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News Type: External
Class of 2025 A. James Clark Scholars Welcomed to Duke Engineering
Outstanding students from eight states, D.C., and Ghana selected to join scholarship program focused on leadership, business, service, and entrepreneurship
The Best Job on Campus
Dean Raheem Beyah talks about accessibility, video games, and the future with President Ángel Cabrera.
Blinken urges investment at home to compete with China
Blinken toured an engineering laboratory at the University of Maryland on the outskirts of Washington where noisy 3D printers churned out prototypes for new products.
A New Baseball Field Is Coming To Ward 8 With Support From Max And Erica Scherzer
A new baseball field is coming to Washington Highlands in Ward 8 next spring, city officials announced on Tuesday, rounding out a larger development project that’s going to include an indoor recreation center, a football field, a basketball court, a community garden, and a playground.
It will also be the site of a new building for KIPP DC’s Legacy College Preparatory school, announced by Mayor Muriel Bowser in January 2020.
Max and Erica Scherzer help fund 4th Legacy Field in D.C.
Even as a Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher, Max Scherzer’s philanthropic contributions to the Nationals carry on. Along with his wife Erica, the Scherzers’ financial contributions to the newest Legacy Field will help build one piece of a redevelopment project that will feature a new high school and its sports fields – including a baseball diamond, football field, and basketball court.
Secretary Blinken to Deliver Remarks on Domestic Renewal as a Foreign Policy Priority
Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken will deliver remarks on the importance of investing in the infrastructure of tomorrow here at home in order to promote U.S. national security and our ability to compete globally on Monday, August 9, 2021 at 2:10 p.m. at the University of Maryland’s A. James Clark School of Engineering in College Park, MD.
Seeing Charity in Action Once Again
“I haven’t seen you in 15 months! How are you?”
I am thankful to have heard that multiple times in recent weeks, and I am really starting to feel like I’m “back.” We’re not out of the woods with COVID-19 just yet, but I am thrilled to be in our Catholic Charities’ offices on G Street in Washington, D.C., at least two and often three days a week, working the other days from the rectory at St. Bart’s in Bethesda.
The Pressures and Privileges of Being a Parent in 2021
As Lewis describes her own riveting path to becoming a social entrepreneur, she weaves in data, political background, historical context and ways of counting (and not discounting) the experiences of nearly a dozen of the hundreds of teenage moms her organization, Generation Hope, has supported over recent years.
Commit Foundation 2020 Annual Report
The COMMIT Foundation had its best year yet in 2020, providing more assistance to more transitioning service members than ever before.