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- Without extensive changes in Chinese policy and law and tough enforcement provisions a trade deal will prove a hollow victory and risk national security.
- Tenable, a Columbia-based cybersecurity company, announced on Tuesday a strategic partnership with Siemens to develop security programs that will protect increasingly vulnerable critical infrastructure, such as oil refineries and energy grids.
- The whiskey company launched by Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank has purchased a 17-acre property near Sparrows Point for use by the distillery.
- A goat herd is doing its part to keep the region green, traveling to various open spaces in Baltimore and Harford counties to eat brush and invasive vines in wooded areas everywhere from an East Towson neighborhood to St. Paul's School for Girls.
- The Maryland Transit Administration wants to spend $58 million to buy eight diesel locomotives for its MARC service to replace its fleet of electric engines, which Amtrak says it cannot repair anymore.
- UMD receives software grant worth $750 million from a division of Siemens Corp. — the largest donation of its kind for both the electrical engineering giant and the state's flagship school.
- Three years after local officials made a $5.6 million bet to lure Lieber to the research park, the Lieber Institute has surpassed job growth goals set out for it and is expanding.
- Two Anne Arundel County high school seniors have come up with a way to help tackle an issue that's been lurking for decades in the Chesapeake Bay: derelict crab traps that are too deep to retrieve and too problematic to co-exist with marine life.
- The first of 70 new energy-efficient locomotives destined for Amtrak's East Coast service were rolled out Monday morning from a California assembly line.
- You can expect the music to sound fresh during the Leipzig String Quartet's concert on Saturday, March 2, at 8 p.m., at Howard Community College's Smith Theatre. Like the sponsoring Candlelight Concert Society, this chamber music quartet often likes to introduce audiences to contemporary classical music.
- Chin refugees are fleeing their native Burma and making their homes in Howard County
- The Anne Arundel County school system has one of the most accomplished science, technology, engineering and math programs in the state, garnering national awards while ensuring that its initiatives remain available to all students, according to school officials.
- Burck Smith is so far making good on his vision for revamping the way people pay for and complete college courses. His startup company, Straighterline, enables students to pay $99 a month for introductory college courses — and potentially save tens of thousands of dollars in the process.
- Annapolis Middle School teacher Beth Foster trumpets the importance of STEM programs for all students, convinced that science and math disciplines aren't, as she put it, "just for brainiacs."
- Hardebeck sold company to Facebook last fall, now runs Greater Baltimore Tech Council
- Energy innovation: Those who think the federal government shouldn't promote innovation don't remember where Silicon Valley came from
- American unemployment is caused by a faulty eduction system that fails to deliver skilled workers.