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• Obituaries

Barbara Zirkin, a Stevenson University dean and online education pioneer, dies

Barbara Zirkin, a lifelong educator, a former associate dean of Stevenson University and an early developer of online learning programs, died June 20.

By Mary Carole McCauley

Jul 5, 2019

• Maryland

Maryland woman says she received death threats after Sri Lanka misidentified photo of her as a bombing suspect

Amara Majeed, whom the Sri Lankan government admittedly misidentified as a suspect in the Easter Day bombings, said that the mistake prompted death threats against her and distress for her family in Sri Lanka.

By Sameer Rao

Apr 26, 2019

• Maryland

Sri Lankan government misidentifies Towson woman's photo as depicting terrorism suspect

A Maryland woman’s photo was misidentified by the Sri Lankan government this week as depicting a suspect in the Easter Sunday bombings, according to the Sunday Times and a BBC reporter in Sri Lanka.

By Lillian Reed

Apr 25, 2019

• Opinion

Baltimore should invest in pro bono test prep

We know that it’s not only the ultra rich or those willing to break the law who have an advantage in college admissions. Many with the means will do all they can to ensure that their children get into the best college possible. Often, this means spending money on standardized test prep.

• Health

Maryland made a plan to help people leaving prison get drug treatment — but it never used it

State health officials sought permission to give temporary Medicaid to those leaving the correctional system so they could get drug treatment, but never tapped the authority.

By Meredith Cohn

Mar 4, 2019

• Maryland

Volleyball: Westminster's Widener, Liberty's Leiner making plans to play at next level

Westminster senior Jilienne Widener is committed to attend Brown University, while Liberty senior Lydia Leiner gave her commitment to Clarion.

• Obituaries

Marva Belt, Enoch Pratt librarian, dies

Library administrator was active in Baltimore's civil rights movement

By Jacques Kelly

Jan 5, 2019

• Opinion

Alvin Greene: the original socialist Democrat

There has been much ado over Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the socialist who won the Democratic Party primary for a New York congressional seat last week. Yet this isn’t the first time a major party has nominated a candidate who believes in Medicare and higher education for all.

• Opinion

Baltimore Sun's 2018 Business and Civic Hall of Fame honorees: Mark and Patricia Joseph

Mark and Patricia Joseph aren’t the sort of philanthropists who simply write checks. They have not only become strategic about their investments in education but substantially involved in the organizations they support.

• Entertainment

Ahead of Baltimore talk, author Meg Wolitzer discusses writing about women in the #MeToo era

Author Meg Wolitzer comes to the Ivy Bookshop Saturday to discuss her eagerly anticipated new novel, “The Female Persuasion.”

By Mary Carole McCauley

Apr 6, 2018

• Colleges and Universities

UMBC's Freeman Hrabowski receives national lifetime achievement award

UMBC President Freeman A. Hrabowski III is receiving a lifetime achievement award from the American Council on Education.

• Politics

An independent candidate for Senate in Maryland says 'it's about change,' as the incumbent files for re-election

Neal Simon, a Potomac businessman launching an independent campaign for Senate in Maryland today, watched last week’s State of the Union in a state of despair. His problem wasn’t with what President Donald J. Trump was saying, per se, but the reaction he was getting from the House floor.

By John Fritze

Feb 6, 2018

• Obituaries

James M. 'Jamie' Scott, a costumer designer whose work was featured in both the theater and opera

James M. "Jamie" Scott, a costumer designer whose work was featured on both the stage and in opera, died Sept. 20 from liver cancer at Bebee Medical Center in Lewes, Del. He was 56.

By Frederick N. Rasmussen

Oct 6, 2017

• Catherine Pugh

Now empowered to control city school board, Baltimore mayor seeks new applicants

It’s the first time in two decades that the city’s mayor has had sole authority over who sits on the school board.

By Talia Richman

Sep 21, 2017

• Features

Wedded: Allison Ehrich Bernstein and Andrew Garin were college sweethearts

Allison Ehrich Bernstein and Andrew Garin were married May 28 at the American Visionary Art Museum.

By John-John Williams IV

Sep 8, 2017

• Howard County

Guitar in tow, Cantor Benjamin Kintisch joins Columbia Jewish Congregation

Benjamin Kintisch, a cantor with a background in Jewish childhood education, has joined the reconstructionist Columbia Jewish Congregation, leading his first service on July 14.

