State's history and one of the largest ever to a HBCU. The following year, Calvin E. Tyler Jr. donated $ 20 million to endow scholarships. Morgan State awards baccalaureate, master's, and doctorate degrees . More than 9,800 students are enrolled at Morgan. At

2380-620: The Chief Judge of Maryland's highest court, Clarence Dunnaville , lawyer and civil rights activist, and nearly a dozen U.S. Army Generals including Lieutenant General William "Kip" Ward , the first Commanding Officer of the United States Africa Command . The New York Times sports columnist William C. Rhoden , playwright, TV producer, and entrepreneur David E. Talbert , and American-Israeli Olympic sprinter Donald Sanford are also alumni. Civil rights activist and music critic for

2450-765: The Doctor of Public Health (DPH) and Doctor of Philosophy in Nursing (PhD). The university's nursing class of 2018 scored a perfect pass rate, the first perfect score for an entire nursing program class at Morgan, and the only four-year nursing program in Maryland to achieve a 100 percent pass rate that year. Established in 2013, Morgan’s School of Global Journalism and Communication is one of only two Maryland-based universities with an internationally accredited journalism school. The School of Global Journalism and Communication degree programs include journalism, strategic communications, and multiplatform production. The programs are accredited by

2520-675: The Dulaney Valley Road bridge. The type locality of the hornblende gneiss member includes outcrops along an unnamed stream between Malvern Avenue and Boyce Avenue. The type locality of the Slaughterhouse Gneiss outcrops along the Slaughterhouse Branch southeast of the Baltimore Beltway (I-695). Some notable exposures of the Baltimore Gneiss in addition to the type localities mentioned above include outcrops along

2590-469: The Library. Reading and studying spaces are provided with wired and wireless access to databases for research. One such collection in the volumes includes books on Africa, with an emphasis on sub-Saharan Africa . The African-American collection includes papers and memorabilia of such persons as Emmett Jay Scott , secretary to Booker T. Washington . The Forbush Collection is composed of materials associated with

2660-546: The MEAC regular season and tournament championship and qualified for the 2009 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament. In their first tournament appearance, the 15th- seeded Bears lost to the 2008–09 Oklahoma Sooners men's basketball team Oklahoma Sooners, 82–54, in the first round of the South Regional. In 2010 the Morgan State men's basketball team again won the MEAC regular season and tournament championship and qualified for

2730-575: The Maryland Geological Survey in 1976 is defined as outcrops along Towson Run from Bellona Avenue to Towsontown Boulevard. Formerly, the type locality was considered as referring to layered gneisses which outcrop along Jones Falls and Gwynns Falls in Baltimore City, however, chemical and textural analysis followed by zircon age measurements determined that these gneisses represent a distinct younger geologic unit. The type locality of

2800-570: The Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio. By 1975 Morgan State became noted for its lacrosse team. Morgan State was the first—and, until the turn of the 21st century, the only—historically black university to field a lacrosse team. In 2005 students organized a lacrosse club which plays other college's lacrosse clubs, but the team has yet to qualify to become an NCAA -sanctioned team. In 2023, Morgan State revived its wrestling program, which

2870-717: The Rapids Trail in the McKeldin Area of Patapsco Valley State Park and along roads around the Loch Raven Reservoir . Gneiss Gneiss ( / n aɪ s / nice ) is a common and widely distributed type of metamorphic rock . It is formed by high-temperature and high-pressure metamorphic processes acting on formations composed of igneous or sedimentary rocks . This rock is formed under pressures anywhere from 2 to 15 kbar, sometimes even more, and temperatures over 300 °C (572 °F). Gneiss nearly always shows

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2940-453: The amphibolite or granulite facies. These form most of the exposed rock in Archean cratons . Gneiss domes are common in orogenic belts (regions of mountain formation). They consist of a dome of gneiss intruded by younger granite and migmatite and mantled with sedimentary rock. These have been interpreted as a geologic record of two distinct mountain-forming events, with the first producing

3010-538: The appearance of an intrusive rock such pegmatite , aplite , or granite the ( leucosome ). The rock may also contain a melanosome of mafic rock complementary to the leucosome. Migmatites are often interpreted as rock that has been partially melted, with the leucosome representing the silica-rich melt, the melanosome the residual solid rock left after partial melting, and the mesosome the original rock that has not yet experienced partial melting. Gneisses are characteristic of areas of regional metamorphism that reaches

3080-701: The athletic strength of schools like Morgan State and Grambling State University . For example, the annual contest between Morgan State and Grambling played in New York City in the late 1960s drew more than 60,000 fans. Morgan State's rivals are the Howard University Bison (the matchup is often called the Battle of the Beltway ) and the Coppin State Eagles . In 2009, the Morgan State men's basketball team won

