Montgomery County Police held a press conference at approximately 5:40pm regarding the shooting that took place at Magruder High School in Derwood earlier this afternoon. Speaking at the press conference were Montgomery County Police Chief Marcus Jones and MCPS Interim Superintendent Dr. Monifa McKnight.
With Americans quitting their jobs at record rates during the so-called “Great Resignation,” personal-finance website WalletHub today released its report on 2022’s States With the Highest Job Resignation Rates.
WalletHub ranked the 50 states and the District of Columbia based on how frequently people are leaving their places of employment. Maryland came in 46th, which gives our state the 6th lowest resignation rate in the country., with a 2.3% resignation rate in both the last month and the last 12 months.
Seneca Valley High School has announced the hiring of Joseph Rankin as the new varsity football coach. Rankin, who graduated from Seneca Valley in 2009, played professionally for four years, including a stint with the Cleveland Browns.
He has been defensive coordinator at the school for the last three years under Justin Sickeri, who he takes over for.
BAR IVY is slated for downtown Bethesda. Blagden Hospitality Group (BHG) has signed a lease for the ground floor retail location at Carr’s newly delivered, landmark development, The Wilson & The Elm, a three-tower mixed use development on the corner of Wisconsin Avenue and Elm Street. The building already has prominent office customers at The Wilson, such as Fox 5, Walker & Dunlop, and ProShares, as well as a growing residential community at The Elm.
Per Carr Properties:
The Bethesda-based Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc. (HJF) is a global nonprofit that administers more than $500 million in medical research funds annually. For nearly 40 years, HJF has partnered with researchers and clinicians to provide bench to bedside to battlefield research support.
Today, HJF announced it received nearly $2M to support a study to evaluate treatment for volumetric muscle loss.
”Shady Grove and Rockville stations have reopened!” proclaimed Metro in a recent post on its website and social media.
Per Metro, “Here is everything you need to know about service at the reopened stations and fun facts about the project.”
Earlier this week we let you know that construction started at Lapu Lapu, the sister restaurant of popular Rockville/North Bethesda/Kensington restaurant Kuya Ja’s Lechon Belly.
The restaurant recently announced a pop-up that’ll allow you to sample the breakfast sandwiches that’ll be served at the upcoming restaurant. It will take place this Sunday, January 23 from 11am until 3pm at Kuya Ja’s (5268-H Nicholson Lane) for takeout or delivery, as dine-in is not currently being offered.
Bethesda’s Mytonomy, a leader in enterprise cloud solutions for video-based patient engagement, experience, and healthcare microlearning education, is launching its own channel on the Roku® platform.
In a press release from Thursday, January 13th, Mytonomy stated that it would be making it easy for healthcare systems to close gaps in care and transition patients from hospital to home through its streaming app available on the Roku platform.
Elpiscience is a Shanghai, China and Germantown, MD-based clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on innovating and developing next-generation immunotherapy to benefit cancer patients worldwide. This morning Elpiscience announced that its first patient was does in the US Phase I clinical trial of Anti-CD39 monoclonal antibody ES002 for treatment of advanced solid tumors.
Earlier this month, Dr. John Craighead was announced as chief financial officer effective on Jan. 4th 2022. Craighead will lead all finance and corporate development functions for the company.
Rockville-based 3CLogic transforms cloud platforms or CRMs by integrating voice with existing digital channels. Its innovative solutions extend CRM and data platform capabilities for Global 2000 firms by enabling advanced and scalable features such as optimized self-service experiences, virtual and live agent interactions, and conversational analytics.
Earlier this week 3cLogic announced that it was selected as runner-up for “Best Partnership” in this year’s Constellation Research Enterprise Awards.
New Cooperative Agreement to Aid in the Development of Therapeutics and Vaccines, Improve Access to Medication
IBBR, a joint research enterprise of the University of Maryland, College Park, the University of Maryland, Baltimore, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), received an investment of over $16 million ($3.3 million each year) from the National Institute of Standards and Technology, which has its headquarters in Gaithersburg.