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The College of Maryland will lead a multi-institutional heart aimed toward enhancing the mobility of individuals and items throughout the nation and can take part in two others targeted on transportation security and fairness.
UMD and associate establishments—Morgan State College, North Dakota State College, San José State College, and White Earth Tribal and Neighborhood Faculty in Minnesota—will obtain $10 million over 5 years for the Heart for Multi-Modal Mobility in City, Rural, and Tribal Areas by means of the U.S. Division of Transportation’s College Transportation Facilities (UTCs) Program. The middle is amongst 34 new UTCs funded by the federal company.
“Along with our companions, we’ll be working to increase the transportation choices for communities throughout america which have had solely restricted decisions up to now,” mentioned UMD civil and environmental engineering Professor Cinzia Cirillo, who’s serving as interim director of the college’s Maryland Transportation Institute (MTI). “We’re enthusiastic about this chance to make a tangible distinction.”
The brand new “Tier 1” heart will probably be housed at MTI, a analysis hub that brings collectively interdisciplinary experience from throughout the College System of Maryland.
The middle will deal with three strategic targets recognized by USDOT: financial power and international competitiveness, fairness, and local weather and sustainability. Amongst different subjects, researchers will research the potential of unmanned and autonomous automobiles—each floor and air—to streamline the motion of individuals and items, examine methods to incentivize larger use of public transit, determine the important thing contributing elements to transportation-related inequity, and discover the potential of modalities comparable to rideshares, vanpools and microtransit.
Whereas very important each to the financial system and high quality of life, transportation within the U.S. poses fairness and environmental points. A major minority (8.5%) of American households don’t personal a automobile, in response to census knowledge, whereas a report from the Nationwide Fairness Atlas signifies that as many as 18% of Black households lack entry to a car. In rural areas, public transit is commonly restricted or nonexistent resulting from low inhabitants and a restricted tax base. Partially due to a heavy reliance on gas-powered automobiles, transportation is the only largest contributor to U.S. greenhouse fuel emissions.
Addressing these and different challenges has been an ongoing concern for UMD researchers. Cirillo, for example, has studied “full streets”—that’s, streets which are optimized for multimodal journey—as a means of reducing emissions and growing fairness, whereas UMD civil and environmental engineering Assistant Professor Xianfeng “Terry” Yang is investigating the potential of automated and good automobiles as transit choices to lower-income and disabled People.
“It’s necessary that we take steps as a nation to make sure the long-term sustainability of our transportation system, and to resolve lingering issues of fairness,” mentioned UMD Vice President for Analysis Gregory F. Ball. “UMD is uniquely well-positioned to contribute to those efforts, given our nationwide status in engineering and in the usage of knowledge science to grasp transportation-related points.”
UMD can also be a associate establishment in a regional UTC, the Sustainable Mobility and Accessibility Regional Transportation Fairness Heart, which is being led by Morgan State College (MSU). “It will proceed to strengthen our long-standing relationship with MSU,” Cirillo mentioned.
As well as, UMD is a associate in one other Tier 1 College Transportation Heart introduced this month, the Analysis and Schooling in Selling Security Heart, which is being led by Howard College. Nii Attoh-Okine, chair of the UMD civil and environmental engineering division, is a part of the consortium in that grant.
“We’re thrilled to be concerned in three new UTCs which are devoted to making sure America has a transportation system that gives safe and protected operations, and helps our financial wants whereas addressing long-standing issues of entry and fairness, in addition to local weather impacts,” Attoh-Okine mentioned. “These new facilities will additional cement our sturdy status as a top-line transportation program, one that’s not merely resting on previous achievements however shifting ahead.”
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Maryland issues a new suicide prevention action plan for schools, families – WTOP News
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Suicide is the third leading cause of death for young people between the ages of 10 and 24 in Maryland. That’s according to a new suicide prevention action plan produced through the state’s Department of Health.
Suicide is the third leading cause of death for young people between the ages of 10 and 24 in Maryland. That’s according to a new suicide prevention action plan produced through the state’s Department of Health.
Scott Poland, the director of the Office of Suicide and Violence Prevention at Nova Southeastern University College of Psychology, talked to WTOP about the action plan he authored with his wife, Donna, who is a career educator.
The “Maryland Action Plan to Prevent Suicide in K-12 Schools” serves as a reference guide to school administrators and the community, and was developed in cooperation with the state health department’s Office of Suicide Prevention.
