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A bill to combine the University of Maryland, College Park and the University of Maryland, Baltimore is gathering support, but not everyone backs a provision that could put one president in charge of the two institutions.

A new push by state lawmakers to combine the flagship University of Maryland, College Park with the health- and law-focused University of Maryland, Baltimore, could give the state a dual-campus powerhouse that would leverage leverages the strengths of both institutions to launch new programs, discoveries, and businesses, supporters say.

The University of Maryland, Baltimore has given a Baltimore-based biotech company worldwide, exclusive licensing rights to the university's patents and technology to develop a faster, cheaper way to identify dangerous pathogens, University of Maryland Ventures said Wednesday.

Sen. Barbara Mikulski put her social work training to good use in Congress.

Jay Perman: UMB welcomes Hogan's pledge to help Baltimore.

Veteran opera singer Simon Estes to be featured artist in benefit concert for David W. Smith Scholarship for Vocal Arts at University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

If UMB takes its role in the community seriously, here are four steps it can take.

This fall, UMB's urban extension center will begin providing direct services to West Baltimore community residents — health screenings and referrals, tutoring, GED preparation, legal advice.

Three Baltimore residents were identified as the victims of a shooting near UMB on Tuesday.

Four people were shot, three fatally, near the University of Maryland's Baltimore campus Tuesday night, UMB police said.

Nancy L. Kramer, who was one of the founders and first director of Downtown Baltimore Child Care Inc., that is known for its progressive approach to early childhood education, died Wednesday at Sunrise Senior Living in Columbia of complications from Alzheimer's disease. She was 83.

The Whiting-Turner Contracting Co. is donating $3 million to the University of Maryland, Baltimore to establish an interdisciplinary center on its west side campus.

The Maryland Stem Cell Research Commission on Wednesday approved 29 research projects to receive $9.4 million in funding, including its second-ever award to a company readying to test its stem cell therapies on humans.

Franklin S. Gladhill, a Frederick County farmer who was a community leader whose philanthropic interests ranged from education and hospitals to scholarships and programs that promoted advanced agricultural education, died May 27 in his sleep at his Monrovia farm. He was 87.

College students from Laurel received numerous awards and graduated from college

The University System of Maryland's Board of Regents meets in Baltimore Wednesday to consider raising tuition at state colleges.

Achievements and notices from area residents from Reisterstown, Owings Mills and Glyndon

Charm City is better than recent events suggest and will flourish again

The University of Maryland School of Nursing announced this week it has received its largest donation ever, $5.24 million it will use to expand enrollment in its traditional bachelor's degree program.

Honoring the memory of Keeley Imel, the St. Jude Hope in the Harbor Gala will feature a tasting menu from 24 of Baltimore's top chefs and restaurants.

Large portrait shows Andreas Vesalius, the father of modern anatomy, dissecting a corpse

The west side, Market Center, UniverCity Center, the Bromo Arts District — officials aren't quite sure what to call the blocks just west of downtown, where hundreds of publicly-owned properties lie vacant and deteriorating in depressing testimony to one of the city's biggest failed urban renewal efforts. But they're trying out different tag lines, as the city and other major landlords ease their grip on the neighborhood and turn it back to private hands, in hopes one will soon fit.

States with robust innovation economies have assets in common: a corps of research-intensive universities, a highly educated workforce and a government supportive of its science and technology industries. Maryland has all of these things. What the state needs to strengthen is its entrepreneurial culture, so that Maryland becomes a top destination for scientists serious about ushering their ideas out of the lab and into the marketplace.

House Republicans are considering significant changes to the way billions of dollars in National Institutes of Health grants are awarded to research institutions under a sweeping proposal unveiled Tuesday intended to speed medical breakthroughs.

The "next generation of science" is at risk unless major changes are made to increase opportunities for young researchers, Johns Hopkins University President Ronald Daniels wrote in a scientific journal article published Tuesday.

Arlynne S. Stark, a dancer who was a pioneer in the field of dance movement therapy, died Nov. 17 at the Collier Center Hospice at Lutheran Hospital in Denver. She was 71.

For many Thanksgiving chefs, organizing a meal with one turkey — let alone 44 — is daunting. For Booker T. Washington cafeteria manager Sheila Travers, whose kitchen serves hundreds of students, the job is "every day."

Howard L. Smith Sr., a retired Baltimore County public schools science teacher who was a Korean War veteran, died Saturday at Gilchrist Hospice Care of complications from a stroke. He was 83.

Edward Raab and Nancy Six, of Keymar, announce the engagement of their daughter, Erin Raab, of Townsend, Delaware, to Brian Maynard, of Townsend, son of Donna Winkler, of Bear, Delaware, and the late James Maynard.

News from businesses around Baltimore County

Baltimore County Public Schools and the University of Maryland — Baltimore will receive a federal grant of $1.965 million to study the efficacy of new intervention and prevention strategies for students experiencing mental health emergencies. During the three-year study beginning January 2015 and ending December 2018, 22 public schools will be given the new programs, while another 22 will not. The rest of the funds will be utilized by UMD to compare the two groups and determine which

The University of Maryland Baltimore has received a $750,000 grant to develop a program for middle school children in the university's low-income West Baltimore neighborhood with hopes of cultivating their interest in cancer research and care.

University of Maryland, Baltimore and Baltimore police officials said they are beefing up security after two recent attacks on the downtown campus.

University of Maryland, Baltimore president "deeply disturbed" by campus crimes

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder will visit Baltimore Wednesday night to announce $63 million in federal grants awarded to study school safety to reduce gun violence across the nation.

The University of Baltimore is considering whether it will stop enrolling freshmen and sophomores just seven years after the school became a full four-year college, officials said Friday.

Claudine Snowden, a retired business school teacher and University of Maryland library worker, died of a respiratory ailment Wednesday at Union Memorial Hospital. The Northwest Baltimore resident was 92.

As Lievinne Mongu listened to the speakers at her naturalization ceremony on Friday, she reflected on her 14-year journey, from fear in the war-torn Democratic Republic of the Congo to asylum in the United States, a home in Silver Spring and a job with the International Monetary Fund in Washington.

Esther McCready and Larry Gibson exemplify the University of Maryland Baltimore's civil rights history.

The University of Maryland, College Park's football and men's and women's basketball coaches were the state's three highest-paid public employees last year, continuing a long-standing trend.

A University of Maryland, Baltimore official resigned Thursday amid inquiries into allegations that he defrauded a Oklahoma university out of more than $1 million in a previous job and diverted the money to businesses from which he financially benefited.

Entrepreneurial success does not occur overnight, but by working together to foster stronger relationships between industry and higher education, we will make Greater Baltimore an environment where entrepreneurship thrives, innovation is fostered and robust industry growth is assured.

Longtime yoga instructor Robyn Katz teaches meditation class at LifeBridge Health & Fitness

Bob Maranto, manager of the Arbutus and Lansdowne branches of the Baltimore County Public Library, celebrates his one year anniversary in the position July 1.