Psychology

Girl charged in father's death struggled with mental health

2013-05-18 16:02:10

Morgan Lane Arnold, an emotionally frail 14-year-old freshman, navigated the hallways of her Howard County high school each day filled with anxiety, unable because of a learning disorder to decipher the social cues, jokes and emotions of her peers. Her...

New college grads face difficult job market

2013-05-10 16:26:00

Jackie Carter had it all mapped out. She would attend college year-round and graduate early, land a job in criminal justice, start paying off student loans, move into her own apartment and invest in her first smartphone. But the 22-year-old Towson...

In Texas, black means future danger

2013-05-05 04:00:00

If the state of Texas executes Duane Buck, it'll be because he is black. Well, mainly it will be because in 1995, he shot his ex-girlfriend, Debra Gardner, and her friend, Kenneth Butler, to death at Gardner's Houston home, and also wounded his own...

Richard R. Rubin, Hopkins psychologist

2013-04-04 13:04:35

Dr. Richard R. Rubin, a Johns Hopkins psychologist who counseled children and adults on how to cope with the emotional effects of diabetes, died of complications from prostate cancer March 25 at Johns Hopkins Hospital. The Monkton resident was 69....

Battle Monument and its architect inspire Essex student

2013-03-29 00:00:00

Chloe A. Gudmundsson is a senior at Eastern Technical High School in Essex, and at the suggestion of her English teacher, she decided to research a paper on Maximilian Godefroy, the quirky architect who designed Baltimore's Battle Monument to...

Lutherville-founded home brewing club draws serious suds lovers

2013-03-26 18:39:00

The founders of Brewtherville Labs — both live in Lutherville — were being funny when they named their beer brewing club. But they were quite serious about their focus on home brewing. The members of the club gather in a friendly atmosphere,...

Colleges struggling with growing demand for mental health services

2013-03-07 15:50:00

Within a week of arriving on campus this semester, University of Maryland junior Grace Freund felt the familiar symptoms of a depression creeping up — ones she knew to address quickly, lest they slip from her control. The 21-year-old psychology...

Defunding the dreamers: the perils of cutting science research

2013-03-07 10:06:00

When I was a Ph.D. student at Yale, I dreamed of working as a university professor, directing a research laboratory, and training students of my own. I have been a professor for a little over four years now. Of the lessons I have learned in this time, the...

Where everybody knows your name: Facebook

2013-03-25 03:00:00

What if Facebook isn't the intrusive, all-seeing eye that we fear? What if it isn't just a place where workers waste time and young people post regrettable pictures of themselves? What if it is not just a stage for narcissists who think everything...

College Park grapples with shootings

2013-02-13 15:02:00

Andrew Hassl had just arrived home from work early Tuesday morning and was hanging out with his roommates on a residential street near the University of Maryland's College Park campus when they heard shots outside. As the roommates went to turn off...

College Lines: Local students named to Dean's lists

2013-02-13 00:00:00

WILLIAM AND MARY: Taylor Schwabe of Baldwin, Katarina King of Bel Air and Connor Oates of Bel Air were recently named to the Dean's List at the College of William & Mary for the fall 2012 semester. YORK COLLEGE OF PENNSYLVANIA: Colleen Russo of...

Baltimore-born terrorism expert explores 'The Myth of Martyrdom'

2013-02-09 00:00:00

Adam Lankford thinks there's an oft-repeated misconception about suicide attackers that isn't merely wrong. It's potentially deadly. Lankford is the Baltimore-born terrorism expert who has just published a book titled "The Myth of Martyrdom: What Really...

The San Diego State University-Imperial Valley campus Psychology Club poses with the first recipient of its $200 book scholarship, Rudy Mercado.

2013-01-29 23:05:00

Mabel Menard has been appointed college chair for the College of Social Science at the Chicago campus of University of Phoenix. She will oversee program quality and integrity, faculty management and student performance and success.

2012-12-26 09:07:00

(UWM) where she was associate vice chancellor, interim dean for the School of Continuing Education and professor of educational psychology.

2012-11-18 13:54:00