Friday, May 11

Highlighted News Items

Businessweek Names University of Maryland and Loyola among Top Undergrad B-Schools (Citybizlist Baltimore)
Excuse me: Gassy dinosaurs helped warm Earth (Associated Press)
Cool School: Where Peace Rules, the free peaceful skills building video game for kids is now available! (Yahoo! News)
Americans want to slash defense spending, but Washington isn't listening. (The Washington Post)
Talk to Me, Not to My Daughter. (The New York Times)
Revenue-Driven Surgery Drives Patients Home Too Early (The Cutting Edge)
Children's National Medical Center Breaks MRI Speed Sound Barrier. (Yahoo! Finance)

Rankings
- Businessweek Names University of Maryland and Loyola among Top Undergrad B-Schools
  (Citybizlist Baltimore)
  COLLEGE PARK, Md. -- The University of Maryland and Loyola were named among the top undergraduate B-schools in the country by Bloomberg Businessweek. They were the lone schools from the state represented on the list. Maryland ranked 38 and Loyola 62 overall, respectively, out of 124 colleges. Maryland moved up a spot from its 2011 rank of 39, while Loyola fell from 45. Bloomberg Businessweek said that it based its rankings on the responses of more than 28,000 students at the schools.
  
  Source: Citybizlist Baltimore
Science Experts
- Excuse me: Gassy dinosaurs helped warm Earth
  (Associated Press)
  AP - Potty humor just got prehistoric. A new study suggests that dinosaurs may have helped keep an already overheated world warmer with their flatulence and burps 200 million years ago. The research published Monday in Current Biology suggests that large dinosaurs made a significant contribution to the greenhouse effect back then. The study looks at the biggest and presumably gassiest dinosaurs, called sauropods. These were the long-necked plant eaters that munched on the top of trees. They were large animals that had food fermenting in their guts for long periods of time because of their giant size, said University of Maryland paleontologist Thomas Holtz, who wasn't part of the study.
  
  Source: Associated Press (Yahoo! News)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship
- Cool School: Where Peace Rules, the free peaceful skills building video game for kids is now available!
  (Yahoo! News)
  The free, interactive, children's video game "Cool School: Where Peace Rules" is now available at http://www.coolschoolgame.com. Named among best in family-friendly media, products and services by Mom?s Choice Awards, this altruistic, free, interactive, and educational video game teaches children ages 4 to 8 valuable skills in sharing, and how to avoid bullying and conflict. Created by the U.S. Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, Cool School: Where Peace Rules is a collaborative effort between the federal government, Rational Games, JAMS Foundation, game designer F.J Lennon, Realtime Associates, Inc. and a dedicated team of researchers led by Dr. Melanie Killen of the University of Maryland.
  
  Source: Yahoo! News
National Interest
- Americans want to slash defense spending, but Washington isn't listening.
  (The Washington Post)
  "Ask your average American whether the defense budget should go up or down in 2013, and by how much, and theyll tell you to cut spending by a whopping 18 percent. Ask your average member of Congress the same question, and no matter which party theyre from, youll likely hear that defense spending should barely budge from where it is right now. ... " Authors of a new study -- Jeffrey Smith, an editor at the Center for Public Integrity and former Washington Post reporter, Steven Kull of the University of Marylands Program for Public Consultation and Matt Leatherman of the Stimson Center -- recently unveiled their findings about Americans attitudes on defense spending.
  
  Source: The Washington Post
- Talk to Me, Not to My Daughter.
  (The New York Times)
  "The first time Corky Alkin remembers being a nonperson was 20 years ago, at a shoe store in the San Fernando Valley suburbs of Los Angeles. Although Mrs. Alkin was the one shopping, the salesman spoke only to her grown daughter, Jodie Reff." Others have found some of the most condescending attitudes in medical offices. "But Lori Simon-Rusinowitz, an associate professor at the University of Maryland School of Public Health, said she expected doctors to be particularly alert to their patients disabilities. Most of all, experts say that these experiences are a small piece of a much larger problem, the social marginalization of the older generation."
  
  Source: The New York Times
Global Impact , Research
- Revenue-Driven Surgery Drives Patients Home Too Early
  (The Cutting Edge)
  Revenue-driven surgery and poor planning drive some surgical patients home too early, concludes a pair of logistical studies conducted by researchers at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business. The studies show a correlation between readmission rates and how full the hospital was at the time of discharge, suggesting that patients went home before they were healthy enough.
  
  Source: The Cutting Edge
- Children's National Medical Center Breaks MRI Speed Sound Barrier.
  (Yahoo! Finance)
  A team of scientists led by Dr. Stanley Fricke of the Children's National Medical Center in Washington DC, and including Benjamin Shapirofrom the University of Maryland's Fischell Department of Bioengineering, broke the "Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) sound barrier," a finding that could lead to a hundred-fold increase in MRI speed, according to a new clinical study published this week in the peer-reviewed journal Medical Physics.
  
  Source: Yahoo! Finance