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Dr. J. Thomas August, who did pioneering research in immunology and vaccine development at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, died Feb. 11 of metastatic cancer at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. The former Poplar Hill resident was 91.

By Jacques Kelly

Feb 25, 2019

A majority of the Senate couldn't stomach appeals court nominee Ryan Bounds; here's hoping it's treated as a precedent.

America is well aware of its opioid epidemic, but there's a hidden crisis brewing with prescription sedatives such as Xanax and Valium, a new review warns.

Major urban school districts with high numbers of poor children are not, in fact, faced with insurmountable obstacles when it comes to properly educating kids, according to a new study that highlighted the successes of Chicago – and the continued failures of Baltimore. Can we turn it around?

Dr. Lisa A. Kolp, 61, a Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine obstetrician and gynecologist, died SundayAPR16 from lymphoma at her Hunt Valley home.

By Frederick N. Rasmussen

Apr 21, 2017

Twenty-five years after Oriole Park at Camden Yards opened, the Orioles have paid the state $255 million in rent and admission taxes — more than the stadium's sticker price — and state officials say Maryland got a good deal even as it continues to spend $15 million a year to pay off the bonds.

By Jeff Barker

Apr 17, 2017

Nearly four decades after research into psychedelics was suppressed by the government, a new wave of scientists is restoring legitimacy to a misunder

A prominent scholar at the University of Iowa College of Education will become the new dean of the Johns Hopkins University School of Education on Aug. 1

By Meredith Cohn

Mar 25, 2017

When White House spokesman Sean Spicer was asked by reporters about young children being separated from their parents and held alone for hours in detention

Jeffrey B. "Jeff" Lamborn, a tennis pro who also owned and operated a tennis court construction and maintenance firm, died Jan. 17 from cardiac failure at Sinai Hospital. He was 67.

By Frederick N. Rasmussen

Jan 25, 2017

"Matisse/Diebenkorn” at the Baltimore Museum of Art follows Diebenkorn’s paths as a painter, while also tracking his self-taught scholarship of Henri Matisse.

A major sublicensing deal and a shift in the way Hopkins structures licensing agreements led to $58 million in licensing revenue in fiscal 2016.

By Sarah Gantz

Oct 13, 2016

Georgia O'D. Baker, a noted costume designer whose work graced theater productions at Towson University for more than 40 years, died Saturday from heart failure at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. She was 83.

By Frederick N. Rasmussen

Sep 22, 2016

I need only look to Police Commissioner Kevin Davis to understand why there will never be a dirt bike park in Baltimore. Announcing the creation of a task force to address illegal dirt bike riding in the city, he recently called dirt bike riders, many of them kids, "gun-toting criminals."

The foundation that oversees the state university system's $1 billion endowment said Tuesday it will stop investing directly in coal, oil and natural gas companies — a victory for a student-led movement to direct more of the portfolio toward clean energy.

By Carrie Wells

Jun 28, 2016

It's senior week in Ocean City. Many parents rationalize the getaway as a well-deserved week of respite from the rigors of academic pressure their teenagers have endured for four years. But senior week introduces college-bound freshman to perhaps the single biggest obstacle to academic success: binge drinking.

In February, Joi Turner and Natalie Estelle launched Preemie Moms Rock, an organization that provides healthy meals and emotional support to NICU parents. It's one of several local and national programs run by fellow preemie parents and hospitals, targeting moms and dads.

Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health are growing tiny replicas of the human brain to help the study of neurological diseases in a trend many hope could lead to better treatments and even cures for some of the most debilitating illnesses.

By Andrea K. McDaniels

Feb 12, 2016

Dr. Richard Tidball Johnson, 84, a Johns Hopkins scientist and physician who was a pioneer in global central nervous system infection research, died of pneumonia Nov. 22 at the Hopkins Hospital.

