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Rita Sloan Berndt, a neurology professor at the University of Maryland Medical School for 25 years who studied people who suffered from the loss of speech, known as aphasia, died June 17 of lymphoma at her home in Roland Park. She was 70. - Dozens of students from all-girls schools throughout the area poured onto War Memorial Plaza in front of Baltimore City Hall Friday afternoon pumping signs in the air and chanting "free our girls."
- Long Reach's Tosin Oyewole named athlete of the year, leads Howard County indoor track all-county squads
- Afaa Michael Weaver, a Baltimore native who once worked at Bethlehem Steel and Proctor & Gamble, has won one the country's most poetry prizes.
- In a state where 300,000 people work for the federal government and countless more depend on its benefits, Maryland has been hard hit by the government shutdown. Here are five people, a researcher, a homeless mother, a veteran and two federal workers, and how the budget impasse has affected their lives.
- In a state where 300,000 people work for the federal government and countless more depend on its benefits, Maryland has been hard hit by the government shutdown. Here are five people, a researcher, a homeless mother, a veteran and two federal workers, and how the budget impasse has affected their lives.
- Kyle Harrison (Johns Hopkins, Friends) is helping to bring together the world¿s greatest black lacrosse players to form the Sankofa Lacrosse Alliance, which is aimed at promoting academic, professional and social achievement for the next generation of lacrosse players.
- Dr. Alan Ross, a longtime faculty member of Johns Hopkins University whose love of numbers fed his career and also an enjoyment of baseball, died Sept. 7 at Roland Park Place. He was 87.
- Sonja Santelises, chief academic officer for Baltimore city schools, resigns.
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- The University of Maryland, College Park agreed to actively recruit qualified alumni of the Knowledge is Power Program charter schools in Baltimore and Washington and provide them with academic, financial and social support.
- Herman L. Ammon, who taught chemistry at the University of Maryland, College Park, for nearly five decades and was also an expert in the field of crystal structure, died Aug. 2 of a stroke at Doctors Community Hospital in Lanham.
- Baltimore-born author Adelle Waldman gets inside the male psyche to file dispatches in the gender wars
- Criticism of St. Mary's College seminars is unfair, uninformed
- UCMC Names Medical Director for the Kaufman Cancer Center
- Jean-Pierre G. Meyer, a former professor and chairman of the Johns Hopkins University department of mathematics whose escape from Nazi-occupied France became the subject of a book, died April 24 from heart failure at his Guilford residence. He was 83.
- The mistakes made by social media and cable TV after the Boston Marathon bombings have continued reverberating with the discovery last week of the body of a young man falsely accused of being a suspect. We saw similar patterns after the Newtown shooting, and we need to look at this trend before the media get any further out of control.
- James C. Constable, a retired businessman and World War II veteran, died March 7 from heart failure at his Essex, Conn., home. He was 96.
- Georg H.B. Luck, a retired professor of classics whose career at Johns Hopkins University spanned two decades, died Sunday from complications of cancer at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. He was 87.
- Scientists who study sleep understand that light has a dark side, as it can interrupt natural rhythms, causing the mood and learning problems that go with lack of rest.
- Dr. Moreland Perkins, a philosophy professor who had taught at the University of Maryland, College Park and was also former mayor of Riverdale Park, died Nov. 7 of pneumonia at St. Joseph Medical Center.
- In the 75th year of its discussion-based curriculum centered on books from the Western tradition, St. John's College in Annapolis has been ranked as the top school in the nation whose undergraduates earn doctorate degrees in humanities.
- Radiation Oncologist Mohan Suntha was named Thursday as the president of the newly created University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center, officials announced as the merger of the two entities is finalized.
- Radiation Oncologist Mohan Suntha was named Thursday as the president of the newly created University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center, officials announced as the merger of the two entities is finalized.
- Gregory H. Barnhill, a career investment banker who embraced and promoted civic projects and charities, ended his life Friday evening in Baltimore County. He was 59 and lived in Stevenson.
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- Cyber-bullying creates a vexing situation for parents and schools to police, because the harassment and intimidation is pervasive and inescapable in a culture that is becoming more reliant on the Internet.
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