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Week of May 30, 2011

News from Across the Â鶹ÊÓƵ Campuses

Aug. 15^th-16^th  - - UB Environmental Sciences Summer Academy students will become familiar with local ecosystems, their complexity and the current issues involved in environmental protection and preservation. They will be exposed to the methods and equipment used to assess and characterize ecosystem features, and introduced to the scientific method and the basics of analytical research. If you have questions, please call Marguerite Weber at 410.837.4087 or e-mail mweber@ubalt.edu. Students requiring special accommodations are encouraged to apply (please contact the  at 410.837.4775). .

  (By Timothy B. Wheeler, The Baltimore Sun, 5/27/11) [Article quotes Eric Schlott of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science]

(University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, May 2011)

State of Maryland News

(By Timothy B. Wheeler, The Baltimore Sun, 5/28/11)

(By Tim Wheeler, The Baltimore Sun - B'More Green Blog, 5/25/11)

(By Michael Dreser, The Baltimore Sun - Getting There Blog, 5/23/11)

(By Tom Pelton, The Bay Daily - Chesapeake Bay Foundation, 5/23/11)

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(By Isabelle de Pommereau, The Christian Science Monitor as reported by Yahoo News, 5/30/11)

(By John M. Broder, The New York Times, 5/28/11)

(By Clifford Krauss, The New York Times - Energy and Environment Blog, 5/27/11)

(By John Collins Rudolf, The New York Times - Green Blog, 5/27/11)

(By Tim Wheeler, The Baltimore Sun - B'More Green Blog, 5/26/11)

(By Brian Vastag and Steven Mufson, The Washington Post, 5/26/110

(Environment 360, Yale University, 5/26/11)

(By Ben Casselman, The Wall Street Journal as reported by GrowTheEnergy.org, 5/24/11)