Think Before You Click If you receive an e-mail requesting confidential information you were not expecting to receive, treat it with suspicion. While it may have come from a trusted source, confirm with a phone call before replying back with the information. The number one vector by which hackers break into a computer is by […]
Then An excerpt from the 1959 Accolade, Montgomery College’s yearbook: Our New Library Shivers ran rampant as the wind chilled the spectator bones: ground was being broken for the new library, January 1958. Nine months later, in October, the first new building on the M.J.C. campus was officially opened and many of the students wended […]
Security Experts Defend Against Cyber Crime By Diane Bosser Photography by Gary Landsman They sneak in while average citizens sleep, eat, and go mall shopping, and while contractors develop new weapons systems for the US military. Cyber anarchists, commonly known as hackers, disrupt networks, raid financial accounts, and plunder data. Armed with lightning reflexes, hyperfocus, […]
“I was standing on the sideline at a University of Maryland football game, watching the state flag flying over the end zone. I remember turning to a colleague and saying how cool it would be to have a flag waving, in motion, on a Maryland football helmet. A light bulb went off in my head […]
By Tina Kramer For Chris Williams ’14, the fifth time was the charm. After four false starts at college, something finally clicked. Perhaps most important, he crossed paths with Dr. Lucy Laufe, head of the collegewide Honors Program. “She really guided my focus, showing me new opportunities,” says Williams, a cybersecurity major. Laufe recommended that […]
By Jill Fitzgerald Ushering in a New Era in Sports—and Giving Modern Athletes Their Wings Die-hard fans may remember “Malice at the Palace,” the basketball game-turned melee between the NBA’s Indiana Pacers and Detroit Pistons in 2004. That aside, November 19 held no significance in the annals of sports history—until now. On November 19, 2013, […]
Then… In 1957, Edgar and Shirley Lipman opened an art supply store, offering classes to customers and the community. By 1965, in response to the demand for the popular courses, the owners expanded the school, forming the Maryland School of Art and Design. In 1971, the Maryland College of Art and Design was incorporated. For […]
When not advocating publicly for a global human rights organization, James teaches at the Outdoor Nursery School in Chevy Chase, Md. A strong proponent of education, she was recently featured on NBC Nightly News for collecting more than 600,000 pennies for education for girls. Q+A How do you teach your preschoolers about Jamaica, your native […]
Two ribbon cuttings at the Germantown Campus marked the beginning of the fall semester: the Bioscience Education Center, opened in August, and the Holy Cross Hospital Germantown, opened in October. The buildings, located on Observation Drive, the campus’s main thoroughfare, anchor the new Hercules Pinkney Life Sciences Park, a science and technology business partnership, named […]
On RAMP to STEM, a program funded by the National Science Foundation, helped 14 students with STEM majors (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) transfer to some of the best STEM programs in the country this fall: University of Maryland’s Clark School of Engineering, University of California-Berkeley’s bioengineering program, and Georgetown University’s biochemistry program. Trinh Nguyen […]
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