A Hyattsville Race and Equity Task Force aims to unite the city
The task force has six months to come up with ideas.
Prince George’s County Executive Rushern Baker honored for supporting Hispanic businesses
Baker started the Transforming Neighborhoods Initiative to bolster high-need areas of the county.
UMD’s black student enrollment trails black high school graduate rates in Maryland
UMD is behind most other state flagship universities.
Prince George’s County is suing opioid manufacturers
There were 981 overdoses in Prince George’s County last year, a county official said.
University System of Maryland gives 21 grants to promote open-source textbook use
Twenty-one “mini grants” between $500 and $2,500 were awarded to faculty members at 12 state universities and community colleges.
An F-16 fighter jet crashed in PG County, forcing the pilot to eject
The plane crashed about six miles away from Joint Base Andrews.
The University System of Maryland is establishing a $25 million fund to support startups
Startup companies within the system could receive as much as $500,000 from the new initiative.
Ex-USM chancellor Brit Kirwan to be honored in Maryland’s Business and Civic Hall of Fame
Kirwan spent more than 30 years at the University of Maryland as a tenured math professor, provost and this university’s president.
University Police respond to trespassing, fraud, hate bias
This week in crime.
Some Maryland HBCU presidents are concerned Trump’s executive order doesn’t set aside funds
There are four historically black colleges and universities in Maryland.