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Do Good Challenge Teams Split $20K in Prizes
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Pupil groups working to forestall opioid overdoses and shield the psychological well being of health-care staff every took the $5,000 first-place prize within the tenth annual do Good Problem final night time.
The Problem, held in particular person for the primary time in three years at The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Heart, celebrated Terps making a social influence, together with shows from this yr’s six finalist groups and cameos from alum members from the previous decade.
Combating Overdoses in Rural Areas (CORA), based at UMD, now has eight chapters and 100-plus members nationwide offering opioid training, assets and harm-reduction help. It was the victor amongst project-track groups, which search to maximise influence for a trigger or current group via volunteering, fundraising and advocacy.
Vitalize is constructing a clinician-centric app and digital dashboard for hospital management to help their workers’ psychological well being, together with a library of 100+ mindfulness meditations addressing the distinctive challenges of working in well being care. It received within the venture-track class for social enterprises that sort out necessary societal challenges with revolutionary enterprise fashions.
Kesem at College of Maryland was awarded the $2,500 second prize on the undertaking monitor and the $2,500 Neilom Basis Viewers Selection Award. It gives care packages, month-to-month calls and extra to kids ages 6-18 who’ve been impacted by most cancers within the DMV and hosts a free weeklong summer season camp. So far, pupil volunteers have raised $300,000 and supported 120 distinctive campers, with plans to host 100 this summer season.
“Terps have discovered some ways to make a distinction, from fundraising and advocacy to innovation,” college President Darryll J. Pines mentioned to the viewers. “These college students are dreaming up the fearless concepts that can transfer us fearlessly ahead. Their creativeness, motivation and willpower are examples to all of us on learn how to pursue excellence and advance the general public good.”
Different finalists had been North Star Creations, which affords video games and different merchandise to assist preschoolers develop emotional intelligence ($2,500 second prize, enterprise monitor); Get Ovary It, which advocates for accessible and reasonably priced menstrual well being merchandise, companies and training ($1,000 third prize, undertaking monitor); and TeleShadowing, a digital shadowing program for pre-health college students ($1,000 third prize, enterprise monitor).
The Venture judges included Michelle Gilliard, director, U.S. Training and Workforce Division at FHI 360; Kahlil Kettering M.P.M. ‘15, Bezos Earth Fund program director, the Nature Conservancy; and Paul Monteiro ‘02, chief of workers and assistant vice chairman of exterior affairs at Howard College.
“It isn’t straightforward being up right here,” Kettering informed the scholars. “It’s scary, it’s intimidating, however it’s a robust expertise. And I assure you that it doesn’t matter what occurs tonight, you’ll take the teachings from this expertise with you into your skilled life, and it’s gonna make you a greater particular person and a greater skilled.”
The Enterprise monitor judges had been Chike Aguh, 2020 Tech and Human Rights Fellow, Harvard Carr Heart, and chief innovation officer, U.S. Division of Labor; Chad Bolick, govt director, head of philanthropy administration, Morgan Stanley Non-public Wealth Administration; and Kirsten Craft, MBA/M.P.P. ‘17, president of innovation, technique and operations, Potomac Debate Academy.
After making “lightning pitches” to the viewers, Lean on Me, an emotional help textual content line for faculty college students, and Sport Changers New York, a nonprofit that donates gently used sports activities gear to underserved youth, took dwelling the $750 and $500 Showcase Viewers Selection Awards, respectively.
This yr’s Problem finals was sponsored by Morgan Stanley Non-public Wealth Administration, The Rothschild Foundations, the Richard E. and Nancy P. Marriott Basis, the UMD Heart for Engineering Ideas Growth, the Neilom Basis and Freed Images.
See “the place are they now” tales from former Do Good Problem rivals to mark the tenth anniversary of the occasion.
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Maryland Weather: Severe Storms Moving in From West
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BALTIMORE – Severe storms have been plaguing western Maryland this afternoon. They are on the move east and will push into Carroll County near the 6pm hour. These storms have a history of producing winds capable of downing trees. We are also seeing heavy rain and lightning.
Most of the activity will push north and south of the forecast area surrounding Baltimore with the marine layer or stable air mass keeping the severe weather west of the mountain regions.
