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Week of October 5, 2009

News from Across the Â鶹ÊÓƵ Campuses

October 9^th - Dr. David Sailor Portland State University, Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering - Seminar will be held on Friday at 2 PM in the Technology Research Center, Room 206, on the University of Maryland, Baltimore County campus, 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. 

October 8^th - 3:35pm-4:35pm: AOSC Seminar - . Presented by , University of Maryland, College Park - Deparment of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science. For more information, contact: Kayo Ide. The seminar is on Thursdays from 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. in the Auditorium (Rm. 2400) on the second floor of the New Wing of the Computer and Space Science Building, on the University of Maryland, College Park campus. Coffee, tea and cookies are served in the adjoining Atrium at 3:00 p.m.

(Salisbury University press release. 10/2/09)

(University of Maryland, College Park Office of Sustainability, 9/30/09)

(The Lafourche Parish [LA] Comet, 9/30/09) [Article quotes Dr. Donald Boesch, President, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science]

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(By Brennen Jensen, Urbanite Magazine, October 2009) [Article references University of Baltimore's LEED-certified library/student center]

(Fall 2009)

State of Maryland News

(By Frank D. Roylance, The Baltimore Sun, 10/2/09) [video and article]

(By Timothy B. Wheeler, The Baltimore Sun, 10/1/09)

(The Baltimore Sun, Op-Ed, 10/1/09)

(The Baltimore Sun, Op-Ed, 10/1/09)

(By Timothy B. Wheeler, The Baltimore Sun, 10/1/09)

(By Meredith Cohn, The Baltimore Sun - B'more Green Blog, 9/30/09)

(By Mat Edelson, Urbanite Magazine, October 2009) [The magazine also contains other articles related to sustainability]

National and International News 

(By Nancy Trejos, The Washington Post, 10/4/09)

(By Rick Green, The Harford Courant as published in The Baltimore Sun, 10/4/09)

(CBS News, 10/4/09)