Across Mannakee Street from Montgomery College’s Rockville Campus hides a relic of hope from the days of segregation. Once an old flat-roofed two-story brick high school, the building today houses the Montgomery County Public Schools administrative offices; but inside, hints of its past remain. The basement cafeteria is preserved much as it may have looked […]
[rev_slider Stone] Inside Studio #227 at the Torpedo Factory Art Center in Alexandria, Jennifer Brewer Stone ’01 experiments with color, form, and mixed media under fish-bowl conditions. For her new Textural Series, she thins brightly colored oil paint with linseed oil, testing consistency, and then blends it with molding paste. Using a palette knife, she spreads […]
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 […]
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, […]
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