Maryland
New Hood College center hopes to advance Maryland as a biomedical hub | Maryland Daily Record
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Hood School just lately obtained $6 million to increase its Hodson Science and Expertise Middle and $510,000 to create an endowed director place at its Biomedical Analysis and Coaching Middle. (File Photograph)
Hood School is creating a brand new heart geared toward offering schooling within the discipline of biomedicine not solely to its personal college students, however to workers of native companies and college students of different establishments, as nicely.
The Biomedical Analysis and Coaching Middle shall be half of a bigger, 32,000-gross-square-foot growth to the school’s current Hodson Science and Expertise Middle, which is presently within the design section and is ready to start development subsequent summer time. The growth will embrace educating lab area and school rooms, in addition to workplace area for the Biomedical Middle.
The concept for the Biomedical Middle was born out of Hood’s shut relationship with a neighborhood pharmaceutical agency, Kite Pharma, which Hood performed a job in attractive to open a location in Frederick County. The school supplied Kite area to coach present and future workers, inspiring the school to formally create a middle to facilitate related partnerships with different business companions throughout the area.
The Biomedical Middle will provide a spread of programming, together with “workshops, bridge programs to organize graduate college students for superior analysis and programming targeted on the event of particular high-demand abilities outlined by our business companions,” the Frederick faculty stated in a press launch.
“(We) labored very intently with a broad group of constituents to assume critically about what this heart would do,” stated Hood Provost Debbie Ricker.
The middle may also associate with native firms within the biomedical discipline to put college students in internships and apprenticeships, in addition to to ask these firm’s scientists to show programs on the heart. Subsequent spring, Hood will provide one such course: a high-level science class targeted on cell remedy, co-taught by a Hood professor and a Kite worker, that includes each a laboratory component and journeys to Kite’s Frederick manufacturing plant.
“We’re form of seeing it because the beta take a look at of, what might this relationship appear like? How might these partnerships flourish?” Ricker stated.
In offering coaching in high-demand biomedical abilities, Hood has a number of objectives. The school hopes to each practice its college students to achieve success within the rising business, nevertheless it additionally hopes to develop the biomedical business in Maryland by attracting firms to a area with educated and expert workers, plus a bevy of assets for educating their very own employees new abilities.
Some funds for the middle shall be supplied via grants. In July, the school obtained a $6 million grant via the Maryland Impartial School and College Affiliation Capital Grant Program to go in direction of the growth of the Hodson Middle, which is anticipated to price a complete of $20.1 million. Along with the creation of the Biomedical Middle, the growth may also provide extra classroom and laboratory area for a number of of Hood’s rising STEM applications, like chemistry and laptop science, in addition to an auditorium and a brand new greenhouse.
Extra just lately, on Tuesday, the Maryland Division of Commerce introduced Hood would obtain $510,000 to go in direction of the endowed director place on the heart. The funds come from the Maryland E-Nnovation Initiative, a state program geared toward encouraging analysis exercise at faculties and universities.
Shifting ahead, Ricker is worked up to see what sort of modern partnerships the Biomedical Middle will forge all through the Frederick space and even past; she will be able to think about the potential for sometime even inviting college students from different universities to obtain specialised coaching via the middle.
“The sky’s the restrict” by way of what the partnerships between Hood and the area’s biomedical business might ultimately appear like, Ricker stated.
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Maryland
Michigan State football opens as sizable underdog vs Maryland
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Who’s ready for Big Ten play to begin? In all honesty, I am not. I really wish Michigan State football had more tune-up games after seeing them struggle against Florida Atlantic and only win 16-10. But unfortunately, that is not how the schedule unfolds for Michigan State this season.
The Spartans will hit the road for an early Big Ten game as they face Maryland on Saturday at 3:30 pm. Going into the season I thought Michigan State and the Terps were on a pretty level playing field, but after seeing both teams play week one that doesn’t appear to be the case.
And Vegas agrees.
Michigan State opens as a 7.5-point underdog next week at Maryland. My guess is that grows to 8, 8.5.
— Graham Couch (@Graham_Couch) September 1, 2024
As you all know, Michigan State only beat Florida Atlantic by six and did not look very impressive, especially on the offensive side of the ball. So it’s no surprise that MSU will be the underdog next week. But 7.5 points feels like a lot, and according to the Lansing State Journal’s Graham Couch, it likely will only go up from there.
