University of Wisconsin-Madison

Catonsville native helping low-income students in Milwaukee

2012-05-09 11:08:45

Catonsville native Carolyn Vidmar is completing a second year of service with College Possible Milwaukee, a nonprofit, dedicated to helping low income students achieve college success. Through the AmeriCorps VISTA program, she coordinates media...

Carroll County ranks as fifth 'healthiest' place in Maryland

2012-04-05 15:54:00

Carroll County was named as the fifth healthiest place to live in Maryland by a national research group analysis. The report, released April 3, comes from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute. The...

Bill to shield professors from public records requests is withdrawn

2012-03-08 15:02:00

A bill introduced in the General Assembly to shield professors at state universities from politics-driven public record requests has been withdrawn after its House sponsor concluded no new law was needed. The Maryland-Delaware-District of Columbia...

The things we say

2012-02-15 14:39:00

It was with a profound sense of personal validation that I opened Volume V of the Dictionary of American Regional English�to discover an entry for the term my family back in Kentucky used for the chamber pot: thunder mug.� There are also entries for...

Bill would limit public information requests of professors

2012-02-04 12:06:45

In Virginia, the attorney general, skeptical of global warming, tried to use his subpoena powers to build a fraud case against a climatology professor. In Wisconsin, Republican Party officials sought the emails of a history professor, trying to...

Edenwald residents recall infamy and impact of Pearl Harbor

2011-12-06 13:04:00

They all reside at the Edenwald Retirement Community in Towson now. On Dec. 7, 1941, however, that "date that will live in infamy," when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, they were all in different places when they heard the news, some of them...

Program aims to help girls, minorities succeed in math and science

2012-01-09 17:07:00

A new teacher training program designed to help girls and minorities succeed in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics is focusing on how small actions in the classroom can affect a student's achievement. The Educators' Equity...

Flawed thinking in push for UM merger

2011-11-08 08:51:00

State Sen. Thomas V. Mike Miller supports merging the University of Maryland, College Park campus and University of Maryland, Baltimore professional schools in order to raise their national rankings based on total research funding. Compilers of the most...

Saul Roseman, chairman of Hopkins biology department, dies

2011-07-07 16:29:00

Saul Roseman, the retired chairman of the Johns Hopkins University's department of biology, whose scientific research included a discovery that corrected the work of two Nobel laureates, died of congestive heart failure Saturday at his home. He was 90 and...

Wealthy suburbs healthiest areas of state, study says

2010-02-18 00:00:00

A new study that showed wealthier suburban areas such as Howard County are healthier than urban and rural parts of the state came as no surprise to public health officials, who point to disparities such as access to preventive care and good food. The...

Philip D. Curtin

2009-06-14 00:00:00

Philip D. Curtin, a retired Johns Hopkins University professor and a historian of the African slave trade who was instrumental in changing the way schools teach the subject, died June 4 at Chester County Hospital in West Chester, Pa., of pneumonia. He was...

NBAC coach Yetter honored by U.S. Olympic Committee

2008-04-16 00:00:00

With his best swimmer poised to go to the Beijing Olympics in four months and a stable of younger athletes in the pipeline for 2012 and beyond, Paul Yetter has an eye for talent and the ability to nurture it. Yesterday, the Anne Arundel County native was...

Charles F. MacKelvie has joined Krieg DeVault as partner in the the firm's growing Health Care practice. MacKelvie has more than 37 years of experience as a health care and business attorney, primarily in Medicare and Medicaid payment issues.

2012-01-05 00:00:00

Sannes brings to RFR experience advising companies ranging from Fortune 500 to lower-middle market on mergers and acquisitions, securities, leveraged buyouts, recapitalization, private equity fund formation, joint ventures and corporate governance.

2011-09-13 22:00:00

Brad Feldman has joined Interra Realty PLC as managing director. He comes to Interra from Kiser Group, where he was managing director, focusing on investment property sales throughout the Chicagoland area.

2011-09-11 22:00:00