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Giant Asteroid Vespa as Cold as Ice

Is there water on Vespa? Timothy Stubbs and his colleague, Yongli Wang think so.  In a NASA special Web feature Stubbs talks about their findings. “”Near the north and south poles, the...

Posted: January 25, 2012, 8:03 PM

Paradise is Not Lost, It’s Just Different

All is not lost, at least when it comes to plant species richness, the number of different plants, in an ecosystem.  Erle Ellis and his colleagues suggest in their recent paper, All is Not Loss:...

Posted: January 25, 2012, 5:02 PM

Community Activist Bailey '07, Pub Pol, to Leave Lansdowne

Lansdowne Community Association president Brian Bailey ’07, public policy, is moving to Arizona, taking with him a wealth of devotion to a town he’s called home his entire life, the Baltimore Sun...

Posted: January 25, 2012, 3:13 PM

Lee Boot, IRC, on Baltimore Brew

On Saturday, January 21, more than 200 people attended Create Baltimore, an “unconference” organized around the idea of building a creative community in Baltimore. Among them was Lee Boot,...

Posted: January 24, 2012, 9:24 PM

Dawn Bieher, GES, on Canadian Broadcasting’s DNTO

Deer are cute, but pigeons are “rats with wings.” And rats are just gross. Why do we love seeing some wild animals in the city, and loathe others? Dawn Biehler, assistant professor of geography...

Posted: January 24, 2012, 7:25 PM

Concrete Surfer: Sam Eitel '10

Photo Courtesy of Roots Board Company By day, Sam Eitel ’10 works in business administration for Beltway International Trucks. By night (and weekend, and every other spare moment he can find),...

Posted: January 24, 2012, 2:12 PM

Donald Norris, Public Policy, in Baltimore Sun and Patch

UMBC public policy professor and chair Donald Norris offers insight on Maryland political developments for both the Baltimore Sun and Patch this week. The Sun reports that possible contenders for...

Posted: January 20, 2012, 7:28 PM