BLACKSBURG, Virginia, May 28 -- Virginia Tech issued the following news: Emergencies find everyone in life, eventually. The same is true in veterinary medicine, even for clinicians who have purposely gone into a field other than emergency care. "We need to get our students comfortable with managing emergencies because even if they don't choose to go into emergency-specific veterinary medicine, they're going to see emergencies," said Bobbi Conner, clinical associate professor of emergency and c  more

BALTIMORE, Maryland, May 30 (TNSres) -- Johns Hopkins Medicine issued the following news release: Over the past few decades, there has been a significant increase in the prevalence of depression in adolescents and young adults -- and a simultaneous uptick in the inclusion of technology and social media in everyday life. However, it is unclear how exactly social media use and depression are associated and relate to other behaviors, such as physical activity, green space exposure, cannabis use an  more

BALTIMORE, Maryland, May 30 -- Maryland Attorney General Anthony G. Brown issued the following news release on May 29, 2024: Attorney General Anthony G. Brown has joined a coalition of seven attorneys general in filing a brief in League of Women Voters of Ohio v. LaRose opposing an Ohio law that makes it a crime to help others return absentee ballots in most situations. The law makes it a felony to return or possess another voter's absentee ballot unless the person doing so is a postal worker o  more

ANNAPOLIS, Maryland, May 30 -- Gov. Wes Moore, D-Maryland, issued the following news release on May 29, 2024: Governor Wes Moore today announced that the Maryland Department of Commerce signed a new memorandum of understanding with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)'s Goddard Space Flight Center and the Maryland Economic Development Corporation (MEDCO). The three-year agreement will support growth in Maryland's aerospace economy in the area surrounding Goddard, located in   more

BALTIMORE, Maryland, May 30 -- The Maryland Department of Health issued the following news release on May 29, 2024: Today, the Maryland Department of Health hosted a celebratory event at the Dr. Samuel D. Harris National Museum of Dentistry in Baltimore to launch the Pathways to Bright Futures program. The program addresses the shortage of dental professionals in underserved communities by promoting dental careers among young people living in those areas. The launch also brought together studen  more

ANNAPOLIS, Maryland, May 30 -- The Maryland Department of Natural Resources issued the following news: Lucy Perez of Cecil County has earned a Master Angler Milestone Award under the Maryland Department of Natural Resources' (DNR) FishMaryland program. The award recognizes recreational anglers who catch ten different trophy-sized species of fish in Maryland. Perez, 11, is the tenth Master Angler since the program began in 2019, the first female angler, and the youngest by a decade. "I think th  more

BALTIMORE, Maryland, May 30 -- Miles and Stockbridge, a law firm, issued the following news release: Miles & Stockbridge is pleased to welcome our 2024 summer associates class. This very talented cohort of five students from schools in Maryland, Washington, D.C. and Virginia will have opportunities to visit and work with lawyers across the firm during their eight-week program. The students - five rising third-years - will work with practice groups with a specific future hiring need for an entr  more

COLUMBIA, Maryland, May 30 (TNSres) -- TEDCO, the Maryland Technology Development Corp., issued the following news release: TEDCO, Maryland's economic engine for technology companies, unveiled the recently completed "Cybersecurity Workforce Analysis and Study" ("Study"). The Study was commissioned by TEDCO to better understand the current status of Maryland's cybersecurity workforce pipeline. This knowledge will be used to guide the Cyber Maryland Program ("Program") and its 18-member board of   more

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, May 29 -- The University of Michigan issued the following news: FACULTY Q&A Studies: The effect of flatter hierarchy on applicant pool gender diversity: Evidence from experiments Frake's co-authors were Reuben Hurst of University of Maryland's Smith School of Business and Saerom (Ronnie) Lee of University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business. Collider bias in strategy and management research: An illustration using women CEO's effect on other women's career outcom  more

BALTIMORE, Maryland, May 30 -- The Oceantic Network, formerly the Business Network for Offshore Wind, issued the following news release on May 29, 2024: Oceantic Network today announced three winners of its 2024 Rising Star Student Scholarship, which supports college-bound high school seniors who have demonstrated impeccable academic achievement and a keen interest in pursuing a career in offshore wind and ocean renewable energy. The 2024 scholarship winners hail from Mississippi, New Jersey, a  more

COLUMBIA, Maryland, May 30 -- TEDCO, the Maryland Technology Development Corp., issued the following news release: TEDCO, Maryland's economic engine for technology companies, announced a recent $100,000 Pre-Seed Builder Fund investment in Beyond Commissions. TEDCO's Pre-Seed Builder Fund is housed under TEDCO's Social Impact Funds which were created to engage and invest in economically underserved founders and communities. "Today, technology is ingrained in our way of life. So, it only makes s  more