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School safety commission misses the mark by ignoring guns

F. Chris Curran, Assistant Professor of Public Policy University of Maryland, Baltimore County A federal school safety commission that formed after the Parkland, Florida, school massacre won’t...

Posted: June 15, 2018, 1:13 AM

The next big discovery in astronomy?

Scientists probably found it years ago – but they don’t know it yet Eileen Meyer, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Earlier this year, astronomers stumbled upon a fascinating finding:...

Posted: June 14, 2018, 7:56 PM

To You – Letter From the Editor

Me, rubbing True Grit’s nose just before the game versus Kansas State. Dear Retrievers, The day after the men’s basketball team made history with their surprise win over UVA, I unglued myself...

Posted: May 25, 2018, 8:38 PM

Distance – Terri McCubbin Steel ’12, English

With memories of her mother to guide her, a daughter rides the Atlantic coast to help cure cancer It’s a crisp April morning as I pedal through Baltimore’s back-roads with a band of strangers, a...

Posted: May 3, 2018, 3:07 PM

Who Gets to be a Superhero? Representation and Comic Books

With the runaway success of Marvel’s Black Panther movie, and the Women’s Center’s upcoming Knowledge Exchange about diversity in superhero media coming up this Thursday, we thought it might be...

Posted: February 20, 2018, 9:08 PM

Cyber Ninja on Capitol Hill – Diana Parr ’85

What happens when you send a Department of Defense (DoD) cybersecurity expert to Capitol Hill for a year? Starting in January 2017, I had the opportunity to serve as a Brookings Legis...

Posted: January 3, 2018, 6:56 PM