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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

• In Memoriam: Joseph (Joe) Sampugna

  - 2007-11-01

  Joseph Joe Sampugna, 75, an emeritus professor of biochemistry at the University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA, died of lung cancer on August 2l,2007.Hehadbeena member of AOCS since 1969.Sampugna served in the U.S.Air Force during the Korean conflict and then earned both a B.A. and M.A. in psychology and...

  Tags: HARDWARE, Manufacturing, Mice, psychology, U.S., University of Maryland

• Ph.D. recipients by subject, 2006

  - 2007-08-01

  Agricultural and Food Policy: regulation, taxation, welfare Amarasinghe, Anura, West Virginia University, "A Socioeconomic and Spatial Analysis of Obesity in West Virginia: Policy Implications." Behl, Ajay Singh, University of Minnesota, "A Framework for Analyzing the Impact of the Means-Tested Transfer Programs on Interfamily and Intrafamily Transfers and the...

  Tags: analysis, Auburn University, China, Clemson University, Environmental, Farm, food, Manufacturing, North Carolina State University, Ohio State University, Oregon State University, Poverty, Purdue University, Risk, Texas A&M University, U.S., University of California, University of California at Berkeley, University of Maryland, Washington State University, WELFARE, West Virginia University

• Spam Costs U.S. Nearly $22 Billion Annually; National Survey Finds 22.9 Million Hours a Week Wasted on Spam.

  - 2005-02-03

  Byline: University of Maryland, College Park COLLEGE PARK, Md., Feb. 3 AScribe Newswire -- Spam's price tag now reaches $21.58 billion annually in lost productivity according to the results of the 2004 National Technology Readiness Survey NTRS. Findings from the 2004 NTRS, an annual...

  Tags: E-government, E-mail, Government, INTERNET, MARKETING, Robert, spam, survey, U.S., University of Maryland

• Two-thirds of Americans say the U.S. should abide by international laws barring governments from ever using physical torture, while 29 percent found those laws "too restrictive," according to a new poll

  - 2004-09-07

  Two-thirds of Americans say the U.S. should abide by international laws barring governments from ever using physical torture, while 29 percent found those laws "too restrictive," according to a new poll. The poll was conducted by the Program on International Policy Attitudes, a research group affiliated with the University of...

  Tags: Government, MARKETING, PRODUCTIVITY, SOFTWARE, torture, U.S., University of Maryland

• Silver Lining in Blackout? 2003 Power Failure Reveals Role of Power Plants in Air Pollution.

  - 2004-06-09

  Byline: University of Maryland, College Park COLLEGE PARK, Md., June 9 AScribe Newswire -- A new study by researchers at the University of Maryland shows that skies were dramatically bluer and the air was much healthier during the August 2003 blackout that hit the...

  Tags: blackout, Maryland, ozone, pollution, U.S., University of Maryland

• American-Russian Isotope Agreement Announced

  - 2003-12-01

  Officials from the U.S. Department of Energy and 2 U.S. cancer centers announced in September the initiation of a unique partnership with Russian oncologists and scientists through which U.S. researchers will receive actinium from Russian nuclear stockpiles. The American Russian Cancer Alliance ARCA, which was created in 2001, includes participants...

  Tags: FINANCE, Moscow, SOFTWARE, U.S., University of Maryland

• American Russian Cancer Alliance to receive actinium from Russian

  - 2003-09-04

  The United States has a scarcity of actinium, a product of decaying uranium known for its cancer-fighting qualities. But through a federally funded partnership with the American Russian Cancer Alliance ARCA, doctors from the University of Maryland Medical Center will receive shipments of actinium from Russia's nuclear...

  Tags: alliance, FINANCE, Russia, U.S., University of Maryland, uranium

• Univ. medical school seniors get their teaching hospital match-ups

  - 2003-03-21

  Eight years of medical school came down to one small, brown manila envelope for Frank P. Dawson IV yesterday. Inside was a letter telling him where he would be doing his residency training, starting in July. Dawson, a medical school senior at the University of...

  Tags: HEALTHCARE, hospital, physician, U.S., University of Maryland, Utah

• Mandela delivers peace lecture to university of Maryland audience - College Park, Md - Anwar Sadat Lecture for Peace - Brief Article

  - 2001-12-06

  COLLEGE PARK, MD. More than 10,000 people packed the University of Maryland's Cole Field House last month to hear former South African President Nelson Mandela deliver the annual Anwar Sadat Lecture for Peace. Mandela, whose name for many has become synonymous with peace and justice, discussed the war...

  Tags: Arab, Government, lecture, Maryland, president, U.S., University of Maryland