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Stop by the Digital Harbor Foundation Tech Center on Light Street this weekend and you’ll likely see a frenzy of activity as programmers and engineers scramble to bring their ideas to life. The rush is part of the fourth annual ...

Reuters has ranked the 100 most innovative universities from across the globe, a list that includes Johns Hopkins University and the University System of Maryland as a whole. Each university was judged on ten criteria — including the volume of patent ...

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Graduates of the University of Maryland, College Park tend to earn higher salaries and have less student debt than their peers at other schools in the Big Ten conference, according to a new tool from the U.S. Department of Education. ...

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A grant from the National Institutes of Health will allow researchers from the Johns Hopkins University to test a drug they hope will slow or prevent the onset of Azlheimer’s. The five-year, $7.5 million grant will fund a clinical trial ...

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A team of undergraduates from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County has taken its video game about small, colorful robots to the big time: it’s now being sold alongside games designed by the pros. Huebots, a puzzle game where little ...

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Members of the University System of Maryland’s Board of Regents want to establish a new venture capital fund to support startups and keep them from leaving the state as they grow. The proposed Maryland Innovation Venture Capital Fund — which ...

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The riots and protests that followed the death of Freddie Gray have prompted hospitals to seek a small increase in their rates so they can hire more workers from low-income, high-unemployment areas such as Baltimore City. The plan won early ...

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Johns Hopkins University has moved into the top 10 national universities in the 2016 U.S. News & World Report best college rankings, tying for tenth place with the California Institute of Technology. Hopkins, which placed 12th on last year’s list, ...

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A Baltimore company wants to help small manufacturers expand by taking over their warehousing, shipping and customer service operations. Whitebox, officially launching this week, automates those and other aspects of online sales so manufacturers don’t have to pay the overhead ...

Maryland officials have set next year’s premium rates for individual and small-group market health insurance plans, but 2016 will also bring rate changes for hundreds of large employers, officials said. That’s because the threshold for small-group coverage will change from ...

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