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Ron Schmelzer: Tech breakfaster, startup veteran
Ron Schmelzer has been living and breathing the startup life since he was a college student at MIT in the mid-1990s — and at his monthly tech breakfasts in Baltimore, he wants others to live it, too.
The entrepreneur started his first company out...Tags: Business, Small Businesses, New Products, Conservation, Computing and Information Technology Industry
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Robert Waring McNitt
Rear Adm. Robert Waring McNitt, a naval officer whose career spanned two wars and who, after retiring from the Navy, was dean of admissions at the Naval Academy for more than a decade, died Sunday of heart failure at the Ginger Cove retirement community...
Tags: World War II (1939-1945), Military Equipment, United States Naval Academy, Hobbies, Annapolis
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Scientists discover colliding clusters of stars
Half a century ago, a nearby cluster of stars appeared to astronomers as a single glowing ball of gas. As recently as 15 years ago, scientists realized it was in fact a cluster of stars but were convinced they all must have formed at the same time and...
Tags: Space Programs, Science, Missing Persons
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Towson biology professor developing silicone implant to battle herpes
The space sure looked like a science lab, with beakers full of brightly-hued potions and a dry-erase board covered in graphs and mathematical scrawl. But at the heart of the operation sits a hunk of metal with a hand crank on the side.
"It's a pasta...Tags: Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Towson University, Spaghetti, Students, Biology
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Hopkins professor honored for shedding new light on the universe
Johns Hopkins University professor Charles L. Bennett has won many awards for research he led or contributed to investigating the creation and expansion of the universe. But one he earned recently stands above the rest.
Last month, Bennett and the team...Tags: Applied Science, Research, Cosmology, Space Programs, Colleges and Universities
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Ronald A.J. Wilson, accounting executive
Ronald A.J. Wilson, a retired accounting executive and Vietnam veteran, died June 30 from complications of pneumonia at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, N.H. The former Roland Park resident was 67.
The son of a chemist and hospital...Tags: Christianity, Manassas (Manassas, Virginia), Roman Catholicism, Pneumonia, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland)
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Running: Heat can't beat Women's Distance Festival runners
On July 8, the last day of the Great Heat Wave of 2012, the Howard County Striders held the annual Women's Distance Festival 5k at and around Howard Community College. Race-day entrant Anna Helt-Gosselin, from Vienna, Va., confessed she was "pretty used...
Tags: Festive Events, Road Running, Howard Community College, Running
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Climate change is warping weather
The Sun's recent reader poll ("What Maryland thinks," July 10) shows that a majority of those responding to this "not scientific" survey doubt that man made climate changes contributed to recent weather extremes. As one who holds an advanced degree in...Tags: Global Change, Science, Conservation, Ecosystems
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North County student wins Intel Science Fair's top prize
North County High School freshman Jack Andraka stood on the auditorium stage, speaking about the invention that earned him the $75,000 grand prize at the recent Intel International Science and Engineering Fair. Behind him stood Dr. Anirban Maitra, a...Tags: Intel Corp., Students, Pancreatic Cancer, Cancer, Science
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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: Pacific Ocean, Space Programs, Science, NASA, Technology
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Change the World Bank needs
Few people on the street may be familiar with the World Bank. Yet, it plays a critical role in the U.S. effort to engage the world through its contribution to economic development in poor and post-conflict societies. As current World Bank President...Tags: Harvard Medical School, Robert Zoellick, Colombia, Newspaper and Magazine, Christianity
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Friday Buffet: Adam Sessler leaves 'X-Play' and 'Tetris' makes a comeback?
News Roundup •••• Adam Sessler, host of G4TV’s gaming flagship “X-Play,” has left the network and the long-running show. Sessler was a fixture on the network’s previous incarnations, ZDTV and TechTV, having co-...
Tags: Sony Corp., Gaming, Post-traumatic Stress Disorder , PlayStation 3, YouTube
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