CHANTILLY, Virginia, Oct. 17 (TNSres) -- Amentum, a provider of technical and engineering services, issued the following news release: Amentum has been awarded a five-year contract with a maximum value of $326.9 million by the U.S. Army to continue its important work on command, control, communication, computers, cyber, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (C5ISR) systems. Amentum will engineer, integrate and test advanced prototype technologies and systems. The Army is managing the pr more PR

HAGERSTOWN, Maryland, Oct. 17 -- Hagerstown Community College issued the following news: Hagerstown Community College and Shepherd University have signed a new agreement that will allow HCC students who complete an associate degree in visual arts to seamlessly transfer to Shepherd University to complete a bachelor's degree in art education with just 60 additional credits. "This idea took a few years to come together, but now we have a solid pathway for our students to pursue careers in art edu more PR

BALTIMORE, Maryland, Oct. 17 (TNSres) -- The Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs issued the following news: * * * New CCP-led research suggests that few bed nets sold in Tanzania are treated with a long-lasting insecticide, a crucial component for malaria prevention. * * * By Stephanie Desmon Almost all the bed nets on the commercial market in Tanzania, designed to protect sleeping people from malaria-infected mosquitoes, are not treated with a long-lasting insecticide, a crucia more PR

BALTIMORE, Maryland, Oct. 17 (TNSres) -- Johns Hopkins University's Bloomberg School of Public Health issued the following news release: * * * Treatment prevented disease symptoms in mothers and developmental deficits in offspring * * * A new mouse model of infection with the COVID-19-causing SARS-CoV-2 virus during pregnancy tracks closely the disease course doctors have observed in SARS-CoV-2-infected pregnant patients, and suggests that treatment with the antiviral Paxlovid provides prote more PR

BALTIMORE, Maryland, Oct. 17 -- Maryland Attorney General Anthony G. Brown issued the following news release: Maryland Attorney General Anthony G. Brown has joined a multistate coalition of 24 Attorneys General in protecting access to abortion medication nationwide. The coalition filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court in support of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) and Danco Laboratories LLC's petitions to reverse the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit's ruling th more PR

ANNAPOLIS, Maryland, Oct. 17 -- The Maryland Department of Agriculture issued the following news release: The Maryland Department of Agriculture Small Farm and Urban Agriculture program has announced the nomination period for names to be considered for the Urban Agriculture Advisory Committee has opened. The purpose of this initiative is to increase the viability of urban farming and improve access to urban grown foods. In 2023, the Maryland General Assembly established the Urban Agriculture G more PR

ANNAPOLIS, Maryland, Oct. 17 -- Gov. Wes Moore, D-Maryland, issued the following news release on Oct. 16, 2023: Governor Wes Moore today announced $69 million in federal funding for two new programs to help more Marylanders access high-speed, affordable internet. Administered by the Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development's Office of Statewide Broadband, the two programs, Home Stretch for Public Housing and Home Stretch for Difficult to Serve Properties, are expected to provide more PR

ANNAPOLIS, Maryland, Oct. 17 -- Gov. Wes Moore, D-Maryland, issued the following news release on Oct. 16, 2023: Today, Governor Wes Moore delivered remarks at the Greater Baltimore Committee's 2023 Transportation and Economic Opportunity Summit. Under the theme "Connecting Our Region, Revitalizing Our Core," business leaders and community leaders gathered at the Baltimore Convention Center to discuss regional connectivity, and redevelopment and revitalization opportunities in Baltimore City. " more PR

ROCKVILLE, Maryland, Oct. 17 -- Montgomery College issued the following news release: Montgomery College will join a cohort of four community colleges across the country selected to partner with Ascend at the Aspen Institute's Postsecondary Leadership Circle Activation Fund. Ascend's new capacity-building fund provides financial support and expert technical assistance to selected community college campuses to accelerate institutional investment into expanding effective, equitable, and culturall more PR

HYATTSVILLE, Maryland, Oct. 17 -- Pepco issued the following news release on Oct. 16, 2023: Housing Initiative Partnership, Inc. (HIP), a nonprofit affordable housing developer, along with Pepco, BlockEnergy(TM), and its public-private partners today celebrated the ground breaking of a new residential community in the Town of Fairmount Heights. The community will feature six zero energy single-family homes, powered by a BlockEnergy advanced community microgrid energy system, and a pocket park t more PR

TOWSON, Maryland, Oct. 17 -- Towson University issued the following news: TU students and faculty feel the impact of donors and grants every day in their work on and off campus. Gifts, like those given during the RISE campaign and grants or endowments awarded from outside organizations, have funded academic innovation and new program development across campus, ensuring students and faculty have opportunities to pursue their passions. Check out the examples below. College of Business and Econom more PR