By SASHA ALLEN The oak trees on Mike Tidwell’s street in Montgomery County are dying, so he wrote a book about it. “In the last few years, I have become very conscious of the fact that our biggest trees in Takoma Park were dying,” said Tidwell, founder and director of...
Students at California’s San Mateo High School, about 20 minutes south of San Francisco, have been prohibited since 2019 from using their cellphones while in school — from bell to bell. Schools nationwide, including some in Maryland, are now increasingly imposing such bans, but San Mateo was one of the earliest and largest schools in the country to implement a complete ban on cellphones during school hours.
By LIZZY ALSPACH Karen Siska-Creel, Anne Arundel County’s school health and support director, knows from experience that if a problem pops up in the community, it won’t take long for it to appear in schools. When the opioid epidemic began to spread in Anne Arundel...
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.
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...
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.
Ronald Walsworth is helping the state of Maryland become a leader in the burgeoning field of quantum computing.
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...
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.
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.
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