By Libby Solomon

Jul 26, 2017

• Opinion

It's 'Dr.' Sonja Santelises

Baltimore's school system and its CEO deserve more respect

• Baltimore County

A look back at a banner sports year in Catonsville

Whether it was on the basketball, volleyball or tennis court, wrestling mat or baseball diamond, there were many memorable moments in sports in 2016. Here are

By Craig Clary

Jan 3, 2017

• Maryland

Pope Francis appoints auxiliary bishops for Archdiocese of Baltimore

Pope Francis has appointed Monsignors Mark Brennan and Adam Parker auxiliary bishops for the Archdiocese of Baltimore.

• Union Memorial Hospital

Mary H. Johns, Guilford artist and horticulturist, dies

Mary H. Johns, a botanical artist who had a great love of reading, died Nov. 12 from a heart attack at Union Memorial Hospital. She was 74.

By Frederick N. Rasmussen

Dec 2, 2016

• Health

Heart-failure app just the latest innovation to spring from VA research

It's the cycle of readmission that a cardiology nurse hopes to break with her concept of a cellphone app to track cardiology patients' diet, weight and exercise.

By Tim Prudente

Nov 11, 2016

• Maryland

Loeffler and Gabeau join Carroll Hospital

Loeffler and Gabeau join Carroll Hospital

• Maryland

Carroll Hospital's new head of radiation oncology on this community, patient care, future of oncology

Carroll Hospital is welcoming a new physician on staff this October. Dr. Darlene Gabeau has joined the teams as the radiation oncology at the William E. Kahlert Regional Cancer Center, a position she said she was drawn to because in both culture and practice, it exemplifies all she loves best in the practice of medicine.

• Baltimore City Paper

The role of student newspapers changes as campus activism grows

With the recent uptick of demonstrations and activism on college campuses — in Baltimore especially, but also nationwide as issues surrounding Black Lives Matter and Title IX come to the forefront — student newspapers have a vital, yet delicate, role to play. As Cody Boteler, editor-in-chief of The Towson Towerlight, says: "Often, if something truly significant happens on campus — like when a couple of students occupied the president's office, for example — nobody is

• Politics

Obama official Tom Perez at center of vice president talk

Tom Perez fought three years ago to win confirmation as U.S. labor secretary. Recently, he has been answering to another, unofficial title almost as frequently. "Potentially our next vice president," a union official roared into a microphone as the Marylander took a stage last week on Capitol Hill.

By John Fritze

Jun 25, 2016

• Education

A look at data behind rapes reported at Maryland colleges in 2014

Four of Maryland's colleges reported seven or more rapes on their campuses in 2014, all of which occurred inside campus-run student dorms, according to federal safety data released about colleges and universities across the country.

• Baltimore County

Loyola Maryland midfielder scores academic honors at Final Four

Chris Myers may not be able to score goals galore or dodge through a double team with aplomb, yet the Loyola University Maryland midfielder boasts at least one

• Baltimore County

Injuries didn't hurt Boys' Latin graduate's path to Final Four

Counting the spate of injuries that have plagued Jeff Chase's career on the lacrosse field won't require a calculator.

• Health

Maryland medical students learn where they will train

More than 42,000 medical students from the University of Maryland, Johns Hopkins University and others around the country and world learned where they would train to become family doctors, surgeons or other kinds of physicians

• Maryland

National recognition on deck for Hereford High School

Hereford High School principal Joe Jira and five key members of his staff fell for an old trick when they were lured to participate in a mid-December roundtable discussion at the offices of the Maryland State Department of Education in Baltimore. Once there, they were told that their school was chosen to be among the state elite by earning designation as a Maryland Blue Ribbon School.

• Obituaries

Robert S. Welch, Goucher College interim president who liked to brew beer, dies

Robert S. Welch, 71, a former Goucher College acting president, dean and philosophy lecturer, died of cancer Feb. 28 at his Charles Village home.