The warm front associated with the severe weather is bring warm, humid air in overnight. Expect overnight lows in the low 70s with scattered showers and isolated severe storms.
A secondary cold front will bring another chance for an isolated strong storms on Sunday. The day won’t be a washout, there is the possibility of active weather in the afternoon and evening.
The front will bring bright sunny skies for Monday with low humidity. Perfect weather for the afternoon barbecue or last summer activity. Kids getting back to school this week should expect refreshing temperatures… possibly even a little chilly with overnight lows in the 50s.
High pressure will control our weather for the middle of the week. Expect sunny skies and low humidity through Friday. Overnight lows Tuesday and Wednesday will be in the mid 50s, with afternoon highs in the upper 70s. The chance of showers returns late Friday.
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How to watch Maryland football vs. UConn
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Maryland football is back and kicks off its season at home against UConn on Saturday.
The Terps will take on the Huskies for first time since 2013, when Maryland won, 32-21. The Terps are coming off an 8-5 season, in which they won their third straight bowl game, while UConn is coming off a disappointing 3-9 season and looking to play spoiler on the road.
With a victory, Maryland will move its week one winning streak to five games.
The numbers
Maryland: 0-0
UConn: 0-0
All-time series: Maryland leads, 2-1
DraftKings Sportsbook line: Maryland -19.5, O/U 44.5
How to watch and listen
When: Saturday, Aug. 31, 12 p.m. ET
Where: SECU Stadium, College Park, Maryland
TV: Fox Sports 1 — Connor Onion (play-by-play), Mark Helfrich (analyst)
Radio: 105.7 FM (Balt) / 980 AM (DC) – Johnny Holliday (play-by-play), Steve Suter (analyst), LaMont Jordan (sideline)
Streaming: Fox Sports
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Maryland Supreme Court reinstates Adnan Syed murder conviction, orders new hearing
BALTIMORE— Maryland’s Supreme Court has upheld an appellate court’s decision to reinstate the murder conviction of Adnan Syed, whose case gained national attention in 2014 when it was featured on the first season of the “Serial” podcast.
The ruling says the case should be sent back to a lower court for a new hearing on whether it should be thrown out entirely. The decision reverses a lower court’s ruling that had cleared Syed’s name two years ago.
Syed had served more than 20 years for the 1999 murder of his ex-girlfriend, Hae Min Lee.
He was freed from prison in September 2022 after Baltimore prosecutors found flaws in the evidence presented at trial and a judge agreed to vacate his conviction.
However, Lee’s relatives appealed the decision, contending they didn’t receive sufficient notice to attend the hearing that set Syed free. In March 2023, the Maryland Appellate Court agreed and reinstated Syed’s conviction and ordered a redo of the hearing.
Syed appealed that ruling, bringing the matter to the Maryland Supreme Court. Friday’s ruling comes 11 months after arguments were made.
Justices found the circuit court violated the rights of Young Lee, Hae Min Lee’s brother.
“In an effort to remedy what they perceived to be an injustice to Mr. Syed, the prosecutor and the Circuit Court worked an injustice against Mr. Lee,” the court said.
Syed will remain free until the next hearing which has not been scheduled. The Supreme Court ordered the Lee family must have sufficient notice of the new hearing and a new judge must preside.
“If there’s actually evidence presented that shows that Adnan Syed should not have been convicted, we would be the first ones to congratulate Adnan Syed and argue he should be a free man,” said David Sanford, the attorney for the Lee family. “That hasn’t happened yet.”
In their dissenting opinions, several justices wrote when the case was vacated, any appeal by Young Lee should’ve been rendered moot. Those justices also argued there aren’t any specific victims’ rights that would require Young Lee be allowed to be present at that 2022 hearing.
Syed’s lawyer Erica Suter said that while they disagree with the ruling, the Lee family’s pain in this isn’t lost on them.
“Wrongful convictions devastate the wrongly accused, their family and the family of the victim,” Suter said. “Reinstating Adnan’s wrongful conviction does not provide justice or closure.”
Rabia Chaudry, Syed’s friend and advocate, went on Instagram Live to affirm that she will do what she can to keep Syed a free man.
“I will never not fight for his freedom and I know there are others, also, in his life who will never not fight for his freedom,” Chaudry said.
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