3150-416: The bottom of the deck in the other direction. These forces stretch out the rock like a plastic , and the original material is spread out into sheets. Per the polar decomposition theorem , the deformation produced by such shearing force is equivalent to rotation of the rock combined with shortening in one direction and extension in another. Some banding is formed from original rock material (protolith) that

3220-485: The choir sang a concert in Hawaii, to commemorate the eightieth anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Morgan State University has over 20+ fraternity and sorority chapters including the nine National Pan-Hellenic Council (NPHC) organizations, social fellowships, clubs, student government association (SGA), and free purpose recreation spaces. The Spokesman is the university's student-run newspaper. WMUR Baltimore

3290-606: The circuit court in Towson , upset that the Ivy Mill property, the planned location of Morgan State, had been sold to a "negro" college. The circuit court dismissed the suit, which the community appealed to the Maryland Court of Appeals . The appellate court upheld the lower court decision, finding no basis that siting the college at this location would constitute a public nuisance. Despite some ugly threats and several demonstrations against

3360-544: The development of the gneiss's pervasive structural elements; and the Alleghanian - Palisades , which resulted in predominantly brittle faulting and open folding. The cause of the Grenvillian deformation is uncertain. The Taconic-Acadian deformation was caused by the collision of an ocean floor/island arc terrane with a continental margin or fringing microcontinent in the early Paleozoic . The Alleghanian-Pallisades deformation

3430-402: The direction of greatest compression, also called the shortening direction, as platy minerals are rotated or recrystallized into parallel layers. A common cause of nonhydrodynamic stress is the subjection of the protolith (the original rock material that undergoes metamorphism) to extreme shearing force, a sliding force similar to the pushing of the top of a deck of cards in one direction, and

3500-469: The fifth president of Morgan College in 1902, and served in that position until 1937. In 1902, Morgan's assets were a little over $ 100,000 in grounds, equipment and endowments, including its branch schools at the time; the then Princess Anne Academy and the Virginia Collegiate and Industrial Institute. During his tenure as president, the university saw major expansions across the campus. By 1937,

3570-423: The first chairman of its board of trustees, who donated land to the college. In 1895, the institution awarded its first baccalaureate degree to George W. F. McMechen , after whom the building of the school of business and management is named today. McMechen later earned a law degree from Yale University and, after establishing his career, became one of Morgan's main financial supporters. John O. Spencer became

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3640-450: The graduate level, the university offers degrees in Art, Architecture, Business Administration, Education, Engineering, Public Health, Social Work, and Philosophy. Morgan has educated over 100 Fulbright scholars, the most of any HBCU. Morgan is also first among HBCUs in the number of Fulbright-related grants awarded to students, faculty, and administrators. It is one of the 19 schools included on

3710-582: The granite basement and the second deforming and melting this basement to produce the domes. However, some gneiss domes may actually be the cores of metamorphic core complexes , regions of the deep crust brought to the surface and exposed during extension of the Earth's crust . The word gneiss has been used in English since at least 1757. It is borrowed from the German word Gneis , formerly also spelled Gneiss , which

3780-649: The inaugural Fulbright HBCU Institutional Leaders list. Since instituting the Fulbright program, Morgan State University has trained 144 Fulbright awardees initiating international studies in 43 different countries. Moreover, 51 MSU professors or administrators (none of whom were Morgan graduates) have earned 73 “Senior Fulbright” awards to 42 countries. The university operates twelve colleges, schools, and institutes. The College of Liberal Arts hosts two museums: James E. Lewis Museum of Art and Lillie Carroll Jackson Civil Rights Museum . The James E. Lewis Museum of Art (JELMA)

3850-413: The layered gneiss member includes stream cuts along Herring Run for 255 meters on either side of Arlington Avenue bridge near Morgan State University . The type locality of the augen gneiss member includes outcrops along Long Green Creek 385 meters southeast of Glenarm Road bridge. The type locality of the streaked-augen gneiss member includes outcrops along Merryman Branch 125 meters upstream from

3920-590: The marching band, symphonic band, symphonic winds, pep band, jazz ensemble, and jazz combo. Self-titled the Magnificent Marching Machine, the marching band has performed at Morgan State football games, NFL games, Presidential Inaugurations, World Series games and in regional and local television appearances. On November 28, 2019, the Magnificent Marching Machine performed during Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City . They also performed at

3990-521: The middle amphibolite to granulite metamorphic facies . In other words, the rock was metamorphosed at a temperature in excess of 600 °C (1,112 °F) at pressures between about 2 to 24 kbar . Many different varieties of rock can be metamorphosed to gneiss, so geologists are careful to add descriptions of the color and mineral composition to the name of any gneiss, such as garnet-biotite paragneiss or grayish-pink orthogneiss . Continental shields are regions of exposed ancient rock that make up

4060-407: The project, Morgan College was constructed at the new site and later expanded. Carnegie Hall, the oldest original building on the present Morgan campus, was erected a year later. Morgan remained a private institution until 1939. That year, the state of Maryland purchased the school. Morgan College became Morgan State College. In 1975, Morgan State added several doctoral programs and was designated as

