Friday, February 3

Highlighted News Items

• Scientists create device capable of reading your mind (The State Column)
• Terrorist Attack Map Shows Terrorism 'Hot Spots' Across U.S. (Huffington Post)
• Pepco buys Solar Decathlon house (The Washington Post)
• UMD Business Expert: Maryland's Proposed Digital Goods Sales Tax Would be Difficult to Execute (Citybizlist Baltimore)
• UMD 'Synthesis' center seeks to balance nature, people (The Baltimore Sun)
• Maryland students spill their secrets (The Washington Post)

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

    "A new device reportedly has the ability to read your mind by analyzing your brain waves, according to study published by scientists from four universities. The study, conducted by researchers at U.C. Berkeley, U.C. San Francisco, University of Maryland and the Johns Hopkins University, was published in the January 31 edition of the journal PLoS Biology."
    Source: The State Column

  • Terrorist Attack Map Shows Terrorism 'Hot Spots' Across U.S.
    (Huffington Post)

    "Can science predict where terrorists will strike? Not quite. But researchers at the University of Maryland (UMD) and the University of Massachusetts, Boston (UMB) have created a detailed map of where terrorism attacks have occurred since 1970 - and it reveals some big surprises."
    Source: Huffington Post

  • Smart-growth tool has limited impact, report says
    (Gazette.Net)

    "As the state enters a crucial phase in a decades-long mission to control where development takes place, a key element in the governor's smart-growth initiative is largely ineffective, according to a new report by a research center at the University of Maryland."
    Source: Gazette.Net

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

    "Campus officials expect to know in the next few days when ground can be broken for the first phase of the East Campus mixed-use development."
    Source: College Park Patch

• Regional Issues
  • Pepco buys Solar Decathlon house
    (The Washington Post)

    Pepco has purchased the University of Maryland's winning entry of the Solar Decathlon for $200,000, and plans to reassemble the environmentally conscious home on one of its properties to use as an educational site.
    Source: The Washington Post

  • Major electric utility buys US Solar Decathlon winner
    (PhysOrg.com)

    WaterShed, the international-prize-winning solar house built by University of Maryland students, faculty and professional partners, has found a buyer and a permanent site: Electric service provider Pepco is purchasing the high-tech building, and plans to locate it at one of its facilities in Montgomery County, Maryland.
    Source: PhysOrg.com

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

    "COLLEGE PARK, MD - If Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley convinces lawmakers to pass his proposed digital goods sales tax in the 2013 fiscal year budget, the policy would be difficult to execute, says Joseph Bailey, professor of information management with the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland."
    Source: Citybizlist Baltimore

  • UMD 'Synthesis' center seeks to balance nature, people
    (The Baltimore Sun)

    Scientists, economists, politicians, educators and even an artist gathered Monday in Annapolis to mark the launch of an unusual University of Maryland think tank that aims to bring academic disciplines together to tackle thorny environmental issues.
    Source: The Baltimore Sun

  • UMd. launches new environmental research center in Annapolis on Monday
    (The Republic)

    "Maryland officials are launching a new kind of environmental and policy center. Gov. Martin O'Malley and Sen. Barbara Mikulski will be among the officials celebrating the University of Maryland's National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center on Monday in Annapolis. The center aims to bring together experts from many fields, including engineers, economists and social and computational scientists, to create ways to meet human needs while improving the health of the systems humans depend on."
    Source: The Republic (Columbus, Indiana)

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

    "College students have secrets. Their secrets, and the brooding over them, complicate visits home on holidays, causing parents to often wonder, "Why has this child become so strange?"... The answers may be on a new Web site launched by University of Maryland sophomore Sarah Tincher, whose TerpSecret allows UMd students - or really anyone -- to anonymously share secrets about their lives..."
    
    Source: The Washington Post

  • Some Maryland alums, boosters side with Lefty on court naming
    (The Virginian Pilot)

    Before you write off Lefty Driesell as a crank, maybe it helps to understand that he's not the only person with ties to the University of Maryland who isn't happy about the school naming its basketball court after former coach Gary Williams.
    Source: The Virginian Pilot

  • University of Maryland student information vulnerable to ID theft, audit finds
    (Washington Examiner)

    The University of Maryland stored sensitive personal and financial information of prospective students on publicly accessible servers, data that could make students easy prey to identity thieves, according to a recent audit.
    Source: Washington Examiner

  • Facebook, Twitter and the world of college recruiting
    (The Bulletin)

    WASHINGTON - The growth of social media continues to shape the college recruiting landscape. As more high school athletes turn to Facebook and Twitter to update their status - whether about official campus visits or what movie they're going to - more college coaches are keeping a close watch. And with national signing day today, at least one top football recruit found comments posted on his Twitter feed cost him scholarship offers
    Source: The Bulletin