By Jacques Kelly

Mar 16, 2016

• Opinion

The irony of civilly protesting incivility

Students exercise their right to protest by decrying campus behavior that is culturally offensive to their minority peers. Their opponents, those in power, reject that right to protest due to its supposedly uncivil nature, while at the same time telling students they cannot object to forms of free expression that are harmful to minorities. Do you see the hypocrisy? There is an inherent contradiction in calling on students to tolerate the "provocative, the disturbing and the unorthodox" and to

• Baltimore County

Teen leaves England and war for sanctuary in Catonsville in 940

Catonsville family provides home

• Opinion

The high cost of dying

As an ICU physician, I have seen that modern intensive care medicine can contribute to miraculous outcomes. ICUs now provide temporary artificial liver support, prolonged artificial circulation and perioperative care for solid organ transplantations of all kinds. However, my experiences in several major medical centers have also shown me that there is a problem with ICU spending in patients that are highly likely to die in the hospital.

• Opinion

Putin in Syria: Pure opportunism

Vladimir Putin's incursion into Syria fits a long standing pattern of opportunism.

• Obituaries

John A. Rommel, retired bank official, title company president and businessman, dies

John A. Rommel, a retired senior vice bank president who later was president of a Baltimore title company, died Wednesday of cancer at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. He was 85.

By Frederick N. Rasmussen

Sep 13, 2015

• Brown University

Five minutes with Fitz Hoskins, head of Tatum's Baltimore office

As a partner at Tatum and head of the firm's new Baltimore office, Fitz Hoskins leads a team tasked with parachuting into companies to staff projects or fill vacancies at the highest levels.

By Natalie Sherman

Jul 24, 2015

• Maryland

Area resident makes career as knowledge artist

Artist Bucky Edgett, 64, of Westminster, has had a varied career.

• Opinion

The perils of parenting

Parenting styles are under scrutiny like never before, with different factions arguing the pros and cons of being a tiger mom, a helicopter dad or a free-range family — and each camp certain their method is the one to produce a better, brighter, more fulfilled child.

• Health

Baltimore jail complex again faces lawsuit over health care

After decades of lawsuits and settlements aimed at forcing the Baltimore City Detention Center to provide better health care to those recently arrested or serving short sentences, advocates for detainees head back to court because they say conditions remain inhumane.

By Meredith Cohn

Jun 3, 2015

• Baltimore County

Dulaney High junior named Carson scholar [Lutherville-Timonium]

Caitlyn Battle-McDonald, a junior at Dulaney High School, was recently named a 2015 Carsons scholar.

• Sports

Orioles' Reimold sues Johns Hopkins over medical care

Orioles outfielder Nolan Reimold has filed a lawsuit alleging negligent medical care at Johns Hopkins Hospital when he underwent spinal surgery, claiming he was cleared to resume play too quickly, causing additional damage.

• Obituaries

Stephen H. Maslen, aeronautical engineer

Stephen H. Maslen, a retired aeronautical engineer who was an expert in fluid dynamics, died Tuesday at the Broadmead retirement community in Cockeysville of heart failure. He was 89.

By Frederick N. Rasmussen

Mar 29, 2015

• Art

Reciting poetry with poise, Frederick freshman tops Md. competition

Kyle Shreve, a Frederick County freshman, beat Maryland's seven other high school finalists in the annual Poetry Out Loud state recitation competition, delivering three poems without missing a beat and with just the right amount of panache.

By Kevin Rector

Mar 9, 2015

• Obituaries

Hans G. Goedicke

Hans G. Goedicke, a renowned Egyptologist who had been chairman of the Johns Hopkins University Department of Near Eastern Studies, died.

By Frederick N. Rasmussen

Mar 6, 2015

• Obituaries

Robert H. Chambers III

Robert H. Chambers III, whose tenure as the seventh president of McDaniel College was marked by a renovated campus, increased enrollment, and expansion abroad, died.

By Frederick N. Rasmussen

Jan 23, 2015

• Maryland

Former college president Robert H. Chambers dies

• Features

Towson native Peter Mark Kendall snags recurring role on "Girls"

Towson native Peter Mark Kendall has landed a dream role-- a grad school classmate of Lena Dunham's character Hannah Horvath on the HBO series "Girls."

By Julie Scharper

Jan 9, 2015

• Consumer Goods Industries

Handling holiday returns helps fuel Lanham firm

Business is brisk this time of year for the Washington-based technology company Optoro, which processes and re-sells returned merchandise for some of the biggest retailers in the country.

• Anne Arundel

New Naval Academy superintendent outlines vision

The new superintendent of the Naval Academy said Thursday that the institution is a national leader in confronting sexual assault and sexual harassment among students, and should be helping other schools tackle what he described as a widespread problem.