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Delaware student wins $61,000 writing prize

2013-05-15 14:13:00

Congratulations to Tim Marcin, winner of Washington College's Sophie Kerr Prize, worth $61,192 this year. The 22-year-old� from Wilmington, Del., who is headed to Northwestern University, plans to pursue a sports writing career. That's a worthy goal --...

Winner of $61k Kerr literary prize announced

2013-05-14 19:50:00

As the five young writers sat with bated breath, Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post book critic Michael Dirda told them that a life of wordsmithing would bring them pain. One of them would soon win the nation's most lucrative literary award, the...

Commencement speakers strive to inspire, entertain

2013-05-10 16:36:00

Expectations are high for this year's commencement speakers at Maryland universities — an august crew that includes the Obamas and their team of writers as well as funnyman Bill Cosby and Hollywood director Jason Winer. But to stand out — or...

An hundredweight of huzzahs

2013-03-17 10:01:00

In addition to the huzzahs for Jonathon Owen on the completion of his master's degree in linguistics, please lift your hats high for Professor Stacy Spaulding, who has just been granted tenure and promotion at Towson University. Professor Spaulding...

Part three: Culture shock

2013-01-14 20:54:00

Tribune Tower was in crisis, and the illustrations of penguins installed in the building's ornate lobby were meant as a constant reminder. With Tribune Co. revenues sliding and managers struggling to adjust to an Internet revolution, executives in early...

City's lucrative speed camera program dogged by problems

2012-11-18 08:46:00

The tractor-trailer hit 70 mph as it passed the Poly-Western high school campus on Cold Spring Lane, barreling down a turn lane at twice the legal speed limit. Or so the $40 citation claimed. Just before Falls Road, a pole-mounted speed camera clocked the...

Maryland's application for Big Ten admission approved

2012-11-19 15:27:00

Setting aside almost 60 years of athletic tradition in a quest for greater financial stability, the University of Maryland will join the Big Ten Conference, school and league officials announced Monday after a weekend of whirlwind negotiations. In...

Catonsville High School student's talent with trombone has taken him to New England and New York City

2012-03-20 11:09:00

Seven years ago, Michael Shayte tested various brass and string instruments along with the rest of his fifth-grade class. But only the trombone called to him. "It just felt right when I started playing," he said, recalling that moment back in middle...

County native will command Westminster police barrack

2011-08-28 13:03:00

WESTMINSTER — A lifelong resident of Carroll County has been named as the new commander of the Westminster Barrack for the Maryland State Police. Lt. Jim DeWees, 40, was transferred to the new position, effective this past week, by State Police...

Educating the family

2011-10-03 03:00:00

Poverty, undereducation and disconnectedness to society beget exactly those same things — a problem that has stymied policymakers since the advent of public education, which was supposed to be the solution. Four centuries of publicly funded...

Johns Hopkins neuroscientist David Linden explains the biology of pleasure

2011-04-14 05:30:00

Not all addictions live up to their advance press. In the past decade, it's become common to casually and humorously describe a favorite activity in the parlance of chemical dependency. People speak of being "addicted" to chocolate or high-fat foods,...

Update on the vacation

2009-10-03 16:22:12

Northwestern University is the swine flu capital of the universe.......

In his essay for the Chicago Tribune All-State Academic Team scholarship application, Neil Sheth criticized Albert Einstein's decision to endorse the atomic bomb. Sheth believes scientists should focus on technology that benefits humankind, he later explained.

2013-05-02 00:00:00

Scott Beck's brain isn't the only instrument he uses to help him excel at math and science. Beck, a Highland Park High School senior, turns to the French horn to "kind of keep me balanced and keep me sane, and keep me going through the hard sciences.

2013-04-29 00:00:00

Gretchen Talbot has been appointed assistant dean of research and graduate studies at Northwestern University's Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences. Talbot will have responsibility to enhance the college's research portfolio and improve support for graduate programs.

2013-04-22 11:40:00