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April 03, 2020

This story appears in Maryland Today, April 3 and was written by Chris Carroll. Surgical masks may help prevent infected people from making others sick with seasonal viruses, including coronaviruses, according to new research that could help settle a fierce debate spanning clinical and cultural nor...

February 12, 2020

Deborah (Deb) A. Rudy's parents were big on college. Especially her father, Arthur Rudy '40. Having lost his own father when he was just a year old, Arthur and his three young siblings were raised by a mother who had limited opportunities but highly valued education. And when he reached college ag...

February 10, 2020

Financial stresses can squash a relationship as thoroughly as stomping on a Valentine’s box of chocolate—and Emily Garcia’s* metaphorical box was looking more than a little crumpled. Garcia and her husband, who works in finance and handled the money in their marriage, had begun to argue when finan...

December 12, 2019

With a $130,000 gift, Joy N. Rose '75 established the James H. Humphrey Published Research Endowment. The fund is named for Rose's late father, an accomplished and renowned educator, a leader in the field of physical education and a professor emeritus in the Department of Kinesiology.

November 19, 2019

Policies based on the notion that undergoing an abortion causes or increases women’s risk of attempting suicide are misinformed, according to the results of a 17-year study led by a School of Public Health researcher. The research, published in The Lancet Psychiatry, is the first to compare the ris...

November 13, 2019

In a year that has seen the largest measles outbreak in the US in more than two decades, the role of social media in giving a platform to unscientific anti-vaccine messages and organizations has become a flashpoint. In the first study of public health-related Facebook advertising, newly published i...