TOWSON, Maryland, Dec. 7 -- Baltimore County Public Schools issued the following news release on Dec. 6, 2023: * * * Christina Pumphrey Selected as Vice Chair Tiara Booker-Dwyer was selected Tuesday (Dec. 5) to serve as chair of the Board of Education of Baltimore County, while Christina Pumphrey was selected as vice president. Both officers will serve a one-year term. A resident of Owings Mills, Booker-Dwyer (Member At-Large) was appointed to the Board of Education in April 2023 by Maryland more PR

WILLIAMSBURG, Virginia, Dec. 7 (TNSres) -- The College of William and Mary issued the following news story: The Virginia Institute of Marine Science's annual report (https://www.vims.edu/research/topics/dead_zones/_docs/2023_cb_hypoxia_report.pdf) of "dead-zone" conditions in the Chesapeake Bay indicates that hypoxic, low-oxygen conditions in 2023 were at their lowest since monitoring began in 1985. These results concur with a separate report issued by the Chesapeake Bay Program in conjunction more PR

BALTIMORE, Maryland, Dec. 7 -- Loyola University Maryland issued the following news: By Rita Buettner The Maryland Higher Education Commission (MHEC) has recommended Loyola's new Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) program for implementation. This program will be run through a partnership with Mercy Medical Center, which will provide clinical placements at Mercy's downtown Baltimore campus, in addition to other resources and support. "This program will be a powerful example of living out our more PR

BALTIMORE, Maryland, Dec. 8 -- Maryland Attorney General Anthony G. Brown issued the following news release: Maryland Attorney General Anthony G. Brown joined a coalition of 20 Attorneys General in submitting letters to the federal Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), urging both agencies to ensure that national banks cooperate with investigations into state law violations being conducted by state Attorneys General. Although national  more PR

BALTIMORE, Maryland, Dec. 8 -- Maryland Attorney General Anthony G. Brown issued the following news release: The Independent Investigations Division (IID) of the Maryland Office of the Attorney General is investigating a use of force incident involving a Taser that resulted in critical injuries to an adult male in Anne Arundel County on October 29, 2023. On October 29, at approximately 4:30 p.m., Anne Arundel County Police Department Officers responded to the 900 block of Waugh Chapel Way in G more PR

ROCKVILLE, Maryland, Dec. 7 -- Montgomery College issued the following news release: The U.S. Department of Education announced 13 awards to public and private institutions of higher education across the country for the FY2023 Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Language (UISFL) Grant Program. Montgomery College was awarded a $206,543 grant over two years and was one of only two community colleges in the country to receive an award. The UISFL Grant Program awards assist: (1) instit more PR

BALTIMORE, Maryland, Dec. 7 -- The University of Baltimore issued the following news release: The Oligarchs' Grip: Fusing Wealth and Power, a new book by University of Baltimore Merrick School of Business David Lingelbach and co-author Valentina Rodriguez Guerra, a researcher and graduate student in business administration at the Facultad de Ciencias Economicas, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, is a finalist in the "Big Ideas" category of the 2023 Goody Business Book Awards. In a description  more PR

ADELPHI, Maryland, Dec. 7 -- The University of Maryland Global Campus issued the following news release: Advancing the truth about Native Americans is difficult because history books are still full of stereotypes, Christine Duckworth, a board member of the Baltimore American Indian Center, told a University of Maryland Global Campus (UMGC) audience during an event to mark Native American Heritage Month. "I want people to know the truth about our history, and not what our government has decide more PR