University of Maryland, College Park

Using technology to fight cheating in online education

2013-05-01 17:06:00

While Jennifer Clay was at home taking an online exam for her business law class, a proctor a few hundred miles away was watching her every move. Using a webcam mounted in Clay's Los Angeles apartment, the monitor in Phoenix tracked how frequently her...

Deep in a former gold mine, scientists hunt for dark matter

2013-04-08 06:00:00

LEAD, S.D. — The scientists don hard hats, jumpsuits and steel-toed boots to pile into a metal cage for a rumbling 11-minute descent into an abandoned South Dakota gold mine. They step over old mine-cart rails, through rough-walled tunnels and...

Does Congress have the heart to avert disability crisis?

2013-04-02 15:10:00

Bonnie Lee worked for 12 years as a health technician for Kaiser Permanente in Southern California, started her own Web services company, and raised two kids as a single mother in Ontario. Then Bonnie, 51, moved back East to rural Pennsylvania and...

Hungry for a group to safely deliver leftover food to charities

2013-04-02 00:00:00

On a recent evening, students at Pomona College feasted on chicken pot pie, steamed veggies, biscuits and rice. And, as is often the case, there were plenty of leftovers in the dining hall, enough for about 100 extra meals. Those leftovers, however,...

Gerald D. Klee dies at 86; psychiatrist involved in Army LSD experiments

2013-03-08 19:50:00

Gerald D. Klee, a retired psychiatrist and LSD expert who participated in experiments with the hallucinogenic drug on volunteer servicemen at U.S. military installations in the 1950s, has died. He was 86. Klee died Sunday of complications after...

Great Recession forced all Americans to cut back on medical care

2013-01-07 13:48:00

Though the Great Recession took a much larger toll on African Americans and Latinos than on whites, members of all three groups were forced to cut back on medical services as a result of the economic downturn, research shows. Karoline Mertensen and...

John Williams dies at 66; former Rams lineman later started dentistry practice

2012-07-10 00:00:00

John Williams, a Los Angeles Rams lineman in the 1970s who went to dental school during his off-seasons and started a dentistry practice in Minneapolis after he retired from football, has died. He was 66. Williams, who had recently undergone a kidney...

PASSINGS: Sidney W. Benson

2012-01-09 00:00:00

Sidney W. Benson Former USC chemistry professor Sidney W. Benson, 93, a chemistry professor who was scientific co-director of USC's Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute, died Dec. 30 at his home in Brentwood of complications from a stroke, the...

PASSINGS: Fred Milano, William Polk Carey, Mike Colalillo

2012-01-04 00:00:00

Fred Milano Doo-wop singer with Dion and the Belmonts Fred Milano, 72, a singer who made rock 'n' roll history on doo-wop hits with Dion and the Belmonts in the 1950s, died Sunday, three weeks after his lung cancer was diagnosed, said Warren Gradus, who...

How provocateur Dan Savage became MTV's sex advisor in 'Savage U'

2012-03-30 16:37:20

Herbert Hauptman dies at 94; won Nobel Prize in chemistry

2011-10-25 00:00:00

Herbert Hauptman, who won the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1985 for work uncovering the structure of molecules that accelerated medical research and led to the development of new drugs, has died. He was 94. His death Sunday in Buffalo, N.Y., was announced...

Clarence Clemons dies at 69; saxophonist for Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band

2011-06-19 00:00:00

Saxophonist Clarence Clemons, an indispensable part of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band both for his full-throttle tenor sax work and his larger-than-life onstage persona as "the Big Man," died Saturday. He was 69. Clemons, who put his stamp on such...

The Canton resident added black ballet flats she'd had for a while and a taupe fold-over Urban Expressions shoulder bag from South Moon Under. But her most important accessory is the engagement ring designed by fiance Bobby Lonchas, from Berman's Jewelers in Ellicott City.

2013-03-27 00:00:00

Paul Goleb, of Rockville, takes the pot of dollar bills given to the last University of Maryland School of Medicine student to receive an envelope in Davidge Hall. Goleb will continue his medical training at the College of Medicine at the University of Tennessee.

2013-03-15 00:00:00

The body of an ornithopter, or flapping wing vehicle, is constructed from carbon fiber. University of Maryland graduate student Cornelia Altenbuchner has been performing research with the small aircraft at the National Institute of Aerospace since 2010.

2013-03-14 00:00:00