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In This Week's News
Week of January 28 to February 3

Global Impact , Research:  Scientists create device capable of reading your mind (The State Column)

Off Campus:  University Waits to Learn When Ground Can be Broken for East Campus (College Park Patch)

Regional Issues:  UMD Business Expert: Maryland's Proposed Digital Goods Sales Tax Would be Difficult to Execute (Citybizlist Baltimore)

Campus Issues:  Maryland students spill their secrets (The Washington Post)

Global Impact , Research:  Terrorist Attack Map Shows Terrorism 'Hot Spots' Across U.S. (Huffington Post)

Regional Issues:  UMD 'Synthesis' center seeks to balance nature, people (The Baltimore Sun)

Assoc. Prof. Bonnie Braun
School of Public Health

Subject: Health Literacy

Expertise: Family health policy,
low-income, rural family health
and well-being; food insecurity
and obesity; and program evaluation

Posted: 10/23/09

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Assist. Prof. Amy Sapkota
School of Public Health

Subject: Environmental
Epidemiology Research

Expertise: microbial environmental exposure
assessment and environmental epidemiology,
with a focus on evaluating the complex
relationships between the environment,
food and water production systems,
and human infectious diseases.

Posted: 10/23/09

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Prof. Steven Salzberg
College of Computer, Mathematical
and Physical Sciences

Subject: Genome Sequencing Research;
bioinformatics

Expertise: Genomics, bioinformatics, evolution,
computer science, DNA sequencing, human genome,
infectious diseases, malaria, influenza, anthrax

Prof. and Dr. Robert Sprinkle
School of Public Policy

Subject: Health Policy

Expertise: Health-policy reform;
Bioethics & biopolitics;
Environmental health; Biosecurity

Posted: 10/23/09

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Provost Narriman Farvardin

Subject: New University of Maryland
Honors College

September 14, 2009

Posted: 10/27/09

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