University of Miami

Local student to talk weight loss on 'The View'

2013-05-15 16:41:00

Kaci DeWitt-Rickards remembers being a chunky kid with a steady diet of Burger King chicken tenders, vanilla milkshakes and Papa John's pizza. By her sophomore year in college at the University of Miami, her adolescent pudge had ballooned into a...

Joseph A. Miklasz, attorney

2013-04-18 14:48:00

Joseph A. Miklasz, a trial attorney who practiced in Glen Burnie and was a wine collector, died of cancer Sunday at Stella Maris Hospice. He was 71 and lived in Crownsville. Born in Baltimore, he was raised in Severn and in East Baltimore, where he...

'Autism is not disability'

2013-04-10 11:16:00

April is National Autism Awareness Month, which naturally raises the question: awareness of what? As a parent of a 19-year old son with autism, if you had asked me that question years ago, I would have said things like, "Be aware that kids with autism...

Center for simulated medicine opens in Anne Arundel County

2013-02-18 05:21:00

A surgeon enters the operating room, offers his hands to a nurse and watches as she helps him into his rubber gloves with a snap. He glances at the patient on the table. A cloth covers the man's torso but for one area. Three trocars — tubes into...

Margaret H. Abbott, genetics researcher

2013-02-25 14:20:58

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...

In Saint Rose, La., he's still small-town Edward Reed

2013-02-01 18:02:00

Edward Reed was a mess. Jeanne Hall — the woman the Ravens safety calls a second mother — can't find any other way to put it when she thinks back to the classes he missed and the assignments he disregarded as a freshman at Destrehan High....

Ravens' Ray Lewis had dramatic impact on ex-Gilman star

2013-01-24 16:11:00

Stan White Jr. showed up for a different type of workout on the hills of Oregon Ridge Park in June of 2000 with trainer Kurtis Shultz. White, then a rising junior football player at Gilman, was stunned to find who would be his workout partner —...

Dr. William J. Weiner, UM chairman of neurology

2013-01-07 14:08:00

Dr. William J. Weiner, a professor and chairman of the department of neurology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine who was nationally known for his work with Parkinson's disease and other movement disorders, died Dec. 29 of multiple myeloma...

Arline K. Howdon, Hopkins cytologist

2012-07-27 13:40:08

Arline Kaye Howdon, who was chief cytologist at Johns Hopkins Hospital and was known nationally and internationally for her work in the field of cytopathology and education, died July 20 of lung cancer at her Harper House condominium in Cross Keys. She...

Two new Eagles soar in Lutherville with a 'flaming' ceremony

2012-07-24 12:50:00

Warren (Jonathan) Peake and Ryan Deise were presented with Boy Scouts highest rank, Eagle Scout at a special Court of Honor ceremony on July 11 at Broadcreek Boy Scout Reservation. The ceremony, dubbed the "Flaming Eagle," involves the lighting of a...

Marine biology focus helps Towson grad net fisherman scholarship

2012-07-24 14:07:00

A recent Towson High School graduate's passion for marine biology has netted him a little extra scholarship money for college from the Maryland Saltwater Sportfisherman's Association. And when he begins classes in the fall at the University of Miami,...

Talking with O's scouting director Gary Rajsich about Ryan Ripken, signing players

2012-06-07 16:24:00

Had the opportunity to talk to Orioles scouting director Gary Rajsich today. Here are some highlights. I’ll have a little more later. Rajsich was expecting to get financial permission at some point Thursday and then would begin negotiating with...

The Palatine-based law firm of Lavelle Law Ltd has hired Jen�t Peque�oas an attorney for its family law practice group. A graduate of Northern Illinois University and the University of Miami School of Law, Peque�o has taken on a full case load since joining the firm last month.

2013-04-22 11:31:00

University of Miami Effective Oct. 1, 1989. Total plates issued in 2011: 25,206 Organizations receiving proceeds: University of Miami for Academic Enhancement.

2013-03-01 10:57:00

Donna E. Shalala is introduced on Nov. 18, 2000. She will replace Tad Foote as the University of Miami president.

2012-11-18 15:12:00