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Michelle Obama wants Bowie State graduates to promote education
Michelle Obama encouraged the graduates of Bowie State University on Friday to live up to the legacy of their university's founders and the leaders of the civil rights movement by promoting the importance of education in the black community. "Just think...
Tags: Barack Obama, Historically Black Colleges and Universities, College Park (Prince George's, Maryland), Substance Abuse, Robin Williams
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Hurd named C&S Volunteer of the Year
Russell Hurd, who partnered with Harford Community College to establish the Heather L. Hurd 5K Run/1-Mile Fun Walk, has been named the C&S Wholesale Grocers 2013 Volunteer of the Year. Hurd is a perishable quality control manager in the company's...Tags: Health and Safety at School, Transportation Accidents, Lobbying, Cell Phones, Motorvehicle Accidents
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Sarah Claypool to wed Steve Thacker
Jim and Karen Claypool of Abingdon announce the engagement of their daughter, Sarah Claypool, to Steve Thacker, the son of Sam and Janet Thacker from Aberdeen. Claypool graduated from Bel Air High School and received her undergraduate degree from...Tags: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Towson University, East Carolina University
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Why education should be considered a civil right
I recently spoke at a seminar at Harvard on the theme of education as a civil right. Among other things, the seminar conveyed the urgency as well as the intractability of the problem of low college completion rates for certain groups of young people in...
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Students, Personal Income, Poverty, Economic Inequality
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Zoo teams up with state to promote college savings plans
May 29 has been dubbed 529 College Savings Day -- get it 5/29 and 529, as in the part of the tax code that allows the savings plan? -- and the College Savings Plans of Maryland (CSPM) is teaming up with the Maryland Zoo to promote awareness of the plans. ...
Tags: Maryland Zoo Baltimore, Tuition Planning Services
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Katherine L. Vaughns
Katherine L. Vaughns, a University of Maryland School of Law professor and secretary of the Center Stage board who immersed herself in the arts community, died of pancreatic cancer May 4 at a Sinai Hospital hospice unit. The Bolton Hill resident was 68....
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Movies, Bolton Hill, Justice System, Lawyers
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Kwame Kwei-Armah keeps his vow to bring Center Stage national exposure
Kwame Kwei-Armah is turning up the floodlights on Center Stage. It's been not quite two years since the British-born playwright became artistic director of Maryland's largest regional theater. With his production of two button-pushing dramas nicknamed...
Tags: Mount Vernon, Charles, Prince of Wales, BBC, Sociology, Bruce Norris
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Delaware student wins $61,000 writing prize
Congratulations to Tim Marcin, winner of Washington College's Sophie Kerr Prize, worth $61,192 this year. The 22-year-old from Wilmington, Del., who is headed to Northwestern University, plans to pursue a sports writing career. That's a worthy goal --...
Tags: Sophie Kerr Prize, Washington College (Maryland), Northwestern University, Chestertown, Entertainment Events
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Local student to talk weight loss on 'The View'
Kaci DeWitt-Rickards remembers being a chunky kid with a steady diet of Burger King chicken tenders, vanilla milkshakes and Papa John's pizza. By her sophomore year in college at the University of Miami, her adolescent pudge had ballooned into a...
Tags: Drugs and Medicines, Physical Therapy, Health Treatments, Burger King, Weight Loss
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University system board approves tuition, fee increase
Maryland's in-state undergraduates will pay a few hundred dollars more per semester this fall under a new tuition-and-fee plan approved Wednesday by the university system's Board of Regents. Out-of-state students will be hit a little harder, paying as...
Tags: Teaching and Learning, College Park (Prince George's, Maryland), University System of Maryland, Students, University of Maryland, College Park
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John Carroll seniors close track careers with big finishes
John Carroll seniors Kiana Wright and Austin Markley concluded their prep track careers with victories and school records in the MIAA and IAAM Track and Field Championships in Severn May 11. Wright won the girls' (IAAM) long jump and triple jump, the...Tags: Track and Field, Lehigh University
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It's sheep against dogs in 1913 [History Matters]
100 Years Ago Sheep vs. dogs "It is reported that Mr. Harold Hopkins had a large number of sheep killed by dogs last Sunday morning. "Wanted: A woman to cook, wash and clean, and remain at night, good wages. Mrs. James Steward. Hill St. Ellicott...Tags: George Washington, Clarksville, Ellicott City, Silver Spring (Montgomery, Maryland), Howard County
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