February 09, 2012
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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)

 





Travel by Train

    Metrorail from Washington, D.C.
    • Take the Red Line train (toward Glenmont); transfer at the Fort Totten station to the Green Line train (toward Greenbelt); get off at the College Park/U of MD station.
    • Or take the Green Line train (toward Greenbelt); get off at the College Park/U of MD station.
    • The university's Shuttle-UM buses pick up university-bound passengers on the EAST side of the station.
    • Get off the Shuttle-UM at the first stop. Proceed south on Route 1 to Turner Hall (Visitor Center), which is marked by a Block M on its facade.

    MARC from Baltimore (Inner Harbor)

    MARC from Baltimore (Penn Station/West Baltimore/BWI Airport)

    Amtrak
    • To Washington, D.C. (Union Station): Transfer to Metrorail system. Follow directions above.
    • To New Carrollton, MD: Transfer to Metrorail system, taking the Orange Line to the Green Line, and following directions above.


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