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Researchers hailed the Supreme Court ruling Wednesday that bans the patenting of human DNA, saying it would expand access to genetic testing for disease at lower cost to patients. In a unanimous decision, the justices said Myriad Genetics did not have exclusive rights to the BRCA 1 and BRCA 2 genes that are linked to significantly greater risk for breast cancer and thus should not be the only company allowed to test for it. "Myriad did not create anything," Justice Clarence Thomas wrote for his fellow justices.

Vice President Joe Biden, speaking Tuesday at an event in Baltimore, said he was unsure whether there is enough support in the Senate for what would be the biggest change to federal gun laws in decades. "We may not get it this week, but we will prevail," Biden said of the bill, which senators will vote on Wednesday. Sixty votes are needed to pass the measure. Police closed city streets and increased security at nearby Penn Station in anticipation of Biden's arrival at an event to preview the University of Baltimore's new law center.

Sanford "Sandy" Harris, a bankruptcy attorney and partner in a downtown Baltimore law firm, died of congestive heart failure Saturday at Gilchrist Center for Hospice Care. The Pikesville resident was 80. Born in Baltimore and raised on Mount Royal Terrace, he was a 1940 graduate of City College. His studies at the University of Maryland, College Park were interrupted by service in the Army Air Corps during World War II. After working briefly in retail, Mr. Harris earned his law degree in 1956 from the University of Baltimore and was elected to the school's Heuisler Honor Society.

On the same day that fans will gather to watch the Orioles open their season in Tampa against the Rays, another event will be highlighting baseball in Baltimore. “The President's Cup,” a documentary on Baltimore's annual high school baseball tournament, debuts at 6 p.m. Tuesday at the University of Baltimore's Wright Theater. The film is directed by University of Baltimore associate professor Julie Simon and chronicles the 2012 edition of the tournament, which is sponsored by City Council President Bernard C. “Jack” Young and draws more than a dozen public and private high schools from around the city.

Nostalgia ruled at the Lyric Opera House as 350 folks mingled on the mezzanine for a preconcert reception. They came to celebrate the University of Baltimore's 75th anniversary by enjoying some other American classics -- legendary Motowners the Temptations and the Four Tops. Party treats included not only cocktails and hors d'oeuvres, but the chance to chat with a Temptation or two before the performance. Included in this grooving group: Michael Klein and Richard Pridgeon, event chairs; Helene Penn, Sidney Sherr and Craig Ziegler, event committee members; Dr. Meb Turner, University of Baltimore president; Carl Stenberg, UB Yale Gordon College of Liberal Arts dean; Dick Davison, Mount Royal Management managing partner; Charles Siegman, Mercantile Safe Deposit & Trust executive vice president; Trina Miller, Xaverian Brothers USA executive administrative assistant; Joan Worthington, System Source Internet services director; John Bartkowiak, Northrop Grumman consulting contract adviser; Debby Shortridge, Saul Ewing partner; Mashica Hunt-Winslow, Baltimore area singer; Linda Sherman and Tom Davis, WQSR radio morning show personalities; John Pierson, CEO of Baltimore Life Insurance Co. of Maryland; Callie Johnson, A&R Development Corp.

Business managers pinched for time, but who long for the letters M.B.A. after their names, can earn the degree by attending classes once a week at the University of Baltimore Merrick School of Business.The university is offering a master's of business administration program that meets on Saturdays for eight 10-week semesters.The program can be completed in two years. It is scheduled to begin in July."Our goal is to make our programs as convenient as possible for working students," said University of Baltimore President H. Mebane Turner.

The University of Baltimore has begun preparing the southwest corner of Charles Street and Mount Royal Avenue for construction of a five-story building for the Robert G. Merrick School of Business, the newest addition to its growing midtown campus.The construction timetable for the 115,000-square-foot project was moved up as part of Gov. William Donald Schaefer's plan to speed up work on state capital improvement projects to help stimulate the economy. A construction fence will be put up around the site this week so work can begin later this month.

The University of Baltimore marks a milestone this weekend - awarding its first doctoral degree. While the degree might be new, its recipient typifies the adult student the school on Mount Royal Avenue has served for 75 years. Dorine C. Andrews, 54, commuted to the school from Arlington, Va., for the past two years, little knowing how her course of study would change her life. A veteran of the business world - she was a pioneer in helping companies cope with technology - she is taking her doctorate in communication design and joining the faculty at Georgetown University.

