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Wedded: Palma Botterell and Kevin Jarboe
Wedding date: Jan. 19, 2013 Her story: Palma Botterell, 31, grew up in Fairfax, Va. She is a graduate student at the University of Maryland's geochemistry program and a scientist with the U.S. Geological Survey. Her father, John, is a computer...
Tags: U.S. Geological Survey, Family, Science and Technology, Science, Mount Vernon
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Natural Resource Careers Camp opportunity
The Maryland Association of Forest Conservancy District Boards is holding a career workshop for high school students interested in a career in natural resources. The workshop is a week long program held July 21–27 in Garrett County, Maryland. The...
Tags: West Virginia University, Students, Garrett County, Colleges and Universities, Virginia Tech
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Margaret H. Abbott, genetics researcher
Margaret Hawkins Abbott, a retired Johns Hopkins Medical School genetics researcher who investigated families with inherited conditions for nearly five decades, died of dementia complications Feb. 1 at Keswick Multi-Care Center. She was 89 and lived in...Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Health and Medical Professionals, Psychiatry, Colleges and Universities
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Educational gap could hamper redevelopment efforts, according to EDC
dona@herald-mail.comMost Washington County residents have not obtained four-year college degrees, an educational gap that could hamper redevelopment efforts, according to an economic development strategic plan. “Washington County is at the lower end of the educational...Tags: Students, Graduation, Economic Policy, Colleges and Universities, Economy, Business and Finance
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Title IX law scrutinized as universities cut teams
The men who play baseball and soccer at Towson University, run track at the University of Delaware and wrestle, swim or golf at any number of other colleges all heard the same reason when their teams were cut: Title IX. To meet the federal law's goal of...
Tags: Litigation, Students, College Sports, Trials, National Collegiate Athletic Association
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Rediscovering a Laurel High coach and Irish pizza pub's 'leprechaun'
Occasionally this column takes a look at what happened to a person or thing that was a memorable part of Laurel's past. This month it looks at two Laurel icons from the late 1960s and early 1970s. Laurel High coach set the standard Laurel High...
Tags: Real Estate Sellers, Radio City Music Hall, Alzheimer's Disease, High School Sports, Foods and Beverages
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U.S. cuts could lead to 'brain drain' in medicine
Scientists at the nation's leading research institutions are warning that continued uncertainty over federal funding could lead to a brain drain that will undermine the country's global status in medicine. With funding at the National Institutes of...
Tags: Colleges and Universities, U.S. Congress, Politics, Alzheimer's Disease, Singapore
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State Senate gives preliminary OK to medical marijuana bill
The General Assembly is poised to pass legislation that would make Maryland the 19th state to legalize marijuana use for medical reasons — though how quickly the state's cancer patients and others might benefit remains in question. The state...
Tags: Colleges and Universities, Johns Hopkins University, AIDS, Martin O'Malley, HIV
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UM content with Pepsi-based health care?
Amid all the self-congratulation at the University of Maryland over a corporate financed modest boost in mental health services for students, I'd like to demur ("UM adds funding for mental health," April 3). In the article, we're told how happy everyone...
Tags: Students, Colleges and Universities, Behavioral Conditions, Teaching and Learning, PepsiCo Inc.
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College Park shooter had been drinking, shot roommate from behind
Dayvon Green was impaired by alcohol when he pulled a handgun out of his waistband in front of his College Park home early on a February morning and shot roommate Stephen Rane to death, according to autopsy reports released Thursday. Green, a graduate...
Tags: Science and Technology, Colleges and Universities, Prince George's County, Shootings, College Park (Prince George's, Maryland)
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Dalai Lama to speak at University of Maryland
The Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader for Tibetan Buddhists, will speak in May at the University of Maryland as part of the Sadat Lecture for Peace, an annual series that has drawn world leaders such as Madeleine Albright, Nelson Mandela and Jimmy Carter....
Tags: Henry Kissinger, Buddhism, Colleges and Universities, Madeleine Albright, Dalai Lama
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Alfred G. "Ted" Marshall, educator
Alfred G. "Ted" Marshall, a retired educator and basketball coach in Baltimore and Harford counties, died Monday of a heart attack at his Bel Air home. He was 74. The son of a pipe fitter and a homemaker, Alfred Grady Marshall, who was known as Ted,...
Tags: Basketball, Heart Attack, Teaching and Learning, Maryland Terrapins, Sports
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