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July 25, 2008
UM School of Music: Summer Youth Music Camp Concert
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July 26, 2008
Faramarz Aslani and Babak Amini
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July 27, 2008
2nd Annual Miss Caribbean Metro Beauty Pageant
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August 1, 2008
Young Scholars Program Ends
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August 1, 2008
UM School of Music: Summer Youth Music Camp Concert
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August 3, 2008
Freshmen First Begins
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August 22, 2008
Freshmen First Ends
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August 22, 2008
Summer Session 2 Ends
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August 25, 2008
Off Campus Living Fairs 2008
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Sept. 2, 2008
Classes Begin
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  • Costs of Climate Change, State-by-State: $Billions

    Climate change will carry a price tag of billions of dollars for a number of U.S. states, says a new series of reports from the University of Maryland's Center for Integrative Environmental Research (CIER). The researchers conclude that the costs have already begun to accrue and are likely to endure.

  • Sam Joseph Named Director of the Maryland Institute for Applied Environmental Health

  • Parking Mailer Identity Alert

    On July 1st, 2008, the University of Maryland’s Department of Transportation Services sent all students registered at the time, by U.S. mail, a brochure with on-campus parking information. 

  • UM-Led Deep Impact Films Earth as Alien World

     As part of its new mission, the Deep Impact spacecraft has created a video of the moon passing in front of Earth as seen from the spacecraft's point of view 31 million miles away. Scientists involved in the UM-led mission are using the video to develop techniques to study alien worlds.

  • Driskell Center Wins Major Ford Foundation Grant

    A $100,000 grant from the Ford Foundation will help the University of Maryland 's David C. Driskell Center for the Study of the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora take its publication and educational programs to new heights.
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