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A $500 million development now under way may help spark the final push needed to solidify the economic activity envisioned for Owings Mills when planners designated this northwest Baltimore County corridor as a growth area more than 30 years ago.

Gettysburg’s 83-69 men’s basketball victory over Washington College on Saturday didn’t end on a buzzer beater, but it sure was a one-point win for Bullets’ senior guard Cory Weissman. Weissman, who suffered a life-threatening stroke while weight training during the off-season of his freshman year, had worked his way back to the team but hadn’t played a single minute until this game – on Senior Day. Gettysburg coach George Petrie started Weissman and then subbed for the player who still struggles to run because of the stroke that at one point left him paralyzed on one side of his body.

Capitol College is pleased to announce its new partnership with Maryland Space Grant Consortium (MDSGC). MDSGC is part of NASA’s National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program, an organization that contributes to the nation’s science enterprise by funding research, education, and public service projects through a national network of 52 university-based Space Grant consortia. Since its founding, Space Grant has awarded over 12,000 U.S. citizens with tuition assistance in science, engineering, and related fields of study.

Hundreds of students from Maryland’s institutions of higher education will join with college presidents in Annapolis to seek increased support for fiscal year 2013 operating and capital funds.

Inside the once-bustling movie theater on North Avenue, moss thrives on shattered marble walls. Broken tiles hang from the ceiling. Rainwater pours through the roof. But this derelict structure is now seen as a future centerpiece for the growing midtown arts district. A nonprofit developer, backed financially by the Maryland Institute College of Art and a private foundation, envisions the Art Deco building as the home of film screenings, music venues, artists' studios, galleries, a playhouse and a restaurant.

Governor Martin O’Malley has declared Feb. 9 “Maryland Independent Higher Education Day” in recognition of the vital role Maryland’s independent colleges and universities serve in the State, which boasts one of the best educated workforces in the nation. The Maryland Independent College and University Association (MICUA) will bring 200 college students and administrators from across the State to Annapolis on Feb. 9 for a day of special activities, including the MICUA Presidents’ Award ceremony.

Gov. Martin O'Malley will call for more than $6 million to spin research conducted at university labs into new companies, aides said Tuesday. The proposal seeks to address the gulf between the state's strong track record in attracting research dollars and relative lack of success in turning that funding into commercial ventures, an issue that commands the attention of academics and business leaders alike.

Maryland may be relatively small, but when it comes to the economic impact of—and revenue generated by—higher education, the Free State is a powerhouse. From the salaries earned by college and university employees to the taxes paid by those employees; from the revenue generated when Mom and Dad visit and take their hungry students out for pizza to the money those students themselves spend at off-campus bookstores, coffee shops, and theaters, the commerce of education is a serious contributor to Maryland’s bottom line.

A higher education official from Wisconsin who attended the recent Council of Independent Colleges conference in Florida made a remarkable statement during a question-and-answer session. There is a group of students who enter college with such dire financial need that the amount the federal government expects their families to contribute to college is effectively zero. In Wisconsin, that zero-pay population has grown by half in a single year: from 42,641 students in the 2008-09 academic year to 65,800 in 2009-10.

Elaine Tuttle Hansen will never forget stepping into her first college class after years of feeling out of place as a smart kid in her small Massachusetts hometown. "It was like, 'Oh my God, there are people out there like me,'" she says. It's a sentiment often expressed by students who arrive at the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth, where Hansen recently took over as executive director. After years of feeling misunderstood or unchallenged at their regular schools, these precocious elementary and middle schoolers say they finally feel "at home."

Johns Hopkins intensive care nurse Nelly E. Lopez spends so much of her workday monitoring patient distress alarms that she sometimes hears phantom beeps even when she is no longer on the job. Hopkins doctors say Lopez's "alarm fatigue" shows what is wrong with hospital intensive care units, which they describe as fragmented systems made up of dozens of machines that don't talk to one another.

McDaniel College has met a half-million dollar France-Merrick Foundation challenge grant to fund scholarships for financially deserving students from Baltimore City. The France-Merrick Foundation awarded the college a $500,000 challenge grant to institute the France-Merrick Scholars Program, which gives preference to students who expect to earn a teaching certification in elementary or secondary education.

Capitol College is pleased to announce that it will be featured in Military Advanced Education’s “2012 Guide to Military-Friendly Colleges and Universities Honorees.” This is the third straight year that Capitol has been mentioned in the annual report. Colleges and universities were selected to the list based on the various benefits they provide active-duty military members, veterans and their dependants.

The country’s medical schools are seeing more applications over the past year, but Maryland’s two major medical school programs are ahead of the curve. A report by the Association of American Medical Colleges released this month shows the total number of applicants to U.S. medical schools jumped 2.8 percent from 2010 to 2011 — from 42,741 to 43,919, the highest figure since 1996, when more than 46,900 people applied.

The Johns Hopkins Carey Business School and the Maryland Institute College of Art will partner to launch the MBA/MA in Design Leadership, focusing on the integration of creative thinking into all aspects of organizational management and development.

Stephan Jordan of Frederick was appointed Oct. 21 by Gov. Martin O'Malley to serve as the student representative on the Maryland Higher Education Commission. As the appointee, he will act as the voice for all of Maryland's university and college students at the commission, Jordan said. Jordan is an organized, conscious, smart and responsible person with good judgment, said Maria Hyson, executive secretary to the provost of Washington College in Chestertown, where Jordan is a federal work-study student.

Officials at McDaniel College in Westminster said Friday, Oct. 28, that the college has been named on a list of "Best Value" colleges by Kiplinger's Personal Finance — the only Maryland liberal arts college to make the list.

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