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Federal Tipoffs Involving Maryland Newsletter for Tuesday March 19, 2024 ( 4 items )  

Georgia Tech Wins National Security Agency's Codebreaker Challenge for Third Consecutive Year
FORT MEADE, Maryland, March 19 -- The National Security Agency Central Security Service issued the following news release: For the third consecutive year, the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) took first place in the National Security Agency (NSA) sponsored Codebreaker Challenge (CBC). The CBC is designed to develop and test students' skills in reverse engineering, computer programming, forensics, and vulnerability analysis with increasingly difficult mission-oriented scenarios th  more

Labor Dept.: Federal Investigations Find Jersey Mike's Franchise Operator Violated Child Labor Regulations at 4 Northern Virginia Locations, Denied Overtime Pay
BALTIMORE, Maryland, March 19 -- The U.S. Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division issued the following news release: U.S. Department of Labor investigations at four northern Virginia Jersey Mike's franchise locations have found the operator allowed more than a dozen employees under the age of 16 to perform dangerous tasks and work longer than permitted in violation of federal child labor regulations. The department's Wage and Hour Division determined that JM Burke LLC -- the Charleston, Sou  more

Lynette Hamlin Named Inaugural Director of Uniformed Services University's Military Women's Health Research Program
BETHESDA, Maryland, March 19 -- The Uniformed Services University issued the following research news: By Hadiyah Brendel Dr. Lynette Hamlin was recently appointed as the inaugural director of the Military Women's Health Research Program at the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences (USU). Hamlin will lead and oversee the university's research efforts on the health of military women. USU President, Dr. Jonathan Woodson, made the designation on December 4, 2023. Hamlin is professor an  more

NIH: Repurposed Drug Shows Promise Against Endometriosis-Related Pain in Animal Model
ROCKVILLE, Maryland, March 19 -- The National Institutes of Health's Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child's Health and Human Development issued the following news release on March 18, 2024: * * * NIH-funded study suggests fenoprofen as a potential therapeutic for disease that affects 1 in 10 U.S. women * * * WHAT: Fenoprofen, a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID), successfully alleviated pain and inflammation in a rodent model of endometriosis, according to researchers  more