August 29, 2008
4:33 PM


	Hornbake Studio -- Media Information Greening Terp Home Games McCain's VP Pick: UM Experts: Journalism Students Cover the Political Conventions UM Excels in U.S. News's 'Programs to Look For'


	Highlighted News Items, August 29 Student Finds Calling in Learning Foreign Languages An transfer student this week moves into the Language House Immersion Program. He seems an ideal fit. "One of (Michael Marcoux's) goals is to one day speak more languages than anyone else in the world. " (Gazette Newspapers) Shinagawa: Why Asians Speak English Asian American Studies Program's Larry Shinagawa: "Asian Americans that attain the highest levels of achievement -- in everything from education to income to housing -- are those APAs that exhibit bicultural attributes." (Asian Week)

University of Maryland President
Dr. C.D. "Dan" Mote, Jr.
talks about the opening of
the new Driskell Center.
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