Higher education

New images offer the first look at a complex ring system of inner belts that surround a young, nearby star.

Book-banning and other censorship efforts were a threat to journalistic freedom 100 years ago, and they still are today, DeWayne Wickham, The Banner’s public editor, says.

Valerie Sheares Ashby will be inaugurated Thursday in front of the campus community and Gov. Wes Moore as the sixth president of UMBC.

If confirmed by the U.S. Senate, Davids would become the first woman to lead the service academy in Annapolis.

Bard has worked as vice president for public safety for Hopkins since 2021.

Morgan State University has officially launched a new business hub in partnership with the PNC Foundation. The hub aims to provide people in the Black community with the resources and education needed to start and sustain their own businesses.

As of Tuesday morning, the wall — built on hate and oppression, according to the university president — was reduced to rubble.

Mayor Brandon Scott should remove Baltimore homeowner properties from the tax sale auction, as he did last year, Allison Harris, director of the Home Preservation Project at the Pro Bono Resource Center of Maryland, says. Campuses of historically Black colleges in Maryland are among those urgently in need of modernization, Paul Clary, co-founder of MD Energy Advisors, says; the work of the state Attorney General's Office in the Baltimore Archdiocese sex abuse investigation merits praise, a city resident says.

Baltimore must find ways to rightfully honor writer, orator and abolitionist Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and the power of her legacy, author and Johns Hopkins History Professor Martha S. Jones says.

The Moore-Miller transition team gathered input from more than 5,000 Marylanders to identify the state’s biggest challenges, develop solutions and help set priorities, says Lt. Gov. Aruna Miller, who chaired the transition team.

Legislation sponsored by state Sen. Joanne Benson to overhaul Maryland 529 would dissolve its independent board and phase out the prepaid trust it manages.

The Baltimore arts college is among a number of small institutions finding themselves at a painful crossroads as the dust from the pandemic settles.

Excluding NORAD’s Christmas Eve Santa tracker, there may not be a world map viewed so many times as the one Johns Hopkins University engineers created to keep tabs on COVID-19.

Of 155 students reporting assaults during the 2022 school year, students at the U.S. Naval Academy reported 61 — nearly double the school’s total for the previous year.

The College Board stripped down its AP African American Studies curriculum, failing to create a curriculum that centers Black scholars, two University of Maryland College of Education professors say.

More job layoffs are expected at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, where administrators say plunging undergraduate enrollment has effectively made the historic city arts institution a smaller college.

HBCU grads in Maryland tout their college experience and say it has helped them excel in society.

One expert in state-backed college savings plans said she has never seen anything like what’s unfolding now in Maryland.

The building that had been called Maury Hall was built and named in the early 1900s after Matthew Fontaine Maury, a naval officer and scientist who joined the Confederates.