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AACC president Martha Smith reflects on retirement
In one of her final duties as president of Anne Arundel Community College, Martha Smith stood before this year's graduating class during commencement and engaged in a moment of call and response that had all the trappings of a student pep rally. Smith...
Tags: Graduation, Teaching and Learning, Towson University, Anne Arundel Community College, Glen Burnie
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Passion for music fills McDaniel student's hectic schedule
Allison Wyper said she has played music since birth. That's an exaggeration, but not by much. As an infant, Wyper would often lay her hands atop those of her grandfather, Earl Seth, as he played piano. More than 20 years later, Wyper's passion for...Tags: Graduation, Catonsville, Teaching and Learning, Music, Concerts
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University of Maryland, Baltimore to revamp teaching on pain
As part of a federal project aimed at better treating pain, the University of Maryland, Baltimore will begin revamping the way it teaches future doctors, dentists, nurses and pharmacists.
Pain affects approximately 100 million Americans and their...Tags: University of New Mexico, Pain, Medical Specialization, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Southern Illinois University
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'We still have to fight. So for God's sake, fight.'
The greatest commencement address ever is now more than three decades old. And it's safe to say it will never be surpassed or even equaled. It belongs to the ages. In 1979, its author summed up the condition of modern man by noting that, quote, more than...
Tags: Berlin Wall's Fall (1989), David Simon, Consumers, Curtis Mayfield, World War II (1939-1945)
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SpaceX rocket carries Maryland science project into space
As the space capsule called Dragon hurtled toward the International Space Station at about 17,500 miles per hour on Friday, no space enthusiast was more enthralled than Paul Warren, a self-described "nerd" who attends Henry E. Lackey High School in...
Tags: Cape Canaveral, Pacific Ocean, SpaceX, Astronomy, Technology
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Richard Paul Sullivan, chairman and CEO of Easco Corp.
Richard Paul Sullivan, a former chairman and CEO of Easco Corp. who had been active in Republican state politics and civic affairs, died Sunday of cancer at his Owings Mills home.
The longtime Guilford resident was 79.
Mr. Sullivan, whose father was...Tags: Republican Party, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Companies and Corporations, Towson University, Owings Mills (Baltimore, Maryland)
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Joshua A. Barbati, teacher
Joshua A. Barbati, a retired Baltimore County public school educator and longtime Loch Raven resident, died May 11 of melanoma at Levine & Dickson Hospice House in Huntersville, N.C.
He was 79.
The son of Italian immigrants, Mr. Barbati was born in...Tags: Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Atlanta Braves, Charlotte, Randallstown, Meriden
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HCC student overcomes obstacles, earns degree
On the day before graduating from Howard Community College, Jennie Wang of Columbia considered the arduous road she had traveled and her studies at the Johns Hopkins University that lie ahead. One thought came to mind:
"If my Hammond High School teachers...Tags: Graduation, Schools, Teaching and Learning, Howard Community College, Johns Hopkins University
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Air Force veteran to fellow Howard Community College grads: We 'beat the odds'
Danielle Allison likes challenges. The Columbia mother was raised in poverty, on government assistance, in Atlantic City, N.J. The first in her family to attend college, she dropped out after only a few semesters. At 23, she joined the military, a...
Tags: Graduation, Howard Community College, Teaching and Learning, Atlantic City (Atlantic, New Jersey), Financial Aid
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Harford's only International Baccalaureate program to have first graduation
A group of 21 high school seniors will not only have the privilege of graduating in June and moving onto the next chapter in their lives, but also next week they'll have the honor of being the first graduating class of Harford County's only...Tags: Schools, Teaching and Learning, Towson University, Music, High Schools
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Sunday, May 27 Honoring America's finest Mission BBQ, 7748 Ritchie Highway in Glen Burnie, will host forty veterans of World War II to honor their service and in observance of Memorial Day. For more information, call 410-773-9888. Thursday, May 31...Tags: Baltimore Ravens, Entertainment Events, Anne Arundel Community College, GEICO, Festive Events
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Lt. Cmdr. Wesley A. Brown, broke color barrier at Naval Academy
Retired Lt. Cmdr. Wesley A. Brown, who broke the color barrier at the Naval Academy and was its first African-American graduate in 1949, died Tuesday of cancer at Springhouse of Silver Spring Assisted Living.
He was 85.
"It's important for America to...Tags: Graduation, The Washington Post, Adam Clayton Powell Jr., Coral Gables, Engineering
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