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Harford Public Library receives book donation in honor of Black History Month
The Iota Nu Chapter of the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity's sixth annual Harford County Public Library book dedication ceremony was held at the Abingdon Library on Feb. 2. The book donation and dedication was in honor of Black History Month. Joining members...Tags: Science, Colleges and Universities, Ceremonies, Technology, African-American History Month
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Sporting excellence adds up for two Owls eyeing future in engineering
The Westminster High School football team put up some gaudy offensive numbers in 2012. During a 12-1 season, the Owls won a second consecutive county championship, became the third Carroll County team in five years to record an undefeated regular season,...Tags: American Cancer Society, Teaching and Learning, Football, Technology, United States Naval Academy
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UM professor will receive National Medal of Science
A professor of physics at the University of Maryland, College Park who specializes in fundamental questions of the structure and behavior of the universe has been named a recipient of the National Medal of Science. Sylvester James Gates Jr., 62, was...Tags: Barack Obama, College Park (Prince George's, Maryland), Science, White House, Awards and Prizes
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River Hill team hoping for repeat in international robotics competition
When students in River Hill High School's Advanced Computer Science classes entered a worldwide high school robotics competition last year that involved programming International Space Station satellites, they figured their chances of winning were...
Tags: Applied Physics, Science, Software Industry, Teaching and Learning, Satellite Technology
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Are we ready for myalmamater.com?
The conveyance of knowledge from one wise man to a gathering of eager young people has been the model for education since Ancient Greece, and it has survived largely unchanged in the face of every kind of technology — from the printing press to...
Tags: University of Virginia, Annapolis, University of Maryland, College Park, Students, Book
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From Sun Magazine: 'Genius' pair rewrite rules of organ transplants, among other interests
Think of Dorry Segev and Sommer Gentry as intellectual magpies. The glittery ideas they filch from fields as diverse as swing dancing, systems analysis, water skiing and medicine seemingly have little in common. But Segev and Gentry weave them together...
Tags: Numb3rs (tv program), U.S. Congress, Technology, Medical Research, Dance
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Roland V. Danielson, naval architect
Roland V. "Danny" Danielson, a retired Bethlehem Steel Corp. naval architect and avid outdoorsman, died Nov. 17 of renal failure at Stella Maris Hospice in Timonium. He was 92.
The son of Swedish and Danish immigrants, Roland Victor Danielson was born...Tags: Bethlehem Steel Corp., Timonium, Bethlehem Steel, Cambridge (Middlesex, Massachusetts), Manufacturing and Engineering
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Computer team at River Hill needs sponsors for competition
River Hill's Team Rocket, a group of advanced computer students, is in first place going into the finals of ZeroRobotics 2012 AstroSpheres competition sponsored by MIT and NASA. Now all they need is $6,000 to attend the finals at MIT on Jan. 11. The...Tags: Clarksville, Annapolis, Linthicum, Holidays, Music
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Accused WikiLeaker Manning says he was punished before trial
Army Pfc. Bradley Manning is due back at Fort Meade this week, where lawyers for the alleged WikiLeaker plan to argue that he was punished at a military brig before his case had been heard — grounds, they say, to dismiss all charges against him. By...
Tags: Barack Obama, Amnesty International, Human Rights, Justice System, Suicide
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Junot Diaz: This is why men cheat
Junot — and Yunior — are back. Junot Diaz is the MacArthur Fellowship-winning writer whose work reflects his Dominican roots and his Jersey youth, and who has dazzled critics and audiences with a virtuosic narrative voice that weaves tales of...
Tags: Fiction, Pratt Street, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Authors, Junot Diaz
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How to fix the Electoral College
Ohio, Virginia, Florida: If you don't live in one of these or a few other "battleground" states, you may feel disenfranchised in U.S. presidential elections. As a Marylander, no major party candidate competes for your vote — even if the nationwide...Tags: Democratic Party, Parties and Movements, Authors, U.S. Elections, Republican Party
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Clarksville: River Hill High senior advances in science competition
Congratulations to River Hill senior Evangeline Chandran on being named a semifinalist in Siemens' prestigious STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) competition. Evangeline submitted a paper entitled, "A novel cellular signaling mechanism:...Tags: Clarksville, Linthicum, Science, Music, William Shakespeare
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