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Meredith Day Student competes at National Braille Challenge

Dr. John K. Niparko, 61, a surgeon and otolaryngologist who was a leader in the field of the cochlear implants, died of cancer Monday at the Keck Medical Center in Los Angeles.

Tyler Mains, a fourth-year medical student at Johns Hopkins and MERIT's executive director, was recognized by the Ravens during their game against the St. Louis Rams on Nov. 22. For being selected, Mains and MERIT received a $3,500 grant. MERIT, which stands for Medical Education Resources Initiative for Teens, is a program offered to sophomores in city high schools that provides weekly Saturday courses, medical student mentorships and paid summer internships.

Jackie Carrera leaving as president/CEO of Parks and People Foundation after 21 years. She is moving to California for her husband's job.

How many attacks on the First Amendment is President Obama going to be allowed before he's universally denounced as a worse enemy of the press than Richard Nixon?

Universities across the country perform classified work for the federal government, balancing secrecy with academic freedom

Ben Cohen, 16, a rising senior at Hammond High School in Columbia, just returned from a 10-day music camp in Los Angeles sponsored by the GRAMMY Foundation.

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.

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.

With the release of its iPhone app last week, Woofound, a Middle River startup, took its first big step into a competitive, cutting edge and sometimes controversial part of the digital economy: Web personalization.

Dr. Solbert "Sol" Permutt, a retired physiologist and teacher who helped expand the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine's Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, died of esophageal cancer May 23 at Roland Park Place. The former Mount Washington resident was 87.

2tor Inc. online education firm raises $26 million in investment

Student test scores aren't a reliable way of evaluating teachers

The addition of HLN host Nancy Grace to the lineup of ABC's 2011 "Dancing with the Stars" is such an exquisite example of how calculating and exploitative prime-time network TV can be. This year's cast also includes Chaz Bono, David Arquette and Rob Kardashian.

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Women in large swaths of America are dying younger than they were a generation ago, reversing nearly a century of progress in public health and underscoring the rising toll of smoking and record obesity.