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Week of October 11, 2010

News From Across the Â鶹ÊÓƵ Campuses

Oct. 15^th - Mitchell Pavao-Zuckerman, University of Arizona - This seminar, sponsored by the Center for Urban Environmental Research and Education, will be held on Friday at 2:00pm 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.

(By Meghan Russell, The Calvert Reporter as reported by The Washington Post, 10/7/10) [Article quotes Amanda Grimes and Margaret Palmer of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science]

(By Barbara Pash, The Daily Record, 10/6/10) [Article cites work of UMES]

(By Steven Mufson and David A. Fahrenthold, The Washington Post, 10/6/10) [Dr. Donald F. Boesch, President of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science is a member of President Obama's commission on the Gulf oil spill.]

(University System of Maryland News Release, 10/6/10)

(The Associated Press as reported by WJZ-TV, 10/6/10) [Article quotes Allen Place of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science]

(By Claire Saravita, The Diamondback Online, 10/6/10)

State of Maryland News

(By Raven L. Hill, The Baltimore Sun, 10/11/10)

(By Frank D. Roylance, The Baltimore Sun, 10/7/10)

(By Mary Gail Hare, The Baltimore Sun, 10/6/10)

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(ByLowana Veal, IPS News, 10/11/10)

(By Alex Kennedy, The Associated Press as reported by The Washington Post, 10/11/10)

(By Alan Boyle, MSNBC - Cosmic Log, 10/11/10)

(Letters to the Editor, The New York Times, 10/10/10)

(By Marton Dunai and Gergely Szakacs, Reuters as reported by Yahoo News, 10/8/10)

(By Jim Baldauf, The Hill, 10/5/10)

(By Dina Cappiello, The Associated Press as reported by The Baltimore Sun, 10/5/10)

(The U.S. Department of the Interior, 10/5/10)

: What are some health benefits of contact with nature and greenery? (By Drs. Kay Judge and Maxine Barish-Wreden, McClatchy Newspapers as reported by The Baltimore Sun, 10/4/10)  

(By Drs. Kay Judge and Maxine Barish-Wreden, McClatchy Newspapers as reported by The Baltimore Sun, 10/4/10)&