Higher education

Morelys Urbano, a Morgan State University student and fellow who advocates for language justice, relates how her native language sustained her as she navigated the necessity of learning English.

Despite mischaracterizations about the encampment at Johns Hopkins University protesting the war in Gaza, what actually took place was peaceful and constructive, Hopkins Professor Lester Spence says.

About 375 graduate students will soon take classes at the Baltimore City campus, instead.

Goucher Prison Education System, or GPEP, allows inmates to study and earn credits towards a degree while in prison. Students take about eight to 10 years to graduate because the majority are working full-time while serving their sentences.

The Department of Defense awarded a $500 million contract with the University of Maryland’s national security research facility, the largest research deal the university has received.

Morgan State University was awarded a three-year, $1.05 million grant this month from Ripple, a San Francisco-based blockchain and cryptocurrency solutions company.

The historic cornices, vent covers, trims and other ornate fixtures they made in class will go on renovated Baltimore homes in Black neighborhoods.

Construction hasn't started, funding appears uncertain and it'll be at least another two years before students enroll.

Shani Mott, a scholar of Africana studies at the Johns Hopkins University, died in March. A celebration to commemorate her life will be held Sunday.

Delays with the Free Application for Federal Student Aid means students can’t make decisions about which college they will attend.

More than 1,000 midshipmen graduated from the Naval Academy in Annapolis under blue skies Friday. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin praised the graduates for their resiliency at the ceremony, the first for Vice Admiral Yvette Davids, the military college's first female superintendent.

When midshipmen graduating from the Naval Academy today reach retirement age in 2066, the Chesapeake Bay will be more than a foot higher.

Musical legend Stevie Wonder performed at the Johns Hopkins University commencement ceremony after protesters interrupted Sen. Mitt Romney’s commencement address.

Wonder was at the Miriam A. Friedberg Concert Hall on Wednesday afternoon as the recipient of the George Peabody Medal, the highest honor by the institute at the Johns Hopkins University.

The students, as part of yearlong engineering class, created a snap-on accessory that reduces the noise produced by a leaf blower by nearly 40% — without reducing the power of the air being pushed out.

A class of students at UMD, would-be entrepreneurs, have been given an opportunity to compete for $2 million in private equity seed funding. All they have to do to win it? Come up with a way to help detect and prevent school shooters.

Mike Flanagan, the filmmaker known for his horror works such as “The Haunting of Bly Manor,” “Midnight Mass” and “The Fall of the House of Usher,” is returning to his home.

Competitive flag football is coming to Howard Community College next year.

The plebes, or first-year Naval Academy students, have climbed the Herndon Monument every year since 1962 to signify end of the plebe life and the beginning of fourth-class midshipmen life.

Despite polarization and unrest on college and university campuses, the institutions can find ways to make constructive use of that conflict, say the University of Baltimore's president and a professor of public and international affairs.