So does Vegas have it right or are they underrating Michigan State?
Looking at Maryland’s week one game against UConn it appears Vegas has this line right. The Terps were up 23-0 at halftime and never looked back and went on to win in dominant fashion 50-7. UConn and FAU are very similar in terms of what level they’re at in college football, so that drastic of a difference in the final score is very scary.
So Vegas probably could’ve gotten away with Maryland being even bigger favorites in this one.
But maybe Vegas saw what I did and thinks a lot of Michigan State’s mistakes on Friday are easy to fix. Maybe they think Aidan Chiles will be much better next week. The Spartan’s defense was also fairly dominant so there isn’t much of a chance Maryland scores 50 points next week either.
I tend to not bet on Michigan State games, but even if I did this would be a line that I would avoid because who knows how much Jonathan Smith’s squad will improve by next week, and who knows how much Maryland might struggle against a Power Four opponent.
Maryland
University of Maryland reverses decision to allow anti-Israel protest on October 7
The University of Maryland on Sunday reversed its decision to allow an anti-Israel protest on the first anniversary of the October 7 Massacre, following backlash from local Jewish groups.
UMD Students for Justice in Palestine and UMD Jewish Voice for Peace had been set to hold their October 7 vigil for Gazans killed in the Israel-Hamas War at the campus’s Mckeldin Mall, but the University System of Maryland (USM) said in a statement that on the day of the Hamas-led pogrom it would limit campus events requiring permits or approval to those supporting “a university-sponsored Day of Dialogue.”
“From the beginning of the war, we have come together as a University System to urge that we use this moment to encourage conversation, compassion, and civility; to engage with one another across our differences and draw on our shared humanity and our shared values to bridge what divides us,” said USM. “These dialogues aren’t new. Many of our universities have been hosting this kind of programming for several months. Reserving Oct. 7 gives us a chance to continue these urgent conversations and to mark this solemn anniversary in a way that gives students—all students—the time and space to share and to be heard.”
USM said that its intent was not to infringe of the free expression and speech of students, but to be sensitive to the needs of students as October 7 was a “day of enormous suffering and grief for many in our campus communities.”
UMD Jewish Student Union, Maryland Hillel, Terps for Israel, and Israeli American Council Mishelanu at Maryland welcomed the USM decision and thanked UMD leadership in a joint social media statement on Sunday.
“October 7, the largest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, is a day of mourning for the Jewish and Israeli community,” said the UMD JSU. “We are relieved that SJP will no longer to be able to appropriate the suffering of our family and friends to fit their false and dangerous narrative.”
The Jewish groups said that it was distraught that the decision to only hold university-sponsored event had to be made at all, and wished to used the campus space to “grieve together as a community” to promote unity at the university. The unideal situation was necessary, according to the Jewish groups, to ensure the physical and psychological safety of students on the day of mourning.
UMD JVP and SJP attacked the decision to cancel the event, claiming that the vigil for Palestinians killed since the October 7 Massacre was attacked without familiarity of the content. The anti-Israel groups said that the discourse was “the continuation inherently racist, Islamophobic, and dehumanizing rhetoric surrounding Palestinians.” JVP and SJP said that the actions against their event were an attempt to paint “Muslim, Arab, and anti-Zionist Jewish students as barbaric.”
The anti-Israel groups asserted that their vigil for Palestinians who died in the war was no threat to the campus’s Jewish community, but conflation of Zionism and Judaism did threaten UMD and the Jewish community.
“To claim that Palestinians cannot hold a day of remembrance in mourning one year of genocide, or lay claim to that date is an insult to every life lost in the Zionist entity’s genocidal campaign,” UMD SJP and JVP said on Instagram on Sunday. “The disproportionate scale of suffering experienced by the Palestinians over the past year necessitates their remembrance and our solidarity on this day. The suffering of all innocents killed must not be monopolized and necessitates a fair and just representation.”
SJP and JVP demanded the right to organize and exercise their right to free speech, accusing Zionists of attempting to stifle Palestinian voices.
The organizations indicated on their Sunday Instagram post that they still planned to hold their all-day event at Mckeldin Mall, and on Monday a link to register still active and listing the campus building as the rally location.
UMD Jewish groups said that they would be holding their own event to memorialize the victims of the October 7 pogrom at the Maryland Hillel.
Maryland
Sunshine for your Labor Day in Maryland
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