Dr. Maria Thompson was drawn to higher education thanks to growing up in a family of educators that included her paternal grandmother, both parents and her oldest sister. She has served as State ...

POMARIA, S.C. — Ms. Maria Thompson is a math resource teacher at Pomaria-Garmany Elementary School in Newberry County. "She does a great job taking care of me," says Asher, Ms. Thompson's son. Asher ...

Maria Thompson has been named to succeed Robert Buckler as chairman of Detroit-based NextEnergy, the nonprofit that promotes advanced energy technologies and businesses. She had been vice chairman.

Maria Thompson, the first female president of Baltimore’s Coppin State University, announced Thursday that she will step down from the historically black university at the end of June. Thompson wrote ...