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Campus Life for LGBTQIA Students in the New Millennium

Prof. Michael Falk will visit the October 25 Baltimore County PFLAG meeting with students from the Johns Hopkins University to hold an open discussion regarding campus life for LGBTQIA students in the new millennium.

Please come with questions about student social life, bullying, campus housing policies, awareness of safe sex and AIDS prevention, support for LGBTQIA students on campus and any other topics connected to contemporary student life.

Prof. Falk, advisor to both the GLBT Graduate Students and to DSAGA (Diverse Sexuality and Gender Alliance), the undergraduate student organization on the Johns Hopkins University campus, is an Associate Professor in JHU's Whiting School of Engineering (Materials Science and Engineering; Mechanical Engineering) and Krieger School of Arts and Sciences (Physics and Astronomy) as well as being himself an alumnus of the university (BA KSAS '90, MSE WSE '91). 

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Last year he served as advisor to the students who organized the B'More Proud Leadership
Summit that brought 276 students from area campuses to JHU to participate in a day of networking, support, activism, lectures, performances and personal
exploration. 

Students represented area campuses including Towson University, Morgan State University, CCBC, Goucher College, MICA, UMBC, Loyola, McDaniel and
even students from University of Maryland, College Park. 

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For his service to the LGBTQIA community on campus Prof. Falk was the recipient of a Diversity Recognition Award from the Johns Hopkins Diversity Leadership Council and
university president Ronald Daniels.

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