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Higher education

    Notre Dame of Maryland University president will retire
    Notre Dame of Maryland University Marylou Yam will retire June 30 after leading the school for 12 years.
    Notre Dame of Maryland University president Marylou Yam
    Towson University’s big man on campus is a robot named Snack Efron
    A fleet of 14 food-delivery robots at the Baltimore County university tends to hungry students.
    A fleet of 14 food-delivery robots at the Baltimore County university tends to hungry students.
    Towson U. ‘No Kings’ rally relocates over speaker background checks
    Towson University students moved their “No Kings” rally off campus after school officials told them speakers’ names would be run through federal government databases and vetted for security reasons.
    Towson University
    Impact Maryland 2025: Moore, other leaders discuss challenges in the state — and opportunities
    The Banner’s third annual thought leadership conference, taking place at the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall in Baltimore, tackles how Maryland can respond to threats from federal spending cuts, the future of college research and the impact of the arts.
    Maryland Gov. Wes Moore and moderator David Rubenstein in conversation during Impact Maryland 2025 on Tuesday.
    Baltimore City Community College faculty were ‘blindsided’ by Schmoke’s merger plan, union chair says
    Baltimore City Community College faculty were “blindsided” by a plan to consolidate their employer with the University of Baltimore, according to Laura Pope, the faculty union chair.
    University of Baltimore President Kurt Schmoke speaks ahead of a mayoral debate held at at the school’s H. Mebane Turner Learning Commons on April 30, 2024.
    MacKenzie Scott gives $63 million to Morgan State, its largest-ever donation
    Philanthropist MacKenzie Scott has now given Morgan State University a total of $103 million.
    Morgan State University has now received a total of $103 million from MacKenzie Scott.
    3 women grads of the Naval Academy are running for office. Pete Hegseth should take notice.
    Mikie Sherrill. Amy McGrath. Eileen Laubacher. All Naval Academy graduates, all running for office. Fifty years after the first women entered the academy, they represent a generational moment of change.
    Democrat Mikie Sherrill responds to questions during the first general election gubernatorial debate with Republican opponent Jack Ciattarelli.
    Kurt Schmoke’s bid to save a struggling college
    Kurt Schmoke, president of the University of Baltimore, has a new idea to help stabilize the embattled university: consolidation with Baltimore City Community College.
    University of Baltimore President Kurt Schmoke wants to merge his institution with Baltimore City Community College.
    Former Naval Academy midshipman threatened ‘mass execution,’ feds say
    “Honestly not that surprised I’ll be carrying out the mass execution of my peers in a couple,” Jackson Elliot Fleming wrote from his home in Chesterton, Indiana, according to federal prosecutors.
    U.S. Navy Security officers attend Gate 1 at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis on Sept. 11 as the academy went on lockdown following reports of a shooter on campus.
    Naval Academy midshipman’s death under investigation
    A 20-year-old U.S. Naval Academy midshipman from New Jersey has died, the military service academy in Annapolis said.
    A Naval Academy spokesperson did not say when or where James was discovered dead.
    Johns Hopkins professor wins $800,000 ‘Genius’ grant for her research on saving democracy
    Political scientist Hahrie Han has spent decades answering questions about political organizing, collective action and democracy. Her work has earned her one of the country’s most prestigious awards: the MacArthur “Genius” grant.
    Dr. Hahrie Han was awarded a MacArthur Genius Grant in 2025.
    School spirit(s): Inside the ghost archives at UMBC
    UMBC has one of the world’s largest parapsychology collections, including ghostly items such as seance photos and notes supposedly scrawled by spirits.
    Materials from the Eileen J. Garrett Parapsychology Foundation Collection.
    University of Maryland Eastern Shore president’s work will be reviewed for plagiarism
    Heidi Anderson is accused of lifting several paragraphs from a 1981 paper by Robert M. Caldwell without citations.
    Dr. Heidi Anderson speaks as she is presented with the Distinguished Citizen Award at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore in 2021.
    University of Maryland Eastern Shore president accused of plagiarism by former professor
    Heidi Anderson, University of Maryland Eastern Shore president, is accused of lifting multiple paragraphs verbatim from a scholarly article and improperly citing information in her 1986 doctoral dissertation.
    Dr. Heidi Anderson speaks as she is presented with the Distinguished Citizen Award at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore in 2021.
    ‘Swatting’ and ‘hoax’ threats strike several Maryland schools this year
    False claims of active shooters or violence are on the rise. Here’s what you need to know as Maryland schools are targeted.
    Students walk around campus several weeks before classes begin at Morgan State University on August 5, 2025.
    Tylenol causes autism? Hopkins scientists bristle at Trump’s unproven pronouncement
    A Hopkins study not only seeks to uncover causes of autism, but what might better the lives of people who have it.
    Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., speaks as President Donald Trump listens in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Monday, Sept. 22, 2025, in Washington. Trump said his administration was linking acetaminophen, the active ingredient in Tylenol, to autism and urging pregnant women to largely avoid the medication.
    Towson, Morgan State universities both cleared after bomb threats
    At least two local universities evacuated parts of their campus because of bomb threats Tuesday.
    Towson University
    Ukrainian researcher’s future in doubt as Trump administration’s new H-1B visa fees hit Hopkins, UMD
    Looking at Donald Trump’s new changes to H-1B visas, which now include a hefty $100,000 fee. Will Maryland colleges start hiring less foreign born faculty because of it?
    The University of Maryland is the third-largest user in the state of H-1B visas for college-educated foreign faculty and researchers.
    Clayton Cresvell Stansbury Jr. was the epitome of Morgan State University
    Clayton Creswell Stansbury Jr. was once Morgan State’s director of student affairs, head of the honors program and its longest-serving marshal.
    Dr. Clayton C. Stansbury Jr. at a Morgan State University graduation ceremony.
    State university officials warn ‘crippling’ federal cuts could prompt layoffs
    In the last two years, the state has cut the public university system‘s budget by $233 million. The sharp cuts have been exacerbated by the Trump administration’s reductions in federal grants, financial aid, program funding and support for international students, leading to the likelihood of further cost-saving actions.
    The University of Maryland, College Park, campus. In the last two years, the state has cut the public university system’s budget by $233 million, according to Chancellor Jay Perman.
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