By Jacques Kelly

Dec 2, 2015

Dr. Stephen C. Jacobs, a surgeon, former chief of urology and professor of urology at the University of Maryland Center who continued to teach at the medical school after radiation treatments robbed him of the use of his arms and hands and reduced his voice to a whisper, died Oct. 30 at his Lutherville home from complications of a fall. He was 70.

By Frederick N. Rasmussen

Nov 12, 2015

Robert W. Farquhar, a retired NASA astrodynamicist who was an expert in halo orbits, died Oct. 18 of cardiomyopathy at his home in Burke, Va. The former longtime Columbia resident was 83.

By Frederick N. Rasmussen

Oct 26, 2015

Researchers at Stanford University and at Johns Hopkins' Bloomberg School of Public Health say school-prepared meals may contain unsafe levels of bisphenol A, or BPA.

By Timothy B. Wheeler

Oct 4, 2015

Scientists have used tissue from aborted fetuses in their research for years, but debate over the practice has re-emerged after Planned Parenthood was recently accused by anti-abortion activists of profiting from the practice.

A pair of Cabinet secretaries made a pilgrimage to Silicon Valley last week, looking for insight and inspiration at the home of America's technology industry about how they can attract skilled youngsters to come and work at their departments.

By Ian Duncan

Apr 29, 2015

Is intelligence fixed or changeable? Is it a quality you can develop like strong muscles, or one you were born with, like eye color or sexual orientation?

Jose Bowen, Goucher College president, reveals his favorite things

Onstage at a major computer security summit at Stanford University, President Barack Obama signed an executive order Friday to make it easier for private companies to dip into the government's deep reservoirs of data on cyberattacks.

By Ian Duncan

Feb 13, 2015

Mount St. Mary's University, the second-oldest Catholic university in America, named the chief executive officer of a Los Angeles based private equity, merger and acquisitions firm as its new president.

If your grades and SAT scores are less than stellar, you might still have a shot at getting into Goucher College with a two-minute video.

There is compelling evidence that a positive recess period can contribute to an improved school climate and increased student engagement in school. If we want to see better attendance, better grades and better student attitudes toward school, improving the recess experience is a good place to start.

George W. Hilton, a retired college professor who specialized in transportation economics whose definitive books on railroads and shipping also included the seminal history of the Maryland & Pennsylvania Railroad, died Aug. 4 at Lorien Health Park in Columbia. He was 89.

Researchers at Johns Hopkins University and four other prominent institutions will spend the next five years trying to turn a theoretical "next-generation" form of encryption into a practical way to better protect software from hackers.

The violence the children are fleeing in Central America is not our problem. It was our problem in the 1980s, but Americans have overwhelmingly decided that it isn't our problem now.

Mary Elizabeth Dyer Corrin, a code-breaker during World War II and former teacher at two Towson-area elementary schools, died June 30 of lung cancer at Blakehurst retirement community. She was 92.

Schools that invite controversial commencement speakers are asking for trouble

Goucher College announced Wednesday that Jose Antonio Bowen, dean of the arts school and a music professor at Southern Methodist University in Texas, will be its next president.

Johns Hopkins University and the University of Maryland, College Park announced partnerships this week with a Silicon Valley-based startup to offer new online-only certificates in fields like data science and cybersecurity.

Anne Arundel County school math whizzes, meet Sammy the owl.

For the first time this spring, college students wanting to take a class at the University of Baltimore with a Pulitzer prize-winning civil rights historian won't be bound by the university they chose to attend.

Managing director of General Atlantic has been on Hopkins board since 2010

Televisions can add energy to a room, but others say they get in the way of conversation.

The University of Maryland University College expects to be among the first wave of schools this academic year awarding transfer credit to those who have taken -- and can prove they learned from -- certain "massive open online courses," known as MOOCs.

Stephen M. Ross, who devoted years to studying novelist William Faulkner and was a retired National Endowment for the Humanities official, died of a stroke Aug. 21 in Philadelphia. The Catonsville resident was 69.