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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)

 




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Media Metrics: Winter 2008-2009

COLLEGE PARK, Md. - Our faculty, staff and students at the University of Maryland are featured daily in the media. This Newsdesk web page- part of our Media Metrics report - is designed to provide a representative sample of what our experts are saying locally, nationally and around the world.


December 2008

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Bioterrorism Issues
Facing the New
Obama Administration

December 3

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Prof. Bill Bentley Director


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The Discovery Channel
Asks "Why No Turkey Eggs in the Grocery Store?"

December 3


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Agriculture Assoc. Prof.
Nickolas Zimmerman

 


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The Brian Lehrer Show discusses a new report about Asian Americans.

December 15



Asian American Studies
Director Larry Shinagawa

(More than 60,000 copies of the Chinese American Profile have been downloaded so far!)


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Unearthing Pompeii's Artifacts

December 29


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"The footage of students digging comes from our summer 2008 dig at Stabiae.  If you look carefully you will see Ian Sutherland (Co-Director of Field Operations) hard at work.  We are grateful to Nandor Mitrocsak, the University of Maryland Architecture student interviewed, for his enthusiasm in regards to the project."

- Susan Coleman
Restoring Stabiae Foundation

January 2009

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Maryland's Marching Band and Inaugural History

January 1

Marching in the Wilson Inaugural - 1917



The UM Marching Band's 100th anniversary is featured in a WTOP radio feature for the Inauguration (two reports were done earlier.).



 

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Inaugural Transportation
Online Story

January 9

ABC News did an online story about 4D Imaging research at the University of Maryland on January 20.

Online Story
January 9

4D Imaging to Help Inauguration Tourists

January 18

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See the 4D Demo and
CATT Lab videos

CATT Lab
Director Michael Pack is interviewed on both CNN (above) and NPR.




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