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Harford County's Michelle Campbell receives pharmaceutical award
The University of Maryland School of Pharmacy has awarded the first Donald O. Fedder Memorial Fellowship to Michelle Campbell, a fifth-year student from Have de Grace. The award supports the training and development of a graduate student whose work...Tags: Research, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Teaching and Learning, Family, University of Maryland, College Park
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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: Space Programs, NASA, High Schools, Software Industry, Teaching and Learning
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College still matters
Young people and their parents are rightly nervous these days about the economy. Many wonder whether their investment in a college education will pay off. Such worries are overblown. College graduates continue to do far better, even in this difficult...
Tags: Employment, Colleges and Universities, Employment Opportunities, Teaching and Learning, Globalization
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Breakthrough: Research delves into link between drug use, decision-making
Description: An area of the brain known as the orbitofrontal cortex, already thought to be key in decision-making, is now considered responsible for spur-of-the-moment choices but not for those based on habits, according to recently published research....Tags: Drug Use, Recreational Substance Use, Research, Medical Research, University of Maryland, College Park
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State building changes ordered to avert flood damage
Declaring that Maryland's coastal areas are increasingly at risk from a rising sea level, Gov. Martin O'Malley has ordered state agencies to weigh the growing risks of flooding in deciding where and how to construct state buildings. "Billions of...Tags: Tropical Storms, Ecosystems, Barack Obama, U.S. Geological Survey, Floods
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Hopkins team explores the dark side of light
Scientists who study sleep understand that light has a dark side, because it can interrupt natural rhythms, causing the mood and learning problems that go with lack of rest. Johns Hopkins University researchers have taken the understanding a step...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Research, Johns Hopkins University, Depression, Prozac (drug)
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Hopkins researchers readying for blast-off in study of early galaxy growth
Room 110 of Johns Hopkins University's Bloomberg Center for Physics and Astronomy bears a special name on the placard outside: Rocket Room.
Inside, tiny screws, metal clamps, screwdrivers, power drills and colored zip ties cover tables and shelves, the...Tags: Emergency Incidents, Colleges and Universities, Space Programs, Research, NASA
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Legislators to look at drug shortages
The staff at Anne Arundel Medical Center considered canceling some surgeries on a recent weekend because the hospital was running low on a common drug used to help bring people out from under anesthesia. It is the kind of problem hospitals and doctors...
Tags: Health Treatments, Barack Obama, Medical Research, Chemotherapy, Food and Drug Administration
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End to stem cell research challenge doesn't calm funding fears for scientists
Even as they celebrate clearing a legal hurdle, worries of stem cell research grant money evaporating constantly weigh on scientists like Dr. Ted Dawson, whose projects at Johns Hopkins Hospital have helped inform treatment of neurological diseases like...Tags: National Institutes of Health, George W. Bush, Parkinson's Disease, Trials, Drugs and Medicines
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Montpelier/South Laurel: Elizabeth Ness is new School of Nursing Alumni Council president
Woodbridge Crossing resident Elizabeth Ness is the newly elected president of the University of Maryland School of Nursing Alumni Council. She brings more than 30 years of nursing experience to her new position, including six years in management and 18...Tags: Montpelier, National Institutes of Health, Colleges and Universities, Recreational and Sporting Goods Industry, Medical Research
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Pap smears can detect ovarian and endometrial cancers, Hopkins scientists find
Johns Hopkins scientists have found a way to screen for hard-to-detect endometrial and ovarian cancers in women using a routine Pap smear, a discovery they hope eventually could reduce the number of deaths caused by the deadly malignancies.
The...Tags: Gynecology, Colleges and Universities, Ovarian Cancer, Research, Virginia Commonwealth University
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Helaman Ferguson's sculpture blends the artistic, mathematic
The marriage of two disciplines, mathematics and art, may seem an unlikely union given an artist’s innate desire for free expression. Meet Helaman Ferguson, whose sculpture is known for its root in mathematical design. Ferguson, of North Laurel,...
Tags: Colleges and Universities, Teachers, Sculpture, Philosophy, Teaching and Learning
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