4130-476: The school a grant of $ 50,000 for a central academic building. The terms of the grant included the purchase of a new site for the College, payment of all outstanding obligations, and the construction of a building to be named after him. The College met the conditions and moved to its present site in northeast Baltimore in 1917. In 1918, the white community of Lauraville tried to have the sale revoked by filing suit in

4200-453: The school's assets were more than $ 1,000,000 and its enrollment had grown from 150 to 487. It also saw the first "Era of Progress" as the college transformed from a college supported by the religious community (which focused primarily upon training young men and women for the ministry) to a college gaining support from private foundations, and offering liberal arts academic degree for a variety of professions. In 1915, Andrew Carnegie donated to

4270-596: The stable cores of continents. The rock exposed in the oldest regions of shields, which is of Archean age (over 2500 million years old), mostly belong to granite-greenstone belts. The greenstone belts contain metavolcanic and metasedimentary rock that has undergone a relatively mild grade of metamorphism, at temperatures of 350–500 °C (662–932 °F) and pressures of 200–500 MPa (2,000–5,000 bar). The greenstone belts are surrounded by high-grade gneiss terrains showing highly deformed low-pressure, high-temperature (over 500 °C (932 °F)) metamorphism to

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4340-661: The state's African-American Civil Engineers, 60 percent of the African-American Electrical Engineers, 80 percent of the African-American Telecommunications specialists, more than one-third of the African-American Mathematicians, and all of Maryland's Industrial Engineers. In 1997, the school became the only HBCU to establish accredited architecture, landscape architecture, and city and regional planning programs. A plan

4410-415: The student population is international, including many from countries like Jamaica , Dominican Republic , Nigeria , and Saudi Arabia . From 2006 to 2019 the number of African-American students remained constant, but the numbers of other racial groups, including Hispanic/Latine and non-Hispanic white students increased. In 2006 the student count was 6,700, including 60 Hispanic/Latine students, in 2019 it

4480-483: The “Silver Anniversary” concert was broadcast throughout the state of Maryland. The concert won an Emmy Award for Maryland Public Television. During 2011-2012 academic years, the choir had several prominent performances. Since 2017, the Morgan State University choir has toured, Cuba, Spain, Portugal, Austria, Slovakia, Germany, England, Scotland, Wales, Peru, Ecuador, and Galapagos Islands. In December 2021,

4550-589: Was announced by the university president, Earl Richardson in 2005, for the program to establish school status and it was designated as the School of Architecture and Planning (S+AP) in 2008. Construction began in 2010 to house all of the related majors. The Center of Built and Environmental Studies (CBEIS) was designed by in association with the Freelon Group . The School of Architecture and Planning granted its first interior design degree in 2020. The school offers bachelor's through doctoral programs in architecture and

4620-433: Was caused by continental rifting in the early Mesozoic, and possibly late-Paleozoic trans-current plate motions. The name Baltimore Gneiss was first used by George Huntington Williams in 1892 to describe the variety of widely distributed gneisses in the Baltimore area. The Baltimore Gneiss has been used in the past as building stone in the Baltimore area. It is thought that some of the first buildings built in Baltimore in

4690-622: Was completed, and the facility included sixteen teaching laboratories and five research laboratories. The William Donald Schaefer Building is a 40,000 sq ft (3,700 m ) addition to the Engineering School and was completed in April 1998. The facility provided instructional laboratories, classrooms, a student lounge, research laboratories and a 2,200 sq ft (200 m ) library annex. In 2015 Morgan State University's School of Engineering graduates provided more than two-thirds of

4760-499: Was cut in 1997 due to budget restraints. Kenny Monday was hired as head coach. More than two hundred men and women Morgan State athletes have been inducted into the Morgan State University Hall of Fame including National Football League Hall of Famers Rosey Brown , Leroy Kelly and Willie Lanier , two-time Olympic Gold medalist George Rhoden , and the coach of the Ten Bears lacrosse team Howard "Chip" Silverman . The Morgan State University Band Program consists of six ensembles:

4830-400: Was the first Dean of the School of Engineering, having previously been Chairman of the Department of Electrical Engineering at Howard University . He was succeeded by Michael G. Spencer who was previously a professor of electrical engineering at Cornell University. By 1991, the construction of the 35,000 sq ft (3,300 m ) Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr. School of Engineering building

4900-486: Was up to 7,700, including 260 Hispanic/Latine students, and in 2024 it was up to 9,808, including 476 Hispanic/Latine students. Morgan has an over 100-acre sprawling campus in the northeast neighborhood of Baltimore city. The campus is surrounded by residential suburbs with Lake Montebello to the south. The university's campus is designated as a national historic site for preservation by the National Trust for Historic Preservation . Morgan's athletic teams are known as

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