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• Institute for Higher Education Policy

  - 2008-08-07

  Dr. Michelle Asha Cooper has been named president of the Institute for Higher Education Policy, effective Sept. 8. Formerly, she served as deputy director for the Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance at the U.S. Department of Education. Cooper earned a bachelor's from the College of Charleston, a master's from...

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• The Meyerhoff model: twenty years later, the University of Maryland, Baltimore County's efforts to increase the number of minorities pursuing graduate STEM degrees have become something to study and replicate

  - 2008-07-10

  [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In a sea of bad news concerning the lack of Black male representation on college campuses, an oasis of minority male scholarship exists at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, through the Meyerhoff Scholarship Program. Launched in 1988 via the generous philanthropy of real estate entrepreneur...

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• Rexahn Awarded Maryland Industrial Partnerships Grant to Develop Targeted Nano-Polymer Cancer Drugs

  - 2007-03-06

  Company to Partner with University of Maryland to Develop Targeted Cancer Therapy ROCKVILLE, Md. -- Rexahn Pharmaceuticals (OTCBB:RXHN) today announced that it has been awarded a grant through the Maryland Industrial Partnerships Program MIPS. With the grant, researchers at Rexahn and the University of Maryland, Baltimore UMB Center for...

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• REMINDER: ORLive Presents: Robotic-Assisted Heart Bypass With Cardiac Catheterization

  - 2007-02-28

  On February 28, 2007, at 4pm EST watch the premiere showing of a very unique surgical webcast on www.OR-Live.com from the University of Maryland Heart Center in Baltimore. See for yourself an operation called the HYBRID. This is an innovative approach to double or triple vessel...

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• ORLive Presents: Robotic-Assisted Heart Bypass With Cardiac Catheterization

  - 2007-02-02

  On February 28, 2007, at 4pm EST watch the premiere showing of a very unique surgical webcast on www.OR-Live.com from the University of Maryland Heart Center in Baltimore. See for yourself an operation called the HYBRID. This is an innovative approach to double or triple vessel...

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• University of Maryland School of Medicine

  - 2006-12-28

  Dr. Donald Wilson, longtime dean of the University of Maryland School of Medicine, retired. Appointed in 1991, he was the nation's first Black dean of a predominantly White medical school.

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• ORLive Presents: Minimally Invasive Aortic Valve Replacement Surgery -- Increasingly Popular Procedure to Correct Heart Function

  - 2006-11-13

  On December 5, 2006, cardiac surgeon, Jamie Brown, M.D., an associate professor of surgery at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, will present a webcast on www.or-live.com of a minimally invasive aortic valve replacement from the University of Maryland Heart Center in Baltimore. The aortic valve...

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• REMINDER: ORLive Presents: Minimally Invasive Aortic Valve Replacement Surgery -- Increasingly Popular Procedure to Correct Heart Function

  - 2006-11-13

  On December 5, 2006, cardiac surgeon, Jamie Brown, M.D., an associate professor of surgery at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, will present a webcast on www.or-live.com of a minimally invasive aortic valve replacement from the University of Maryland Heart Center in Baltimore. The aortic valve...

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• Dr. Alexio Fasano to be honored as U of MD, Baltimore's Entrepreneur

  - 2006-10-23

  Dr. Alexio Fasano, director of the University of Maryland Center for Celiac Research, and chair of the science advisory board for Baltimore-based Alba Therapeutics Corp., is to be honored as the University of Maryland, Baltimore's first Entrepreneur of the Year at a ceremony today at UMB's downtown campus, for his...

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• When Black medical specialist Dr. Donald E. Wilson, who headed the University of Maryland medical school for 15 years and lifted its research funding from $77 million to $341 million

  - 2006-07-24

  When Black medical specialist Dr. Donald E. Wilson, who headed the University of Maryland medical school for 15 years and lifted its research funding from $77 million to $341 million, retires in September, he will be succeeded by another Black expert, Dr. E. Albert Reece. After a nationwide search, school...

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