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UMD-Led Report Pushes Strategies for Affordable Housing, Trail Access Along Purple Line Corridor
New affordable housing near transit stops, improved pedestrian safety and small business preservation along the coming Purple Line are needed to protect and strengthen the surrounding communities, according to a new report released Wednesday to federal, state and local stakeholders by the Purple Lin...View Article Details for UMD-Led Report Pushes Strategies for Affordable Housing, Trail Access Along Purple Line Corridor 
EFC Wins EPA Pollution Prevention Grant to Help Breweries Go Green
This fall, University of Maryland Environmental Finance Center (EFC) will kick off a project to help craft breweries adopt sustainability practices, reduce pollution, and save money. The project – “Pollution Prevention Technical Assistance to Delaware and Southeastern Pennsylvania Craft Breweries” ...View Article Details for EFC Wins EPA Pollution Prevention Grant to Help Breweries Go Green 
Students “Dish” With Antiquities Experts on 18th-Century Plantation Life
A single sliver of ceramic might not reveal much about the Virginia plantation where it was discovered. But amass thousands of them in a room and a story begins to take shape—told through Chinese porcelain teacups and punch bowls, earthenware chargers and shaving basins.Fragments of 900 individual c...View Article Details for Students “Dish” With Antiquities Experts on 18th-Century Plantation Life 
Building Knowledge, Brick by Brick
Most students at the University of Maryland probably don’t consider what went into creating the campus’s iconic red brick buildings. But for one afternoon each fall, that afterthought becomes an assignment as fledgling architects sling mud and level rows of brick.Brick Day is a crash course in the h...View Article Details for Building Knowledge, Brick by Brick ‘A Multitude of Risks and Hazards’
Written by Sala Levin '10, originally published in Maryland Today.For 40 days, residents of Jackson, Miss., had to boil water to brush their teeth, cook dinner or bathe after the city’s largest treatment plant failed. Schools in the state capital had to steer children away from unusable toilets or f...View Article Details for ‘A Multitude of Risks and Hazards’ 
Don’t Know What You Got ’Til It’s Green
Written by Sala Levin '10, originally published in Maryland Today.Blue skies, a warm (but not scorching) sun and just the right touch of crispness in the air practically begged Terps to leave their study carrels, offices and residence halls on Friday and rejoice in the pleasure of being outside. A n...View Article Details for Don’t Know What You Got ’Til It’s Green