Poland said one thing that surprises people is that children as young as 8 years old may consider taking their own lives.
“I hear from school personnel all around the country (asking if they) have to take it seriously (if a fourth or fifth grader is talking about suicide). And the answer is absolutely yes,” Poland said.
Among the data points in the action plan is a survey of students in the “Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance Survey of 2021/2022.” According to that survey, 21% of high school students “seriously considered suicide” in the past year, and 27% of middle schoolers considered suicide at some point in their lives.
Poland said it’s important to talk about suicide with young people, and that the idea that talking about it might encourage a young person to consider suicide is a “myth.”
“When we actually bring it up, it gives someone a chance to unburden themselves, to realize that they’re not alone, that there are alternatives and that there is help available,” Poland said.
But he said young people are most susceptible to imitating suicidal behavior: “It is important that we not glorify the suicide victim.”
Instead, Poland said, the emphasis after a suicide should be on healing those affected and helping them find appropriate ways to deal with their emotions and mental health.
The plan released this week includes providing intervention action plans for a young person who may be considering suicide.
“Part of that, of course, is removing lethal means and developing a written safety plan with them,” he said.
Poland said that can include helping people understand “the importance of calling 988, doing things that can calm themselves down,” and reaching out to the nearest trusted adult.
People can reach the national resource for crisis response services and suicide prevention by dialing 988.
Poland said social media is “wreaking havoc” on children’s emotional well-being, often making them feel “not smart enough, not rich enough, not good enough.” Poland said he’s currently working with the state of South Dakota on developing tools to help “young people be a little more mindful and make better decisions about their screen time.”
Poland said parents can help — when it comes to the hours and hours that many people spend online — by modeling healthy amounts of screen time themselves. And he said adults need to think about how they introduce technology to their kids.
“We’re in too (much of) a hurry to give kids smartphones and 24-hour internet access,” Poland said.
“I really have to compliment Maryland,” Poland said, on coming up with the new plan.
Poland said Maryland does not have an especially high rate of suicide, but “I think we all recognize that losing one young person to suicide is one too many.”
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Getting to know Michigan State football’s Week 2 opponent: Maryland
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Game two is coming up for Michigan State football as the Spartans hit the road for an early season Big Ten matchup against Maryland. The Terps have had MSU’s number in recent years, but the Spartans’ new-look team is ready to change that narrative this weekend.
Jonathan Smith and his staff have a lot to work on this week after a lackluster 16-10 win over Florida Atlantic, but we’ve become more than used to slow starts for MSU in their first game so it’s not time to panic just yet.
While the team wraps up their preparations for Maryland, let’s take a quick look at the Terps and see what we can learn about them before the big game on Saturday.
Maryland is off and running in their 2024 campaign and had an absolutely dominant week one performance. The Terps took on UConn at home and came away with an impressive 50-7 win. Sure UConn is an awful football program, but we saw how poorly Michigan State just did against a similar opponent.
Not only was the final score lopsided, but ever major statistical category was as well. Maryland doubled UConn in first downs and rushing yards, threw for nearly 400 passing yards and even won the turnover battle 3-0. The Terps also only had five penalties for 45 yards which is significantly better than MSU’s 12 for 140 yards against FAU.
Sure all of this took place against UConn, but it appears that Maryland is in a very good spot heading into this big week two matchup.
One thing that I thought would be a positive for Michigan State in this game is that Maryland is breaking in a new quarterback as well. The Terps’ quarterback, Billy Edwards Jr., went off against UConn and completed 20-of-27 passes for 311 yards and two touchdowns. He also is a capable runner and added 39 yards on the ground, so Michigan State will have its hands full on Saturday slowing him down.
The Terps don’t have one standout running back in the backfield, so that does benefit MSU. They do however have two solid backs in Roman Hemby and Nolan Ray who both ran for over 60 yards and one score each.
The one player however that Michigan State needs to pay the most attention to is wide receiver Tai Felton. He had one of the best Week 1 performances in the country as he recorded seven receptions for 178 yards and two touchdowns. Thankfully MSU’s defense and secondary looked much improved against FAU, so hopefully that carries over into this weekend’s matchup.
The opportunity in front of MSU on Saturday is massive. The Spartans are big underdogs in this matchup which they probably deserve, but a win would do wonders not just for the overall perception of the team but for their confidence moving forward.
I’ve got a strange feeling that we’re going to be very happy around 7 p.m. ET Saturday night.
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