University of Maryland College Park News

Abstract Studies of learning in school settings indicate that many students frame activities in science classes as the production of answers for the teacher or test, rather than as making new sense of the natural world.

A student group at the University of Maryland, College Park, is pushing a tax credit program to bring green businesses to the city, but its plan might prove easier said than done.

The Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism has awarded 12 fellowships to its "Strictly Financials Seminar" for working journalists and 12 fellowships to its "Business Journalism Professors Seminar." Both programs will be held Jan.

Mary Beth Marsden is leaving WMAR-TV after 21 years. Mary Beth has been a part of the ABC2 News team for 21 years.

But nowhere was the effect felt more keenly than in Silver Spring , where the Maryland-based Discovery Communications was vaulted into a new realm of prominence and prestige as the future home of The Oprah Winfrey Network.

As Delivered by Deputy Secretary of Defense William J. Lynn, III, University of Maryland, College Park, Md., Tuesday, November 10, 2009 Thank you, Tommy, for your introduction and for the invitation to join you today.

Li Xiaorong, a research scholar at the Institute for Philosophy & Public Policy, University of Maryland, College Park, who does consultant work for Chinese NGOs, published in the Baltimore Sun the speech she wishes President Obama would give while in Beijing: I am proud to say that my administration is actively pursuing its agenda to promote clean ...

US scientists have made biocompatible membranes in microfluidic chips. Lab-on-a-chip platforms are becoming extremely useful in biomedical technology such as biosensors.

Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721 and Department of Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742 1 Corresponding author: Department of Biology, 1210 Biology-Psychology Bldg., University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742.

COURTESY PHOTO Accomplished young pianist Ellen Pavliska stands with one of her Master Class teachers, Santiago Rodriguez, who is a professor of music and artist-in-residence at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Millennium Arts Salon's First Annual Salon Club Meeting and Membership Drive Saturday, November 21st, 2009 3 - 6 PM 1213 Girard Street, NW Washington, DC 20009 Meet MAS Board of Directors and its newest members; Mingle with friends and art enthusiasts; Reflect on MAS's past 10 years and what's to come Light food and beverages will be served A Tel: ...

America s Greenest Campus to Present 1st Place Cash Prize to University of Maryland U.S. Department of Energy to be part of presentation at "Behavior, Energy and Climate Change Conference" in D.C. on November 16th Washington, DC -November 16, 2009: America s Greenest Campus, the nationwide contest that engaged over 450 colleges to compete against ...

Mark Rubin, 39, of Gaithersburg owns "1-800-GOT-JUNK?" and "Doody Calls" franchises.

We consider extensions of the standard model containing additional heavy particles charged under a new unbroken non-abelian gauge group as well as the standard model.

The University System of Maryland is defying a legislative call to regulate pornography on campus.

But now growing numbers of researchers are abandoning the stalwart species to investigate closely related worms that offer better insights into the origins of complex biological traits.

The University System of Maryland's Board of Regents defied state lawmakers Wednesday afternoon and agreed not to adopt a policy to prohibit students from screening obscene material on its campuses.

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Marriott International , whose Inn & Conference Center at the University of Maryland College Park was the first hotel in North America to win certification from the U.S. Green Building Council 's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design program, plans to accelerate development of green hotel projects.

Now, astronomers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., find that an X-ray source in galaxy NGC 5408 represents one of the best cases for a middleweight black hole to date.