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Fred Mirmiran, who founded a civil engineering firm before becoming a medical philanthropist, died Thursday in Baltimore.

Andrew “Drew” Bailey Evans, an eighth-grader at Southampton Middle School, was presented with a Student Achievement Award by the Bel Air town commissioners Monday night.

Dr. James E. Fragetta, as a member of the medical board of the Claire Marie Foundation, helped launch melanoma prevention programs.

The University of Maryland’s football program has been under heightened scrutiny since the June death of 19-year-old offensive lineman Jordan McNair and subsequent reports of a “toxic” culture within the team. Here are the names you need to know.

A longtime teacher at a Baltimore Catholic school is under investigation for the alleged sexual abuse of a minor 30 years ago, according to the Xaverian Brothers.

The Aberdeen High School SMA Class of 2018 shows their senior Capstone projects to the community during Tuesday's annual gallery walk event.

As the number of school shootings in America grows, so do the similarities in their circumstances. Journalists are essentially writing the same story over and over with different names; so here's a shortcut from one law professor: a shooting template.

The following students from the area have been named to the dean's list at Frostburg State University for t

Don't tell Iowa caucus voters, but ethanol is an expensive environmental nightmare, Jonah Goldberg writes.

Johns Hopkins medical students will no longer train on live animals

Reservoir High School students are doing some wonderful things these days. The science olympiad team participated in its first state tournament on Saturday, April 23. The varsity baseball team at Reservoir celebrated some local young students recently. Last fall and winter the players spent two afternoons a week mentoring kindergarteners at Fulton Elementary School.

Destination Imagination teams from Martin Luther King Middle and Bond Mill Elementary both won at the state competition and are headed for the Global Finals in Tennessee in May.

Sheppard Pratt Health System said Monday that Harsh K. Trivedi will become president and chief executive, replacing Dr. Steven S. Sharfstein, who previously announced he would retire after three decades with the system

Harford Community College middle school and high school teams both took first place in the technical challenge at the Destination ImagiNation Regional Tournament that was held on March 5. The technical challenge required the teams to successfully build a vehicle with two propulsion systems and two separate movement methods. Laura Drake of the Office of Academic Affairs is the manager for the HCC high school team and served as co-director of the tournament. Leah Carter, a volunteer for the HCC DI

With alternatives available and in use, legislations prohibits medical schools from using animals

Every year, local athletes and teams produce memories and highlights that last a lifetime. Here is a review of some of those special teams and individuals during 2015.

The University of Baltimore and Towson University are ending a decade-old joint Master of Business Administration degree program that sparked a lawsuit over a lack of investment in the state's historically black institutions.

Later this month, the state is expected to quit stalling and reveal its oft-delayed response in a federal lawsuit that challenges a long and duplicitous history. From as long ago as 1937, various state commissions have noted in stark detail how the state shortchanged black students and black colleges. It took from Peter to pay Paul — or, in this case, took from Morgan, Coppin, Bowie and the University of Maryland-Eastern Shore to make the University of Maryland, Towson and the University

Plank today kicked off the annual Cupid's Cup Entrepreneurship Competition and is accepting applications from undergraduate and graduate students or recent alumni who are 30 or younger.

When Arbutus resident Brooke Ripley arrived at St. Paul's School for Girls as a freshman in 2011, she had no idea of the direction she was headed athletically. Eventually settling on rowing, Ripley is making waves on a University of Tennessee scholarship.

Michelle Elizabeth Saunders, a product of West Friendship Elementary, Marriotts Ridge High School and a Magna Cum Laude graduate of Salisbury State University has just completed her Masters Degree at the University of Alabama.

Johns Hopkins is among the last two U.S. medical schools using live animals to train students. Third-year medical students take part in a surgery clerkship in which live pigs are anesthetized and cut open before being killed. While this animal lab is technically voluntary, medical students everywhere face enormous pressure to impress their professors, so nearly all students take part in this disturbing exercise. I understand the pressure that medical students face when confronted with this

Sparks-based spice maker, the world's largest, thrives after a century under steady leadership

When it comes to loyalty, a good dog can't be beat

Betty G. Bertaux, a composer and music educator who founded the Children's Chorus of Maryland, died Oct. 10 at her Naples, Fla., home of pancreatic cancer. She was 75.

Animal rights group says Hopkins among only four medical schools using animals for training

David L. Christianson, former part-owner of a graphic arts company and an accomplished painter, died July 3 of respiratory failure at William Hill Manor in Easton. He was 87.

The University of Maryland has launched a $4.2 million machine, Deepthought2, that is expected to rank among the 10 most powerful owned by public universities.

Navy football player Will McKamey was the valedictorian of his small high school class and often talked about going to medical school at Vanderbilt after he served his commitment to the Midshipmen.

The members of the Harford County Board of Education spent nearly two thirds of their roughly 80-minute meeting Tuesday honoring students, faculty, parents, school officials and even one of their own for their contributions to Harford County Public Schools

A Towson preschool teacher is in intensive care after her family was caught in the Monday explosions near the finish line of the Boston Marathon.

Albert H. Ford, a retired Bendix Field Engineering Corp. who was a noted Maryland rosarian, died Jan. 3 of pneumonia at the University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center. He was 90.

Faulkner, who grew up in Beltsville, graduated from the University of Maryland in December 2011 with a degree in history. She was a long-term sub last springat Pallotti for a teacher who was on maternity leave and was able to land a full-time job when, she said, the enrollment went up for the current year.

The University of Maryland, College Park is on list of top party schools while the Naval Academy is ranked one of the most sober campuses.

When Jannah Tucker visited the University of Tennessee in February, she began to see herself as a Lady Vol. This past weekend, the New Town rising senior knew for sure.

Lee Gardner bids farewell to alt-weekly for Chronicle of Higher Education.

Geri and Larry Kalck, of Fallston, announce the engagement of their daughter, Karen Angela Kalck, to Jason Clinton McCormick, son of Dennis McCormick of Louisville, Tenn., and Christy Linke of Plant City, Fla.