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• Profiles in Leadership: Baltimore's Craig A. Thompson to head

  - 2008-10-20

  Craig A. Thompson's business card could fill a poster board. The Venable LLP partner not only litigates but also has his own motivational-speaking business, hosts a radio talk show and has written children's books extolling black history. He also serves on governing panels at a Baltimore secondary school...

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• News Summary - 4/22

  - 2008-04-22

  ActiPatch gets Medicaid OK BioElectronics Corp., of Frederick, manufacturer of the ActiPatch, a portable, disposable electromedical device designed to use the body's own bioelectrical energy to accelerate healing, said it received approval for reimbursement from the Maryland Medicaid program for the use of the ActiPatch for kidney disease...

  Tags: Baltimore, conviction, Government, HARDWARE, Ireland, Marriott, Marriott International Inc., Maryland, prosecutor, Storage, U.S., University of Maryland

• As U of Md., Baltimore opens doors to BioPark Building Two, work

  - 2008-04-01

  The second research facility at the University of Maryland, Baltimore's BioPark opened its doors Monday to a diverse group of tenants, ranging from large biotech firms to community-oriented job training programs. Mayor Sheila Dixon, Gov. Martin O'Malley, U.S. Sen. Ben Cardin, Rep. Elijah Cummings, and UMB President...

  Tags: Baltimore, job, University of Maryland

• News Summary - 3/11

  - 2008-03-11

  Biomass breakthrough at UMCP The University of Maryland, College Park said some of its scientists have come up with a new biomass-to-ethanol process that takes advantage of a bacteria found in the Chesapeake Bay two decades ago. Enzymes produced by the bacteria, which was found breaking down bay...

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• Week in Review

  - 2008-02-22

  Big bid for prestige The University of Maryland's cancer research and treatment center has made a bid for prestigious National Cancer Institute designation, despite stagnant funding for the federal program. The University of Maryland School of Medicine and its affiliated hospital in West Baltimore, the University of Maryland...

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• UM Maryland Industrial Partnerships Program Approves 18 Collaborative Research Projects, Worth $4.4 Million, Between University Faculty, State Technology Companies

  - 2008-02-21

  To: TECHNOLOGY EDITORS Contact: Eric Schurr of the University of Maryland, +1-301-405- 3889, schurr@umd.edu COLLEGE PARK, Md., Feb. 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The University of Maryland's Maryland Industrial Partnerships Program MIPS today announces the approval of 18 new collaborative research projects between Maryland companies and university faculty. Worth $4.4 million,...

  Tags: Baltimore, Leadership, Maryland, MIPS, University of Maryland

• Twelve Firms Named Winners of Greater Baltimore Committee's 2007 'Bridging the Gap' Minority Business Awards

  - 2007-11-16

  To: STATE EDITORSContact: Diane Hughes of the Greater Baltimore Committee, +1-410- 727-2820, ext. 32 BALTIMORE, Nov. 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Twelve companies have been named as winners of the Greater Baltimore Committees 2007 Bridging the Gap Awards honoring minority-owned and women-owned firms for achievement and others for their efforts to strengthen...

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• Scientists at Univ. of Md. Medical Center in Baltimore says cancer

  - 2007-10-17

  Scientists at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and CSA Medical Inc. are touting the results of a clinical trial conducted at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore for what they say may yield a breakthrough treatment for pre- cancerous and cancerous diseases of the esophagus. The...

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• News Summary - 10/16

  - 2007-10-16

  Info on product recalls Maryland Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler announced his office has devised a way for consumers to have easy access to all the federal Web sites that post the latest information on product recalls. A new link on the attorney general office's Internet site, www.oag.state.md.us,...

  Tags: Baltimore, E-learning, Entrepreneurship, Government, INTERNET, SOFTWARE, University of Maryland

• News Summary - 10/4

  - 2007-10-04

  V-Empower tops Fast 50 With revenue growth of 9,268 percent over the past five years, V- Empower Inc., of Bowie, which makes software used by small political organizations, topped the list of the 50 fastest-growing technology companies in Maryland in the annual Deloitte & Touche rankings. No....

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