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Elizabeth Heubeck
Tuesday, March 06, 2012
Students from around the nation come to Tai Sophia Institute to learn about herbal medicine, nutrition and acupuncture. As national interest in wellness grows, the Howard County school is adding new programs, growing enrollment and seeking university status.
Julekha Dash
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Articles on food, startups, local celebs, design and solutions for urban blight were among readers' favorites in 2011. Take a look to see what stories made the cut.
Renee Libby Beck
Tuesday, November 08, 2011
What does innovation in education look like? Education Hack Day will convene problem-solvers to work on educator-submitted problems and ignite an entrepreneurial spirit in Baltimore City education.
Amy McNeal
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Education is often bandied about among those jockeying for political position as a vague notion in need of improvement. It's a quick, easy soundbite on which almost everyone can readily agree. But what does improvement look like, and how do we find it? One place to start looking is Fells Point's Cristo Rey Jesuit High School, where low income students are beating the odds every day.
Mary Hartney
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Information is power, and in Mary Hartney's view it's access to information -- and a better understanding of how to use it -- that represents Baltimore's most pressing issue as we work to forge the future.
Bmore Media
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
The video game industry may not be Maryland's equivalent of film in Los Angeles or country music in Nashville, but it is a force. Companies such as Zynga, Firaxis, Big Huge Games, and Day 1 Studios are all based here and are responsible for some of the industry's most interesting titles. We're also lucky to have a robust gaming program at UMBC, where students on the creative and technical ends of the game creation process learn side-by-side how to conceptualize and create the games of tomorrow.
Staci Wolfson
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
"Open" is one of those intriguing little words whose meaning is highly dependent on where it's being used, and why. What, for example, would it mean to talk about an "open city"? A new project beginning in April at MICA aims to explore, understand, and maybe even answer that very question.
Paul Sturm
Tuesday, March 01, 2011
When the University of Maryland steered away from traditional models and created the Social Work Community Outreach Service (SWCOS) plenty of folks said it would never work. Today -- nearly 20 years and some 900 field placements later -- the school is still busy making a difference in communities across Baltimore.
Paul Sturm
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Founded in 2004, the University of Baltimore's Entrepreneurial Opportunity Center (EOC) has spent the past seven years helping over 2,500 local professionals realize their goals of starting, owning, or improving a business. We went behind the scenes to find out more about the whys and hows.
Amy Dusto
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
The notion of "wash and wear electronics" might seem futuristic, perhaps a bit odd. Maybe it's both, but it's also alive and well here in Baltimore thanks to a joint teaching effort between MICA and Johns Hopkins. We went inside the Collaborative Smart Textiles Research Lab to find out what it means and how it works.
Sam Hopkins
Tuesday, November 09, 2010
For 2010, the organizers of TEDx MidAtlantic chose a theme as vast as it is simple: what if? Bmore Media's Sam Hopkins reports on the event, the ideas, and the many connections he found there to Baltimore and its future.
Daniel Collins
Tuesday, November 02, 2010
As the world becomes ever more mechanized -- and, sure, convenient -- some folks stop to wonder if we might be losing something in the process. Meet Kyle Van Horn, proprietor of Baltimore's first full-scale, public access print studio.
Julekha Dash
Tuesday, October 05, 2010
Traditionally, Johns Hopkins has been known more for research and science than business. The new Global MBA program at the Carey Business School aims to change that (and fast).
Stephanie Delman
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
It's that back-to-school time of year with colleges and universities around the city welcoming the class of 2014. It's hard enough for new students to find their way around campus, much less around a new city. So, we've come up with a guide that'll help the newbies -- and even returning students -- get around town to grab a bite or have some fun.
Walaika Haskins
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Over the past decade, "cyber" has become a catch-all term stuck in front of anything remotely related to IT or Internet technologies. It's come to mean everything but define nothing. That got us wondering what "cyber" really means in the Greater Baltimore Area. Here's what we found out.