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Week of September 21, 2009

News from Across the Â鶹ÊÓƵ Campuses

September 25^th - Dr. Paula Shrewsbury from the University of Maryland, College Park, Department of Entomology - Seminar will be held on Friday at 2:00 pm in the Technology Research Center, Room 206, on the campus of University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), and is free and open to the public. Registration is not required. Visitor parking passes for the TRC lot may be purchased for $4.00 in the CUERE office in TRC 102/105 on the UMBC campus, shortly before seminar.

September 24^th  - , 12:00-1:00pm, Prince George's Room, Stamp Student Union, on the University of Maryland, College Park campus. The UMCP campus has made great progress in the past year toward its goal of becoming a national leader in sustainability and a model green university. In this first session of this semester's Sustainability Speaker Series, the staff of the Office of Sustainability will provide an overview of the infrastructural improvements, policies, programs, and people that are making this campus more sustainable and will give a sneak preview of the exciting topics that will be presented during the other sessions this semester.

September 24^th - , Dr. Ralph Kahn, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Climate Branch. . Seminar will be held from 3:30-4:30pm in the Computer and Space Sciences (CSS) Building, Auditorium (Room 2400), on the University of Maryland, College Park campus. Refreshments will be served at 3:00pm in the adjoining Atrium Contact: Rachel Pinker for more information.

(Frostburg State University Press Release, 9/15/09)

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(By Annie Linskey, The Baltimore Sun, 9/21/09)

(By Juliet Eilperin, The Washington Post, 9/21/09)

(The Baltimore Sun, 9/20/09)

(By Meredith Cohn, The Baltimore Sun, 9/14/09)

(The Associated Press as reported in The Baltimore Sun, 9/14/09)

National and International News

(By John M. Broder and James Kanter, The New York Times, 9/20/09)

(By Todd Woody, The Baltimore Sun, 9/20/09)

(By Rana Foroohar, Newsweek magazine, 9/19/09)

(By The Associated Press as reported on Yahoo News, 9/18/09)

(By Louise Gray, The [UK] Telegraph, 9/17/09)

(By Jennifer Epstein, Inside Higher Ed, 9/17/09)

(By Larry Gordon, The Los Angeles Times, 9/14/09)

 (National Public Radio, 9/14/09)

(By Juan Forero, National Public Radio, 9/14/09)

(By Evan Haning, WTOP Radio News, 9/14/09)