USM National Green Campus
News Archive
Week of November 16, 2009
News from Across the USM Campuses
Nov.
20th (Friday) - CUERE Seminar Series - Dr. Jason Kaye, The
Pennsylvania State University, Department of Crop and Soil Sciences "Ecosystem Responses to Urban Atmospheres: A Case Study From
the Sonoran Desert Surrounding Phoenix, AZ." Seminar will be held on Friday at 2pm 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.
Nov. 19th
(Thursday) - Green
Groups Mixer - 7:30pm, Prince George's Room, Stamp Student Union on the
University of Maryland, College Park campus - Meet and mingle
with the students involved with many of the green student organizations on
campus. Dessert and drinks will be provided.
Nov. 19th (Thursday)
- The University of Baltimore School of Law will host its third annual "The
Bay in Crisis: Saving the Chesapeake Bay" symposium. The
daylong event, beginning at 10 a.m. in the Venable Baetjer Howard Moot Court
Room located in the John and Frances Angelos Law Center (the School of Law
building on the UB campus), 1415 Maryland Ave., will focus on the protection
and restoration of the Chesapeake's native fish and shellfish. J. Charles Fox, special adviser to the
administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, will open the symposium
with remarks at 10 a.m. Maryland Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler is scheduled to speak at 12:15 p.m. The event
is free and open to the public; pre-registration is required. For more
information, contact the University Relations office at 410-837-5739.
Nov.
18th (Wednesday) UMBC Biotech Forum
2009, from 6 - 8:30pm in the UC Ballroom, 3rd Floor, on the main
University of Maryland, Baltimore County campus - Featuring Jim Greenwood,
President and CEO of BIO. Come hear Mr. Greenwood's perspectives on the
opportunities that exist in biotechnology to make a major impact on health
care, food supply and alternative sources of energy. This free event will
connect professionals from a variety of fields and provide a forum for
networking and dialogue. To register click here. Light refreshments to be provided and
parking available onsite. For more
information, contact Nancy Clements at 410-455-5536 or nancyc@umbc.edu
Saving
the Bay's Fish and Shellfish (By TimWheeler, The Baltimore Sun, B'More
Green Blog, 11/14/09) [Article cites University of Baltimore's Nov. 19th
"Bay in Crisis" symposium]
Bay
scientists honored (By Tim Wheeler, The Baltimore Sun - B'More Green Blog,
11/11/09) [Walter Boynton and Michael Kemp of the University of Maryland Center
for Environmental Science each received the Odum Lifetime Achievement Award]
UMMC Wins EPA's
Trailblazer Award for Farmers' Market at University of Maryland Medical Center
(University of Maryland Medical Center Press Release, 11/9/09)
U.S.
to tighten rules for bay clean-up: Unease voiced about more
controls on developers, farm waste (By Timothy B. Wheeler, The Baltimore Sun, 11/9/09) [Article
quotes Dr. Donald Boesch, President of the University of Maryland Center for
Environmental Science]
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