Mount St. Mary's University and Hood College Recognized for Cybersecurity Degree Pathway
The 2019 National CyberWatch Center “Innovations in Cyber Security Education” award has been awarded to Frederick Community College, Mount St. Mary’s University, and Hood College for their cyber degree pathway partnership.
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Johns Hopkins Summer Jobs Program Celebrates 25 Years
This summer, the university and health system hired a record-breaking 480 students from Baltimore for jobs at more than 200 sites.
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MICA Alumna, Akea Brionne Brown ’18 wins 2019 Janet & Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize
It was when Akea Brionne Brown ’18 (BFA Photography + Humanistic Studies, Sustainability and Social Practice) was a freshman at MICA, that the Baltimore Uprising occurred. It was spring, during her finals week.
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Loyola Named One of the Nation’s Best Colleges for 2020 by The Princeton Review
Loyola University Maryland has been named one of that nation’s top institutions for higher education by The Princeton Review in its latest annual college guide, The Best 385 Colleges.
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Johns Hopkins APL Included in Fast Company’s Top Workplaces List for Innovators
Fast Company magazine has added Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory to its list of 50 best workplaces for innovators. Johns Hopkins APL said Monday it received the award in recognition of the laboratory’s support of high-risk experimentation and interdisciplinary engagement efforts.
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Hood College Cyber Partnership Wins National Award - Innovations in Cyber Security Education
Hood College's cyber pipeline has won the 2019 National CyberWatch Center's "Innovations in Cyber Security Education" award in the program development category.
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Message from Rev. Brian F. Linnane, S.J., Loyola’s president: We are Baltimore
Dear Members of the Loyola Community:
In recent days, the national conversation has focused on Baltimore, as many of us have seen disheartening comments from President Donald Trump. Those words do not reflect the city I know and love.
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Van Hollen, Cardin announce $600K+ to launch Chesapeake Regional Digital Health Exchange (Johns Hopkins University)
U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen and Ben Cardin and Representatives Elijah E. Cummings, Dutch Ruppersberger, and John Sarbanes (all D-Md.) today announced that Johns Hopkins University Technology Ventures (JHTV) division has been awarded more than $633,500 through the competitive i6 Challenge of the U.S. Department of Commerce Economic Development Administration (EDA).
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Johns Hopkins Technology Ventures and the Eastern Shore Entrepreneurship Center Receive Federal Grant Money
Two Maryland organizations received federal grants for their programs to increase growth and economic development by supporting entrepreneurship.
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Mellon Foundation Grants $800K to Washington College’s New Community History Initiative, Chesapeake Heartland
Washington College’s new community history initiative, Chesapeake Heartland: An African American Humanities Project, is gaining momentum with the announcement of an $800,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, an $89,000 grant from the State of Maryland and a $100,000 gift from a private foundation.
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MICA Alumna and Baltimore-based photographer Akea Brionne Brown earns 14th Sondheim Artscape Prize
The Baltimore Office of Promotion & the Arts (BOPA) announced local photographer Akea Brionne Brown as the winner of this year’s Janet & Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize. The non-profit organization, which operates public arts festivals like this weekend’s Artscape, awarded Brown during a special ceremony and reception at the Walters Art Museum on July 13.
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The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health To House National Health Policy Research Scholars Center To Train Next Generation of Leaders
One of the country’s leading programs for health policy scholars will make the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health its home starting this summer. The Health Policy Research Scholars program is a four-year national leadership development program to train full-time doctoral students from non-clinical, academic disciplines with a policy focus who will build a culture of health in their disciplines and communities. The program’s center will be led by Keshia M. Pollack Porter, PhD, a professor in the School’s Department of Health Policy and Management.
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President Roger N. Casey Named Chair of Centennial Athletic Conference
McDaniel College President Roger N. Casey is the new chair of the Centennial Athletic Conference Presidents Council. He has also been appointed to the NCAA Division III Chancellors/Presidents Advisory Group.
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McDaniel College Graduate Students Assist Elementary-schoolers with Reading in Summer Clinic
One hot afternoon in July, a group of students were still working away studiously in the classrooms of Robert Moton Elementary School. Though they were young — second to fourth grade — they were plugging away at writing their memoirs.
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Hanna Pickard, an Expert in Moral Psychology, Joins Johns Hopkins as a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor
Hanna Pickard remembers participating in lively dinner-table discussions as a kid. She'd listen closely as her parents, both law professors, debated abstract ideas of equality and justice as well as current issues like the finer points of nuclear disarmament, the ethics of trade embargoes with South Africa, and the viability of civil disobedience as a legitimate form of protest.
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Capitol Technology University Signs New MOU with Istanbul Aydin University, Strengthens International Cybersecurity Presence
On May 31, 2019, at the historic Middleton Tavern in Annapolis, Maryland, Dr. Bradford Sims, President of Capitol Technology University, signed an MOU with Dr. Mustafa Aydin, President of Istanbul Aydin University. The official signing was held following a meeting with the university presidents, along with Mr. Gunay Evinch, Co-chairman of the Board of the Turkish American National Steering Committee (TASC), and Maryland’s Secretary of State, Mr. John Wobensmith.
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