U-Md. threat suspect described as nonviolent
BY: Associated Press
POSTED: March 12, 2012
Tags: alexander song, capt. mark limansky, massacre, omega, police, psychiatric evaluation, rampage, reddit, shooting, University of Maryland
COLLEGE PARK — A University of Maryland honor student who warned on websites he hoped to “kill enough people to make it to national news” was arrested after several people reported the threat to police, perhaps thwarting a campus rampage apparently planned for Monday, authorities said. While the threat was dismissed by some online as [...]
U-Md. student charged in rampage threat
BY: Associated Press
POSTED: March 12, 2012
Tags: administration, alexander song, campus, college park, gemstone program, psychiatric evaluation, rampage, shooting, University of Maryland
COLLEGE PARK — A University of Maryland student has been arrested and charged with posting an Internet threat claiming he planned to go on a shooting rampage on campus hoping to kill as many people as possible. Campus police said in a statement that 19-year-old Alexander Song, of Fulton, has been identified as the person [...]
Laslo Boyd: A strategic first step toward an alliance 
BY: Laslo Boyd
POSTED: March 8, 2012
Tags: Baltimore, campus, college park, Laslo Boyd, merger, schools, Senate President Mike Miller, University of Maryland, University System of Maryland
Having wriggled out of Senate President Mike Miller’s bear hug of a merger proposal, the University System of Maryland announced with great fanfare last week a strategic alliance between the University of Maryland, Baltimore and the University of Maryland, College Park. The announcement came after months of study from which the Board of Regents concluded [...]
Regents approve expanded collaboration between UM College Park, UM Baltimore
BY: Alexander Pyles
POSTED: March 1, 2012
Tags: board of regents, jay perman, umb, umcp, University of Maryland Baltimore, University of Maryland College Park, University System of Maryland, Wallace Loh, william kirwan
ANNAPOLIS – Before William Kirwan left the state in 1998 to become president of the Ohio State University, the former University of Maryland, College Park, president spoke in Annapolis about his vision for universities in Maryland. For the state to realize the full benefit of higher education, there needed to be greater collaboration between its [...]
UMUC president remains on unexplained leave
BY: Associated Press
POSTED: February 29, 2012
Tags: adelphi, chancellor william kirwan, institution, leave, president susan aldridge, umuc, University of Maryland University College
ADELPHI — The head of Maryland’s university system still isn’t saying why the president of the University of Maryland University College has been placed on leave. Chancellor William Kirwan wrote in a letter to the UMUC community Tuesday that it “may be a few weeks” before he can provide further information about university President Susan [...]
Climate change is focus of new UMd. center
BY: Daily Record Staff
POSTED: February 28, 2012
Tags: beijing normal university, chinese government, college park, earth system science, gov. martin o'malley, joint center on global change, president wallace loh, University of Maryland, University of Maryland College Park
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Officials from the University of Maryland, College Park joined Tuesday with representatives of Beijing Normal University and the Chinese government to officially launch the new Joint Center on Global Change and Earth System Science. The center brings together scientists from UM and the Chinese university to track and predict the impact of climate change internationally. [...]
UMUC president placed on indefinite leave
BY: Associated Press
POSTED: February 23, 2012
Tags: adelphi, chancellor, indefinite leave, military service members, susan aldridge, umuc, University of Maryland University College
ADELPHI — The president of the University of Maryland University College has been placed on indefinite leave, without explanation. The chancellor of the state university system announced Susan Aldridge’s leave in a short letter sent Wednesday to UMUC students and staff. A university system spokeswoman declined to elaborate on the reasons for Aldridge’s leave. UMUC [...]
UM launches new environmental research center
BY: Associated Press
POSTED: January 30, 2012
Tags: Annapolis, economists, engineers, Environment, gov. martin o'malley, national socio-environmental synthesis center, sen. barbara mikulski, University of Maryland
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ANNAPOLIS — Maryland officials are launching a new kind of environmental and policy center. Gov. Martin O’Malley and Sen. Barbara Mikulski will be among the officials celebrating the University of Maryland’s National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center on Monday in Annapolis. The center aims to bring together experts from many fields, including engineers, economists and social and [...]
Firefighters contain fire at University of Maryland building
BY: Associated Press
POSTED: January 16, 2012
Tags: building, campus, college, college park, fire, J.M. Patterson building, Prince George's County, University of Maryland
COLLEGE PARK — Officials have contained a fire that broke out in an electrical room of a building on the campus of the University of Maryland in College Park. Fire department spokesman Mark Brady says firefighters were called at about 3:15 p.m. Monday to the J.M. Patterson building. Brady says the fire began in an [...]
Targeted teams at UMCP launch fundraising efforts
BY: Capital News Service
POSTED: December 18, 2011
Tags: athletic, chopping block, college park, kevin reardon, president wallace loh, save maryland swimming and diving, title IX, UM sports, UMD men's track and field & XC, University of Maryland, University of Maryland College Park
COLLEGE PARK — The eight athletic teams slated for elimination at the University of Maryland, College Park, have launched fundraising efforts to help save their teams from the chopping block. “This is the hand we’ve been dealt, we can either give up and go home, or we can roll with it and do what we [...]
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