Welcome to the modern world of mental health care, where help can arrive on your phone. Young people — and in fact, people of all ages — now have access to a variety of apps that can help them get through the day and through tough times.
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As young Americans struggle with mental health, online support surges – including in Maryland
By MAX SCHAEFFER Adolescents across the country have increasingly suffered from anxiety and depression over the last 10 years, and school officials in Prince George’s County noticed the same trend locally. So when the county’s public school system needed to support...
To improve youth mental health, these programs start by educating parents
The goal of the Parent Encouragement Program in Kensington, Maryland, is to teach parents how to communicate with their children in an encouraging and respectful way.
Maryland’s push to become the world’s quantum capital depends partly on this UMD physicist
Ronald Walsworth is helping the state of Maryland become a leader in the burgeoning field of quantum computing.
Maryland’s push to become the world’s quantum capital depends partly on this UMD physicist
By W. WADE DEVINNEY II Capital News Service Quantum physicist Ronald Walsworth is a busy guy. Over the years he has founded a number of startup technology companies, including several in the biomedical field. His name is on a number of patents and more recently one...
Students aim to prevent school violence with help from Sandy Hook Promise
By Aug. 30, 2023, the school’s SAVE Promise Club was established and registered with Sandy Hook Promise. Since its creation, the students have run multiple advocacy campaigns in their school, including putting up boards around the school and recording morning announcements.
UMD Baltimore’s Dr. Kirsten Lyke, a force in medicine, warns of ‘really treacherous times’
Although her colleagues describe her as incredibly humble, Dr. Kirsten Lyke’s exceptional work in the medical field not only speaks for itself, it shouts from the rooftops. Not only did Lyke help develop the first Ebola vaccine and the first Zika virus vaccine, she worked on the phase one studies of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine.
‘There’s nothing left of the Republican Party’: Maryland veterans join pro-Ukraine GOP group
In the depths of the ocean, a young submarine officer spent his part of the Cold War on the USS Bluefish (SSN-675), a Sturgeon-class fast-attack submarine built to track and sink Soviet ballistic missile subs.
College students move across state lines — and lose access to therapy as a result
By CAROLINE PECORA Eli Greene, a senior animal science major at the University of Maryland, built a strong relationship with a therapist from the school's counseling center, but when she went home to Florida for the summer, she had to find a new therapist on her own....
Port of Baltimore unlikely to see tariff impacts until next month
It is still too early to gauge the impacts of President Donald Trump’s widespread tariffs on imported goods on the Port of Baltimore, despite other ports experiencing changes.
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