The Maryland Department of Transportation’s commitment to the health and safety of employees and customers is on display in a large meeting room at its Hanover headquarters. Tens of thousands of pieces of personal protective equipment, secured through collaboration...
Welcome back, animal lovers. This is the second in a series of videos about the furry, and sometimes not-so-furry (sorry, Battery the axolotl), companions of MDOT’s teleworking employees. As you’ll see in the videos, some pets like to hang out by the computer, intent...
It’s not often a lightbulb moment involves a real lightbulb. But that’s exactly what happened to Vernon Hartsock. When he was 5, his father handed him a lightbulb, two wires and a battery. When Hartsock, the kind of kid who took everything apart to see how it...
Call it dogged determination. This spring, MDOT Secretary Gregory Slater put out the call to employees for pictures of their furry teleworking companions - and photos came in faster than you can say Chihuahua. In just a few days, we got well over 100 photos, along...
Andrew Bernish has 100 chickens to thank for his career. The chickens were the start of a poultry farm he helped establish in a rural South African village while serving in the Peace Corps. The project got him interested in community and economic development, which...
Mark Crampton is used to managing transportation projects. But these days, the assistant secretary for operations at the Maryland Department of Transportation (MDOT) has been focusing more on medicine than transportation. Since mid-April, Crampton has been working...
Ever wonder why dredging is so important at the Port of Baltimore? It keeps shipping channels open – and the supply chain moving, even during the COVID -19 health crisis, said Katrina Jones, outreach coordinator for Harbor Development at the Maryland Department of...