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BALTIMORE (AP) — Mary Kay Malinoski has seen plenty of harmful insects swarm into Maryland during her long career, from the tree-eating gypsy moth, which invaded in the 1980s, to the malodorous brown marmorated stink bug, which arrived in 2006. But Malinoski, a veteran entomologist with the University of Maryland's agricultural extension program, has never seen anything like the spotted lanternfly, a leaf-hopping pest that recently overran southeastern Pennsylvania — and that is poised to invade Maryland for the first time this spring. The spe...
COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) - Rachel Eberius fell in love with animals and the great outdoors while growing up in Harford County. She relished the camping trips she took with her parents. She enjoyed water skiing on the Chesapeake. And like many young people, she had a soft spot for cats and dogs. Still, she never imagined she'd be donning spiked shoes, shinnying to the tops of 100-foot trees and climbing into the nests of bald eagles in the name of environmental science. For the past three years, Eberius, a graduate student in environmental...
BALTIMORE (AP) — Kavita Krishnaswamy had labored through a decade of coursework in math and computer sciences to achieve a perfect 4.0 grade-point average. The University of Maryland, Baltimore County graduate student had invented robotic devices that are discussed around the world. She'd spent three years narrowing the focus of her doctoral dissertation. But when the day arrived to defend her dissertation proposal before the panel of senior academics who would allow her to proceed, she never showed up. She sent her robot. Krishnaswamy lives w...
