NEWS
June 24, 2007
Howard signs pact with Liberian system The Howard County public school system has signed a partnership agreement with the Monrovia consolidated school system in Liberia, West Africa. The partnership is intended to create an alliance to promote mutual understanding and common goals and establish a dialogue for possible cultural exchanges. The two school systems will explore opportunities to enhance their programs and build understanding of each nation's history and culture by exchanging personnel, information and other resources.
NEWS
By Michael Hill | November 25, 2007
Kristina Johnson has been a pioneer before. This time, it is becoming the highest-ranking woman in the history of the Johns Hopkins University. She took over as provost in September. In one way, she certainly came to the right place. That's because one of her previous pioneering efforts was when she entered Stanford University 32 years ago and helped establish the first women's team in - you guessed it - lacrosse. "I love sports," says Johnson, 50, a native of Denver. "I loved field hockey and I loved lacrosse.
NEWS
By Frederick N. Rasmussen | January 31, 1999
Sydney C. Blumenthal Jr., chief executive officer of the Blumenthal-Kahn Electric Co. Inc. and local philanthropist, died of cancer Thursday at the Gilchrist Center for Hospice Care in Towson. He was 82.The longtime Pikesville resident had been CEO of the company for 37 years. One of the oldest electrical contracting firms in the nation, it was founded by his father, Sydney C. Blumenthal Sr., with partner Abraham Kahn in 1909.The company, now based in Owings Mills, was in the Blumenthal-Kahn Building at Liberty and Lombard streets until the early 1960s, when the building was demolished to make way for the Baltimore Arena.
NEWS
November 1, 1999
Charles R. Flynn Jr., 51, engineering firm executiveCharles R. Flynn Jr., an executive at a Hunt Valley engineering firm, died Wednesday of a heart attack at York (Pa.) Hospital. He was 51 and lived in New Freedom, Pa.He was senior vice president at EA Engineering Science and Technology. He had worked there for 24 years and helped it establish a national client base.Born in Weymouth, Mass., he was a graduate of Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada. He moved to Baltimore in 1969 to enroll in the Johns Hopkins University's Whiting School of Engineering, where he received his doctorate in environmental engineering.
NEWS
July 13, 1998
YOU'VE GOT to question the aesthetic sensibilities of any Beltway commuter who longs for ramshackle views of storage sheds and carports," insists motorist Steve Hasler.He's referring, of course, to the design of the area's new sound barriers -- a topic that seems to have overtaken the Orioles as summer small talk, thanks to a general collapse at Camden Yards.Last month, Intrepid One sought opinions of drivers concerning the walls that line portions of Interstate 695. Soon thereafter, the point-of-view floodgate opened.
BUSINESS
September 19, 1998
Jeong H. Kim, founder of the Landover-based telecommunications equipment firm Yurie Systems Inc., has pledged a $5 million gift to the University of Maryland's A. James Clark School of Engineering.Kim, whose company was acquired by Lucent Technologies Inc. in May for $1 billion, received an engineering doctorate from the university in 1991. His donation is to provide money for student scholarships, five new endowed professorships and operational support at a new engineering and applied sciences building.
NEWS
April 23, 1998
THERE WAS a time, a few years ago, when some questioned the need for an engineering program at Morgan State University. How wrong they were.At the time, fewer than 30 engineering degrees were being awarded each year in Maryland to African-Americans -- and nearly half of those were granted by the Naval Academy at Annapolis.Today, the total is more than 100, with Morgan State awarding the overwhelming majority of the degrees and, in the process, earning national recognition for the quality of its civil, industrial and electrical engineering programs.
NEWS
By Sheila Hotchkin | April 23, 1998
Morgan State University dedicated a school of engineering building yesterday that is named for a governor who helped finance it, and reflects the growth of the program at the historically black school.Hundreds of people and public officials attended the ceremony for the $16.5 million William Donald Schaefer Engineering Building at 5200 Perring Parkway -- adjacent to the school's other engineering building, named for civil rights leader Clarence M. Mitchell Jr.Schaefer recalled being told years ago that the names of public figures were put on buildings only to be taken off when their prominence faded, and noted with satisfaction yesterday that his named was strategically carved in stone on Morgan's newest addition.
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By Timothy B. Wheeler | May 7, 1998
The longtime chairman of art history has been appointed dean of arts and sciences at the Johns Hopkins University, assuming leadership of a school that has been troubled by the defection of distinguished faculty members.Herbert L. Kessler, the Charlotte Bloomberg professor of art history, was approved as dean of the Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences during a telephone conference yesterday of the executive committee of the university's board of trustees.Kessler, 56, is the second new dean announced this week.
NEWS
By Alice Lukens | November 29, 1998
Three Johns Hopkins University graduate students were killed and two others seriously injured early yesterday when their compact car slammed into a bridge abutment on Interstate 95 south of Baltimore in the deadliest of a spate of holiday highway accidents.Other accidents in Anne Arundel, Carroll and Howard counties since late Friday killed three others, according to police.The five Hopkins students -- all from India, and studying engineering -- were traveling north on I-95 in Howard County, on their way home from Thanksgiving with a friend in North Carolina.