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• Education

Zuckerberg family spending millions to replicate UMBC's successful STEM program

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Dr. Priscilla Chan, just announced that they will put part of their enormous wealth behind an effort to spread the University of Maryland, Baltimore County’s successful STEM honors program to two University of California colleges.

By Catherine Rentz

Apr 9, 2019

• Opinion

Zurawik: Frontline report explains how Facebook betrayed its promise to bring us together

Frontline's "The Facebook Dilemma" documents the social media giant's habit of cloaking a devil-may-care quest for profits in naive idealism.

By David Zurawik

Oct 28, 2018

• Opinion

Pitts: Intolerance can never be up for debate

bs-ed-op-0816-pitts-intolerance-20180815. Intolerance is not a dissenting opinion deserving of respect and debate, says Leonard Pitts Jr.

• Opinion

The high school lesson Mark Zuckerberg still needs to learn

If you want to understand why Mark Zuckerberg is defending the rights of people to deny the Holocaust on his now sprawling Facebook platform, you have to look to his high school. Unfortunately, he's turned a truly inspiring teaching system on its head, using it to give wide berth to bullies.

• Commentary

Vigliotti: Privacy must be protected online

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg this week went to testify before members of the Senate and Congress. What has evolved is a situation uncommon in recent American politics: for both conservatives and liberals to agree on an issue, namely that individual privacy must be protected online.

• Opinion

I downloaded my Facebook data. I'm amused — and disturbed.

As Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg answered questions before Congress this week about online privacy and his company’s reach, I wondered: What information does Facebook have on me? It turns out it’s a pretty easy thing to find out — and the results are both amusing and disturbing.

• Opinion

Zurawik: Mr. Zuckerberg went to Washington. Washington didn't buy it.

Facebook CEO Mark Zucerkberg's apologies and evasions didn't cut it with Congress.

By David Zurawik

Apr 11, 2018

• Opinion

When Mark Zuckerberg testifies before Congress this week, there's only one thing he can say that would matter

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg needs to commit to tough, global data protection and privacy rules.

• Opinion

Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg says he's open to government regulation. So what are we waiting for?

While Zuckerberg sounded like he was saying some of the right things in the CNN interview about the Cambridge Analytica scandal, his record on matters of social responsibility and stewardship of personal data contributed by members of his Facebook community is dismal.

By David Zurawik

Mar 22, 2018

• Maryland

Johns Hopkins astrophysicist and his team win Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics

Johns Hopkins University astrophysicist Charles L. Bennett has been awarded the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics for his research on the universe’s origin and expansion.

By Sarah Gantz

Dec 3, 2017

• Opinion

Facebook's dirty dance with Russians demands regulation

For decades I have argued against any form of increased government regulation of media. But Facebook's dirty dance with the Russians in election 2016 proves it can't be trusted to police itself.

By David Zurawik

Oct 3, 2017

• Opinion

Horsey: Zuckerberg faces up to facts about Russia; Trump clings to delusions

Even with hard evidence that Russians exploited American social media for nefarious purposes, Donald Trump clings to the delusion that it's fake news.

• Opinion

The new economy is coming

Technology is fundamentally changing the world economy but the U.S. seems ill-prepared for what's coming

• Opinion

Baby's day on Facebook

A billionaire's toddler gets vaccinated and, for better or worse, the world demands its two cents

• Maryland

Letter: Questioning columnist's understanding of religious freedom

• Baltimore City Paper

Gamer's Grammar: An interview with one of the creators of 'Halt and Catch Fire'

At 32 years old, Christopher C. Rogers, one of the co-creators of the AMC television drama "Halt and Catch Fire," is one of the youngest and brightest creators in the industry. The show revolves around a rogue corporate computer guru, Joe MacMillian (Lee Pace), who snowballs a Texas software company into creating the first portable PC.

• Opinion

America's not a brave nation

Americans are fraidy-cats and cowards, says Leonard Pitts Jr., judging by the reaction to Ahmed Mohamed's digital clock.

• Baltimore City Paper

Wandering Eye: The adventures of dirt-biker Chino Braxton, Burning Man still awful, and more

• Opinion

Internet universe contains both marvels and monsters

Like gods, we have created a new universe called cyberspace that contains great good and ominous evil. We do not know, yet, if this new dimension will produce more monsters than marvels, but it is too late to go back.

