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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...

  Tags: Dr., Entrepreneurship, scholar, scientist, University of Maryland

• 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...

  Tags: Baltimore, HEALTHCARE, PRODUCTIVITY, scientist, University of Maryland

• Maryland's stem cell research funds still unspent

  - 2007-09-21

  More than four months after the Maryland Stem Cell Research Commission announced recipients of its first $15 million in grants, the group has not cut checks to any of the 24 winning projects. Problems ranging from scientists slow to submit required paperwork to lengthy internal university processes have...

  Tags: commission, SALES, scientist, stem-cell, University of Maryland

• University of Maryland scientist spearheads creation of Iraqi Virtual Science Library.(CORPORATE GIVING AND ALTRUISM)(D.J. Patil)(Brief article)

  - 2006-07-01

  University of Maryland scientist D.J. Patil and a small group of colleagues have built a new, scientific virtual library for Iraq. Approximately 17,420 journal titles will be available to Iraqi scientists and engineers. The Iraqi Virtual Science Library IVSL provides about 80 percent of Iraqi scientists...

  Tags: MARKETING, scientist, University of Maryland

• Salt marsh SOS: from Maine to Mississippi, tidal wetlands are degrading

  - 2005-07-01

  A picture may speak a thousand words, but time-lapse photographs of an imperiled tidal marsh in Darien, Connecticut are more likely to leave viewers speechless. In a scientist's photomosaic taken in 1972, wetlands along the Five Mile River included a small island surrounded by thin ribbons of water and...

  Tags: Connecticut, photograph, satellite, scientist, team, University of Maryland

• Salt marsh SOS: from Maine to Mississippi, tidal wetlands are degrading.(CURRENTS)

  - 2005-07-01

  A picture may speak a thousand words, but time-lapse photographs of an imperiled tidal marsh in Darien, Connecticut are more likely to leave viewers speechless. In a scientist's photomosaic taken in 1972, wetlands along the Five Mile River included a small island surrounded...

  Tags: Connecticut, photograph, scientist, team, University of Maryland

• Students Compete for Young Scientist of the Year; Photo Available

  - 2004-10-25

  News Advisory: Discovery Channel's "MythBusters" Adam Savage, bottom, explains the Skateboard Physics Challenge to the yellow team, from right, Jonathan Reasoner, Daniel Jakubisin, Christine Johns, Blake Zwerling and Shireen Dhir, during the 6th Annual Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge at the University of Maryland in College Park, Md., Mon., Oct...

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• More than 500 million oysters spawned as part of restoration project

  - 2004-03-24

  More than 500 million oysters were spawned as scientists at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science continued an ongoing project to restore oysters in the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries. The oyster eggs will be allowed to develop for four to eight weeks so that they can resist...

  Tags: restoration, scientist, University of Maryland

• Breaking with academia a tough choice for scientists

  - 2002-03-23

  Dr. Bruce Weintraub knows the value of the theories of evolution. It was studying the evolution of certain hormones in various species that led Weintraub's business partner Dr. Mariusz W. Szkudlinski to discover the platform technology on which the two are building their new company, Trophogen Inc. ...

  Tags: Biotechnology, FINANCE, scientist, technology, University of Maryland

• Breaking with academia a tough choice for scientists

  - 2002-03-23

  Dr. Bruce Weintraub knows the value of the theories of evolution. It was studying the evolution of certain hormones in various species that led Weintraub's business partner Dr. Mariusz W. Szkudlinski to discover the platform technology on which the two are building their new company, Trophogen Inc. ...

  Tags: Biotechnology, FINANCE, scientist, technology, University of Maryland