The University of Baltimore announced a gift of $1 million from Steven L. Snyder yesterday, the third-largest gift in the history of the school. The money will go to the university's law school to underwrite the Steven L. Snyder Center for Litigation Skills, which will focus on the courtroom arena where Snyder has made himself one of Baltimore's wealthiest attorneys. "It's a wonderful gift from a long-term and committed supporter of the school," said law school Dean John Sebert. "The new center will build on the law school's strong expertise right now in teaching litigation skills."

The University of Baltimore yesterday named Robert L. Bogomolny, a former pharmaceutical company executive and law school dean, to replace H. Mebane Turner as president of the nontraditional urban college. A native of Cleveland, Bogomolny, 63, served for 14 years as corporate senior vice president and general counsel of G.D. Searle & Co., a pharmaceutical company, before stepping down last year. Before that, he served 10 years as professor of law and dean at the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law at Cleveland State University.

The University of Baltimore announced Thursday that entertainer Bill Cosby would deliver the school's commencement address. Cosby will speak at the May 21 graduation ceremony. He'll also receive an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree . The ceremony will be at the Patricia and Arthur Modell Performing Arts Center at The Lyric. Cosby is something of a familiar face around Baltimore. Last year, St. Frances Academy in East Baltimore honored Cosby and his wife, Camille, for their $2 million donation toward a community center.

Vice President Joe Biden and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan will visit a new, $112 million building next month that will house the University of Baltimore School of Law, school officials said Monday. The John and Frances Angelos Law Center, which has been under construction since 2010 and is an anchor of development in the North Charles Street corridor, will also host Gov. Martin O'Malley and Maryland Court of Appeals Chief Judge Robert M. Bell during a series of opening celebrations next month.

The break of a 10-inch water main at Interstate 83 near Maryland Avenue likely won't be fixed for a few days because it's in a bad spot and repairs will require specific equipment, according to officials from the city Department of Public Works. DPW spokesman Kurt Kocher said the break occurred at about 4:30 p.m. Saturday, and crews shut off water so it would not leak onto the highway and freeze. That also cut water flow to the University of Baltimore Law Center, which is near the intersection of West Mount Royal and Maryland avenues.

The University of Baltimore Law Center was scheduled to reopen at noon on Sunday after being closed for a water main break. The break that cut water service to the law center at the University of Baltimore forced campus officials to clear the building of students on Saturday, and cancel classes and activities, according to university officials. On Sunday afternoon, officials said facilities personnel tested the fire suppression system and rest rooms at the center and determined they were operating normally.  It is anticipated the law center will open on time and operate on a normal schedule for Monday, Feb 11, according to an email from University Police Chief Samuel D. Tress.

Don't get into business to make money. The temptation to quit will be strongest just before you succeed. And take big risks — even if that means angering a ruler-wielding, 6-foot-tall nun. Those were among the lessons billionaire Bob Parsons, the founder of GoDaddy.com, shared with students at his alma mater, University of Baltimore, on Monday evening. Parsons, a 1975 graduate of the university, gave $1 million last summer to endow a professorship in digital communication, which blends computer programming, Web design and writing, among other skills.

Earlier this year, Bob Parsons, founder of the Internet company GoDaddy.com and University of Baltimore graduate, gave the school $1 million to create a professorship in digital communication under his name. [Story here ] Today, UB announced who that first Bob "GoDaddy" Parsons Professor of Digital Communication, Commerce and Culture will be: Sean Carton. Carton has been in the digital creative scene in Baltimore and the Mid-Atlantic region for years. He's been at UB for a couple years now, founding and directing the school's Center for Digital Communication, Commerce, and Culture.

The University of Baltimore named Anne M. McCarthy yesterday as head of its Merrick School of Business, making her the first female dean in the business school's 77-year history. McCarthy will start her job next month, succeeding Daniel A. Gerlowski, the interim dean, who will return to his prior position as associate dean. Gerlowski replaced John Hatfield last summer when Hatfield became executive vice president and provost of the University of New Haven in Connecticut. McCarthy is an associate professor of management and director of the Center for Entrepreneurial and Family Enterprises, which she founded in 1999, at Colorado State University.

As part of a federal project aimed at better treating pain, the University of Maryland, Baltimore will begin revamping the way it teaches future doctors, dentists, nurses and pharmacists. Pain affects approximately 100 million Americans and their treatment and lost productivity are estimated to cost up to $635 billion, according to the National Institutes of Health, which recruited academic centers to help with the problem. A pain consortium of two dozen NIH agencies received 56 proposals and picked 11 universities to be Centers of Excellence in Pain Education.