• Peter Angelos

Membership's privilege: Angelos gives Center Club an O's pub

The Center Club, the members-only business and dining club, is opening a new sports pub in its otherwise formal space, paid for by Orioles owner Peter Angelos and part of a movement by such institutions to attract younger members.

By Jean Marbella

Jul 24, 2015

• Opinion

Facebook and the news

Susan Reimer on news consumption on Facebook

By Susan Reimer

Jun 5, 2015

• Maryland

Katie Benner: Facebook's odd case for privacy

• Astronomy and Astrophysics

Hopkins astrophysicist honored for discoveries about the universe

Nobel laureate Adam Riess of Johns Hopkins win Breakthrough Prize for showing the expansion of the universe is accelerating

• Opinion

How to spend $25m on Ebola

Take $25 million and call Doctors Without Borders in the morning to cure a case of Ebola

• Maryland

Vivek Wadhwa: Social media has changed the world

• Bitcoin

Hopkins researchers are creating an alternative to Bitcoin

Inside a drab computer lab at the Johns Hopkins University, a team of researchers is trying to build something that has never existed before: a digital currency that changes hands completely in secret. Its name is Zerocoin.

• Maryland

Open Society Institute's social justice laboratory in Baltimore turns 15

The lives of the Baltimore teens are among the thousands influenced by George Soros, a billionaire philanthropist who decided 15 years ago that the city, with severe crime and poverty and just enough potential, was ripe for an experiment unlike any other. The Open Society Institute field office in Baltimore was designed as a social justice laboratory to keep students engaged in school, confront drug addiction, reduce incarceration and grow an army of advocates.

• Sun Investigates

Silk Road arrest exposes a hidden Internet

The end came quickly for Silk Road, when federal agents crept in to nab the alleged kingpin of the secret $1.2 billion online drug marketplace as he sat at his laptop in the sci-fi section of a San Francisco public library.

• Opinion

Where are the STEM jobs?

America's politicians say we need more students trained in STEM disciplines. So it must be easy for graduates with those skills to get jobs, right?

• Health

Hopkins researcher receives new award to spotlight scientists

Google and Facebook founders choose Hopkins researcher Bert Vogelstein for $3 million prize

• Baltimore City Paper

South Baltimore recreation center becomes a hub of technological innovation

• Media Industry

Facebook: One billion served

Facebook one billion served

• Media Industry

Investor distrust likely to rise after Facebook IPO debacle

Maryland brokers and advisors say Facebook IPO sours investors on the stock market.

• College Sports

Should Combs accept UCLA's scholarship?

• Opinion

Egg on Face(book)

Stock market investing is simply another form of gambling

• Mark Zuckerberg

Egg on Face(book)

• Opinion

Not many 'likes' for Facebook IPO

Facebook founders make a killing but stock owners are a different story

• Opinion

Not many 'likes' for Facebook IPO

• Media Industry

Milestones for old media and new

What would A.S. Abell and Mark Zuckerberg have to say to one another?

• Mark Zuckerberg

Milestones for old media and new

• Health

Facebook promotes organ donations

Facebook to allow organ donation status, an idea that came from a Hopkins doctor

• Charity

Facebook adds organ donation status to Timeline

Facebook enables organ donor status

• Latest

UMBC president named among world's most influential leaders

UMBC President Freeman A. Hrabowski III, whose trailblazing work in educating minority students in the sciences has catapulted the university onto the national stage, has been named one of the world's most influential people by Time magazine.

• Opinion

In battle for young voters, Romney should play it uncool

Mitt Romney can't try to out-cool President Obama with young voters, but he can make it clear just how hard the president is trying. Kids hate that.

• Media Industry

Facebook files to go public

Baltimore's T. Rowe Price is a significant investor in Facebook

• Facebook Inc.

Facebook files for IPO, seeks to raise $5 billion

• Food & Drink

Picture this: Shoot your lunch

Shoot your lunch for Picture This, Baltimore

• Arts and Culture

Facebook changes: The 10 funniest reactions (so far)

Facebook users are heading to Twitter in droves to complain about Facebook's new look

• Education

Members of Jewish fraternity Alpha Epsilon Pi organize new alumni club

Men from Pikesville, Owings Mills and Canton forming a local alumni club of Alpha Epsilon Pi international Jewish fraternity.

• Baltimore County

Members of Jewish fraternity Alpha Epsilon Pi organize new alumni club