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Donald Norris, Public Policy, in the Gazette

Maryland’s Republican and Democratic senators have recently come together to support a group of bipartisan bills on education, tax and identity theft issues, but will this collaboration have a...

Posted: January 30, 2012, 8:39 PM

Carton '90 Headlines UMBC Social Media Conference

Baltimore social media entrepreneur Sean Carton ’90, English, headlined UMBC’s inaugural Social Media Strategy Summit today, speaking to a group of more than 80 from local colleges and...

Posted: January 27, 2012, 4:56 PM

Giant Asteroid Vespa as Cold as Ice

Is there water on Vespa? Timothy Stubbs and his colleague, Yongli Wang think so.  In a NASA special Web feature Stubbs talks about their findings. “”Near the north and south poles, the...

Posted: January 25, 2012, 8:03 PM

Paradise is Not Lost, It’s Just Different

All is not lost, at least when it comes to plant species richness, the number of different plants, in an ecosystem.  Erle Ellis and his colleagues suggest in their recent paper, All is Not Loss:...

Posted: January 25, 2012, 5:02 PM

Community Activist Bailey '07, Pub Pol, to Leave Lansdowne

Lansdowne Community Association president Brian Bailey ’07, public policy, is moving to Arizona, taking with him a wealth of devotion to a town he’s called home his entire life, the Baltimore Sun...

Posted: January 25, 2012, 3:13 PM

Lee Boot, IRC, on Baltimore Brew

On Saturday, January 21, more than 200 people attended Create Baltimore, an “unconference” organized around the idea of building a creative community in Baltimore. Among them was Lee Boot,...

Posted: January 24, 2012, 9:24 PM

Dawn Bieher, GES, on Canadian Broadcasting’s DNTO

Deer are cute, but pigeons are “rats with wings.” And rats are just gross. Why do we love seeing some wild animals in the city, and loathe others? Dawn Biehler, assistant professor of geography...

Posted: January 24, 2012, 7:25 PM