Joyce P. Wheeler, a retired city public schools elementary teacher who made teaching science fun, died March 21 of complications of Alzheimer's disease at her family farm in Sequim, Wash. The former longtime Govans resident was 78.

The Rev. William Eugene “Gene” Bolin, a “master of the pun” and spiritual man known for his compassion and skills as a public speaker, died Feb. 7 in Towson. He was 78 years old.

Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research is preparing to launch a free online class to help students and others understand legal issues and use data to inform policy debates about gun violence.

Virtual reality therapy can help people by exposing them gradually to their greatest terrors.

An evolutionary biologist at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, recently co-authored a study that shows how two species of ravens became one, a reverse of more typical evolution known as speciation reversal.

The Institute of Human Virology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine will lead a $100 million project to survey the impact of HIV programs in Nigeria.

After complaints over the past few years, Johns Hopkins first-year residents will no longer wear the traditional white coats that signify they are still learning about their profession.

Johns Hopkins University continues to lead all U.S. universities in research and development expenditures by a wide margin.

Angelissa Savino, of Alexandria, Virginia, and Matthew Gauvin, of Sterling, Virginia, are engaged to be married.

The architecture and interior design firm JMT has acquired RCG Architects and will form JMT Architecture.

M. Grant Gross Jr., a retired oceanographer and former director of the Chesapeake Institute, died Sunday from heart disease at Heron Point retirement community in Chestertown. He was 84.

Baltimore officials are pushing Port Covington for Amazon's HQ2, but one community thinks it has a better Charm City location: Old Goucher.

Allowing scientists to follow their unbridled curiosity about how nature works is the best way to encourage new discoveries, rather than requiring some utilitarian end.

Emocha Mobile Health, a Baltimore-based health technology startup, is expanding its mobile application that helps people takes their medications as prescribed to opioid addiction treatment with a $1.7 million federal grant and $1 million in private funding.

Shock Trauma is one of the many hospitals and doctors offices around the country testing, and in some cases already using, virtual reality technology in treating patients. Virtual reality is being used to distract patients during painful procedures, such as treatment for third-degree burns, so they feel less pain. Soldiers and veterans suffering from depression and post-traumatic stress disorder are getting treated with virtual reality videos that recreate traumatic events to help patients face

Dr. R. Bradley Sack, 81, a professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, died April 24 at his Lutherville home.

Can a childhood cancer doctor like me have insights about that other end of medicine — older adults with dementia? Confronting my wife's Alzheimer's disease, I am appalled by the lack of effective therapy for her and by what I see as a lack of direction in clinical dementia research, a lack of structure and a lack of ambitious leadership.

In a study published last month in the journal Cell Reports, Kwon says he's discovered an answer in an unlikely place: newborn rats.

Scientists don't know why some humans taste better to mosquitoes, or why the insects dislike repellent. But researchers at Johns Hopkins University are a little closer to solving those mysteries.

Calcium supplements that many women take to boost bone health leave them at risk for heart disease, a new study by Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers have found.

The National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine dropped four doctors from a panel advising the FDA because of financial links to drug companies

Dr. Leopold M. "Leo" Karpeles, a retired physician who earlier had been an associate professor at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, died April 26 from complications of dementia at Fairfield Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Crownsville. He was 95.

News of area students' accomplishments.

Greg Bennett's challenge is remaining free of the prison of other peoples' perceptions. It is keeping loose from restrictions on his movement and personal growth. Greg's challenge is exceeding the expectations that would set an expiration date on his dreams. Greg's Challenge is a website, www.gregshallenge.org, that tells the story of a 19-year-young man who, with the support of his family, is fighting the odds.

Opponents of earned sick leave laws resort to fear-mongering, with dire predictions about the impact on business for a modest earned sick and safe leave policy. However, these concerns are not borne out by the facts. The experiences of cities and states around the country that have already implemented sick leave laws demonstrate that business climate has been healthy, costs have been minimal and job growth has been strong in municipalities with earned sick leave laws.

New residents at dozens of hospitals around the country, including some in Baltimore, are working marathon 28-hour shifts as part of a pair of studies assessing impacts on patient safety, and consumer and medical student groups want it stopped

Federal research spending at Johns Hopkins University grew to nearly $2 billion in 2014 even as government grants declined overall.

Criticized for years for not addressing a concussion problem that could threaten the sport's future, the NFL is working now to get ahead of it, changing rules to minimize the injuries and funding research into new technologies at Aberdeen Proving Ground and elsewhere through a competition sponsored by Under Armour and General Electric.

Nearly 200 of those researchers are gathering at the Marriott Waterfront in Baltimore to share the latest research, and hopefully spark new ideas, in the effort to meet that goal. They were in town for the International Meeting of the Institute of Human Virology, which for the last 17 years has brought together the best minds in AIDS research to help advance ways to treat it.

The current crisis in science (internal squabbles, credibility issues, funding deficits, political questioning) provides an opportunity to for reforms that will ensure that science continues to provide humanity with the new insights, tools and alternatives it must have to face a challenging future.

New groups counted cancer cases, deaths worldwide

Dr. Thomas E. Schwark, a pediatrician who had served as CEO of Wyman Park Medical Center and ended his career working for the United States Agency for International Development, died April 24 of a heart attack at his home in Harper House in Cross Keys. He was 76.

Roberto Gutierrez seeks to defend his mother, Cristina, who represented Adnan Syed in the case that spawned the popular podcast 'Serial.'

Rubber tires contain a number of carcinogens and lung irritants. The government knows a lot about the harmful effect that tires present and yet the Environmental Protection Agency has actually promoted the use of shredded tires and artificial turf where our children play.

Hopkins doctor joins big volunteer network using high-tech printers to fill need for little prosthetic hands

Charles W. "Chuck" Woodfield, whose career in Baltimore County public schools teaching science and serving as department chair spanned more than four decades, died May 9 of complications from pneumonia at his Jarrettsville home. He was 88.

Dr. Oscar A. Iseri, a retired Veterans Administration pathologist, died April 25 of complications from Alzheimer's disease at Lorien Harmony Hall Assisted Living in Columbia. He was 86.

Ask first-year teachers what their greatest challenge is, and they are likely to say it has been managing squirming elementary students or keeping sleepy teenagers engaged.

Dr. Alan Ross, a longtime faculty member of Johns Hopkins University whose love of numbers fed his career and also an enjoyment of baseball, died Sept. 7 at Roland Park Place. He was 87.

Mark P. Becker, Bert J. Hash Jr., Robert "Bobby" Parker and Clark Turner have been announced as the Class of 2013 of the Havre de Grace High School Hall of Fame.

Theodore C. Houk, known to many as Baltimore County's jogging doctor, is back out on the road again, but slower and on a much shorter leash.

The University of Maryland, College Park was included on a list of the "Top 25 LGBT-Friendly Colleges and Universities" released by national advocacy group Campus Pride.

Herman L. Ammon, who taught chemistry at the University of Maryland, College Park, for nearly five decades and was also an expert in the field of crystal structure, died Aug. 2 of a stroke at Doctors Community Hospital in Lanham.

Henrietta Lacks had no say when Johns Hopkins doctors used her cells 60 years ago in research that led to groundbreaking medical advances, but now her descendants will.

Eric Cantor is making a mistake in attempting to cut funds for behavioral and social science research.