Topic: University of Maryland

Want To Stay Healthy After Retirement? Keep Working

Since the Great Depression, a commonly held perspective on the good life is that we can all look forward to retirement, when we didn't have to work any more. We would be more relaxed and healthier away from the stresses of work. There's a couple of flaws in that argument. For one thing, retirement, like pensions, was an invention of the depression, intended to deal with the problem of unemployment. Prior to the depression the concept of retirement didn't exist. And for the most part, people are viewing retirement in a very different way today. AARP in the U.S., report from a survey done in 2008 that 70% of workers plan to continue working past their retirement age.Now recent research questions the assumption that not working anymore will improve your health. READ»

Graphene: Source of The Next Industrial Revolution?

"An atomically-thick layer of bonded carbon atoms in a hexagonal array, that can be made by peeling a layer off a graphite block with sticky-tape" doesn't sound like a particularly wondrous material. But that's an approximate ...READ»

Forget Global Warming; Could Wind Farms Affect the Weather?

Everyone (well, mostly everyone) is worried about the effects of climate change on global weather patterns. But what if wind power--one of the most prominent clean energy solutions--affects the weather too? According to scientists at ...READ»

Scientists Developing iPhone App to Crowdsource Plant Research

A group of scientists and researchers from the Smithsonian, University of Maryland, and Columbia University is working on an iPhone application that turns budding scientists into valuable research contributors. The application ...READ»

Scientist Teleport Particles a Few Meters, Beaming Up Kirk Still Far Off

Teleportation is no longer science fiction. If that information is hard to swallow check this out: A U.S. science team has successfully teleported a bunch of Ytterbium metal ions across their laboratory. For real. Previous ...READ»

Dylan Greene

College: University of Maryland Major: Computer Science Hometown: Columbia, Maryland Age: 23 First Job: Project Manager for webMethods in Fairfax, Virginia. "I'll be watching the competition and deciding what new features we want ...READ»

“Downsizing Flexibility Champions”—Alternatives to Layoffs Honor Roll (Updated 5/29/09)

On the “Using Workplace Flexibility as Part of a Downsizing Strategy” Flex Options teleconference for the U.S. Department of Labor Women’s Bureau (transcript now available here), I announced that I was going to start a list ...READ»

Class Act

The other day the New York Times lauded a Maryland university for churning out talented scientists, mathematicians, and engineers at an impressive rate. The school wasn't Johns Hopkins. It was a lesser-known academic powerhouse, the ...READ»

Culture of Opportunity

Eleven months after finishing my graduate degree at the University of Maryland and one month after getting married, I was introduced to Larry Gallagher. Larry was part-owner and President of a small federal contractor in Alexandria, ...READ»

Health Care Reform Lesson Given at University of Maryland

University if Maryland students get a lesson in health care reform from President Obama. Obama visited Students on the campus and promised that he would reform the health care system no matter what.READ»

Health Care Reform Lesson Given at University of Maryland

University of Maryland students get a lesson in health care reform from President Obama. Obama visited Students on the campus and promised that he would reform the health care system no matter what.READ»

Turning An Idea Into Profit: Sergey Brin

"As we go forward, I hope we're going to continue to use technology to make really big differences in how people live and work." - Sergey Brin, Google Co-founder  How many business owners know that Sergey Brin, and his cohort, Larry ...READ»

Putting Customers First

You'd think more companies would have gotten it by now. Unfortunately, organizations that put customers at the center of what they do are rare -- so rare that we're celebrating them. Meet the best customer-focused outfits, and learn from them.READ»

The 10 Most Creative People in Sports...

Are not who you might expect. No LeBron or Dwight. No Melo or Kobe. We rank the brains--the right-brain superstars--behind the teams, venues, and deals that are, yes, changing the game. READ»

• The 100 Most Creative People In Business

Finding Your " Best-Stress Zone"

Stress -- it's a good thing. So says an executive coach who should know what she's talking about: She's also an ER doc.READ»

Does Branding Pay Off for Colleges? Harvard Thinks So.

It has taken a while for branding to seep into the world of higher education. Traditionally universities and colleges have not been staffed by professional marketers. There has been a revulsion toward the concept of Customers, in ...READ»

Mad Scientist

Can legendary Bell Labs--and its struggling parent, Alcatel-Lucent--be saved by a "crazy risk taker" who's betting that innovation can be captured in a mathematical formula?READ»

• Lab Results May Vary

Hyper-Local Hero

Ten years ago, Rob Curley was covering city hall for the Topeka daily paper. Now he's lighting up the entire industry. How a "nerd from Kansas" discovered the web, and hit the big time.READ»

Free Trade Isn't Fair

Mike Dolan is leading a long-shot crusade against the new economy's most widely shared belief: that global economic integration -- of countries, companies, currencies, and markets -- is both virtuous and inevitable.READ»

Protect This House

Kevin Plank's improbable hit -- a sweat-wicking undershirt -- kicked off the fastest-growing category of sportswear. Now Nike and other megabrands are in hot pursuit of Under Armour. Welcome to the disrupter's dilemma.READ»

Built at Light Speed

These days, most Internet startups are hoarding their cash and downsizing their dreams. Not Cogent Communications. The company is on a 12,000-mile dash to build a new network for high-speed Internet access.READ»

Can't Touch This

Working all but alone from his hardware-strewn office, Jeff Han is about to change the face of computing. Not even the big boys are likely to catch him. READ»

Attention, Class!!! 16 Ways to Be a Smarter Teacher

In an economy filled with surprise and uncertainty, being an effective leader means being a good teacher. But how do you lead and teach at the same time? Who are your most important students? And what about recess?READ»

Get a Life

If you're so "successful," why aren't you having more fun? If you're so "together," why are your days so chaotic? "Getting a life" means getting control.READ»