Northrop Grumman Corp. has set a deadline of March 31 to receive applications for the 11th annual Engineering Scholars competition, which will provide $240,000 in college scholarships across Maryland this year to promising high school seniors interested in studying engineering.

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FROSTBURG — The University of Maryland is seeking volunteers for a coast-to-coast study of trees and climate change. The university’s Center for Environmental Science said Wednesday that the volunteers will monitor seasonal changes in poplar and aspen trees across the ...

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An idyllic spot filled with cousins and family and small-town feeling and values has been forever altered.

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ROCKVILLE — Montgomery County school officials say they will study starting the school day later following a petition from parents. The petition asks for school to start at 8:15 a.m., or later, instead of the current 7:25 a.m. Superintendent Joshua ...

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Faced with a growing demand for medical laboratory technologists but a declining number of graduates entering that field, industry professionals are boosting their efforts to recruit prospective personnel.

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Lillian M. Lowery, Ed.D, recently joined the board of directors for Kids’ Chance of Maryland Inc., a nonprofit scholarship organization.

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They’re the pride and backbone of American higher education, doing essential research and educating en masse the next generations of scientists and engineers. But a new report argues the mission of the country’s 101 major public research universities is imperiled ...

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Average national scores on two of the three sections of the SAT college entrance exam edged down for the high school class of 2012, which was the first in which more students took the rival ACT exam than the SAT. ...

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Baltimore has no difficulty attracting students to its top-notch universities — keeping them here has always been the challenge.

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Some business schools in Maryland are experiencing their own versions of a nationwide trend — that of declining admissions to full-time MBA programs — and some people interpret the drop-off as yet another sign that the temperamental economy is wreaking havoc on higher education.

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