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How to Discover Your Encore Career
At age 55, Dorothy Mench opted to retire from her 26-year career in equity trading operations at a brokerage firm in Chicago when it reorganized.
Nan Aron: Bush DOJ Official Agrees "Torture Memo" Lawyers Should Be Investigated
This week, I participated in a panel discussion about the Bush administration's "torture memos" with a former Bush administration official, Daniel Levin.
Julia Krout, daughter of Tim and Michelle Krout, is one of the students participating in Washington College's 2009 Chesapeake Semester.
Ellen Wise joins College of Education and Public Policy as director of development
2, 2009----The College of Education and Public Policy at the University of Delaware has welcomed Ellen Wise aboard as the college's new director of development.
In Praise of Moot-Court Judging
On Saturday, I spent a rejuvenating morning serving as a judge for the semi-final round of a moot-court competition hosted by American University's Washington College of Law.
Judge, defense attorney team up to teach at law school
What can be more romantic than spending a Monday night instructing second-year law students in the subtleties of probable cause and warrantless searches of automobiles? A lot, perhaps, but the concept seems to work for Court of Appeals Judge Mary Ellen Barbera and criminal defense attorney Gary E. Bair.
From the Annals of 1909 Eugene Manley returned to Auburn to resume his college studies.
Fredericksburg resident Shirley Heim lost her battle with cancer Oct. 7 after a lifelong commitment to her community and family, and a life lived to the fullest.
Professors disagree on whether Md. universities can discriminate against pornography
The leaders of Marylanda s state universities have been handed a daunting homework assignment this semester.
A talent for writing surfaced early in Sean Woznicki's life. As a junior at Hempfield High School, he won his first Scholastic Writing Award for a short story, "Nothing Is What It Seems." Senior year brought him another award for his writing portfolio.
Washington College defends brownfield purchase
Washington College's decision to buy a contaminated waterfront tract on the Chester River is a proverbial win-win, according to an official with the small Eastern Shore liberal arts college.
Symposium on National Security & Human Rights, National Press Club,...
LAW PUNDIT Wednesday, October 14, 2009 10/14/2009 10:37:00 PM [Home] [Print] Symposium on National Security & Human Rights, National Press Club, Washington D.C., October 15, host ACS, American Constitution Soc.
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Patricia Pascoe Jones of Fredericksburg died Friday, Oct. 9, 2009, at her home. She had ovarian cancer.
UM names education school after benefactor
The University of Montana has honored benefactor Phyllis Washington by naming the school's education department after her.
Students Use New iBIO Institute Resource to Explore Careers in Science
The Illinois Biotechnology Industry Organization Institute announced that as of October 5, 2009, more than 400 high school and community college students have participated in Science Career Investigation TM , an Internet-based career exploration program announced just three weeks ago.
Day Trip: Chestertown Historic House Tour
Chestertown, named one of the National Trust's 2007 Dozen Distinctive Destinations, hosts the 39th annual heritage house tour, when this 18th-century Colonial river port opens its doors to visitors.
Tour publicizes chemical dangerSep 27 at
On Saturday, EcoSense members on a tour of AU and the surrounding neighborhood learned how, after 16 years of digging for WWI-era munitions, much work still remains for the Army Corps of Engineers.
Unique opportunity: Bill would provide extra funding for states that...
Among the researchers who have studied and written extensively about early childhood education is Robert G. Lynch, an economics professor at Washington College in Maryland.
In April, Justice Antonin Scalia did what he does best. To put it bluntly, he put it bluntly: If you want to be a clerk and you're not from Har vard or Yale, he's just not interested in hiring you.
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